Anybody else hate the garden events or is that just me?

[Bcat]

I hate the events where you have to grow flowers and catch creatures to obtain prizes.

There?s too many variables involved with them,

First: you have to do favors for animals to get the special seeds you can?t order. It?s random if you get the seeds you need or not

Second: if you grow the special flowers, it?s random if creatures will appear on them or not

Third: Even when the creatures do spawn, it?s about 50/50 whether or not you actually catch them or not. It?s so maddening!

As opposed to say, the recent crystal event where all you have to do is do favors for animals to get the rewards.
Your reward is directly proportional to how much time you put in playing the game and there?s only 1 chance variable of how many crystals you?ll get when you do the favors.

In the flower events you can spend hours playing and still have Rotten luck and not get all the furniture.
Plus in the crystal events, you can spend your crystals on whatever prize you want and get as many of them as you want! If you only want 10 crystal trees, you can certainly spend all your crystals on just that.
In the flower events he prizes are fixed, and you can?t get duplicates of items unless the game provides for them.

Don?t get me wrong, I love all the items in the lief event, and I?m going to try and get them all, I just needed to rant about it first

 

[Antonio]

I find the more complex and interesting besides just going to the animal and taking requests. It takes more effort and the prizes are worth it in the end.

You should probably wait till the fishing event arrives.

 

[J087]

Where were you during the butterfly drama?

 

[Bcat]

Where were you during the butterfly drama?

Lol the rover event frustrated me so much I took a hiatus for awhile

 

[Alienfish]

Yeah they are annoying, especially since they rely quite heavily on sharing and you going on and actually do that >_> Wish they'd dump those and just do something else.

 

[NiamhACPC]

No. I like them.

 

[wenom]

I really enjoy them, because of the items. However, they do frustrate me.
I am fortunate that I am able to have the time to actually play during the
day, but I imagine the vast majority of people don't have that luxury and
miss out a lot on events.​

 

[AndroGhostX]

I only "hate" them for two reasons.

1. Most of my animals are at max level and I don't see a point in interacting with them further. Plus recently I haven't bothered catching fish and bugs so I don't want to waste my items on them just to get flowers. I find it easier to get flowers by sharing, and I do have a couple of friends who I have a sharing system with xD

2. I'm trying to trade in all of the tulips and pansies to get the flower items and the garden events slow that process down. I literally just finished the tulips, and I have been playing since the game's pre- world release. Of course I could use fertilizer, but meh...

 

[Paperboy012305]

I like the event, the only drawbacks is 1: Its a lazy move. 2: It's time consuming.

 

[That Marshal Fangirl]

I dislike the format of gardening events too. The creature catch rate is ridiculous and getting seeds is tedious. I go through the motions because I want to collect all the items, but I'm not really having much fun.

 

[Livvy]

I actually really enjoy them and have found them fun so far. I haven't had trouble completing any of the garden events yet. I work and I'm a full-time student, but I usually play while I walk on the treadmill, during warm-ups/cool-downs (not while I'm running obviously haha). Doing this actually gets me to work out longer and get a little extra exercise. lmao Otherwise, during events, I just look at it when I take a break from homework/work.

 

[Chicha]

Yeah, so far, it's been tough to catch the yellow ladybugs. I had the same issue with Lottie's Gothic Festival or whatever it was; I missed out on the dumb set for that reason despite playing every day. x_x

At least I'm super interested in the items this time around. I'm weak for flower items.

 

[PaperCat]

this game hates me and makes me fail catching the bugs more than anything, esp the more rare ones.

 

[Chewy.7204]

You aren't alone. I am beginning to hate these things too. I also think that the basic two kinds of events are getting stale. Even though the change the items it's still the same mechanics underneath. Don't get me wrong, I love the items... just there could be more exciting tasks to obtain them. Even collecting flower seeds from villagers, and planting them and then giving them to Leif would be good. It's something new and different! Instead of boring ugh let's put a new coat of paint on this old event and put in a different npc every time for this one and alternate them because we are too lazy to code up something new real fast. (I'm sure that they are doing something better with their time. This is a rant... gotta add some pizzaz to spice it up and make me sound mad)

 

[amanda1983]

I was ready to never do another garden event after that first debacle. I was impressed with how the devs handled the feedback they received, and the level of communication in general though, so gave the next one a chance.

It's still not balanced right in my opinion, to much too chance and not enough emphasis on time + effort. But the events have genuinely improved, enough that I'm willing to keep doing them for now.

But gosh the tasks are all so dull and annoying to do at this point! I really hope there's some real changes coming through, more dialogue, quests, and the like. Coz I'm really sick of seeing animals still say 4 words to me when they meant to say 2 words (funny the first time, irritating after the first few hundred times..).

 

[joelmm]

The only part I do not like is the catch rate. If you put this catch rate down the amount of bugs you need to get the objects or eliminate the catch rate and you need many more bugs to get them all.

 

[Alienfish]

I dislike the format of gardening events too. The creature catch rate is ridiculous and getting seeds is tedious. I go through the motions because I want to collect all the items, but I'm not really having much fun.

Same, idk if catch one at a time is better than all at once but yeah that rate is the worst i've seen.. almost.

 

[MopyDream44]

I was ready to never do another garden event after that first debacle. I was impressed with how the devs handled the feedback they received, and the level of communication in general though, so gave the next one a chance.

I agree! They really improved the overall experience of the catch and share events based on the constructive feedback the community submitted. That's why I advocate submitting feedback to help the devs know what the community is enjoying and the things that they would like to see improved or changed.

I've been enjoying the Leif event so far even though I haven't been playing at the same pace that I had tackled the other capture/share events with. The rewards for the first half were surprising. I wish I had waited on purchasing the flower backgrounds, as I like the event one better, but it will be nice to mix and match. I was happy to have easier access to essences via rewards and the event flower trade. I'm trying to get my bounce house maxed. I have a feeling I will be playing the second half of the event more because the flower items I was most excited about aren't available during part one. Anyhoo, overall I've been happy with the events since they made the changes, though I am looking forward to the fishing event because it will offer something new (I think).

 

[TykiButterfree]

I do not like the garden events much either. I feel like with most of the events you need to be able to play for a while every day to get all of the items and most of the time I am too busy for that. It is also annoying to destroy my garden for an event just to get more spaces to plant flowers. I took out almost all of my flowers for the gothic rose event, but now I have one of every cosmos planted in a fun rainbow and I do not want to remove them. The catch rate is also pretty annoying. I hate how I consider it lucky to even catch half of the insects on rare flowers.

 

[Ras]

I like it other than the spawn and capture rate of the y. ladybugs. It’s much harder than any of the bats.