And the ridiculousness continues.

[beckerbell]

► BIRTHDAY:→ You guys have about three more weeks! I was originally going to wait until the two week mark, but then I realized, hey, no, I never told you guys! I want Shun/Jun and Nino/Jun for my birthday. Well, or Aiba/Jun. Or Ohno/Jun. Or Sho/Jun. ....you see where I'm going with this, of course. *stares* You guys love me enough to do

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[beckerbell]

I really liked Cityville at first, but it's become such a bitch to play and I can't find a design for my city that I like and I hate looking at it and so I've kind of let it fall by the wayside. I feel badly, I'm a crap neighbor in it, but... ugh, Farmville has been so much more fun lately.

OH SHIT I HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN THE HOME FARM SHEEP PEN YET, I didn't even know about it! THAT'S GOING TO BE SO MANY MORE MATERIALS, AUGH. I'm actually enjoying that Zynga is rolling out so many things to keep us entertained, I certainly prefer this to things being too slow, but... man, sometimes it's really hard to keep up! I feel like I'm spending more and more and more time on it! (But a lot of that is hovering over my news feed, too. orz)

And I hate that the flowers take up the first page! If we could do something with them now, it'd be different! But we have to just keep scrolling over them and it's SUCH A PAIN. I wish they would let us just use all supplies with one click more often, like they do when you feed a lamb bottles. Especially the ones where you have to open the gift box EVERY SINGLE TIME you want to go get a particular item! (Vehicle parts, I AM LOOKING AT YOU GUYS.)

[sherryillk]

I've tried redoing my city, getting rid of the earlier houses I put up and putting better ones in their places but I don't play enough to get enough money to spend (because it crushes my soul a little each time I play) and it lags so much more than FarmVille does...

The Home Farm Sheep Pen is a reward for one of the Quests, the one after the radishes with the bunny. I was so excited about it...until I realized I had to build it. Now I'm slowly trying to gather up enough potions so I can bring every single pattern and color over to my Home Farm.

With FarmVille, it's like you let it slide for just a little bit, a few days, and you end up so far behind. I took a week off in March and now there are a handful of trees that I just don't have and I don't have nearly as many Special Delivery boxes as I used to and I just feel like I'm just trying to play catch up.

YES! Those vehicle parts are so annoying! They had it perfected on the Home Farm too so why the step back??? It frustrates me just thinking about it. But I am grateful that we can build up the Spring Garden faster -- I just wish it applied to all the other buildings and not just the Spring Garden.

[beckerbell]

I can spend hours on Cityville to painstakingly redesign it and I still hate the way it looks when I'm done. I'm kind of becoming convinced that there just isn't a good way to lay out the city (at least not without investing a lot of time/money, beyond what I want to do) and that sort of freed me up. If I can't make it cute, pfff, no thanks.

Oh, thank you for letting me know which quest it was! I'm working on the bunny one now (the radishes seriously take a long time to grow, jeez) so I'm not that far out from it! I'm happy about this because I have two polka-dotted sheep on my home farm and OMG FINALLY I WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE POLKA DOTS. (Now, I just need more colors from sheep that don't cost a RIDICULOUS $30 FV Cash!)

I can't imagine taking a week off! Or, god forbid, starting over! Sometimes I think my current farm is just too cluttered, that maybe I should just start over with a different account and then... as;dfjklaslkj can you imagine how far behind you'd be? It'd be torture!

Thankfully, most of my vehicles are fully upgraded and I never use anything but the combine anyway (but I did keep one double decker bus just because I felt like I should) but I don't know why they changed it! And, god, I'm so glad that you can just click click click click right in the Spring Garden because I would have seriously flipped a table otherwise.

[sherryillk]

Yeah, the thought of having to deal with CityVille for hours horrifies me. I can never play more than 10 minutes at a time as it is... Personally, I just want a clean-cut, non-cluttered city that looks like a functioning city rather than a bunch of crap push all together (which is how my city looks now). But you need decorations for extra money and they've made expanding even harder now that I just can't waste the space...

I ended up caving and buying the yellow ewe. *sigh* I've wasted more FV cash on sheep than anything else in this game! And I'm not even sure why... It's not like I have any of the cool sheep -- the mask one that I just saw popping up today, the striped band one that I haven't seen on my feed yet, the flashers or the camo sheep... Getting one by chance, getting a ram with the features by chance seems absolutely impossible right now.

Did they change it for the Home Farm too with the vehicle parts? I don't understand that at all. I haven't used a vehicle part on my Home Farm in ages since I've build everything up there already but in EC, it's a very slow work in progress with a couple of the vehicles... :\

[beckerbell]

I'm really not fond of the style of buildings, too. Well, the buildings are mostly fine, but the giant decorations on their store fronts never looks pretty! And I get so tired of the decorations never going well with pavement areas, because you can see they're meant for grass or vice versa. And you're right about the horrible lag times--I just want to move a few things around and within five minutes it'll start nearly freezing on me! And 500,000 for a tiny square of land is ridiculous and I don't even like most of the themes. (Except the Lunar New Year stuff, that kept me playing for awhile.)

I really wish people would say how they were getting some of these sheep! I don't mind putting in the work, just give me an idea! I'm frustrated with all this shooting in the dark!

Yeah, they changed it on the Home Farm, too. The worst part is always that couple of seconds I sit there waiting for the gift box to pop back up because I keep expecting it. It's somehow worse than the collection items where it takes a good ten seconds for the gift box to pop back open--I mean, WHY would you design something like that?

[sherryillk]

Is it still that expensive to expand for you? For me, it's back to 20,000 but it requires a certain population (which I didn't meet since all I have are businesses) and 40 zoning permits. It's insane -- I barely got 20 as it was! What neighbors I have left like to send Mystery Gifts and Energy, neither of which I need and begging for zoning permits does no good... It's like they want me to stop playing.

I heard that special sheep floating around haven't been released yet and are the product of hackers. But if that's so, then those sheep probably will cost even more FV cash once they do officially release.

The collection items do take a long time to pop up! I don't even wait any more, I just open up the gift box myself and continue on playing. But then it catches up with you and ends up popping the gift box at a time when you're not quite ready for it...

[beckerbell]

Did it go back to 20,000? I haven't checked in a few days, but last time I did it was still 500,000 coins/20 permits and it was definitely putting me off. Though, even if it went back to 20,000... I'm not sure that'd be enough to make me play even now. There are just SO MANY THINGS you need to ask your neighbors for that you have no chance to really get on your own, but you can really only ask once or twice a day. Even with, say, bottles on Farmville that run out quickly, you have a chance to get them on your own (through the newsfeed or SDs), but not with Cityville. (Also, anything that pops up on the newsfeed, I swear it takes 20 to 30 seconds for the entire page to load to get it to count for whatever bonus I'm trying to pick up. EVEN IN A SEPARATE TAB THAT GETS ANNOYING.)

I usually do the same when I'm doing a collection item and then I go to close the gift box and it'll pop right back up and al;sdkjfalskj if it opens again when I'm not expecting it, when I'm clicking up a storm (like if I'm trying to use 20 different building materials) I have totally wound up using something I should have. orz

[sherryillk]

Haha, talking about CityVille with you and how much it annoys me (you're right, it does take a long time for pages to load -- I can load like ten FarmVille ones in the time it takes for one CityVille page) has made me realize there's no point in me playing it. So I've stopped. And I've gotten rid of it and I'm not feeling all that bad about it. I actually feel pretty awesome, like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

[beckerbell]

You know, I think it's the same for me? I haven't deleted it from my applications yet, but I'm not even thinking, "....well, maybe later today...." about it. I feel a little badly because I friended some people just for Cityville, but I was a crap neighbor anyway and I would like to be free of this game.

(If I really need extra zPoints, I'll just go play Treasure Isle or Petville.)

[sherryillk]

I've more or less giving up on the zPoints thing too. All I really wanted were business for CityVille and trees from FarmVille and I've gotten the trees and given up on CityVille now so there really doesn't seem much of a point...

You know, I'm always appreciative when people visit my city and help out but I really just rather they clicked on every help post I post. Because they don't. I spent the last two weeks trying to get five leotards and I still need them. If that isn't an indication that I'm never going to succeed at CityVille, I don't know what is. And I like to think I'm an okay neighbor when it comes to gift giving in CityVille -- I would gift twice a day, even when I don't play which is more than some people do... :\