I guess when you look at the initial announcement, it would spark some outrage. The last one (the original honey) cost us lots of friends and team mates. I think the truth behind those events is that there is a bigger problem behind this game as a whole. Hundreds, if not thousands of players, are burnt out, frustrated and discouraged with not contributing, not growing, spinning their wheels or paying to get ahead. Honey was only the straw that broke the proverbial camels back.
So yes, to follow the game's natural flow, you need to upgrade your fields... but I ask... do you? Gasp! Lets go back and look at the original honey. It was a well timed update, using human emotion and the natural desire to win to drive credit cards from pockets and dollars into BF's hands... they aren't uneducated in this stuff. But do you need honey for the game to go on? No. It's just slower. I have a level 75 Gold 2 farm with no honey (or meadow). It still grows, just slowly. Lets consider having (4) level 7 orchards: 2 apples, 1 cherry and 1 almond. Run fairly hard will produce 157 nectar. 10% of market contracts are honey. The average size of a honey contract is 75. So if you run 200 contracts in a day, 20 will be for honey and you can fill 2 of them. What do you do with the other 18? Trash them! It is perfectly OK to cringe or have a physical reaction to pushing that trash button; it does hurt dumping a $70,000 contract, but you can do it. Would that money look nice in your account? Yes! Will you still grow without it? Yes. If you hold it till you can fill it, will you miss 10 other contracts that will make up the difference? Yes. Can you take your time to build a smart and efficient supply chain before putting in a bee hive? Yes. How do I keep my little farm happily growing? The answer is in that little red trash can button. Honey opened doors. It allowed you to customize your approach. Think about your cafe... it is now much easier to hit the higher rewards with a single meadow. You have the choice on whether to use honey for glaze fish (40 mallets), on cafe recipes to free up meadow and factory time (good for citrus and sushi) or for market contracts. 150 honey is worth $93,750. Pulling a 2nd (or 3rd...) meadow and plunking in an apple is worth $100,000+. Or using that meadow to make 2.5 sushi worth of citrus oil everyday instead? Would you pay $100,000 game cash for 50 mallets? This game is a game played in weeks and months, not in minutes and hours. So I ask you to consider what you need, what you want, and what doors this opens for your farm rather then throwing in your pitchfork. We won't truly know what this will look like till next week (and you can almost bet close to the end of the player tournament.) In preparation, fish, collect mallets, upgrade fields, etc. Co-op leaders, take a good look at your farmers and help the ones that are frustrated. Lets look forward to the opportunities.
A side note from a comment on the original post about fishing for dog bones:
9.4% chance of 30 mallets from premium dog bone aka 3 mallets average. Takes 12 regular bones - 12 green fillets (easy). 1200 cabbage, 960 wheat. With 6 level 6 fields, it is ~2 hrs of cabbage and ~9 hours of wheat. With level 6 mills, that is the equivalent of 220 pig feed and 140 cow feed. You do get other awesome rewards as well for the dog bones.
Happy Farming!
SF
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