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So, here comes a question, what's the point of the Brazilian-Portuguese-Italian server experiment, when all the data needed is already there for GGS to use and analyze at any moment ?
A rhetorical question, but nevertheless a greatly disappointing answer.
I kind of hope it might make other types of farm builds more viable, though. I guess we'll see.
I wonder if it will be similar to the feature on another farming game, this one prominently available in the app stores and having a rhyming name. There you place items for sale in their market and you decide on the price (within limits). You can pay with the premium currency to have your items promoted on the front page of the market paper.
You have a point. But then again, I can't help but think - and thank you to Nafaru for the more detailed explanation - if GGS really wanted people to play the game as it was intended - growing/harvesting/producing the vast majority, if not *all*, crops & products - then they wouldn't include a "skip this for gold" option in events.
That's hypocritical. Are we really supposed to think that one form of buying, using farm dollars either EARNED through hard work (playing the game the "right" way) OR purchased from the car lady or Omar using gold, is "wrong" while skipping work ENTIRELY by using gold is "right"?
ETA: Oh, and what a Catch-22 for me today... I logged in to my farm to see my first 200% gold offer (and honestly I don't think it's been *that* long since I bought gold last, I think I made one purchase after the first island farm) and got really excited!!!...and then I remembered that I will not be buying any gold until the forced test ends on the Servers That Shall Not Be Named.
Now I am a sad panda.
LOL.... a bit O' Humor ^^
There is a certain type of little monkey that they capture and sell.. The way they capture them is to put a peanut inside a anchored down bottle with small opening. Just big enough for the monkey's little hand to fit inside. Once the monkey grabs the peanut he won’t let go! and his fist is to large to pull out of the bottle! That’s how they capture them..
GGS Big Farm is Our Peanut.. We are all stubborn Little Monkeys.. Ha ha....
Edit by PINJO: changed some words and edited posts, please keep it civil
They made the change and then they tracked those clicks, not the previously existing ones. Plus a week doesn't nearly tell the tale of long term playability, hence the two months. Hard to say how a system can be found out and capitolized upon unless you get some people playing it and figuring it out.
I still say the best use of this type of system would be on a test sever and not buying public. But, I digress.
The game is definitely much harder, and decisions must be made early on to develop the fields to maintain the amount of produce needed for feed. This creates a tough balance with the growth of your early farm, where dollars are at a premium.
I don't know if that's really... a fair comparison.
I see a couple of different, distinct ways that gold is used in the game:
1) To buy permanent benefits - housing, water towers, workshops, nursery upgrades, library boosters, etc.
2) Convenient time-saver, as in insta-finishing builds and production cycles. Using gold to skip a step in an event could fall into this category. The difference between insta-finishing a cycle versus skipping a step in an event is that you could use gold to skip an event step even if you don't even have the production resources in place. For example, the 'feed pigs x times' step for someone who does not even have pigsties.
Gold is always going to confer benefits not otherwise available in the game. People wouldn't buy it otherwise.
Without prior notice...
Without compensation (yet?)...
They did make a little post on their forum about returning the buy option, but just a few minutes before it happened.
I think GGS has made some very bad businessdecisions recently overall in many ways which have been stated all over theforums. Maybe they have learnedsomething!
I am glad to see that the Horse Ranch wasbrought out a little at a time. I don’tsee why some players are so anxious to race through the horse ranch, upgrade tothe max, spend everything they can and then complain, complain, complain, whenGGS clearly told us this was only the beginning so we could get used to and trysome things! I’m sick of all thecomplaints too, even though many of them are justified!!!
IMO bringing out the Horse Ranch a little at atime, also gave them a chance to fix any bugs that might be found before addingany more. The MANY bugs in the Island,high prices, and the rollback, etc. were a disaster! Way too many unhappy players!! The updatethis week, fixed the bugs that were found with the Horse Ranch and manyothers. I expect that they are workingon the numbers on the horse ranch too and the chat problem will already befixed next week. I’m sure errors in thehorse ranch will too. I’m very willingto wait to have it done right!!! Atleast they didn’t just push to bring us more Horse Ranch this week with morebugs! I see this as a good thing.
I don’tknow their procedures or how they test things before they are brought out to us(Maybe Latten could share something about that with us?) or what background andskills the employees of the company have. We will never know, but I bet someone is in real trouble or looking fora new job for the past events and the company must be scurrying to do somethingto save the game and get back to happy players. Computer programs can be buggy when they first come out, even in thebest of companies! There are more thanenough players who love this game and would be very willing to help test newthings on a test server—testing like this has to be kept confidential too, manynew ideas are changed in the testing phases. Rumors only make things worse!!
Ihope that GGS will take this opportunity to get off the timeline schedule they seemto have had in the past and really stop and listen to the players all over theworld. This is a perfect opportunity forthem to APOLOGIZE to their players and TEAM up with us to make this game reallygreat!!!
Going forward, can’t we all do someconstructive criticism instead of just complaining? IMO many players need to read the official announcementsbefore asking the same questions over and over and over that are clearlyaddressed in the announcements and elsewhere. And GGS, LISTEN TO US AND LET US KNOW YOU ARELISTENING TOO!!! TEAM UP WITH YOURPLAYERS!!! WORK WITH US!!!! YOUR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON US!!!
IMO, an apologywould go far and many players really want some kind of compensation too. Do something to repair the damage that hasbeen done and let’s get on working as a team and having fun with this game!!!!This is a perfect time for you to implement some things that players have beenasking for a long, long time! Like abutton for are you really sure you want to spend your gold? I accidentally hit something and lost 75 gamegold! I was sick over it, but there wasnothing to do about it. I can certainlysee why people who buy gold want this. Idon’t want to buy gold that will disappear if I make a mistake like I did withthe 75 game gold! I can’t afford to loseany if I do buy any someday. I reallyprefer to PLAY the game rather than BUY my way through it. It’s really 2 different games!
We didn’t likewhere the Co-op tree was put, it should be real easy to move it for us.
Make the chat ande-mails so we can have some space in them. And on and on with the many simple little suggestions that would make usall so happy.
How about GGSdoing an E-mail survey to our home e-mails of some sort to reevaluate thedirection the game is going? How about asking us what WE think?
LETS TEAM UP,APLOLGIZE, WORK TOGETHER AND MAKE THIS A REALLY GREAT GAME!!!!
And that’s mythoughts this morning on the US 1 server in California, USA! Thanksfor reading.
For two years this company has collected a self-selected sample of players from all over the world who enjoy upgrading, to the max or otherwise. We click, we make some currency and then use it to upgrade. Rinse and repeat. Then this was honed and fine-tuned when the Architect philosophy arrived. Hey! Even more rinse and repeat lets do it again. And again on Gormet and Flower farms.
And now with the Horse environment this tried and true forumla has been abruptly stopped. For the first time we are *stalled*. Even with several days clicking, we cannot do upgrades. The new upgrade currency of competition horseshoes is unobtainable. We cannot defeat the better NPC horses.
Complaints of mere boredom will turn into walk aways, very soon unless some action is taken. What a powder-keg the devs have made. The game has changed into some other game type.
Maybe by the time I have consistent internet again things will be looking up.
How to get the well spring of charity??
The event was rejigged and the rewards changed to a telescope of variable value. But even in that form it is many months since the Charity event has run and I wonder if it had been retired completely
it would be nice if someone would have the picture of the 'well spring of charity'.. apparently i was not able to find it in the decoration tower:huh::(
How about the promised compensation?
Yes the compensation has come, with e-mail, there was seeds and other things, don't remember everything.
thanks RunsWivScissors^^.... it indeed is a very nice looking decoration.. i m wondering why'd they remove it?
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