Feedback Question Tuesday CW4: Improved Rewards

Like everyone else I'm one the great Golden Banana quest, but I think BP has been listening to us. We have been getting BEP in a lot of quests, events, givers, and cloud rows lately. Now I don't want that to stop but I also don't want to forget all the other goodies we get either.
We have regular breeding events that take a lot of PF. The last one (The babysitter) we got a good majority of our PF back as prizes. I'd like to see that continue on in say the cuckoo breeding or other short time breeding quest. This lets us save our PF for things like the Soup quest which gives BEP.
Also we can't forget the machinery coupons (all should be coupons). And since we have been using the mill in events lately I wonder if there is a way BP can give out a Mill Coupon. It would allow those who don't buy the subscription to expericene the faster mill and might entice some into buying the subscription.
Then there is the wonder stables, trees, and boxes. All trees and stables should be the newest version....everyone wants the newest thing out. Bring back the wonder boxes to give the new players a chance to win a music box, that way they can have tiki timers or langos.

 

So far, I think one thing is clear. Stickers are not a motivator!

 

im taking votes now does n e 1 think with all the request and complaints about golden bananas bp will listen and make us happier players ?

 

I LOVE that there have been animals that are basically retired (Orange Dog & Bear) given as a reward recently, that's a huge reward for me.

 

You are right. Stickers are not a motivation. They are just useless items that will not give us anything. If Bp could give us 1 gb instead of all these useless stickers it will be better.

 

GB's definately...I also would like to see old recipes return and new ones as I like getting them. PF is ALWAYS needed obviously and machinery coupons are very useful too!!

 

Teddy.bear, would you please clarify in which category Golden Bananas belong - Baha-EP or Others?
I think it is affecting the vote as most of us want GB's but some are voting it under Others, and some under Baha-EP's....is this where GB"s belong??

 

I voted 'others' because like JJenks said there has been an improvement of GBs giving in the normal quests. Me personally I would like to see more rare animal pens/workshops and/or rare trees/upgrades

 

YES!! BB would be good

 

GB would be nice (instead of stars when applicable), although I agree that BP has done a great job lately of including BEP as prizes in events. I like the idea of offering past items as prizes, maybe even an event designed for this -- cloud items (hate the gray clouds) and recipes. Machinery coupons and power feed would also be nice, as well as BB! I like the wonder stables and trees, but it is frustrating to get the common stables and trees that are already fairly easy to acquire in the game -- I really don't like yellow or oranges stables of "common" animals as prizes.

 

I voted other. Unlike most people here I don't have an issue with Golden nanas, I've got enough (just waiting for the reef before I spend them). I seems to get enough BEP to level regualarly.

What I really want is something to do with all the stars I have, and maybe a few alternatives for them as reward prizes (yes a few GBs would be nice for certain events / FSQs)
And with the extra cloud rows, which are nice, an auto harvest of some sort is really needed.

 

I do NOT want golden Bananas, I have a bunch of them just laying around. I would much prefer the Baha-xp instead. I am also wondering about the coral reef, it sounds like GB may open it, but will the bananas be used to expand it or will they introduce another mechanism for expanding it (stars/mainland, GB/Island, ???/coral reef.

I want more harvester coupons, more BB, more special pens and trees (like we used to get a chance to earn the rare ones given during the secret stable and tree events), more recipes and more xp (regular and Baha xp).

xp givers can be nice, but that means removing ones from the park and I have nothing there that is under 500 anyway so it would need to be very high xp. I much prefer more cloud rows.

 

'Others' for me.

My favourite rewards are BBs, PF, CACs and mystery stables/trees. However, the question is what could be improved the most, and I feel that the PF rewards are pretty good at the moment. I also wouldn't want more mystery stuff because then they lose their value.

The most valuable rewards for me would be recipes and craft products, as these are quite difficult (recipes) or expensive (products) to get otherwise.

Someone up-thread asked if we could get old recipes that are no longer available. I think it would be a great idea to have a vintage or retro-themed event, which offered prizes from the past - anything from old recipes to trees and stables to EP-givers so that we can complete old cloud-rows.

Also, you don't need to put in heaps, but the occasional little BB reward here and there would be nice.

 

Rather than 4 Mystery stables or secret seedlings, I'd rather see a specific pen or tree awarded. Too often the mystery/secret stuff turns into something someone has oodles of instead of something they could really use.

 

I definitely DON'T want GB. I have too many gathering dust, alongside the unused stars.

I enjoy the stickers, a quick reminder of the events I have participated in.

I enjoy the mystery of a stable or seedling.

The overemphasis on the already easy Bahamarama is disheartening.

I am enjoying the variety of cloud rows being offered, but would like a few more offering better Mainland rewards. Level based rather than a set EP.

Things like SG & turbo mulch rewards don't interest me. I get enough of those items from the farmwheel.

Edit: It is been a long time since we have had a fabulous surprise like an amazing recipe that changed the game or an animal that was only available from an event like the dog kennel.

Edit: Enough with the 8 hour crops.

 

Another survey were it’s pretty hard to choose the best answer and each of the option need some comment

EP – As I wrote in my comment in the previous survey, I love leveling up and getting as much EP as possible is one of mine main goals in this game. EP given as reward in quests and events is on one hand very nice for me, but on the other sometimes also pretty disappointing as it is not adjusted to the true needs of advanced players. The EP x level system is excellent for low level players where those points really helps a lot in leveling up, but on some point the requirement for EP to get from one level to the other get so high, that most of the received rewards are almost unnoticeable. I remember some events where the rewards were high enough to make some difference, but there were only a few of them. I already passed the 100 level mark so to level up I need “only” 25 million EP, but to reach this level I had to pass those where more than 100 million EP was required (99 -> 100). So even a reward like we got in last comic event 500 EP x level is almost unnoticeable. I often get the same amount of EP for doing two good farmhouse orders and the requirements there are much lower. I will be very glad if at least for the most difficult tasks in events the EP rewards will be high enough to let me level up a day or two faster.

Baha-EP – from the first glance at the survey I was absolutely sure that this option will win. Many players need a lot of golden bananas and Baha EP gives a chance to get them by leveling up faster. So Baha-EP seems to be one of the most required things on the farm for them, just after the GB themselves. But… I don’t belong to this group that will vote on this option .
Also on Baha my level is pretty high and I have some GB saved for new things. Of course I like to level up fast also on the island so getting some EP as a reward is also nice, but it’s not the reward that I like most. Even thou the island don’t give much space and the requirements to level up in my case already passed the 2 million TEP mark, still leveling up on Baha is much easier and takes much shorter time than on the main farm. So I’m not surprised that Baha-EP is a very desired reward, but I hope it will not replace the normal EP rewards

CC – don’t mind getting some, especially when some quests demands making bigger purchases on the market, but this is not a very noticeable reward for me. I have a feeling this reward might be more important for less advanced players. For the rest it’s mostly rather an additional reward.
Givers – givers are more attractive for those who still have some free space in the show park. For longtime players they are more a kind of a problem. Longtime players have a lot of givers that lays in the inventory as there is no more place to put them out. From time to time we only try to remove some old givers from the park and replace them with something new that gives better EP – this often takes ages as the number of items already laying in the inventory seems to be close to infinity
So a new giver from time to time might be fine, to satisfy less advanced players, but for many, those kind of rewards are nice to gain, but pretty useless as laying in the inventory they don’t give anything.
Maybe it’s also a good place to notice that most required are 2x1 items that are necessary for some rows of clouds. In the past the special seasonal givers were made 2x1 just to help fill those empty clouds, so it was hard to understand why the last seasonal item can’t be placed there. Many new players have now problem with fillings those clouds so some new 2x1 givers might be interesting at least to some players.

Cloud rows – Many cloud rows gives EP, some pretty nice one, so for me this is also an interesting option. But to make it totally satisfying the magic bean needs some changes. First of all the harvester for the rows of clouds is essential. I have already 23 pages of rows and those are not all already available. Second thing is some kind of notification that some rows are ready to harvest. It’s hard to remember when certain rows are ready, especially now when the times differ so much.
It’s also not possible to check it all the time as from the very beginning there is the visual problem – if you click through the rows of the magic bean, the next time you go to see it, all rows looks as if they were still locked even, if in the meantime some got ready to harvest. Only after relog or clicking several times on one of the items on a certain row you can see it’s true status.
As for the bonus from the cloud rows, I like those that started to appear not long ago – they give both EP and Baha-EP and sometimes some additional buff.
It will be also nice if the event rows of clouds would give at least a slightly higher EP than the separate items. Getting the event row of clouds with all required items usually needs finishing the whole event, so it should be specially rewarded. The second thing is that no buffs works on the rows of clouds, so it’s often more profitable to put the separate items than use the row, but this is not an option for longtime players who as I wrote above have no place on the farm for them.

Stickers – are stickers really treated as full-fledged rewards? For me they are more like a sort of record of the events history on Farmerama. Fine that we have them. I’m absolutely against removing them, but this is a totally additional reward and not something that can be improved anyway.
We already have the so called “improved sticker album”, that rather looks much worse than the old one. I had some friends playing Farmerama who in the past checked their stickers from time to time to see what they achieved. Since the changes in the sticker album they don’t even look at it, as the stickers are now small, there is not enough pages for them, and the sticker album if somebody decides to fill it, looks like a total mess. So the value of the stickers themselves is also much lower than in the past.

Others – there are a lot of things that can fit in this category, so for me it’s too vague/indeterminate to vote for it. But there are many other than the named above rewards that could be interesting so let’s try to name at least some of them:

Power feed – I like breeding and always need a lot of PF, so this reward is always very welcome in any amount

Super-grow, turbo mulch etc. – also useful rewards, although there are many other ways to get them.

Harvest helpers coupons – very useful and seems to be awaited by many players.

Golden bananas – I’m rather against giving out too many of them, and the reason is that the game shouldn’t become too easy. Bahamarama and the race for GB is for many a challenge and it should be this way. What satisfaction will you have if you get access to everything in a few weeks or months? Leveling up on the old Bahamarama took ages and access to new things was attached to the level system. Now with GB it is in fact easier, as we have a choice what we need more and what less. Baha is a challenge in this game, so a few GB from time to time would be a nice, but if we get them all the time, it will make the game too easy. Some players are already almost 5 years with FA, will they stay with the game for so long if they would achieve everything in the first year?

Party spins, both kind of seedlings – the random rewards are interesting, but also dangerous, as they often lead to some disappointment among those players who didn’t get anything nice from them. I like those rewards as they gives some excitement, but they shouldn’t be treated as the most attractive rewards in events.

Crafting products – useful for those who don’t produce certain things themselves, but criticized by the producers of those products, as the prices of those things on the market drops dramatically. Well… I have nothing against them

Crafting receipts – are often interesting, but to make crafting really attractive again, we need additional slots at least one golden one (even for a few hours a day). Right now we already have a lot of buffs from crafting, but not enough possibilities to use them.

 

Greetings lovely Farmers

Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions.

Regarding the GB dilemma - do not worry, all the feedback is forwarded along with the poll results, so we will make sure the Team finds out that most of you wan more GBs and I'm sure they know that already.
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