Feedback Outfoxed!

I think I must be a bit strange as I want to change my farm around every few weeks. As I build up stocks of everything I want to rotate what I have out.
Maybe this is just the result of playing for so long.
I did, and do, think this event is hard for many players who can't have access to the game every few hours so please don't make it a frequent event.

 

Pro's
all harvester functions available
the 2x1 was the first deco item offered so everyone could get one

the drop rate was wonderful so we didn't have to plant extra crops once the event started to obtain the needed drops
wonder trees and wonder stables as rewards

short milling time for hot sauce
cloud row only had 3 items instead of 4

I the dragon heating up the sauna!!!!!!!!!! SOOOO CUTE!!!!

Con's
too short a time even if one wasn't working/attending school these 2 days

there was NO POO WHATSOEVER in my market during most of the event... you guys TOTALLY SKREWED IT UP PLEASE FIX IT. The quickest easiest fix is to expand the poo storage to something reasonable. 1000 for regular... 2000 or 5000 for premium... please fix this very soon.

It was a fun event. but I didn't enjoy having to get up in the middle of the night to harvest and plant crops
please allow us more time to finish it!!! 3 days absolute minimum so everyone can complete at least part of it. you guys do a lot of work to set up these events please allow enough time so everyone can enjoy them.

 

Must chime in as well:

If this event was for a week, it would be fantastic. Great drop rate. Beautiful event crops and giver item graphics. Love to get any wonder stables or trees for "free". Nothing was an absolute must have item. Every reward is great to have, but if I miss out on them, I'll be OK.

Move on to the next one!!

 

So it's about 2330 in my time zone and I just finished. There are 5:19 minutes left in the event which means it ends just before 0500 here. That just seems wrong.

I enjoyed the event as the time management element made it interesting and different. I could play as needed and I feel for those whose RL meant they didn't have this flexibility.

I wouldn't mind seeing this type of short, demanding event once and a while. However, it would be much better and more respectful of the global community's time zones if there was say a 12 or 24 window to start the challenge. In my case being able to start the event 3-5 hours later and have the full 2 days to complete would have made it much more doable. Having the second night available with a morning harvest would have been appreciated.

 

Sometimes I not mind a Short Event From Time to Time as we did have Mini Events in the Past. I have completed this Event as I Enjoy Events that gives me a Challenge as it is Fun to used a Strategy Method to work around how to complete an Event as I always Enjoy and have Fun Getting Lovely Rewards From Events.

It is Nice to get 24 Wonder Tree Seeding From This Event, Plus some good BEP Givers for Shipwreck. But dislike the cloud row refreshes every 6 Hours Just too much Clicking for as got loads of Clouds Unlocked.

It Great that Near End of this Event Manure Prices has been the Highest Prices it has Ever Been as I am doing Poo Farming until this Event Ends. Plus I ahve been selling some Animals for good Prices too I Enjoyed this Event

 

My thoughts:

2 days? During the week - really? Must be just a few tasks, the rewards are probably not great..........ooh rewards are quite nice! Shame I've got to go out to work and I won't be able to get some of them........I'll just focus on the rewards I would like, hope I get a good few trees out of this.........shame they're not the Phoenix stables...............the cloud row looks okay but I won't get it..........okay, time to rip up my fields............oh, this going better than I thought...................wow, I've finished!.............time to put my stables back..............now where's my squirrel?

Jnnythct
(bit of an old timer farmer now - but obviously still learning)

 

Just finished. "Medium" difficulty - aye, right!

I didn't work during the event time and still managed to complete it only by ripping apart whole mainland farm (something I don't usually do), using CAC all the time AND waking in the middle of the night a couple of times to replant.

Doable though really hard.
Very attractive rewards. Mediocre cloud row but harvester function, wonder stables and trees, SG, Suzy's SG and especially orange goose stable make up for it.

Good challenge, I liked it. But who the hell named it "medium" in difficulty department is beyond me...

 

Welldone Dev Teams!

It's a beautiful event with many elements of challenging, fun, interesting, and very different from other events.
The drop rate was so beautiful and very generous that we can get what is needed in the not too distant future. It was a tremendous added value that should be implemented on other events in the future.
Lovely event crops, fairly prizes, and balanced mechanisms was the key of this event. However, the problem of slow harvesting also interfere with the game. This should not happen before the event is going live.

On the reverse side, there are many farmers who are unable to participate in this event due to the lack of flexibility of time or different zone times.

I would like to see an event held in 4 days, but must be done within 48 hours by pressing a timer button. It's much appreciated to global communities.

Eg. Outfoxed! event (start: Monday, 20th of July at 14:00 CEST, end: Friday, 24nd of July at 14:00 CEST)
We have a timer button to start the event in Farmer's Society building during the event time. When we pushed the timer button, it would count down from 48:00 until 00:00. The event was ends.
Such like that... It might be considered for future events.

All in all, I give it two thumbs lifted up for this event. Thank you BP!

 

not enough time,did not finish levels gold or diamond of tasks 4,5 and 6,sad sad event

 

Pro:
FAQ was out early and allowed players to grow or buy the necessary animals (if needed to) so we could focus on only event crops during the event. It would have been impossible to grow both crops and animals during the actual event.

Wonder stables and trees plus orange goose upgrade

Full harvester functions with total time exceeding that of the event (Very nice!)

Nice drop rate

Cloud row in the last level means no grayed out row (unless you skipped around)

Reasonable milling time

Con:
Strategy required loss of sleep for many players and while I did leave out a few trees on one farm, there was a noticeable difference in finishing compared to the farm that was stripped completely which means that for farmers who elected to leave some items out could be compromised in completing the event. I understand it is our choice to keep or remove items from the farm but possibly farmers would not have understood this event left no room for errors or once behind, to catch up.

Harvester awards are immediate rather than coupons

Game lag -- so long to harvest that EP buff from crows is lost by the time to get back around to the fields

Overall - I did enjoy it and got some nice prizes but I also recognize this is due to the fact that I can be at the computer often enough. This would definitely not been fun had I had other commitments.

 

I do not like feeling like BigPoint is trying to force me to either:
1. Buy baskets in order to complete.
2. Buy supergrow in order to complete.
3. Spend 24/7 at the computer.

Not nearly enough time to complete the event, even with only needed to grow event crops unless one can dedicate their time to being in total sync with harvest times.

 

I did manage to finish all Quests, but I hope this will not became a reoccurring Event. It was very difficult to manage due to the short period.

 

I totally disappointed and very very angry. For the past 40 mins and more I am trying to load my game all I get is loading screen. Couldn't get into the game. All my super grow, Suzy's super grow and everything wasted. I did some FSQ and got the Super grows. All my efforts wasted. I couldn't harvest or deposit. I lost the rewards too. If this has been the first occurence, I might not have felt this. But the same was with G&T Event, Fishing Event. At the time of starting of these events & present event, I had to wait for hours for the game to load. Thereby loosing the crucial time. At the starting of this event my first farm 12ss12 nearly took 2 hours to load properly - finally the farm loaded but I couldn't move from field to field, it froze or took a long time.

Similarly at the end of these events I couldn't log in to the game. Fore the present event I went to my other game account which I play through bigfish and the game loaded fast enough. I came back and tried logging this account through famerama 20 mins or so before the end of the event my farm didn't load. Even now my farm isn't fully loaded yet. You can see that ine the pictures I am attaching here

and please don't tell me to clear cache etc., etc.,...........I have done all those.

Only farmerama site is slow in loading. Other websites loaded fast.

I understand that there is heavy inflow of traffic into the game site during events and hence the hanging. But please do something to improve your gaming site so that there is no hanging/ loading problem and please don't make us suffer and make our efforts futile. Do something to deal with this problem.

Spoiler: Pictures

 

I got up this morning to find the event closed and my fields won't open up...very disappointing indeed. All that hard work for nothing and couldn't finish it Great comments everyone! Someone actually wrote a poem? Wow!!

 

Hi!

Here are my thoughts:

Liked:
-The rewards were reasonable for the requirements.
-The plants were lovely.
-The drop rate.
-Reasonable amounts of event crops.
-Short milling time for the fire punch.
-All four harvester functions that lasted longer than the event itself.
-Secret seedlings, stables and the orange goose offered as rewards.
-The short time limit as this required careful time management.

Didn't Like:
-The entire event was rigidly scheduled only during the week, no weekend time included. I'm lucky that I can log in fairly often, even when at work, but many others don't have that luxury. I'm also lucky that my time zone results in most events starting and ending in the mornings.

This. I couldn't have said it better (hence the quote).
-Harvester rewards were immediate, rather than coupons. How often do the players have to point out that this is really annoying?
-The lag. If BP's servers can't handle the heavy event-related traffic (which they clearly can't), then BP needs to make fixing the problem a priority because this is a big problem, especially concerning those players who use buffs of any kind (and this event required CAC at the very least) since it means that proper timing is critical and no one can accurately factor in the "lag component". No one wants to play a game that is "hurry-up-and-wait" because loading each part of the playing field takes so long.

-cpeterson

 

I must admit that I liked the short time to complete this event as I needed to plan carefully but would have preferred it not on weekdays and also I would have graded it difficult for sure. Having got up at 5 am both mornings to harvest enough crops I was so disappointed to try and log in today to harvest the last crops to complete the event, about 45 minutes before it finished, to find it has taken me 2.5 hours to log in (until now). I don't know why this is as I also took my ipad hurriedly to my local internet cafe to login in case it was a problem at home but couldn't login there either. How very disappointing after all the hard work and lack of sleep not to quite finish. However the prizes I did manage to get are good despite missing out on the cloud row. Reading the other posts, it would seem to be a problem for others too. I would really like to see the rosehips kept as a crop in the game permanently as I liked their appearance and also they would be an ideal bird or animal food ingredient. After level 100 new crops to be awarded are very much needed and they would slot in nicely if you would please consider this BP?

 

Just like so many others, did not like the time allotted. Did not even come CLOSE to finishing event. Drops were good, that's the only GOOD thing I can say about the event.

 

I agree with what so many others have stated.

Like: the drop rate, the short milling time and the respectable prizes.

Dislike: A two day event which has caused major time crunches for so many in real work life (and ignores that this is supposed to be a game for fun). The perception that BP is pushing for real money from players is fed by immediate harvester use prizes instead of a coupon for use when needed; as well as a short event requiring SG or baskets for many to have a chance to finish. This was not a medium level event; it required very careful planning and time management, plus well selected buffs, to succeed within such a short time frame.

Lag - enough well said by others!

Happy people will play more and spend more in the long run than people who feel pressured.

 

Willow, well stated. BP, please read Willow's comments again so I don't have to re-type.

 

good: prizes, beautiful crops (I would like them both to be permanent), enjoyed mixing the chilli sauce, drop items were on par for the work involved.
bad: game locked me out about an hour before the finish too so I did have all the crops but didn't complete final part of level 6 (I skipped last two parts of level 2), a few late nights/early mornings and a LOT of supplies used to achieve the amount of crops required.. Definately a very difficult event not moderate as stated in the FAQ!
n.b. I rather sadly took my ipad to work to finish, as above, at lunchtime and couldn't log in to the game from a usually pretty speedy wifi connection so really disappointed after the hard slog :-(