Oktoberfest?

Big thanks to all that are posting information on how they made it though I will be reading and studying it for the next round for sure. Every bit helps. Congratulations to all that made it to though

First of all, congratulations to everyone who completed the event or will complete it in the next 26 hours. I just completed it and it wasn't fun but challenging indeed. My motivation wasn't getting 15,000 pretzel points or the Oktoberfest table. I wanted to find out if event is Free to Play friendly, so I decided to grind to the finish line without using diamonds.

I was trashing tasks less than 100 pretzels until I realized unlike previous events, there weren't 1000 tasks in the queue. Then I stopped trashing tasks on Day 3. As a casual player, my routine is to log in about three times a day. I adapted by changing my routine to more than three times a day. Congratulations to Team Hay Day if they intended to make casual players like me more active.

BTW, I'm placing the Oktoberfest table on my farm as a reminder of the following post.
justhayday.boards.net/thread/2050/oktoberfest?page=3&scrollTo=47674

donkeyfan
Thanks for the informations about the moon event coming up. 
I will take it with caution. We will see soon. 

Haven't seen the decos, yet. 
I think I will have a look and then decide what I do. 

This event was hard. Above all because of the frustrating beginning. 
I appriciate the reaction of SC to add more tasks and react to the feedback of the players. 
But I also think the informations could be better. The tasks were added secretly without any information.
And as someone else mentioned before. What does this help, if anyone can't play much in these two last days. 
Would wish a more constant event. 

But SC made it possible. So I will have a look what the moon is bringing to us. 


Congratiolations to you and all who have finished it. 
For me there are some points missing. So I should finish today with the new tasks. 

Your Oktoberfest area looks really nice. I like it. 
I am thinking about to buy the prezels picnic to. Looks so great in this combination. 
I would like to arrange it in the same way like you. (Hope thats ok) 


Think you have counted the days a little wrong. 
Yesterday (20 tasks) was day 7 in the event and today its day 8. 

So we had 15 tasks until day 6 
And day 7 and maybe 8 with 20 tasks. 


I have trashed round about 1000 points. 
And I think I will finish today. 

So trashing with caution should be possible. 
But not to much. 

I only deleted that one I can't solve (pets I don't have, and once the time ran out and so I carried over to the next day which means you miss the tasks) 
Just like me. 
Exactly me experience with this event and the same motivation as mine. 

 

Sorry you have one of ‘those’ bugs.  I have ongoing problems with the last helpers bar not showing who helped and had the same thing - a bug and was fixed but sadly it is not and has been that way for months now. 
Much to my surprise I have finished the event thanks to a several animal feed and sanctuary tasks. I did spend a few diamonds to speed things up  and I watched videos and used some boosters.  I found the event frustrating overall and will think twice before I do another the same.  After the derby is done I will be having a rest I think.

Yup they nicely extended it to 28th.. it was a giant pop letting players know they granted extra time to finish getting their decorations 
good move 🙏👍🏻

Pop up says extended until October 28. That's an extra month to finish. Or, did the mean to say September 28?

Oh you're right! I just posted it in the news and on the news feed stating Sept 28th! Good catch!

Edit- I missed Kathy's post, sorry.

Poor decision made by SC to extend the event by 2 days. I am glad for all the players that now have the chance to finish the event and reach final deco threshold.

But how are they gonna compensate the players that spend diamonds (and real money to get them) for additional tasks and/or to complete tasks faster so they had the possibility to get to the end?

Don’t give me that it’s a players own choice. They changed to rules during the event, which I do appreciate with regard to the players, but to me it seems unfair to the players that support Hayday with real money.

They should have gotten this correct from the get go.

For those who missed tapping on them: 

I think you can open the event a second time and it will appear again. 
Haven't tried it, because I catched it immediatly. 
But this worked at the previous events and if I remember right Ricky Burnett mentioned it in his video. 

But it should only work if you tapped nothing when it appeared the first time. 

I did not spend money but I surely understand the unfairness towards the players who spend money and I wish that they get compensated. I hope they do not get 600 tables or 600 one of the musicians as compensation if SC happens to decide to give a form of compensation. 

I have seen a good amount of mess by SC and this one also takes in the top list: complete uncertainty, lack of information (e.g., no idea since when it is 20 tasks - I did not even know) etc.

BTW, constantly getting 80 - 100 points tasks for products that require hours and hours. However, I am very happy as I got the unique extremely hard to find map piece for one farm. To celebrate the achievement and especially the amazing gift, I bought 200 times x special offer (5 permits - 475 diamonds) to show my very thanks and loyalty to SC. 

Good that you are done with the event! 

 

😉 This is not a new event, they have done this kind of event before, but we had more tasks etc. My point was that they changed the rules during the event. They have enough data from previous events to see what number of tasks is realistic given the time that we players were given. A basic set of rules prior to an event wouldn’t have been that hard to release. The info that was shared was incorrect. I do like new things being brought to the game, yes please. Analysis of big data isn’t that hard and you can adjust prior to the release of a new event. Same with global events etc.

the fact that other games give the option to extend for money is irrelevant in my opinion, cause you know that from the get go. During the October event people spend money because they wanted the final reward. Would they have spend money if they knew they had two more days? Most likely not, and that’s the point I was trying to make. I am still pleased for all players that now will be able to complete the event.

I would like to wave to all the guest and members reading us and participating in this thread. Hope it was helpful to you.

Going to crosscheck a few info before posting my thoughts.

My farm has been blessed with many production task at 300+ pretzel todays. I suspect a change in such task frequency along with the extra days. Or I am lucky.

Respectfully agree to disagree with all but your last sentence.

This is from someone who spent a ridiculous amt of diamonds across several farms, many by accident. Most frustrating at the time was when I woke up to see that one farm still had its task up and expired even though I swear I did it… I think it was from switching too fact on scid. So I paid 10 diamonds to extend that task and then cleared the remaining one without realizing I had to retake the stupid task. By the time I was done it was ~20 diamonds just for that. And countless more on other farms, usually at midnight when I was too damn tired to stay up later and finish tasks.

And all that was just to try for the pigs. 

Not everyone is lucky enough to be retired, or have a job that allows them to pop on during the day, or can even play every day at all re. family situations etc. Really, this event was a major debacle and, worse, it was unhealthy bc of staying up late or getting up early  to start some tasks…. A game shouldn’t force people to choose between healthy sleep/life and and an event. So you are completely right, it should have been designed better to begin with. 

But we will all forget about some diamonds in a few days. We would not have forgotten the majority of player base missing the target, many people being totally burned out, and a bad feeling all around for a long long time, perhaps years. Some of us oldies still remember the cotton shirt drop box debacle of 2013 hahaha.

So even though I will be finished today, even spending some more diamonds to get the table bc I just can’t even take another day of this lol, I am glad that SC listened to the players and made us feel heard.