Feedback The Secret of Santa Rock

Howdy Farmers,

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Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding "The Secret of Santa Rock" Event in this Feedback thread. We are looking forward to capturing your initial reaction to the event, as well as the final opinion after participating in the event.

Please be sure to bring arguments for supporting your statements, simple comments saying you like it or hate it will not help the Team understand what goes great, and what needs to be looked into, when planning future events.

The FAQ of the Event can be found here. If you have any questions, please use the General Issues section or the Technical Issues section for technical problems - this thread is for feedback only. Thank you for understanding.

We are looking forward to your feedback!​

Best regards,
Your Farmerama Team

 

Making us use TWO Festive Deck/vouchers for each round is real Xmas Grinch Stuff!
So very UN-festive!
A (another) shameful dilution of gameplay rewards.
Phooey!
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I love these board game events. I agree with the above that bumping up the requirements from one to two - and at the same time, limiting how many decks we can acquire - is Grinchy. I also think that combining this with another challenging type of event - which I also enjoy - made this unnecessarily complicated. That being said, I've enjoyed having the longer time, to go at a Holiday pace, and all the options available as to how to proceed. The rewards are good, the choice of prizes always appreciated. I just wish it didn't take so many harvests to feel like you are getting anywhere!

 

First things first: my one negative: I wish that the re-claimable deck handing out tiles were 11 hours to harvest instead of 12. Makes it tough to harvest twice a day.

Now, The rest of this event is very nice. The length of time we have to complete it, the fact that we get 20 days of Moonlight Mania (BONUS!). The five different game boards with some very nice prizes. The cloud rows (okay, 6 months to mature on that one might be a little long, but I get it, very nice rewards).

So now why I'm really here. I want to say to everyone at BP: Danke schön!!!! THANK YOU!!!! for everything you have done for the last two years. When I look back to the imminent demise of Java; the decision of BigFish to dump Farmerama with ZERO notice to players; the issues we had with the first iteration of the stand-alone client and Unity: Farmerama is still here. We're still farming. Ya done good!

I also want to say thank you to the mods and the folks at BP for being honest with the community about the issues with the events this fall and winter. Having dealt in the past with companies that have pretended there are no issues, it's actually quite refreshing and very much appreciated to have been told that things have been postponed rather than roll out a problematic event.

Fröhliche Weihnachten! Merry Christmas!

 

I like the lengthy time for this or should I say these events, plenty of time even with the festive activities going on. The prizes are pretty good and the graphics, it goes without saying, are great. I also must say that, in recent times and especially when there are multiple events going on, that there has been a lot of lagging at the start of events. Not so these ones. The game seems more stable, to me anyway.

On the negative side, I found the first Santa Rocks very confusing and hard to follow the path - I wasted so much time running my mouse over everything. It would be easier if the path route could be numbered.

On the second part, I couldn't work out where to get the Festive Candles - on both sections, I found my answers but it was not easy.
I agree that doubling the number of decks for the third part was a bit mean but I think overall it is probably the same in the end.

Also, I kept doing the same map because I would click on it to play and go straight to the Market one without the ability to back out and go to the next one(s).

I would also like to join Dumbunny's sentiments. This game has kept me sane (well almost) during a very trying time. I know that there have been hiccoughs here and there but basically this game remains my most treasured pastime. Well done to all those who have worked so hard to make it so much fun.

 

Thank you for your thoughts Dumbunny. I also was left high and dry by Big Fish and lost my level 156 farm. I'm sure it was the demise of Flash player that Big Fish could not handle rather than Java. Big thanks to BP for migrating to the different platform and debugging on the fly. There still are some issues that require an occasional re-boot but those issues seem to be diminishing in frequency. The game does not play as fast as it did with Flash but, there are noticeable improvements with every update from BP.