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That sums it up pretty well, for my coop at least.
Anyway… week 3 is just around the corner, my barns are empty of almost all bakery and flower farm products. Since I’ve been producing summer and wildflower bouquets instead of honey cream for 2 weeks, I've not exactly been earning much. Which means I won't be able to spend millions and millions of dollars to help myself or others. Actually, I’ll have to skip the next stage of the event in order to have enough time to partially restock.
I do like the Santa's Calendar event though. It's cute, fun and not causing unnecessary stress.
Thanks
Wasn't it supposed to stay there on our parking till the end of the Santa's List event???? Confusing!
So it's week 3... and I have to get:
wheat AND summer bouquets
almonds AND apple pies
cherries AND fruit cake with cream
In fact, the only thing that isn't a double request this week for me is cow feed... and it only wanted 140 of those. Heh, might be the only request I'm remotely able to complete.
Oh wait, look at that... it is impossible for me to generate enough peaches to make all the fruit cakes needed! In fact, it'll take me about 8 days 14 hours to grow enough peaches just to make the fruit cakes ... well, at least it's not doubling me on peaches.
And it'll take 6 days 16 hours non stop to grow enough almonds to fulfill the almonds AND apple pies.
I was only able to finish week two with a lot of help from my coop friends, and even with help was unable to complete week one.
Santa's holiday spirit is non-existent.
My Wish List was pretty good this time, the only big item needed is Fruit Cake with Cream and I have filled the majority of the orders in one sitting. However I know exactly how you feel as my 2 daughters wish lists are terrible this week.
Daughter 1 (level 98) needs to donate 8,120 wheat/1,270 chicken feed/190 goat feed/3,770 apple pies/3,000 fruit cake with cream/1,320 scented oil. The fruit cake and apple pies would take 64hrs and 45hrs respectively to produce. When you take into account the amount of wheat needed for the list before even thinking of producing 11,520 units of milk required for the fruit cake it would require her to be on the computer non-stop. She is not doing this weeks wish list.
Daughter 2 (level 65) needs to donate 8,530 cabbage/4,820 wheat/15,860 milk/450 olive oil/3,540 apple turnovers/3,760 apple pies/520 romantic bouquet. Once again there are crossovers in the requirements - wheat for the list and for the production of cow feed/apples for both apple turnovers and apple pies. She is not doing this weeks wish list.
The arrival of the special offer kiosk is likely the reason why there are so many doubled up requests, whether it is ingredients or lists that have two bakery products or two flower shop products as well.
And the answer to finishing these lists will be 1) using millions of dollars, 2) using gold, or 3) really hoping your fellow coop members will do the same to help finish off your lists.
What will be the result. Members that are already stressed out (I'm packing the house and we're moving our family in 12 days. I can't be online here all the time), and starting to feel resentment at those that keep failing to finish their lists. Members that are spending millions of dollars and using gold to help others so that we can get this horribly sized deco upgraded. I totally understand that we could be happy with just an ice igloo but that's not the point. The event is making us miserable, when before we had a solid team dynamic.
We worked hard and communicated well all week and our team succeeded in filling all the open orders quite early on Sunday morning. YAY! We had a deputy checking to make sure we didn't miss any stray late starts. Just seconds before midnight someone logged in and started a new donation. Their order was literally split between Week 2 and 3. There was absolutely no time to fix it!
So far only the deputy and I know we failed. I haven't been able to bring myself to break it to the team yet. The player who started the order has been out for a while due to a personal tragedy. I'm sure they were just happy to log in and play and thought they were helping. They weren't on long enough to read through a backlog of two weeks mail and try to understand a complicated event.
What we do is:
Every Friday evening we send the same coop message out repeating all the rules we agreed upon as a group. All those rules were spoken through with each other and explained thoroughly in the first week. One of the rules is indeed “if your percentage is 0% please do not start donations!” And the first rule in our coop always was "please read your in game messages first before harvesting or making any other move on your farms”
I sincerely hope that things will go better for your coop these last 2 weeks of the event!
Lots of success!
I feel this event has put some undue pressure on people just before the holidays. Yes people can opt out for the entire week or even all 4 weeks, but then the coop has to settle for a lesser happiness value. Should there be a sign above the tree ... "Play or Lose Out on Happiness!" ?
I agree that ideally everyone would read their mail first and most of the time they do. But sometimes real life is hard and ideal flies out the window. We are a flexible coop so we usually have a couple people facing major challenges.
Plus members are unfamiliar with the concept that participation might be detrimental. And I really don't want them to learn to hesitate to join in. I think there is a lot about this event that is fun and challenging. But the aspect of potential harm combined with some members feeling they need to sit out goes against what we're trying to build. I disliked it from the very first time I read about it but have been trying to make the best of it.
We are having lots of fun with Rudolph and the snowman
@freerange (US1) I like about you that you stay with your feet on the ground and have your values sorted. It's not a job, family, ministry ............. it's by far less less less important than anything that has a real value in life. Any single minute of stress over this game is totaly wasted time and energy.
Freerange that is so disappointing for your coop, I still think new orders should be blocked from starting on a Sunday if all others are on 100% or 0%. We had the same thing happen on week 1, but fortunately we caught it in time to have the player rejoin the coop. Maybe as yours was on the reset time, your member might have thought it was their new list.
The good news is that, I read somewhere in all the Q&A for this event, that you can afford to fail one week & still get the top deco, so this week you will still be adding happiness & it should all be ok in the end
We have had that in our co-op. Only what was donated the current week was lost, not the donations during previous weeks.
If a Co-op member "A" participates in last chance Sunday by contributing items to another member "B" who reaches 100% from the team effort. But then, "A" has to leave because the team couldn't complete his/her order. What happens regarding the items "A" contributed to "B"? Do the items "A" contributed to "B" get removed from "B" in the same manner that the happiness "A" had contributed to the tree gets removed? This would mean that "B" would not be at 100% anymore.
Anyone encounter this situation yet? what happened when your member "A" left the co-op?
All goods donated in order to help another player are associated to their lists, so that A leaving the cooperative would not change anything. B would remain at 100%.
IF someone that has been away and does not know what is going on signs in and DOES start and order just before reset for the next week giving NO time for others to help and does not finish 100% or if someone starts thinking the new week has started (the time zones can be very confusing for some). Does this mean it is IMPOSSIBLE to get the level 5 deco seeing as how the event only runs 5 weeks? Will there be a chance on the 5th week to obtain the level 5 deco if only level has been missed?
You want to improve it???? Dump it in the trash bin!!!
Not only is this Event not fun it is killing coops and making people stressed out.
Worst event in the game and i buy gold all the time, and have played for 2 years now. More of this event I will have to stop playing. A game should be fun and this is making it as far from fun as you can get.
This week you all gave me 4,090 citrus. Even at 3 times a day harvest I only get 800. So I will end up paying out a few million farm dollars to buy what I can't make, stop making soap, and hopefully keep my stock fairly full just in case I get it again next time. Meanwhile I have co-op members who hit 100% without the special barn in 1 day.
The 5,550 muffins order is another profit killer so thanks for that. As soon as the barn shows up I am buying whats left that I need so I can get back to making apple turnovers to pay for the muffins I need to buy.
I believe the lists should be made based what a persons farm should be able to produce in a week and maybe some of what they have in stock. But depleting entire stocks which take a week or more to replenish is just to much.
When it works out it is fun - When it doesn't not so much.