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Post by blackbrit on Jan 30, 2024 22:15:11 GMT
My farm name has been “BB’s Dithering Heights” since I started playing the game not all that long after the launch of Hay Day. Yesterday I noticed my rss had “blackbrit.1” over the boxes. Today I thought to look in the settings and check my farm name. The game returned a statement in red that my farm name was invalid! What do you make of this?
I searched here for “invalid farm name” and came up with zero results. Maybe this is something new? I will try in game support, though I think our usual conclusion is that is not very useful. Looking forward to your insights!
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Post by Tahoe 🐾 on Jan 31, 2024 2:23:27 GMT
If you have another farm or neighbors, could you or them visit the farm in question and see if you/they see your original farm name? I recall that the name above our shops that is only seen by the farm owner is actually your Play Games name iirc. My farm name is different than the name that I see above my rss.
Someone else I know had an issue with their farm name (that they had used forever) showing invalid, but somehow got it to work. I'll ask them if they recall how they did this.
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Post by 🌼GymGirl🌺 on Jan 31, 2024 9:48:55 GMT
For some time now if I want to add “thank you” to someone in my farm name I get a message saying “invalid farm name”. I have tried many variations but it still happens.
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Post by Tahoe 🐾 on Jan 31, 2024 9:56:32 GMT
For some time now if I want to add “thank you” to someone in my farm name I get a message saying “invalid farm name”. I have tried many variations but it still happens. I just added "thank you" after my farm name and it took ok. Maybe it has something to do with the letter sequence if you added a name after it (seems the in-game censors pick up on words even though there are spaces between the letters) that might have caused it to show invalid. 🤷♀️ Someone else a while back mentioned that different language settings in the game can cause this issue as well. |
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Post by blackbrit on Jan 31, 2024 13:53:32 GMT
If you have another farm or neighbors, could you or them visit the farm in question and see if you/they see your original farm name? I recall that the name above our shops that is only seen by the farm owner is actually your Play Games name iirc. My farm name is different than the name that I see above my rss. Someone else I know had an issue with their farm name (that they had used forever) showing invalid, but somehow got it to work. I'll ask them if they recall how they did this. Great idea. Thank you! I checked with my baby farm, and several of my neighbors checked too. All is well with the visible farm name at my rss. The only issue seems to be the red “invalid farm name” notification when when I go to that setting. I guess for now I will just leave well enough alone! |
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Post by Tahoe 🐾 on Jan 31, 2024 14:04:40 GMT
If you have another farm or neighbors, could you or them visit the farm in question and see if you/they see your original farm name? I recall that the name above our shops that is only seen by the farm owner is actually your Play Games name iirc. My farm name is different than the name that I see above my rss. Someone else I know had an issue with their farm name (that they had used forever) showing invalid, but somehow got it to work. I'll ask them if they recall how they did this. Great idea. Thank you! I checked with my baby farm, and several of my neighbors checked too. All is well with the visible farm name at my rss. The only issue seems to be the red “invalid farm name” notification when when I go to that setting. I guess for now I will just leave well enough alone! Thanks for getting back. The person I mentioned above that had the invalid name issue said it went on for a few weeks, but they were able to re-enter it successfully after an update, so perhaps this is a glitch. |
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Post by blackbrit on Jan 31, 2024 16:49:02 GMT
Great idea. Thank you! I checked with my baby farm, and several of my neighbors checked too. All is well with the visible farm name at my rss. The only issue seems to be the red “invalid farm name” notification when when I go to that setting. I guess for now I will just leave well enough alone! Thanks for getting back. The person I mentioned above that had the invalid name issue said it went on for a few weeks, but they were able to re-enter it successfully after an update, so perhaps this is a glitch. And now if someone searches for this they will at least know they aren’t alone! |
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Post by BauldersGate on Jan 31, 2024 19:46:41 GMT
I had that with naming an animal once
I went away and double checked it wasn't an issue in another language etc and it didn't seem to be
In the end I just picked a different name but was slightly frustrating!
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Post by 🌼GymGirl🌺 on Jan 31, 2024 20:56:46 GMT
I just tried adding Thank You and TY etc and it is always an invalid name even if I am not specifying anyone in particular.
It is not a big issue but it is annoying when someone has been helpful.
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Post by kanta on Jan 31, 2024 23:58:01 GMT
Maybe family friendly child proofing going wild. Maybe along with the asking for your age feature?
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