Treasure Chest needs to allow items to pick to avoid duplicates.

[Unregistered]

I like this game and play a lot. Only thing I need is more gems to buy interesting items in Treasure Chest. Treasure Chest is too costly and giving duplicate items after collecting the gems with great difficulty. Please allow us to pick the items from Treasure chest. Second thing i want to mention is, when i m mastere in a particular crop, ie getting 4 leafs, I always get Garden Gnome as special gift. Instead give us different kind of gifts when mastery is done. I appreciate you introduce this leaf udate, which was not there before. But to make it more interesting, I m getting a gem for 2 leafs. Give gems for 4 leafs too. I was expecting that but got only coins. Also give a convertion from Coins to gems. I like the Treasure Chest concept which you introduced, but duplication of items irritates me. Pls fix it or allow us to pick the item. I was looking for the cottage to get doesn't get it.

[Unregistered]

I like the Treasure Chest concept which you introduced, but duplication of items irritates me. Pls fix it or allow us to pick the item. I was looking for the cottage to get doesn't get it.
You like the concept of getting a "random item" from the case, but you don't want it to give duplicates?

This makes no sense.

Being able to "pick your item" from it completely defeats the concept of getting a "random item", by definition, LOL.

[Unregistered]

I wish this feature was available, it took me ages to get 24 coins and in the end I got stuck with some hideous blue house I didn't want. I don't want to spend 4.99 for 24 coins for two reasons, 1) $4.99 is a bit too much and by a bit I mean $4.00 more than I'd ever spend, and 2) if I ever were (never would) buy 24 coins I'd probably get stuck with something I didn't want which would be an absolute waste of my hard earned money.

[Unregistered]

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You like the concept of getting a "random item" from the case, but you don't want it to give duplicates?

This makes no sense.

Being able to "pick your item" from it completely defeats the concept of getting a "random item", by definition, LOL."

I really dont like the random item concept either. I like that farm story introduced Treasure chest which is something interesting, But should allow us to pick our own choice. It shows 4 ribbon items but doesn't allow us to pick one. I dont want to get the same item. I hardly collect 24 gems over a time period and at the end of the day, I get another Garden Arch in my farm which I dont want. I think it does make sense and many people who play this game dont want the duplicates either.

If farm story doesn't wnat us to pick our own choice, at least they should put a check, not to give the same item what the user already had in his farm.

[Unregistered]

im always getting duplicates T_T

wish if there was yes or no option >_<

[Unregistered]

I used the chest 4 times and did not get any duplicates. I got a jack rabbit, ranch house, patio table, and a cottage.

I guess I got lucky.

[Unregistered]

If you could go about purchasing everything in the chest, then it wouldn't be a magic chest with a lottery-win kind of feeling, everything would just be in the decorations button, and everyone would be able to buy them. The uncertainty is the whole point to it. They even give you the odds of getting each item. It is a game of chance. Get it?

[Unregistered]

I think we all get it's a mystery, but why the heck do we have to receive duplicates of the Garden Arch. That's totally ridiculous! There should be a mechinism in place to prevent the duplication of gifts. Especially since it costs 24 Gems!

[Reaper]

Some people may want two arches (or other items) and place one on each side for some design symmetry. When a user selects the treasure chest and get an item, it should show the player what they got, then ask the person if a repeat should be allowed next time. Then if the player wants multiple items the app will not prevent the person from having that opportunity. A lot of people are tired of getting repeat items. But not everyone wants a "no repeat" policy on all items. Give the player a choice on each item.

[killbethy]

I like this game and play a lot. Only thing I need is more gems to buy interesting items in Treasure Chest. Treasure Chest is too costly and giving duplicate items after collecting the gems with great difficulty. Please allow us to pick the items from Treasure chest. Second thing i want to mention is, when i m mastere in a particular crop, ie getting 4 leafs, I always get Garden Gnome as special gift. Instead give us different kind of gifts when mastery is done. I appreciate you introduce this leaf udate, which was not there before. But to make it more interesting, I m getting a gem for 2 leafs. Give gems for 4 leafs too. I was expecting that but got only coins. Also give a convertion from Coins to gems. I like the Treasure Chest concept which you introduced, but duplication of items irritates me. Pls fix it or allow us to pick the item. I was looking for the cottage to get doesn't get it.


Perhaps a solution would be that if it is a repeat you do NOT want the following system could be impemented...

To buy the cases/boxes, the original price is still the same.

a. pick another prize (that you have already gotten) of the same level (uncommon, common, etc.). ie. getting the repeat you want
OR
b. be able to pick "Pass" on the item (with a minimal cost in gems/city cash, maybe 4) and be able to receive a new item you haven't received yet of the same level (uncommon, common, etc.) ie. spend a minimal amount to get a new (undiscovered) item of the same level
OR IF PEOPLE STILL AREN'T HAPPY
c. you can do the same thing as in b. EXCEPT you wager more of your gems/city cash in hopes that you will get a higher level.. since the chances are not equal, the gem price should be something like this (about 4 if you just want to go for uncommon (same as option b), 8 to include items up through common, 16 to include items up through rare, 24 to include items up through exceptiona.. essentially a complete re-redo). That way you can choose how much going for a "big prize" is really worth for you.
HOWEVER
if you choose c and still get a repeat and wish to change, there should be an additional gem price (something small around 4) to do so...

That should pretty much satisfy everyone... if you want to play it safe and not chance more gems, you can get a repeat of an item of the same level that you actually want, for a small price you can get a new one, or you can take a big gamble that might pay off, or might wind up costing you a little more if you were just satisfied with the original gift.

Just my two cents :)

[julia3032]

That sounds like it would be too complicated for TL. They can't get anything right as it is. I refuse to buy the chests because the duplicates are getting much more frequent and they were supposed to be happening less. Unfortunately, in the last 4 months this has been the only way to get new items. They barely put anything in the regular menus to buy and hardly anything for coins. They should just make the items available for purchase in the normal way. I'm not opposed to spending gems (free, or bought), but I'd like to know what I'm buying. If I want to gamble, I can buy a lottery ticket or go to the casino.

[DevinandSkylar]

You are lucky you only lost $4.99!!! I lost $25 and it gave me THREE OF THE SAME CRAPPY ITEM and two other crappy items!!! So out of FIVE tries, it gave me only 2 items and they were BOTH BAD!!!!

[DevinandSkylar]

I totally agree!!!! Those chests are a WASTE of money!!! And there is nothing else to buy in the whole game!!! Everything is too much for TeamLava!!!!

[DevinandSkylar]

You and everyone else feel the exact same way!!! I have written them about 20 times on this issue and their response was they made duplicates less likely and since that comment I have gotten duplicates MORE!!!!

[alchaves]

I agree that we should be able to choose the items we want in the treasure chest. The random framework costs players a lot of money because of the high probability of duplication of items. If you want this game to become better, remove the random element in the treasure chest and let all players spend their unused money, which could run in millions, to pick the items they prefer. I have 23 million and there is no sense amassing this money if I can't use it to buy items.

[Donnahh]

I finally spent money on gems just for these boxes.

I've hidden the foul rabbit behind my tool shed but the patio set is okay ... AND I LOVE MY RANCH HOUSE!!! :D

[kirianncats]

I am sick of getting xmas items whate a waste of money I got a xmas tree & sleigh in March thats 48 gems need to sort this out and refund the gems please

[bobbie629]

The whole random thing IS nice. I mean its why we call it a "treasure chest" or "discovery box" however, they seriously need to put things in there that are WORTH the $4.99..

For example we have the mansion that is 1 million (I think) coins.. Yet you want $4.99 for this tiny little ARCH that is not even proportated correctly to the other items (it's the same size as the cow.. Not realistic!). The items in the boxes, chests, etc really need to be worth the $$. I don't see an arch or a recolored grain silo as a item worth $4.99. Give us a new item.. Like the houses. Some of the animals too.. They are pretty small items and would be better in the market available for gems.. Say 5 or so.

Personally for me I am DONE wasting 24 gems (or $4.99) on the boxes & chests. I can buy 4 in a row.. $20! And get 4 of the SAME thing! You stated that you changed them so it would be more random and we wouldn't get the same item as often.. Just this week I got the same 4 items. I emailed support but there is nothing you want to offer to fix it. Which is fine, I spend $ on the games.. I'll play with your free coins & gems but so it spend anymore of my hard earned $ on the game. As a consumer, I chose where to spend my $ and I won't continue to give you $4.99 (or more) for the same items.

I also think that if you BUY and item with gems, when you SELL that item you should get GEMS.. Not coins. Even if they gave you HALF the amount of the gems back.. I think they would see a LARGE increase in the amount of real $$ people would spend on the game, specially the chests.

This is off course just my opinion. I used to work for an online game that offered a free currency as well as a premium currency. So I know this system works and I know it would work well for Farm Story & all the other Team Lava games. the problem? We always fall on deaf ears. TL doesn't reply or even acknowledge these issues. This forum is FULL of all the same problems, concerns, requests and yet nothing changes.

New crops, updates, changes to the random boxes/chests, new items.. I think that about covers 99.9% of the post in all these forums.. What do you thinkTL?!