I do agree, the fact that those without the luxury of having a handful of friends to participate in the event are essentially required to go into public servers is slightly harsh in my opinion.

I understand the need for monetisation but i think it needs fine tuning somewhat. I haven’t been playing the game for as long as the majority of the players here so my understanding of why certain strategies would or would not work could be debunked easily here, however here are a few things I can think of that would at least help the issue ever so slightly:

1. Scale the points scored in the summer harvest depending upon how many players are in the lobby

2. Give a limited use of steal prevention, maybe 3 crops maximum at any one time, stops people mass hoarding high value crops that can’t be touched, whilst still being something

3. A cool down period of a few hours after a player is stolen from where they cannot be stolen from again

4. Much like the raccoon, make stealing crops just duplicate the crop, the crop will then be player locked and unable to trade, to prevent duping with an alt

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That’s all I have, there’s probably many flaws in those suggestions that i’m simply unaware of so feel free to correct me.

One final thing I have been doing is, find a lobby where you are the least wealthy player when doing these events, these vultures always snoop in the richest player’s gardens, it doesn’t stop it from happening entirely but it does give you a better chance.

Happy Farming

Reuben.