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If you are referring to my comment, Sir George, then no. The hard work I'm talking about is how to recruit and keep together a large group of successful farmers. There is no way to do that with just a credit card. Unless you are suggesting the leadership there is paying their farmers in gold?
-Y
Sorry to burst your balloon but Sir George is correct on every single word he has said and if one is not willing to do that, well so sorry, you won't make it to the top. How do you think we can maintain our position with now and sadly only 9 members? Do you think it's because of my exceptional qualities of leadership?
No my friend... it's a 4 letter word : VISA.
Have a great day nonetheless,
IO
Then maybe you all can prove your point!!!...LOL
Again.. You and He may be referring to Gold use in the Co-op challenge. I am not. My point is entirely about the hard work involved in creating, running, maintaining the top Co-op in a given server. I have made no point at all regarding gold use in missions or Co-op success, except to say, that my point has nothing to do with that aspect of the game. It doesn't mean I'm blind to gold use. It means that gold use has no bearing at all on my point.
-Y
I'm sorry but again I must question myself on your ability to read English. Sir George and I have not ONLY mentioned that gold was used during missions but also during normal operation to make the co-op climb up the ranks faster. Has nothing to do with Leadership or so very little. It's all "maintenance work" and that is pretty much it.
From what I can read between the lines of your post is some sort of self-glorification on your part for being the Leader of your co-op that has reached Rank#9. Again, sorry to burst your balloon but the success of a co-op is NOT due to its leader but rather by the dedication, implication and collective effort by all members. Also, it is due to the willingness of some players to dish out that VISA and buy gold and push. Please do not insult our intelligence by saying otherwise and NO, you cannot take that "aspect" of the game out of the equation because it supports your fallacious arguments. I'm sorry, but gold is a major part of the game and GGS made sure it would remain that way, whether you admit it or not.
'nough said!
IO
This is the reason why I was very much against the reputation buying hot deal. Groups like mine who won the apple orchard through team work and playing mission after mission after mission..........after mission.........have now had their achievements cheapened because coops are now buying wins.
I rarely agree with Yakoska but he/she does make good points in this thread. Not all high ranking coops sit there gold skipping everything to push into top rankings. It took my group almost 2 years to get to 4th with so much mental energy used to recruit the right people and develop a team that works well together. Leaders who have many members in their team will know that more often than not there will be conflicts between members, bullying, drama etc and that is HARD to manage.
Sure there are groups that just gold buy/skip everything so george also has a point but coops that worked their way up the ranks properly will take offence to that comment, including me.
Let me be absolutely clear. Not that I haven't been already, in my opinion.
My Co-op use to be 6th. I am in no way glorifying myself. I am merely praising those better at it than I am.
And there is a lot of hard work in building and maintaining a co-op that does not involve Gold. If you do not believe me, I invite you to try it.
-Y
Edit> And not that I read back, you aren't so much offering data to refute my arguments as trying to impeach the source (me in this case) of the counter argument. Which is a time honored, but not very civilized, mode of attack.
<EDIT> By the way, for a person inviting me to play NOT using gold, if I were you, I'd use a bit of caution. I visited your 3 farms and here's what I found:
Water Towers on all of them
Workshop on most
Gold upgraded stuff
Blue houses
At least 5 bridges and 5 cozy swings that can ONLY be obtained by spending gold during the gold spending offers.
Etc.... I could go on.... like your 2 Blue Barns for example....
I rest my case. Looks like your mouth says one thing, but your actions demonstrate the opposite... which is another demo of your fallacious preaching. You use gold like any other co-op which is fine by me. What I find insulting is that you're trying to make us believe that you don't, or at the very best, and that's me being lenient with you, say that one doesn't have to.
Based on the above facts, I prefer to end this discussion with you now before ...
Cheers Sophie!
IO
SUGESTION:
1. DIVIDE THE COOPS INTO DIFFERENT LEVELS
2. EITHER NOT ALLOW GOLD TO BE USED DURING THE CHALLENGE OR HAVE 2 CHALLENGES 1 TO USE GOLD AND 1 NOT TO USE GOLD
Until changes are made I will not do this challenge except to earn money and points for the quest on doing missions
I have used gold to put several things on my farm and to upgrade things on my farm, but I do not believe in using on missions to win every time. I myself get some gold at the first of the month IF I CAN AFFORD IT. If I cant I don't do this. There are a lot of ppl that cant afford the gold that deserve the same chance as everybody else playing certain parts of the game. All we are saying is level up the playing field some. So if you have a problem with ppl voicing their opinion maybe you don't need to be playing or reading the forum because everybody is entitled to his/her opinion. its called freedom of speech. So as my mom says GET OVER IT CAUSE YOU ARE OUT NUMBERED.
Edit by PINJO: merged posts, please use edit button
Last but not least, use Multi-quote feature and do not double post. Guess your mom forgot to tell you about that one too.
Have a great day nonetheless,
IO
As for facts straight: You took my statement: "And there is a lot of hard work in building and maintaining a co-op that does not involve Gold." As anti-gold sentiment.... somehow. Not at all, let me explain what this simple sentence means. It means there is a lot of hard work involved in building and maintaining a co-op.
The "that does not involve gold" was tacked on, in context, because of the post I was replying to, in which you state the top co-ops' successes: "is due to the willingness of some players to dish out that VISA and buy gold and push."
Clear now?
My point in this thread has been, and remains despite efforts to distract me: The idea that there needs to be some kind of system to 'normalize' the prize structure to allow small co-ops to compete with big co-ops is tantamount to dismissing the effort, and hard work those co-ops have put in to being #1. There is already a mechanism for competing with the top co-ops in place! Work hard, build a better co-op. Win.
-Y
It would be great if they changed/updated the prizes. It is harder and harder, each time, to motivate people toward the same tired set of prizes.
Leaving the awkward first part alone...
I agree with the sentiment of the second part... but I can't think of any part of Big Farm that has rotating prizes.. and yet people do them over and over. So I can't see that changing. On the other hand, you have the new Nature prizes... and ostensibly other even prizes. So while that's not a case of every changing prizes... they are updating... two years later. So maybe there is hope.
-Y
They updated the HW rewards after one run through. The HW rewards are better than the CC, which seems in reverse of how it ought to be. The CC rewards should be bigger. And, at least in my coop, the collectibles draw a big yawn. And the premium stuff should all be changed to super stuff. Prem cow feed should be super cow feed, etc..
There's the solution to all the bickering. Everyone will eventually have one with the current setup because there simply isnt enough room on our farms for a large number of orchards. I already have 5 coop cherries sitting in my storage gathering dust.
My comment obviously (?) got lost in the universal translation.
My point being, as we all know, Bigfarm has a gliche....or two.
Missions, I do win when competing against BLUE farmers.
This thread is becoming a cat fight.
Live, laugh, play, be happy.
The only thing you can do is the hardcore Freerider,kick out of the coop temporaly during the C-C and let that player come back after the C-C.
However there are players wich have a reallife in the real world and cannot play the same way as you play.
I agree it is ot fair,but it the way it is. My coop feeling tells me that we all have to do some missions.
After all every RP-Point countsfor the coop.And i never forget i had a small big farm also a long time ago
Goodluck and succes with the C-C
Those with working videos will have a Definite unfair advantage over those without and those whose videos do not work.
Edited to add: and being "unbalanced" is always GGS's excuse for not applying the suggestions we make, roflmbo
During 6 whole weeks now!! Even if they tried there couldn't possibly be brought back a fair balance back into the game again.
All I could do is explain my members about this unfairness and we decided not to play the CC anymore nor buy gold anymore.
Oh what fun it Used to Be to Play the Farming Game, sigh.
Now let us look at a few details, we "usually" get drop items from our building, sometimes this is at a rate of 5 - 1, just 20%. So using that same criteria do GGS do super unfair things at the same rate super unfair 80% fair 20% .
Let us all wait and see how many problems we get during this challenge... anyone taking bets on some downtime. ? william hill have it as odds on
Is there really any point in doing the challenge? I know that not everyone has won a cherry orchard, but you could say the same for not winning the apple orchard or the co-operative statue. And to be honest the rewards are not that great during the event either, even for lower level players.