What Did We Play Yesterday?

I have been having a blast in FT2, and didn't bother blogging since it's just "THIS IS FUN Weeee".

It's holiday time! Maxed out the holiday event and made a little area. Originally it took up a whole plot but I have since condensed it to half a plot since the poinsettias really don't need to take up that much space.

I picked up the Meadow and Gothic expansions to treat myself and am thrilled with both. The only "issue" is the houses, especially the gothic one, are freaking huge. The Gothic pack has more stuff generally but I really dig the flower fences and art style of Meadow.

Lots of re-arranging and expanding favorite areas (since taking these screenshots I've rearranged at least 3 of those areas), I'm experimenting with less roads we'll see how that goes.

I've been playing a l o t of Dispatch, but never remember to take screenshots. It's grate! More discussion on my Dreamwidth. Bye!

I was thinking okay, I think I'm over FT2 for a bit. But then I started taking pictures of the things I've built lately and it really made me happy so idk I guess I'm gonna live here a bit longer.

I've been working on little livestock centric areas. I don't like having huge areas of animals. This game actually reduces the number of sprites for large animals,which I really appreciate (so 2 or 3 cows only shows as 1 cow) as it helps keep things less cluttered, but I'm gonna try just keeping small sections of animals. Livestock quests are rarer than crop quests so it's not a big deal.

I have an abundance of ribbons so I hired 2 farmhands, one to continually harvest the apple orchard and another to continuously harvest and plant a few crops that have really high unlock levels (carrots and peanuts, mostly). I'll usually toss a few flower pots at the edges of their area so those can get passive leveling as well. I've also begun fortifying most of my crop fields with sprinklers, which half the grow time.

I have plenty of diamonds for everything I wanna do BUT buying plots of land (up to 21k now), but I'm trying to do as much as I can with my existing plots before I CE more diamonds. I don't have a way to grind for diamonds that isn't boring (I kinda hate the mines and I enjoy harvesting what I feel like harvesting or completing quests but I don't like grind-planting to sell for diamonds). The first game had some crops that produce diamonds, but this game the only one so far is the halloween trees, and those cost 15 diamonds each so it takes a while to earn back the investment (2 harvests per year, so 7.5 years assuming you don't miss any fall/winter harvests which I certainly have).

I've unlocked both cinnamon trees now, so I could set up a spice farm with a farmhand. I'll have to check the conversion on ribbons to diamonds (it's funny to me I'm thinking of "downgrading" ribbons to diamonds but whatever.)

Living my best life.

I've reached the point where the bottleneck on unlocking new crops isn't the crops themselves, it's the farm level, so I decided to start focusing on making resource-specific areas. The flower garden/dolphin park is a work in progress as I experiment with tiles and see what they look like when mixed together in different ways. Digging the cobblestone ponds.

I unlocked koi! Very exciting. Unfortunately I won't unlock the other varieties for a while. Once I relocate all the salmon I can put koi there instead.

I keep unlocking things that make my farm look better, so I was able to redo some of the pondy areas and so on. I was gonna expand my tiered flower garden but I accidentally unlocked the wrong landscape plot (boo) so I'm focusing on the tropical crop area now.

Had the day off and spent a silly amount of time landscaping. Finally added the first stage of the massive flower garden (which blew through much of my millions of coins), expanded the bamboo forest, added a beach tropical resource thing that still needs work to replace the pond stuff with beach stuff and added a train and trout pond that definitely needs work because the water looks like it's flowing backwards on one section.

The train just sorta chugs along at its own pace, so it's less about getting from one place to another and more about chilling out and observing the farm. I'll set up an outside loop at some point.

Now that I'm getting into it I don't think I'll set up a grinding farm. Having unique resource-specific areas is working out well and having a couple of big grinding plots for quest crops will probably be enough.

I unlocked a ticket booth that allows exchanging random drop tickets for rewards. I may have farmed 6 tickets yesterday idk. No opinion on it at this time, I did prefer that they did away with tickets this game (until now anyway) and focused on diamonds and medals to pay for non crop/animal stuff.

Continuing to enjoy landscaping, and finally built the rainbow flower garden I've been meaning to do. Also discovered some decoration variants I hadn't noticed before (wagon filled with pumpkins... aaaaa) so I've been tidying and stashing things wherever.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this gaming session. I didn't want to fuss with grinding diamonds for decorating the house I never use so I set up a Cheat Engine script to give myself 50,000 diamonds which, in retrospect, was massively overkill. But that's okay because I used to do a bunch of landscaping. Expanded my pond bit (I'll have to rework it completely when I finally unlock koi) and set up a nice little relaxation area next to the house.

I decided I'd like to organize my farm with themed areas, so I'm gonna set up a bamboo grove, an apple orchard, and so on. When I get to level 100 I can unlock side farms and use those to set up boring grindy rows of things and get my crop levels up.

Decided to expand my Halloween section to be a full pumpkin patch. I figured out I'll unlock the Town Hall at level 100 (I think I'm at 86) and I look forward to having a utility place so I can focus on landscaping my main farm with less efficiency in mind.

Also playing the chill puzzle game Inbento, in which foods are neatly arranged in a child's lunchbox. For me, this one falls in the "Eh, it's fine," category, but I will continue to work on it.

Under the weather which makes it the perfect time to fiddle faddle in FT2. Put together a little seasonal pumpkin patch area. I also decided to get a bit more serious about leveling up my fruit trees and thinking ahead about how to set up a useful orchard.