Retiring

:P I've decided to retire this blog. I'm just no longer motivated to update this.

Sorry. :(

Thanks for reading though!

I'll leave the url open. :D

SandFish

I feel it slipping away.

Today CS had made me mad.

That's because I spent 4 hours taking care of my 350+ trees, 62 plots, and 30 animals.

TWICE!

Yes twice... cs refused to save so I had to do it all again.
And doing it twice is what really bugs me.
once is okay...but twice, because it wouldn't save...well that's just :/

But I realized I must love cs enough to play for 4 hours ensuring my trees were harvested and watered because I didn't want to lose money.

And I also realize that I detest growing trees.
They are simply too much work, and too stressful.

and I vow I will never grow trees again especially in a huge amount except for:

• If CS introduces limited spirits
• For quests
• For tree spirits (though I think I'd rather buy them from the forum)

Trees are the stress of CS.

I'm sticking to animals all the way!


I also feel that cs is getting slower and slower. with more errors!

It's really quite sad.

It used to be okay, sometimes it would freeze when those losing connection error signs pop-up.
But I could always close my browser and reload, and it would be fairly smooth with minimal connection losses.

Then now, it's okay smooth, and doesn't freeze at all (except today... =.=) but those lose connection sign appears every 30 seconds and I feel that I'm not actually connected at all except for the first 1 minute I logged on. and I have to battle to save the game. It takes around 5 tries, if not more. then that means it won't save, and I have to do everything again.

I do not like this....

:/ Why CS why? Pet Society is slow but it doesn't lose connection ever. Though it does freeze and gets slow.

Restaurant City is slow, and sometimes freezes when I go too the menu/deco but not too often, although sometimes little glitchy stuff happens. It occasionally gets lost connection or cannot save. but very rarely. And visiting friends gets stuck loads, but I just don't do that anymore.

Country Story loses connection every 30 seconds, it's horrible to save, and has glitches here, there and everywhere....but why do I like it so much..?

I just wish their servers were better....

Well, all the unsure savings, another reason not to grow trees...if I can save I'll just give up and leave my animals/plots hungry or unharvested. As opposed to letting my fruit rot, go out of sync and lose money.

:/

Also...yellow ostriches are going away after this week.

But you could say they are disappearing already seeing as majority links cannot be clicked.
Well, I've got plenty, but am I greedy for wanting more?? lol

I just hope one of my real life friends got 1 ostrich.. :/

There's no hope this links prob is going to be fixed before they are gone.
They didn't fix the valentine's feeds did they??




And if you didn't already know I've opened my shop!!

It's not got much in it yet but I think I may add more soon.
But right now I'm buying loads. ;)

Check it out!

SandFish's CS shop

Well that's it for now!

Thanks!

No more Expiring gifts!

No more EXPIRING GIFTS!!

A SOLUTION HAS BEEN FOUND!!


I'm so happy about this. People please, spread the word, we don't want anymore expired gifts.

Post it as your status if you can!

By the way this also works for RC, and probably other apps too.

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To all the country story players, here's the way to send the stars to
ur friends without causing it to expire. The steps are as follow:

1. Choose ur friends and Click SEND gifts.

2. After that CS will prompt you to Invite ur friends. DO NOT click the
RED 'X'... to exit the box. CLICK 'SKIP' instead. In this way, the gifts
you have sent will not expire

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It works. I can confirm a few gifts already. People start testing it as soon as they know. HAHA.

EXCITED!!

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Enough CAPS!

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I'm going to reopen my trading shop.

It's in-progress now.

I spent a long time last night taking pictures and making images for my shop.

If I'm going to re-open it's going to be a grand re-opening with pictures and such!

:)

Can't wait!!

I'm excited. hehehe.

And also I'm going to edit the trading guide after I finish my shop.

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So today I planted a lot of trees to finish off the doggie quests.

I cleared out most of my decos, for space.

apparently I feel it's better to plant 1 batch of around 350 trees than do 2 smaller batchs or even smaller batches.

I don't know why.

I semi-regretted it after planting.

It looks slow and loads of work. Especially if the game loses connection...

But I can't go back now. after this I'm not planting trees for a long time except for quests.

Than I'll redecorate my farm. :D

I'm too excited right now. :D

Can't help it. Ahahaha well got to go plan my grand re-opening. among other things.

Will blog tomorrow. Go get your ostriches! I know I will.
I want 50!! (Maybe that's too much XD)

Sandfish

CS Days

It amazes me that I have not blogged since Sunday.

It doesn't feel that long to me O_O

But I shall blog today. :D

I have realized that some days are good CS days and some days are bad CS days.

Today was a bad CS day. And it's still early!

It took me 2 hours to do everything I wanted to on CS.

I reloaded at least 4 times.

Why? Because CS insists on losing connection every few seconds.

And although I love that it doesn't freeze as much anymore, having to close the game because I cannot save it, and then having to redo every single thing I already did because it didn't save.

Well that is just annoying.

and then there's things I can't do in-game like buying a ostrich because it's losing connection, so I have to reload just so I can buy an ostrich in the small frame of time before it loses connection.

Well, I just I have to get used to it.

Today I harvested my 1st batch of trees for the doggie quest.

Now I'm about 40% done of the 5th dog quest.
Actually it's more like I harvested the second half of my first batch of trees, the 4th season trees that were left behind.

I got quite a few sad spirits and 3 snowflake spirits, my first 3, needed to complete my magic trees.

:)

Soon I shall be finished with the doggie quest!!

And because of the new magic trees, and tons of ostriches (17 atm), and other things I feel the need to redecorate my farm soon. :)

Yay!

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Now Wednesday was a great CS day!

I'm not sure why but it was as if CS refused to lose connection, even once!

It was great, I completed everything I needed to smoothly. <3

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I'm also thinking of re-opening my cs shop, which closed due to..auto-sell.

And I need to redo my trading guide..though that doesn't seem to fun. :)
But with all the changes it's out dated now.

Yea, so I gotta do it....

:)

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Well, I don't really have much else to say.

Though I can't wait for the surprise that is big and can't jump.

I'm sure you all know it by now right?
If not check the CS fan page.

Everyone says elephant. But..what would elephants do?

Can't wait for the next update, since there was none this week

May post a picture of my farm when I redecorate...

Who knows?

:)

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CS trial pay

Hi everyone!!

I am proud to say, I have found time to blog! Instead of being wildly addicted to trying to get more Yellow Ostriches, Stars and clicks.


So, a couple days ago I was doing business on my farm as usual. Then I accidentally clicked on the Add Coins button, one of the many buttons I accidentally click on, which also include the Free Ostrich button. :)

So I clicked on it, and was about to close it when my eye catches something.

>> TRIAL PAY<< href="http://myspace.laymark.com/">

It loaded!!



what? only two options and both require you to buy either something that costs at least $50 USD or $50 Australian dollars, and it gives 23 playfish cash?

Awww....



Well at least there is a trial pay option for my country.
Hopefully they'll put in actual free options in the future.




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Today I also discovered that the Yellow Ostrich is very good for profit, if not the best animal.
12 hours for a 1200 ostrich eggs.

A normal Ostrich takes 24 hours for some reason. It seems to have changed from before.

Perhaps they are bugged and yellow Ostriches are supposed to be 24 hours.
It is strange to me that a free animal would be so good.

But I'm going to collect as many as possible. :)

Hopefully it is on purpose and they don't change it :D

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So I planted a bunch of trees today. Around 200+

This is for the dog collection quests.

I tried to maximize my space, so I could get them in the fewest possible batches.

By the time these trees are done I'll be at the 5th quest, if I don't mess up my harvests. :)

Then I think I can complete it with 1 more batch. 5th quest and 6th quest require so many trees.

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So I was wondering,

What is the most difficult part of getting Ostriches?

For me it's accepting gifts. :)

Clicking all the facebook gifts takes awhile.

But in the game it's even harder because it's slower.

That's probably the most painful part for me. :)
Not the clicking of links or anything.

But then again, posting a feed and buying the actual ostrich isn't that fun.

Sometimes the feed won't post. I get facebook errors or some other type of errors and I just can't post it. Causing me to reload the game again and again.

And sometimes buying ostriches won't work. No matter how many times I click the buy button sometimes it refuses to be bought.

Currently I have 12 Ostriches. Though I need to still buy 3 more. The buy button wouldn't work earlier.

I'm still getting ostriches. I may be a little nuts about it now. :)

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Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I finished half the blog post before I went to dinner but when I came back the was a blackout =.=

So obviously I couldn't post.

Just had some free time to finish blogging. :)

SandFish

Eight Ostriches

I've got eight Ostriches now. Working on 9.

I've got great friends. :D

This is just a update. I'll blog in more detail tomorrow or monday.
I'm actually very tired. (Not really, I stayed up too long so I don't feel tired anymore, but I need to sleep)

:) Felt like I needed to blog. :D

Hope you are all having fun playing CS. :D

Ostrich Fever!!

I've got Ostrich Fever!! Yes I do!! Click click click. :D

So I added an Ostrich counter. Sort of.
It says how many Ostriches I've currently got,as of now 4.

Some people just have tons of friends. The most I've seen to date is 8 Ostriches!!

:) I just love Ostriches. Ostrich farm!! Plus.. free...animals.. :) It's all good!

I'm spending so much time adding friends and clicking. :D

As for country story,

Well I completed the first of the dog collection quest.
But of course they throw you a curve ball, the 2nd one requires 15 apple harvests in addition to some of the new trees I don't remember which.
Since tree take 3/4 seasons, I think I'm just gonna do it slowly. Sure I could plant 15 apple trees now but then all the timing of tree will make it much too stressful.

So I'm just gonna do a batch of tree for each quest.

Unless people start posting the requirement for each quest up. So I can plan ahead the number of trees of each kind I need. But now I'm fumbling around in the dark.

:D Can't wait they are so cute. Cuter than the lambs in my opinion. Although one or two don't look very natural I still prefer dogs over lambs.

And I think I need more space...where am I going to put them ostriches??
But they may be a good profit. Can't wait till they grow up. <3

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The game seems to lose connection a lot more lately...
I'm not sure why. But it seems to freeze less as well.

Well...I don't really like losing connection. Because I'll never really know if what I'm doing is saved.

I once tried to do stuff while it was losing connection. Then I found out later that nothing had saved. (The game crashed, I didn't get to manual save)

Boy was I frustrated...

Then there's it losing connection and you do everything okay but you can't manual save...
It is really frustrating.
Plus the game is still slow for me.
Much better than last week but still slow.

Oh well. I don't completely hate the game now. Ostriches saved me.
Still I miss trading... :(

Snowbeary... <3

~SandFish

Off to get more ostriches!! *obsessed*

April 27th update

The April 27th Update has washed away all my Country Story blues from the previous update!!

I must say I did not expect an update today. I thought it would be on the usual date wed/thurs.

But it's a great update! The only thing that could make it better is if the made CC items tradeable again.

Okay here's a rundown of the update.

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The game is back to it normal (still slow) but normal speed.
Not that awful speed since the last update. It makes me feel loads better.
The queuing sort of works now, I can actually queue! amazing!
Although it still sometimes skips a few plots, it's much faster now.

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There is ANOTHER new magic tree.
Now gotta get it as well.
Thank god there is no more new spirits.
That's getting boring.
A blue tree. I like blue.
Looks kind of dangerous to me. Maybe the 3rd level will look nicer.



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And finally there are new regular trees!!

The regular trees have had a NEW sign on them for months!!
The new trees are Plum, Peach Lycee, and Pomegranate.
I can't wait to see what they look like when they are grown with fruit.
I grew some.

Also they are 3 seasons. AWESOME!!

I don't like 4 season trees, to long a commitment to log in everyday on time.
Stressful for me. Good thing there is no more 7 season trees!

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New collection quest!
Aren't those puppies cute?



I think they are. I love them more than the lambs.
Though I may be biased towards them. I love dogs
The pirate and gypsy are my favorite.
The ballerina looks a bit odd. lol.
Can't wait to get them. I wonder if all the quests are to do with the new trees. I planted tons just in case.

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I think the new fertilizer symbol is just great!
It really looks like fertilizer. Plain and simple.
I always thought the older versions looked too magical.
:D love it!


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And of course. The MAIN EVENT!!
FREE yellow ostriches!!
You need 50 friends to click on your feed link or to send you a star gift.


Each friend can click once a day. And send you a gift too.

And apparently it's staying in the game for a few WEEKS!!
Awesome! Did I mention you can get more than one?!

Yellow ostrich farm here I come!! Yes this is awesome. It makes me feel so much better about cs.
I like it. :D

So go collect your ostriches.

And you can add me for ostrich stars if you like.
No stealer/shakers please. ;)
Leave a note thanks!

OSTRICH HEAVEN!!

Sorry I HAVE to go get more ostrich stars!

~Sandfish

Expanding my horizons

Now that CC items have become untradeable, I feel like widening my horizons in PlayFish games.

My main goal in cs used to be to make money, and trade for rare cc items. (Because there aren't any good non-cc rare items)

Now that goal is gone. And although the trophy goal is still there...well..let's just say there isn't much I can do to speed that up. Not that I want to anyway.
I also still open the game to look after my lovely crops and animals.
I'm thinking I may hold a contest soon but who knows? I don't know what to give away anyway.

So I'm expanding into PS and perhaps RC as well.

Now I never used to really play PS.
PS is quite slow on my computer, and truthfully I don't really like taking care of my pet, and making money is just awful.

But I do love the cute items. Especially Plushies!!

So I'm starting a modest plushie collection. Any plushies I can get my hands on. I'm getting them! :)
I always wanted to do this, but before I wanted to keep my cs money for cc items. Well that problem is gone now!

As for RC. I'm not sure yet. But I'm considering trying to complete all my dishes.
That should be fun.
I'm going to start needing ingredients! :D

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I know as a CS blog I should probably talk more about cs.
But I don't see why I can't discuss other Playfish games.

And at the moment if I say anything about cs, it's all going to be complaining, and I don't want to do that. But hopefully the next update will bring new joys!
I'm looking forward to it.

And for now, I'm going to try editting the blog a bit.

Hopefully I don't ruin it. :)

SandFish

Country story is slow

Hello! Thanks to those people who check this blog often. I'm sorry I haven't blogged lately. Here are my excuses...

Country Story is slow, SandFish is lazy.

haha, horrible excuses really.

Well since the update I've gotten really lazy in logging in cs.

Possibly coincidence but I feel cs has gotten more slower than usual. But strange since I wasn't really affected by expansion.

But I feel my computer as a whole is running alot slower. That may be because according to the newspaper, there's some problem with the internet in my country and the internet may disconnect or not run as fast, until May 2nd ... that's too long...

Even browsing webpages is slow. That makes me want to play playfish games a lot.. *sarcasm*

But I shall keep trying!!

Unfortunately, the forum seems really really dead....it's really boring.

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Okay! I said I was going to try to find the good side of this update. And so I will try!
I wanted to put tons of picture here to make a cute post, to make up for being lazy..and not posting. But CS is much too slow for me to be taking screenshot
at the moment so I'm making do with. Cute emoticons!

Now when I first read the update thread on the forum I was like I can't believe they gave in and put in action queuing.

Then I found a thread that said CC items were no longer giftable and I was

Then I was






And now I'm



Though I hope they still reverse it.

Strange, that's the way I felt when they did auto-sell. I stubbornly went on strike, because I was sure they would reverse it or tell us something at least. After removing treants so fast I was sure they would. But they didn't and soon I wanted to play the game more than I wanted to keep my crops in-case they did reverse it.

But for this update its different. I no longer have the will power to play.

WAIT!!

I said I was going to find good stuff about this update.

The good stuff is...

...

...

Well at least they tried

Although the implementation of the queuing and manual screen dragging failed horribly.
In theory the queuing should make the game easier to play. Can't say anything about the new shop which they claim is easier. Perhaps I will go and count the number of clicks it takes before and after to buy stuff.

B for effort guys!


(I don't think they deserve and A for effort )

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Honestly I think playfish/ea are doing this


And one day this will happen


They are doing dangerous things.

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Quite frankly I'm still wondering the reason for auto-sell.

Does anybody recall they said something about new major updates in the future that has something to do with these??

Have they come yet?? I still have not seen a reason that auto-sell is required.
Other than becoming a FV clone.

But we'll see.

Anyway's everyone feels much richer after auto-sell


But despite feeling richer we still really just have the same amount of money. So even if hey put in a expensive bunny or expensive expansion, auto-sell is necessary. So I don't get it yet.

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Some people are losing their patience playfish.



the game is truly going down the drain.

I guess they honestly want us to find other activies

Reading


Video games. Which right now are more fun than a solo cs.

Faster too.

Eating


Playing with fireworks


Much more fun than doing this to your computer while playing cs.

Sometimes I feel like doing this to cs.

I used to love it though

Please fix this cs


The forums are a ghost town now.


Okay now I think I'm just saying useless things as an excuse to use more emoticons.
I know I was going to change the layout but my motivation to do it is gone now.
Now that cs is like this.

So bye for now. I'll blog tomorrow and not days for now.lol



SandFish

One by one by one...

Well, my mistake, you can deco decorations in cs, (that's what I get for listening to rumors on the forum) it's in the redecorate tab, you can sell your stuff.

My issue is, buying things, one by one by one....

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Today I logged on cs, and harvested my crops from before the update for the first time.

I tried the previous days, but cs was so so slow, I couldn't do anything and just gave up.

I've also tried queuing again. It's totally useless. I'm going to play the game as if there is no queuing. Wait for the action to be done. It should be slightly smoother that way.

Although the temptation to queue is still there. click click click click click wait wait wait.
It's tempting to queue, until you do queue, then you realize your awful mistake. :)

Some people seem to love the new queue feature. I guess those that's asked for it.

But personally, I don't see how a little "sign" appearing every time I do something, helps my game speed at all.

I also can't believe some people like the new dragging screen feature. I mean, one of the reasons I saw was "don't have to wait for the avatar to move so I can go to one part of my farm..."

That's true, but I figure... you need your avatar there to do anything anyway...

Though personally I think an option for auto-scroll vs drag would be nice.

I can't figure out why cs won't let us have options...

Though the new shops is quite a pain.

Decorating. Does it not take more time to open the deco shop, purchase the deco, then open redecorate the redecorate?? Before we could buy as we redecorated. The saves time.

Buying everything one by one by one. I don't know about you but this isn't a great feature.

For seeds, I used to buy all my seeds from the shop before I planted them. Why? Because I dislike the feature of buying as we plant. Those little coin numbers deducting from the top just in all makes things alot slower.

For decos, well I personally don't buy tons of 1 deco, except fences but I understand why this is painful. The whole thing is just more complicated. And we can't preview the items anymore.

For eating. Seriously? We can only eat 1 food, then the whole storage/shop closes and we have to open it again. Do you eat only 1 food? What a pain. So if I wanted to eat 10 lemonades I have to reopen it everytime? I've like 450 lemonade to be eaten...no to mention other things.

The new shop is just crowded, and complicated to use....

Dislike.


Now with this update they've removed

Treants, Xmas food, Old version IFs.

I suppose it's because this is "old" stuff, we can't get them anymore, and I'm guessing they take up some server space??

Well, treants if they aren't coming back, are now totally useless in-game. Even if it's for memory sake, playfish wouldn't think twice about removing them, if they reduce server usage or something. Although I must say, I read on the forum someone who had 25k treants... :O
They should at least give us the coins in compensation.

Xmas food. Well, they'd have no space in the new shop. People also keep them for memory. But we should be compensated in other foods worth the same stamina right?

The same with old Ifs. they changed them to instant fertilizer, and now they are gone. So people lost IFs. And seeing as they aren't tradeable, I think we should've been compensated.

Unless this losing of stuff is some horrible bug/error. we aren't getting them back...

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I think tomorrow I'll try, try, to see some good things from this update.
Can't complain forever. I guess....

:( bye bye cc items

April 19th Update

I'm sure you all know about the April 19th Update.
I'm sure you know all the horrible things about it.

And yet... I will express my hate for it, because I really just cannot like it.

Not one bit. I've tried, but there is nothing good about it. At all.
Usually there is at least something good about an update. But I can't find it.

Okay, SandFish's summary of the update.

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Queue Actions

Quite frankly, I can't believe playfish even implemented this. I honestly never played FV long enough to know it's features, so maybe FV has this and PF is copying. But honestly??

So many things they've done recently, is giving in to little bitty details from people who are apparently too lazy to click. I mean, auto-tool?? And now queuing?

Screams laziness to me.

And the point is, not that they put it in, but they didn't think of the slowness that majority people experience playing this game. I've not found 1 person who can ALWAYS play the game smoothy with zero slowness, zero lagging and zero jerking.

I tired this queuing thing yesterday. My computer isn't great, and the game isn't great.

So by the time I click on the next plot to queue it up, the plot I was already working on is finished. And the queuing doesn't do much.

Not to mention, a big problem with everyone, is that the queuing clicks sometimes don't register at all, so sometimes plots are missed.

I tried it once yesterday, and kept missing tons of plots, and having to reclick them, and My little avatar was running back and forth and back and forth, and of course coins flying everywhere.

Then my computer froze. This much animation is really too much. I normally click things slower anyway to reduce the coin animation and lag. I have no use for clicking clicking clicking then waiting. It's slow.

I shut down firefox and didn't bother to open it again and harvest my crop because it was a horrific experience.

The only thing I can say about it, is that it's probably a GOOD thing the screen doesn't auto-scroll, I bet that would cause even more slowness while queuing.

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No more auto-scroll

The screen no longer scrolls when you walk.

Although a serious matter, it's quite funny the amount of people who came on the forums wondering why their screen can't move and how to walk down.

This makes me think of one thing. Playfish mail. Have you read those? They only list good things in the mail. They don't explain anything. No explanation of how to use the new user interface etc. On the no IF gifting update, they never even said that's not possible anymore.

Thus many users who don't gift IF regularly won't realize until later.

But on the point of auto-scrolling. Here's why dragging won't work for cs, but it will for rc

In rc you don't have to move the screen alot. Face it. Sure there are decorations everywhere. But the actual necessity of moving is not alot. You can probably see all your chefs and waiters in one screen.

Unless you decide to put your chefs, waiters, toliets, or whatever all away from each other... nobody really does that.

So if you are looking at your chef/waiter/customers, you really don't need to move to see them all.

UNLIKE, cs. In cs moving is vital to the game.

In cs you need to see and click the aspects that work. Plots, animals, trees.

And unless you play in full zoom out the whole time, most likely things won't fit on the screen.

Thus you have to move alot. And dragging is a pain, especially when the game is already slow for you.

And I think, doesn't really work well for macs. I've only ever used a mac for a few minutes and I couldn't even do a simple thing like right-click, much less drag.

So it doesn't really work well for cs. Unless you are able to see much more in your screen.

But now, in full zoom in, you have to drag quite alot to reach the otherside of your farm.

I prefer auto-scroll as this is a pain.

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New shops

They tricked us with words!! That banner sitting over hotel city promised us new shops.

What we got is more "redesgined shops"

And in my opinion, it's bad..

One thing is, I don't like in-game pop-ups, I feel it slows down the game compared to the old shops.

I'm also not sure if this is true, but I feel like I'm doing a whole lot more clicking in the shops.

And the shop seems more crowded because there are so many "buy" buttons and suchs crowding the place.

The actual items are so small!! And we can't preview the items!

I prefer the old shops.

I mean, before wide-screen it wasn't all the pleasurable, having to scroll down to see the shops, and scroll up to see your money. But after wide-screen I can see everything in one screen, no need to scroll.

So this new method for me, is...more difficult.

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A few insignificant details

Did anyone notice the crops are smaller?
Perhaps it's just my coloured chili crops, but I'm sure they are smaller now than before.

And is it just me or is the new snowflake spirit just a really ugly version of the holiday spirit??

:)

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No selling decos

I haven't seen it myself. I only logged in once after the update, and haven't bothered today...
But apparently we can't sell stuff anymore??

If this is true that is lame. Are we just going to let stuff pile up in our storage??

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No gifting CC

Of everything that irks me from this update, this is the kill-shot.

Remember me saying I probably wouldn't quit unless CS did something horrible?
This could be it.

If CC items aren't giftable again, I've lost my purpose in this game.

I mean, the game is no practically a solo game. And I don't like solo games.

I'm also very very mad that CS won't let me get my snowbear and snow rabbit.
I was only a few days from getting it.

And perhaps also making a deal for old cc flowers.

And I was in the middle of a CC trade.

This is very frustrating. Just when I bought CC.

Well if they won't change this back, I'm definitely never buying CC again.

And maybe I'll quit. I've no idea.

This is the dumbest thing they could have done.

I know people who buy CC purely for trading..

EA are fools.

FV is not great. That's why we play CS.

If EA/PF can't figure that out then they aren't smart.

Way to run a business.

any new players they get will only like the game because they've never experienced the better version of CS.

And that's all I'm ever going say to about this matter, because I hate it.

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I hope they do change it back.

I could live with auto-sell, untradeable IFs, but not this.

We'll just have to see what happens now.

~SandFish

Purchasing of PFC

Hello. I'm currently thinking of a new layout for this blog. I'm also testing a new visitor count widget to the left. (Yes it's ugly) But I think I can change it to make it look nice. I'm still messing around with it. I like it because it has a stats page so I can see how many people view per day. Instead of the ever increasing counter that doesn't really tell me anything.

So blog is under semi-construction, but hopefully I can make it nice soon.

I'd like to thank Mauros Pit for linking me from his blog. (Even though I can't read a thing on his blog, hehe) Thank you!

:D

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Today, I purchased PlayFish Cash!

I've been debating about it for a while. And two certain people were pressuring me to buy. They know who they are (but do they read this?) :)

And it's just joking pressure, not peer pressure. :)

I have other reasons for buying it that pushed me to the other side of the fence. I may tell you in a couple days time.

But I really just love love love CS. It's a little upsetting that I won't be able to trade for CCs as often now. Perhaps that influenced my decision to buy. But I don't really think so. I don't have big plans to splurge on new CC items every week. Expensive!!

One thing I've always wanted are CC animals.

You would've thought they'd make em trade-able by now, but I guess they are just making things un-trade-able. ;)

But yes, those cute CC animals are loved.

However for the meantime I'm not going to buy a single one!
Yes to buy all except dog and yellow chicken, I need to fork out 125cc....
Expensive. I plan on charging 1 more time for 120cc, so perhaps I'll buy them after I get the darn free invited ostrich. But for now, use my will to not buy!!

Now Playfish cash is quite expensive for an income-less student like me.
Though I do think that since I love CS so much it's worth it.

I seriously do not think I will quit anytime soon. Unless things in real life change.

Or they manage to change cs so much it becomes unrecognizable. :O

Now years and years ago....I've spent too much money on online games. I don't even know how much.. too much...

I really don't have much regret on spending that money because I liked those games at that time.

People pay for their own hobbies right? Why not online games? Because it's "pixels"?

If it makes you happy it makes you happy.

To be honest, I was so excited about buying CCs, I couldn't really sleep... lol.
But it doesn't make me happy!

The only regret I have on spending money before is...I wish I had that money now to spend! :D

(But if I hadn't spent it, it would've gone somewhere else I guarantee)

I may not have a lot of spendable money, but I don't have things to pay for either. At least not yet... (rent etc etc)

So I'm allowed to have this attitude!

;)

I figured out that, (because of the payment method I use) if my country's currency becomes more valuable against USA, I can get CC cheaper! Well, it's something to think about... don't buy cc when my currency is weak. exchange rates.

I'm sure the price dropped RM2 (very little lol) from a couple weeks ago. And 10 sen from yesterday...

...yay.... :D

Have to pay extra $1.60 dollars for.. "tax" or some kind of service charge because of the method I'm using... : / Oh well everyone's gotta make money yea??

:D

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Too many smileys in this post....

Must be a smiley day for me. I added smileys everywhere.

2mrw!! I shall try and add pictures.

Because they are pretty ya?

Thanks~

~SandFish

No update this week!!

Sorry I haven't updated.

I planned to skip weds, and was going to do a thurs post for the update. But there was none.
Then I couldn't access my internet, something was wrong with it. Got it fixed though. :D

I think I'll change the layout soon. :D

But I need time to think about it.

In the meantime, I'd like to thank anyone who looked at the blog when there was no post.

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Today I shall not post long because... I feel busy today. Even though I don't think I've much to do. But it's a weird feeling, so short post today. Maybe a long one tomorrow.

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Today, I am sad that there is no update.

I was anxiously anticipating an update. After the last few updates I felt that there would be no major update. Maybe new items. Obviously there wasn't even that! I needed new items!! My farm screams for something un-jewelry. Though I admit the jewel items weren't horrible. I can pass off those mushrooms in my farm.

In fact I'm planning on making a small section for them some weird mushroom theme maybe. One of my friends really like mushrooms. Is it just me or did anyone else think the mushrooms looked like the alice in wonderland theme mushroom? What's it called? Colourful mushroom?
:)

Perhaps I should post a picture of my farm one day.

But I'd really like new items! :D It's kind of sad that trading is crumbling away. Some of those CC items are to die for!

Unfortunately there ploy may be working.

I've felt like purchasing some CC myself. Though I don't think I could by enough to pay for new CC items every single week. :O

Well, it's kind of sad there aren't any new items.

Though there is definitely anticipation for the update next week. I wonder what will be in it?

I haven't seen this but apparently there's a banner over the Hotel City game advertising a new shop in Country Story. What could it be? Construction?!

I hope it's in next weeks update. Along with new items!! Can't wait! ^_^

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SandFish

The Mayor

Thanks for the feedback! I'm going to try and add more pictures! ;)

Does anyone think I should change to a 2-column blog?

I saw my previous post looks very long because the width is small.

Well I shall think about it.

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Today I feel like talking about the Mayor.

The man who runs Country Story.

Who implemented auto-sell, auto-tell, who outlawed trading of Instant Fertilizers, who forbid fake trees (deco trees), who obliterated the village....

Haha just kidding.

The Mayor is actually a nice person.

Doesn't anybody remember?

When we first moved into Country Story, the Mayor kindly visited us and taught us how to farm.

How to plow, seed, and water a plot.

And how to steal from our friends!! (As a harmless joke)

And what is that thing sitting on it's head? Some kind of alive vegetable/fruit creature?

What do you think?? The Mayor can't be that bad, since that cute creature loves him and is always sitting on his head!

Unfortunately, the Mayor has come under some bad light.

His new rules and policies aren't liked by a lot of people.

And this warning below doesn't help either

I'm afraid the Mayor may not get re-elected next year.

It's quite sad, though I understand people's feelings. The vanishing of an entire village won't help with voters.

But don't you think he looks like an old friendly grandpa? With a cute creature on his head!!

:D Remember the great things about the Mayor!

Vote to get the Mayor re-elected this year!!

Wait what's his name again.....??? :S

He'll give you a cake!!
(Haha I was googling and I thought this cake looks delicious, [sugary and fattening] but delicious)


So show the Mayor some LOVE!!

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Does anyone know where to get some cute emoticons??