Posts by Ardath

Looks like it may have been fixed! :)?

I bred several lucky clovers on Tuesday the 30th, and for some reason they are refusing to sprout. I kept them watered and in full sun, and picked up a snail every day -- in theory, they should have sprouted sometime during the day of Saturday, January 3 (as defined by the game) but they still haven't. Is there something different about the lucky clovers? (I don't recall there ever having been in the past.) Since the game clock now says it's January 4, they definitely seem to be overdue.

It's been really fun. Not stressing over which seed might grow into the newest plant has let me focus on breeding for other people. It's been nice and relaxing. Just what I needed after the Semester Of Doom.

I'm kind of grateful for that. It means that I can focus on catching up on things I missed, and breeding for/gifting to others, without fretting over whether I have a chance at catching all the new things. That feels a whole lot merrier to me.

Weirdly enough, the other day when I'd looked at my lucky clovers, they hadn't shown a breeding link. Not sure why they would have been. They were supposed to start producing lucky clovers a few days ago, though... but when I finally saw a "breed" link and tried it, I got a regular clover even though it was supposed to be within the holiday breeding window. I'm leery of trying again until I get verification that they're really available. :-/

Edit: They're available! I spotted one in the wild garden, so I tried breeding again and this time it worked!

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By the way, it looks like they forgot to turn on the Christmas Market this year.

Yeah, and lucky clovers aren't breedable yet, either. I hope everything is okay!

Editing to add: Okay, now breeding shows for lucky clovers (it didn't before) but when I bred one of mine I got a white clover instead of a lucky clover.

Ooh, that's gorgeous! Crossing fingers that I get one!

Snails may appear later, but my experience is that you can either water your plant with the cup (when it is under 4 full drops) or pluck off a snail (when it has 4 or more drops) and once you have done one action, the other is unavailable until a certain amount of time has passed. Try just using your watering can to get a new plant to 4 drops or higher, and then see if the snail appears.

If you use the "cup of water," as opposed to the "water" option listed in Actions, you won't see the snails. That might be the issue. I accidentally used the cup one time when I was in a rush, and discovered that afterwards, the snails never appeared even though it was time for them to. Make sure you're always watering from your can, and you should see the snails again.

*crossing my fingers that Christmas Star breeding will start soon*

In theory, I suppose the arrows would use your sort rules to determine which plants were next? Image gallery programs do that. If you sort by image name, and then start up the slideshow (or back/next individual view) it moves through the images by name. If you switch to sorting by file name, the slideshow switches. So the scripts for doing something like this are already in use, although I don't know how readily they can be adapted to the FlowerGame code.

Thank you, Exterminans! It's so nice to be able to count on plant orders again.

Oh wow! I have been having the same problem for a few days, and I just thought it was my browser behaving badly. I had to do a system restore on my computer and have been digging out tiny glitches ever since, and I just thought it was one of them. I'm glad to hear that this is being worked on. I'll stop maligning my poor innocent browser now. XD

I just had another round of jack-o-lanterns grow up, and still no sign of the new one. Has anybody seen it yet?

I just saw a parentless jack-o-lantern in the Wild Garden. Looks like they're available there now. Still no question marks by the Audreys or the tree stumps, though.

Editing to add: Has anybody actually seen the new jack-o-lantern yet? My first four grew up to be older varieties.

downforeveryoneorjustme.com reported the whole site as offline for a while last night -- I couldn't get into my garden or on here at all, although pictures of people's flowers still showed up just fine on other sites. Looks like it's resolved now, though.

Looks like the event must have just ended. I went to do another round of breeding, and bred a male fern instead of a marvel fern.

I think that's pretty much how Dragon Cave does it -- the week before a new holiday release, the older holiday dragons can breed. The thing about that is that it's still impossible to get a caveborn version of the older releases, so people might not be able to get those dragons at all without the breeding lead-up week. It's not really as critical over here, because (1) most of the holiday plants (but, sadly, not all) are still available from the wild garden during their holiday and (2) they aren't actually any rarer than the new holiday plant -- something that actually makes it a lot easier to get an older holiday plant for free from other users who already have as many of them as they want. (At the moment, it's actually harder to get/trade for newer plants because everybody wants some of those.) I'm more impressed with our admins' current solution, which has been to allow the event to run for a longer period of time than we originally expected. That seems to be giving most people a fair shot at getting the colors they want.

While I like trading, and the interactive element that goes with it (when I'm not so bogged down by school that I'm incapable of it), I can't get behind anything that would randomly disadvantage people and that they wouldn't have a shot at overcoming. Something that prevented people from ever being able to raise a particular plant in their own garden would, I think, alienate a lot of users once they realized it. Users who don't use/check the forums wouldn't be able to figure out why they couldn't get rid of a question mark no matter how hard they tried, and when they DID figure it out, they might feel cheated. Some users have legitimate barriers that prevent them from interacting on message boards, but don't prevent them from playing the game, and might feel discriminated against.

And personally, one of my peeves with DC is that I will only ever have ONE type of snow angel on my scroll, and I wasn't even allowed to choose which one it would be... I'd rather not have that happen in another game again.

I'm hoping it will go on for a few more hours. I'm desperately waiting for my seeds to sprout and hoping that they will before I'm no longer able to breed, because I was only able to breed on (for me) the evening of the 23rd, which was early on the 24th by the game clock. So if things end before they sprout I'm out of luck, although I'm just mostly going for pretty lineages anyway.

Edit: Whew, made it!