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Post by donkeyfan on Dec 6, 2021 14:24:48 GMT
Dear farmer, soon after collecting my rewards from the previous derby I noticed the upcoming one. Bingo... My next step was to sign off. I have a very bad remembrance from the last Bingo I dealt with. Horrible, time consuming tasks and in the end not one permit. I'm done with that derby. But this shouldn't encourage you. How are you dealing with it? Do you participate? If yes, I wish you luck with tasks and good stamina.
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Post by Mom’sCar on Dec 6, 2021 15:24:27 GMT
donkeyfan, Our NH actually really likes the Bingo derby. We start off by trashing any task that is not needed for bingo. Once we start we only do the tasks for bingo, for the most part. Soon enough, the lines that are possible or the ones we would rather avoid become apparent. This would be to get all 3 lines. Yes, sometimes one of us needs to do goat milk, sheep wool, or bacon, but we save those until absolutely necessary. We may have as many as 5 participating this week. That would mean that some of the tasks may need to be done 2 times. For a solo player, or up to 3 players, you only need to do the bingo tasks 1 time. May I suggest, donkeyfan, that you and your sister-in-law (if she is also playing), decide to do only 1 or 2 bingo lines. At least the pressure will not be on quite as much and you get the extra columns of prizes.
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Post by donkeyfan on Dec 6, 2021 15:56:25 GMT
Dear Mom’sCar, I appreciate it really very much that you encourage us doing the Bingo with only 2 lines. This would be indeed much less pressure. But it's too late. I already opted out, and my sister-in-law as well. We just spoke together (some minutes ago via telephone)and she told me that she is also not in the mood for Bingo. To make matters worse she has much less time as myself because she has to work for a living. Her time for derby is therefore limited. But I appreciate every farmer who is dealing with it. And I would be pleased to learn how the derby is going and which rewards could be accomplished.
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Post by BauldersGate on Dec 6, 2021 16:08:56 GMT
I'm a solo player with a terrible memory
...so I take a screenshot of the bingo board
and draw a red circle round the three lines I intend to complete
1 Horizontal 1 Vertical & 1 Diagonal
To help remind myself what to trash and what to keep 😅
Then I'd usually spend a few days prepping for those specific tasks (as much as possible) before I take the 1st
Haven't got less then 3 lines yet, prefer bingo to mystery, at least with bingo you know what tasks are coming once the boards up
Even if sometimes those tasks still suck a little😆
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Post by donkeyfan on Dec 6, 2021 16:33:36 GMT
BauldersGate LOL! Nice description. Thank you for that. You've been referring to Mystery Derby. Whether you believe it or not this was the second thing I spoke with my sister-in-law after clearing to opt out of Bingo. With a little difference here...my sister-in-law has more time next week and was considering to take part if the next derby would be Mystery. I'm not very amused about this because as you I don't like it not to know what to expect. But the last word isn't spoken about that. Perhaps I change my mind, but actually I don't know. Let's see.
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Post by Mom’sCar on Dec 6, 2021 18:24:49 GMT
I'm a solo player with a terrible memory ...so I take a screenshot of the bingo board and draw a red circle round the three lines I intend to complete 1 Horizontal 1 Vertical & 1 Diagonal To help remind myself what to trash and what to keep 😅 Then I'd usually spend a few days prepping for those specific tasks (as much as possible) before I take the 1st Haven't got less then 3 lines yet, prefer bingo to mystery, at least with bingo you know what tasks are coming once the boards up Even if sometimes those tasks still suck a little😆 When the bingo derby was first introduced it was necessary to finish the lines at the same time by making a connection at a corner. Now that has been changed, players can finish 3 lines however you’d like. As you are a solo player with only 10 tasks to do (if you are champions league and get the extra task), choosing 1 horizontal, 1 vertical and 1 diagonal may be the easiest way to approach the bingo derby. Please realize that you would also be able to finish 2 vertical with 1 horizontal or 2 horizontal with 1 vertical. We have finished several of the last bingo derbies by doing just that. It may even give you a better chance at avoiding undesired tasks. Larger NHs may be able to achieve 3 lines with no intersection,
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Post by Frog on Dec 6, 2021 18:40:42 GMT
And while you consider doing Bingo derby, keep in mind one more or one less opt-in could make a difference on bingo board. justhayday.boards.net/thread/177/legacy-bingo-derby-number-leagueIn my small hood, people opt in (max3) to make it easier to achieve bingo lines. And there's that issue with achievement that requires you to be online....
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Post by Mom’sCar on Dec 7, 2021 14:34:43 GMT
Ughhh, it’s going to be a long week.
We have a new hood mate. Only level 17, that got opted in by error. I opted her out last night, she did nothing, and this morning - BAM! - she’s in. And wool & goat milk on the board.
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Post by ducktown2021 on Dec 7, 2021 15:22:47 GMT
I also have a terrible board. The number 1 is already finished. 200+ farm and it had max points within minutes when I started. Playing solo in CL. Was not my intention to do the bingo lines, but might give it a try. I do have some fast tasks at hand in case top12 will be hard to reach and skip the bingo lines. The prices are always the same, maybe some new deco will pop-up, hopefully not the Olympic ones, already have those. Attachments:
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Post by BauldersGate on Dec 7, 2021 17:38:39 GMT
My bingo boards not great but could be worse😅 Already have the help, mine and town task on board waiting Will keep shuffling for the others Already stacking honey teas, carrot cakes and raspberry muffins Also growing a few more mushrooms and cucumbers now so can fill full amount of fields when need to My only problem will be if the tasks I want don't turn up 😅
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Post by greenleaf on Dec 8, 2021 17:16:43 GMT
We have a horrible bingo card. Over half of the tasks have not popped up once yet. It's the same ones over and over. I'm on my 2nd pepper task. 2 others have taken also, so we'll be done with that. Wool has popped up at least 7 times and we have finished it already. Lol. We decided this morning to forget bingo and just derby. Our 6 completed tasks do not connect. Meh.....
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Post by donkeyfan on Dec 8, 2021 17:28:21 GMT
Dear farmer,
I'm sorry to read that you have such trouble with the Bingo board. I don't meant to be very smart by skipping this derby but I knew due to my last experience how annoying it could be. Not only "could" but the probability that this would definetely happen was huge.
Finally my sister-in-law and myself are glad not being part in it. I hope for all of you that you can deal with it in the best way and that you get at least proper rewards.
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Post by Eturtle on Dec 8, 2021 22:31:39 GMT
our hood usually plays the bingo derby and reaches all three lines even though it always looks bleak in the first few days. This week I was happy with the tasks on the board, such as soy and indigo but funny, those tasks are not popping up. We pry have to wait until Saturday or Sunday for them to be available. Of course our competition, two hoods with 200+ gold cups make our horsey look like an old mare hobbling along in their dust :/
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Post by Mom’sCar on Dec 9, 2021 12:14:07 GMT
Our NH had many challenges thrown at us this week. First we had more times to complete each task because of a player being opted in that should not have been. Luckily we were able to get our lineup changed to only 5 players, as we had not yet chosen a task when that error was discovered. We only did Bingo tasks until the very end. We start playing and one of our regulars had a family emergency that could have taken her out of the derby. Luckily, all was resolved. She’s our good luck - goat milk lady. Our NH hovered at 3rd place, until last night. I’m guessing the NH’s that were in 1st & 2nd wanted to sleep. Luck was on our side and the 2 tasks that would finish our last 2 lines for us appeared and we were ready. I cannot believe that we finished in first place with all 3 bingo lines.
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Post by ducktown2021 on Dec 9, 2021 16:45:47 GMT
I finished 2nd with one line, the competition went real fast in the end, so I skipped the other two lines. Luckily the one bingo line gave me a permit, so no need to reshuffle this week.
lately I do get deco for 2nd place, the usual ones that need blueprints etc.
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Post by BauldersGate on Dec 10, 2021 7:40:24 GMT
I'm still going 😆
The tasks I need are just not coming up.
Its all boat, truck, fishing
And I need a few crops and production ones 😭😭
Oh well I'm willing to wait....never been afraid of being bumped down 😅
And I do like extra rewards 😁
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Post by greenleaf on Dec 10, 2021 13:43:55 GMT
I'm still going 😆 The tasks I need are just not coming up. Its all boat, truck, fishing And I need a few crops and production ones 😭😭 Oh well I'm willing to wait....never been afraid of being bumped down 😅 And I do like extra rewards 😁 That is us! We have not had several tasks pop up that we need to fill a line. We need wool 3 more times as it was one of the 5 completion tasks. Most are 4 thankfully. It is a corner task and those corners are not coming up. The majority of tasks this time are not on the card. So, it's a bit frustrating.
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Post by BauldersGate on Dec 10, 2021 14:39:35 GMT
I'm still going 😆 The tasks I need are just not coming up. Its all boat, truck, fishing And I need a few crops and production ones 😭😭 Oh well I'm willing to wait....never been afraid of being bumped down 😅 And I do like extra rewards 😁 That is us! We have not had several tasks pop up that we need to fill a line. We need wool 3 more times as it was one of the 5 completion tasks. Most are 4 thankfully. It is a corner task and those corners are not coming up. The majority of tasks this time are not on the card. So, it's a bit frustrating. That it is 😅 Theres only been one bingo derby before where it was this bad In that one I took the needed task at the very last minute but it was at a much lower point value because a 320 version never showed Completed the line so extra rewards but obviously came last in the race!
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Post by Mom’sCar on Dec 10, 2021 18:05:33 GMT
Our NH has started to believe one thing. This has happened over the last 3 Bingo Derbys. I’m a believer that most of the bingo boards will have the dreaded long task, i.e. goat milk, wool, or bacon. Once someone in the hood takes one of those task, usually goat milk, it seems like a switch gets flipped. All of a sudden tasks that were not coming up start to appear. The sad thing is, by the time that task is finished, it really isn’t needed to get the lines to get 3 bingo lines.
My thought is just get someone in the hood to take it. Just do it. Reward them somehow, if you can. See if it works. 😊
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Post by ducktown2021 on Dec 10, 2021 18:23:51 GMT
Mom’sCar, you could do that, but when you play solo that really isn’t an option. At least not for me. I either avoid those tasks or don’t go for max lines.
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Post by Mom’sCar on Dec 10, 2021 18:49:52 GMT
So true ducktown. That would be a sure demotion for a solo player.
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Post by greenleaf on Dec 10, 2021 20:11:58 GMT
I took a wool task first thing. It was a corner task so important. We still do not have one line done completed. Bingo tasks have not come up very much. Truck was a bingo. Finished and it keeps coming up as a regular task along with the train task, which was also a bingo task. All sorts of things. 5 bingo tasks have not appeared 1 time. 1 has appeared 1 time. It is very frustrating. Most people just took regular tasks and are done to try and stay in top 3 at the least. So we probably won't complete any lines this derby. It's hard to do it when you don't get tasks.
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Post by donkeyfan on Dec 10, 2021 22:12:31 GMT
Dear farmer,
when I read this I'm all the more glad to have avoided Bingo. Due to your description your Bingo boards were very frustrating in order to wait and to wait for a task which will not appear.
I don't understand that behaviour, what's the point? Not long ago it was one of my favorite derbys and I enjoyed it to get all Bingo rows ready in a short time with my sister-in-law. But this changed drastically. For what purpose?
I could understand if SC would have tighten the tasks a little bit, maybe it was in the past sometimes too easy. But I think they exaggerated the whole thing in the wrong direction. In my opinion they would be well advised to balance it in a way that nh or solo players can deal with it in a non-frustrating way.
Just my 2 cents...
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Post by blackbrit on Dec 11, 2021 1:48:20 GMT
We have waited all week for pineapple, the salesman, and the lady with the blue hat. We got the pineapple today. We are still waiting on the others. We have done two lines, and always aim for three. One of my delightful hoodies is tearing out her hair. I think she wanted to be done before the weekend. We just need to reassure her she can take something she wants to do, and the rest of us will finish this weekend — which is when the I’m betting SC might let them into the game.
But really? Do they think this is fun? Each of us has trashed close to 100 tasks, though I don’t think it makes a difference. I don’t think SC will release key tasks until they’ve kept us in the derby through the weekend. My evil conspiracy thought is that is also why they are so fond of bunny derbies— it keeps us in all week. Thoughts from a frustrated hood here, though tryng to just let it go.
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Post by BauldersGate on Dec 11, 2021 11:04:06 GMT
I'm now taking lower point tasks in order to complete lines.
Still nervously awaiting a honey tea task to appear, its the linchpin in 2 lines I've already started 😅😬
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Post by donkeyfan on Dec 11, 2021 11:44:11 GMT
A second thing is that I dislike being stuck in Bingo. And that's not rare, it happens almost every time. Be it because you have to wait for a task which will not appear, to prepare some machines for requested products or to plant crops for according tasks.
This requires generally so much time that it becomes annoying very quick. In my opinion it can't be that a derby is lasting a complete week. I admit, some challenge can be refreshing (maybe), but the actual derby conditions are way beyond this goal.
In a result I fully understand how frustrating and disillusioning it is. On the other hand you have a choice, you can opt out if you didn't want to go with it. But nevertheless I think it mustn't be in that laborious way.
As I wrote earlier, in previous times it was perhaps too easy, but now it's the opposite. Why don't find a compromise which suits everyone?
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Post by ducktown2021 on Dec 11, 2021 13:36:25 GMT
If you don’t care about getting demoted you can still complete the derby, or see how far you get. The horseshoe rewards will be there no matter what. All free “prices”. Not playing derby means no rewards at all. As long as you don’t get stressed by playing the derby I would play it.
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Post by donkeyfan on Dec 11, 2021 13:52:42 GMT
I agree with you, ducktown2021, too. But in my eyes the Bingo derby is too time consuming. That said although I'd had the time. But I'm not in the mood to look always in the game for better tasks, or better said, being busy by deleting unwanted tasks with hope for better ones or those which fit in the Bingo board. My sister-in-law and I don't care being demoted. We are even considering to sign in for a Mystery derby, if that would happen to appear next week. She has more time then and I'd be glad to support her. But I must admit I'm not very fond of a task which requires x-amount of Frutti di Mare Pizza......
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Post by ducktown2021 on Dec 11, 2021 14:24:13 GMT
I agree with you, ducktown2021 , too. But in my eyes the Bingo derby is too time consuming. That said although I'd had the time. But I'm not in the mood to look always in the game for better tasks, or better said, being busy by deleting unwanted tasks with hope for better ones or those which fit in the Bingo board. My sister-in-law and I don't care being demoted. We are even considering to sign in for a Mystery derby, if that would happen to appear next week. She has more time then and I'd be glad to support her. But I must admit I'm not very fond of a task which requires x-amount of Frutti di Mare Pizza...... if your mindset is that you don’t mind getting demoted, just do the derby for the rewards, even the tasks don’t matter, just make enough points to get the max number rewards possible at your pace. Even if you just get reward it’s more than not participating at all. You might even get a permit, puzzlepiece and/or blueprint and even a deco.
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Post by Eturtle on Dec 11, 2021 16:10:26 GMT
I do agree with above mentions of SC wanting to keep us in the game all week using the derbies. I honestly dislike Blossom derbies way more than bingo derbies. Our hood decides which lines to focus on at the beginning of the bingo derby but most of the time those lines change simply because tasks pop up from other lines. So we just switch it around, be flexible. Our rule is, only bingo tasks are to be done until three lines are finished. And yes, several of our leaders do set their timers to make sure the board is cleared every 30 minutes. Most of the bingo derbies we do finish by Thursday, rarely does it drag out until the weekend. But, we do allow tasks at 200+ which makes a difference. Our goal is not to win but to reach the reward columns. This week I thought for sure we will have to 'work' through the weekend, but we were done early and we are on 3rd place :-)
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