I fail to see how not having a calendar puts everyone on the same playing field when having a calendar everyone is already on the same playing field. The only difference, some people did not take advantage of having calendar information available to them. As has been mentioned before, those that did have access to calendar information passed it onto their fellow co-op members. I know I did and it was very clear from feedback that it was appreciated.
Now this is only a game, but it is loosely based upon real life incidents. Farming. In real life, farmers absolutely depend 100% on having a calendar, not just for future events but also past events. A farmer wants to plant a new crop dependent upon getting some rain early on in that crop. First thing he does is to check back on the past calendars to see when rain occurred and how much of it. Then he has to pay attention to the weather forecast and map out the possible days of upcoming rain and plant accordingly. The same pattern occurs for sheep farmers wanting to shear the flock. You can't shear wet sheep, so you have to plan. If it looks like rain, you have to muster in the mob and get them into shelter. Planning is without doubt the most important aspect of farming and in this game it is no exception.
In this game, particularly the FHWE, I do exactly that. I check past calendars for when the FHWE was on and make predictions based upon that as to when the next one will be and then look forward to getting some sort of confirmation in the next calendar. Then I start preparing. I prepare oysters but then I also second guess what other fish may follow and try to have at least enough to be prepared. It's not easy, but it's why, when I play hard, I can always be in the top 5 of the FHWE. PLANNING and planning needs a calendar.
If as somebody else suggested, GGS don't want us to have a calendar because we might complain about the changes, then GGS need to get a real life and learn to deal with adversity. They made the game and the people here are telling them of their mistakes. That is exactly what the forum is for.
umm im said something against calendar keep changing during month in another thread few week ago and calendar wanished itself ... i just wanted to say please stop changing it everyday not to remove it completly im used to check it just once at start of month and then in midle of month event was not starting at thos date and it was annoying please bring it back and pin it in general discussion tab becus thats where i check most time and sometime update notice
Jag är förbannad. Ni gör spelet allt svårare. Alldeles för tätt mellan eventen. Ni skickade över oss till Google Chrome eller Firefox. Så roligt är inte spelet att vi går på allt ni hittar på för att tjäna pengar. Tivolit bryr jag mig över huvud taget inte om.
Nu tar ni till råga på allt bort eventkalendern. Jag fortsätter spela till mitt guld är slut, sedan skall jag ta en funderare på fortsättningen.
Vad är vitsen med twitter och Facebook. Jag är inte med i någon av dem. Den dagen som inloggningen skall gå via någon av dem, då är det slut med spelet för mig.
becke
GOOGLE TRANSLATE:
I'm pissed. You make the game increasingly difficult. Just too close between the events.
You sent us over to Google Chrome or Firefox. So fun is not the game that we go for everything you find to make money. Tivolit I do not care at all about.
Now you go to the top of all the event calendar. I keep playing until my gold is over, then I will take a thought on the continuation.
What is the point of twitter and Facebook. I'm not in any of them. The day the log-in will go through one of them, then the game is over for me.
Becke
Good on you becke (SKN1) to voice you opinion. English not being your cup of tea.
This only proves that several gamers that do not feel comfortable writing in English are doomed as long as they are placed at the EN forum. They do wish to communicate, but in a langage they master. They wish to participate in the thread(s) that are present, but can´t. So they shy away from the forum.
This means that several (and that is many) are not heard.
I trust that the mods accept their inputs and take time to translate them. Demanding that all must write in English here, as long as they are stuck with this forum, is not OK.
Jag är förbannad. Ni gör spelet allt svårare. Alldeles för tätt mellan eventen. Ni skickade över oss till Google Chrome eller Firefox. Så roligt är inte spelet att vi går på allt ni hittar på för att tjäna pengar. Tivolit bryr jag mig över huvud taget inte om.
Nu tar ni till råga på allt bort eventkalendern. Jag fortsätter spela till mitt guld är slut, sedan skall jag ta en funderare på fortsättningen.
Vad är vitsen med twitter och Facebook. Jag är inte med i någon av dem. Den dagen som inloggningen skall gå via någon av dem, då är det slut med spelet för mig.
becke
GOOGLE TRANSLATE:
I'm pissed. You make the game increasingly difficult. Just too close between the events.
You sent us over to Google Chrome or Firefox. So fun is not the game that we go for everything you find to make money. Tivolit I do not care at all about.
Now you go to the top of all the event calendar. I keep playing until my gold is over, then I will take a thought on the continuation.
What is the point of twitter and Facebook. I'm not in any of them. The day the log-in will go through one of them, then the game is over for me.
Becke
@Summer (SKN1) The players have to write in English for the simple reason, so that the other players understand them. Big farm forums are covered in different languages, but alas not all languages are included.
Players that are not comfortable in writing in English have two options: to provide google translate or to write in appropriate thread that covers their language (we have two such treads).
And yes, mods do translate posts and pass the "non-English" feedback as well.
Somehow google translate has stopped working for me. Not being a puter wizard I have no idea how to correct it. Did try to find other translation programs Swedish to English, but the ones I found would only translate single words *grrr*
Am grateful for your help!
@ WiseWing, unfortunately the threads you mention are not easily found. I have only seen one of them and turned away because only Finns wrote there and heh that language could as well been Greek for = impossible for Swedes, Danes, Norwegians to understand. But that is actually the lesser problem for them. Not finding reading+writing English easy (time consumming translating all) is such a put off that gamers stop logging in at the Forum. They feel alienated. Valuable information, thoughts, inputs, communication gets lost.
Since the mods (per WiseWing) have absolutely no influence on GGS Team for Big Farm, it seems that all comments and suggestions are pointless and a waste of time. ~sigh~
From what I understand: No other influence then forwarding a short version of what we write (our thoughts, questions, demands) and wait for an answer to give us.
Soooo could be it is not all that pointless, waste of our time. We do get answers occasionally
thanks for nothing .. your poor Mods are probably saying the same thing I do however believe that you should share news with them and then thy convey it to us. So what exactly is wrong ?
I'm sure the mods do convey our input. Wish Hunter hadn't left, though. It helps when a CM takes interest and communicates with us.
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Hate coops but missing out on the benefits? Check out "Hearts of Gold," the non-coop coop -- we leave you alone to farm your way. No donations or group participation required.
nola1 (INT1) we are just sharing sighs *laughs* when talking whether there is a point in sharing thoughts, ideas, questions aso aso here at the forum.
Unfortunately some have believed that the mods could do something about i. e. different game issues = had some real influence to the game. Forgetting that they are "just" unpaid moderators of the forum. Their influence is solely the forum not the game.
But believe you are right that we should continue posting. The mods forward it to the game creators so it does reach the game creators and is not in vain.
so the CC ends in about 11 hours so if a coop event starts right after the CC like they sometimes do that means less then 12 hour notice also means if it is too be a CHW and i was to get off for the night i dont get up in till around 10 am or later so anyone that gets up early could have a 6 hour lead on me and that is not fair at all and the excuse i have heard before about them having to sleep too does not apply to any HW or goldfish because the last CHW i started about 30 min after it started and within 4 hours had 10 bonse points and went to sleep for 4 hours running at 14 points per second plus coop and personal booster and the only time it ran out was when i acdently had apples on repete and forgot so not long i paced 7th i think and i dont think i would have gotten even 25th had i not stayed on to start it so haveing a set time so everyone knows when it starts is the only fair way to do it other wise others get a unfair head start just because they happen to be awake
My guess is 2 events - FWHE and either VF or Goldfish - all of which take some planning.
Sad truth is no matter how much we ask for the calendar to come back, no matter how many customers complain, we all know THEY NEVER LISTEN. Not once. How many times have players said too many cc's - have they listened? How many times have players said too many bugs - have they listened? What about extending the stalls on the PP? Reducing the overall amount of events/not having them running back to back? Starting 1/2 speed boosters when we next log on? No none of those either. This will be no different. I have never known any other business that seems to believe its customers wont walk away unless they at least try to keep them happy - and we, as players do have to take some responsibility for that - because we carry on no matter how badly they treat us.
This is absolutely ridiculous, our whole co op is just sitting here waiting for next event to find out what it is. Nobody is harvesting anything. Don't know what to be holding, What a way to make players want to leave the game, make it so they can't even play in case it put them at big disadvantage for next event.
oh well 2 of our players just cracked it and left, thanks GGS. They said they don't want to sit around and wait to see every time a new event is going to start, I tried to get them to stay in case GGS changes their minds in a week or so, but they have said it is not worth wasting a week. I am sure they are not going to be the only one leaving.
hmm or they wish to phase out BF and make it a pain like this so gamers leave on their own accord. That way they can claim there is no interest or reason left to keep the game going. As is they are for sure discouraging us from playing. And from buying gold.
No, tbh I doubt they are seeking to phase out BF, but they sure are doing their best to make us seek to other online games.
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Now this is only a game, but it is loosely based upon real life incidents. Farming. In real life, farmers absolutely depend 100% on having a calendar, not just for future events but also past events. A farmer wants to plant a new crop dependent upon getting some rain early on in that crop. First thing he does is to check back on the past calendars to see when rain occurred and how much of it. Then he has to pay attention to the weather forecast and map out the possible days of upcoming rain and plant accordingly. The same pattern occurs for sheep farmers wanting to shear the flock. You can't shear wet sheep, so you have to plan. If it looks like rain, you have to muster in the mob and get them into shelter. Planning is without doubt the most important aspect of farming and in this game it is no exception.
In this game, particularly the FHWE, I do exactly that. I check past calendars for when the FHWE was on and make predictions based upon that as to when the next one will be and then look forward to getting some sort of confirmation in the next calendar. Then I start preparing. I prepare oysters but then I also second guess what other fish may follow and try to have at least enough to be prepared. It's not easy, but it's why, when I play hard, I can always be in the top 5 of the FHWE. PLANNING and planning needs a calendar.
If as somebody else suggested, GGS don't want us to have a calendar because we might complain about the changes, then GGS need to get a real life and learn to deal with adversity. They made the game and the people here are telling them of their mistakes. That is exactly what the forum is for.
Where the 5-10 Man name comes from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=2u7BEjAhJ7g
Once again, signature by Farmer John
https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/comment/4130958/#Comment_4130958
i just wanted to say please stop changing it everyday not to remove it completly
im used to check it just once at start of month and then in midle of month event was not starting at thos date and it was annoying
please bring it back and pin it in general discussion tab becus thats where i check most time and sometime update notice
Ni skickade över oss till Google Chrome eller Firefox. Så roligt är inte spelet att vi går på allt ni hittar på för att tjäna pengar. Tivolit bryr jag mig över huvud taget inte om.
Nu tar ni till råga på allt bort eventkalendern. Jag fortsätter spela till mitt guld är slut, sedan skall jag ta en funderare på fortsättningen.
Vad är vitsen med twitter och Facebook. Jag är inte med i någon av dem. Den dagen som inloggningen skall gå via någon av dem, då är det slut med spelet för mig.
becke
GOOGLE TRANSLATE:
I'm pissed. You make the game increasingly difficult. Just too close between the events. You sent us over to Google Chrome or Firefox. So fun is not the game that we go for everything you find to make money. Tivolit I do not care at all about. Now you go to the top of all the event calendar. I keep playing until my gold is over, then I will take a thought on the continuation. What is the point of twitter and Facebook. I'm not in any of them. The day the log-in will go through one of them, then the game is over for me. Becke
This only proves that several gamers that do not feel comfortable writing in English are doomed as long as they are placed at the EN forum. They do wish to communicate, but in a langage they master. They wish to participate in the thread(s) that are present, but can´t. So they shy away from the forum.
This means that several (and that is many) are not heard.
I trust that the mods accept their inputs and take time to translate them. Demanding that all must write in English here, as long as they are stuck with this forum, is not OK.
My thoughts.
The players have to write in English for the simple reason, so that the other players understand them. Big farm forums are covered in different languages, but alas not all languages are included.
Players that are not comfortable in writing in English have two options: to provide google translate or to write in appropriate thread that covers their language (we have two such treads).
And yes, mods do translate posts and pass the "non-English" feedback as well.
Somehow google translate has stopped working for me. Not being a puter wizard I have no idea how to correct it. Did try to find other translation programs Swedish to English, but the ones I found would only translate single words *grrr*
Am grateful for your help!
@ WiseWing, unfortunately the threads you mention are not easily found. I have only seen one of them and turned away because only Finns wrote there and heh that language could as well been Greek for = impossible for Swedes, Danes, Norwegians to understand. But that is actually the lesser problem for them. Not finding reading+writing English easy (time consumming translating all) is such a put off that gamers stop logging in at the Forum. They feel alienated. Valuable information, thoughts, inputs, communication gets lost.
Facts of life.
Soooo could be it is not all that pointless, waste of our time.
We do get answers occasionally
I do however believe that you should share news with them and then thy convey it to us.
So what exactly is wrong ?
Hate coops but missing out on the benefits? Check out "Hearts of Gold," the non-coop coop -- we leave you alone to farm your way. No donations or group participation required.
https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/158239/just-want-to-be-left-alone-to-farm-in-peace-us1-hearts-of-gold
Unfortunately some have believed that the mods could do something about i. e. different game issues = had some real influence to the game. Forgetting that they are "just" unpaid moderators of the forum. Their influence is solely the forum not the game.
But believe you are right that we should continue posting. The mods forward it to the game creators so it does reach the game creators and is not in vain.
What is your guess?
Listen to your player base here... !
Sad truth is no matter how much we ask for the calendar to come back, no matter how many customers complain, we all know THEY NEVER LISTEN. Not once. How many times have players said too many cc's - have they listened? How many times have players said too many bugs - have they listened? What about extending the stalls on the PP? Reducing the overall amount of events/not having them running back to back? Starting 1/2 speed boosters when we next log on? No none of those either. This will be no different. I have never known any other business that seems to believe its customers wont walk away unless they at least try to keep them happy - and we, as players do have to take some responsibility for that - because we carry on no matter how badly they treat us.
This is absolutely ridiculous, our whole co op is just sitting here waiting for next event to find out what it is. Nobody is harvesting anything. Don't know what to be holding, What a way to make players want to leave the game, make it so they can't even play in case it put them at big disadvantage for next event.
No, tbh I doubt they are seeking to phase out BF, but they sure are doing their best to make us seek to other online games.
cant collect anything in case well fed up !!!!