Earth Week Event Feedback

I started to play it on my 2nd farm, but the rewards aren't worth the effort, so passing on this one.

lynnk2021

THX for addressing this event. 🙂👍

MommySnooks 🐯 and 🌼GymGirl🌺

You speak from my heart. I try to ignore those dreadful announcements as well as possible. Probably I am in a "tunnel" while preparing tasks or collecting them. I still don't get the point for tasks which "reward" you with points < 100 and take more than a day. Also with the usage of a time booster it's out of the question that those tasks have basically no place in an event when time management is crucial. Not understandable. There were so many complaints about this matter in the past but obviously SC doesn't care about it. It' a pity....

The time required to produce some of the items and the ingredients needed are out of all proportion to the points.

No, you will get new tasks. So if you don’t complete most of the daily tasks you won’t be able to reach the end of the line with rewards, unless you’re willing to spend diamonds on it.

I am seriously doubting whether the overall goal - permits - are achievable with the time and the points given. To make it worse the tasks are sometimes somewhat unbalanced. I am addressing long lasting tasks with low points. Or jam tasks, my big baby had 3 x jam tasks in a row.

The 1st was plum which I prepaired. Some time later raspberry jam and in the end Passion fruit jam. 🤔 What's that supposed to mean? It's ridiculous. I mean, earlier the event was too easy. Many players finished in time. Understandable that SC wants to tighten it. They exaggerated, though. It's no fun anymore if you recognize not being able to reach the last reward due to a silly point system and tasks in a row out of the question.

Actually the event should supposed to be fun, effectively it's producing frustration. In my opinion SC went from one extreme to the other. At first these events were easily to manage, now it's the complete opposite. It would be nice to get a middle course.

BTW, I want to be clear it's my own opinion. If you think you can manage until the end and getting the permits in the time given I'd be pleased to know how this is possible. With the remaining time and partially lousy points it occurs as a riddle to me.

Unfortunately I won’t get the 2 permits this time, I missed day 1 and I’ve been trying to make up for it, but with low point tasks there’s no way I can do it.

I’m playing the same way I usually do, and unless the high point, quick tasks come back, I doubt I’ll finish either.

I *just got to 12,010 points, and have 810 points lined up. Far from 20,000.

I have trashed some ridiculous tasks. Longer ones get lined up while I go to work a shift, collect and change line-up mid-day, but might not be able to make the rest before bed. Anything I leave I can’t line up and collect in the morning, because the game resets in the middle of the night for me. (Well, I can do that, and have for a couple of 300+ point ones, but then I miss out on some of what *would have been sent the next day.

And of course, nothing prepped for the derby. Did one crop task today, woohoo! All the rest (three boards) have been under 320 points.

They definitely swung some pendulum or other in the game way too far, it feels like,

The tasks were hard from the start. 3 candy bars. Cakes, get them going, one is out, then another cake order.
It is frustrating to not check the time on the machines without releasing the product 😑 or even add the new task item.
This would be so helpful!!
We need our farm house to maneuver in and out if our machines...slightly like the courthouse in the town
Hoping to make to to the end, not hopeful.

sapphire

That would be nice...checking the machines without collecting finished products. It's doable, but only if your barn is "overloaded". A strategy some players use with success. It means however to fill your barn completely AND the same time to ensure that needed ingredients which "empty" the barn below max are restored immediately.

Not everyone has the time and the nerves to deal with it. Otherwise you have to be cautious with your fingers and being reluctant with gathering products. That's not always easy, too. The power of habit can be counterproductive. 😉

Although I think everybody should have the possibility to get to the end I surely hope they don’t extend the event. I am currently on track for 1st place and would love to get the additional rewards. Extending the event could mean that people might end higher in points and I would lose 1st place.

i am not a bad loser, but will enjoy the time I am still first. Tomorrow it might be different again because of different Time zones players are in.

Like Ducktown2021, I am on track to end in 1st place. I've been in 1st place for 4 days now, occasionally slipping one or two places, but quickly getting back to the top of the Leader Board.

I'm only too aware that this is because I've been fortunate in the tasks I have been given. I have had several jam tasks, which I have set going, knowing they will take a long time and give few points. I haven't trashed a single task.

I aim to end each day with no tasks left in the queue, although there may be some on the board which are in progress.

I've used more boosters than I usually do, but that helps to reduce the number of boosters in storage! I've also watched adverts to reduce lengthy tasks.

I'm likely to get the 2 permits tomorrow, but I will continue completing tasks after that in the hope of keeping 1st place.

IMO, Lady Luck plays a major role for this type of event. On previous occasions, she smiled on me and gave me easy tasks with high points such as waking up my Sanctuary Animals, so I finished the event with about two days remaining. Sadly, she hasn't smiled on me this time as I have 13,800 points with 2d 7h remaining. I think the best I can do at this point is to get the Root Cellar decoration with 15,500 points. The two Expansion Permits needing 20,000 is beyond my reach unless I buy extra tasks which I won't do.

BTW, one of my favorite lines from Shakespeare's plays is "Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel!" I wonder if the late Merv Griffin also recalled the line from King Lear when he created Wheel of Fortune, a hit game show which is still on the air in the American television market for the past forty years.

I tend to forget that there are options for speeding up my production. I learned about the advertisement speed-up here in the forum. I never would have had the nerve to try it without knowing it was harmless — at least I assume I’m not opening myself to any more than the usual data collection. I really need to pay attention to my boosters. I never use anything but “free” Tom, fill boat crates, extra weight fish, and Ernest once in a very long while when nothing is going on to confuse me. Over the years, I have always trashed the “speed up” crops, trees/bushes, and machines. With these events, I need to get organized and save up those machine production boosters.

This is the same for me. Unless the remaining tasks have some higher point ones I am unlikely to get the permits.  I have the decor but still a long way to go teach 20,000 points.