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Exodus from the game
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The reason I don't want them to change it, is that I like a game that forces me to make choices. Do I focus on the Island, or my Mains? Without that, its just a game of clicking on the next thing without thought.
I am certain the Big Farm community will have good guides to follow, based on your level, activity, and goals for the Island next time it comes around. Like how to get shells with a minimum of effort (I believe the answer is in fields and oranges) Just like there are tips and tricks for each event. Hopefully armed with that knowledge, each person can enjoy the island without feeling stressed.
And just think, someday, when you are sitting around with 100 million, you may have to decide... do I do the Island, or buy that Charitable Telescope....
Totally agree..... Good post! :thumbup:
There was a lot of confusion caused by lack of information, but that would be my only real cristism. The whole event is still not unlocked (the horse ranch) so I think its far too early to condemn it - Next time around it will all make much more sense from the start.
P.S. I have no time now to look for the threads, but there are ways of doing the island without gold, provided you don't try to complete all the side tasks and are prepared to demolish and re-build things as you need them.
I loved the surprise-effects and all the new challenges of the 4th temporary farm (this time: island). As I loved to have to figure things out, to think and rethink my choices and to carefully ponder each step. As from starting this game I loved to at least try to play it with as little as possible gold, because it simply means a greater challenge to me ... Without all of the aforementioned it would only be a game of thoughtless clicks to me.
There are enough threads about the island and a lot of information, tricks & tips are already to be found there. Experienced players warned us in the forums that it was an extremely difficult challenge and probably only mend for the highest levels among us...
As Elunia I am looking forward to see the next temporary 4th farm come around, but I do hope it will not be that frequently, so that we have some time to make some money again in the meantime. My choice would be, let's say: once every 2 or 3 months
I agree with the topic starter. This was the biggest game hoax to date. And that is saying a WHOLE lot.
Thats pretty much what I switched to doing after completeing the 1st chapter. I demolished everything and had 6 fields and as many decorations as I could fit, to cut production costs to the minimum - I only had half the island land opened & was on -89%.
A word of warning though, omg it gets tedious doing oranges every 20 minutes and you need to be at your computer a LOT to make it worthwhile. At first I was doing oranges all day & grapes overnight, but for the last week or so I switched to just grapes, purely because it was easier to manage every 6 hours instead of every 20 mins.
Are they going to continue to have this event every few months? I doubt I'm going to play it any more except for the oranges, until I get up to a much higher level---there's no reason to for me at this point & the cute, exotic animals aren't worth the work, either, for what you get. Later, I might not mind chucking tons of money down the hole for a few horsies when I've got a lot more money, but right now, too much time/effort/money for too little reward when I've got more important projects pending on the real farms.
Yeah, pretty much the same thing with my co-op. Nearly all of us either aren't playing the island farm, or are using it just for oranges & the other field crops just to get some decorations--we've all agreed that it's a big time/money suck. Only one other member besides me has an island farm at this point, and I'm not investing any money in anything other than oranges so I can buy a tiny decoration.
Edit by PINJO: merged posts, please use edit button
Who do you think pays for all the development/creation/running costs of the game? Its only available for you to play it for free because of those people that are willing to buy gold.
You don't HAVE to play the island if you don't want to. This is what I don't understand. No one is forcing anyone to play the island or spend gold or farm cash on it.
If I don't have to play the island, why do I have to wait 12 hours for the ship to cycle? That's what I don't understand.
I did not know that. I wanted to try to play island at first time. So, now my ship asks 6 items and has to wait, just because i cannot fill it. I have an other farm an other server, level 43 now. in that farm i did'n open island at all and the ship is asking only 4 items. I can fill it and it sails away. AND i can have those horseshoes. So, i don't HAVE TO play island, like i don't in my other farm (hope you understand what i want to say)
So, IF only i had known it before......
But okay, i grow oranges and have pina coladas and let the ship wait...
Maybe captain drinks a beer while waiting.....
So what are the options? Try to look forward and now when the Island is here again, I'll say as I tell others in my co-op if you have the cash to burn off then by all means go ahead, if not then don't nothing less nothing more.
Totally agree no one is forcing anyone to spend gold! BUT in order to play our main game efficiently IMO we do indeed need to play the island! firstly to be able to fill our ships & secondly we have been lead to believe its an essential part of the yet to come "horse ranch" as per game overview...
Personally I'm not spending any gold on the island! especially as we don't know exactly why we are playing it yet other than filling the ship & gathering a gazillion horse shoes that are currently worth jack....
But many are being enticed into playing the island again due to the fact that they feel they may miss out on the horse ranch benefits if they dont! GGS starting the island again before opening the horse ranch is really unfair on the players and really naughty because they are fully aware of this fact! I bet that if they opened the horse ranch before the return of the island they maybe would have feared that many people would have been underwhelmed with the horse ranch, hence many people deciding not to bother with the island the second time around, hence many people not spending gold! Basically opening the island for the second time before the horse ranch is a calculated decision by GGS in order to sell more gold! I dont blame them really, they need to make money by squeezing as much of it as possible out of us gamers. They arent daft, but i think they've gone a bit too far this time! All I can say is that the horse ranch will have to be something spectacular in order to make the extra hours spent on the island farm benificial! If not they they may be left with a huge tropical white elephant!
As you can see in this very thread, there are many different opinions on the current situation of the game, and - of course - we're trying to make everyone happy eventually. However, I don't feel the wording of this topic and the discussion in the opening post is aimed towards a constructive discussion, and by now the discussion is all over the place and not focused to one topic at all, so I will close this thread.
If you guys want to discuss the further plans of the game, the horse paddock or other upcoming features, feel free to create a new thread about them (or use an existing one).
Thanks,
Timo