Birthday Ole

I'm enjoying this event tremendously and hope we see something similar in the future!

I love that we can use whatever stables and workshops we want to stock up our barns. It has been a long time since we have gotten drops from stables and workshops. There is plenty of time to raise what you need for donation or you can shop in the market for any bargains.

It also means I can dust off rarely used buffs to speed up stables and shops. If anyone needs a buff like Valentine Pot, Cheese balls, Eggnog, Church bouquet, or Gingerbread, please say so. I have surplus and happy to share. If I have overlooked a buff, just ask.

I"m sorry to see players are having a hard time with drops.

I have managed to complete 66/120 mini games and have 161/750 sombreros, and 207/600 maracas, 99/500 paper flowers. For Day 2 of a 13 day event, I think the pace is actually fairly fast.I'm also happy to see Baby boom comes this weekend

Best wishes to you all! I think we can make the global counters and enjoy all the wonderful birthday prizes!

 

The sticky mini-game thing hit my farms yesterday afternoon and continued into the evening, so I gave up. Hoping things are working better today (haven't tried yet).

I figured out why I thought the mini-game might be rewarding extra spins. The number of spins you start with is dependent upon the particular game you are playing. It's not static.

Okay, so I think I'm confused about this global contribution/reward thing. How do we (as a community) get to 5X rewards? Do we somehow have to deliver 5 times the base contribution? I don't think we're going to get to 500% of the base contribution considering where we currently are.

PS: I put out long-timed crops overnight. Drop rate from the event crop is non-existent. And, I'm moving excess animal pens and workshops to the green meadow this morning.

PPS: figured it out - each of the four sections - we have to get them all to 100% to get all the goodies. Duh.

 

I found the sticky problem is resolved for me by putting my cursor on the lower left part of the box and then sliding it over. It seems to be that you need to get the cursor on the right area of pixels.

 

I didn't prepare for this at all, but I'm concentrating on event crops and maracas and I'm up to 203 maracas already. I've got 9 'Flower Spray Art (+)' waiting to be useful, so I'm going to do instant stables during the full moon event so I can stock up on some of those animals too. I'm really hoping there will be a baby boom + half price sale together during this event, 400 power feed is quite a chunk to ask for.

 

The only buffs used so far are SG to get initial field going and using power feed on some stables and workshop to shorten longer times. I will reevaluate as needed to boost the Sombreros and Maracas.

All rewards are unlocked on the 2nd parts of all four.

I used high value crops, I donated 20-40 trees down my list of available tree fruit.
I used protest pig, shire horse, thurigan goat, padovana chicken and horned heath for animals and I have over 700 of each left.
Workshops I had over 1000 bridles so I donated a few of those and filled in with the tree products of honey, goat milk, cow milk and eggs to fill in. I am currently replenishing those in the sides of my fields.
Breeding animals, I used the highest level of animals that I had completed doing the breeding quests in the Farmer's society and didn't need any more.

I am just growing my crop on mainland and have 4107 donated
I have 145 sombreros donated
Maracas 26 donated
Breeding done 500 donated
minigames 60 done

 

I have collected 195 Maracas by filling the Meadow with mostly red workshops. A 24hr workshop such as Shearing Shed Rabbit comes down to 13hrs 40 mins with the 'red' upgrade, minus 10% with a Church bouquet and another 5% with gingerbread. My gold slots are in peak demand, but workshops are the priority today. My focus is to get the workshop time down to get two harvests per day. It seems weird not to focus on production amounts - this is about the time they take.
Happy farming, everyone! There is thirteen days to get it all done, so don't panic - not yet anyway!
Edit: +99 from games, and I'm halfway there! (on workshop drops...)

 

I always donate honey for product quests because I've got tons from honey trees.

The minigame seems buggy. Sometimes it does not respond to clicks or mandates a certain move and won't accept anything else even though there are other legal moves.

 

I also had sticky mini-games and had to refresh the page...three times lost tokens because as others stated, despite many legal option moves, nothing moved. I completed all personal donations and played 30 mini games for the first critter, now working on the next.

PS yes, I changed my mind about playing after reading all the comments. Still learning best strategy for coins and drops. I left my fields as they were before the event began, so am not set up for optimum drops. Will try to sort out in the days ahead, but not fretting, just enjoying the new dynamic. Best of luck to everyone

We're looking at our last night of freezing temps tonight then it will be quite balmy from Sunday...hopefully we've seen the last of snow for another generation!

 

I've had that a couple of times. As some people have said, targeting the lower-left corner of the square you're trying to move can work. If not, closing the mini-game before refreshing your game seems to work, when you go back to the event and click on the same game you're put back into the existing game without losing tokens.

I'm playing fine now, no tokens lost.

 

Good morning from Finland (LOC 8:28 ) !

Here the TACTICS are gradually starting to become clearer...

When we need a BREEDING event, always "mandatory" animals are TORTOISE and FISH and short-term animals to be bred are BIRDS (cuckoo and chicken) and the Wheel of Fortune has produced a lot of RABBIT improvements RED, so with those you get a suitable schedule and a nice PERCENTAGE of those DROPS!

Even now when I don't want to be collecting "right away" in Weekend, I filled all the fields with 10% acceleration (and maybe something got CR?) TORTOISE RED and when a couple fit otherwise then the version-Yellow the rest of the spaces.

So the repair time was 6h 45min (Power Feed + Water), you have time to get 6x Mighty Mower and "+100% Animal stalls"" when you collect. MUST BE 100% drop-rate, when even Red-Rabbits give about 55-65%

Total now 7000++ CROPS and 320++ Sombreros have been collected, they are not as difficult as I first imagined. After all, I HURRY that the event has "even" taken less than 2 days out of two WEEKS

If you can't think of anything else ANIMALS-DROPS, maybe someone will take a hint from this!? ?! Happy WEEKEND all players !!!!!

 

If this happens to you once more, just click the "X" in the top right corner of the mini game screen, it will let you exit the mini game without losing your token (this goes also if you ran out of moves and do not have the 1 Birthday Token to get 10 more moves). After that you can F5 or close and restart the game.

 

I lost coins due to "sticky" (?) games, and sometimes I can only move the suggested tiles, even if I can make complete rows of three or four tiles. Very frustrating.
I will try your suggestion of pressing the X, I did it once before but I don't remember if I lost a coin that time or not.
I will pay attention next time.

 

I played all the mini-games and had to use extra coins a couple of times but it was fun, I had the opportunity to place the mysterious stables in my inventory and they gave pretty good rewards, now I completely covered them with workshops, I calmly wait for the baby boom

 

I have grown all event crops 15,000 and turned them in and did task 2 in the plant and trees section and played all 30 mini games
so that section is completely done! I have also played 30 mini games in the Stables section and have 407 Sombreros of the 750 we need. I also have played 24 mini games in the workshop section sooo I am slowly moving right along! I have Breeding motel filled with MM creatures as I am trying to move them along. Baby Boom Sun @10:00 ending Sun at 22:00 Good luck everyone

 

ı have finished single player tasks at plants and trees and finished minigames played twice. but global tasks only 28%. Although at my other farm played only 4/30 minigames played and ı didnt do single player tasks but global tasks 28% WHY are the two farms global tasks same? how can we do global tasks 100%

 

We have to get more farmers playing the event. It's not you. It's "them". GLOBAL - means all of us farmers all over the world contributing. It means - if you have additional farms that you started and stopped farming, or only farm occasionally - start 'em up and donate what you can, play what mini-games you can.

Okay, sewinglady's farm has done her part: all the mini-games are played on all 4 sections. Will have the 15,000 crops to donate to first section upon the next harvest. On the workshop section (the one that has the lowest percentage of global donations), I've spent BBs and played an additional full set of mini-games on that one.

This farm is doing what it can as well...will likely spend BBs on additional mini-games on this farm tomorrow.

My dumbunny farm and the two baby farms are plodding along...doing what they can.

 

Have four farms and all are playing! One got lucky with wheel and crops are done on one farm. Should have played mini game on it first as now have lots of extra crops! Breeding ready to go tomorrow. After crops done will get stables and workshops loaded on that field to finish other requirements.

 

Just curious: why do all farmers have to participate? I don't have enough crops or animals to donate while I'm still trying to finish queeste. What's in it for me (and all the other farmers)?

 

Is there supposed to be a baby boom now? Bred my animals and it doesn't look like it?
Thanks.

 

Did you refresh the game before harvesting?