Castle Story event 1/18 - What's Eating Baron's Grapes?

[lintupien]

I read that some people are getting a good drop rate for berries and spices from acer trees. Lucky them! All through this event so far the drop rate for berries from my trees has been 2 and very occasionally 3 per tree and the drop rate for beasts has been ridiculous. I don't think I've had more than 5 beasts in 2 days and no, there has not been one lurking in the bushes.
Why is the drop rate apparently not the same for everyone? It seems very unfair to me. I would be very interested to know how it can vary so much for different individuals.

Have you tried to spawn beasts from things other than wood/ponds etc. Carrots and spicy peppers have given me an army of fangbeasts and I regularly get them from pigs too. Nothing else seems to work, none around cows, chickens or farmhouses. Skunks are nonexistant in my kingdom smash some rocks, check your flowers, find where they're hiding. I hope you get a beast invasion after you encounter the next one so you can finish your base cider crafts!

[HuckleTown]

Yesterday I got 2 grapevine gates from one of my trades and I thought "great! we might start getting some decent prizes for all this work" Then the "loading' knight rode across my screen and they were gone!. Such a disappointment!

Can't we banish that darn knight?!!

When I open my game I always wait at least a minute before collecting anything, but 6 Times out of 10 that Knight appears about a minute later.

Annoying.

[maiden85]

I was on track to do about one trade a day and finish, however monsters have stopped appearing. Trees, ponds, wheat, tomatoes, sheep, pigs, cows, chickens....nothing. If this were a regular period of time, they’d have spawned everywhere which is why until recently I kept a monster parked. I need about 9 monsters a day to make the cider basket in order to do the trade. No monsters equals no spices equals no cider to trade. I will keep at it, but loosing interest very fast.

[jbfps116]

I was on track to do about one trade a day and finish, however monsters have stopped appearing. Trees, ponds, wheat, tomatoes, sheep, pigs, cows, chickens....nothing. If this were a regular period of time, they’d have spawned everywhere which is why until recently I kept a monster parked. I need about 9 monsters a day to make the cider basket in order to do the trade. No monsters equals no spices equals no cider to trade. I will keep at it, but loosing interest very fast.

funny because I suddenly also have a dearth of beasts for my last 2 trades!

[jkc619]

Can't we banish that darn knight?!!

When I open my game I always wait at least a minute before collecting anything, but 6 Times out of 10 that Knight appears about a minute later.

Annoying.

I have now decided to hard close my game each time before I open it. That seems to be the only way to keep that darn knight from doing his dastardly ride

[Destiel0918]

Got the horse! Timer was 4 hours.

[PrincessCelestian]

Phew. Glad that is over! What a bipolar event! First there was a flurry of activity. So much so that I couldn?t keep up or really even manage to figure out what was going on and then days and days of endless chopping that was mind numbing!!! Maybe if the trades had been good, I would have been okay with it. But the trades were just not up to standard. I am glad to have some time now to laze about in my queendom, replenish, and work on the last few mermaid goals.

[Destiel0918]

Phew. Glad that is over! What a bipolar event! First there was a flurry of activity. So much so that I couldn?t keep up or really even manage to figure out what was going on and then days and days of endless chopping that was mind numbing!!! Maybe if the trades had been good, I would have been okay with it. But the trades were just not up to standard. I am glad to have some time now to laze about in my queendom, replenish, and work on the last few mermaid goals.

I agree - trades were beyond disapointing - like 4 water? and 100 coins? WOW!

[Flowersandgems]

Clearly the trades are the baron’s doing, and we aren’t throwing enough rotten cabbages!

[HuckleTown]

Someone posted that ponds give 3 waters (with the shard). Then I remember another person commenting the ponds are now giving 2.

I've never really paid attention, but my ponds are definitely only giving 2 waters today. Is this a change in drops or is it random (because I did notice 3 waters at least once a couple of days ago).