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It still has not given me a way to donate items.
It just keeps saying "time ran out, be faster next time". Again, there is no way to donate items.
It only asks for gold.
Whenever you open the event, you will see one of 2 screens, if it is the one shown below, then you can go ahead & donate & spin, no gold anywhere. If it is a screen that does not show the donate section, then Santa is still asleep & it will cost you gold to wake him up, so just come back when it is 24 hours since your last spin.
After you spin, you get this screen which lets you accept your deco or spin again for gold.
If you did not reject the deco, then the only place that you could have spent gold, was to wake Santa up early, to play more than once a day & yes that can be expensive.
And woohoo! I spun after grabbing the screenshots and won the Teacup Ride!!
Oh, it's more like $65 Million for that many candles (around 27,000 Lobsters, which is typically what I use to spin with).
Good thing I have about 750,000 of them.
(Well, had. I've used about 50,000 of them on 2 spins now).
This year I'm confused. I got to lvl9 by donating everything I've gathered these past couple of years.
I got a lamp post.
I clicked around for 45 minutes to donate all my stuff to reach 9 because I thought higher level=better deco. But this lamp post has 8 happiness... it does have 28 village happiness but I don't have a use for that, I don't do any co-op stuff.
The description of the deco hurts, because it says "It starts out low in happiness points, but you can upgrade it easily!" but the costs of going from 8 to 9 happiness are like this:
34,220,927 gold
or 104,944,176 deco parts
or 157,416,262,507 dollars
I wish these were typos but they're not!
Is this intentional? It must be bugged somehow, because I had to zoom in on the dollar sum since it's so high the game can't even properly show a number that big. There isn't even snow on the farm anymore and the best event of the year is like this now. I spent so so many items...
Wasting months of effort like this makes me want to cry, I feel stupid and cheated.
Please put a warning somewhere on the event. I don't want others to make my mistake!
Did you just slide the bar or did you also press the donate button? See the button marked by C? If you did not press the button, the donation did not happen. By sliding the bar, you are just able to see what decorations will be available. Only pressing the button on a candle actually donates goods.
@archerbob (AU1)
The purpose of the event is to change the goods that cumulated during the year for a deco. If you want to get a better decoration, you have to donate goods (see drop-bar A).
@Farmer Kissy (US1), @Sandy9882 (US1), @ninjahuman (AU1),
I know that those timers can be a bit confusing. In general it goes like this: when you spin and get the deco, you have to wait for 24h for Santa to wake up. If you like to spin wheel again before that time, you have to pay gold.
How much you have to pay depends in which stage you wake him, that is why there are different timers (one for each coloured number). If you do not want to pay gold and would like to know how long you have to wait until you can spin the wheel again, press number 2 and the right timer will show up.
(P.S.: Picture is taken from http://crazybigfarm.tk/events/santas_workshop.htm)
The Serene Streetlamp is a 1x1 decoration though, with 8 Happiness. That's a "Happiness to Square" ratio of 8:1.
The Touring Theater might have a happiness value of 100, but it's also a 5x5 deco - meaning it takes up 25 squares. That puts its happiness-to-square value at 4:1.
So the Serene Streetlamp has twice the happiness-to-square ratio as the theater, and that's why the game "Values" it more.
The upgrade cost is out-of-line, though - it's been a problem with those decos with high VILLAGE happiness for awhile now.
They are in my inventory so why can't I use them to get a deco from Santa? I didn't have anywhere near enough to buy a deco from the trader when he was here so for me the remaining coins are of no value.
I think a better instruction on the help button would help
I am hoping to Jag a Gary the goat Fingers crossed
I think I'm being selfish, but getting something as mundane as a lamp post felt weird when the other levels are full of cool christmas/event style decos and lvl9 cost me at least 100mil in items.
I just won't donate 'til lvl 9 again, and I'd advise others to do the same, if you like to use only the more "interesting" decos.
https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/comment/4005990/#Comment_4005990
(Tab 2)
(Tab 6)
(Tab 9)
See how the different tabs (numbered 2-9) each have their own countdown clock?
Each tab represents a Quality Level; if you click on the number 6 for instance, and there's time left on the clock, you can pay the gold cost (44,900 gold, in my case) to "Wake Santa Up" and the wheel will start with Quality Level 6 decorations. You can then spin immediately for a Level 6 Deco, or donate stuff to get the Quality Level up higher for better decos.
If there is NO time left on the clock (like on Tab 9), then you CANNOT wake Santa up at Quality Level 9, no matter how much gold you have - you have to wake him up at a lower level, like Level 6 (also above), then donate your way back up to Level 9.
But unless you want to pay (a LOT of) gold, the tab numbered "2" is the only one you care about.
So when you're checking Santa's Workshop, always click on the number "2" to check and see how much time is left until your next spin. When the timer on the "2" tab runs out, THEN you can spin for free.
Until that timer (on the #2 tab) runs out (which is 24 hours from the time of your last spin), it will cost you gold to wake Santa up.
I think that's what is confusing most people, because when you open Santa's Workshop, it does NOT default to (Tab 2). So always always always click on that (Tab 2) when you open Santa's Workshop to see how much time is left on the timer.
https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/187150/update-dec-19th-into-the-valley-something-less-snappy-some-treats
For example; I have over a million golden horseshoes, it would only let me donate less than 2,000 of them and get a level 2 decoration. Obviously, I had more to donate if it was allowed to do so.
Are people using gold AND donating items to get the high level decorations?