Posts by SolarCat

    It is fixed now - no one should have a problem!

    Apparently it did have something to do with GoogleAds. They had it all fixed but Google still hadn't "approved" them. So they had to wait until they were resubmitted, or whatever. I just got through reading 5-6 pages on their forum and I feel bad for them. There was nothing wrong with the game itself. Anyway, it's up and running without that red warning page now and I'm back to playing my zoo game, so I'm glad Google finally gave them the green light! What an awful thing to have happen to your work, you know?

    ...Especially since GoogleAds caused it, but then Google blocked them...

    But that would explain why last week Google was telling me that Gmail was malware, so their own sites were not immune either.

    SolarCat, I'm also not the type who has chat permanently on ;) But if you minimize it, it's completely unobtrusive and blends in with the green background :) And it doesn't pop up with every link you click, once minimized it stays like that until you click it.

    It stays minimized, yes.
    It's the login popup that's stalking me, because I'm not logged in.

    At the moment we do some experiments with the chat. Things we change the next days:

    • Add a disable chat option in your settings menu
    • Add a timestamp for messages

    what do you think about having to Chatboxes one for German and one for English?


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    Momentan experimentieren wir noch ein wenig mit dem Chat. Sachen die wir in den nächsten Tagen ändern werden:

    • Eine Möglichkeit unter Einstellungen den Chat zu deaktivieren.
    • Anzeige wann eine Nachricht abgeschickt wurde.

    Was haltet ihr davon zwei Chateboxen zu haben. Einen für Deutsch und einen für Englisch?

    How about a button to log into the chat rather than the popup continually appearing on every page?
    Some people are not permitted to join forums by their parents and so will not be able to participate in the chat anyway.
    Others, like me, would want to pick and choose when to log in, and to be honest I am not going to do much in the game until it stops spamming me with the chat login popup every link I click.

    I think it's important that anything purchased with real money be carefully chosen so that it does not unbalance the game.

    Simple example:
    - Being able to grow a seed quickly into a sprout = bad, because people will be able to quickly boost their gardens since there is a limit on the number of growing seeds a person can have. This would especially be frustrating to other players during holidays.
    - Being able to grow a sprout quickly into a full-grown plant = good, people may pay cash to faster determine the color variation of their plants so that they can trade for different variations, hence they might be able to finish their color collections faster, BUT it does not allow them to gain extra plants, so they are limited to the seeds they have collected themselves when it comes time to grow/trade. For example, with the bred-only witch mushrooms, the paying players may have been able to obtain a full compliment of the bred-only colors, but non-paying players could still obtain them next year, and would still have an equivalent-to-the-paying-players number of witch mushrooms to use for trading or next-year's breeding. The faster grow time could have also alerted the player base that there WERE bred-only color variations, meaning that more would have been bred in-season, which would have helped everyone.

    The question is on behalf of another player that missed Saint Patrick's and Easter. Is there any way for them to get their Wintergarden in the future or is that no longer possible?

    Yes! :)

    You got the atrium for raising 3 plants, the wintergarden will follow once you have 15 full grown plants. (Plants gifted by other players don't count.)

    Any adult plant in your garden can breed, as long as you have another flower it will pair with.
    It won't breed by itself, though - you have to click the "Breed" option on the flower and then choose which other flower to breed it with.
    Also, if you want to keep the resultant seed, you have to have less than three seeds currently.

    Funny fact btw.: Not a single user has a complete compendium to date.

    This fact is not surprising.
    Heart of Valentine has two colorations but those who got one only got one flower.
    Easter Egg/Rabbit had three variations but nobody could earn more than two without trading.
    (Plus Phlox were just released, and I don't think any had grown up by this post).

    I would be curious to know how many flowers are missing from whoever is the closest.

    I think the Mix/shuffle was added because it became possible to run out of moves and be forced to leave the mini-game without finishing. This could be annoying to some players with the length of time this one takes in comparison to others. Good addition in my book. And it might be possible to have to Mix/shuffle twice in a row if the new random placement did not leave you with any moves.

    I had one game where the initial placement of flowers already had no available moves, so my first try I had to shuffle.
    I believe that shuffle is a good addition, and easier to code. The alternative would be coding the game to guarantee that it was possible to win, which would be much more difficult to write into the software.


    Ich hatte ein Spiel, in dem die Anfangsplazierung der Blumen bereits keine vorhandenen Bewegungen hatte, also meinen ersten Versuch, die ich schlurfen musste. Ich glaube, dass Schlurfen ein guter Zusatz ist, und einfacher zu kodieren. Die Alternative würde das Spiel kodieren, um zu garantieren, dass zu gewinnen war möglich, das viel schwieriger, in die Software zu schreiben sein würde.

    Oh. Mercy, SolarCat. So I got my second Marvel Fern. It was random, luck? I'm double happy. :love: But the rules they wants to by write down. It's heavy to understand correctly something.


    It is confusing, I know. Especially trying to give instructions in two different languages. :)
    No apologies necessary! Just thought I'd pop in and share what I know, so that hopefully we can find the truth together.

    From the way I understand it, breeding a marvel fern is sort of like breeding the toothed dandelion.
    You have a small chance of getting one when breeding two regular male ferns together.
    You have a better but not guaranteed chance if one of the ferns is already the marvel fern.
    You can't breed two marvel ferns together.

    The Atrium is not linked to the Marvel Fern.
    You have to grow a certain number of plants to adulthood (after the change) and then the game will give it to you automatically..

    For those of you who didn't manage to get them, don't worry about the Atrium. You get it as soon as you have grow up three flowers in your garden.

    I believe it means once you have three that you grow to adulthood since the change, rather than "at least three plants" or "get three new adults."