Raising seed limit during events

That would be nice!
Also a limit increase in flower pots depending on how many plants you own. Something similar to Dragon Cave.
It could be done by awarding the player a sort of badge or ribbon for having a Green Thumb
The better of a gardener you are the more flower pots you are given to plant on.

I like these ideas.

Hmmm. Bisher gelang es nicht, für Nephele eine Verstärkung zu finden. Falls es doch gelingt, wird sicherlich noch mehr möglich werden.... Ihr seht, wieso ich das zum Thema sage?
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Hmmm. Till to now one did not succeed finding a strengthening for Nephele. If it succeeds, nevertheless will be possible once even more.... You see, why I say that to the theme?

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Would it be possible to raise the seed-limit during events, lets say from 3 to 4 or 5?

Isn't this done when the Post Pixie brings extra seeds? You don't need an empty pot then.

Oh ja Elixir, ich denke auch nicht, dass der Programmieraufwand übermäßig würde. Für später ist z.B. eine völlig separate Regelung für Samen aus Paketen vorgesehen. Grob in den Bereich würden auch mehr Plätze für event-Zeiten passen. Ich denke nur, dass dann das Pfanzenkontingent im bisher üblichen Umfang viel zu mühelos erreichbar wäre. Das Spiel würde an Spannung verlieren. Event-Pflanzenn verlieren viel von ihrem besonderen Wert, wenn man ganz sich mehr als genug von allen Varianten haben kann. Es wären immerhin 1/3 oder gar 2/3 mehr. Derzeit ist es eher nicht möglich, alle Fragezeichen wegzubekommen. Damit das Balancing etwa so bleibt wie jetzt, müssten mehr Typen kreiert werden. Die Hauptlast läge dauerhaft bei Nephele. Insofern gebe ich mich keiner Illusion hin. Wenn es doch möglich wird, wäre ich natürlich happy.

Hallo Elixir,

statistisch war es auch bisher möglich, alle Varianten zu bekommen... oder man bekam manches doppelt, dreifach, irgend eins gar nicht. Meine Räucherkammer zeigt noch 3 Fragezeichen, und das ansich nur, weil nicht alles so klar war, weil immer wieder Überraschungen waren, weil ich etwas konkretes verdoppeln wollte und die Auswirkung inkauf nahm. Nun sind die Regeln zwischen Zucht und Wildsamen klar und festgeschrieben. Die Chance auf Fragezeichen ist nur noch sehr minimal. Man konzentriert sich mehr auf alt, mehr auf neu oder gemixt. Das Tauschsystem wird (fast) alles regeln. Dass neue Spieler erst mal nur neues züchten können, lässt sich einkalkulieren.

Übrigens: Wo Teamwork und Timing gelingen, können neue Spieler auch alte Vars züchten, ohne dass alten Hasen Eventzeit verloren geht. Laufender PM-Kontakt ist dann wichtig.

*mai*, unbeschadet wäre es toll, an Eventzeiten 4 oder 5 Kammern im Revolver zu haben...

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If we would do that a big factor of our game would gone. We give mostly enough time to prepare for a event and enough time to do the event so normaly there shouldn't be any problems with seeding places (And you only have a limit for seeds we already removed the limit for drawing up a flower)

Wuerden wir das machen, wuerde ein grosser faktor in unserem Spiel verlorgen gehen. Wir geben euch meistens genug Zeit um sich fuer ein Event vorzubereiten und die Eventzeitspanne ist auch meistens so ausgelegt das jeder alles vom Event mitnehmen kan. Daher sollte es ja garkeine so grossen probleme geben (Es gibt ja nur ein limit bei den Samen. Das Limit fuer die komplette aufzucht haben wir ja bereits entfernt.)

This is a game, it's supposed to be fun, the limit keeps the chalenge.
If there's no limit the chalenge disappear and the fun too.

There would still be a limit of flower pots, just an increase of it from 3 to 4 or 5 pots.
I don't think that would take any fun from the game, it would actually be less frustrating when trying to collect all variants during an event.
I'm still missing all the new Marvel Fern variants and some Valentine's and Christmas variants and I am sure I'm not the only one. It's not for lack of effort but for lack of space and luck in getting the desired colors.
The suggestion I made seconding Elixirs, was for extra pots all year long. One extra pot could help a lot.

Elery, how many Marvel Fern, Valentine's and Christmas variants have you double? You can start a trading thread. We all have different doubles. With any variants you should have luck. OK, any variants where rare. Only that is the kniffel point.

Allone in 2012 I could get 12 Halloweens. It is your starting Halloween. Next year you will have about 20 Halloweens. But then you need about 30?

I don´t have every variant for some event plants. When I miss something I try to trade or I wait until next year. If I have more space to collect more event plants there will be less chalenge and I'll probably get bored because it will be easy.

Meine Ansicht hatte nicht die sehr dicht mit Events ausgestattete Weihnachts-Zeit berücksichtigt. Und ich ging davon aus, dass die bekannt gewordene Regel fix und global gilt. Dem ist nicht so.

Bei einer random-Regelung wären 5 Zuchtintervalle je Event sicherlich angemessen.
Wenn Events sich überschneiden, halte ich je nach Überschneidungs-Dichte 5 - 7 Event-Saat-Plätze für sinnvoll.

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By a random regulation 5 breeding intervals would be measured event absolutely.
If events overlap, I hold according the overlapping 5 - 7 event sowing places for sensible.

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I don´t have every variant for some event plants. When I miss something I try to trade or I wait until next year. If I have more space to collect more event plants there will be less chalenge and I'll probably get bored because it will be easy.

I have to disagree. The number of event plants is, in my opinion, getting out of hand, and I've been with the game long enough that I actually have an almost-complete compendium. I can't imagine how discouraging it must look to a newcomer -- if I were thinking of joining the game now, I'd probably decide not to just on the basis of how impossible it would be to catch up, and just based on how many of the dormant gardens went inactive with event plants in them, I know a lot of people leave in frustration during events.

Even as an established player, picking up the seeds and just getting the same old trees I already have (and knowing that my chances of trading for the new ones are probably nil because everybody's going to be trying to trade for them) is really dispiriting and not in keeping with the festive mood of the game. Two new trees and a new Christmas Star? Really? At least we have a decent amount of time this month (my big gripe about Halloween this year) but still. There's a difference between a challenge and a Herculean task, and we're already on that line, IMO.

Maybe if there were some way to tell what we're getting, or what the rules are, I wouldn't be getting so frustrated. But there was no logic behind the way the flaming trees virtually disappeared last year -- if things had been handled in keeping with the Jack-o-Lantern policy, all of the previous year's trees should have been breed-only and not just that one -- or why this year there are two new trees. The type of flower that you're going to get doesn't even seem to be encoded into the seed but randomized at the time that a plant becomes full-grown, based on the way many really old heathers in the Garden Helpers click-thread grew up to be the brand-new variety. The result is that there's no challenge or technique to the game other than just filling your pots as quickly as you can and hoping for the best. And with the overabundance of breeds, it's not enough pots anymore.

Sorry... this is really just bugging me. I've enjoyed the game a lot but lately it's become a source of frustration instead of a source of fun. The odds have just gotten way too skewed.

^ THIS.

My first batch of x-mas trees turned all out the old variant.... but I don´t need the old variants anymore, I want the new ones.
If this is going on like this, when do they want to start the x-mas event in the future? In July?

I have to admit I am a little frustrated too... with (at least) 2 new trees it will be really hard to collect them all... I breed my trees hoping to get a burn tree and I get a new one

I think the problem is that for many of us, the ONLY trees we got in our first batch of seeds were old variants. If we want the new ones, we only have about 2 out of 6 chances of it, since you've made it so that the old variants are available in the garden. This is the first time (other than Halloween) where this has been the case, so it's frustrating. I don't WANT more of the old variants; if I did, I would simply breed for them. I want the NEW variants, but since there's such a small chance, I probably won't get them.

I don't really want more seed slots, but I DO want a higher chance of the new seeds being the new variants. And that's not what I'm seeing.

I agree, I'm finding this event more frustrating than fun because of this.