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Old Feb 16 2012, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by twosmiths View Post
I, too, am confused by the new quests. For the most part I haven't had too many problems, but the big sticky for me are these new lifelines, which are chosen FOR us and may not necessarily be helpful towards quest completion.

For example: My friend needed a chicken to complete a quest, but she doesn't have the semi. Chicken is a gift item, so she opted to use the lifeline, to be able to receive the chicken as a gift, but she got the scythe as her lifeline instead. She had already harvested all the crops she needed for her chicken burger, so this quest is now over for her, as chickens can't be harvested and her lifeline option has been used. What kind of a lifeline is that?

I am wondering about the "trade" option. I completed all the steps I needed to make a saddle, but don't own the FC factory that actually makes them. I opted to use the lifeline to see if I could trade for one. The lifeline I got was the gift option. Saddles cannot be gifted, so I'm stuck. I then worked a friend's factories, hoping that I could use a saddle from that, but it didn't work. Can I go to market and try to trade something for a saddle, with the gift lifeline, or do I need the trade lifeline for that? If I do, why didn't I have the opportunity to choose the lifeline I need?

Please post clear instructions for these lifeline options so that players will know how and when to use them. It appears they are as random as the quests, and so, for many, won't be lifelines at all. What is the point?


With the lifelines, regardless of which one you receive you cannot use it to get the final product that the quest is asking you to make. So if your quest is to produce a saddle then if you do not have the facility you will still not be able to finish it.

Because the lifeline is random there is no guarantee that you will be able to use it for what you need.
Trade lifeline: allows you to use products that your have brought off another farmer...you can only buy raw ingredients so you will not be able to use this to help if what u need help getting is something form a facility

Employee lifeline: you can get what you need by working someones farms i.e: by being hired to harvest/fish etc or by working someones facilities

Gift Lifeline: you can obtain what you need by posting an ingredients request for something that uses what you need and having a friend work it or if its an item on the gift page have someone gift form there
eg: my friend just needed scented candles to make candle lanterns and got the gift lifeline..I got her to post an ingredients request for candle lanterns and then i worked it for her and she got everything she needed for her quest

hope this helps