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Event gripe and suggestion to fix

UserDIgger2UserDIgger2 Posts: 62
I love events. I really do. They are one of my favorite things to do. The prize at the end is usually worth all the time.

BUT.... This latest one seems impossible.
I have three farms. One has six fields. My other two both have five.
I was sick, thought it was flu but all I could do all day was sit in front of the TV and harvest corn. I should have breezed right through the dirt pile collecting part.
But no. I'd get sometimes out of SIX harvests, only a couple of the dirt pile things.
All day and not one farm made it through that step.

Then next day I couldn't play much. Went to my Doctor. (Not flu.)
I Played some that evening and managed to advance to the apple collecting.
OMG! Really? THOUSANDS? They take two hours to harvest only a few hundred.
I do have a life here.

Today, with two of my farms, I just bought the few thousand apples I needed for one, about 700 for the other. One farm I'm just giving up. There is no way.

So now I'm looking for fireflies. And again. Harvest five fields. NOT ONE.
Harvest again. NOT ONE. Three is the charm? No. ONE!
The mill that usually spits out a pile, I got four. Holy crap!
So out of my two farms that I'm TRYING to whittle down the buy it price, one I have enough gold and will buy the thing. The other.... my buy out price doesn't seem to be moving. Seems like a cheat to me.

So ok, these aren't suppose to be easy. Next to impossible I suppose.




How about a suggestion here folks.
A pause button.
Now to be fair, it would pause EVERYTHING. We don't want to cheat here. Hit pause and all of your farms stop producing what ever you have going.
But pause while the event is running, and at least with this one I didn't even know it was about to begin. Nor did I know I'd have to kill a whole day at the doctor.
A pause would have been nice.
Again, to be fair, it would have to pause it all.

Think this could be doable in a future upgrade? Hmmmm?
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Comments

  • Lin24Lin24 Posts: 7
    edited 06.10.2013
    The way this firefly thing is going, even a pause button, or your day not spent at the doctor wouldn't have helped. I am literally getting about 20 fireflies an hour despite constant corn and chicken feed production. At this rate, you would have had to finish the first five steps in one day and then spend the next five days collecting fireflies.
  • UserDIgger2UserDIgger2 Posts: 62
    edited 06.10.2013
    OH NOW I AM PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!

    One of my two farms, I went ahead, PURCHASED GOLD, and just paid out the last task. Got my castle.

    But THIS farm, I already had the gold needed on hand. Within the last few minutes of the thing, my game hung up.
    I had to force quite, get back in, the button was still there with literally seconds left, but when I would click it, nothing. Now the event is over. Don't they usually give the option of buying it at the end?
    Nothing. POOF GONE. DAYS of clicking corn for FLIPPING NOTHING!!!!

    This sucks. Really really sucks.
  • Gwendolen (US1)Gwendolen (US1) Posts: 1,268
    edited 07.10.2013
    I finished the event with fibromyalgia and something flu-ish with more then a day to spare on 4 farms.
  • monica79538monica79538 Posts: 1,932
    edited 07.10.2013
    When the whining of not finishing this one is over:
    go back through some of the threads that were written to help out so that people can get the big deco without quite so much stress and get ready for the next one. If you know one or the other tasks is particularly difficult to get through--don't waste time on the easiest ones.

    And nicely worded Gwendolen. I can barely get out of bed somedays and I still get through most of these events at least a day early.
  • Latten (DE1)Latten (DE1) Posts: 6,246
    edited 07.10.2013
    OH NOW I AM PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!

    One of my two farms, I went ahead, PURCHASED GOLD, and just paid out the last task. Got my castle.

    But THIS farm, I already had the gold needed on hand. Within the last few minutes of the thing, my game hung up.
    I had to force quite, get back in, the button was still there with literally seconds left, but when I would click it, nothing. Now the event is over. Don't they usually give the option of buying it at the end?
    Nothing. POOF GONE. DAYS of clicking corn for FLIPPING NOTHING!!!!

    This sucks. Really really sucks.

    Hey UserDigger,

    I'm not sure I completely understood :) You basically missed the end of the event by a few seconds, because the game locked up, is that right? So you're not missing gold or anything, you "just" had no option of getting the Fairytale castle?

    Is this correct?

    Thanks,
    Timo
  • FlowerChild (INT1)FlowerChild (INT1) Posts: 127
    edited 07.10.2013
    Hi Latten, (That's me, just logged into another farm right now.)

    I went away for several hours. Came back that night and when I logged in, the window saying it's over and do I want to buy the castle appeared. Don't know why it took so long, or why that didn't appear right when it was over, but it did appear. So I got my castle for some 1600 or so gold. No worries. I guess the lag is just something I should expect. NP.

    I sure tried like heck to EARN the castle. Had to buy it with two farms. Just plain gave up with the third. (Never even got past the apples.)
  • monica79538monica79538 Posts: 1,932
    edited 09.10.2013
    Maybe if you start the event on all the farms and then limit your efforts toward the one(s) that you are probably going to get finished. If you are more than 4 days into the challenge and have not started the donate the apples--I would have to think that there would not be enough time to finish the event. After you get a few of the big decos--production becomes a lot easier and you can have more fields, orchards and barns.

    Too many farms just creates more headaches and adds to what I call 'management mess'. There is nothing wrong with letting one of the farms set idle so that you can concentrate and focus.
  • ArtmakerArtmaker Posts: 415
    edited 09.10.2013
    It's not a problem of too many farms. Not at all hard to bounce from farm to farm and plant corn.
    And really nothing to "focus" on when it comes to apples. Plant, and go away for a few hours.

    The problem is I lost a whole day at the doctors office. These events you really have to be on every day or forget it. I could never catch up.

    A pause game button would be so helpful. Just pause everything when someone has to leave home and can't play at all.
  • monica79538monica79538 Posts: 1,932
    edited 09.10.2013
    Keeping corn planted on 3 farms During one of these big events would be like watching someone carry 50 apples with no basket to contain them--Especially if there are production issues ongoing with support. I think you made your own problems worse in so many ways.

    Good luck with getting it all figured out. I think I said enough now.
  • Farmer DJ1Farmer DJ1 Posts: 138
    edited 09.10.2013
    How long does this Pause button last,You want 2 weeks to do one event?
    Did you know that you can play all your Farms together just open up more tabs, Thats if your Mac can cope with 3 farms at once without your CPU,Ram and fans running overdrive.
  • mipie11mipie11 Posts: 130
    edited 09.10.2013
    Aw, Gwendolen, I am sorry that you have fibromyalgia. And sometimes those buttons just do not work. -.- ...

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