Ten.Ten. is tired in Pigg Life!

Who else is burnt out from trying to clear the bonus quest. I know I am! I'm also upset because in the end I didn't clear the quest in time to get the bonus. I actually could have made it if I had an extra hour. D: How disappointing. Damn me sleeping six hours instead of four. LOL

*Angry* So, moving on!

With this quest, many Pigg Lifers have come to the realization that the Pigg Life staff has been steadily turning up the degree of difficulty when it comes to the quests. If we compare previous quests with recent quests, there are a lot of changes that has been pretty disadvantageous to us normal players.


Energy draining quests
In earlier quests we were mainly concerned about splitting our energy between cooking and harvesting, but nowadays we have to worry about splitting our energy between cooking, harvesting, sewing, dying, using the cotton machine, spindle machine, harvesting in the forests and most recently, working on the construction table. In the recent quests, we are stretching our energy really thin! We have to harvest flowers (1 energy) for the construction table, oh! we need wood too (2 energy)! Now, we have to make it (1 energy) and harvest it (1 energy)! That's a lot of energy!

Even though it was never guaranteed to get the ticket in cooking, at least we only wasted one energy. The button system isn't fair. We have to use one energy to make the product that gives us the button. Then we have to use another energy to harvest the product and sometimes we don't even get a button! We ended up wasting not only energy but materials as well. :(

Complicated Quests
Quests are becoming more and more complicated. You gotta do this to make this to harvest this...yadda yadda yadda. I think our first complicated quests, not counting the construction quests, were the quests that needed seeds. I think those are the most time wasting, energy draining quests we've ever had. It's not fair that you have to plant red tomatoes to get yellow tomatoes to get black tomatoes. Next thing you know...there might even be a time restriction to harvesting. lol


More quests in the same amount of time
If we look back on quests that came before the Halloween quest, such as the peach quest, sunflower quest etc., they are composed  of only five parts. Now, quests are composed of six or more parts. We also have other Pigg Life villagers' quests such as Robin and Pero's quest, which are usually time consuming and can be more than one part.

So, not only are the quests composed of more parts, but we still only have about  two weeks to complete them.

Dependent quests
Nowadays, Pigg Life quests are usually composed of the main quest and a villager's quest such as Robin's and Pero's. The problem lies in the fact that in order to do the villager's quest you must complete the main quest first. I don't think that's very fair considering the villager's quests are just as hard as the main quests. I wish they would let us complete villager's quests while we are still working on the main quest because sometimes there is just not enough time.

No Guarantee
We harvest but aren't guaranteed the special plant. We cook but aren't guaranteed the ticket. We create but aren't guaranteed a button. This is frustrating because it wastes energy and materials. Now we have to harvest more wood or we might have to make more butter, plant more flour. We can never predict how much we'll have to plant or harvest because you never know how the drop rate is feeling that day.

Longer harvest times
Does it really take 18 hours for wheat to harvest? Really!!? The harvest times don't make any sense whatsoever during the event time. It should be 12- hours for trees and flowers and 6- hours for everything else.  These long harvest times can make or break you when your getting close to the deadline. You basically need to be done at least a day early because what if you run out of materials but only have 17 hours left to finish the quest? Well, you can't plant the event crop that takes 18hrs to harvest. It'll be too late.


Random "Happy Time"-more like unhappy time-
I don't even understand this new system of happy harvest/button/cooking times. In the past they gave us an exact date and time frame for when you can take advantage of say double tickets or guaranteed special crops when harvesting. Now, they give you like a 3 day span and say, 'There will be a happy button time between 7/24 and 7/27.  Good luck!'  HUH!?

So, I find myself randomly stumbling into 30 minute happy times ever so often. What can I do in 30 minutes!? Not much if I don't have energy because I didn't know that there is a happy time going on right now. They are really random and very unhelpful. So many Japanese players are complaining about this new system.

Even with these "happy times", I feel like I'd have to lose sleep or spend money to actually complete the quests 100%, which is not fun at all.

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Yes, I do believe the items are more appealing than before, but I also feel like they want us to buy our way to the prizes. I am grateful that so far most, if not everything, has been completely free. No Gacha Yay! But, It's not fair for us to have to work extra extra hard to get a prize if there's only a slim chance of us actually getting it without having to pay for energy or any of the special potions.

I enjoy Pigg Life and I'm glad they are evolving by adding different features and what not but this quest was more for those who stalk their Pigg Life gardens than those who spend as much time as they can playing the game but still live their lives and don't want to lose any sleep.

What do you fellow Pigg Life players think? Have you noticed the changes? If so, what do you think about them?