Official Discussion: Changes to Buffs System

[Ajjg1966]

Yeah Being a TSC Member is a Joke, I cant believe that BigPoint treat TSC Members better with benefits etc....Now TSC Members get worse treatment....Not only that as there is whole Huge Mystery What is takes to be a TSG Member.

BigPoint Cant have the decency to tell what are the rules and requirements to be a TSG Member, as we have our rights that FAQ should be laid out in a statement.

With the New Buff System change, has made quiet a few long playing players quit or thinking of quitting even Leewo thinking of quittting.

Bigpoint is making a good job to rid of players including those to spend lots of real money...All they are concerned about is the Game being unfair with the old buff.....

Hang on Bigpoint has contradict themselves to Make the Game Better and More Fun, By making it worse

Also The New Florist is riddled with Bugs effecting the whole Artisan Village....

They wont be getting my vote....until they start pulling thier socks up, as they are unsetting my lovely neighbours.

I think there will be a petition to bring back the old buff system to work inline with the new buff system

[crzyjoyce]

ok so lets look at how this backward change affected market! CAC is sold out on my market, that had't happened before that i have seen. Pj steadily went down in price til today now it is jumping thru the roof. same with pineapple cake. Thanks bp you've created yet another problem with the insane buff change.
I still can't wrap my head around why pj is considered a diamond, logically it should be silver or maybe gold. it would have made better sense to delete the code which caused it to extend cac rather than changing everything! Good grief!

hmm sold out then what comes back to market so overinflated i doubt much anyone has enough cc to buy. Stupid Stupid Stupid change you made there bp! 275000 for 1 cac.

[avamarie62]

Originally Posted by crzyjoyce

it would have made better sense to delete the code which caused it to extend cac rather than changing everything! Good grief!

My thoughts exactly!
Change is always difficult but especially so when hard earned benefits are taken away!
It's not nice when the rules of the game are changed for the worse in mid-play.
Right now I am in "wait and see" mode as it is not clear what the effects of these changes are.
Due to this uncertainty I have changed my spending habits on my farm:

1. I always make sure that I have the harvester helpers for at least a two month period in advance. This time I did not participate in the Harvest Helpler event as I will be replacing my 1x1 plots therefore I can do without.

2. At every Crafting sale I would buy enough salt and sugar to keep my CAC & ZAB going for at least two months. I also frequently made CAC for my dear friends. Just because I extended my CAC didn't mean that I had stopped making it altogether! Since they can no longer be extended there is no point in making such large purchases.

3. My yearly premium membership expires in a few days and I have no intention of renewing it.

4. I was welcomed into the TGC in February 2012. To date I have only received a TGC banner which I have in my park and two newsletters announcing the clouds and the new professions e.g. the florists. I didn't receive even one recipe! So much for the "exclusive gifts, free items and many more membership benefits".

The bottom line is I speak my dissatisfaction through my pocketbook. As they say "You shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you."

[lexysfarm]

Originally Posted by avamarie62
"You shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you."

You play exactly the same as me, and I'm also saving money in rl as well

I'd rather go back to my old style of game play, and was happy to spend my money.

I'm not enjoying playing now.

I hope that things start to improve.

[Sharwinston]

The Official Statement, released by BP, stated that by changing the Buff system so that PJ would no longer extend CAC would make the game fairer for all players.

Could any player that believes this has made the game fairer for them please reply to this post ???

[Ducks-Я-Us]

-edit full quote-

It hasn't made it fairer but it has made it more even, which would be a requirement if we were in a competition.

As we're not in competition with each other I think BP have got their wires ( ! ) crossed.

[dnisis]

The only person I was competing against was myself. The changes are bad. I am not even sure if I want to continue.

All the "player A has this, don't you want to buy BB's to get there too? Sorry, we are taking it away now, sorry you worked hard and spent RL money to try to get there. Sorry, you can't have what player A has because it is unfair." is ridiculous.

Think of
Mystery Seedlings
Secret Stables
TPC secrets
Event Prizes of Recipes

All of those generate have and have nots. The CAC/PJ controversary was the problem between the have and have nots. Are they going to change the above items to fix the have and have nots? They did the recipes, you can buy the event recipes now. They probably won't on the seedlings and the stables because look at how many people spend lots to try to get the special items. I just haven't figured out how the latest changes are going to reap tons of cash for them.

[Brookeham]

I'm actually saving money with the new "no buff" system. Since I still can't make CAC, I was making 6-8 PJs a day to keep my 1 CAC going(same with ZAB CB). Now I let my PJ and CB run out every day. I am only making 3-4 a day and stop playing when it runs out. So I save time & money!
Once this flurry of excitement with the florist runs out (after many reach level 3). BP should realize they shot themselves in the foot. Sugar sales will go down because people will only use CAC for events since it cannot be "buffered" with PJ anymore.
Another thorn in my side...how in the world do they expect us to complete the No Rest on the Farm quest now? The number of long term crops is over the top. I have 2 more levels to go, but will probably give up on them now.

[funkyfarmer1975]

Originally Posted by Ducks-Я-Us

It hasn't made it fairer but it has made it more even, which would be a requirement if we were in a competition.

I disagree. It has not made it more even. It has just created an even bigger chasm between those have and have nots. CAC was actually out of stock in my Market for quite a bit and now is sitting at 183,000 CCs and that is without an event going on. Imagine how high it is going to jump as soon as there is an event. The haves will still have because they can make it but now the have nots will not have at all because most cannot afford to shell out that many CCs each and every day (even if it is only for each day of an event) and they can no longer prolong it with the cheaper PJ (or some were making the PJ themselves since it is a Level 1 recipe).

I might add that so far I've discovered that the buffs are not even working. Best check your buffs because my carrot bread is not giving EP at all.

[DBAYES]

Hello Devs, There seems to be a lot going on here: Lets discuss the new Buff system.

#1) I do not see benefits, only playing with out products and it's more like a punishment.

#2) Bahamarama is considered a seperate field to an extent but, we can't use Pineapple cake becuase we are using CAC or PJ. So on that note we should have an extra diamond slot to do that.

#3) I believe that since we can't use at least two diamond products together now, that most of us will stop producing products, as I have.

#4) Ok so you finally caught on to us players, that we made the most of the product you invented but then took it away! We pay for, we earn them, we take time out of our Day to get those products.

#5) I really believe that if there is some sort of an issue with computer space then one solution could be, take out the part of the news page that shows the highest rank and the part that shows gifts given. It's useless and seems to remain the same. Also very unusable