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Fishing Hard Worker Event

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  • farmgirlmimi43 (US1)farmgirlmimi43 (US1) US1 Posts: 422
    edited 02.06.2018
    What's the point of inform players with wrong data's  at the calender or supossed expected start times, It looks like GGS does this for a purpose? Every month we read promisses about improvement in informing the players but it doesnt improve at all...

    The only thing which improves (for GGS) are the numberous offers for buying gold, at least every hour another! 



    A date was given, June 2nd. Not a time. GGS is based in Germany and it will still be June 2nd in Germany for another 17 hours and 40 minutes. FHWE can start at any point within that time frame.
  • FastSylvia (NL1)FastSylvia (NL1) NL1 Posts: 102
    What's the point of inform players with wrong data's  at the calender or supossed expected start times, It looks like GGS does this for a purpose? Every month we read promisses about improvement in informing the players but it doesnt improve at all...

    The only thing which improves (for GGS) are the numberous offers for buying gold, at least every hour another! 



    A date was given, June 2nd, not a time. GGS is based in Germany and it will still be June 2nd in Germany for another 17 hours and 40 minutes. FHWE can start at any point within that time frame.
    Hear hear!! You're right about the time left today, but  our experiences about wrong  dates or delayed starts I suspect another disappointment will come through...
  • gavinfarms (US1)gavinfarms (US1) US1 Posts: 2,273
    I sense a shortened (and thus unfair) Fish HW coming
  • Shay1968 (US1)Shay1968 (US1) Posts: 1,324
    Maybe they are working on replacing the crappy prizes, like the pig silage that is given as one of the top hard work rewards and putting the 2 GMLs back that they took away. 

    One could only hope. 
  • gizmo22 (AU1)gizmo22 (AU1) AU1 Posts: 1,720
    Its just the "automated reward system" causing havoc again....it makes the gaming experience for all players more dynamic
  • Shay1968 (US1)Shay1968 (US1) Posts: 1,324
    gizmo, I love your sense of humor and what makes it really funny is that it is true. 
  • Kimmiecat (NL1)Kimmiecat (NL1) NL1 Posts: 995
    edited 02.06.2018
    Maybe they are working on replacing the crappy prizes, like the pig silage that is given as one of the top hard work rewards and putting the 2 GMLs back that they took away. 

    One could only hope. 
    Do you still not know that whatever reward you ask for is taken away from events? 
    I think the GMLs will only stay/come back if we ask to remove them
  • Shay1968 (US1)Shay1968 (US1) Posts: 1,324
    I have come to find that GGS is going to do what GGS wants to do whether we like it or not.  I often feel they sit around a table brain storming what they can do next to upset the players. Perhaps that is why they have no time to fix what is broke such as the edge crops or the double XP bonus.
  • Kimmiecat (NL1)Kimmiecat (NL1) NL1 Posts: 995
    The FHWE just started on NL at 10.00 CEST
  • Tinzen (SKN1)Tinzen (SKN1) SKN1 Posts: 473
    Hey can i know what time will FISHING HARD WORK EVENT BEGIN.
    Not time - only day
  • I will not play in FHWE where the prize is 1 gold license. Especially I will not play this event in its present form. This is heard irritably and unprofitable.


  • gavinfarms (US1)gavinfarms (US1) US1 Posts: 2,273
    Once again, an unfair event brought to us by GGS.  We need to give a special thanks to GGS for ruining the Fish HW event again, by making it unfair.
  • Well it started of course sometime in the night, and of course I have no shellfish pools in sight and none yesterday so another FHWE that is a fail
  • gizmo22 (AU1)gizmo22 (AU1) AU1 Posts: 1,720
    Well the rewards again are very underwhelming especially the hard work rewards leading up to the GML. I look fwd to the next change, maybe 100 corn, 100 cabbage for 1 million + fishing points? 50 wheat? Perhaps 5 water droplets? Of course we will have to blame the automated reward system when it happens...it may even be responsible for other things like earthquakes and global warming  :p
  • Really ggs, the early hours of the morning for starting FHWE.  Drat:(((((

    Well at least it did start.  Another win for all the folks in Europe and another slap in the face for the rest of us.

  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Really ggs, the early hours of the morning for starting FHWE.  Drat:(((((

    Well at least it did start.  Another win for all the folks in Europe and another slap in the face for the rest of us.

    It boggles the mind that events can't have start times based on individual server times. Should be easy enough to schedule that. Other games with multiple global servers manage to do it.
  • Shay1968 (US1)Shay1968 (US1) Posts: 1,324
    I would like to express my gratitude for the 16 Lobster cages I got in the FHWE. 
  • gizmo22 (AU1)gizmo22 (AU1) AU1 Posts: 1,720
    4 toolboxes and 2 bent trolling rods coming up Shay.........I am overwhelmed with gratitude now that GGS has given me such a dynamic fishing hardworker event experience! Such valuable rewards for 1 million + fishing points!
  • Shay1968 (US1)Shay1968 (US1) Posts: 1,324
    I am dynamically overwhlemed!   9 Russells for prize #41!   It is a  shame that I cannot use them considering I have all Trawlers.   However I am still in awe. 
  • gizmo22 (AU1)gizmo22 (AU1) AU1 Posts: 1,720
    I could spend 12,500 farmdollars and just buy the 2 bent trolling rods but i'd much prefer to waste the entire day keeping the silo full of fish just so I can win them in the event. It will feel much more special equipping my boats with these 2 trolling rods because the GGS automated reward system says they are highly valuable!

    Dynamically overwhelmed? Me too Shay!  :p
  • mia111 (GB1)mia111 (GB1) GB1 Posts: 741
    edited 03.06.2018
    Really ggs, the early hours of the morning for starting FHWE.  Drat:(((((

    Well at least it did start.  Another win for all the folks in Europe and another slap in the face for the rest of us.

    I don't consider it as a win for the folks in Europe, they didn't know either at what time it started. If you have read other posts many people in Europe waiting during the night for the event to start as they were expecting the event to start in any time, yet, it started 10 hours later than usual (I feel a bit sorry for those that lost their night sleep). Of course, kinda our fault for assuming that the events will start at the same time than in previous run (so even though this one started at 10am CEST who knows about the next one), but still annoying: 24h is too many hours to be monitoring the situation specially for these kind of events in which time is important.

    In any case it would be great if, as artful says, the events start at a decent time (00:00 CEST is not a decent time for people living in that time zone) and ideally this time is known in each of the respective servers, since most players (I presume) play in servers close to their time zone. Of course, that it would require slightly more overhead for events such as the WWC (for the weekly point count, they should record the score on each server not at the same time but exactly x h after the WWC started in that server), but it should not be too complicated.

    Edit: rewards need to be improved. Why on earth are the lobster cages still there? What about useless crew and boats? However they are still better than the current ones for the CHWE (which I assume are sill the same than in previous run since, if I understood correctly, an update is needed to change the rewards; otherwise the rewards are the same. The dynamic boot is to be able to select new rewards randomly when told so during an update, otherwise the previous run rewards are the ones in the next one).
  • NormaHelen (US1)NormaHelen (US1) US1 Posts: 262
    Last night I went to bed with 2 days worth of lobsters. This morning I found the lobsters had ended & I didn't have anything running. I don't know how many hours of 0 points per second I had. I let the lobsters run long because after that came swordfish & shrimp. I currently had no shrimp holes & swordfish doesn't run long. I guess I shouldn't get too upset that this event is a bust for me. I really don't need all those lobster cages or the other lame prizes.
  • I am so discouraged by the FHWE. It seems rigged. Some players seem to get enough, others can't get ahead no matter what they do - and it has nothing to do with skill, or gold, or how fast you fish out the pools. It only has to do with what the game gives you (thus it is rigged).

    I have not had shellfish since this event began. Although I fished out my shellfish previously, I did not have enough oysters to get to 10. My boats were sparkled. After the oysters, I twice I got clams (which I had none), and now shrimp. What part of YOU DID NOT MAKE THE SHELLFISH AVAILABLE does GGS not understand? So, I try to skip it for gold, hoping it will get better, and suddenly the cost to skip is over 2000 gold for the next skip. Is this a game or is it a torture chamber? I know my opinion today!

    GGS, my response to this is anger! I hate being cheated. The very unfairness of this particular event is rank and it stinks. Now, my silo is still. I refuse to spend so much gold - you have not pleased me enough to get me to spend gold on you and you have already cheated me out of a lot when I was trying to get ahead on this event.

    Therefore, I feel I have already spent too much gold on this event, which I now know is a thief. I did not have fun. I am angry and I refuse to play the FHWE anymore today. Way to go, GGS - another happy customer (NOT).
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Actually, I love getting the boats. It's how I add trawlers to my fleet, and how a lot of other players are able to add skipjacks. As I no longer can hope to finish, the trawlers are the only reason I do this event. However, for those maxed out, a choice would be good, like the choice we have now when cat charms are the prize. 

    Don't mind the crew, either. Even if they are for boats I no longer have, they do work on the ones I do, although not as well. A lot of players refuse to buy equipment, and the event is a good way to get those items.

    But, please, for the love of all things holy, get rid of the fish pellets. Not only are they worthless, we have to spend time dumping them if we are to make more for missions.
  • Kirksa (US1)Kirksa (US1) Posts: 100
    edited 03.06.2018
    Aww, see Artful, I like the fish pellets. They are great for the interminable Cooperative Championships that GGS does not listen to us when we ask them to space them out. Might as well keep them as they are torturing us with CC's. I know you don't play them, but I find that some of their prizes are good. As for the FHWE, the boats are ok, but it takes a lot to dismantle one I already have, build the one in storage, then dismantle it so I can clean my storage out. You can get fairly good money for it that way so all the trouble is worth it. 
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    edited 03.06.2018
    Aww, see Artful, I like the fish pellets. They are great for the interminable Cooperative Championships that GGS does not listen to us when we ask them to space them out. Might as well keep them as they are torturing us with CC's. I know you don't play them, but I find that some of their prizes are good. As for the FHWE, the boats are ok, but it takes a lot to dismantle one I already have, build the one in storage, then dismantle it so I can clean my storage out. You can get fairly good money for it that way so all the trouble is worth it. 
    That's just it, I do play them. (Our coop just isn't worried about ranking, and participation is optional.) And making pellets is a key component to feed missions. Problem is, you can only have so many in your inventory before you're making them at a loss. And when the whole coop is lined up at the pond to dump them so that they can make more, it takes forever.  Pellets take mere minutes to make, so having extra really isn't very good

    And, yes, dismantling boats can become problematic.  They need to give us choices in some cases, just like the cat charms.

    One man's trash, eh? :)
    Post edited by artful (US1) on
  • MRG1 (US1)MRG1 (US1) US1 Posts: 1,554
    I am so discouraged by the FHWE. It seems rigged. Some players seem to get enough, others can't get ahead no matter what they do - and it has nothing to do with skill, or gold, or how fast you fish out the pools. It only has to do with what the game gives you (thus it is rigged).

    I have not had shellfish since this event began. Although I fished out my shellfish previously, I did not have enough oysters to get to 10. My boats were sparkled. After the oysters, I twice I got clams (which I had none), and now shrimp. What part of YOU DID NOT MAKE THE SHELLFISH AVAILABLE does GGS not understand? So, I try to skip it for gold, hoping it will get better, and suddenly the cost to skip is over 2000 gold for the next skip. Is this a game or is it a torture chamber? I know my opinion today!

    GGS, my response to this is anger! I hate being cheated. The very unfairness of this particular event is rank and it stinks. Now, my silo is still. I refuse to spend so much gold - you have not pleased me enough to get me to spend gold on you and you have already cheated me out of a lot when I was trying to get ahead on this event.

    Therefore, I feel I have already spent too much gold on this event, which I now know is a thief. I did not have fun. I am angry and I refuse to play the FHWE anymore today. Way to go, GGS - another happy customer (NOT).
    The very first time they ran this event I had the same issue: No oysters. Kept trying to clear pools hoping to get a shellfish pool. By the end of the 2nd day I finally got one and could start the silo. The event is not fair because they don't evenly distribute the pools and I am not about to support an unfair event by paying gold just to be able to participate.
  • Sadly, I believe I understand what is going on in the FHWE the way it is now. (Note: I am at a high level and this does not seem to be true of the lower levels.)

    I think the hIgher levels of the FHWE has become a gold sink. The only way to do it and be top 1- 50, would be to either get enough fish to reach #1-50, or to skip them with gold. Skipping becomes really expensive the more times you do it. (In fact, it is so expensive after you do it a few times it actually shocked me today and I only skipped a few fish.) 

    Here is what I think is now happening for higher level players to be competitive: Players put in the fish and it reaches the +1, but they can't let it run long or run out since it takes too much time (except for cod, salmon, and swordfish), so it must be skipped (for ever increasing gold amounts) and then, the new fish can be added until it reaches +1.

    But the crazed gold spending must continue, because the harried player must get boats back quickly filled with the next fish (again using gold since they are in a hurry). Not only that, but those other pools must be fished out and the boats brought back quickly so the right pools appear.

    This is crazy! The gold expenditure must be horrific! Shame on you, GGS to prey so blatantly on a player's need to be first. They will never make any prize equal to what they are spending.

    Furthermore, I happen to like many of the top players who seem to be stuck on this treadmill from H-LL. I hope they can put this into perspective! No game is worth going through this. Players, you are valued and worthy of good things. No one should ever horribly use you! 
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    edited 03.06.2018
    Well said.

    Wayyyyy back when, it was possible to finish each and every event without using gold. Difficult, maybe. Challenging, maybe, but possible.

    This event simply isn't possible to finish without using gold -- even if it's just a little bit. It really needs to be rebalanced so that non-gold users have a chance.

    The beauty of the event in its original form was that even the lower players had a decent chance of finishing. Prizes were better, too. One or two events should be kept as they were to allow all players, regardless of level and gold usage, to have a sense of accomplishment. It's what keeps people playing, and it's what can turn non-gold users into gold buyers.

    Edited after several have posted that they have finished it without using gold. Still,, I wonder what the overall percentage of people who use no gold is.
    Post edited by artful (US1) on
  • garybaldy (GB1)garybaldy (GB1) GB1 Posts: 502
    Sorry, I disagree here . The fishing HWE can be done to the GML stage with no gold , and a good chance of getting the second ranking GML , which might mean skipping 1 or 2 crates . You need to plan correctly , and use any advance warning of the event to prepare . Crazybigfarm , bless her , has all the relevant info on her site so you can see how many fish of each type to stock up on , and which types will not last at maximum speed .
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