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Suggestion: More Than One Building Slot

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  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 10.10.2014
    futrirafi2 wrote: »
    you are a newbie, right? at first time i played the game, i was thinking the same, it is so boring to wait the building finished, but now , i'm not agree with you, if you want your conatruction finished quickly, JUST US THE GOLD SKIP OPTION, well i'm tired to see the whole forum fully loaded with a same thread, yeah "NEW CONSTRUCTION SLOT" , you only needed it once when you were a low level with a little effort and so much things to build, but when you are at a higher with much less things to build but with a very EXPENSIVE price, so all i can said now, just be patient, this is a TIME MANAGEMENT GAME, you must be smart to make your all farm grown up, well thats all what i can said, thx

    Regards,

    Rafi

    I agree... I also thought it was needed at first, but have changed my mind as things progress. You need to the longer times to save enough cash for when it feels like everything costs $20 million lol :S

    When you are new and have tasks piling up and lots of different things to build & then you get a 2nd and 3rd farm and you feel like you will never get it all done, just relaxxxxxxxxxx.... Its not a race, the tasks are not going anywhere, eventually when you run out of things to do you will wish you had all those different things to choose from back again. Enjoy the journey ^^
  • Joe576Joe576 Posts: 3
    edited 10.10.2014
    Building on one farm is ok. But when you build on two farm's < why do you have to wait for one building to get finished b4 you start on the other farm??(
  • jatoda (US1)jatoda (US1) Posts: 318
    edited 10.10.2014
    Just the way it is.
  • DAC99 (NL1)DAC99 (NL1) Posts: 56
    edited 10.10.2014
    to make sure people can play for a long time without getting bored because they cannot improve their farms
  • farmerjohn 22 (US1)farmerjohn 22 (US1) US1 Posts: 37,770
    edited 10.10.2014
    Joe576 wrote: »
    Building on one farm is ok. But when you build on two farm's < why do you have to wait for one building to get finished b4 you start on the other farm??(

    This is a farming strategy game. You have to make strategic decisions. Allowing only one build at a time is part of the strategy you have to learn in order to manage your time most effectively.
  • Eleri (US1)Eleri (US1) Posts: 5
    edited 10.10.2014
    Since the island farm is considered an "event", it stands to reason that the building/updating on that farm should be separate from your main farms. As it is now, you are locked out of building/updating on your other farms since you need to do it on your island farm considering the limited time given. It seems unreasonable and illogical to make farmers wait 30 days to update their regular farms.

    So the obvious answer would be to "wait" on your island farm while upgrading regular farms. However, because the developers have tied so much to island farm production (boat, greenhouse, horse farm), ignoring your island farm could lock you out of half the game at this point.

    The only reason for not offering separate building for the island farm that i can see is to slow us down on our regular farms. Otherwise I would strongly suggest that island farm building be separated. If you agree, please add your voice below and let the developers know. Thanks.
  • kbahr007 (US1)kbahr007 (US1) US1 Posts: 1,841
    edited 10.10.2014
    They call this an event but treat it like a fourth farm. Do not think it will ever change
  • Pink Clover (US1)Pink Clover (US1) Posts: 33
    edited 10.10.2014
    I see what you are saying, and if I look at it simply I would agree. IMHO the island was intended to help keep higher level players busy. It's expensive, time consuming, and uses up resources/time from the main farms. The devs may have "tied" the island into the farms, but not playing the island does not affect the main farms. By opening it to ALL players they have given us a CHOICE on how we want to play. Many chose to include the island as part of their farm life. I chose not to even visit it so that it doesn't affect my farm life until I'm sure I'm ready for it (I'm not! lol).

    IMHO it's not really an event (no matter what they call it). It's another farm with unstable access. More like ... you can work on the island so long as the weather is good, but when the hurricanes & tsunamis come in (after 30 days) you can't get to the island, too dangerous to travel. :D
  • Pink Clover (US1)Pink Clover (US1) Posts: 33
    edited 10.10.2014
    This is a farming strategy game. You have to make strategic decisions. Allowing only one build at a time is part of the strategy you have to learn in order to manage your time most effectively.
    VERY good explanation. I'm going to bookmark your post, thank you.
  • kbahr007 (US1)kbahr007 (US1) US1 Posts: 1,841
    edited 11.10.2014
    I treat the island farm as a source for seashells and way to get greenhouse seeds, hoping to get enough to last til next time and am going to keep doing it that way
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 12.10.2014
    It would be nice to have a 2nd building slot for Gold buildings/upgrades. :thumbsup:
  • darjan1997darjan1997 Posts: 1
    edited 22.11.2014
    I hate waiting to upgrade one thing an then upgrade another.. Change it !!
    It would be cool if i could upgrade more things in the same time !! 8)
  • farmerjohn 22 (US1)farmerjohn 22 (US1) US1 Posts: 37,770
    edited 22.11.2014
    Sorry, not gonna happen. Time management is part of the game, my friend. ^^
  • DeAnna777 (US1)DeAnna777 (US1) Posts: 148
    edited 23.11.2014
    I do think that a gold upgrade slot for things like gold buildings and gold decos only would be a nice perk for gold buyers. Gold buyers are already soo undervalued and unappreciated for their contributions as it is sadly. This would be a plus for GGS because it would encourage others to buy more things like gold houses and barns..as well as decorations. I don't see how that would have any negative impact on the game, but having a second slot for regular upgrades i have to agree with others because that would cover way more stuff that would be upgraded too fast and become financially impossible once you get to a higher level anyway.
  • Pameow (AU1)Pameow (AU1) AU1 Posts: 266
    edited 24.11.2014
    There is plenty of strategy involved to manage *multiple* building slots. It is very interesting that players who have to save up farm-cash to be able to build using just one slot are enforcing their personal limitations onto those who do have the cash.

    The design of one building slot predates the growing amount of additional farms and has become obsolete. The company would do well to listen to the feedback of lower level players because perhaps if they did it would lead to better retention of players.
  • Jiesta (NL1)Jiesta (NL1) Posts: 6,557
    edited 24.11.2014
    Sorry, not gonna happen. Time management is part of the game, my friend. ^^

    I agree. The one building slot - time management - is part of the game. It is one of the challenges/difficulties as a game befits and it should not be changed. If things would be made a lot easier the game would not be a game anymore :S
  • BriannospamGame (SKN1)BriannospamGame (SKN1) Posts: 1,803
    edited 26.11.2014
    If I remember correct, the greenhouse have it's own building slot?
    - It's very long time ago I have build up my greenhouse to the maximum for dollars upgrade, and I don't want to spent gold for more upgrade.

    In my opinion, the horse ranch also should have its own build slot because the horse ranch has all its own economy in terms of construction.

    On the other farms, it costs dollars or gold to build and upgrade.
    In the horse ranch does it cost gold horseshoe to upgrade, and these gold horseshoe can not be bought either for gold or dollars.

    As long as I still have plenty of use for mine construction workers at the mine production farms, I will not waste any more construction time than I have already done on the horse ranch!
    Horse ranch do not produce anything that can be used on other farms or anything that can be sold.
  • Gwendolen (US1)Gwendolen (US1) Posts: 1,268
    edited 27.11.2014
    If I remember correct, the greenhouse have it's own building slot?
    - It's very long time ago I have build up my greenhouse to the maximum for dollars upgrade, and I don't want to spent gold for more upgrade.

    Nope, also takes up the one building slot.
  • Margit kattMargit katt Posts: 153
    edited 28.11.2014
    I can see a point with more than one slot. It's one thing for the main farms that I can only upgrade one thing at the time as they all cost dollars and/or gold. But the horse training areas should be possible to upgrade beside as they cost golden horse shoes - gotten from winning the competitions. (The greenhouse is also sort of beside the main farms even if it takes $ to upgrade them.)
    My suggestion is an extra upgrade slot that functions for the areas outside the farms, at least for the horse arenas.
    Otherwise I'm fine with upgrading things one by one as I can see that the higher levels also takes way more dollars. Especially now as ALL my resources goes to the Island event. Can't do a thing almost at the farms for the moment.

    I found that I can do things in the garage beside the building slot.
  • miss maymiss may Posts: 7
    edited 03.12.2014
    I would also like to have the option to upgrade more than one thing at a time. If you don't want to, that should be a personal choice, not a forced choice.


    I would love to update more than one thing at a time. Sometimes I forget something needs upgraded and start something else instead, then have to wait 20 hours before I can build a house for more workers so that I can use the building I upgraded thru the night. Money lost.
  • Margit kattMargit katt Posts: 153
    edited 03.12.2014
    miss may wrote: »
    I would love to update more than one thing at a time. Sometimes I forget something needs upgraded and start something else instead, then have to wait 20 hours before I can build a house for more workers so that I can use the building I upgraded thru the night. Money lost.

    Ohhh.. That's very familiar to me too.
  • RogueHobbiesRogueHobbies Posts: 1
    edited 17.12.2014
    It would be more productive if we could build more than one thing at a time. Only 1 building slot makes it extremely hard to do anything other than sit around or go to a different game altogether and not play this game as much. I like this game as do many others, and adding a feature to where we could obtain more building slots would increase game play along with purchases.

    Suggestions on how to introduce building slots:
    1. Allow players to buy new building slots {these would be permanent building slots} for gold, or a lot of cash. Limit total building slots to 3 for the whole game. An example would be: 300 gold or 1 million cash for the first extra building slot, and 500 gold or 3 million cash for the second building slot.
    2. Allow players to automatically have 1 building slot per farm {main farm has 1 building slot, gourmet farm has 1 separate building slot, and so on}
  • edited 19.12.2014
    An extra building slot or 2 would be nice especially when doing the limited edition farms or when the architect is around. Could have the extra slot(s) unlock at certain levels eg: lv30 and lv70 or even pay with cash or gold after a certain level (like farm expansions).
  • edited 19.12.2014
    It will be useless if you are on a high level with nothing to upgrade
    GGS has respond this and the answer is a big NO

    Edit by PINJO: removed the link to this thread as the threads were merged
  • BriannospamGame (SKN1)BriannospamGame (SKN1) Posts: 1,803
    edited 19.12.2014
    futrirafi2 wrote: »
    It will be useless if you are on a high level with nothing to upgrade

    That's wrong (since we have get the horse ranch and the Island and the viking farm !!!
    futrirafi2 wrote: »
    GGS has respond this and the answer is a big NO

    Correct..but:
    Maybe GGS should seriously thinking about the following:
    Since we have get the last 3 new things (horses, Island and vikings) things not longer hanging together!

    If I have understood things correct, it's GGS's intension, that we upgrade the horse ranch and breeding horses (am I right?)

    To upgrade the horse ranch buildings we need golden horse shoes. we get them form winning in competions..
    To win in the competitions, we need to train the horse a lot, which cost a lot of regular horseshoes.
    To get these regular horseshoes, we need to deal with the ship...especially lots of tropical fruits and now vinter fruit from the greenhouse.
    (am I still correct?) - if yes, ok so far so god, and fair enough.

    But now it is the chain starts to break and fall off:
    To earns lots of shells and now runestones to buy greenhouse seeds, we need to play a lot on the island and now the viking farm, and have our building workers working nonstop on build and upgrade buildings on the island and the viking farm.
    - and it definitely does not help that there were only 2-3 days between island farm and Viking farm!

    Now I want to ask GGS: How the (censured by myself!) do you think our building workers should have time to work on the horse ranch, when they are nonstop working on the island and the viking farm?
    - Furthermore: The upgrading prices is in competition horseshoes, so the build working on the horse ranch have absolutly nothing to do with farmdollars! - Because of that, I don't see any good reason to that the horseranch should use the same building slot as the production farms.

    Dear GGS, if you really have that intention, we should work with that horseranch and build it up, please let the horse ranch have it's own building slot.
  • DLMPlayer (US1)DLMPlayer (US1) Posts: 11
    edited 08.01.2015
    we just need building slot on the island farms since you only have 30 days and u have to neglect your main farm o do the island .then it gone at the endl the time wasted
  • cathy-29cathy-29 Posts: 1
    edited 10.01.2015
    Many of the upgrades take a long time and I feel it is holding back players who are very active. I would like to be able to upgrade more than one item at a time on the farm. I am rather new and so far I am happy with most of the time constraints but this one I feel really holds me back. ?(?(
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 10.01.2015
    cathy-29 wrote: »
    Many of the upgrades take a long time and I feel it is holding back players who are very active. I would like to be able to upgrade more than one item at a time on the farm. I am rather new and so far I am happy with most of the time constraints but this one I feel really holds me back. ?(?(

    Welcome to BF ^^..... Most people think the same thing when they are just starting out, a combination of being eager to get ahead & the fact that things are so cheap at first. You will find that changes after a while, partly because upgrades get so expensive that you need the time it takes them to run in order to save up enough cash to do the next one. Relax, take the time to plan your farm & your strategy. BF rules #1, #2 & #3 are... Patience, patience, patience!.... Unless you want to spend a lot of gold speeding things up.
  • Michele1977Michele1977 Posts: 4
    edited 15.01.2015
    I would personally love to see and extra building slot or two. Even if you only made them available for a one time gold purchase (not every time you wanted to use it).

    Also I would love the ability to move decorations from one farm to the other. That way when I put something into my storage from my main farm if I need it say on the Gourmet farm I can place it there.
  • rhon (GB1)rhon (GB1) GB1 Posts: 1,542
    edited 15.01.2015
    This has been asked for many, many times and the answer has been consistently a No, and I can't see that changing

    Big Farm is as much a strategy and time management game as it is a farming game. And the game's developers have worked a balance out for this. So to allow 2 (or more) building slots, even on different farms, would mean rebalancing and extending building times to even longer than they now, just to get to a similar position, a similar balance, to what we have now.

    Even if there was a change of heart and two buildings slots were introduced upgrades and additional plots get very costly indeed. I think you would very soon run out of Dollars.

    But "Even if you only made them available for a one time gold purchase (not every time you wanted to use it)." you could achieve he same result by skipping one of the builds with gold
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