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I've had a vague memory of the Halloween event being my least favorite from the year, and now I remember why. It's messy and confusing, although now that I have 10 others to compare to, it's maybe not quite as bad as I remember. (Still not a favorite, though.)
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@Sakgeres How? I have had accidental purchase too and I told to developers to return me wasted rubies, but, developers didn't return wasted rubies to me, unlike to you.
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Freesia's come from buying Orange Flowers. The ones on the first page of Decor items. It doesn't drop every time to expect to buy and sell the flowers a lot to get the drops you need.
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hello everyone. it seems discord have stopped working for me. I just found out it is having issues in turkey and russia. I am still around but cannot come and chat on discord. please remember me in your visits and gifting. it has been a bit harder without being able to convey what help I need. hopefully I will be able to access discord soon. it has been 2-3 days since discord is gone. thnx for the all the help that came my way.
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@aaaaaaa00000 I don't agree. Gasoline spares 2 energy net every time no luck involved. Autumn dragon is 0 on net no luck involved (costs 1 to dig plot and gain 1 when harvested) and has a chance to gain 1 (chance to get apple multiplied by chance to get energy when eating apple) plus a rare chance to get 11 (squirrel). Also the gasoline saves clicks while autumn dragon adds clicks so personally much prefer gasoline
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Another bizarre case:
I was building a shark trophy to complete a task of spending paint. After 3 builds I was debating if to complete it or just sell as is. Selling uncompleted would give 20 shells. I thought that after completing it'll probably be worth more and I have enough sharks and nails spare. I did and found out that the completed trophy sells for only 10 shells. So bizarre!
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I accidentally bought the most expensive coffee for 9 Rubies by clicking on the menu while it's still flying into view! Menu should be unclickable when they have not yet moved into position! And my energy was only 2 away from being full so I wasted 9 Rubies for 2 energy!
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@wobbit, above a certain number of visitors, new visitors will not see all of the help, and may think they do actual help.
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To be fair -- 1) It's often difficult to see the yellow highlighting, 2) Sometimes quests require a certain number of a particular animal, 3) People just make mistakes.
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Hey folks, when visiting a friend ANYTHING HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW HAS ALREADY BEEN HELPED by another player! I'm astonished at how many of my high-level friends still don't seem to know this.
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Just discovered I need lava rock. I highly recommend you start mining it as soon as you can whenever you have extra energy to waste. so far I need 100. pretty sure I'll need more. should have played on that island a little more to save me days of grinding now.
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I don't think the devs realise that trying to force us to spend money on their game so obviously just means that even the ones who were already doing so will stop out of spite. Hopefully they revert the changes before they go bankrupt, I genuinely like this game and it might not be playable without them maintaining the servers.
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Edit to below post: They being the devs, not the players who shifted focus. We are allowed to chance our opinions about a game.
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The comments went from 'Is this game racist?' to 'Screw you for making us spend more you greedy devs!' I don't think they know this is actually a worse thing to complain about for a game.
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What the devs implemented is what is "hurting game progression." I think it's just one other tactic to strangle players for real money while making it take longer and longer to finish the game.
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I'm just curious what other possibilities there might be for the comment, "Some things in this game hurts its progression." Such a cryptic statement in many ways, but without any other explanation, many of us have naturally interpreted this as financially based.
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"Todays announcement is not fun . We have doubled the amount needed to craft Gingerbread."
We are still WAITING for the Special event for this server that will come soon from your NOVEMBER 2023 announcement. Oh, and in that same announcement you said you "are working to make your experience at Oceania better." Seems the understanding of making it better and soon are not what most of us players understand them as.
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At first I thought it amusing that the reward for the latest event was "cancer".... but now I'm beginning to wonder if it wasn't a mistranslation...
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“Todays announcement is not fun . We have doubled the amount needed to craft Gingerbread.” Well you are spot on. That is not fun. I don’t feel like I need to explain why, other comments have done that very well and I agree with all of them. However I do want to add something that will hopefully resonate with the devs… People tend to support free games financially because enjoy the game and respect the developers and this update is a huge step backward on both those fronts. I hope this is reverted quickly.
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to hell with the devs, a fun but grindy game that rewards grinding, so we literally cut the grinding benefit in half. just as well say screw you devs
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Devs make events that are very hard to complete with poor rewards. Then they follow it up by nerfing progression. I hope that the devs reverse these bad changes/policies soon.
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I'm afraid that the "average players" who regulary offer all sorts of farm stuff including crops will decrease under the new energy/spice conditions.
More will be discouraged in beginning ... and others might stop early when advance becomes even more energy intense. And ressource draining events every few weeks don't help the regular game progress either.
Somehow I doubt that this kind of game (depending on friend help and offers) can thrive based on "pay to play" gamers only.
But I'm a gaming noob. I'll probably proved wrong.
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HEY DEVS, now that you doubled the spices needed for ginger bread, why don't you increase the drop rate on harvesting by 80%? To me this might make your players less upset with the increase.... just a thought.
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Why double the cost of gingerbread? If you want to reduce the amount of free energy, halving the drop rate of spices seems like a much better solution: It makes performing other tasks on friends' islands relatively more attactive, increases the value of spice rewards from other sources and doesn't punish players by essentially removing half of their previously earned spices. I personally lost lost several hundred cookies because I typically only make new gingerbread once my supply of cookies runs out.
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@Sir_Gregor, the final quest is marked as "trigger", it means that the quest doesn't appear until you actually complete it. So you just need to feed the camel on desert island and you'll get the quest.
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In the Starfish Disaster event, there is supposed to be a final quest after finishing "Among the stars" but for some reason it does not show up for me. Is there another condition that has to be met?
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"Some things in this game hurts its progression and we know its tough to take away players toys, but sometimes you just need to. "
I don't understand this cryptic explanation. I can only guess that it is about spending more rubis for energy and more real money for rubis.
Why should I spend money (or just lifetime) for this game due to more energy limitation?
It just became more restrictive.
Less interesting.
More one-dimentional.
Less fun.
More discouraging.
And I see engaged and eager players leave. :sob: It promises to become a good weekend for game changing decisions.
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In answer to: todays announcement:
"Don’t hate us too much and have a good weekend."
I don't hateyou / the developers. I won't hate because of a game. I'm not even angry. I will not have a good weekend in Oceania. I'm just sad.
"Todays announcement is not fun. We have doubled the amount (of spice) needed to craft Gingerbread. "
I've learned today that the game - the devs - intentionally prefer unsocial playing mode.
- Feeders are punished because each feeding action (or other farm help) reduces the chance to gain spice.
- Harvesters are encouraged to hunt for spice even more.
- Only most efficient and egoistic players are rewarded and intentional double harvesting may be well accepted and considered a clever move soon.
Play the game the same way .... as destructive and "industrial" as possble. Individual approach and creative ideas are overrated and must be more limited.
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So instead of making simple improvements to reduce the server load/cost you just nerf the most important tool in the game in some vain attempt to squeeze money out of the players.
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You cut the amount of cookies i get get in half - i will do the same with my rating of this game. But don't hate me Devs, it's only to encourage progression. Have a nice weekend.