179 is an excellent value for a 5 by 5 sized decoration either way so i'm satisified with this event reward
I totally agree! But tell me I've got the highest possible and with that confirmation, I can slow down, do one fireworks session a day, (the one when the new sign comes up), and feel good about the event overall, and what I was able to accomplish.
Yeah have to agree, i'm a bit disappointed the max happiness value wasn't announced yet because now there's that confusion on whether or not to continue using special seeds and seaweed or to save them for next years event. Hopefully one of the mods answers the question but with only a few days left it will get to a point where the answer is irrelevant. 180 would be a nice number, a nice round number to end the event lol
And secondly: did you miss the fireworks of 15.15 CET? Such a pity - everything worked fine after maybe 10-15 minutes of server's down time, so no one of our coop missed the fireworks. Hope you'll do better next time (19.15 CET)!
And secondly: did you miss the fireworks of 15.15 CET? Such a pity - everything worked fine after maybe 10-15 minutes of server's down time, so no one of our coop missed the fireworks. Hope you'll do better next time (19.15 CET)!
I couldn't play again untill after 5 o'clock. Till that time it kept saying the server was down.
And secondly: did you miss the fireworks of 15.15 CET? Such a pity - everything worked fine after maybe 10-15 minutes of server's down time, so no one of our coop missed the fireworks. Hope you'll do better next time (19.15 CET)!
I couldn't play again untill after 5 o'clock. Till that time it kept saying the server was down.
Real Bummer @ellen3131 (NL1) - I think you'd better write Support! And maybe it's an idea to post about this in the next thread, too? There you can find some tips also ....
On the Chinese New Year; does anyone else have the problem with the all over total being stuck for days. Mine has been stuck on 56 and 12( for the locked section) for at least 5 days now. I have all the chips for the entire decoration plus both to make the size to be 5x5. I am working on collecting the zodiac chips for more happiness. I have all but 2 zodiac flags, and 4 fancy flags. I would think my total amount would be higher than 56. Wondering if this will effect anything in the end.
After all these new comments, it seems like most people more-or-less agrees with my original point......that if you are unwilling or unable to dump massive gold or massive seaweed, that most farms have no realistic chance to complete this event. Yes, there are some disparities between a level 100 farm and level 150 farm, because their respective farms should not be as far apart in capability as they are in terms of needed chips.
As a side note, in terms of mathematics, I would disagree with the notion of luck being applied to this case. There should be virtually no luck involved. This is a common misconception. It is like casinos. You may have luck on one particular visit, but it if you go daily, the law of averages will always win. So you may get a "streak" of snakes, dragons, etc., but if you watched carefully, you would find that the opposite has occurred as well, over the course of two weeks (and simply has gone unnoticed, because we notice the good things in life more than we notice the less-good). I have seen several of these streaks, but it has not changed the overall trajectory of my chips in the slightest. By the third day, the trajectory of my CNY progress has been extremely predictable.
Overall, I feel that an event should be able to be completed without gold or a year's supply of sunflowers and seaweed. And it seems like there is almost no one who is going to complete this event without such aids. Last year, this was not true. I knew of quite a few farms who finished it with no such aids last year. Hopefully next year, they will revert to last year's version.
I will not finish the snake. The dragon will be touch-and-go. It is doubtful. Without those, the bonus points will not count. Therefore this decoration will be completely useless. Therefore this event has been useless and a waste of time. To be very clear, my farm would be better off if the event had never happened. This is shameful. I think it is appropriate to commend GGS when they do well, and to let them know when they mess up. They messed up here. The truly disappointing part, is that all this was clear by the second or third day, and they could have fixed it then. Instead, they have let an unfair event play out, and they have done so..... knowingly. That is about as unforgiveable of a sin as you can have..........when you know you have a problem, know you could fix, and still don't fix it. A number of the members of my coop were looking forward to this event for months - all of whom are extremely disappointed. And of course, the lack of communication by GGS continues to be stunning. I thought after some of the things that they said in the fall, that GGS "got it." It is becoming increasingly clear to me that, in fact, I was wrong. They do not seem to "get it."
The only criticisms I have for this seasons CNY event is
1) the price of wheel boosters, 1 million per spin is ridiculous 2) the dog and pig chips continuing to drop after full completion even though their tallies do not add to the final bonus happiness 3) the flag rewards...I already have 10 pages of flags in storage, its pointless
Thats about it really, full completion gained and I didn't even use half of the seaweed or event seeds I had saved during the 12 months. Things were made a lot easier from the moment GGS started announcing fireworks times
The only criticisms I have for this seasons CNY event is
1) the price of wheel boosters, 1 million per spin is ridiculous 2) the dog and pig chips continuing to drop after full completion even though their tallies do not add to the final bonus happiness 3) the flag rewards...I already have 10 pages of flags in storage, its pointless
Thats about it really, full completion gained and I didn't even use half of the seaweed or event seeds I had saved during the 12 months. Things were made a lot easier from the moment GGS started announcing fireworks times
Everything gizmo listed. Plus, if I may add a few of my own:
4-A continuous list of times for the fireworks. In the US time zones, the new list often wouldn't appear until most of us were in bed. If we knew, for example, that fireworks would be going off at 5 or 6 am our time, those who wanted to could get up earlier.
5-It would be very cool if the deco started out 6x6 so that we might end up with something smaller than 5x5.
6-AND, don't run the thing concurrently with a CC, no matter what the calendar dictates. Different strategies/needs for the two events.
I won't be able to finish the thing, but I wasn't expecting to. It's a decent event that could be absolutely brilliant with a little tweaking.
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I wish for once when they do an update old glitches don't come back & new ones aren't created. Horse farm quest are now gone.
Are you talking about the daily mission? If so, when you complete it, it goes away until the next day.
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Sorry all my bad - forgot I finished the quest missing on horse farm. Sorry GGS
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@WascallyWabbit Wascally, will you do me and a large number of other players a favor and ask what the parameters are for the bonus happiness? Whereas my coop started out gung ho, now sitting and collecting for days on end with no movement from the bonus happiness at 34 is discouraging and has turned to frustration. Folks need to know the goal so they can work towards it, not try and run blind with no progress. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Hi all, Has anyone experienced that while collecting tiles that the numbers do not go down? I was so close to getting the Fancy rabbit and the fancy pig flag and the numbers never went down and in the end I never received the flag even though I should have made the numbers!? I believe the GG should give me the flags since I had worked so hard to get them.
The other question is: is it me or to get the dragon and snake tiles are rare. I play this game hours on end, even though I should be working...., and collecting the snake and dragon has been less than the other tiles. Most of my other tiles have more than 100% and the dragon and snake I am just barely half way there?
snakes and dragons are definitely the fewest. I went pretty quickly through the others signs, but I'm stuck now on these last two, so probably won't finish.
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@WascallyWabbit Wascally, will you do me and a large number of other players a favor and ask what the parameters are for the bonus happiness? Whereas my coop started out gung ho, now sitting and collecting for days on end with no movement from the bonus happiness at 34 is discouraging and has turned to frustration. Folks need to know the goal so they can work towards it, not try and run blind with no progress. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Wascally, can we expect an answer to this soon ?
He did, instead of posting here it was in the Mods News Bulletin:
CNY Event Max Possible Bonus Happiness Several of you have asked about this and it is the same calculation as last year:
10 HP + (HP from each zodiac animal + 25% of that value)
@WascallyWabbit Wascally, will you do me and a large number of other players a favor and ask what the parameters are for the bonus happiness? Whereas my coop started out gung ho, now sitting and collecting for days on end with no movement from the bonus happiness at 34 is discouraging and has turned to frustration. Folks need to know the goal so they can work towards it, not try and run blind with no progress. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Wascally, can we expect an answer to this soon ?
@nola1 (INT1) We posted the calculation for the max possible happiness for your player level in a recent Bulletin but here it is again in case you missed it:
10 HP + (HP from each zodiac animal + 25% of that value)
Example: 10 + 135 + (25% of 135) = 178.75 = 179
So if you are on bonus 34, you have got the max & just have the daily rewards to collect - Congrats!
@WascallyWabbit Wascally, will you do me and a large number of other players a favor and ask what the parameters are for the bonus happiness? Whereas my coop started out gung ho, now sitting and collecting for days on end with no movement from the bonus happiness at 34 is discouraging and has turned to frustration. Folks need to know the goal so they can work towards it, not try and run blind with no progress. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Wascally, can we expect an answer to this soon ?
This question has been answered already - just try to read the Mod's News Bulletin in time! Even CrazyBigFarm already processed all calculations per level in the website!
Overall, I feel that an event should be able to be completed without gold or a year's supply of sunflowers and seaweed. And it seems like there is almost no one who is going to complete this event without such aids. Last year, this was not true. I knew of quite a few farms who finished it with no such aids last year. Hopefully next year, they will revert to last year's version.
Let me tell you how it was for me... I had a pretty strong farm last year, but didn't manage to collect enough pigs and dogs, so I didn't finish the event. Biggest reason for not finishing it was that last year we had no information about when the fireworks will appear, so I kept collecting at the wrong times. If there was no info about fireworks, I wouldn't be able to finish it this year either, although my farm is at least three times stronger than last year.
I did use some gold for snake boosters and some production skipping (around 3000 overall), but it was because I wasn't certain, if I'll manage to catch enough fireworks and I wanted to be sure that all my effort doesn't go in vain. I have also used some seaweed fertilizer and humus together with sunflower seeds, but all of those that I used, I got from mystery boxes we were able to earn from daily tasks, so nothing extra was spent. I'm sure that I could have finished event without using that gold, so in the end, it wasn't impossible to complete it without using gold. I got my deco to 178 happiness two days before event was about to end.
I'm not saying it wasn't hard. This event is way too hard for some casual gameplay. Then, it's not that hard, that you have to get up in the middle of the night to catch the fireworks. Catching two or three fireworks per day is enough to complete the event, but it demands good planning, so you have most of the things ready, when you go for fireworks bonus.
I understand your disappointment, cause I was in the same shoes last year, when I didn't finish it. I was also feeling bad, because I tried hard and then I ended with (for me) useless deco.
Although, as you say, luck has nothing to do with this event, to you and all the others that won't manage to finish it, I wish best of luck on the next occasion.
P.S. I'm attaching an image of my farm, so you can see what was I working with, cause after all, it's very important how well built is your farm.
I know this has been touched on before, but I haven't seen a definitive answer. On the US Server for Day 1 of the Chinese New Year, it switched over to Day 2 after only 6 hours, and we're supposed to get additional time at the end to compensate for this, BUT will we actually get Day 1 tasks as well, so we have the opportunity to complete them and earn the deco? Otherwise, adding time to the end is of no benefit in fulfilling all parts of the event. I, personally, completed each day's tasks, earned all flags, except the 1st because of the shortened time. If we aren't allowed to do Day 1, are we going to be compensated each of the rewards we would have earned as well as the deco?
Alrighty, the additional hours just began and as I thought, we do not get Day 1 back to complete. I was told to write a support ticket since we only received 6 hours. Though time is added at the end, we aren't able to go back to Day 1 and complete the tasks in order to earn the Pagoda deco. Hopefully GGS will compensate us for each of the rewards we would have earned had we been able to have the full 24 hours, plus the deco.
I urge each of you who were unable to complete Day 1 due to the time issue on the US server to get a support ticket sent asap.
Alrighty, the additional hours just began and as I thought, we do not get Day 1 back to complete. I was told to write a support ticket since we only received 6 hours. Though time is added at the end, we aren't able to go back to Day 1 and complete the tasks in order to earn the deco. Hopefully GGS will compensate us for each of the rewards we would have earned had we been able to have the full 24 hours, plus the deco.
I urge each of you who were unable to complete Day 1 due to the time issue on the US server to get a support ticket sent asap.
So we get no deco? 15 days wasted.
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Many thanks to farmerjohn 22 for this creation
https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/comment/3386522/#Comment_3386522
And secondly: did you miss the fireworks of 15.15 CET? Such a pity - everything worked fine after maybe 10-15 minutes of server's down time, so no one of our coop missed the fireworks. Hope you'll do better next time (19.15 CET)!
Sig designed by farmerjohn 22 (US1). THX!!
https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/comment/3384348/#Comment_3384348
Sig designed by farmerjohn 22 (US1). THX!!
As a side note, in terms of mathematics, I would disagree with the notion of luck being applied to this case. There should be virtually no luck involved. This is a common misconception. It is like casinos. You may have luck on one particular visit, but it if you go daily, the law of averages will always win. So you may get a "streak" of snakes, dragons, etc., but if you watched carefully, you would find that the opposite has occurred as well, over the course of two weeks (and simply has gone unnoticed, because we notice the good things in life more than we notice the less-good). I have seen several of these streaks, but it has not changed the overall trajectory of my chips in the slightest. By the third day, the trajectory of my CNY progress has been extremely predictable.
Overall, I feel that an event should be able to be completed without gold or a year's supply of sunflowers and seaweed. And it seems like there is almost no one who is going to complete this event without such aids. Last year, this was not true. I knew of quite a few farms who finished it with no such aids last year. Hopefully next year, they will revert to last year's version.
1) the price of wheel boosters, 1 million per spin is ridiculous
2) the dog and pig chips continuing to drop after full completion even though their tallies do not add to the final bonus happiness
3) the flag rewards...I already have 10 pages of flags in storage, its pointless
Thats about it really, full completion gained and I didn't even use half of the seaweed or event seeds I had saved during the 12 months. Things were made a lot easier from the moment GGS started announcing fireworks times
Everything gizmo listed. Plus, if I may add a few of my own:
4-A continuous list of times for the fireworks. In the US time zones, the new list often wouldn't appear until most of us were in bed. If we knew, for example, that fireworks would be going off at 5 or 6 am our time, those who wanted to could get up earlier.
5-It would be very cool if the deco started out 6x6 so that we might end up with something smaller than 5x5.
6-AND, don't run the thing concurrently with a CC, no matter what the calendar dictates. Different strategies/needs for the two events.
I won't be able to finish the thing, but I wasn't expecting to. It's a decent event that could be absolutely brilliant with a little tweaking.
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Wascally, can we expect an answer to this soon ?
Has anyone experienced that while collecting tiles that the numbers do not go down? I was so close to getting the Fancy rabbit and the fancy pig flag and the numbers never went down and in the end I never received the flag even though I should have made the numbers!? I believe the GG should give me the flags since I had worked so hard to get them.
The other question is: is it me or to get the dragon and snake tiles are rare. I play this game hours on end, even though I should be working...., and collecting the snake and dragon has been less than the other tiles. Most of my other tiles have more than 100% and the dragon and snake I am just barely half way there?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Chinesedragon
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CNY Event Max Possible Bonus Happiness
Several of you have asked about this and it is the same calculation as last year:
10 HP + (HP from each zodiac animal + 25% of that value)
Many thanks to farmerjohn 22 for this creation
10 HP + (HP from each zodiac animal + 25% of that value)
So if you are on bonus 34, you have got the max & just have the daily rewards to collect - Congrats!
"I seek not to know the answers, but to understand the questions!" - Caine
Sig designed by farmerjohn 22 (US1). THX!!
I had a pretty strong farm last year, but didn't manage to collect enough pigs and dogs, so I didn't finish the event. Biggest reason for not finishing it was that last year we had no information about when the fireworks will appear, so I kept collecting at the wrong times. If there was no info about fireworks, I wouldn't be able to finish it this year either, although my farm is at least three times stronger than last year.
I did use some gold for snake boosters and some production skipping (around 3000 overall), but it was because I wasn't certain, if I'll manage to catch enough fireworks and I wanted to be sure that all my effort doesn't go in vain. I have also used some seaweed fertilizer and humus together with sunflower seeds, but all of those that I used, I got from mystery boxes we were able to earn from daily tasks, so nothing extra was spent. I'm sure that I could have finished event without using that gold, so in the end, it wasn't impossible to complete it without using gold. I got my deco to 178 happiness two days before event was about to end.
I'm not saying it wasn't hard. This event is way too hard for some casual gameplay. Then, it's not that hard, that you have to get up in the middle of the night to catch the fireworks. Catching two or three fireworks per day is enough to complete the event, but it demands good planning, so you have most of the things ready, when you go for fireworks bonus.
I understand your disappointment, cause I was in the same shoes last year, when I didn't finish it. I was also feeling bad, because I tried hard and then I ended with (for me) useless deco.
Although, as you say, luck has nothing to do with this event, to you and all the others that won't manage to finish it, I wish best of luck on the next occasion.
P.S.
I'm attaching an image of my farm, so you can see what was I working with, cause after all, it's very important how well built is your farm.
Many thanks to farmerjohn 22 for this creation
I urge each of you who were unable to complete Day 1 due to the time issue on the US server to get a support ticket sent asap.
Many thanks to farmerjohn 22 for this creation
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https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/158239/just-want-to-be-left-alone-to-farm-in-peace-us1-hearts-of-gold
I finished with over 2 days to spare including the 34 bonus HP and so did my wife and neither of us use gold on this event.