Talk:Thanksgiving Feast/@comment-92.249.226.144-20101130041742/@comment-192.231.124.24-20120313154823

To the "Or you can collect all of them from the feed"...Again, thousands of fake friends. Let's assume each player has 20 friends also playing Farmville and harvests their Roost at exactly the same time every day.

13 days * 1 dish per day * 21 friends harvesting (including the player) = 273 dishes.

If each person likewise has 20 Farmville Friends, then we must remember that the SINGLE item offered for free would be given to only one of those 20 friends. And assuming someone could get every single thing a friend got without there being the heavy competition for that friend's thing...The friend himself might only have gotten a few things.

Now you could ask for some from friends. This could provide another 260 per day. Add in Mystery Boxes, let's assume you aren't building anything and get one mystery box per friend per day and each mystery box had a dish. That could be another 260 dishes.

But with those methods combined, there would be only 793 dishes in the time allowed assuming every player was obsessively playing. This would of course be good if you they weren't working towards the "They of Mystery" blue ribbon, but these boxes are one of the few things that actually count for that ribbon. And it would be good if you had 20 friends to help you. Instead, most people at the time had 10 to 15 at most playing Farmville. At 15, it's just less than 600 dishes over that span of time. Meaning you would need at least one of those 20-friended people to help you.

And, DHA, the point of the "basket specials" IS to "get all the redeemables". Of course the primary focus Farmville has is on the paying customers and this is reasonable, but that doesn't mean the non-paying customers should be given the short end of the stick.