no time to farm

[Onyxian]

id like the game alot more if I wasnt forced to return to town or if I didint have to spend the whole day collecting seeds and at night very quickly you just cant plant without spending every other day just not collecting seeds to get planting done

[Jtoast]

Once you get farther into the game you will unlock a character which gives you longer days which increases your time to farm.

With that said, this really isn't a farming game. This is a "go kill stuff and then farm a few sunflowers/roses/heartbeets as you need money and health" type game. None of the other crops are really relevant.

[Onyxian]

ah ok I thought it was more like deep rock galactic because that game is a mining game with occasional enemies

[Craig]

Originally posted by Jtoast:

None of the other crops are really relevant.

This is horrible advice. You should plant every crop you get 4 seeds of if you want the season end bonus capped out. There is no guarantee that you are always going to find 4 sunflower seeds in a season.

[MonK]

Make the day cycles longer like atleast twice as long its way to short and maybe add a option to skip going to town

[Mr. Aqua]

Originally posted by MonK:

Make the day cycles longer like atleast twice as long its way to short and maybe add a option to skip going to town

Once you play more you'll unlock a character that gives 50% more time.

[Smurff-a-thon2k]

Originally posted by MonK:

Make the day cycles longer like atleast twice as long its way to short and maybe add a option to skip going to town

The game is nearly perfectly balanced for what its meant to be, a fairly hard roguelike... the entire point is to force you to decide what to do with every precious millisecond. This is a matter of 'git gud' not "devs you have to change the game to play and beat itself for meeeee!!!!"

[Onyxian]

Originally posted by Smurff-a-thon2k:

Originally posted by MonK:

Make the day cycles longer like atleast twice as long its way to short and maybe add a option to skip going to town

The game is nearly perfectly balanced for what its meant to be, a fairly hard roguelike... the entire point is to force you to decide what to do with every precious millisecond. This is a matter of 'git gud' not "devs you have to change the game to play and beat itself for meeeee!!!!"

i dont want the game to be easier I just want to farm more is all, I wish it was more a mainstay of the gameplay loop is all

[Smurff-a-thon2k]

Originally posted by Onyxian:

Originally posted by Smurff-a-thon2k:

The game is nearly perfectly balanced for what its meant to be, a fairly hard roguelike... the entire point is to force you to decide what to do with every precious millisecond. This is a matter of 'git gud' not "devs you have to change the game to play and beat itself for meeeee!!!!"

i dont want the game to be easier I just want to farm more is all, I wish it was more a mainstay of the gameplay loop is all

Then you should delete this thread and make a thread titled "I would like a creative mode please, where you can just play around with the seeds" because they cant change the game and just 'give you more time to farm' as that breaks the entire game. the game is already trending towards too easy, once you get the cornacopia upgrades and the thyme character you have a lot of time to get a large amount of resources and just breeze through the levels. Moral of the story, ask for a 'creative mode' or a wave based mode that only takes place on the farm and invloves planting and surviving waves or something, dont ask them to change mechanics crucial to game balance

[Craig]

Originally posted by Smurff-a-thon2k:

Originally posted by Onyxian:

i dont want the game to be easier I just want to farm more is all, I wish it was more a mainstay of the gameplay loop is all

Then you should delete this thread and make a thread titled "I would like a creative mode please, where you can just play around with the seeds" because they cant change the game and just 'give you more time to farm' as that breaks the entire game. the game is already trending towards too easy, once you get the cornacopia upgrades and the thyme character you have a lot of time to get a large amount of resources and just breeze through the levels. Moral of the story, ask for a 'creative mode' or a wave based mode that only takes place on the farm and invloves planting and surviving waves or something, dont ask them to change mechanics crucial to game balance

This game is not trending towards too easy unless you only play year 1-5. Relax dude. Cornucopias take forever to max out upgrades unless you are exclusively playing on low years. You're being really dramatic about this imo.

[Onyxian]

Originally posted by Smurff-a-thon2k:

Originally posted by Onyxian:

i dont want the game to be easier I just want to farm more is all, I wish it was more a mainstay of the gameplay loop is all

Then you should delete this thread and make a thread titled "I would like a creative mode please, where you can just play around with the seeds" because they cant change the game and just 'give you more time to farm' as that breaks the entire game. the game is already trending towards too easy, once you get the cornacopia upgrades and the thyme character you have a lot of time to get a large amount of resources and just breeze through the levels. Moral of the story, ask for a 'creative mode' or a wave based mode that only takes place on the farm and invloves planting and surviving waves or something, dont ask them to change mechanics crucial to game balance

thats the thing I dont want a creative mode and I realize that the developers arent going to redesign the entire game arounf my desire lol I just have an opinion and wanted to state it is all. I even learned that theres a character that partially answers my desire with her effect because of my post

[TheWashableBomb]

Originally posted by Smurff-a-thon2k:

the game is already trending towards too easy

Whoa! Watch out, we got a badass over here!

[DaetherX]

As someone who loved Harvest Moon games, and now Story of Seasons games (SoS Trio of Towns on 3DS is the best in that genre I've played to date) I thought this was going to be more long term farming, but with weird monsters coming for your stuff at night and doing a Twin Stick Shooter thing. Instead it's a throw ♥♥♥♥ on the ground with no time to do anything, watering takes all day and you're never done, you often have few if any seeds seeds, or you ignore crops to go over to the other areas to fight and come back just before night and can't really plant anything. At least you can't have any sort of plan or specific layout or... whatever.

It's a huge disappointment. I know some people love the ADHD 1 or 2 minute run "roguelike", but I very much prefer Tales of Maj'Eyal or others where it takes longer to get wrecked and you have some sort of attainable progress... or something makes it feel like you did something and had fun trying, instead of just blah blah bland bland yawn ugh.

I want to like this game. The art style is fun, the controls are okay, the premise seems interesting, the execution seems like a failure to my limited play time perspective. Not a "bad game" per-se but I'm struggling to find what people like about it and draws them to play more. I'll give it a few more runs to see if it clicks, but I'm not holding my breath.

[ayyylmao1]

Once you unlock thyme, Go hard at clearing each of the biomes, this will leave you with time to focus on farming.

On every year, I have all of winter season to do nothing but farm. On years 1-5, I typically have all biomes cleared by the end of summer and have 6 full days to farm, plus the extra long day if I get that upgrade from the deervil.

[SunaLova]

This is actually a fine thread overall, really. I personally can empathize with the OP and the experience people who understand the game itself for its kind of play.
After a recent play mainly playing in a Year 2 and 3 "bracket" Its a challenge to even farm Y3 with upwards to 4k-5k -at my current bonuses-. There is such a thirst to do well and unlock more stuff, but the combine new enemy health and making more cashews halted that for the play run.
So AtomiCrops excels at making you choose/focus down on stuff for the long haul of meta instead. Do I want to have more time to farm in the day, a little; at night, YOU BET - the only way I see is with more firepower, gourds, and passive buffs to get out of the fire.
Sure I want to be able to farm massively, and clear all 8 Tree Guardians, while nabbing max upgrades (in one run); yet that is going to come in time. The great thing about the game is that supports shifting to focus while you get to your ideal play. Its really a well made design choice, even though it makes multitasking arcade hard.

To OP: try to work up the suggestions above, clearly Y5 is dealmaker for making more play options available.