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First off… I did spend. GG rattles pockets too easy. Far too easy to slip up and lose money. So for that reason alone I stopped spending here long ago. (Yea I know, this means they don't give a hoot what I say.)
Farming is slow. Or it was when I first signed up years ago. Then stuff was added.
Events. I LOVED events. I would get up during the night to harvest apples and so on. Top prizes were tough to get, but getable IF I played very hard for a full week. (Usually in winter when I have little else to do.)
Now? They added more deco, and paint for barns and such, but even the second hardest is darn near impossible for me to get. People with superfarms brag about how easy it is for them, but the prize is deco. No room to show it off so what's the point?
Events now? I pick the smallest one, get it done, never going to bother building it, just get what ever I get along the way and if I don't win anything? So what. …. zzzzz.
I plod along building my farm up ever so slowly.
Horses came along. At first, just like the docks, I could not figure it out. And as always here, it came out loaded with bugs and issues. I let it go for the longest time. Had a few MILLION in horse shoes before I got into it. Read up on breeding, ok, easy enough. Racing still makes NO sense to me what so ever. My lvl 70 horses get womped by level 20s all the time. I no longer see any point in worrying about breeding. Getting that level 70 took…. well when was that rolled out? I still haven't got a mate for my highest horses. And now the prize at the end of the long season? Was nice when we got blue certs. Or some nyfty new trophy especially one I could place on my farm. Lately it's been rather a disappointment. zzzzzzz.
Temp farms. Oh boy something new! But WOWZA are they expensive. I bankrupted my farms more than a few times TRYING to get through to the end of one of them just once. Seems it's never going to happen. I can't get past the second chapter. And for what? Some seeds to send the boat away a little faster? For some horse shoes I already am bored with? Some nice decor to be had but I can't ever get that far no matter how many hours I waste on this silly game. Gave up. Letting them go.
zzzzzzzzz
Along comes Oleg and "fishing." COOL! Yea well… not so much. Manually fishing is about as lame as it gets here. Started just sending him fish for bass, get the 50 points, sell off the bass…zzzzz
Suddenly I got a boat and no clue how to use it. As USUAL here they don't make instructions very clear.
Had to sift through forum posts, get a lot of help before I could figure out how to use the danged thing.
Finally got it, ok, cool. Easy once you know how. WHY they can't make using new stuff easier IN GAME is beyond me but they never do. He gets a lot more fish and I don't have to do the manual fishing other than for an occasional sidebar task. Cool. Maybe I can work on this mermaid thing and maybe someday that will be profitable like the bakery or flower farm. Still waiting…. zzzzz
Coop village. WOW something new! Coop challenge???? GRRRR. no, I never signed up to play against other players, and now we are sort of forced to. Gotta do it if anyone in my coop wants to. Once in a blue moon we actually win. Go to the rewards and get your prize. Really? After filling countless numbers of stuff all I can get is a few bags of lousy feed? I don't even LOOK at challenges anymore. Win or lose I just close the so called "prizes" page. Phoey! And why do I have to close that TWICE? WHY can't they do that same thing for gold spending? Are you sure? Click, yes. SO EASY. But no. THAT they won't do.
And the coop village? Oh I tried, I planted side crops, darn near starved my poor critters doing it. We upgraded buildings…. kept exchanging money. (My farms had plenty, but I am borderline broke yet again.)
Even tried the horse thing despite everyone else saying don't bother.
Yea well…. they were right. Don't bother. In fact, the entire coop village pays you NOTHING!
Yarnicle? Depends which of my coops. Some are still foolishly feeding that scurvy, rum soaked drunken, slop pirate who can't even manage to sail a raft through a creek without sustaining thousands in damages.
(seriously, how much can a log raft cost huh?)
Here's the thing. IF I click to look at what he has, sometimes I can pick up a goody. BUT if every single slot will take something away? You cannot even close the window without picking one. Gotta close the browser window and reload the game. It's the only way out of him stealing something. Kind of a pain with all the pop ups right after logging in, so lately I don't even look at him anymore. Don't care if he sinks his stupid raft.
In fact, this week I stopped even looking at the whole coop village. It PAYS NOTHING BACK AT ALL!
zzzzzzz
So now we got the whole boat dock thing. And just like the horse roll out, I let it go until the bugs and confusion was worked out. But LOTS of people were talking about how much money you make, and gees, with how much I lost over the temp farms, the coop village, not to mention I haven't been able to expand my farm in ages, I thought ok, I'll get into this. Got as far as buying my 4 trawlers which all in all costed a fortune, none of my farms have them all up to lvl 6 though, again HUGELY expensive. I hoped in time I could earn it, and maybe in time actually be able to upgrade my farm stuff again. I still have lots of room to grow. So I've been playing around with who to put on what boat, what stuff to load it with, and all without using anyones help guides. Just play this game right?
But no. YANKED AWAY. In favor of a lame market that hands out rakes and brushes for the coop village which I already stopped playing? Or for challenges which I really don't care about here at all? Only time I even do missions is when the CC is on and it's just for certs and to help out my lower level members. But I could not care less about ranking here. SO the rewards are again, worthless.
now I just send empty boats to what ever spot seems active, I care not with what. They get what they get. Eventually I'll have enough stock to maybe fill something once in a blue moon. When? Dont' care.
zzzzzzz
Kinda nice actually, I am back to how I played in the beginning.
Plant long stuff, 6 hour stuff, log out. Go outside, paint, clean, do something else.
Before bed, harvest, replant, get out.
So at least for me, this whole fishing mess was probably a good thing. Gets me OFF this dumb game more.
Thanks GG.
But given this is a daily task, there should be enough fish to allow this to be completed daily!
the contract calls for Swordfish, yet none are available. GGS calls for "balance" in the game. You must be reading from a different dictionary.
Unless all of this Dock was intentional, GGS management really screwed up. Whoever engineered, developed, beta-tested the Dock, should be let go.
GGS gave something to it's players then abruptly took it away, bad business in my book.
Too much is wrong now including GGS integrity, it has sunk to a new low.
Unless GGS comes to the table with something with substance, their cash cow will soon leave.
@ artmaker (GB1). I was chatting with a friend in a different coop earlier today and I said that I am back to playing the game the way it was when I first started playing three and a half years ago - no DSF, no temp farms (not that I ever started that), no CC (have always HATED missions so no problem to me). I do a little bit with the horses (upgrading and the odd race) and am doing village challenges but nothing else in the village. Have not upgraded any buildings in the village and have not sent out the boat (raft) for over a week - worked out what it was costing me and what I was getting in return, rubbish!!! I demolished all my fish fleet and am just a couple of million $$$ from having enough cash to buy another plot of land on my main farm. Its a great feeling to do be bothered about what needs doing for the next CC etc, I am enjoying taking my time building up my FARM (it is a farm game when all's said and done), and don't have to plough through pages and pages of how to get the most out of the fish market (sorry to those who have spent a lot of time working out the best strategy for this, I just don't understand your workings out). Good luck to those who are still trying to get to grips with the DSF - rather you than me xxx
Edited to respond to correct player
Then without notice, and right before a weekend where no one even sees this, they take it away.
GGS Motto
GGS also enticed people to build up the dockyard as quick as possible (which many players used gold to do) because of its potential and the hard worker event which they introduced at the same time, then snatched it away without fair IN GAME notice.
I've never seen this many special offers for gold in so short a span of time - Two for One, Matching Gold for your Coop! Spin the wheel! Buy Gold and you get this batch of goodies worth more... More... MORE!
I don't care how many times you throw that 'Double Gold Offer!' up on my screen... I ain't buyin' no more gold. No. More. Gold. Nope. Uh-uh. Forget it.
Don't tease me like this .....NOW I HAVE 6 POOLS OF TUNA AND HERRING...HOORAYYYY!!! (use a sarcastic tone...:)))))
1 tuna herring pool on the 4th day cause I was on the nice list...:)))
So I became super nice look what I got...:))))
As u see In the mod bulliten they said we have to update the deap sea for in next 2 months but the is out of balance so we do it now lol what a joke they made there we can talk as much as we want no mod no pichu no other can do any thing only the things which are going to change is the player
I wont buy gold, and I hope that all who play this game will do the same, because that is the only language bf may understand! Got at mail the other day, asking how satisfied I am with the game...guess what my answer was? And I will not give you positive feedback, until we can sell fish again!
I would not say it too loud or publicly, GGS may decide they want to charge a fuel charge or add a boat tax or something to prevent you from making ANY type of profit. GGS does not want you to make a profit, they want you to feel the need to buy gold to try and catch up with the players that have either been here for a very long time or that spend gold. This is psychological warfare; Keep everything out of reach to entice you to buy gold.
Personally I do not believe there is much of a profit to be made sifting through the contracts trying to find what would be considered "profitable" considering the lack of necessary pools and the decrease in fish. For anyone just starting out that does not have any boats yet, it would take a VERY long time to see any profit after calculating the cost of the dockyard and a fleet of boats.
I believe in my most honest opinion this entire thing was very well calculated ahead of time to extract as much gold as possible before pulling the plug.
As far as the update and the current lack of fish, I do believe this is intentional and not a bug. It fits into the whole scheme of things.
They want the dockyard to be a big money pit, just like the island and the village. EVERYTHING in this game is now pushing the sale of gold to the absolute limits.