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I just figured out that all i get from the boat is Blue stars and horse shoes. I thought we still got money and the blue stars and horse shoes.. So to avoid throwing away expensive stuff to the captain - i will stop giving the boat stuff... the blue stars is ok - but really not worth the money spent on the island to get horse shoes and shells to buy strange seeds.
Then we come to the island. I think it was funny but a real waste of dollars. But - i am in level "somewhere over 100" so i really don't have any use of the money anymore... so the island was like a funny thing.. way to expensive though.
To upgrade the farm vehicles seems also like a waste of time... just making us do some missions to make us upgrade the machines... -well yes, some advantages... like a few more workers, a few more happiness
Wait.. if i stop doing the horse, the island and fill the boat... all left is to do is the 3 farms... and the projects and research....
maybe i should stop playing this game and find a new one,... and maybe get a life in reality...
Sort of faulty logic. That's like saying if a parent with all their years of life experience, and time spent on computers (of their era) is confused about a new update, their kid doesn't have a chance.
A person just starting this game, with no pre-conceived notion (like those who have been playing awhile have) will learn the game the same way we all did, just more inclusively and will possibly understand the ramifications of the new stuff better than the old timers because they are getting it earlier in their learning experience.
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Then after thirty days all the work, money and gold you invested in the island vanishes and you have to start all over again the next time it comes up. Must be some really nasty hurricanes around that island that you have to evacuate the area and completely rebuild.
As for the horse. If you don't increase the endurance, strength and agility to the next level you probably won't win the competition and it can take several rounds and thousands of horse shoes to increase to the next level. I'm almost out of horse shoes now and still do not have enough gold ones to upgrade any of the arenas.
Am I bored with it? You bet.
The last time the island came up I did NOT spend any gold and barely made it through part 1.
One last thing. I wish the architect was on call in farm management again. I have things I still need to upgrade on my main farm and I swear he hides down the road and waits until I have something else going one one of the other farms before he pulls in the driveway, then leaves before that project is done and I can get him started on a job.
Rant over. Have a good day.
Thanks, At least I'm not the only one displeased. The second time thru Island I was very frugal and spent no gold.
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Do a search on YouTube (10 hours of paint drying)(10 minutes of your Life: Watching grass grow and dew) Talk about viral! LOL
I submit not faulty at all. You have elements that lead upwards to parts unknown and a current element that makes very little sense as far as playability. If anything, people who are versed in this game are having difficulty in playable recognition. How is the target playership going to make sense of it? This isn't a "vcr keeps blinking 12:00, let little timmy fix it" issue. It plain old fashioned is a CHORE to navigate through all of it and the point is....... kids are lazy. They like easy. None of this is clear or easy. Therefore, the target is getting missed.
You have to win competitions with your horse to get the golden horseshoes. There is a little trailer and jeep on the side close to where the events are located. Click that to access competitions.
Golden horseshoes you get from winning competitions with your horse.
Does it say you can't win anymore? Or are you just losing a lot?
I agree that there's an entertaining factor in that you don't have to use dollars to upgrade it.
KinBoshi,
I like the speculations here about future upgrades. I'm kinda hopin the same will pan out. I think winning tokens would be a great bonus, as competing is a chance at fortune (although, more likely to lose than win!).
kate258,
Betting gold does sound like a more entertaining aspect, too. But like RunsWivScissors said, I bet I would lose mostly. I've already maxed out on upgrades and training. I think definitely this part of the game would benefit from some kind of animation, even if the horse race were repetitive (like the rest of the stables are), it would be more fun than reading a text.
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I find it highly surprising, that you don't have to use any kind of currency for entering competitions! That's very different in real life. Well, now I hope they don't read this thread...
In the Forum for the Discussion for the Official announcements Oct 23 Update about the Horse Ranch, In post # 316 Latten says: There will be animation eventually, just not with this update yet
OMG... LOL... they really do have a ten hour video of paint drying! No, I'm not going to watch it. If I want to watch paint dry I'll paint my living room and watch that dry.
I tend to look at the whole thing as a learning experience and learning can be fun (yes, kids, I said it lol
My real question, though... will I ever be able to collect horse poo?? I never have enough poo...
I ignore everything but tasks and my farm. Can't wait to be lvl 25 seems to be the only thing worth while besides the main.
(Yes I realize I'm a noob but don't worry I won't be here long
I won more challenges with an untrained horse, and obviously I should not have trained at all. The only good thing is the challenges don't cost anything.
Hope GGS plans to fix this with next update
Ranch is becoming, more on boring side - the horse doesn't do much. My training is at max, can NOT really send him to compete anymore, since my experience levels are not growing. Without winning the races, I'm not collecting the golden horseshoes needed to upgrading training grounds.
The only good thing is - I'm slowly rebuilding my horseshoes collection. It cost me close to 200k of horseshoes to train one horse, I gather in order to take care of the rest "baby horses" coming, the Island event will become more mandatory. We will need a ton of seeds, to grow the fruit to get another 200k for future horses.
I think the GGS team has to make the horses - do a little bit more, than just sit there.
For now - the Airport, the Island, Greenhouse & Ship, all fizzle at the end effect of the Ranch - with a pony, just sitting there idle
I agree, boring, but, what can GGS do, this is mainly a game that is internet based and very little of the programming installed on your computer. For that reason not a lot of action type displays can be shown, now, if GGS installed the program on your computer say like Need for speed or something like that, the possibility would exist for them to have a great featuire like the horse farm, but for now we are stuck with limited graphics and a dull ranch. Now, it is possible to make some small animations, but i think just small animations like the windmill and the ship pulling in and out are about the limit
Save your game gold until you get 2,000, then double it in the mine with your gold, gold mining license. Buy a water tower for each farm. With Level 1 Water Towers, I now have LOTS of poo! Lots of fertilizer, humus, and feed too. :-)
I think because we don`t have the full game yet, we have to do everything with 1 horse, which is not how the system is designed. Each event requires training in 2 skills, a main one & a secondary one, so I guess normally we would train a different horse for each event.
As it is, if you train your horse evenly accross all 3 skills it ends up being unable to win at any event. I changed to training for just one event & while I still lost every time at the other 2, I did get wins in the event that "Also Ran" was good at.
Now that all skills are nearing level 10 & getting close to even again, I am back to losing more, I did consider not training them all to level 10 until we get the rest of the update, but decided to just go for it & accept the losses & will work out a stategy with the next horse. ^^