Love the game, Only have one problem with it

[Kimicora]

I love the game, my only problem with it is that when you try to prepare for the next season the season before the game basically punishs you and all your work goes away, all that tilling etc, i understand SOME of it going away, but literally 90% is way too much, not all my crops are ones that continously grow so the dead plants aren't there for the next season, but that seems like the only way to avoid this issue.

I feel like you should get to prepare specially now that im in year 3 and i have at least 500 plants growing at once i can't even get to planting till day 2 because of that.

[Harvest]

I agree. It should take at least 4 or 5 days to go away.

[Alice]

A good way to keep your plant spots tilled and water for the next season is to leave old last season plants there. So when the next season comes all you have to do is use the sythe to clean up the old plants and plant the new one. The places where the old plants were should still be tilled and water (if you had watered them the night before). The only down fall is that you would be wasting plants and money just to keep the land nice. So it kinda sucks but if your lazy and have the money its a good strategy.

[Kimicora]

Originally posted by Alice-chan:

A good way to keep your plant spots tilled and water for the next season is to leave old last season plants there. So when the next season comes all you have to do is use the sythe to clean up the old plants and plant the new one. The places where the old plants were should still be tilled and water (if you had watered them the night before). The only down fall is that you would be wasting plants and money just to keep the land nice. So it kinda sucks but if your lazy and have the money its a good strategy.

I don't always want to be planting continous items though, I'm still doing quests so i like to have at least some of each crop each season incase a board quest comes up for it. I can do that with a majority of my land, but for that portion, i cannot, Plus spring only has a few plants that stay, unlike summer or fall.

ETA: And for those who go to suggest sprinklers, i do have them, having to retill the land completely makes me have to rewater the whole lot by myself day 1.

[Alice]

I pretty much have half of my farm convert to crops and I do have some of the sprinkler systems who i dnt water myown crops anymore. I just till and plant. The crops will be water the next morning. I only ever spend the whole first day of the season plating after that I run around an do what ever just checking on the plants oce a day to see what has grown. This is basically a farming game so there sprinkler system if probaably the only avance thing you will ever gt to hlp with farming unless you find a mod or something. Its a game where you have to do the work to get what you want. Plus at least for me the main reason I bought the game was so that I could farm but also try out the romance options.

[Joe Coffee]

Well said.

That being said, I also petition that you can buy farm equipment. Start with a plow you can hook up to your horse or an ox. Then maybe you find out that grandpa left you his old tractor which he drove and it broke down somewhere outside your farm. After finding its X pieces and assembling it, you can use it and upgrade it to plow faster, and maybe add attachments, like something that plows multiple rows, can harvest and store temporarily, and water/pesticide/fertilize your crops/land.

Hell yeah, give me motorized farm equipment and let me go Amish if I want! =D

[Alice]

Originally posted by Snidely Whiplash:

Well said.

That being said, I also petition that you can buy farm equipment. Start with a plow you can hook up to your horse or an ox. Then maybe you find out that grandpa left you his old tractor which he drove and it broke down somewhere outside your farm. After finding its X pieces and assembling it, you can use it and upgrade it to plow faster, and maybe add attachments, like something that plows multiple rows, can harvest and store temporarily, and water/pesticide/fertilize your crops/land.

Hell yeah, give me motorized farm equipment and let me go Amish if I want! =D

OOOOOO i really like that idea. Like let it be another quest for the town hall. Find the parts for grandpas tractor and raise the money to finish it but. That sounds like an awesome idea!! :3 My only problem is that between my sprinkler systems I have my patched surronded in stone and the like a one block wide path for walking. It might be hard to use a tractor with all the sprinkler around, plus you also have the crops that continue to grow after you pick them. i Wwouldnt ever consider those plants to be harested by a tractor. But i like the general idea. The tractor though would be big probabaly. If they had a tractor i would think they would have to upgrade the size of our farm area. That ould be another cool update though. spend like 100,000 gold on upgrading the size of your farm and you could ever hire workds and what not to help with planting, tilling, and harvesting, and even animals care. That would be amazing but I think that would be to big of an update for concetedape to put into the game. Nice idea with the tractor. I give it ten thumbs up!! And a cat emoji!

[Headrock]

Originally posted by Kimicora:

my only problem with it is that when you try to prepare for the next season the season before the game basically punishs you and all your work goes away

Once again, a trick you can use between Summer and Fall:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/413150/discussions/0/405692758710999007/#c357284131797488631

(I'm shameless, but helpful.)

[Joe Coffee]

Right, what's a farm without a tractor, it's almost like bread and butter.

Plus, it'd be cool if you could give hayrides for the town in a cutscene. Gives some hearts if you're missing, especially if you don't interact with the kids - I know I don't. Maybe you can see your own kids on the hayride after some time as well.

Speaking of which, where's our butter churner?

https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg

[Alice]

Originally posted by Snidely Whiplash:

Right, what's a farm without a tractor, it's almost like bread and butter.

Plus, it'd be cool if you could give hayrides for the town in a cutscene. Gives some hearts if you're missing, especially if you don't interact with the kids - I know I don't. Maybe you can see your own kids on the hayride after some time as well.

Speaking of which, where's our butter churner?

Dude I have like got to add you as a friend you have he best Ideas for this game!! I can see it now a hayride nearing the end of the fall festival. Like the one with the maze i mean. But i would so love to do a hay ride of the tractor. Like even had dialoge to the game about how some of the villagers even talk about how your grandfather gave hayrides during the festival and they miss hs tractor. Im getting so excited just thinking about it!!

[The Mighty Mulletman]

Just use some cheap seeds and plant them a couple of days before the end of season. No need to water or till then. Just scythe.

Wheat is good for summer and fall as they only cost 10g each.
winter forage seeds are good for spring prep since it's basicly free and you'll have plenty before the end of the season.
Garlic or parsnips or forage seeds would do for summer prep. Even tulips would do

Think of it this way.
What would you rather spend? Time or money?
If your answer is money then this is your answer. If your answer is time then just don't till for the next season till the next season comes along to avoid wasted effort.

Another thing you can do is to place a floor tiles under your sprinklers so that you don't have to move them and that the changing of the season doesn't affect them.

[Kinne]

I would love to be able to hire shane after I make him lose his job and have him keep my farm clean from rocks, logs, etc. Basically pay him to prevent the new season reset.

[Suze]

If you upgrade your hoe, it can till 3 rows/5rows/ 3x3 square which would save a tiny bit of time, its like the water can,I find I press the rmb so long, I probably use up any time Ive gained lol.

[Alice]

Originally posted by Kinne Vuril:

I would love to be able to hire shane after I make him lose his job and have him keep my farm clean from rocks, logs, etc. Basically pay him to prevent the new season reset.

Thats a really good idea. I would totally be game with hiring shane to clean my fields. ten thumbs up from me!