Update Mar 26th- New Rewards (Extended Downtime - Completed March 21st) - Discussion

Kimmiecat (NL1)

WascallyWabbit said:

Kimmiecat (NL1) said:

@WascallyWabbit can we get a message when the servers are up and running again.....and maybe also a tweet?

@Kimmiecat (NL1) Good idea & CM liked it too, he will Tweet for you & also include the time it will go back down (briefly) for the update, if he has an eta on that at the time.

Thanks @WascallyWabbit & @CM_Hunter

Corvid (GB1)

Kimmiecat (NL1) said:

CrazyBigfarm55 (US1) said:

If I understand this correctly...

I have no control over what the 50 tokens I have saved up will go towards. Right now I don't know how long it will take me to save up 50 coins, but say it takes me a month to save these coins. I am not happy with the idea that I will waste those hard earned coins on a deco that takes 5 seconds to build. I would rather spend them coins on a long upgrade such as the Dandy duck perhaps.

You just have to pay attention to when the second slot opens and once it's open just do not build deco's.
Takes just a bit of planning.

that's a very simplistic view that im sure in the future (unless you only need architect upgrades) will come back to bite you on the ass, so to speak

it's not about paying attention, it's not even about planning, i can plan to use my two building slots for when archie turns up

that could be weeks, they never tell us when he's coming so your guess, or the next dude's guess is as good as any, and probably just as wrong

weeks 'wasted' not building other things i could've

or sure i could go ahead and build those things and hope i have a second slot again when archie does turn up, and you know what'll happen most likely then, i wont have that second building slot

as i said earlier, the only ones who will really benefit overall is those who only need architect upgrades

it's something we've wanted for ages and they've now finally done it, only to present it in a half-cocked way that is totally user unfriendly

i suspect these coins wont be real easy to come by, so if i presume, and it is a presumption, that these coins take some getting (im sure there will be gold options but im not entertaining that), why on earth didnt some in the dev team say, 'you know what guys, we've needed this in the game like forever, it's gonna take a fair amount of time to build up these coins, why not just let the player use the extra slot when they want to without affecting the normal building slot'

and if someone did pipe up and say that.... why the hell didn't the exec producer (he calls the shots), say, you know what, you're abosolutely right

rie22 (US1)

Is anyone else having problems getting their points for the horse competition?  

bandit12 (NL1)

Game is running again

RaquelCesar (GB1)

After the move, the Next Harvest menu is always green for the Village, although there is no harvest ready. No building is upgrading currently.

Also, the adventurer's boat is docked but the ring menu only shows the info button.

And the coop level at the top is showing level 1 (0 XP), although my coop is level 44.

EDIT: Forcing a cache refresh on the browser (Ctrl + F5) solved the problem.

Kimmiecat (NL1)

Corvid (GB1) said:

that's a very simplistic view that im sure in the future (unless you only need architect upgrades) will come back to bite you on the ass, so to speak

it's not about paying attention, it's not even about planning, i can plan to use my two building slots for when archie turns up

that could be weeks, they never tell us when he's coming so your guess, or the next dude's guess is as good as any, and probably just as wrong

weeks 'wasted' not building other things i could've

or sure i could go ahead and build those things and hope i have a second slot again when archie does turn up, and you know what'll happen most likely then, i wont have that second building slot

as i said earlier, the only ones who will really benefit overall is those who only need architect upgrades

it's something we've wanted for ages and they've now finally done it, only to present it in a half-cocked way that is totally user unfriendly

i suspect these coins wont be real easy to come by, so if i presume, and it is a presumption, that these coins take some getting (im sure there will be gold options but im not entertaining that), why on earth didnt some in the dev team say, 'you know what guys, we've needed this in the game like forever, it's gonna take a fair amount of time to build up these coins, why not just let the player use the extra slot when they want to without affecting the normal building slot'

and if someone did pipe up and say that.... why the hell didn't the exec producer (he calls the shots), say, you know what, you're abosolutely right

As for the architect....he always comes during the temp farms and always at least 3 times. So it does not take weeks anymore.

And planning depends on what events give the coins. Once we know, one can choose not to play an event, thus preventing opening up the second slot. If it is with the weekly events, I have no objection to skip those. The weddingplanning ,foodtruck and goldfish I will happily skip.

Of course I would rather have seen the second slot could be manually activated but I hope it will turn out allright

Morgane (US1)

This sounds like a train wreck waiting to happen.!!

Now without my approval my tokens will get grabbed for any update at all I start?  Every time I do an upgrade tokens will be used, or only if I attempt to use a 2nd slot? The explanations couldn't be more unclear.

There needs to be a better way to deal with this GGS. It shouldn't be this complex and confusing to people.

CuddlyFoxes (FormerMod)

Morgane (US1) said:

This sounds like a train wreck waiting to happen.!!

Now without my approval my tokens will get grabbed for any update at all I start?  Every time I do an upgrade tokens will be used, or only if I attempt to use a 2nd slot? The explanations couldn't be more unclear.

There needs to be a better way to deal with this GGS. It shouldn't be this complex and confusing to people.

Hey @Morgane (US1) as long as you have 50 construction tokens any construction you start will go to the new build slot first. If you do not have enough tokens the original slot would be used.

IceeMimi (US1)

Why can't we have an upgrade window for each farm (free of charge to open) the garage upgrades are seperate, if you BUY with gold, you can have the temp farm seperate, so I know the ability is there. You will still be able to have gold buyers as there are those with little patience that want their items a bit faster. So gold sales will probably stay the same. This bombarding us with event on top of event, multiple additions, more farms, more issues, challenges, themed events, the list goes on, makes some buy more gold, and others that cannot afford to buy fall back further. The term game is all about the fun, but when you make the fun into a full time job, taking the fun out of the game what do you have left? This is your job, I understand the need for income, but seriously, give a little.

Xcution (INT1)

Simply never mind   nothing comes better 

Fawners (US1)

IceeMimi (US1) said:

Why can't we have an upgrade window for each farm (free of charge to open) the garage upgrades are seperate, if you BUY with gold, you can have the temp farm seperate, so I know the ability is there. You will still be able to have gold buyers as there are those with little patience that want their items a bit faster. So gold sales will probably stay the same. This bombarding us with event on top of event, multiple additions, more farms, more issues, challenges, themed events, the list goes on, makes some buy more gold, and others that cannot afford to buy fall back further. The term game is all about the fun, but when you make the fun into a full time job, taking the fun out of the game what do you have left? This is your job, I understand the need for income, but seriously, give a little.

Free - not in their vocabulary.     

It's like beating a dead horse!  

Xcution (INT1)

Wanna know what they move
What is server move???

WascallyWabbit (FormerMod)

GoldenrodFarm (US1) said:

 It is like they want us to save and save then lose it uselessly.  Where is the tally for coins going to be?  Hidden in several popups so you have to spend time going to look for the amount before you upgrade and lose the coins in your rush.  It just is going to make upgrading more complicated and not fun.  I suspect this game was supposed to be fun, not a run around a maze to reach the bathroom in time. 

@GoldenrodFarm (US1) We agree that system does sound over complicated & have told the team that, but to clarify a couple of things for you, as things stand now, the 2nd slot will be a tab (in the same way as the gold slot is on the temp farms) & while you do not have 50 tokens, the tab will be padlocked.

Once you get 50 tokens, you will get a pop-up to say you have them & you will also get a reminder when you login that looks like this:

We have also told them that the reminder is probably overkill & that the padlock & pop-up would be sufficient, but that is how it will be for now at least & as always, we will gather feedback on it once it is in-game.

CrazyBigfarm55 (US1)

Now there is a dead spot on the screen where the new build slot should be I suppose where I have to zoom in to start production again. If I forget to zoom in it will freeze the screen for a few seconds and that is very frustrating.

Wendytsj626Girl (US1)

Did players get compensation for the events running during the down time?

Artmaker (GB1)

OH WHY does GG have to constantly over complicate EVERYTHING THEY DO?????? 

We asked for a second construction slot.   NOT fiddle around saving tokens, trying to understand IF this extra slot is something WE can open or just opens when tokens are there… 
And the fact that if I store a deco to move something, I find out the hard way I have to wait for the thing to be rebuilt.  I already built it once.  

We asked for a second slot.  Why can't we just get a second slot?  Keep it simple.  Give us the option to start construction on one thing, get another one waiting in a line up so if say a player is going away for days stuff can be upgrading while away.
Without the tokens, without the need to "plan accordingly" (or be screwed no doubt.)

Keep it simple.   Why is that such an over your heads concept here?  Keep the tokens, put in an extra build tab, let US use it if and when we choose.   Simple.  Request would have been filled this way.  


pft.  I really don't know why I keep playing this silly game.  Addicted to my click fest I think.

Artmaker (GB1)

CuddlyFoxes said:

Morgane (US1) said:

This sounds like a train wreck waiting to happen.!!

Now without my approval my tokens will get grabbed for any update at all I start?  Every time I do an upgrade tokens will be used, or only if I attempt to use a 2nd slot? The explanations couldn't be more unclear.

There needs to be a better way to deal with this GGS. It shouldn't be this complex and confusing to people.

Hey @Morgane (US1) as long as you have 50 construction tokens any construction you start will go to the new build slot first. If you do not have enough tokens the original slot would be used.

Know what?   Without even trying this, KEEP your tokens.   In fact keep the whole extra building slot idea since no one over there gets it.

Kimmiecat (NL1)

Wendytsj626Girl (US1) said:

Did players get compensation for the events running during the down time?

I have seen nothing yet. I wouldn't mind 2000 doves for the weddingplanner......it is still not doable for me. But hey.... a low level player (lvl 307) like me should probably not complain.

Big Beck (US1)

artful (US1) said:

Fawners (US1) said:

Love the idea of another construction slot, but have to wonder just how long it will take to get those 50 coins.   

I'm concerned about it starting automatically. If we haven't chosen something for construction, does the system just start something or do we lose out. And what if it's something Steve is needed for? 

Surely they can present this so we can choose when to start production, just like we do with other tokens.

It sounds to me like we have to start a construction, but when we do if we have 50 coins saved it will automaticly start that construction in the coin operated spot, leaving the other spot open for something else.

Tinzen (SKN1)

I dont think we will get compensated in any way - we were warned about this, and it did took shorter timer than expected - and nothing seems to be going wrong. So what is the reason for the compensation?

I see noone.

GoldenrodFarm (US1)

We do start the construction, but planning is hard when you don't know when you will get 50 tokens saved up, and to quick start a construction before you leave the game you find out there is a second slot, after of course you planted all your fields and started all the stables and production machines, I foresee it costing a lot of gold if you need to end a process in order to start a second construction so your tokens will not be wasted.  Guess I should have figured that.

Big Beck (US1)

CrazyBigfarm55 (US1) said:

If I understand this correctly...

I have no control over what the 50 tokens I have saved up will go towards. Right now I don't know how long it will take me to save up 50 coins, but say it takes me a month to save these coins. I am not happy with the idea that I will waste those hard earned coins on a deco that takes 5 seconds to build. I would rather spend them coins on a long upgrade such as the Dandy duck perhaps.

You will be able to control what you upgrade or build. Just be aware that you have enough coins to start it because it will start when you start an upgrade if you have 50 coins. Then you can start
something else right away in the regular slot

SuzyQ22 (US1)

I'm happy it doesn't seem to have caused any issues with my farm.  I looked at my inventory first page and all my coins and things are there.  My gold and farm cash is all good.

Pietral (US1)

This 2nd slot would be extremely imbalanced if we were allowed to activate it on demand.  As many people said, they would want to activate it during the architect.  However, the architect is balanced around the idea that we can only do 1 upgrade per appearance.  If we suddenly can do 2 upgrades per architect by sitting on tokens and activating it when he appears, then the only way to maintain balance would be to halve the number of architect appearance.  And that would hurt everyone, because the people who sit on coins would be in no better position than before, and the players who don't would get less architect appearances.

The only other solution I can think of that maintains architect balance would be to allow activating the 2nd slot on demand, but not allowing architect upgrades to be done on the 2nd slot.  Though, personally, I'd prefer the way it is now, as this at least gives me a chance to get 2 architect upgrades if I wrangle things right.

I'd like to hear if anyone else has any suggestions on how this 2nd slot can work without destroying architect balance.

garybaldy (GB1)

As far as I can see, an occasional 2nd building slot is better than no 2nd building slot, I can live with it   
As GGS makes a lot of its sales by people speeding construction, I think its a reasonable move , lets wait and see how hard it is to get the tokens  .

SuzyQ22 (US1)

garybaldy (GB1) said:

As far as I can see, an occasional 2nd building slot is better than no 2nd building slot, I can live with it   
As GGS makes a lot of its sales by people speeding construction, I think its a reasonable move , lets wait and see how hard it is to get the tokens  .

I like it too, what I don't like is the fact it automatically uses that slot when you have 50 coins.  I want control over when I use it.

SuzyQ22 (US1)

Oh, and where is the gold lock?????

garybaldy (GB1)

What would be handy is construction specialists to hire from Job Centre , to shorten build times . No doubt would cost a bit , builders always do   .
Could do with a nail maker too  

artful (US1)

garybaldy (GB1) said:

What would be handy is construction specialists to hire from Job Centre , to shorten build times . No doubt would cost a bit , builders always do   .
Could do with a nail maker too  

Oh, noooo, please, no more complicating things. People with deep pockets already have a "skip" button.

BrownieGirl (US1)

Clicking on a production shed, orchard or field and then clicking again to open loading wheel to reload has slowed down considerably since the server move.  Is there anyway to fix the problem?  I've cleaned the cache, cleaned flash, cleaned my mail, rebooted several times to no avail.  Next,  I changed the batteries in keyboard & mouse,  then I bought new keyboard & mouse,  everything is still very slow. 

Waiting for a fast fix to the slow problem,
Brownie