New suggestion on obstacles
nichocb
Mazter GuardianRegistered User Posts: 475 Colossal Titan Slayer
I'm hoping after they finish playing "expansion to 28x28 catch-up" they release the parts in SDB's. (We still have 1/2 of Atlantis, EG, and ML to go) My suspicion is they won't put them in SDB's until sometime after then. (I would love to be wrong and see it earlier.) Hopefully when they update the SDB's, they will at least go up to MG (latest farm that has 28x28 expansions).
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I hope so too - I really like the Atlantis farm, but stopped playing on it as the obstacles were driving me mad! We've been waiting well over 2 years for the SDB's to be updated so it's about time they do! It's been requested enough by players on the forums - I just wish they would listen to us.
They want us to work harder to clear the obstacles. It would be far too easy if we could do it with SBDs. But that's just my thought.
It's been closer to a year since the SDB's were updated. Maybe 1.5 years. The last farms added to them were HH and ML - and it was a couple weeks after we got a bunch of expansions for HH (I had almost cleared all the obstacles when they were updated).
SDBs also need to be updated. It seems the newbies working on this game are totally clueless as to how things were running before they got assigned to this game and nobody knows how it should be done but the players.
I think they are waiting on the SDB's to make sure they have gotten every FC they can from the obstacles. The question I have is how long it will take for them to release them after we get EG & ML expansions.
I had wondered about when they had last updated. All I remembered it was after the HH expansions were released. I think ML was also included in the update (at least they are in SDB's according to one of my friends)
They updated the SBDs to include parts for the Winter Wonderland treasures on 03/19/2012, more than two years ago. Here's a link to the announcement for reference: http://blog.farmville.com/2012/03/special-delivery-box-updates.html
I can't remember when they included the parts for HP and JF (and I can't find an announcement). But I'm pretty sure it's been more than two years also. I don't know about Mistletoe Lane because I cleared those early on. I do know that we cannot use SDBs to clear obstacles on Enchanted Glen because I kept three trolls as decorations and test them regularly.
Edit: I just remembered that I kept one obstacle on Mistletoe Lane as a decoration. I tested and you can use SBDs to obtain the parts.
I also kept one obstacle on the Atlantis farm as a decoration (love the seashells) and cannot use SDBs to open it.
HH and ML were released end of 2012, so the last SDB update must have been sometime in 2013. It looks like we got coin expansions for HH mid-December 2012 (according to some of the fan site posts I found in a google search). I know I had worked on the tombs for a while before the parts were in SDB's - I was almost finished with them. So maybe January or February 2013? That would put the last SDB update at about a year and a half.
Brenda
Dirt Farmer is reporting that they released two new coin expansions for Atlantis. I don't have time to travel there right now because I'm getting ready to run to the store. But you're right - they are definitely picking up the pace with coin expansions. Hopefully updates to SDBs will follow soon.
Hopefully they will feel that they can update the SDB's through MG at that point. (Only a hope, with nothing really to base it on)
Then maybe they will start to release expansions for HL (and forward). I suspect the expansions will slow down at that point (since they will almost be caught up)
I will only have the incentive to expand these farms if they make it easier to gain the prizes from the obstacles. I am just hoping that the SDB's will be updated accordingly once these expansion sales are over.
I can certainly understand your point of view re expanding your farm. The only thing I will add is that it is easier to get parts when other farmers are working on them. For example, right now is a good time to get parts for Atlantis.