Birthday Fun'n'Games

I'm going to hold off until Monday to try any more puzzles. The awful game performance is too frustrating to continue.

Our farm overlords seem to keep bankers' hours so any fix to the broken game over the weekend is unlikely.

 

I have stopped using the link on the start-up banner as this is what I get.
I load as many of the pieces on the right side as I can deal with (sometimes All!) I have found that I get less spinning daises-of-death if I rotate on the 'wrong' spot. So I rotate any edge pieces in the middle somewhere. If I see a piece in the list that seems to be right-side-up, I save it for the last piece. I have eight green ticks so far ... and am trying not to think how many more that leaves...

I started this game two weeks before Farmerama's first birthday - a lot of seeds ago!

 

Congratulations to those who have managed to already complete the event! A most impressive accomplishment due to the event just now half way through the time plus all the technical problems with slow responses and multiple refreshes.

I didn't work on the event very much yesterday as family visited most of the day. I continue to struggle with the mini event puzzles with constant freezing and needing to refresh frequently.

I have managed to complete 10 puzzles but they have taken so long to do that I have been tempted to wait for the game to be stable, but I also don't want to have to do them all at once so I continue to just try. When I get annoyed, I stop and take a break

That's my birthday strategy

 

Does the "puzzle pieces needed" counter work backwards? like, more like, how many puzzle pieces you have already delivered, and not "how many you still gonna need"? My numbers increase, the more puzzle pieces I have delivered. It was 260 at some point, then 300, now at 460.

 

The number that you see at the bottom of the prize bean stock is the total amout you need to have activated to get a prize: from what you wrote you'd get a prize after creating 260 pieces, then at 300 pieces & 460 pieces.

 

The fun continues this morning. Couldn't get the client to open at all, then after I finished SL's farm in Chrome, it decided to work and I was able to open this farm. But the spinning flower of doom is ever constant and I think I'm just going to replenish the two event fields and call it good for now. Will do the same on PM23. Haven't even played the baby farms - which I usually do during MM. Not this time around.

 

Finished. Ug. No more daisies of Doom.
I am off to mow the lawn and deal to some kind of daisies. It is summer here in NZ!

 

I just now saw this detail and wanted to share in case someone could use the info. If you hover over the puzzle you want to do, the name of the event comes up. You can search the forum for the event and you will find the full picture if you want to see what it looks like in order to help you know where to place the pieces.

If someone has already mentioned it, please forgive the duplication.

 

Just finished despite the dreaded spinning daisies. I enjoyed doing the puzzles once I got the hang of them. Hope they use them again with perhaps a few tweaks. Good luck everyone.

 

Things must have been relatively quiet at HQ last night. I managed to get about 2/3 of the way around outer circle on this farm and PM23's. Yay. Working off the rest today.

 

My main farm finished last night, I was blessed with a 200% bonus, 100% bonus and a +1 crop for 6h on the spinning wheel.My baby farm is a bit behind, may not be able to finish the event but surely will have the cloud row tho. I played my last puzzles on my main farm at midnight, to try and minimize the spinning daisies... This morning the game saturated my pc ressources (memory, etc...) and it took almost 15 minutes to be able to kill firefox to get a working pc again. Now even the web version of the game cannot handle the huge amount of buffs I get from cloud rows and givers in the first harvest of the morning. I urge players that haven't started out puzzles to get at it ASAP, I don't see a fix being made to this event and will probably resolve itself once it's taken down. I didn't want to try and put my farm back up (I use de Green Meadow for trees and stalls) because the harvester is just inefficient.

The art was lovely and I was happy to see bigger versions of main characters come to life, but we cannot enjoy them with all that's going on...

 

After reading everyone's messages, including the administrators' information, I put all 580 pieces to spin in the mill in four batches (200+200+90+90) and I notice that a little over an hour is enough for two mills. (I also left more than 100 plants and drops in reserve, in case something happens)

I understood that this is how I use the line from home to the server as little as possible. Then we wait for the "European night time" and play when (I assume) most of the active users of the game live at night, i.e. sleep.

We'll see how it goes, luckily I haven't used the impossible SSG and SG when I had a Party ticket, luck in the spins and a couple of nice bonuses at the same time! Nerve control and composure for everyone, maybe we can survive this fun birthday event.

(sorry, maintenance, but this is now the SECOND year in a row where the game's birthday event is the worst performing event of the entire year!)

 

I'm now finished, CR loaded and back to normal farming Congratulations to all who have finished and my very best wishes to those still working on it.

We are a bunch of persevering farmers to keep working on the event even while it is slow, lagging, and constantly needing to refresh.

My Fn +5 buttons need a vacation

 

Congratulations to all those who worked this event! I decided in the beginning not to do it as RL has been busy. But when the event began, I used the free gifts to do one puzzle. It took me about 20 minutes to complete as the game was so laggy.

Throughout the event, I noticed every area of my game takes a lot of time to perform actions. Plant, fertilize/water, harvest, check the market area, do the season orders, etc. - everything takes several clicks to perform - and I'm not doing the event!

Is it the event that is causing overall poor performance for everyone? I can only imagine how frustrating it is for everyone - both players and admin. Hope a solution is soon found and everyone can relax and enjoy all aspects of the game.

 

So the event as been taken down, reading about the patch that was made earlier today, it seems almost like each click was creating some sort of DDoS on the servers... I was able to use that puzzle piece button to make all the pieces needed for 1 puzzle. I did one with 30 pieces, was able to place 25 with no problems, but after that the SDD (spinning daisies of doom) came back...

This means that we'll probably have 2 events running at the same time (next event is the firefly one), so we won't be able to farm much... At the same time, MM will be closed, the birthday calendar too and all the other mini events too... Back to basics??!!

 

how about some fun new farmhouse quests with nice prizes? they don't tend to mess up the system too much

 

I finished all early this morning while the tech had their morning meeting and scratching each other's head (at least that's what I think they did). For sure evenings Euro, daytime US//Canada was the most laggy, so I was lucky having the chance of doing mine early morning. Yes, there were issues, but they weren't so bad I was upset. It is sad the difficulty ruin what I think is a fun and not too hard event.

I am interested in seeing the compensation pack, and hopefully those that want to do the event given the opportunity to do so.
(Tad bit biased, I love jigsaw puzzles)

 

Does anyone know what the two bonus gifts on the birthday calendar are? I don't want to open them if one is a harvest bonus, in case they let us finish the event, which I really hope so, I was almost done with crops and ready to start puzzles in earnest.

 

One is 100% bonus on stables and other is a leaf dance. Nothing that helps

 

Thank you porkchop