Side note 1. She has a varied PC game lineup - Rift, Darkest Dungeon, WoW, Banished, Plants vs Zombies, Minecraft, House/Garden Flipper, Stardew Valley, Planetbase, Gravceyard Keeper, Subnautica, Cities Skylines, Dawn of Man, Peggle, Papers Please..... - To name a few.
The best example of the online variety would be Farmville; She used to play it a lot but after it got it's second full wipe/reset(Newer version again, again) she was peeved. Not that she pays for any of the items. She doesn't play them for that, she has always done free to play, for the fun. But to loose all you worked for, events you participated in. Time and effort. It didn't take much persuasion to suggest she abandon that type of game altogether.
Side note 2. People who want game resets are nuts. Take Eve Online, there has been serious community consideration for a game reset. NUTS. I know I'd stop playing it and I don't play all that much these day's. Anyway if they want a reset they should go create and play as an Alpha, and only that Alpha. I wonder how long it would take for them to run back to their Omega/Titan.
Besides stopping Farmville allowed her more time in her other 'big' online web based game Elvenar. I don't know much about that game (just from her passing comments) and while she hasn't put any cash into it, I do know she's made a name for herself in multiple guilds. Happy for her but I've no chance of talker her down from it. Not that I'd really try. I wouldn't do that to her. It's the community side of the game that's a big draw. WoW may be the only other game that could pull her away from it and even then she' prob play both. In saying that I can't talk her into trying Classic WoW with me....
I don't dislike web based games so much as to wish they didn't exist. Honest!
I don't dislike web based games so much as to wish they didn't exist. Honest!
Anyway I knew she missed her farming side. Farm Manager was a stop gap but was abandoned. So I was tempted to mention another Steam game I saw recently. Farm Together. Again not a thing I'd be into(Farm Sim 17 or Stardew for me). But when I saw it I knew she'd love it. My hesitation was that she might like it to much. It ticks the longer term 'always there for her' boxes. Least I could do was mention it. So I did, just as a casual comment. 5 Minutes later I heard new game music. Game and DLC bought.....
I'd only also just seen that one of my favourite youtubers Daggerwin did an early look at Farm Together! I'd bypassed/ignored that when he released the video.....
So where is this long meandering story leading to. It's leading to a comment I made about the game.
You can have a.i. workers on your farm. These only work while the game is active and on. I've seen her alt-tab because of this. Giving workers time to do their thing while she goes afk or does something in or out of game(as well as let the seasons change). My comment was that while she was at work and I was off she 'should leave it logged in in the morning and I'd keep an eye on it'.
Rookie mistake I know. Should have stayed quiet.
The next morning the PC was on, the game logged in with her character sat on a bench and a post-it note on the screen....
Rookie mistake I know. Should have stayed quiet.
The next morning the PC was on, the game logged in with her character sat on a bench and a post-it note on the screen....
- Check Buildings
- Check Treehouse
- Check Farmhands Union
While I did take a wander at first to familiarise myself with the game, I eventually got around to some of the list.
So after that I got to make a few changes to help; And put a Christmas song on one of the piano's that would slightly joke annoy her. I'm saying all this in good fun. Like I said it's not a game for me but if it does help her out then fair enough.
In retrospect leaving the game on (with the a.i. workers) hasn't helped her as much as we thought. It has given her some more insight into her own farm/game management; Especially with some of the currencies. Tickets being a bottleneck etc.
Really surprised there isn't a more active community within the game for online co-op stuff.
I'll not mention split screen co-op but she wouldn't do that to me. Besides we have a farm in Stardew Valley!
Thankfully I've not been asked to do anything else over the long weekend not that I'd really mind. I trust her to manually gate jump/warp my Eve Online ships when I'm afk after all; How could I say no!!
So after that I got to make a few changes to help; And put a Christmas song on one of the piano's that would slightly joke annoy her. I'm saying all this in good fun. Like I said it's not a game for me but if it does help her out then fair enough.
In retrospect leaving the game on (with the a.i. workers) hasn't helped her as much as we thought. It has given her some more insight into her own farm/game management; Especially with some of the currencies. Tickets being a bottleneck etc.
Really surprised there isn't a more active community within the game for online co-op stuff.
I'll not mention split screen co-op but she wouldn't do that to me. Besides we have a farm in Stardew Valley!
Thankfully I've not been asked to do anything else over the long weekend not that I'd really mind. I trust her to manually gate jump/warp my Eve Online ships when I'm afk after all; How could I say no!!
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