Post by BostonGirl on Dec 13, 2021 8:33:28 GMT
I remember the day the Forum lost me my HD innocence.🙊
When I started playing I made an early decision to not plant wheat. Figured it was quick and cheap (10 coin) and I had been finding it easily in the DD so I allotted other crops to the few plots we are given when starting. To my horror, as soon as I did that, everybody in my DD was somehow selling wheat at 36 coins. I could not spend 36 coins on wheat! I had to plant.
Then one day a few weeks in I found a farm in the DD selling 10 wheat for 1 coin. “CC3” was his farm name. I quickly followed him. NHs had been introduced the week or so after I started the game. I remembered thinking how cute it was that all 15 members of his NH had matching names. 🙈😄 From CC1 through CC15. For months I had a reliable source of cheap wheat from my game friend and my farm thrived! We had a great relationship until…
Unexpectedly, he just stopped planting and selling. I hung on as a follower for many months afterward hoping he’d come back, wondering what had happened to him. Wondering if there was any way I could get to follow one of the other CCs in his NH.
Then one day, I did more than the cursory “specific information” lurk (I had not yet joined as a member) I was accustomed to on the forum. I saw a thread talking about bots (back then the rules were looser). I was very confused at first. What was a bot? Turns out the forumers were happy to say so I kept reading.
Several posts in, I realised that my dear CC3 and his whole cute neighbourhood maybe/could be/probably was a bot and that SUP-ERC-ELL (that’s a whole other story!) had maybe/probably cut off his lifeline.
So yeah. Innocence lost. 😄 Not all “farmers” were flesh and blood and undue association could get your farm banned. I waved goodbye to CC. I still have a soft spot for “him” though. Those several months of cheap wheat helped my farm immensely.
When I started playing I made an early decision to not plant wheat. Figured it was quick and cheap (10 coin) and I had been finding it easily in the DD so I allotted other crops to the few plots we are given when starting. To my horror, as soon as I did that, everybody in my DD was somehow selling wheat at 36 coins. I could not spend 36 coins on wheat! I had to plant.
Then one day a few weeks in I found a farm in the DD selling 10 wheat for 1 coin. “CC3” was his farm name. I quickly followed him. NHs had been introduced the week or so after I started the game. I remembered thinking how cute it was that all 15 members of his NH had matching names. 🙈😄 From CC1 through CC15. For months I had a reliable source of cheap wheat from my game friend and my farm thrived! We had a great relationship until…
Unexpectedly, he just stopped planting and selling. I hung on as a follower for many months afterward hoping he’d come back, wondering what had happened to him. Wondering if there was any way I could get to follow one of the other CCs in his NH.
Then one day, I did more than the cursory “specific information” lurk (I had not yet joined as a member) I was accustomed to on the forum. I saw a thread talking about bots (back then the rules were looser). I was very confused at first. What was a bot? Turns out the forumers were happy to say so I kept reading.
Several posts in, I realised that my dear CC3 and his whole cute neighbourhood maybe/could be/probably was a bot and that SUP-ERC-ELL (that’s a whole other story!) had maybe/probably cut off his lifeline.
So yeah. Innocence lost. 😄 Not all “farmers” were flesh and blood and undue association could get your farm banned. I waved goodbye to CC. I still have a soft spot for “him” though. Those several months of cheap wheat helped my farm immensely.
