The frog is seriously annoying. If I purchase something then I want the item immediately. If you miss the stupid frog you lose the item. Something wrong there.Deroiste quijote
I want my mail instantly. More waiting in this macro-game? pffffft... Instant mail. now. this is the interwebz.
But they shouldn't do away with the frogs entirely. The frogs should have some other kind of role in the game. Like a yoga studio mini-game, or something. yeah... i want my mail.
+1 for the frog, cute as a button and the waiting can be frustrating but while email is instant, buying crap online isnt, so why should buying stuff from auctions be. Hell, imagine if it was e-bay the frogs would come first with excuses about there mothers brothers cousins dog being sick and having to take it to the hospital before they return again with the item.
I adore the frog, cute as & love the yoga pose... neat how he zooms in as soon as I send mail, gotta be quick to even see him!
I honestly didn't realise anyone needed stuff that badly that they cant wait a couple of minutes.
Love, love, love the frogs! Kinda like some surreal and weird take out delivery. Brilliant concept - oh to be in the minds of the devs....errrrm, maybe not, they look 'busier' than mine! :O
lol @ HarleyQuin...guess it's a good thing I've never bought from there then :D :D
@ Teena - when those "couple of minutes" turn into hours of continuously interrupted game play, it can become quite irritating. Hell...he was at my house so much that he was meeting himself coming and going :D
I love the frog...I think he's cute and adorable. I just don't think he's right for the auction tho.
The first time I tried to buy at auction, I expected to have the items immediately and I was trying to use them. I could have assumed it didn't work and bought some more and ended up with twice the amount I needed. I don't mind the frog but I think it should be made clear that you need to wait a moment for your items to be delivered after purchasing an auction. Or maybe you can pay an extra fee (express delivery) to have your items immediately with no frog delivery.
@sgjo - again I'm surprised as I had no idea anyone bought that much stuff from the auctions, other than those waiting at the projects. I generally just drop in and donate what I have, sometimes going home if I have something needed. It's interesting to see the different ways the game is played, obviously time constraints make for different game play too.
I love the Frog... and we don't lose our items if we miss the frog ... Glitch isn't that mean, But in saying that if people are waiting for items for projects, then I guess I can relate A little of their frustration at having to wait a few more minutes.
But for me personally, I just think, the project ain't going no where until it's done. :D x
Another +1 for the frog. I think the delay to receive auction items - and indeed to have to go and fetch your mail - is a good thing. There's too much rush to do everything RIGHT NOW! Especially in projects... If you are going to join in and need feeding - how about being prepared and getting some high energy morsels in your bags before you go?
I worry about the desire to get everything immediately in this game. I see too many demands in Global Chat for how to do something - or where to find something (a patch, for example), where the requester has not spent any time trying to work something out - or just having a look around. IMHO - aside from the gorgeous look and feel of the game - the beauty is in discovery. However, this is of-topic. Go frogs! (as in 'Stay, frogs, you lovely things, you')
@ Teena...yep...I love hearing how everyone else plays their game differently, too.
I spend most of my game time playing in my house, only leaving when I have to collect the stuff that I can't find in the auction or at a reasonable price (unless I get really desperate lol).
I spent this test working on a personal quest...I'm cooking enough foods to fill a 16 slot bag for each type of food and drink. Just to see how fast I can do it.
Even when I'm not "questing", I make the max amount allowed at a time and so I go thru a lot of items in no time flat (especially when it comes to the mushrooms and oils - they're only 10 to a stack and most recipes that use mushrooms tend to need 4 per dish + all of the tree resources that get used up quickly :P) So while I'm making 40 dishes per cook time I have the auction up and buying (and selling some to support the buying) what I'm needing so that I (hopefully) don't have to stop and run to the vendors.
(I had to take 4 empty 16 slot bags with me to the vendors just to be able to buy enough mushrooms to fill up one 16 slot bag with *I believe it was* Juicy Carpaccios..or it might have been the Choice Crudites lol) - so I was giving the poor frogs a real workout and they were giving me a real headache :P
The first couple of times he came to visit me (the closing of the test before this one) I was thinking "OMG!! How cute!!" but, by the third or fourth visit, I was yelling at my screen "OMG!!! Can I just play my F'n game!!" :D :D :P
i didn't think the frog brought stuff from auction everytime?
maybe the solution is that you only get special delivery every third time or something? or maybe every prime number time you get something from auctions in a day..split the difference?
ps i love the frog and i think its cute - but he is hard to click on sometimes if the area is really busy with people
Ditch the frog..... If the stuff always ends up in the mailbox then what is the point of the frog?OK if purchases go to the mailbox then I don't mind keeping the Frog. I'll just ignore it.
Frog is cute. Seems redundant. Why doesn't stuff from auction just get mailed to you? I think the separation will become unwieldy over time -- not to mention the dive bombing of frogs when a lot of auction buying is happening during a street project. It's lag-tastic enough mid-project without those damnable frogs. Just mail me my auction purchases if you need to slow things down a bit, don't add more stuff to make the screen clog up.
I myself would be highly annoyed to have to go to a mailbox every time I bought something. And in case you haven't heard I LOVE the froggy. I buy things and then don't talk to him just so he will follow me around when I am mining or at home or whatever. I have discovered also that when you do this you will get multiple auction purchases when you do talk to him, even ones that you bought after he arrived. Namaste' Dude.
Love the frog, but its like 'Where's wally' if there's a project on - took me a while to figure out how to identify which frog is which and its still tricky if you can't click on him (or maybe its her) because of the crowds. Oh well, it adds to the challenge I guess
I love the frog coming to me with my goods,I truly dont want to have to teleport somewhere to get my stuff I bought from a mailbox.Makes good sense to have someone wait on you when playing to give you your stuff.Seems like the projects need something faster or different in the codes,like click in to something that tells the codes you are in a project so when you auction it comes to those in projects faster to keep their counts up.It is rewarding to find yourself up in the top four or five,you worked hard for that and gave up your stuff for this.I say Devs do something for these that love to Project.I myself dont do them as I am a very clausterphobic avatar that must play alone with space.
I always stock up on food before working on a project, but some projects eat up energy like crazy, especially phases that need special items to be crafted (like food, drinks, powders, etc.) No matter how well prepared you try to be before-hand, it's easy to run out of food (especially considering our limited inventory space and the very small stack sizes for fortifying food, which is only 10 per inventory slot--at my level I can eat 10 of the most fortifying food in one click, and then eat up all that energy I just gained in under a minute). So, it's nice to be able to buy emergency food supplies to keep you from dying when you're in the middle of a work phase and you've eaten everything else in your pack. These are the cases when I use the auction--otherwise, it's too expensive and I would much rather make the food myself.
I was taken off-guard the first time the frogs were introduced (moments before a work-phase in a major project), and I ran out of food only to discover that I had to stop working on the project to avoid dying while I waited for a couple minutes for the frog to arrive. That was a bit annoying, but now that I know how it works, I can plan ahead and order my food BEFORE I run out. So, no problem here with me. The only annoying thing left is that I have to stop what I'm doing to talk to the frog in order to get my stuff. That means stopping work on a project, or whatever, until the transaction is complete.
Otherwise, I don't have a problem with it and I think the frogs are super-cool. I wish they also came with normal mail delivery instead of it going directly to the mailboxes, but maybe that would introduce too much lag.