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Post by Pink on Jul 12, 2018 8:35:16 GMT
I did a system upgrade on my tablet overnight and now Google Play Services won't work. It keeps dropping and giving me messages every few seconds telling me so, which means I have to continually clear all the messages before I can do anything at all. Chat is really slow and cumbersome right now, and I've already been chucked out twice, so please bear with me today.
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Post by Pink on Jul 12, 2018 9:36:02 GMT
We were trying to have a discussion in chat about why sending ships are reserved when there's no preparation needed. The main point I was trying to make is that the general rule for reservations is long, slow and not popular, as well as needing preparation. This is why trains and planes come into this category.
I've gone through this discussion and picked out the points where I've tried to show the reasoning for reservations, so that it's not solely about preparation, but that is a main reason.
Flagging/reserving tasks, should make it easier to see which tasks can be dumped especially those of 130 above. From last week's screenshots of the taskboard, it's clear that there are some tasks sitting on the board hour after hour, so this is something that needs tightening up. Reserving Seasonal Tasks
Any seasonal tasks that require prepping can be reserved, otherwise they follow the normal circumstance of first come, first served. Combo tasks that need prepping/long crops or boats can be reserved.
The above quote is slightly wrong. What I should have said is that they follow our normal reservation rules, otherwise are first come, first served. Although I've clarified it slightly by including the boats in the combos.
Currently, ALL regular and seasonal tasks under 135 can be reserved to enable us to identify more easily, the lower point tasks that are unwanted. EDIT: This should also enable us to identify 130+ tasks that are also unwanted and unclaimed - including 135s. Anything on the board for longer than 3 hours should be dumped. If it was wanted, it would have been taken or reserved. Normally, after a couple of hours, I will just post in chat, if 135 xxxx isn't reserved in the next hour please dump it. Trains and planes have always been reserved, so I don't intend to change that. What we've changed is to allow one to sit on the board for a period of time as opposed to dumping immediately as we used to do. This way it gives someone a chance to reserve it, if wanted. We have 3 types of tasks: - Those that need preparation - Boats, production, long crops
- Those that are popular, quick and easy -hol, mine etc
- Planes & trains
As they don't come under 2, it makes sense for them to be reserved as per point 1 so for reservations we have: - Those that need preparation - Boats, production, long crops
- Those that are under 135
- Planes & trains
We also have a problem at the moment,where we are not dumping often enough. This is highlighted in the screenshots that are being taken, so this is another factor hindering us from getting more tasks popping up on the board. If we really take note of what has been reserved, then we should be dumping certain tasks more often. I've also done a breakdown of Seasonal tasks[/div] Seasonal Racing - Themed Race - duration 4 weeks
- Mystery tasks - as we have a core group of mystery task takers, these would only be dumped in exceptional circumstances, usually if there are already 2 on the board.
- Seasonal tasks - dealt with on an ad hoc basis dependent on ease of task/popularity
Repeated Seasonal Tasks
- Combo Tasks - Combination of any 3 tasks - just to note that this can be reserved if one of the three tasks is production/boots/crops etc
- Crate Tasks (Planes/Trains)
don't do if you don't like planes & trains  or don't do if you don't access your game very often throughout the day.
- Tip - call out in chat to ensure that you get first dibs when filling planes/trains - you can also add the number of outstanding/completed crates to your name so that it shows up in chat eg. Pink 5/28 as well as adding the initials CF (crate filler) - NB previously we have dumped these as some found them harder than usual planes, so just leave 2 max on the board at all times.
Useful booster - trains arrive twice as fast - Island Tasks - these are not popular, require 8-11 boats to be sent to each island and we get the normal boat tasks too, so these are mainly dumped after awhile
Useful booster - send boats twice as fast The main point I've been trying to stress whenever discussing reservations, is that this should also help us decide what to dump. Plane, train and seasonal boats don't necessarily need preparation, but our main criteria for not allowing mining, zoo, feed, hol to be reserved is because they are quick, easy and popular. Planes, trains and seasonal boats aren't quick, easy or popular.
The crate tasks don't need preparation but can be reserved because they come under trains and planes. The seasonal boats don't need preparation but can be reserved because they are boats, not quick, not easy and not popular. Reserving these tasks means, we can easily identify those that have been on the board for more than 2 hours so that we can dump them.
I feel it would complicate things further if we say one type of boat task can be reserved and another type of boat task can't. Same as trains/planes/crates. It's easier to identify which tasks are quick, easy and popular and then say that pretty much everything else can be reserved.
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Post by Pink on Jul 12, 2018 14:28:05 GMT
Following on from this there was some discussion re: possibly not being able to easily identify which tasks should be dumped. Anything under 125 is dumped immediately Any task that can be reserved should not remain on the board for longer than 3 or 4 hours. If it's 135 and wanted, it should be reserved.
This is what came up previously Leaving tasks on the board hour after hourFrom the screenshots provided, the main area to be tightened up is the dumping of tasks 130 and above - this includes 135s too. All tasks under 135 can be reserved, therefore, there is no reason to keep tasks under 135 on the board for longer than 2 or 3 hours. Unpopular 135 tasks would also be reserved, so again should not be on the board for longer than 2 or 3 hours. So far 4 tasks have been highlighted - 135 combo on the board for at least 7 hours, 131 mining at least 5 hours, 135 plane for at least 8 hours - (this was compounded by the fact that someone had reserved this plane, then decided to take another task instead and left it on the board) 133 feeding - a whopping 10 hours, 132 potatoes at least 8 hours. If someone wanted any of these tasks, they would have been reserved. After a couple of hours or so on the board, they should have been dumped. Obviously this is easy to monitor with screenshots, but it shouldn't be difficult to identify those tasks that have been on the board for more than 4 hours. Here's the list of tasks that can and can't be reserved |
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