Feedback The Sea Witch

Howdy Farmers,

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Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding "The Sea Witch" Event in this Feedback thread. We are looking forward to capturing your initial reaction to the event, as well as the final opinion after participating in the event.

Please be sure to bring arguments for supporting your statements, simple comments saying you like it or hate it will not help the Team understand what goes great, and what needs to be looked into, when planning future events.

The FAQ of the Event can be found here. If you have any questions, please use the General Issues section or the Technical Issues section for technical problems - this thread is for feedback only. Thank you for understanding.

We are looking forward to your feedback!​

Best regards,
Your Farmerama Team

 

I'll admit I was fully prepared to dislike this event. Being on the event field - plus. Restricting our bonus use - well, I've said my piece about that more than once. BUT! I am finding I LOVE this event! The drop rate is great, let me start with that, which is a huge relief. Today was one of my "farm when I want" days, so I have not been bothered - yet - about not being able to catch up for not being able to farm all day yesterday. The biggest thing is, we only need to grow crops for drops, and to mill the "extra" spacers that we want, so it's much less stressful than I expected. I very much enjoy the "side benefit" quests, which are not necessary but add a great deal of value to the game, and are a lovely extra touch. I thought I would miss the aspect of "we have this many moves to accomplish something" but I believe I like this format even better than the previous iteration. Of all the event field events, I am pretty sure this is my favorite! ps I have not been trying to take advantage of the "bonus hours" - I may or may not have hit one, didn't bother to refresh to check because I don't care enough to change my farming schedule to hit it. That would be my only negative on this event - it seems petty, guaranteed to leave some people in the dark (literally) or overly benefit others, so seems to me to negate the "level playing field" concept of the event field...

Edit to add, one week into the event: I particularly love that the drop rate appears to be the same regardless of what plot arrangement is used. I started with 1x1s as soon as I did my first harvest, and stayed that way for five days, then switched to 2x2 with others around the edges, as I started ticking off the various challenges, and the number of drops hovered within one or two consistently. Excellent feature!

 

I love having events on this field. That being said, I have always disliked this event and still feel the same way. Keep having events on playing field and giving us two weeks. Works great to get FSQ done!!

 

I love this mini game usually. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I like it. But this version is just tedious and confusing. I have played ONE single loop of the mini game and that's it.

 

The chance we got at the beginning to play the minigame was a disaster to me, i was unable to move the tiles, i don't know what went wrong, but that discouraged me from playing it.
cheers

 

I have not enjoyed previous versions of this event, but this edition has turned things around for me. There is so much that I do like and only a couple of things I would like to see improved.

Pros:

• Event field allows for normal farming on the main fields
• Happy Plants bonus helps increase harvest yields and the times work well for my available time to farm
• Milled crops to create the sea creatures to swap/replace other creatures to maximize the shapes
• Good prizes
• All crops were the same harvest time

Cons:

• Drop rate is adequate for a 2 week event but it does mean that for each harvest I can only mill at the most 2 scuba tanks making it another event with slow progress
• There are no additional prizes on the points reward list after approximately 562k points which I reached after 33 games.
  
• While there is a multiplier indicator that you can see so you can meet the exact number for a mission, there is no way to see the point value of a shape until you complete it. For missions that required specific points, it took a few attempts as I had no idea how many creatures I need to encircle
  
• Happy Plant bonuses may not be convenient to all time zones

Overall, I have enjoyed this event much better than I originally thought I would. Thanks!

 

When a developer sees it as an option to not use magic trees to provide drops in an event where drops are the limiting factor, I feel that the aforementioned developer is not acting in the spirit of the game.

Please stop seeing this as an option. It is a requirement that magic trees be in use at all times.
You sold them to us, so use them.​

 

YES!!! Ditto what he said!!!! Magic trees should always give us drops for events!!!!!!!

 

Very much like this event

 

Overall I have enjoyed the event, but if it had not been for other players posting explanations (especially WisdomTree's graphic solutions), I'm sure I would still be a long way from completing the event. At this time, I still need to mill 9 more scuba tanks, and with no pattern of drops (mine have ranged from 17-37 so far), it's a slow slog to the finish. I am fortunate to have many good neighbors and friends who have sent drops which definitely helped me to get this far.

I join with other players who suggested giving MT drops; suggest perhaps updating the FAQ where there is some confusing translation such as 'shape' when it's a 'circle'.

Maybe I'm just old and not up to speed with younger folks and terminology, but I definitely had a longish learning curve before I understood the progression of the three different goals: blue gift box, points, and tasks.

I prefer event field events which allows regular farming on the other areas. The length of the event is good as I think it enables more players to participate and achieve goals.