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Multiple firefly hives, are yours working?

I had two firefly hives on my street, and neither of them ever had a full jar's worth around them. I tried separating them by ... half a street length(?) and it didn't help. The two hives' flies added together would have made one normal swarm. 

Has anyone else tried to have more than one hive? Were you ever able to have two full swarms?

Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Try it in your backyard.  It could be that other people are getting to them before you.
    Posted 7 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have two hives in the back, side by side.  They don't seem to be full on their own (certainly not like the bog house flies were--constantly re-fireflying when I was in the basement).  But I just stand between the two hives and fill up a jar.
    Posted 7 months ago by Minkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've seen that in my front yard too and thought somebody else got them.
    Posted 7 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sounds like it's reading the number of flies on the street and counting them as one swarm instead of using the 2 different spawn locations and creating 2 swarms. 
    Posted 7 months ago by BlackWolf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • According to your street page it says you only have one firefly swarm... Could it possibly be a bug?
    Posted 7 months ago by Sparrow Odele Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Carl, have you had two simultaneous successful hives?

    @Sparrow, I removed one hive because the two didn't seem to be working. But my home street page always said I had only one swarm, even when I had two hives.

    Thanks for the info Minkey and Ama-gi. I have been thinking the same thing as BlackWolf. Now to find out from TS if this is a bug or if we're not meant to have more than one hive.

    Anyone who has had two or more hives at the same time, each producing two full swarms, please post here (and tell me your magic tricks). Likewise, if you have had two or more hives that only produced wimpy little half-swarms please post here too.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have three firefly swarms, but my home street page says only 'A Firefly Swarm'.
    Firefly swarms at test houses worked perfectly!
    Posted 7 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I submitted a bug report yesterday about this on my own street.
    Posted 7 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just checked out Carl's street and he has one happy healthy well-populated hive and one that 's just meh (but it could have been harvested before I got there). How do you do it Carl? Another person on the fireflies & barnacles route has 3? 4? hives - an awesome number, anyway - but the fireflies are even sparser there, maybe one or two per hive. I'm testing this in my back yard now.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The game miscounting swarm numbers on streets is a standard thing. Go wander around the swamps, and on streets that have multiple swarms, it'll still say "a firefly swarm."

    But yeah, I have two hives, and there's always only enough between the two for a single full jar, with a couple extras.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aeralis Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A while back, I reported that my street and yard hives were not repopulating unless I was standing in their respective vicinities.  As of Wednesday morning, the bug had definitely not been fixed.  This problem may be related to the one described above.
    Posted 7 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I actually counted in the back yard. I get 10 fireflies total, divided between the two hives. I started a topic in the bug forum (ha! bug forum ^_^)
    Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hehe
    Posted 7 months ago by Sparrow Odele Subscriber! | Permalink
  • See, honestly, I'd noticed a problem with my bog house swarm after the first release of R2. It took forever to regenerate, when it used to only take half a day.

    If my swarms in my street are healthy, I don't gnome why.
    Posted 7 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I gnome! I did a scientifical census. We're capped at 10 fireflies/street, by my count. I put it in the bug post. Your hives are close enough together that they look good, but in total you have the same number of fireflies on your street with two hives as I have on mine with one.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero Subscriber! | Permalink