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Tending my House's Garden beyond zero energy ...

It looks like the back-end doesn't check energy levels before letting the action, such as hoeing, watering, harvesting, happen.

Even when my energy hit zero I could carry on picking my rice and potatoes. This is with the game client closed, and just the garden open in the browser.

If the client was still open I expect I'd get sent to hell thus moving me away from the garden and therefore preventing any more gardening actions. An interesting loophole.

Posted 3 years ago by RevDanCatt Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • presumably the gardening will be bought in-game instead of an external popup eventually and this will be fixed simply as a side effect of that...

    i hope to god that the gardening gets moved in-game at least. the popup is so disruptive. more so than any other popup.
    Posted 3 years ago by yeoz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • the gardening should definitely be in-game. the interface is so small and the exercise so modal that there's no reason it couldn't just appear over top of everything else [except maybe chat] if it needed to.
    Posted 3 years ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hummm, I really like the gardening being in a seperate browser window. It's in Flash atm but could be done simply without. Which means that as long as I log out while in my house I can pop open a browser and do a bit of weeding, earn a little xp and what-not. Even when on the hop with an iPhone (or iPad).

    I'm hoping for *more* of these out-of-game widget/things with APIs so people can build various clients.

    Excuse brevity on iPhone.
    Posted 3 years ago by RevDanCatt Subscriber! | Permalink
  • that would be a great thing to do on the iphone if it wasn't in flash, and if you didn't have to be standing beside the garden at the end of every game session for it to work.

    tho i suppose parking your avatar beside the garden before logging out is a kind of game element that might encourage people to *go home*.
    Posted 3 years ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • in the future it will be in-game for regular play, though that doesn't mean we wouldn't *also* add an iphone client. the zero-energy-while-gardening bug will probably be fixed before then.
    Posted 3 years ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink