Neighbors

PINJO1986 (NL1)

Why are the neighbors never asking for honey cream and soap anymore? I know for a fact that before the split up (that every farm gets his/her own neighbors) the neighbors asked for honey cream and soap.

RunsWivScissors (GB1)

Mine still do, but not very often. They ask for all the shop items at some point, though I think I see more bouquets than honey cream or soap. They always seem to avoid the items I WANT to sell & pester me endlessly for the ones I do not want to sell, like Honeydew & Liquid Fertilizer, seems like I have a request for honeydew (sometimes 2 or 3) on one or more farms 24/7, I am trying to figure a way to put up a sign saying "Honeydew NOT for sale!!!"

Jiesta (NL1)

Well, in fact - I was wondering the same as Pinjo .....

It's ages ago that I have seen neighbors ask for anything else at my flower farm than Liquid Fertilizer and Honeydew (the latter 2 I never sell!) and maybe once in a while Aloë Vera Gel. All storage of the other flower shop products is at max nowadays as they never ask for it anymore. Neighbors used to ask for every product randomly - now that seems to be over?
Same at my Gourmet farm; neighbors seem to only ask for the products I don't wanna sell, like animal feed, humus or fertilizer.... Bummer!

But what amazes me most these last maybe 2-4 months is that my products seem to vanish from my storage without me ever touching them. F.i. I always keep my animal feed on the Gourmet farm at max storage, yesterday evening when logging out my Donkey feed and Duck feed were somewhere between 2400 - 2800, and this morning they both were on >1600 - strange & spooky. And I never used it; I don't have market contracts with 1 of those products running, neighbors never ever get it from me ..... so: Mystery!! It's not the first time I discover this. 

No biggy, I can come over it (just produce more of it again) - never bothered Support for this because I never take screenshots of every product storage before logging out (who does? ) - but it remains utterly strange!

Ikrima (INT1)

Please help me how to add a neighbour

aaabbb1 (INT1)

@Ikrima (INT1)

What do you mean by adding a neighbour? Neighbours are workers (small people) that are randomly coming next to your market and are asking for some item. The item is shown in a baloon above them. If you hoover a mouse over them, the baloon would show how many items they want. If you click on them, you sell that item to them. The base price is the same is if you would sell the item normaly + a bonus of 0-20% (quicker you accept the offer, higher is a chance for a bigger bonus). 

The neighbours come by themselves and there is no need to do anything to add them. But maybe there is a level requirement that has to be obtained to get them. In that case, you just farm normaly and they will show up sooner or later.

Data King (US1)

"Neighbors" are the folks in a co op that you join. 

Uncle John (GB1)

I suspect that he means Farm Friends. I which case the first task is to find someone that you know who does not currently play Bigfarm but would like to do so.

Jiesta (NL1)

Uncle John (GB1) said:

I suspect that he means Farm Friends. I which case the first task is to find someone that you know who does not currently play Bigfarm but would like to do so.

Yes - that was my understanding also Uncle John. I think he means Farm Friends indeed.

And correct me if I am wrong, but I always understood that:
- neighbors are the people walking up the road on your farm, to stop at your market and buy something
- friends are people that do not play BF yet (or an existing player that starts a new farm on your server, using your link) whom you like to invite to do so, and than be "Farm friends" with, and enjoy some benefits that this offers (see yr airport and the bar at the right side from yr "happiness"bar)
- members are the other players who are with you in your cooperation

Sometimes it's hard to not get all these different words mixed up LOL - especially coz English is not my native language I've made myself a list with explanations of all these different denominations, to not get confused (like f.i. often happened to me with the word TASK (in English you have the tasks at the left side of your screen, and the different tasks in f.i. the weekly Theme events - while in Dutch these 2 have different names )

If you @Ikrima (INT1) are indeed talking about how to get "Farm Friends" here are 2 links that could help you (official announcements and the discussion link):

https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/42705/update-may-21st-friend-invite-and-foreshadowing-events

https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/42706/update-may-21st-friend-invite-and-foreshadowing-events-discussion/p1

WascallyWabbit (FormerMod)

Good news, neighbors should start to ask for shop products again with the next update.

Jiesta (NL1)

Yááy! That's great! THX Wabbit!

woodenskull (US1)

 

Southern (US1)

woodenskull (US1) said:

Has there been a programing change to the market ? I seem to remember market walkers regularly asking for high value flower shop and bakery items. Over the last several months I can't remember a single walker asking for flower shop items and only rarely asking for bakery products. All I'm seeing now is requests for peaches and meadow / distillery items.

https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/comment/3442976/#Comment_3442976

woodenskull (US1)

 

KarenKay (US1)

The folks walking up to the market are "customers" at least that's what it says in the info button.  Previously on each farm, the customers would request items pertaining to that farm, Main Farm would request milk, apples, cherries, pigs,etc.  GF would request peaches, almonds, Bakery items, donkeys, or one of the crops, etc.  But for the past few weeks, everyone on the GF wants cherries??  Doable, but different. 

Jiesta (NL1)

Well @WascallyWabbit, this thread is from more that 1 month ago, but still the neighbors never ask for anything else at my flower farm than Liquid Fertilizer and Honeydew (the latter 2 I never sell!) and maybe once in a while Aloë Vera Gel or Lavender Essence... My storage is full of the rest of the stuff, but I seldom see them in a market contract or asked for by the neighbors anymore!

Seems to be a similar thing going on with the neighbors visiting the market on MF and GF .. they only ask for Cherries or Peaches, and maybe Animal Feed (which I never sell!)...

Why don't they ask for a variety of all products anymore? You mentioned (see here above) that this would change with the 'next' update, but up until now nothing changed. Any news on this?

Thank you!

WascallyWabbit (FormerMod)

@Jiesta (NL1)  I will check with the dev again when he is back after Easter, he said it would be done in March, so either he forgot or something is not working as intended.

PINJO1986 (NL1)

WascallyWabbit said:

@Jiesta (NL1)  I will check with the dev again when he is back after Easter, he said it would be done in March, so either he forgot or something is not working as intended.

Could you check again, after 2 weeks they still never ask for honey cream, soap or other shop items where they did before. It is still a bug that should be easily solved after a couple of months that it is already there.

WascallyWabbit (FormerMod)

@PINJO1986 (NL1) I did check again & it had not made it into the intended update, but was added since. I actually spoke to them again yesterday, because shop items are now showing up again in contracts, but we had not noticed any with neighbours, but apparently if they are appearing in contracts, there is no reason the neighbours shouldn't ask for them, other than chance.

PINJO1986 (NL1)

Thanks allot for letting us know, we will keep an eye on those neighbors and hope for a good one that wants soap or honey cream.

dchen1 (US1)

I want the customers to stop asking for liquid fertilizer or honeydew.  They are farm supplies and they are worth a lot less than the ingredients or products of them.  Even worse is that they are asking for 1/3 of all the liquid fertilizer and honeydew in storage while normal products are requested in only 5% of the current stock.  I also do not want customers asking for olives, citrus fruits olive oil, essence of lavender, essence of jasmine or lavender because they are the limiting ingredients of shop items worth many times more than ingredients.  I always leave customers alone unless there is fireworks that double the sell value and I NEVER EVER HAVE SOLD HONEYDEW OR LIQUID FERTILIZER.  A possible suggestion is to have a sign next to the organic market that can put up specific items for sale so customers will ask for the right items and edit the sign depending on what products the player wants to sell like how real marketing works.  

White _Doves (US1)

I hope they start asking for soaps etc soon, mine still want only honeydew, and cherries, and feeds.

MRG1 (US1)

My neighbors still want only honeydew on flower farm too

dchen1 (US1)

After reaching level 60, my customers ask for 270 pig feed.  I have a total of 1050 feed, that is 1/4 of all the feed.  
When trying to sell any farm supply, It gives a warning that selling supplies will be at a loss.  Why do customers want items that will make the player lose money and requested in such a large amount?
Should the customers stop asking for farm supplies in future updates?

Data King (US1)

You are trying to compare making to selling with your screen provided. Selling the feed through the walk up customers is one way to run your feed down so you can make more with out having to sell the extra at a loss. Another option is to put your Lab to work & turn that regular feed into premium feed

WascallyWabbit (FormerMod)

Hi everyone,

This should be working now & we have noticed shop products back in the contracts, so they are available for the neighbors to buy - Has anyone had a neighbor ask for any shop items?

Southern (US1)

WascallyWabbit said:

Hi everyone,

This should be working now & we have noticed shop products back in the contracts, so they are available for the neighbors to buy - Has anyone had a neighbor ask for any shop items?

I have on the Gourmet Farm (had a guy there earlier wanting fruitcakes, for instance), but not on Flower Farm.  Nothing but Honeydew, Aloe Vera, Lavender.. Been checking it pretty much all day, haven't seen any customers wanting shop items yet. I'll continue to monitor.

PINJO1986 (NL1)

Still nothing happening on flower farm regarding the neighbors asking for some nice soap or honey cream.

Southern (US1)

I've got one right now asking for Aloe Vera GEL (Distillery Product). Still nothing from the Shop though.

Also, I've noticed that customers don't "walk away" on the flower farm - they pull a Harry Houdini and just go *poof* if you don't sell to them. Not sure what's up with that.

Jiesta (NL1)

Southern (US1) said:

WascallyWabbit said:

Hi everyone,

This should be working now & we have noticed shop products back in the contracts, so they are available for the neighbors to buy - Has anyone had a neighbor ask for any shop items?

I have on the Gourmet Farm (had a guy there earlier wanting fruitcakes, for instance), but not on Flower Farm.  Nothing but Honeydew, Aloe Vera, Lavender.. Been checking it pretty much all day, haven't seen any customers wanting shop items yet. I'll continue to monitor.

Same here ...... Neighbors keep asking for the same stuff, mostly the things I never sell, as stated here above - but today for the first time since ages I've got a market contract with "Floral perfume" (freely translated from Dutch), so finally something different!!

White _Doves (US1)

I still haven't seen any flower shop requests, did get some request aloe vera gel. Also a Fruitcake on Gourmet farm. That is some change for good there.

PINJO1986 (NL1)

Bakery good was never the problem, the problem is that neighbors did not ask for flower shop items after a while and still they do not ask for it. Already had at least 20 neighbors walking to my market and it is only the regular ones, not a single flower shop item. Pretty sure the CM lied to you @WascallyWabbit that it was fixed!