New unlocking system.

[TartineMyAxe]

First, I love it.

Second, People complaining about the new system, I would like to tell you. Why always want to have everything easily?

With the new unlocking system, we now have goals. Because yes to stay long on a game (which is to do the same thing regularly) We must have goals. If your goal is to have all the crops and always plant the same crops every day, every week. After a while you will get bored.

Thanks dev!

[jellyfingers]

Originally posted by WaaghMan:

Originally posted by jellyfingers:

Sorry but I don't like his new update. I feel like I'm being forced to spend a large amount of game time doing something pretty boring just to get back to where I was before. My farm is at level 51 so as you see I've put many hours into this great game but I feel this new system is a backward step.

I'm sorry you feel this way. Just to be clear, would you prefer to get rid of the chained unlock system and go back to the plain "All unlocks are tied to Farm Level" system? As some people says, I think that the new system is more interesting so people tries different crops etc.

The fact that you got dozens of locked items right away is sadly the price of Early Access, and having a high level farm already. Usually people will find these locked items in smaller quantities (1 or 2 per level at most), so they're more manageable.

For players new to the game or those not too far into it then the new unlock system won't be much of a problem - they'll still be building up to growing most of the crops. But for those of us who've been here since the beginning and put many, many hours into the game and built up a high level farm it's very frustrating and disappointing to have hard won crops taken away and having to repeat boring crop planting just to get back what we already had earned. I personally would like to go back to the old system. I do appreciated the game is early access and I should expect changes but for me this new unlock system is putting me off playing the game with the same enthusiasm. Other than that it's a great game.

[Lauraz]

I like this new update its great finally some goals and targets also for higher lvl farms,
keep up the good work

[WaaghMan]

Originally posted by jellyfingers:

For players new to the game or those not too far into it then the new unlock system won't be much of a problem - they'll still be building up to growing most of the crops. But for those of us who've been here since the beginning and put many, many hours into the game and built up a high level farm it's very frustrating and disappointing to have hard won crops taken away and having to repeat boring crop planting just to get back what we already had earned. I personally would like to go back to the old system. I do appreciated the game is early access and I should expect changes but for me this new unlock system is putting me off playing the game with the same enthusiasm. Other than that it's a great game.

I understand, a player that two days ago had everything unlocked may load now the game and see half the content blocked, but I think unlocking most items should be done fairly quick in a high level farm, as you have the tools, the money and the space to plant plenty of items in a single go.

Nevertheless, we'll drop Watermelon level requirement a bit in the next update.

[friggin_idjit]

I think it would have been better to lock new crops that we havent already been planting.

[Kalamona]

The game needs end-game content anyway with difficult tasks to achieve, otherwise without goals people get bored easily.

[Dericco]

I think you devs are doing a wonderful job and this is a great game. BUT my problem is that I have pretty much maxed my farm and have all the plots of land. I am now getting it to look the way I want it to with flower pots, gardens, etc (thanks devs). However now I have many locked items and nowhere to make more plots to plant, let's say, mushrooms to get them all unlocked. My farm specializes in trees, animals and honey.... not vegetables, grapes, melons, mushrooms or flowers for that matter. I have very few plots for those, however I am a completionist and want everything unlocked, so to do that I would need to destroy some of the areas on the farm to make more plots to plant otherwise it will take a long, long time for me to unlock everything, You maybe could have stuck with unlocking things per farm level, just make the level more challenging. I guess, though, in that case players would say that a lot of farm leveling would be grinding. I love the game and it's early access and will be tweaked. This is just my comments, but I am okay with the new upgrade system. I would not really complain about a game this good and about the devs that take such a wonderful role in its success! Thanks again, devs!

[jellyfingers]

Some you win, some you lose. I'm now busy replanting yellow peppers, tomatoes and those red mushrooms lol

[soulshined]

This is a great game. I have put over 125hours into this game. It already has replayability. And I know this is early access, but this game just stopped being fun and started becoming a chore with the new XP system. Not only that, somethings are bought purely for asethics (horses for example, specific to me). I feel like you just marginalized the players who play for harvesting and the players who play, like me, to create something from scratch, decorate and explore astehtic possibilites. For me, new updates with new decorations and asethics make it fun again. I get to revamp my farm, move things around just to get the hottest new item that cost 50 ribbons in there. But now, I dont have access to those things (like flowers) when Im a level 61 farm and 55 farmer 125+ hours. Its more of a chore now, feeling penalized for contributing to the game this long, and it takes the fun out of gaming, in my opinion. No one wants to FEEL obligated to play a game just to be able to use basic features like other crops. And now I feel obligated. This is just my opinion. But the devs are great from what I've experience of them. I do like adding goals to visit other farms and being social, stuff like that, even if there were XP ranks on those and can only unlock certain things unless you help harvest nth amount of crops on someone else farm would be fine, but to lock things I've earned with 125+ hours worth of playing is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. Maybe, instead of forcing us to unlock crops by using other crops, exchange the xp system for an upgrade system. hidden behind some kind of pay wall with diamonds/gold/ribbons whatever. like upgrade a crop to reduce its time to 20 hours when its normally 24. Have 3 upgrades per crop or whatever arbitrary means you seem fit.

[Gabriel]

How about making the unlocking system based on gold, diamonds and medals?

I mean, you don't tie any item unlocking to any level of any sort, but simply it can be unlocked with gold, diamonds and medals

For example trees give medals with fruits, animals give medals with milk. Now you need to make some plant and some flower to give medals too. Than people can plant those plus whatever else they want.

Some unlockables will require only gold, others will require gold +diamonds and others gold + diamonds + medals. You could mix and match these currencies any way you want.

[vab0418]

Totally understand needing updates for a new game, totally appreciate early access as well. However, I have to agree wtih the comments. I think adding more items to obtain when you reach higher levels, or making the challenges tied to new items would have been a much better way to go, than locking things out that people have already earned. Those items were fun to earn and go back and add more of them as your farm grows. Some of the challenges to get ribbons are tied to these animals and such and now I can't get the animals I already have on my farm. I was trying to earn ribbons for a certain building and now I won't be able to get it. There are all kinds of things that could be added for people to continue to acheive: Ex: a farm house, cats, mice, more tractors styles, better clothes to the farmer, ostriches. It would also be helpful to be able to see the actual numeric numbers of levels, and what you need to level up. The star is ok, but it really doesn't give you an idea of how much you need to level up.

[Lauraz]

the ppl that have lvl 50+ farm have land enough to plant stuff, and you alrdy lvl 50 farm so means most of the items alrdy have some lvls, just plant the ones you need to unlock and after some days you have everything unlocked again, i not see the problem :)

[Emma]

I dont like the new unlocking system. I spent more than 60 hours on my Farm and now so many things are locked. And the are also animals locked I already have on my farm. Right now, thats not very funny to play.

[IEywaI]

I honestly don't mind the new unlocking system. It provides goals to those starting and though I can see it being a bit of a grind, pretty much everything can unlock as they level up. While those that are 50+ unlocking everything should be much easier since they have more land to plant. I can understand that for those more interested on decorating rather than planting/harvesting might get annoyed with task but plots can be removed afterwards. That's just my opinion though, I have about 200 hrs played and don't mind having to go through the unlocking process.

[Brigitte]

I so love this game, but how can I speak or even type to another person?

[soulshined]

Originally posted by Brigitte:

I so love this game, but how can I speak or even type to another person?

press "T" on your keyboard to bring up chat. Esc to close it or it will close automatically after you type a message. Press 'Tab' to see what direction other people are on the map