Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and other similar games!

ALPACA GET!!
(I also got a suffolk sheep and a jersey cow, and have divided up my farm so the alpaca and sheep are in one barn, and the cows and the horse are in the other barn,because they were kinda stressed with 6 animals + a horse in there)

I also saw Raeger's yellow flower event (it was cute!) and upgraded my hammer to a golden one so hopefully I get a little better at finding the ori-whatevers I need to upgrade my house! But if I don't have all the supplies I need by mid-fall (besides the ori-I-can't-remember-the-rest I'm still short on stone and black lumber despite hoarding it), I am probably gonna wait until year 3 to get hitched.

I also got the tea field and the orchard, because I remembered that trees require no maintenance lol

still considering letting my spice field go. So after that I would just have the honey and mushroom field, the tea field, the orchard, the tall crop field (for my flax, might cut my flax production a little so I can also grow cotton in that field, because I am pretty sure I have a shit ton of money already in my hoarded linens and would like to grow some cotton for clothes) and I am hoarding linens so I can DESTROY ELISE for that paddy. After this year's harvest I am gonna cut down the trees on my main farm and keep my tea and trees in their respective fields so I have more farm space and can grow grass and stop having to buy fodder. I have enough money to buy a greenhouse so I might buy one and grow something in that.

Also Elise was actually nice to me. She said business has picked up since she moved in... but then said I probably contributed more to that and then was all "what? You thought I'd take all the credit?" YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE NICE TO ME WE ARE HATE RIVALS! ;_; (but still, made me go aww)

 

:O! Cool trick I use is, I grow grass plots in my busy pen. I've got three squares but I'm p sure I only need two, for four sheep, a goat, and six cows. The dogs chase them outside before they get a chance to eat inside the barn, so they graze and I just keep the horse fed and feed them all fodder on rainy days. Haven't had to replant it yet which is pretty funny considering it's not a forever green, supposedly.

 

Oooh I'll have to try that! I'll probably put 3 squares in each (because it would make me feel bad if they didn't all get their own little grass patch lol)

Still am probably gonna cut down my trees though, since I already planted seedlings and stuff in the field, and I wanna downsize my farm (despite how I keep... conquering fields xD). So I wanna keep chilli peppers (I have them almost up to 5 stars) and flax (because lol printing money) and cotton (at least enough to make a lot of different clothes where it is needed) honey, trees, mushrooms, and tea require no maintenance. I am unsure how much maintenance the paddy crops need but! it's the only place you can grow them so I want it. maybe grow a small patch of seasonal vegetables just for recipes and junk (probably that little patch that comes with your farm?) and not the INDUSTRIAL LEVELS I was producing when I used the root crop field and the tall crop field.

I wanted to be a rancher I didn't know conquering fields was so addicting and I gotta grow 'em all ;_;

 

Paddies require no maintenance at all aside from if you want to attack it with fertilizer. ovo Rice grows slow as dicks tho, but wasabi and lotus are fast.

 

if YOU harvest it, it eventually stops growing but idk if that applies to grazing animals (I've had it happen, but i'd stocked up on seeds beforehand :P)

 

also I keep thinking of downsizing but.. then I decided against it. Because even though it takes more effort to maintain, the dogs helping take SO much stress off, omg.. and the huge amount of supplies can be used for trade requests from the vendors. :D I finally unlocked my panda for instance, and I get a lot of expensive things otherwise.

 

No idea, I'm in year 3 and I planted those in like.. year 2. They never nibble it all the way down, so I guess it doesn't count as a full harvest for some reason? xD

 

I keep save scumming the spring fashion festival, and it's getting kinda annoying. The theme is green spring/summer clothing. I have the boy's over-alls which are...very green, but I have no green accessorizes. It gets frustrating too because there have been times when I've used practically the same model/outfit but if their hair is like... one shade off or something he will go from "this is beautiful!!" to thinking it's garbage. It's almost like the game wants me to score in 2nd/3rd place

 

o3o The hair affects things? I've never lost a fashion show yet based on hair/anything to do with the model themselves.. Though I've used fogu to double check and find the Best Optional Outfit for what I've got on hand and loaded them up with accessories best I could and then jewelery I just kind of nod at if there's no matching color available.

Dang I wonder how close I've come to royally fucking up if that's the case. D:

 

Apparently hair/eye color is considered if yous model is not wearing a hat/glasses.

but it's weird though, I've been experimenting with all kinds of combinations. So far IIRC the best outcome I had so far was a boy model wearing the boys overalls with emerald green hair and eyes, but when I switched it to apple green hair and eyes he hated it!

 

:Ic Ohhhhhh, that might be why. Because the green gets judged like emerald accessories, but the apple would get judged like jade, likely.. and more yellowish shades would be like peridot. So it would have a lower +green than emerald.

 

I keep giving him the yellow glasses because it's the closest thing I have to green, maybe if I don't win this time I will try a model with just the outfit/hair/eyes

 

omg Fritz just made his model come out in the penguin costume. Buddy that's not... you know what, nevermind. You do you.

 

kfldgs I love the other peoples entries sometimes. Any time Elise entered, she'd do shit outfits but put a crown on them. Like. Honey, no. You're rich I'm aware, but that is not fashion sadly.

 

well, science has shown he does not like the outfits any better without the glasses, so I am slowly narrowing down with science! (trial and error) until I finally remember what outfit he went nuts over, and then just keep using that outfit until I stop going up against the hard competition.

 

I had to scrap a day because cooking contest suddenly lost. I had a 5 star vegetable cake, and I lost to angela somehow.

So I went and make a 5 star pumpkin pudding and out of spite used jersey milk + and a golden egg and won by a landslide.

>:I :STUBBORNLY HATE FLIRTS WITH THE NURSE:

 

science: he does not seem to like any eye color other than emerald. I switched from emerald to apple green and that was literally the only change I made and he did not like it. EVEN WHEN I WAS WEARING GLASSES. So clearly, hair and eye color has something else to do with it even with glasses/hats. I remember using a model with golden colored hair earlier that he seemed to like, and he loved a model that had golden hair and eyes, so I think I am going to try golden hair + emerald eyes next.

 

more science: he did not like my model with blonde hair, so I tried it again with dark skin (I repeat: the only difference! because science only changes one variable at a time) and he liked it a lot better.

I'm... not even sure how I can process this information.

 

8Ic perhaps it also changes based on who you're up against.

 

this is true! I changed it to a dark skinned model but with emerald hair and he was back to hating it, either their is a complex play of what skin, hair, and eye color go together, or this game keeps bullshitting me and it's impossible to with the year 2 spring fashion show

EDIT: YES! I FINALLY FOUND A MODEL/COMBO HE LOVES
now if I don't with this one I can keep using it and test and see if his opinion changes based on the competition.

Spoiler: for later reference

female model
coffee skin
emerald eyes
yellow gold hair
yellow glasses
kerchief
boys overalls
natural look 1 face

EDIT 2: his opinion does not change between contests. Mine is "tailor made for the season" but I don't think I can beat competitors whose entries he calls "art with a capital A"
EDIT 3: when I changed her face to "natural look 2" he said it was "an advant garde concept" but I still ranked higher than the last competition. Still can't beat "art with a capital A" (fuck you, Klaus)
EDIT 4: changed it to "calm" face and he didn't like it as much also Mistel's model had apple green eyes and lime green hair and he thought it was Art with a capital A?

WE MUST GO DEEPER
I WILL CRACK THE CODE
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS YOU PRETENTIOUS LITTLE SNOT