Update May 24th - Dockyard, Deep Sea Fishing & More! - Discussion

maxiroy (US1)

Well, not really sure what I think about it right  now.  I am going to try it and see, even if I don't like it, it is not enough to make me quit.   I do like the graphics. lol

MikiB007 (GB1)

I'm so confused by this. I can fish for lobster, oysters and shrimp but nothing else. The HWE is asking for herring  now but I can't fish for them anywhere, and collecting them from the Viking event makes no difference. I wasted gold on bringing boats in early to keep the 'oyster' request on the HWE running for longer, but they never registered as being collected! It feels badly organised with little instruction, and what info is available makes very little sense. Please can we have some clarification from a mod. I'm really not happy - especially as I've wasted gold.

RowdyRac (FormerMod)

You made me doubt myself now, Mia 
Had to go buy a motorboat to check  

Motorboat level 1  has 4 spaces open:


Motorboat level 2 has 5 spaces open:


  

mia111 (GB1)

Rowdy Rac said:

You made me doubt myself now, Mia 
Had to go buy a motorboat to check  

Motorboat level 1  has 4 spaces open:


Motorboat level 2 has 5 spaces open:


  

Sorry about that. It seems I don't know how to count. Probably I checked the same boat twice (since the level 1 and 2 graphics look the same). I should have waited that they were done fishing and check again before posting. My apologies.


Edit:  No problem at all, was just teasing you.  It's always good to confirm stuff 
  Rowdy 

wendy2038 (US1)

Any idea of when everyone will be able to play this part of the game - as of yet i cant even build a boat!!

Griffith (INT1)

wendy2038 (US1) said:

Any idea of when everyone will be able to play this part of the game - as of yet i cant even build a boat!!

"When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. Then you can build boats and/or oyster and shrimp and clam will return, and not before."

(jking, tweaked a quote from GoT, nothing to do it seems till ggs decides to fix all the bugs i guess)

Bruce04 (US1)

Neither can I. All I get is an error message saying "The building slot isn't available at the moment". And no, I'm not building anything else.

I believe that I finished all of the tasks a long time ago and just forgot about them.

Белка (GB1)

all time mistakes in game!!!...I cann't send boat for herrings so cann't get event...on the screen every time come "mistake", sorted out please!

Tigrain (BG1)

LSB_TTS (INT1) said:

WascallyWabbit said:

DoctorX (INT1) said:

How am I suppose to compete in the HWE if I have no Tuna or Herring, if the resources regenerate every 24h GGS should ensure that you always get a mix of all resources

By the way what is the point of having a limit on the amount you can harvest in 24h so in the HWE if I am efficient and I only have one location for clams for instant  what happens if I collect all clams must I skip all clam requests for the next 24 hours if so this is going to anger a lot of people. 

@DoctorX (INT1) Whenever you catch all the fish in one location, that one will vanish & a new one will open & any that sit for 24 hours will reset, but the new ones are random so there is no guarantee which fish will be there.

There is no denying that this HWE is far more of a challenge, but everyone is in the same boat, so to speak, we just have to make the best of it & hopefully it can be improved for next time.

Hey wascally, I fished all the fish at two locations but they are not disappearing or new fish appearing there. It is just an empty spot with no fish

Also, it has been 24 hours, but no change in fish yet (3 of my spots have lobsters still)

Same here,5 old slots from yesterday and one empty slot that does not reset,just an empty hole,when i hover mouse over it nothing pops up.

ashim (IN1)

This is bug ? i refresh my farm , cleared cache too

RowdyRac (FormerMod)

@wendy2038 (US1)

If you cannot build a boat because your dock yard has not unlocked yet, that is because you have not completed the Oleg quest in full.

Here are some posts that might help you understand what is needed:

https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/comment/3531835/#Comment_3531835

https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/comment/3531180/#Comment_3531180

ESP2014 (US1)

LSB_TTS (INT1) said:

WascallyWabbit said:

DxrxbillingGame (US1) said:

Got my oysters for the HWE
manned and stocked my boat for herring and tuna and sent boat to the herring/tuna site on the map
and the boat went back to the oyster site
What a waste of money and time.  Why does the boat not go to the site you are on when you send it??
How are you supposed to get herring for the next HWE requirement?
Do you need a new boat for each site?   instructions are not very clear on this
Is that why we have to name them  i.e.  oyster boat, herring/tuna boat, etc. ? 

@DxrxbillingGame (US1) All boats are capable of catching all types of fish. If you click on the location you wish to go to & select "Go fishing" it should show you any boats that you have already equipped for that location, you can select one & click "deploy" or click the + button to see all your boats and equip one.

Each type of fish requires 1 specific item to catch it, you would have used the rake for your oysters, did you equip your boat with the "Fish net" when you went out for Herring?

hey Wally, my HWE requires Herring but i checked all the spots at there are no herring. So I have a few questions:

there are 6 spots, will the fish change from time to time?
If i catch all the fish will new ones spawn there?
I can catch herring right ? (none of them show up in any spot. Actually i only see 4 kinds and none of them are actually fish , just lobster clam oyster and shrimp). 

Finally, is there a limit to how many boats we can have? I have like 8 right now and getting more due to HWE rewards. 

Herring are found with the Tuna - the Herring icon looks almost identical to the Salmon icon, but on my game, the Salmon are found with Cod & Swordfish in the deeper part of the sea beyond the Lobsters & the Herring & Tuna pools are dock side of the Lobsters.

You can clink on the "fish pool" then click the Blue i button, then you can hover over the pictures to see what the little fish icons are representing.

Hope this helps!

sarinc (NL1)

Hello,

I have a question.
2 members of my coop can't buy a boot.
There is no button for them to buy a boot.
Any one a option how they can buy a boot.
They are level 144 and 174.

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,
sarinc

andy123321 (INT1)

Fished for Shrimp at the start of the HWE, then some salmon.   Now it wants Shrimp again, and there is none left...  The Shrimp Zone is not there anymore.

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AlfariziUser (INT1)

I see the oyster spot on au1 fishing area.. but my int1 don't show the shrimp or oyster,, or lobster
how can I do the task "catch 50 shrimp" if the fishing area is inactive?
is there a way ti activate it?

crf (US1)

archerbob (AU1) said:

dockyard is a broken feature, clearly goodgamestudios did no beta testing whatsoever

Did you finish all of Olegs challenges on the flower farm. You cannot buy a boat until that is done.  Sorry I had to find out the hard way.

Just-Ique (NL1)

sarinc (NL1) said:

Hello,

I have a question.
2 members of my coop can't buy a boot.
There is no button for them to buy a boot.
Any one a option how they can buy a boot.
They are level 144 and 174.

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,
sarinc

They have to complete all the fishing tasks first. After that they will be able to open the dockyard
In Dutch: Ze moeten eerst alle visopdrachten voltooid hebben. De laatste visopdracht is het kopen van de grote witvishaak. Daarna kunnen ze met de scheepswerf aan de slag. 

JillT (US1)

We have several members who can't build boats! When we click on the dock building we get nothing but the ring with a question mark on it. Can you please help us?

Griffith (INT1)

well it seems like behind the scene GGS is doing some changes, I just noticed the "flower farm" bug of harvest in the right-side bar just got fixed, and also, it seems like my "fishing areas" finally changed BUT you gotta be joking ggs (if this is random), cause new areas appeared finally for me but not a single one of them again have any "oyster, shrimp, or clam again" ... wtfrog.

*correction: nope the flower farm harvest icon on right-side bar is still bugged, seems like it is related to making "chum" then it gets bugged again.

Teejay52 (INT1)

Whats the use of moaning? GGS dont give give a flying #$%^ for the genuine strategic players of BF anymore.

All they see is Gold selling opportunities for the gullible or arrogant players of this now absurdly stupid game.

Seeker1 (US1)

gavinfarms (US1) said:

@aaabbb1 (INT1)    I noticed this as well, and it seems like a key point to be aware of.




I now have 6 boats back in the harbor.  When I hover the cursor on them, I cannot tell what they are carrying, so I have no idea what they will do to my HW.  This is horrible.  I need to know what these boats contain before I harvest them. 

Yep I made a similar post a few pages back. This will be a nightmare in future HWE... imagine having 14 boats coming back to dock and NOT remembering which cargo (fish) they hold.  Hope people dont name their boats Jenny1 Jenny2 Jenny3.. etc.  hahahah LOL.

Ellenville (US1)

Bruce04 (US1) said:

Marowit said:

You need to finish the entire fishing quest line in order to unlock the deep sea area.

That is why some can use the dockyard while some can't

What is the entire fishing quest line?

Find it here:   https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HRX0LLXhk0kIfHkhvC6qH4iD5UDC1b2DV6SK6XeSBqs/edit#gid=0

If you can't cut and paste, go to CrazyBigFarm and look in the comment box to find the link.  

It is an old list but mostly correct.  A couple of task are different.  The Deep Sea task appears somewhere around fishing task #18.

Bruce04 (US1)

Did that already. I think that I did them all a long time ago. Nothing is showing up on the sidebar tasks that involves Oleg but I still can't build a boat.

Data King (US1)

Bruce04 (US1) said:

Did that already. I think that I did them all a long time ago. Nothing is showing up on the sidebar tasks that involves Oleg but I still can't build a boat.

Not all the tasks/quests will appear as a task that is needed to be done for the fishing & opening the Dock Yard. Some of the tasks are on different farms like the Main 

Here's what I found
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HRX0LLXhk0kIfHkhvC6qH4iD5UDC1b2DV6SK6XeSBqs/edit#gid=0
with thanks to @Ellenville (US1)

Artemiss (US1)

Hi!  My fellow co-op members and I can go to the new fishing spot but can't use it.  Is there an update that has yet to occur for it to become active?  We already have the Hard Worker Event for this new fishing spot going on so it is a bit annoying that we can't do anything!

Also, it seems to me that the times of the Village Co-op Adventurer's Boat have changed.  Now the boat arrives at midnight (CST), leaves at 6am (CST), arrives at noon (CST), leaves at 6pm (CST).  It used to be the opposite!  It has become substantially more difficult to repair the boat to get rewards.

Furthermore, I think there needs to be more access for decorations with village happiness -- easier access.  We are constantly in the red for production costs - How could anyone be able to keep it in the green when you are upgrading the village buildings constantly?

Thanks for your help and time!

Peachie Rose (US1)

This fishing thing has me and other farmers in my coop confused.  It's frustrating.  I've had success sending out boats, but when I fish alone, I always break an essential item.  It's costly, and frustrating.  So many tasks to fill before we can buy a boat, yet here is the Hard Worker Event asking for shell fish, etc. that we're unable to get.  An introduction to a "once in a while" HWE, but it's still frustrating.  I understand that earlier tasks were for milk, apples, etc.  Then we're hit with the need to buy bait and fish on land.  Many in our coop have no idea what's going on.  Too much at once.  

RowdyRac (FormerMod)

@Bruce04 (US1)   and also,   @JillT (US1)   @Artemiss (US1)

The new deep sea dock yard will not unlock, or be usable, until a player has completed every task in the Oleg quest  (the one he started when he first joined our farms). Many players already have that quest completed but many players do not yet.  They need to finish all those tasks (there are many, more than 20, of these).They appear in the task bar on the left hand side of your screen and may be on the Main Farm, or the Flower Farm or the Gourmet Farm, so check them all.

Please note, NOT all the Oleg tasks have Oleg in them.  And in fact, 2 of the tasks related to his quest (which you must finish for certain before the dock yard will unlock for you) involves harvesting wheat and milk ...
they are going to present like this
(but not all at the same time, though )-->   in your task bar. 
Furthermore, they have been made to appear at the very top of your task bar list, to make them easier to distinguish from other, regular tasks.  So check your Main farm left hand task bar, as well as the task bars on your Gourmet farm and the Flower farm one.

Please check real carefully if you are keen to have your dock yard unlocked.
This is not a bug so it will not get "fixed", you need to complete Oleg's quest yourself, in order to get things going at the dock yard.

The very last task for Oleg requires you to buy and use a large minnow hook.  When you see that task, you can know that the dock yard is in your grasp.

Good luck

Bruce04 (US1)

Well, there must have been a bug somewhere because it mysteriously got fixed and no, I did NOT complete any more tasks to make it happen. I now have 4 boats deployed so we'll see how that goes.

It appears that I completed all of the tasks long ago when they first appeared and just forgot about them.

gavinfarms (US1)

I still have three rocky areas with no fish of any type (shrimp, clam, or oyster).  The other pools did change, but these did not.  This has been going on for more than half a day now.

Also, where is the communication from GGS to let us know that they "get" it.

AND, where is the fix for the GMLs.  We were told that they would be in the HW and they are not there.  2 of 3 are missing?  This is unacceptable.

Even, as mad as I was yesterday, I never would have thought that we would get this far into Thursday with no fixes and such little communication.

Artemiss (US1)

Artemiss (US1) said:

Hi!  My fellow co-op members and I can go to the new fishing spot but can't use it.  Is there an update that has yet to occur for it to become active?  We already have the Hard Worker Event for this new fishing spot going on so it is a bit annoying that we can't do anything!

Also, it seems to me that the times of the Village Co-op Adventurer's Boat have changed.  Now the boat arrives at midnight (CST), leaves at 6am (CST), arrives at noon (CST), leaves at 6pm (CST).  It used to be the opposite!  It has become substantially more difficult to repair the boat to get rewards.

Furthermore, I think there needs to be more access for decorations with village happiness -- easier access.  We are constantly in the red for production costs - How could anyone be able to keep it in the green when you are upgrading the village buildings constantly?

Thanks for your help and time!

After scrolling through other posts - it seems we have to complete all the Oleg/fishing quests on our farms for the new fishing spot to become active - right?