I believe that the White and Lucky Clovers can always be bred together, but only during the New Year season do you get Lucky ones instead of White. I know you can breed Valentine's Hearts to Bleeding Hearts all year, but unless it's Valentines you'll just get regular Bleeding Hearts -and- you can breed Jack-O-Lanterns to Pumpkins all year if you need more Pumpkins. So some fantastical plants DO breed with their "normal" counterparts all year, but you get normal plants unless it's the holiday season for the fantastical ones.
Posts by froglady
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Someone asked about the complexity of table pen-and-paper RPG's and "how you tell your story". In my experience, there are two very, very different and distinct types of RPG's. The kind I played in the 70's when I was in college (AD&D) used pen and paper and dice. The group was led by a "DungeonMaster", who had a book and map that he either bought or made himself. You had a character you made by rolling dice to determine your base stats (strength, agility, magic, defense, etc.). You kept track of your character on a card, including "experience points" you gained through adventuring and your stats increased by dice roll every time you gained an experience level. Your character had a race and a class, and each race and class had advantages and disadvantages. Elves had higher agility and magic but low strength, Humans had more strength and endurance, but less magic, Dwarves were immensely strong and intelligent, but not very agile, etc. Every enemy you met also had these attributes, and to defeat him you had to roll high enough on the dice. The DM would act as moderator, set the scene, tell the story, and you and your party would make decisions based on the situation. "You are in a cavern with myriad passages. Ahead you hear the sounds of a feast and merry-making. These are the Orcs who raided your city, you remind yourself. You're tempted to drink deeply of some of the casks of wine strewn about the torchlit passage. What do you do first?" I might say, "Roll the casks of wine into the door, forcing it open and mowing down the Orcs nearest the door to gain some fighting room for my party." Then we would roll dice to see if the door got knocked down, how much damage the Orc party sustained and how much bonus we got for surprise attack. Then each of us would have adversaries to battle with dice rolls to determine the winner. You got experience points, gold and loot for rewards. This is the type of game that the console RPG's (Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, etc.) are based on.
The other type of RPG has only surfaced since the internet started up. This type of role play is people pretending to be other types of people in different lands or times or even animals instead of people. This is basically a fiction-writing workshop done on forums, with the members being part of a group story-writing thread. I find most of these stories to be quite long (three or four times the length of this post), with the majority of sites requiring long posts. There are lots of rules about what you can and can't do on many sites (some allow graphic content and descriptive "mating" between the players, some don't). I've seen these sites, but never could get interested in them. To each his own, I guess. I never was comfortable taking someone else's character and writing about my character interacting with theirs or having them use my character in their story in ways I didn't think fit the character's personality.
The point being there is no "story" to tell about your character in the tabletop games. It's purely strategy, logic, ingenuity and luck. Your "story" is how long you've managed to survive, how many levels you've gained and how many great skills and cool equipment/loot you bring to the party with you. If you're talking to a fellow player at a party, you might talk about the most awesome victory your party ever pulled off, but that's more like talking to a friend who also played high school basketball about your best game ever. Character gets killed? Create another and move on. Sometimes it's a fun challenge to start over.
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I've gotten it recently, too, and not with multiple tabs open. I thought it was just because the snow queen game is now 200 points instead of 100 and it takes longer to play. But it definitely started recently.
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Yes, you get one "free gift" a day--either a cup of water to water with or a snail. If you use the cup of water, you don't get the snail. I just water all my plants with a game (when you win, choose the rainy clouds and every plant will get 1/2 drop of water), then I go picking snails. That way I don't punch the wrong "water" button and lose my snails.
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Our family's particular twist on Christmas was that we weren't allowed out of bed until my parents came to "wake" us on Christmas morning because my mother worked midnight shift, and she wanted to be there for gift opening. We would go to school after New Year and people would ask, "what did you get for Christmas?" And my sister and I would be all excited. "We got three new dresses (that Mother made) and a new coat and some pretty sweaters and mittens and scarves and hat (that Grandma knitted) and some new nightgowns and a robe (again, handmade) and slippers and *insert name of family game here*. "Oh, didn't you get any REAL presents?" We always got one thing we really wanted, like a certain doll or toy, but there were dozens of boxes under the tree (including underwear and socks) and our stockings were stuffed with chapsticks and pretty hairpins and ponytail holders. Our family didn't have a lot of extra cash, but we always got excited opening those clothes and didn't have a thought in our heads that we didn't get "real" presents.
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Even American Christmas customs are different. Where I come from in the time I grew up, it was common to put up the tree on the last Saturday of Advent. The whole family spent the evening singing carols and decorating the tree. From then until Christmas Eve everyone visited houses of family and friends to share cookies and cocoa (with a plate laid out for Santa on Christmas Eve). Guests brought cookies, hosts made cocoa or spiced cider. The stockings were stuffed a bit more each week of Advent with small toys, favors, new socks and candy canes and served as our Christmas Eve gift. The tree stayed up through Epiphany, January 6. New Year's Eve saw the stockings re-hung to be filled with oranges, apples and nuts and gold chocolate coins (for a prosperous New Year). I was really shocked to find out that people here in California put up the tree right after Thanksgiving and chuck it out the day after Christmas. And they never heard of New Year's stockings. So there are still local traditions out there, particularly in the rural US.
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Clovers and pigs are for German New Year's. They are both good luck charms. That's why one of the clovers has a pig on it. We in the US say, "you lucky dog", while German-speakers say "Schwein gehabt" (meaning literally "got a pig", but figuratively "you lucky pig" or "you lucked out there"). The New Year's pig is called "Glucksschwein" and is often given as a marzipan favor (often with a marzipan clover on it). Mushrooms are also lucky. I wish I knew more about German New Year's. My German great-grandfather (my mother and I called him Opa) passed away when I was in primary school, so I was too young to remember a lot of it. Perhaps some of the German regulars here on the forum could tell you more (or correct some of my deficiencies).
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Just wanted to pop in and add a reminder to folks to get some regular white clover for breeding the lucky clover. Its breeding season is very short, and you don't want to be caught out without regular clover to breed it with.
I, too, have the jerky problem with the snowball drop game, both versions. I have a Windows 8.1 computer with 6GB of RAM, but I don't have the fastest internet connection in the world. Perhaps it's more of a loading problem than a CPU rendering speed problem. -
I can confirm that there is only one Mint variety, so if you have one slot to spare you can complete your collection.
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"Plant orders" means "order of plants in the greenhouse". If you're watering from the greenhouse, plants WERE switching places as you water. It's been fixed.
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I would message this to you, Tru, but I thought it might help some other players as well. For the past several years, I have used a browser add-on called "Snap Links" (I think it's now "Snap Links Plus"). It's available for both FF and Chrome. What it does is give you a box when you right-click that you can "drag" over the links on a page and open them all in new tabs. It's wonderful for browser games where you have to care for a number of pets/flowers/adoptables from their individual pages. I just right-click, drag a box over the 4 seeds and the 4 sprouts all at once, then change tabs to care for them. The pages auto-update as you water, so you don't have to worry about them changing places. Just close each tab as you're done et voila! Super easy. As a matter of fact, Snap Links wasn't available for about a year and I almost went mental having to clickity click click click so much.
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Don't forget that not only do you need Poinsettias to breed with Christmas Trees to get Christmas Stars, you will also need some spare Poinsettias to breed your Christmas Stars with if you wish to save some of your Trees to breed with each other.
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I haven't had any problems with the site, but I also have not had to chase the clouds away for over a week. I chalked that up to having my signature in the holiday discussion board, where the flowers get lots more page views than usual during an event. Perhaps I was mistaken.
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Yippee! So it must be a browser problem somewhere. At least you can get your flowers now.
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One thing you can try if clearing the cache doesn't work is using a different browser (if you have one). If the other browser works, then you know it's something with your browser and not with the site. It could be as simple as not having your plugins or extensions up to date, or having an incompatible add-on installed to your browser. I play on one site that won't display graphics properly unless I disable the Firefox add-on that gives me big glassy buttons (I can see them better). Just something about the way that site works doesn't play well with some part of the add-on code.
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Once you get a Christmas Star (Christmas tree x Poinsettia), you can then breed it with a Poinsettia. You will get Christmas Stars during the breeding season, but only Poinsettias the rest of the year. But there are no parentless Christmas Stars. You have to get at least one somehow (breeding or gift or whatever) to breed it with Poinsettia. So the first Christmas you have here, you'll have to grow Christmas trees with your first crop, then breed trees with Poinsettias to get Christmas Star, which you can then breed with Poinsettia to get more Christmas Stars. I don't think it will be possible to breed/raise all variants of both trees and stars the first year, as there are too many and you'd have to be really lucky to get a different seedling out of each seed. Plus you get the Lucky Clover thrown in there at the end of the season, as well. That doesn't mean you can't fill in your blanks with donated plants from the kindness of others.
That's the cool thing about this game. I've been playing for a long time, and I've taken some breaks here and there. I've also had bad luck during some breeding seasons to not get the one variant I'm missing each year. So I still have a Christmas star variety I'm missing, as well as a Lucky Clover, two Christmas wreaths (which you can't breed, so I'll just have to hope for packages from the Post Pixie to get those). I'm also still missing a Heart of Valentine, an Easter bunny, a Jack-o-Lantern and a Snappy Tree Stump (but I still have hope for those, as I still have seeds and seedlings in my garden). It's nice, though, I just have to wait for next holiday to roll around and I have another chance to finish my collection and get some new shiny variant. -
Just FYI most of the fantastical versions of real flowers work that way. You must have Poinsettias at Christmas to breed Christmas Stars, you must have White Clover at New Year's to breed Lucky Clover, you must have Bleeding Hearts at Valentine's to breed Hearts of Valentine , you must have Male Fern at Midsummer to breed Marvel Fern, you must have pumpkins at Hallowe'en to breed Jack-o-lanterns. The confusing thing is that you will only get the fantastical version during the event. You can breed your Jack-o-Lanterns to your pumpkins year round if you don't mind getting only pumpkins. Same for the others. Only Witch Mushrooms and Easter Eggs and Christmas Trees breed to themselves, and they don't have the "breed" option the rest of the year. Christmas Trees can also be crossed with Poinsettia to get Christmas Star, but again only at Christmas. Confused enough, now?
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This sounds like a game I play on my tablet, where you randomly have a mine that gives only blue, red or yellow crystals and have to trade with others to get the two you are missing. I for one will never have the upgrades on the buildings that require the crystals, because I prefer games I can play all by myself and accomplish all tasks by myself. Gives me more of a feeling of completion and accomplishment. I don't mind sharing what I have, but I just don't really like being forced to be social.
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I don't think things were really so view/click driven as they were designed to make sure we logged in every so often and to get their page-views up to a point where the ads would be profitable. My first month or so here they changed it so you didn't have to water your already-grown plants. I have a feeling that people were getting frustrated/quitting after getting too many plants to keep up with watering each and every one AND there were more and more plants to keep up with all the time AND that increased the price of hosting the site, so some happy medium had to be found to get ad page-views without breaking the bank on hosting costs. So watering/sun changed from daily plant maintenance to only affect plant growth.
I still don't get the obsession with abandoned gardens. Why not just let them be? Some people tend their gardens and some don't, even in real life. I guess if people have that much free time to spend on tending the gardens of the players who quit, let them amuse themselves. In reality, though, it does increase the bandwidth the site uses each month, which is something the admins must pay for. I'm assuming this is one of the reasons why Yarrold's was blocked. Hundreds or thousands of extra page loads from the server daily must have stretched their pocketbooks to the max, especially when you realize that all this abandoned garden tending is not to anyone's benefit (except, perhaps, the completionist/perfectionist personalities out there trying to make every garden plant grow).
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I guess I don't know how this would benefit Flowergame, since it's not click-driven like a lot of adoptable sites are. I don't even put my flowers anywhere but on this forum, and simply play minigames to get what I need to grow my plants. It's not like you have to hatch an egg in x number of hours/days or it'll die. I refuse to play any click-driven games for this reason. I prefer to have the power to do things myself.