Information/Feedback about the Gift Wrapping Station 2022

I'm playing now the exact same style which Warios posted previously. Only doing 1 (!) boat on my babyfarms until the time expires. Meanwhile I'm not in the mood to do more.

My mainfarm is handled likewise unless the other products are acceptable. But I had already boats with butter (7 per crate), or bown sugar (11 per crate) and also products which are needed for the gifts such as cookies.

This way the event is less stressful. I sense it this way because boats are normally a NoGo for me. When the event finishes I need a hiatus from boats. Can't see them any longer.

Oh that’s too bad that others are getting sugar and dairy boats. I guess I’ve been lucky so far. I probably just jinxed myself though!

It would be a really nice QOL change to do away with sugar and dairy boats in future. One can dream…..

Same for me. Once I reach the 4000 Holly for next week I am done. Farmpass ✅, derby ✅ valley ✅ nothing more to do, but relax and help others.

good goal. Lucky me I just need 3k next week.  I am so very tired of filling boats.

does anyone reach the 3 stars on the machine without spending diamonds on it? 

I decided to take the easy road, I just make the gifts needed for the next boat and a few extra over night, but that just got me enough to finish 4 boats back to back for a derby task and now I am back to zero gifts and making them for the coming boats. My mom has 20+ gifts each stored up. I have no clue how and when she does them, she must be playing non-stop lol

Done with the boats, got my 4000 Holly needed for next week rewards from the Holly catalog. Waiting for the valley to end and it’s back to normal farming.

I liked the idea of this event. It was something new and interesting to do in the game. I just think the duration is too long.

I could use more holly, but no time. Never getting beyond the two slots, so can’t stock up on gifts, anyway.

I liked the event overall-great new *idea. 😊

Maybe they can do this next year but with some tweaks to make it a bit less work and a bit less $$$. Who are we kidding, for most of us, enough diamonds to do what we need/get what we want, costs $. Or maybe I shouldn’t speak for “most of us”, so I should say for me anyway.

After the first 24 hours where I was doing every boat and felt the burnout I switched to sending some boats away empty, and ended up focussing on looking for farmers wanting help with their gift crates. I ended up with 4000 holly from that (the help requests for gift crates seem to have dropped off since the global help event ended).

By far the most requested gift box on other farmers' boats was (and still is) the snowflake one, and that's across farm levels up into the 200s (I look for higher level farms to avoid snowflake gift boxes but they are so common). I was keeping a stock level of 20 to 30 of each gift box (I'd expanded to seven production slots), but my snowflake ones kept getting low, so I had to switch to focussing on them.

DHMcD

I feel with you. At the very beginning of the event I thought I had to serve every boat both from my main and my babies. No wonder that this overwhelmed me very shortly. I wasn't able to replace the required items as fast as necessary, it became a stress factor.

After some days trying to continue I felt a need to change things. I made some math to determine how many holly would be sufficient for those things I desired. And after that I stepped back. Like many other members here in the forum. At this point I felt better and decided to continue this way.

Since few days I'm done. I have even more holly than I need. Additional the valley was finally a success although I had some doubts in the first place. Some days ago the 100 chickens were reached and today in the morning I gathered the last token for the 30 diamonds. As I stated earlier, it's a relief.

To make it clear, I won't complain. The stress factor is mostly caused by the game-style you currently use. Nevertheless all things together are making some stress by itself. I also like the event, it's very nice to be "forced" to deal with several issues and trying to find the best way to deal with it. An absolutely new experience. It's refreshing. But it also can be very overwhelming if you don't pay attention to it and if you fail to set some priorities.

My suggestion for the next time would also be to shorten the time. 4 weeks with boats is way to long. It's really exhausting although it's depending on oneself how stressful it'll be. But when you're dealing with it you are trying of course to do as much as you can. You need a feeling how much is necessary to gain the desired items, this takes time. And not everyone has the money or diamonds to upgrade the machine. It's a great difference working with 2 slots or with 9. I have 6, this was ok for ME. But it doesn't mean that this would be ok for someone else.

Due to this more or less stress also depends from the amount of additional slots. And the slots are very expensive. Not everyone can afford that.

Conclusion:

Good idea from SC, should be continued. Perhaps with some slight modifications.

There is nothing left to aim for in the next round other than 3 x 300 scrolls, I nearly have enough for those now, so after that I am done. Sick of getting days of blue snowflake, then days of green present lol. Disappointing to hear the Greg snowman is in some peoples catalogue. All my farms had the same, & only in this round (except for the gnome in the first) spilt presents, stacked baubles & clump of fir trees with snow.

Greg the snowman wasn’t in my holly gifts catalog. He was in the regular gifts catalog where we earn gifts by helping other farmers.

Me too. 

Snowman Greg was in the Mystery Deco Package that costs 35 gift cards, and those usually have better prizes than the smller packages. Good luck getting a prize you like!