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Gavin, you still seem to be confusing what the 12 contract types are. The name are irrelevant, just ignore them, the only thing you need to keep track of, is how many items are on a contract & whether it is standard or limited.
The 12 types are standard (1-6) items & limited (1-6) items.
If that 99 that you completed was say a standard contract with 1 item, you need to wait for you next standard contract with 1 item to see if the 99 has changed. The one you got 30 minutes later that is value 8, probably has more items on it & as it is still only value 8, it must be a type that you decline a lot.
EDIT: Just a guess, but the names may have something to do with the upgrades on the actual market stalls, but as you have all those already, that won`t affect you.
Then, of course, there is the one that I just got. It is a "99" limited one-item. It is for 9900 apples, which obviously cannot be done in one hour. So it will expire worthless. A limited contract should never be for an absurd amount. If they are not limited, then 25000 apples, however absurd, is do-able. This is not. It was the first reward that I have seen in two days. I have 3 other 99's on my screen being filled slowly, that have no reward.
I personally think, the limited contracts are a bad idea unless they are better labeled. It is too easy, as it stands now, to not notice and accidentally start a limited contract by partially filling it, and thus fail on that contract. If the label for "limited" is not going to be made enormous, then I think they should not exist. They could make the label larger. It needs to appear on the square with the deal, not just in the column on the right.
Thats interesting.... I had been wondering if we would get Limited contracts asking for more than our total storage + a complete harvest, which would be the most we could fill in 1 hour & it looks like we can. So far I haven`t had any limited ones that were impossible, but that 9900 apples is only just within my limit with 10 orchards (lvl7) + 4200 storage, I think most people would have to decline that one.... I wonder if its a bug? 8|
If you would like to find out what else he has to offer (he may offer valuable items, but he never discloses is beforehand, just like rocnrobn said), you should keep agreeing to his offers. You can see some examples of what he has to offer in the help dialogue for the market.
Although I wouldn't mind some BBQ as lunch time draws near, we're here.. busy but here!
Hey!
Now I can see why the rollover confusion arose.
Contract names have nothing to do with their levels. If you have a 1-item-contract level 99 called "Zoo" and then later another 3-item-contract level 8 named "Zoo", they actually have no connection whatsoever. Each 1-item-contract after that should be 99+ and each 3-item-contract after that should be 8+ unless you declined another contract of that same type.
Limited contracts, especially the level 99 ones, are supposed to be more challenging than regular contracts.
Given this high level of your contract, it may always be possible that you have to decline one or another if your farm is not specifically set up for the contract or you can't find another strategy to increase your yield (e.g. humus on fields, seaweed consumables, having your orchards boosted by other players, etc.).
It would get pretty boring if you could just sit on your maxed out bonus forever, wouldn't it?
As for labelling of limited contracts, an optimization is already planned. We will most probably show the timer at all times or find another way to make them more distinguishable.
Cheers,
Steffi
No Gavin, I was curious because you said your 99 came back as a 20 or whatever. I almost never have the same time of contract return. That is, if I finish a standard-4... I almost never get a standard-4 back. So I was wondering if you did, say a standard-X at level 99 and got a standard-X back at level 20, or if you got a standard-y at level 20. Or even a limited. Since that information wasn't included in your post.
-Y
In reality there's only 6 types, since the standard and limited share the level...
The help dialog says......."but you'll always get a good deal from him."
Nope. Never. I have never gotten anything less than a rotten deal from him. 150k for 150 barley. 150k for 10 chicken feed. I accept that the fabulous deals will be rare. But I have not seen a single "good" deal. The regular deals do not need to always be so bad. I do take every offer.
I knew you were watching, Big Brother ..... ups ....... Sister ..... but you still didn't clarify the question asked several times already:
Is leveling up/down independent for all 12 contract types, or do Standard and Limited with the same number of items work as one unit in this respect? So far it seems, that despite claimed complete independence, these pairs are there.
Cheers
That little fatty man is cluless regarding the meaning of words "good deal".
....... wait a minute ! I got it ! It's good deal for him .......... hahaha ! :thumbsup: ..... what a smart fella he is
So, apparently you think a limited 1-hour contract for 9900 apples is acceptable. I strongly disagree.
That was never what I was suggesting. I never, ever, oppose a challenge. I always oppose absurdity.
I am going by what we were told, that there are 12 types...
.... what I have seen personally, from the records I have been keeping, is that my numbers make MUCH more sense if there are only 6 types, but that doesn`t make it a fact. If the official word changes to 6 types, I will quite happily start posting that it is 6 instead of 12. :thumbup:
I totally agree with you, what we are seeing contradicts the last line of that quote from Steffi... Maybe the techs changed something, when they made those adjustments in the 2nd update, that would explain the confusion.
of all my comments i knew that this one will only get a reply lol, well i don't mind though i can kinda guess you guys are real busy these days.
anyways as the wise man said:
"who cares about fruits market when we got bacon" (*O*)/
(but seriously at least check our suggestions in last few pages, we put alot of thoughts into them honestly and even considered GGS' sake, free players' sake, gold players' sake and everything' sake too, they are not stupid suggestions just like "give more free stuff" or anything like that really, they are just about balancing market and quantities mainly)
Steffi, please take note of this. The rewards are not worth the dollars lost in almost every case that I have seen. These weird discounts taken out of the sale price seem totally unnecessary. Why not simply let the rewards be just that.... rewards? This weird penalty against the dollar value of the almonds seems like an absolutely pointless bit of complexity that could be removed. I will state again, that I see so very few rewards, that removing this penalty on the dollar value would not constitute a windfall or anything close to one.
can you post a print so i can cauculate the value of the parts? didn't got any yet... and i have some lv80 contracts.
I already filled it and sent it on its way. It was precisely 77 parts , and the value of the deal was 50,000 less than selling the almonds through the maintenance window. (I rounded off about 200). So that is 649 dollars per part. Let me know if I have missed something. (this excludes the bonus, because it applies equally to both, so it has no impact).
I did not post much earlier in the day, because I was quite busy. Yes, to Y and others, I understood that about the contract item numbers and bonus values. That was just mass confusion about nothing......sorry for leading people astray.
On another front, this should appeal to Griffith, Y and others.........this morning I did a contract with an xp blue star by it. Since that time, I have had a 48 hour double xp timer like you get from the wheel of fortune. I assume I got it then and didn't notice it for a few minutes. So if that reward came form the market (and I can't figure where else it could have come from), that is a good reward - a reward that I actually find to be a real incentive.
Edit by PINJO: merged posts, please use edit or multi-quote button
lol, maybe we offer deliver service.
That would be good, but are you sure it wasn't a "make-up" 48 hours like some other people got when GGS fixed things?
-Y
I don't know what it would be a make-up for......that I would have it and not you and others. Plus, it happened right when I did a contract. Perhaps Steffi can confirm if I got the 48-hour double xp from a contract reward? Steffi?
As you say Gavin, these "rewards" are so unattractive that stm I just skip all of them.
Was there a note about a patch? You are on a different server. I was not aware of any down time on US1.
AU1 was down approx 10-15 mins
I agree with Y, when the update fixed missing rewards from events, some people got a 48 hour XP, which must have been one you missed from Monty.... Grats! No XP for me ;(
I did get a Gold reward on a contract though....
Still trying to decide what to spend it on!
I've had 5 with horseshoes so far, nothing else.
I can report this morning that I received an offer from the vendor that was worth 150k. It was seaweed humus. So I have officially had 1 good deal since the vendor's implementation. The contract offers are still as disappointing as usual. Of the six on my screen, one has a reward of a single xp. The market actually costs me xp's, because the transactions don't count as sales for the tasks on the left sidebar. And because of the market requests for pigs and apples, I get fewer of those tasks done. So I get fewer xp's in total.
I do not see anything- no pop-up - etc. when a contract is finished. Am I missing something?
I do see the pop-up for the $ and the bonus for the neighbors, but nothing for the contracts.