Feedback A Study in Cheese

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Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding the "A Study in Cheese" 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

 

Event plants can be grown on main farm and green meadow. One drop comes from trees on main farm and green meadows. The other drop comes from Stables! on main farm and green meadow. In order to get the crime scene tape, we must use precious event plant growing plots to put stables. This is just wrong.

 

I think combining 2 events together is also wrong! They are fun on their own! Together the FAQ'S get confusing, to say nothing of the chore it must be for any Mod who has to post them! And us farmers who have to crunch numbers and figure out what to do with our lands! I know "MY" opinion does not really matter but IMHO you are taking the FUN out of doing events and making them more like time consuming work chores!

 

I have said before that these two week long events are not my cup of tea. That said, the way this one is laid out, at first looking terribly complicated and conflicted (see above posts) actually leads to: grow event crops for a week and then stables and trees for a week, thus allowing for some "personal farming time" and also, allowing for playing the one event for a week, and then the other for a week. This MIGHT bring me around for this particular event, but I still vote for separating things out and keeping events more fresh. These two events have always been enjoyable to me, and I think they still will be, if I pace them out the way I intend. I do relish the ability to speed things along when convenient, as opposed to events on the event field. Prizes look nice, and attainable with enough challenge to be a little inspiring. At this point, I am inclined to say "well done" but I may well change my mind as we get into it! I like to be able to complete events well before the end, due to my status as an "old" player who has earned many, many reward over 12+ years of play, so if this allows that, on an overall basis, I'll be happy : - )

So after a couple days of play, I'm realizing that we get two chances to get the givers for the cloud row - star coins or playing the object game. This is nice. Much less pressure on either side.

Having now finished the ninety games, I have further conclusions: as said by other players in this thread, for those of us with the ability to do things like instant or at least short timed stables, a lot of SG and SSG to speed event crops along, and most importantly, either a lot of harvester coupons or purchased machinery to allow for the use of 1x1 for maximum effects on both crops and drops, and ease of moving things around, this event could be a pretty easy complete, but anyone lacking even one of those abilities is at a severe disadvantage. Not saying every event has to be for every player - it took nearly a year for me to be able to complete events and longer for any regularity - but let's be honest - if goals seem unattainable, people stop playing. For myself, I really enjoyed this event dynamic, once I got past my initial skepticism, because I had the ability to do all the "hard farming" in a few days like my usual approach to events, and now I get to just collect my boxes and play more games, while doing regular farming throughout the game. FOR ME, I like this event dynamic, because it allows for a break between events without skipping events. But for many players, this would be two weeks of slog. Therefore, even though for myself, I did enjoy this, I will suggest that we revert back to the way it was several years back - one week for events, which were completeable not for every player, but for anyone who logged in twice a day consistently and a little extra once or twice, and then a week in between, with maybe a mini-event. I can't recall exactly when this trend started to have back to back to back to back events consistently, but I didn't like it when it started, and I don't like it now.

 

This is rather a flop for me. 2 fields but 3 requirements of crops, stables and trees. Far too much work on the farm for a puny little step in the event. Where's the fun in that? Farmerama events have become a 'job' and a cash cow. I have spent too much real $$$ for deaf ears. It doesn't pay well enough for the exchange of my time and loyalty.
At this rate, I will be taking another long vacation. Last time I was gone for about a year or so. Upon coming back, NOTHING has changed. Not much has changed in 10 years! Other than the weeds are gone!
If not for the people - including the Mods in the 'forum' - this game would be non-existent.

 

This event began Thursday morning (I bought the big basket b/c this is my favorite mini game) and couldn't play the mini game until Monday night.!!!! That's 4-5 days!!! How frustrating!!
I've noticed BP has been having 2 week events more often. That's fine....I guess they are wanting to spend less time creating new events every week.
I agree with above, especially 007 and mattselleste it is like a job and having to split crops, stables and workshops all on 2 fields.
What used to be a fun event is now .....meh!

 

It is a juggling act to do crops, trees, and stables on just 2 fields, but it does mean a chance to use different strategies, and an opportunity to put out trees and stables that I wanted/needed to top off. It also allowed the chance to use different buffs and accumulated resources. Those opportunities fit my flexible schedule so while it was stressful the first couple of days, I've settled into a good routine and will finish the event comfortably.

However, that may not be the case for many people, and the stress of juggling the 2 fields can easily frustrate players.

I would like to thank Developers for the ! signal in the event window when the autoproduction tiles are ready, but you only see them if you are in the event window. I would like to request that the indicator be placed on the event entry instead so you can easily see if you need to collect a tile from your farm field.

 

Hitting this event with booster in the diamond/gold slots, SG, SSG anf Turbo-mulch make this a breeze, but what about the new players that do not have the stalls nor the trees to fill both fields for the drops??!! 50 Police Taps to mill one item is out of this world crazy: not even a full field of stalls can generate that amount of drops unless there's some menagerie on that field.

I agree wil puppiesnponies: when the "!" mark was introduced, it showed on the event icon on the fields, not inside the event window. I'd like to see that back too. I'm accumulating the Paw Print Cards to play all my mini games on only three scenes for maximum points.

I'm glad that a review of requirements were made: collecting 3 Paw Print Cards will make things easier. I'm not a fan of this kind of event mainly because I'm thinking about people who have issues with eye sight, neurological limitations or lack of coordination that is required for the mini game. I do hope that top players will purchase the second set of givers to help newer players activate the great cloud row that is offered.

 

Tis the season of malcontent, from reading all above. I have finished the left side and need about 4000 points (about 27 lots of "find 60") and I can see that I will make it without needing to trim time off the ten hour wait for more paw print cards. But I am just plain exhausted. And the rewards are mediocre, not at all in keeping with the effort required.

If my hard-won Trivor wonder stable doesn't produce a trap-door spider, then I will feel multi-peeved.​

 

To Add further negative feedback to above posting, I am UK Player being playing farmerama since 2010,

The FAQ has not posted information nor uploaded any photos to show examples, Different themes to find clues so I have general idea where everything is for each theme In my personal opinion The FAQ has become less Informative then it use to be

Even with Strategy Event Postings with help from others players have upload several postings of each theme Unfortunately that content is not viewable in my Region , This has completely make me miss out many prizes as I cannot choose to find 60 Items , which is huge let down , I am only able to do Spot 10 Differences Therefore not able gain High points per Mini Game I hate Playing Mini Games that involves in Lots of Clicking , funding more items, not to mention it hard to see the individual items

Also more work, more efforts, more complexity to gain these prizes, compared to Event of Tiny Treasures which you can win Trap Door Spider Nest

Best Prize you can offer for Two Week Event is Crate O Workshop

I also prefer The Weekly Events not Two Weeks Event

 

I was a little apprehensive about this event at the start and decided to try for the drops first as it was no hardship having animals and trees out, until I had worked things out. Once I finished most of the drops, I switched to crops and managed to finish the two areas and get all the special tiles. I have managed to activate all of those at their appropriate times. I sort of separated the event into two, and this seemed to work for me. I have quite enjoyed it.

I liked that each special tile gave us 3 Game Cards so, once all were activated, it was possible to play 9 games - much better than having to grow crops, mill item and get one game to play. Also getting 60 Star Coins every day is pretty generous, especially if we managed to activate those tiles pretty quickly. Thumbs up for those two aspects!

Not too much on the negative side, Lenny's Lab is a bit dark and some items take a lot of clicking to disappear (Antler, Cinnamen Buns, Jar of Pickles, for instance). Prizes were pretty good but I think, having won the newest animal in the last event, I would have preferred a Stubtoe Toad which are pretty rare in the Wonder Stables and not a Hoopoe (lovely birds in real life nevertheless) which has been around a while now but perhaps that is me just being picky!

I did think that the drops were not well balanced, 50 Police Tapes and 6 Chalk Sticks to mill one Case File - if you fill a field with trees, you have a "chance" of 202 drops whereas you can only get at most 44 (or 65 if you have 3 Menageries). Of course, there are many who have managed instant animals and got 1,000s of Police Tapes but this is not available to many newer (or older!) players.

The right side of any event has always been something I usually ignore as I don't tend to do well with the "points" aspect but I was amazed how far I had got after finishing the 90 games so I worked out that, if I could manage at least 150 points per game (Find 90), I could finish. I double and triple checked my calculations and still came up with the same, I had it in me to finish the whole event. Quite a surprise! Should finish on Tuesday.

I don't really like two week events and I am not keen on the combination of events but I think this one is more successful than any so far, IMO!

 

Good event, thankyou. My only small critisism is that you have to click in a pretty specific place for some items which means precious seconds wasted. Don't think I will finish the righthand side, but hey ho, some you win, some you lose.