Salem V1.1.7 Couch Potato

[MarpTarpton]

no scarecrow item, lol... logged in to another farm trashed... the precedent this is making makes me pessimist about what's next

The idea that the scarecrow is p2w is absurd. You don't need agriculture to win Salem, there are too many other food groups that don't rely on it even slightly that would allow you the luxury of advancement just as much. Does the scarecrow remove the annoyance of having to use extra seeds or go chase crows? Yup, absolutely. But people who are not annoyed are not necessarily winning.

We intend to release another Scarecrow, for those of you who have lately been fertilizing your crops with tears. However, I don't think you'll like it very much.

[Judaism]

I have never relied upon farms on Providence. However, I do not understand why they yet implement more annoying mechanics. In my point of view, we already have way too many new reasons to keep away a huge chunk of people.

[MaxPlanck]

no scarecrow item, lol... logged in to another farm trashed... the precedent this is making makes me pessimist about what's next

The idea that the scarecrow is p2w is absurd. You don't need agriculture to win Salem, there are too many other food groups that don't rely on it even slightly that would allow you the luxury of advancement just as much. Does the scarecrow remove the annoyance of having to use extra seeds or go chase crows? Yup, absolutely. But people who are not annoyed are not necessarily winning.

We intend to release another Scarecrow, for those of you who have lately been fertilizing your crops with tears. However, I don't think you'll like it very much.

Plan on having the scarecrow cover the radius of one field? Time to raise a scarecrow army, or y'know, people can just scare the crows away themselves and I guess if people really don't want to build a bunch of scarecrows they can make an alt that sits afk around their fields just so the area is always loaded and crows can't even spawn. C'mon now guys, think outside the box.

[Reviresco]

Are crows more of a multi-person town problem? I've yet to login to a crow on my fields. I'm a hermit, though.

[Kandarim]

they definitely are more of an annoyance to towns than hermits.
My fields are never loaded when i'm not around to chase crows (and I have scarecrows now anyway), but in a town your fields are constnatly getting loaded and crows spawned on them by people that are not necessarily paying attention/bothering with your fields. A major annoyance in towns.

[salemwutwut]

well, it's good to know where the game is going, so i can adjust my expectations accordingly... i provided my arguments, you provided semantics basically... terrible to see this change from springs shop item to this scarecrow thing... it's a huge step in another direction

[Tulgarath]

no scarecrow item, lol... logged in to another farm trashed... the precedent this is making makes me pessimist about what's next

The idea that the scarecrow is p2w is absurd. You don't need agriculture to win Salem, there are too many other food groups that don't rely on it even slightly that would allow you the luxury of advancement just as much. Does the scarecrow remove the annoyance of having to use extra seeds or go chase crows? Yup, absolutely. But people who are not annoyed are not necessarily winning.

We intend to release another Scarecrow, for those of you who have lately been fertilizing your crops with tears. However, I don't think you'll like it very much.

Don't forget to add something shiny on a stick for us to add near enemy fields so that we can ATTRACT crows to fields.

[tatertot18]

no scarecrow item, lol... logged in to another farm trashed... the precedent this is making makes me pessimist about what's next

The idea that the scarecrow is p2w is absurd. You don't need agriculture to win Salem, there are too many other food groups that don't rely on it even slightly that would allow you the luxury of advancement just as much. Does the scarecrow remove the annoyance of having to use extra seeds or go chase crows? Yup, absolutely. But people who are not annoyed are not necessarily winning.

We intend to release another Scarecrow, for those of you who have lately been fertilizing your crops with tears. However, I don't think you'll like it very much.

Don't forget to add something shiny on a stick for us to add near enemy fields so that we can ATTRACT crows to fields.

Patch notes - Crab on a stick to attract flocks of crows that attack if you try to remove it...

[tatertot18]

no scarecrow item, lol... logged in to another farm trashed... the precedent this is making makes me pessimist about what's next

The idea that the scarecrow is p2w is absurd. You don't need agriculture to win Salem, there are too many other food groups that don't rely on it even slightly that would allow you the luxury of advancement just as much. Does the scarecrow remove the annoyance of having to use extra seeds or go chase crows? Yup, absolutely. But people who are not annoyed are not necessarily winning.

We intend to release another Scarecrow, for those of you who have lately been fertilizing your crops with tears. However, I don't think you'll like it very much.

For me the p2w view is that the only counter for crows, aside from living in your fields, is that you purchase a shop item. Again, as others have stated we are okay with shop items being the most powerful version of something or providing an extra bonus (garden shovel), but at least give us crappy regular scarecrows with ridiculously rare ingredients and a range of 4 fields so we can provide tears for harvest while protecting our crops.

[Kandarim]

while I do agree that scarecrows being a cash-store only purchase is not the direction i want this game to go (obvious cash grab), for hermits just chasing the crows away is pretty viable. I did it for a couple of days before I got around to buying the scarecrows, and it wasn't too bad. Just make sure you always leave a character within rendering range, or you'll respawn them everytime you come near them again (in my case, after being in my mine for a bit).