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Village Fair Changes

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  • jules314 (US1)jules314 (US1) US1 Posts: 399
    My heart feels so full seeing all these replies and a Moderator response. Thank you for all your input! I used to enjoy the Village Fair but too often I find our coop frustrated when someone hits that dreaded 14-hour challenge and then does not contribute to the harvests at all. I really do hope something can be done about this in a fair way. I think that 30-min challenge that anyone can start is a fantastic idea, leaving the longer ones for deputies and leaders to start instead. Great minds, great suggestions!
  • Paradice (US1)Paradice (US1) US1 Posts: 39

    I am glad to see this is being endorsed.  This is a frustrating event and causes much friction in my coop because of the wording.  Having read the suggestions, and there are many great ones, it would seem that it is a fixable problem.  It seems to me it covers most of the coops.  Please don’t slide it under the rug.  Take the time to listen, we are what make this work for you.  Thank you bea bea bea

  • charlies (US1)charlies (US1) US1 Posts: 9
    I do like the idea of non officers starting no more then 30  minute challenge because, I do believe a lot of this is sabotage. they are low rank and only have the main farm and start a 14 hr Diamond challenge and then put nothing in and sign off. this is plain and simple out to hurt the coop. there is noway they are trying to make points for farmers league
  • Leonard2 (US1)Leonard2 (US1) US1 Posts: 9
    I agree, we have had too many non officer members starting 14 hour challenge and then log off. 
  • Did anyone see the bug fixes in the latest update?

    I see something about the search defaulting to page 1. Does this mean page 1 of bronze will show up on the screen first when searching for a challenge? This seems too good to be true and would end a lot of the frustration. I still wish only deputies could start challenges over a half hour but I will take this for sure!

    Am I understanding this correctly?
  • edited 28.05.2020
    I think its correct 

    :D


  • Thank you @TiminuTufu!

    Players in the update discussion are being very negative as usual. Change is difficult for many. I don't care what else happened in the update, this would make it all worthwhile!

     :) 
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    I'm repeating what others have said ... limit challenges from regular players to 30 mins, keeping the 20-minute wait period so that leaders/deputies have the first opportunity to start challenges if they are logged on. Easy peasy.
  • I knew it was too good to be true! The fair selection menu is defaulting to page 74, platinum.

    I woke up this morning to a 13 hour challenge started by another new player. I guess I have 2 choices, stop accepting new players or stop playing the fair. :'(
  • edited 01.06.2020
    Well, Farmer Joe77

    its the first thing, we have noticed with Fair, there is a few things malfunctioning, including that part

    as soon as the team arrives, we'll report

    its on my to-do

    Stay confident, we'll get it :)
  • Joybells (US1)Joybells (US1) US1 Posts: 36
    I'm not sure if others are experiencing this, but when one village fair challenge ends, I have to reload my page before I can start another one.  Not a major inconvenience, but a bit annoying.
  • @Joybells (US1)

    This specific issue has been reported

    Thanks for reporting tho :)
  • Our co-op has stopped playing VF, reload after challenge ends, reload to get products to count, reload again after challenge ends, it is getting redundant. Will it get fixed before VF ends?
  • Jasist2 (INT1)Jasist2 (INT1) INT1 Posts: 140
    While we are at the topic of Village Fair, I have one suggestion: Change the gold theme box and silver mystery boxes back to GOLD MYSTERY BOX!!!!!
  • For those who have been following this topic since the beginning, you will not believe that I got home from work late tonight to the beginning of the second 13 hour challenge of the day. I really don' think anyone will believe it. I believe this now makes five 13 hour or longer challenges in the last 4 days of playing the fair, including the last one. 

    I really am not making this up, I sent 3 mails to all coop members today and chatted everything just to make sure.

    Also, can anyone figure out why a player is able to sabotage the entire fair of a coop yet they are not advanced enough to even get sparkled by another player? It seems like a player cannot even play hard worker or event farms until they are a level higher than what is required to sabotage another coop or their own coop in a fair.    

    Officers only should be the only players able to start challenges over 1/2 hour, it seems pretty simple to anyone playing the game.
  • edited 02.06.2020
    Farmer Joe77

    In which league is your coop?

    it will now default the page , to the first page, of the league you are part of

    If you are in bronze, it should start you at bronze 1 

    if you are in silver, it should start you at first page of Silver , etc etc

    if you're coop is in diamond , you still still see the first page of very long challenges :(

    Okay, were not entirely  sure whats going on , but its gonna get looked at again ! 

    Could someone confirm to me, if it works like I explained?






  • We are in platinum. There are 2 more hours until the current 13 hr challenge is over then I will check.
  • This still isn't going to help with new players starting long challenges. We need everyone to default to page 1 Bronze, as mentioned long ago in this discussion.
  • Timinu, both long challenges that have been started were platinum so the challenge page is defaulting to platinum, the same as our league.

    The whole idea behind this village fair discussion has not been addressed at all. I feel like we are now starting over again. We have said from the beginning defaulting the selection menu to page 1 bronze would help a lot, but not solve the problem. Allowing nonofficers to start half hour challenges only would solve the problem. and be fair to anyone trying to get Farmers League points. My coop made it all the way to the diamond league 3 fairs ago doing half hour bronze challenges, so nobody can tell me this isn't fair or they can't score enough points.
  • Kimmiecat (NL1)Kimmiecat (NL1) NL1 Posts: 995
    Timinu, both long challenges that have been started were platinum so the challenge page is defaulting to platinum, the same as our league.

    The whole idea behind this village fair discussion has not been addressed at all. I feel like we are now starting over again. We have said from the beginning defaulting the selection menu to page 1 bronze would help a lot, but not solve the problem. Allowing nonofficers to start half hour challenges only would solve the problem. and be fair to anyone trying to get Farmers League points. My coop made it all the way to the diamond league 3 fairs ago doing half hour bronze challenges, so nobody can tell me this isn't fair or they can't score enough points.
    Exactly....the request is for all leagues to default to page one.
  • Jasist2 (INT1)Jasist2 (INT1) INT1 Posts: 140
    The idea is probably to display challenges by the order of increasing time limit instead of decreasing time limit, so shortest challenges goes first and longest challenge goes last. Both this and default to page 1 of Bronze league are solutions. 
  • DoomDark (INT1)DoomDark (INT1) INT1 Posts: 50
    In my coop we have simple rule: Start longer than 30 minute challenge and get kicked. And when current event started, another illiterate newbie decided to go find another coop. And yes, that rule is posted on coop news. And periodically reminded via messages.

    DD
  • ninjahuman (AU1)ninjahuman (AU1) AU1 Posts: 2,526
    In my coop we have simple rule: Start longer than 30 minute challenge and get kicked. And when current event started, another illiterate newbie decided to go find another coop. And yes, that rule is posted on coop news. And periodically reminded via messages.

    DD
    I understand that you're upset about it and something does need to be done about the village fair challenge system, but it's a bit borderline towards an insult to say that about your former cooperative member.
  • I did a quick search in the forum to see if this thread has been started. Sorry but I can't find anything so here is my suggestion.

    Please change the Village Fair so that Challenges can only be started by deputies. Regular members do not understand, or often do not read, group messages or the chat to see that starting 14 hour challenges isn't helpful to the group, or choosing challenges that may only work for their farms, rather than communicating with the entire group for feedback.

    We have tried stating guidelines for how to start challenges, send out messages, created video tutorials - The regular members still pick the wrong challenges. The rest of us sit at the bottom of the Farmer's League rankings.

    In addition - an option to skip or end the challenge quickly would be amazing as well. Ideally, could be skipped with village farm dollars or regular dollars. I leave out gold as an option but hey, if you offer us this feature, it would be used.

    I hope you will give this serious consideration. Our coop is a great bunch of people, as I think all coops must be, YET this Village Fair often sends people into frustration and anxiety to do well in their Farmer's League rankings.

  • Just had a farmer start a 14 hour Challenge!! They just joined our co-op level 14 !! Only deputies should be able to start a challenge or give us a way to stop!! Our co-op is in 3rd place  and this might be DEVASTATING to the hard word the other farmers have done to get to this position!!
  • Data King (US1)Data King (US1) US1 Posts: 7,994
    Do not like the fact we must refresh the timer to see how much we have collected/harvested toward the challenge & then wait 30 seconds to be able to see it updated?!!
     That's a lot of wasted time we could be harvesting if we need to but we can not know until the timer can be refreshed?!! The first few minutes of every Challenge is a huge factor as to how well the co op can do on that challenge to earn the booster's & bonuses.
     Do hope there is a way we can get real time updates on the amounts we harvest for the VF challenges rather than have to refresh the timer every 30 seconds!
  • I agree with all that has been said above with 1 more possible thing to be added.   On the Member Performance Ranking List - there should be a new column next to the  (Total )Member Ranking (Score) ... + Point per Challenge by player.   Meaning.... when a challenge is in play.. those members who are online during a challenge this column will show if other members were helping out during that challenge.   The Member Ranking only shows the total points per player does not show if player help out.   Would be nice to give credit where credit is due on those individual who help out.  We have some players on our Co-op who have a Total Member Ranking score but also dont help out when a challenge is in play.  The new column..+ Point per Challenge score just gets added after each challenge to their total scoring.    I do like change, but a good change that will benefit a performance of knowledge is better then not having.
  • To add note to my last post.... each of us during the VF...when we help out ..we get a performance score.. this is the score that should go into the  + pt. per...column.   as each of us only see the Co-op score and performance score, not the score of other members who help out.
  • Uncle John (GB1)Uncle John (GB1) GB1 Posts: 11,004
    Do not like the fact we must refresh the timer to see how much we have collected/harvested toward the challenge & then wait 30 seconds to be able to see it updated?!!
     That's a lot of wasted time we could be harvesting if we need to but we can not know until the timer can be refreshed?!! The first few minutes of every Challenge is a huge factor as to how well the co op can do on that challenge to earn the booster's & bonuses.
     Do hope there is a way we can get real time updates on the amounts we harvest for the VF challenges rather than have to refresh the timer every 30 seconds!
    Real time updating creates lag. Much as I would like it I would rather do without both  :¬)
  • Data King (US1)Data King (US1) US1 Posts: 7,994
    Do not like the fact we must refresh the timer to see how much we have collected/harvested toward the challenge & then wait 30 seconds to be able to see it updated?!!
     That's a lot of wasted time we could be harvesting if we need to but we can not know until the timer can be refreshed?!! The first few minutes of every Challenge is a huge factor as to how well the co op can do on that challenge to earn the booster's & bonuses.
     Do hope there is a way we can get real time updates on the amounts we harvest for the VF challenges rather than have to refresh the timer every 30 seconds!
    Real time updating creates lag. Much as I would like it I would rather do without both  :¬)
    Totally agree - if there was a way to have real time score updates with out the lag & there for no need for a timer would be the best.
     May a 10 second refresh timer
    - then at least we'd still be able to work the items needed for the booster's & bonus a lot more accurately than the way it is now 
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