Halloween 2014 Strategies.

I had planned on getting up before MM ended and replant spooky crops. I overslept and missed the end of the event. I planted long crops on the other fields and they are waiting for the event to start. I have already activated all buffs to harvest spooky crops and with the anticipation of event start. Yes, I know, rookie mistake. Another rookie mistake is that I mistook the night effect for MM and harvested my ghosts thinking I would get another round of spooky crops since I don't have to have the main field ready at event start time to get the event started. I have taken that opportunity to put out chicken pens since I also made the mistake of not saving any manure for the start of this event.

Now...with the event delayed, I would like to avoid making any more silly errors on my farm. Do I go on and harvest in order to use my CAC, ZAB, EM and CB? Or just leave everything alone for the next 2-4 hrs? I obviously cannot think clearly. I don't know what hurts more...my head from banging it on the desk or my backside for kicking my self black and blue. It is a good thing I am not operating heavy machinery today...

Almost level 92 newbie needs help!

 

I'm just stumbling blindly into this Event... The extension of MM threw me off Guard..was going to do Chickens, but ended up doing more MM Crops......so only now am I doing chickens to get some manure and crossing my fingers that I won't have a problem with Event Drops...either poo or drops...I hope I selected the correct route..

 

I would harvest I am sure I will get enough drops anyway, and I would prefer not to leave my farm idle for too long (who knows how long it will take). I am harvesting all fields except the magical glade. This is not really advice, just what I will do

Good luck to all of you

 

PnP: In your position, I too would harvest. I rarely have the patience to wait from about 8.00 till event start, normally 2.00 pm - let alone 4.00 pm or - - 6.00 pm. I am sort of happy I am not around for the start as I think it will be a nail biting experience all round lol! Hope it starts sooner rather than later for all of you lucky farmers!

 

Reminder!! Attention!!
Event postpone 2-4 hr, So bad that I click my pet & then refresh.
Find event not start, go to Forum & see event delay.
But I must glad that I haven't harvest anything except my park. The more happiness
is to find my magic tree not mature yet. they could wait for the event drops.

 

dn, the event wasn't supposed to start for another 32 min, and the postponement is 2-4 hours from then. Remember to take the daylight saving time change in Germany into account! (As you can see I don't really know what it is called in English )

 

I just harvested half of the main field and was wondering why I don't have the seeds. So, I checked the OA.
I will keep the fields and wait. 2-4 hours are not so long. Carnations take so much longer to grow. And you never know how the drop rate will be.
Edit:
The daylight saving time makes a 5 hour difference to the US east coast, which was previous 6 hours. But till the weekend.

 

Mir85, my country stop that +1 time changes for long time. So, I forget what it's call in english.
For farmerama, I always use CET time, Everytime event start, I refresh to see the event start
before I do any harvest. I just regard I found that the time postpone too late, Otherwise I will
plant a longer spooky crop.

 

I will wait for the event to start then harvest and clear all fields except those items that still have time to mature. I will use Baha to start my seeds on 2x2 with the usual CAC etc and put chickens everywhere else. I am not sure I will have enough seeds to fill all my fields before I go to bed but will cross that bridge when I come to it. Good luck everyone. I hope they give us a days extension - at the very least. It would be nice if we got an extra slot so we could use CAC and PJ. That would help us along nicely.

 

I just hope that it won't delay 4 hr, otherwise, It's near my bedtime, I may not able to get
enough seed for overnight planting.

 

puppiesnponies,

If you are still wondering what to do, I'll tell you what I'm doing (exactly in the same situation as yours): I'm harvesting everything to get full benefit of both the current CAC/ZAB set and the last 12 hours of MegaEP day's 100% EPs bonus, replanting crops in the 3/4 hs base growth time range but leaving 10 2x2s with shorter crops (that can be replaced, for instance, with chicken pens -orange ones, better-), so that to be ready as soon as the events becomes live. This way I'll be more or less prepared for nuking the first 5+5 seeds and, then, having space for re-nuking the result.

 

Hi pnp! {{hugs}} Looks like we have similar strategies!

I will have to admit that I was not so happy with the delay... I had eaten a CAC, White Innocence, and a Carrot Bread, plus had the harvester running from a farmer society quest that I cashed in as it timed just right to help me convert plots for the starter seeds in the morning. (I do 2x2 plots for the first two rounds of my starter seeds). While activating my owl pets, I checked a magic tree by chance and noticed there was no ectoplasm. (!?) I refreshed, and sure enough no new event showing in the "event clock thingy" Then I saw the OA in Events...


I decided not to harvest (my owls needed some exercise anyway) and waited a hour and a half. I refreshing every 10 min or so and worked on other stuff on the computer ~ just in case BP caught the bugs crawling around, and decided to release the event early. After waiting that long, I figured I'd best figure out a different strategy lol!


If the event starts at 16:00 CET, I will have a half hour or so in which I can plant starter seeds before I head to work. So I set aside 20 plots for chickens, (just in case BP felt bad and decided to give us 10 of each starter seed). hint, hint I then activated my Easter Cloud Row, a Val Pot, and a Cheese Ball to give me 20% off animal pens and planted horses (a bit short on maximizing the down time, but they give more manure than fish lol!)

So either way, I will still get some drops, and not have to delete a bunch of 1x1 to convert to 2x2s. Overall, I just lost a bunch of time on my CAC and the full use of a White Innocence... For me, it's just the strategy and planning in order to get the max out of buffs which is such a fun part of the game, that something like this is quite disappointing. I would rather have a buggy event start on time, be given a bonus code or there be a developer refresh to fix mistakes, instead of having to wait and mess up my starting strategy... But hey, it's a still a beautiful day and I'm willing to make lemonade out of lemons.


Also, I put together a new chart for helping to time the 6 and 8 hour event crop starter seeds. I noticed that I had previously had the effects of Fruitcake and White Innocence mixed up before... here they are fixed and corrected, with PPP time added.

Happy Farming everyone! ~CJ​

 

Thank you for all your input about what to do! I have had breakfast and gone for a walk so I feel a little more clear headed. I did go ahead and harvest, put out chickens on my main field and am growing some shorter crops I need to stock up on. Aluntino, as always, your perspective is great. I did not think to leave a space open...for some reason today, I was approaching with an all or none mentality. Thank you for showing a good compromise.

I won't be able to have full fields by bedtime so will plant longer crops tonight and hope the drop rate is not bad. I don't normally struggle for drops but you never know how BP will set the rate.

 

Don't we get 10 of each for the start? (With 5 replacement after 5 hrs if we have zero in stock?)

 

Sweet_Cassiopeia,

We sometimes do. But I checked the FAQ earlier today and it there said 5+5 (I've just re-checked it and goes on saying the same thing). Hopefully, they'll change it to 10 as an initial little compensation for the delay. They should, actually. That, at the very least.

 

Sweet Cassiopeia - we only get 10 seeds if there is one event crop. When there are 2 crops, we get 5 seeds each. I made the suggestion long ago in the old forum that we should get 10 seeds no matter how many crops there are to grow as it really does help get ramped up to full fields sooner.

 

The event will start in 32 min (from German OA) I am sure we will get an OA here very soon

 

Thanks Mir!

 

just wondering, am I the only one without any seeds?

 

just saw it, so bad, it's Midnight time on my timezone. I feel sleepy already.But I will
struggle to keep awake. However, those inital crop planting look impossible.
Seem that I'm the first time miss normal starting of event.
So, my strategy is when event start, harvest my field to get full drops, plant 2X2 for the
2 event crops. just add suzy SG , no need for SG water & manure. other land plant long
time crop. Then have a good sleep. 2nd planting will be tomorrow.