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Suggestion: Viking/Tropical Start Needs to be announced or have a countdown.

gavinfarms (US1)gavinfarms (US1) US1 Posts: 2,273
It seems extremely frustrating that the islands have no announced start. They are far more consequential to many farmers than the challenge. They consume building slots and cost enormous resources. Plus, they are a race, requiring a fairly immediate start to complete. 24 to 48 hours notice seems like a very reasonable request. A forum post would be perfectly satisfactory, if a countdown timer is too complicated.
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  • BriannospamGame (SKN1)BriannospamGame (SKN1) Posts: 1,803
    edited 19.05.2015
    I'm agree!!!

    At the moment, I have lot of things I want to upgrade. Mostly I want to upgrade my riding arenas from level 7 to level 8, but since that takes more than 29 hours per arena, I don't start these upgrades, because I'm afraid the next tempoary farm will start few minutes after I have startet upgrading one of the arenas.

    I also have many other buildings I would like to upgrade. But again, I'm afraid to start the upgrade process because, as you mention, it's necesarry to be ready to start playing the tempoary farms immediately when they start up, to have a chance to complete all 3 books.
  • Pingo42Pingo42 Posts: 537
    edited 19.05.2015
    I agree. It would be much easier to plan if we knew when the temporary farms would be arriving. Great suggestion!
  • 1sttimer1sttimer Posts: 34
    edited 19.05.2015
    Yes, some idea of starting time would be extremely helpful. this is a major undertaking for me - I've been planning & saving cash for weeks & I don't want to mess up the start by building something.

    also would be nice not to have to check every hour or so to see if it's begun
  • JanePlayer06 (US1)JanePlayer06 (US1) US1 Posts: 108
    edited 19.05.2015
    1sttimer wrote: »
    Yes, some idea of starting time would be extremely helpful. this is a major undertaking for me - I've been planning & saving cash for weeks & I don't want to mess up the start by building something.

    also would be nice not to have to check every hour or so to see if it's begun

    I agree with all the posts made so far. Please give us a little notice as to when the island would start. You do it for the challenge, why not the island. I want to be able to plan my upgrades and saving of cash. A lot more upgrades could actually be done if we could know when the island starts.
  • Wendytsj626Girl (US1)Wendytsj626Girl (US1) US1 Posts: 190
    edited 19.05.2015
    Yes! Add my vote to provide advance notice for island events. Just like is currently being done for horse tournaments, this would allow farmers to better prepare. wendy
  • Maryann57 (US1)Maryann57 (US1) Posts: 90
    edited 19.05.2015
    Yes I agree, That would be awesome to know better when the Island or Viking Farm will start. A timer or a notice in the forum both great ideas. And Like Jane said, better planning for us to finish some upgrades on our other farms. Please GGS take notice to this thread.
  • Dollybella (US1)Dollybella (US1) US1 Posts: 18
    edited 19.05.2015
    I strongly agree with the idea. Sometimes the island starts as soon as challenge is over sometimes it does 't. Would be good for all of us to know!!
  • Data King (US1)Data King (US1) US1 Posts: 7,994
    edited 19.05.2015
    Yes here here. a notice would be a great feature!! :thumbsup:
  • george3 (AU1)george3 (AU1) AU1 Posts: 411
    edited 19.05.2015
    There's a 3 day timer has started on the Horse farm notice board, there's usually an Island not long after the horse's start, It'd go to know when, all my upgrading takes forever.
    Then again there's an upgrade coming to the airport, new building or something:S
  • BriannospamGame (SKN1)BriannospamGame (SKN1) Posts: 1,803
    edited 19.05.2015
    I agree with all the posts made so far. Please give us a little notice as to when the island would start. You do it for the challenge, why not the island. I want to be able to plan my upgrades and saving of cash. A lot more upgrades could actually be done if we could know when the island starts.

    Uuupsss....
    I'm afraid you just say the magic words, that in GGS's eyes would be a very good reason to not to announce when the tempoary farms start.
    I'm sure that's the same reason why they don't announce when Steve the architect will visit us.

    GGS want us to have some longtime upgrading running when Steve suddenly shows up, so we have to choose: skip the building-time for gold, or miss Steve's help.
    By the same way, I think they hope we will use the skip building time for gold, when an tempoary farm starts up when we have are longtime upgrading running.
  • SaraLou (US1)SaraLou (US1) Posts: 3
    edited 19.05.2015
    I agree! Please give us a countdown to help us see when the event will end.
  • farmerjohn 22 (US1)farmerjohn 22 (US1) US1 Posts: 37,770
    edited 19.05.2015
    I agree with Briannospam on this one. As nice as it would be to have advance notice when the temporary
    farm is ready to begin, it's in the company's best interest revenue wise if you're caught flat footed and cash poor so you would need to spend gold.
  • Lilypaddle (INT1)Lilypaddle (INT1) Posts: 614
    edited 19.05.2015
    Yes it would definitely be nice to see something like this. Just some kind of heads ups would be nice.
  • Chateau Busby (US1)Chateau Busby (US1) Posts: 112
    edited 20.05.2015
    I got on the forum tonight for this very reason, hoping to see something announcing when the next one would start. A notice would & should be given! I know all too well, the tricks ggs has up their sleeves, to give us a little push here & there to buy gold. Okay then, I buy gold, now give me a notice when the next 30 day farm starts please!!!8)
  • Rusty Farmer (AU1)Rusty Farmer (AU1) AU1 Posts: 1,705
    edited 21.05.2015
    Would be nice.
  • MoonlimeMoonlime Posts: 116
    edited 30.05.2015
    yes, I agree! Many upgrades take 25 hours plus so a 48 hour warning is best.
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 31.05.2015
    There is this post by Nafaru on another thread that gives a bit of info ......

    Hey everyone,

    since there won't be an Island or Viking farm or any equivalent until after the next update, we decided to run another cooperative challenge instead.

    This is to keep the waiting time shorter and not leave you without any challenging events and also due to the fact that the upcoming candy farm will push the next cooperative challenge back a little further.

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