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Post by Newfie on Oct 28, 2024 21:03:11 GMT -5
Webkinz Next: Changes to Gardening
by webkinzworld
Since the release of Gardening in Webkinz Next, it has consistently been one of the best ways to earn KinzCash for players.
Plant your crops, wait a few days, collect your crops, sell them for fun and profit.
We love gardening so much that we added the Farmer’s Market to give you the ability to earn even more KinzCash selling your crops.
Over the years, some players have taken gardening to an extreme, filling multiple properties with nothing but crops and earning so much KinzCash that our own internal alert systems meant to prevent cheating have thought that there was a problem when there wasn’t.
Simply put, the economy of Webkinz was not designed for this much KinzCash to be earned this easily.
We have therefore made some changes to how gardening works:
1) If you have 500 or more crops (growing plants), either planted or in your dock, you will no longer be able to purchase additional seeds from the W-Shop.
This is a “soft cap” on gardening. If you have more than 500 crops planted right now, it won’t affect them in any way.
Also, you can continue to purchase your three seeds per day from the Farmer’s Market, even if you have more than 500. This cap does not apply to harvested food/crops.
2) Plants can now dry out. You may now see a Watering Can over your crop.
If you leave the plant without watering it, it will not continue to grow.
When you do water the crop, it will return to its bright color and be ready to move to the next stage the next day.
To be 100% clear, your crops can never “die”. All being dried out does is delay the growth cycle.
Also, crops planted in the Farmer’s Plot will never become dried out. So, we’ve added a little work to gardening that rewards players who tend to their crops daily.
3) We’ve removed the notice for when your crops are expired, as long as you have at least one soil in your dock.
This a much-requested feature from dedicated farmers, and we are happy to add it, while ensuring that players who are new to gardening know why their crop disappeared.
We have more plans to continue to improve gardening, such as adding weeding, bountiful harvests and rewarding players for dedicated gardening by giving their plants additional harvests beyond the standard 10. Finally, we are considering ways of allowing players to earn additional Farmer’s Plots.
Gardening has long been a popular feature in Webkinz World and we will continue to aim to make it fun and profitable, while ensuring that it is a balanced part of Webkinz’ gameplay.
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Post by Pawprint on Oct 29, 2024 9:42:11 GMT -5
Newfie I don't think this is an improvement for most people, just another thing to do, and if they add the raking in like WW used to it's just going to be a pain! If we can get more farmer's plots that will help but I'm sure they'll make us jump through hoops for those-lol. I think maybe they could have made this so if you had over like 100 plants it would kick in. You can't tell me there were that many people with the acres of crops.
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Post by Newfie on Oct 29, 2024 10:13:14 GMT -5
Newfie I don't think this is an improvement for most people, just another thing to do, and if they add the raking in like WW used to it's just going to be a pain! If we can get more farmer's plots that will help but I'm sure they'll make us jump through hoops for those-lol. I think maybe they could have made this so if you had over like 100 plants it would kick in. You can't tell me there were that many people with the acres of crops. I agree completely! Its crazy the lengths they'll go through to stop people from getting too much KC. What's the big deal?? It seems that they continually make this game more difficult and cumbersome. They've made most arcade games almost impossible to play now. I don't understand their objective other than wanting to drive people from the game. I don't play enough to water plants every day, so this is likely it for me. I don't want to play a game to do 'chores'. I can't even water real life plants to keep them alive... why would I want to do it, in game?  |
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Post by MommaBearLas on Oct 29, 2024 10:14:17 GMT -5
people are losing their minds over this. If they had not went to such extreme measures to gain millions in KC, this would not have happened. Karl, the creator, said one thing he wanted to avoid in Next was millions of kc. It is added time, but oh well. I am more upset that they talked up the vacation property then made it a cash only item. 
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Post by Newfie on Oct 29, 2024 10:50:05 GMT -5
people are losing their minds over this. If they had not went to such extreme measures to gain millions in KC, this would not have happened. Karl, the creator, said one thing he wanted to avoid in Next was millions of kc. It is added time, but oh well. I am more upset that they talked up the vacation property then made it a cash only item. But they should've put something in place where it took care of the problem, not punished everyone. Or they should've put restrictions on it to begin with. They make it so difficult to gain KC and everything is expensive to purchase, it just seems that they make everything more difficult all the time. I used to enjoy so many of the games and now they're very hard and not enjoyable at all. I agree about the vacation property too... I won't be buying. |
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Post by MommaBearLas on Oct 29, 2024 14:57:50 GMT -5
people are losing their minds over this. If they had not went to such extreme measures to gain millions in KC, this would not have happened. Karl, the creator, said one thing he wanted to avoid in Next was millions of kc. It is added time, but oh well. I am more upset that they talked up the vacation property then made it a cash only item. But they should've put something in place where it took care of the problem, not punished everyone. Or they should've put restrictions on it to begin with. They make it so difficult to gain KC and everything is expensive to purchase, it just seems that they make everything more difficult all the time. I used to enjoy so many of the games and now they're very hard and not enjoyable at all. I agree about the vacation property too... I won't be buying. |
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Post by PandaPuddin on Oct 29, 2024 17:32:46 GMT -5
Wow, Next keeps wanting to steal more time from me and I’m not having it. It’s hard enough to earn KC and takes forever to harvest
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Post by Pawprint on Oct 30, 2024 14:12:42 GMT -5
Newfie I don't think this is an improvement for most people, just another thing to do, and if they add the raking in like WW used to it's just going to be a pain! If we can get more farmer's plots that will help but I'm sure they'll make us jump through hoops for those-lol. I think maybe they could have made this so if you had over like 100 plants it would kick in. You can't tell me there were that many people with the acres of crops. I agree completely! Its crazy the lengths they'll go through to stop people from getting too much KC. What's the big deal?? It seems that they continually make this game more difficult and cumbersome. They've made most arcade games almost impossible to play now. I don't understand their objective other than wanting to drive people from the game. I don't play enough to water plants every day, so this is likely it for me. I don't want to play a game to do 'chores'. I can't even water real life plants to keep them alive... why would I want to do it, in game? I just kept enough plants to do a "harvest 10 plants" I'm not going to water etc. I'm hoping they revise this quickly. |
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Post by Pawprint on Oct 30, 2024 14:15:09 GMT -5
But they should've put something in place where it took care of the problem, not punished everyone. Or they should've put restrictions on it to begin with. They make it so difficult to gain KC and everything is expensive to purchase, it just seems that they make everything more difficult all the time. I used to enjoy so many of the games and now they're very hard and not enjoyable at all. I agree about the vacation property too... I won't be buying. All they had to do was limit the number of plants to a reasonable number not make it harder. It is hard to earn KC in Next. I'll probably still go fishing if I can keep one pet filled. I like the fishing. |
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Post by MilkyWay on Oct 31, 2024 22:10:40 GMT -5
I don't even play next, but I can see why folks would be bummed. I don't get it... so a few people make obsessive amounts of KC. Why is that such a big deal? They still have to play to earn it. And if it's causing glitches/setting off cheat alarms, why not just put a limit on how much kinzcash you can have. It could still be high, like "when you hit 10 million (or 5 million or whatever), you no longer earn KC" and when you play games or stuff it just maxes out at that amount. Spend some and you can start saving again.
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Post by MilkyWay on Oct 31, 2024 22:13:22 GMT -5
That said, i don't think it's SOOO bad. I mean, if the plants don't die, thats a huge difference from the old way of gardening. You just have to check in now and again and do some clicking, as opposed to starting completely over just because you had a family trip and couldn't log in for a few days... man I hated when the plants withered up.
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Post by Reya on Nov 1, 2024 23:15:41 GMT -5
I don't have too much farming in Next as I play it the least vs classic. It is hard to earn KC in Next. They shouldn't worry so much.
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Woohoo!! 