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Update January 28th - Deco-Tower and fertile fields - Discussion
CM Nafaru
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For the record I am a gold buyer and I refuse to fall into the trap of gold spending to get "bonus tokens" or "bonus rewards" when I can easily get these same rewards by buying them directly for a much cheaper price.
Re the new personal Prime Time offer for a deco in exchange for buying gold a set number of times within a set amount of time: I think that most people in practice will be buying a similar amount of gold to what they would normally buy, except that they will divide it up into small parcels.... Now, if that is the case, they will be getting a deco but will be either paying more real $ for their gold than they would have done OR they will spend the same amount of real $ that they normally spend but will end up with less gold than normal. Either way, they will be paying for the deco indirectly. My reasoning is due to this: the more gold you buy in ONE hit, the higher the percentage is for the bonus gold you get when you buy it. e.g. spend A$50 in one hit and you get 61,000 gold plus FARM$71,800. If for argument's sake you have to buy gold 5 times to get the deco, then if you spend A$10 x 5 transactions, you only get 11,000 gold x 5 = 55,000 gold total and NO FARM$ bonus. In effect, in this example, you are paying 6,000 gold and Farm$71,800 to buy the deco.
Now I hear some of you say: "Well then, I'd just buy 5 lots of $50 each then. That way, I won't lose anything... then I just won't buy any more gold for a long time." Well, sorry, but you are still losing if you do that because you could have instead bought 1 x A$200 lot which yields 272,000 gold and Farm$360,000, plus 1 x A$50 lot yielding 61,000 gold plus Farm$71,800, or (grab your calculators) a total of 333,000 gold and Farm$431,800 for your A$250. Compared to the totals of 305,000 gold and Farm$359,000 that 5 lots of A$50 yields you, again this shows that your deco is very expensive... 28,000 gold and Farm$72,800 less for the 5 lot deal.
I stress that we don't yet know how many times we have to buy gold to satisfy the requirement, so this is only guess work above, but even if it is only 2 times, then we are still paying indirectly for the deco. Much better value can be obtained from waiting for the 100% P.T. combined with some type of Prime Day. (or maybe they're around the other way... whatever, you know what I mean).
The main advice I can give to everyone is this: Be very careful when you see an offer come up and weigh up whether or not it is the BEST offer you are going to get from GGS. Specifically, weigh it up against the 100% P.T., because double gold can mean you can buy heaps of very high decos if you spend about A$50.
Hey Hacktred,
production values will be the same as with regular fields, so you produce the same amounts with less space used.
Gold prices for the fertile fields are not final yet, so we cannot announce them right now.
Regards,
Steffi
Bring on the updates
another update for the gold users and nothing for us non goldies
this game is turning into a gold trap
nothing for non golders except that tower which is useless
this "free strategy game" is becoming less and less free, with less and less strategy... just buy your way to the top, that's the message.. doesn't matter if you can't think of a good strategy, give us your gold and we will settle things for you.
nice work CGS! this is the perfect way to destruction, as seen many times before in other companies... good for you.. we are bored anyway...
We have a big announcement coming up that even the 'non-golders' will enjoy.
Just give is a couple more days to get it all prepared and you'll see!
*makes some mysterious noises and vanishes* *poof*
Is it the 4th Farm? Is it the revamp of the missions, including bringing back a mission with a rep points component requirement in it? Is it the bulldozing of all Blue barns, so that the Sell missions become a bit fairer for non-golders and those of us golders who didn't buy them on principle? Is it to change the shovels to what we wanted in the first place, rather than how they are now? Is it... Oh damn... He's gone *poof* before I got a chance to find out which of these things it is!
bad thing, thought, some of the decorations are only available to low level player through special offers.. so I guess top level players will always have those black shadows...?
*reappears for a second*
You might find the word 'missions' in that announcement, along with maaaaaaaaaaany other things.
Be nice to have some of these options as a non gold buyer.
Its great that GGS keeps improving the game, but, why for the life of me develop fields to Level 7, then after we have finished updating, anxiously awaiting the architect, do we now find out we need not have bothered and we just should have waited for the new mini-fields. That is what thoroughly annoys the ...... out of me.
I'm a gold user, but its not giving me a surprise to grab gold so blatantly off me, in fact it starts to make me feel rather used... I love this game... but...
Yes, Pixie, I hear you regarding GGS moving the goal posts after the game has started. Instead, they should have just improved the playing surface and kept it level for all, so that all could benefit. As you say, yet another gold grab. It will never end... Groundhog Day yet again.
Its particularly reprehensible to offer the architect back then (speed up building time) and now turn around and make the highest level barns and fields redundant. This is a form of abuse and its unacceptable.
They should also have made all these new and pretty decorations available for gold at a set price in the shop on the old servers, not have them as enticements to gamble real money on the spinning wheel, or spend extra money in the shop to get them. In their current iteration they suit "Big Gold Farm".
In other words, what ever we are now playing, its not Big Farm. I find myself logging in less often...
Big Farm is still very much a free game, and still has plenty of strategy in it. You don't have to spend money, you don't have to buy gold, you don't have to spend gold. Big Farm can be played perfectly fine without needing to buy gold. I have played games before were you can't do anything unless you spend money, Big Farm is not like those games.
You might be bored with the game, but I am certainly not. And as long as the game keeps giving us new stuff, even if that stuff is only for gold players, I am still going to play this game.
Ezio, I completely agree with you.
~Space~
Oops!! My bad!! I are just a naughty boy... (grammatical errors done deliberately for effect).
Ahhh... Missions revamped... The Return of the King? or The Return of the Ragpicker? I wonder...
So long as the price is right... including the upgreeds.... sorry, upgrades...
Yes, it will double as a hitching post for your elephant when you find it.