The Festive Shopping Strategy Thread

The Festive Shopping Strategy Thread ​

Where: All 3 main lands
When 13th -19th = 6 days
FAQ: Festive Shopping
SOS: SOS - Festive Shopping

Special Crop: Ribbon Tulip, 5h - starter seed 10.
Special Drop: Gift box, drops from mainland crop, trees and animal housing

Total Requirements
Ribbon Tulips: 22 800
Gift Box: 1500
+Normal Goods

If you only use main field and meadow with CAC it's a little less than 19 harvests.

NB! We only have to do 3 out of 4 present for each animal. 12 presents gives us the CR (3 present x 4 animals)

Spoiler: List of Normal Goods

Parrots: 25
Elephants: 25
Monkeys: 25
Red Pandas: 20
Chickens 25
Rabbits: 25
Pigs: 25
Otters: 20
Sugar Canes: 350
Pineapples: 350
Chillies: 350
Pepper: 350
Mushrooms: 350
Rhubarb: 350
Strawberries: 350
Pumpkin: 350
Fir Cones: 48
Dates: 48
Olives: 48
Eggs: 8
Angora Wool: 8
Cow Milk: 8
Skateboards: 6
Sheep's Wool: 6
Paint Palette: 6
Truffles: 6
Hit Singles: 6

For me this looks like a tad bit on the boring side with nothing special, so I'm thinking finding my spot on the fence and cheer on the rest of you. Maybe help Broke serve the market on those more special items like Hit singles.

Disclaimer: Just an old dog that tried the grey matter again, do help us all by pointing out errors and important stuff.

EDIT: Numbers updated, I seem to have scrolled so fast that Mike the Moose got left out in the woods. Thank you for letting me know.

 

Thanks Moraine for the calculations and strategies. I think I will use all fields.

Thanks a lot. That sure is great help.

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That I am very much sure. May be I will help him a little bit. Poor Fellow...How much burden can he shoulder. He already said he is low on animals in the other thread....

 

Thanks @Moraine for crunching the numbers.

I'm thinking about joining you and Broke

 

Doesn't make me jump up and down doing a happy dance either. No really wonderful prizes and if, like me, you like to get everything, it is a massive 30,000+ event crop and far too many drops to count!

Perhaps I will continue doing the FSQs I have been working on forever and building up my animal levels.
But have I got the willpower to let it go by?
Good luck all who are going to give it a go!

Edit: Thought we could finish all presents but it looks like 12 is the limit - thankfully so ignore my silly number!

 

I think our calculators need new batteries....

Moraine gets 24k
illy gets 30k
I get 19,200



1600 ribbons x 3 gifts for each animal x 4 animals = 19,200 crops
120 gift boxes x 3 gifts x 2 animals = 720 gift boxes
130 gift boxes x 3 gifts x 2 animals = 780 gift boxes
720+780 = 1500 gift boxes (drops)

I may be wrong....math without caffeine but I like my numbers better

Edit:
I am wrong!

I failed to see 2200 ribbons and thought they were all 1600

1600 x 3 gifts x 2 animals 9600
2200 x 3 gifts x 2 animals 13,200

22,800 ribbons

 

I was in a hurry to skip this, missed Mike.
Numbers are
Max 4x1600 crop = 6400, 4x120 Drop = 480
Mike 4x1600 crop = 6400, 4x120 Drop = 480
Stinky 4x2200 Crop = 8800; 4x130 Drop = 520
Porky 4x2200 Crop = 8800; 4x130 drop = 520

Not sure why Pups has only 3, not of to each ?
ANSWER: Because we have the options to choose which tree packages we want to do. Note to self: READ the faq

Thank you kind farmer that sent me an owl telling me to check my numbers

If I'm still barking at the wrong tree, let me know. Skipping just became easier with these numbers

 

puppiesponies, your no is corrected.
I first see FAQ, my brain give me wrong math, which I though we only need to grow
(1600+1600+2200+2200)=7600 crops.
Then I immed, know that my brain got suck!
That is impossible for BP give us such little qty of crop to grow. Then I look more carefully
and found that we had to donated 3 times.
7600 X 3 = 22800
Ok It is a big qty but that’s BP’s style

around 1 week time, 1500 drops. Hope the drop come like the race event...

Edit: Moraine, for each person, there is only 3 boxes need to pack, each box chose one out of four wrapping and gifts. that why pnp X 3

 

Oh I shouldn't have started this thread Back to the editing

 

Thank you Moraine for starting the thread. I appreciate all who do get us on our way.

 

I take a look at market,those stuff required by event look rising up.
Maybe I should make a little profit on them.

For the little porky, I still not determind to give him what gift,
Hit single? I had some, but they rise to 150k in my market
It is better to sell them, so.......
maybe some paint palettes, among 4 products, they are cheapest in the market,
and I like the reward>> SSG

 

Don't forget to claim the bonus from the newspaper. You get an harvest copoun. The 100% EP goes to your inventory. So you can use it whenever you activate it.

 

gazillions of junks ............... for thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!

nope ............................... it's not going to happen

Happy Holidays and I hope you feel better soon.

 

I forgot my manners: thank you Moraine for having the courage that I lacked to start this thread!
It seems a little unfair that we can't plant or get drops from Baha when we can donate Baha animals and crops.

Still not persuaded to do it ... maybe I'm still too tired to think about it. Will make up my mind tomorrow - after planting a longish crop, of course!

 

I am giving this a miss I have only just put my farm back to normal and I really need a break from events!My animals look so happy to be outside again¬

 

but but but...the cloud row... I dunno. I might do enough to get the cloud row. Depends on how much real life time I can devote to farming. Next couple days are going to be crazy.

 

Again.....
loads of junk need to grow, I had all the stuff, just need to chose which to give.
But the very first, Do I want to do this event?
Let see how much drops I get from my preparation.

 

What ! I missed looking at the cloud row. Off I go to see it. ......Seen. yes, it seems good enough. Another incentive to do the event. Thanks dumbunny, for pointing it out.

 

Thanks Moraine and pnp for the numbers.
I'm in

 

Thanks Moraine and PnP and Illy and everyone else for the start and overall numbers!

Depending on my playtime and the answer on my question in general issues I'll decide later on if and/or when I do this event. I've skipped a few lately and the CR awared in this one seems OK. I still have plenty of charges left on my Jack O' Gift and with CAC it'll boost any crop harvest with +4.

Event Crop grow times:
5:00 hrs
4:00 hrs with water applied
3:36 hrs with water and manure applied

 

Thanks Moraine for kicking off this Shopping spree, you are a very brave soul.
And thank you to all our math genies for pulling those stubborn numbers out of that bottle! Puppies chasing tails came to mind!
My calculator stayed in the drawer. Did not need it for the SOS thread, just copy/paste. Good luck to one and all.