Random questions till launch day for fun (about playstyles)

[Arcy]

I don't have a list of all the pets

Here you go: http://fogu.com/hmforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=169952

[Kikki]

I prefer to only keep animals that don't follow me around. :/ I really hated the...was it llamas or alpacas, in SoS? I just find it so infuriating, like that old guy who tries to stand as close to you as possible even when there's loads of free space, and make contact at every opportunity on the bus or wherever, even though you don't want him aaaaanywhere near you. I've been heard to yell 'get away from me, pervert!' at my game, before, when my patience is pulled too thin on that matter. The association is just too strong and brings back too many memories of supressed rage, lol.

So whichever animals do that, I will see if I can either do without them completely, or get rid of them as early as possible after I've harvested enough goods from them. Or perhaps I can avoid raising their friendship or something.

I grow all crops but of course I'm extra interested in maple trees, as I am not only Canadian, but living on the edge of our primary sugar bush region where the majority of our syrup comes from. And my sister won't let me tap our maples. I'm also very interested in growing the new types of flowers...dahlias and mums and so on. Hibiscus was my favourite flower to grow in SoS.

[Nurylon]

I don't have a list of all the pets

Here you go: http://fogu.com/hmforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=169952

Thanks Arcy
The Great Pyrenees & Tibetan Mastiff are my favourite dogs (so big!!!! so fluff!!!!), I'm extra excited for the red capybura, and I like lots of the cats... Maine Coon and Himalayan are big fluffs! the Scottish Fold looks precious and the Calico is a pure wonderful, calicos are goodness always, what a good friend. With the cat models though, I don't normally think they look very good in-game... at least in SoS anyway, and from the front view.

It was the brown and white alpaca that stalked around! The llama didn't stalk, luckily.

[*LaI*]

Question 9: Do you have preferences for what you grow and what animals you keep?

Animals I like having 2 of each, thought maybe this time I'll go with just one since from what I've read about treats they can produce a ton. I'll just get a ton of dogs instead

For crops I will raise all of them, then keep planting those I use for recipes/gifts. I doubt money is hard to come by, so I won't go for the best profit crop or anything.

[Kikki]

I'll just get a ton of dogs instead

I thought I wouldn't care about pets, but...I think I may keep a half dozen. It seems like their abilities are really useful (the best way of getting thyme, poison mushrooms, etc) and I don't know how many pet abilities exist, so I might need a small handful of them.

[cinnamon_yuki]

Question 9: Do you have preferences for what you grow and what animals you keep?

I really don't have any preference for what I grow. I usually plant a pair of each type of crops. I really love the variety. XD

As for animals, I usually keep a pair of each in order to have normal and premium products. But from what I read, one livestock could produce 20 items so I could keep one of each type instead.

As for pets, I really prefer cats over dogs.

[Blademaster_Aio]

@Kikki: Those are some very unpleasant things the stalker animals are reminding you off. To me they were just an annoyance, but sometimes the alpacas would dance happily and leave me alone. I'll just have a barn specifically for my stalkerpacas this time so I can deal with it alone.

[*LaI*]

I thought I wouldn't care about pets, but...I think I may keep a half dozen. It seems like their abilities are really useful (the best way of getting thyme, poison mushrooms, etc) and I don't know how many pet abilities exist, so I might need a small handful of them.

I usually just have them for utility, so in SoS I keep the number I needed to herd all the animals. But in this game they are soooo cute and such variety that I can't choose just a few. Going to end up with more pets than livestock

[Kikki]

I only kept 2 pets in SoS since they weren't very useful, one cat and one dog, but in Trio they have a lot more new abilities...not just herding and foraging, but also treasure hunting and I think specifically finding fish and I don't yet know how many types of abilities they can have, so I'm not sure how many I'll need, yet. I deifnitely need a herding pet and a foraging pet and a treasure hunting pet, anyway, I'm pretty sure.

EDIT: I've asked talesofthreetowns and she is my hero yet again In answer to 'do you know how many types of pet abilities there are?' she answered...

Let's see if I remember: livestock herding, foraging fish, foraging metals, foraging herbs, foraging diverse items (ex. Poison mushroom) I think those are all available skills. All pet can do treasure hunting regardless their personal skill

So I may very well keep five pets just to have one of each ability.

EDIT 2: One more ability...foraging materials. (Like lumber and black lumber). So...perhaps six pets?

[Lenna36]

Question 9: Dogs are my favorite. So hopefully I'll be able to get a bunch that can herd. I do plan on giving livestock a try this game. Keep hearing the developers streamlined animal care, so here's hoping I'll enjoy it more.

@stalker animals, I found it annoying in game. However, horses will stalk people they like in real life. Then they bring all their horse buddies with them. It's a bit of realism at least...

[ryume]

@stalker animals, I found it annoying in game. However, horses will stalk people they like in real life. Then they bring all their horse buddies with them. It's a bit of realism at least...

I never knew that. That's so interesting to me. And that they bring all their friends is sort of scary. What if they decided to start bullying you?

[Lenna36]

@stalker animals, I found it annoying in game. However, horses will stalk people they like in real life. Then they bring all their horse buddies with them. It's a bit of realism at least...

I never knew that. That's so interesting to me. And that they bring all their friends is sort of scary. What if they decided to start bullying you?

Nah, they're not bullies. Very few would actually hurt a human on purpose. It's more like "Hey this person's cool. Let's all follow them around the pasture!" Usually when I went for a walk, I would have at least 3 of them following me. They're very social because they're survival depends on it.

Edit: I'm surprised that the sheep don't stalk in game. They would be another one. At least I would think so.

[Kross lover/fan]

Question 9: Do you have preferences for what you grow and what animals you keep?

For animals I try to have one of each. When it comes to crops, unless there is mutations I just grow whatever I want. I prefer regrowing crops but otherwise I just grow whatever.

[Shan O 123]

Long post because I was lazy before.

Spoiler:

As for my love interest... Stalk them relentlessly

This is my life. If someone is working/eating/etc, I literally wait for them so I can give them their daily gift.

I don't know about working, but you can gift while they are eating. SUCH a time save

Yes!

Feel free to answer the previous questions if you want.

Question 3: How quickly do you aim to be 'the best' at festivals? And do you take part in festivals even though you might lose?

Not every entry had a 'beginner rank'. And some festivals just were impossible to win the first time they showed up (like crop festivals without seed maker).

Actually in ANB, everyone was mean to you if you lost, like you were this no-good nobody or something. Rude. I never used to take part in those festivals till I knew I could win.

In SoS everyone cheers you on, win or lose, and they acknowledge your hard work. Motivation to always attend.

But actually, I just play normally. I've never aimed for a win in my first year without the tools on hand, and once you get the tools you usually can't lose... except for the fishing contest in SoS which was evil.

There were some games in which the seedmaker came years late (ToTT).

I even don't try to win unless it's necessary.

I've never picked festivals for my conquests. I just accepted that the game would rig them in my opponents' favour.

Feel free to answer any of the previous questions.

Question 4: Considering we could use blueprints / farm circles to make our farm look nice, how did you utilise this? Was the farm beautiful, completely functional or a mix of both?

I've done them both. I made a farm with paths and fences and roads and the combos arranged nicely, and I've made one filled with combos lumped together that looked so ugly.

Sometimes I wondered why the farm looked so bad, other times I wished I could toss away the fancy decorations for more trees / crops / makers.

I just put stuff wherever.

Question 5: Are you gonna play Veteran or Seedling mode?

For me, I only played seedling mode in SoS, but I will play veteran mode in my first safe file and then seedling in my second

Seedling.

I'm not gonna say it anymore after this, but you can still answer or discuss the previous questions.

Question 6: How do you decide your in game birthday? Is it closer to your real one, or do you pick a different one each time?

When I first started Harvest Moon, I picked Fall as my birthday season because I thought it fell in an Autumn month... and then I realised it actually fell in a late summer month... which is winter in other parts of the world.

Anyway, I used to get angry if my birthday clashed with a festival, so I just picked non-festival days for it, and at first I was against summer and winter birthdays because typhoons and snowstorms used to trap you inside.

Well, I'm gonna go with fall / autumn again, because of the bgm. Speaking of bgm, my birthday was never in fall in SoS because I hated the autumn bgm.

I use my actual birthday. Which is June 22. Summer 22.

Man, it needs to be out already. Iwantitnow. But must wait like a grown up.

Question 7: How extravagant are you while gift giving? Do you even gift or just leave all up to contests? Will you change this for the new SoS: ToT?

It isn't a secret some people like expensive or hard to get items, like the infamous mitten crab soup, and every other favourite gift that is a pain to get... and some people just have expensive tastes, liking gems, milk+ maker products and the like.

So how much do you spoil the villagers? I just throw bugs and fish at them, to be honest. Maybe if I'm feeling generous, I'll sacrifice a turnip... but otherwise, I'm stingy. Mine. All mine! The contests raise friendships anyway.

This isn't true on birthdays, when I usually attempt to spoil them by gifting them their favourite.

Considering the insane requirements are gone... maybe I'll... actually no. I will never be generous with produce in the start. It is still miiiiiiiine. When I'm super rich, I'll consider it, but everyone usually loves me by the time I'm super rich. Maybe I'll spoil my favourites this time. But I dunno. I guess it depends on how much I like them.

I tend to just focus on marriage candidates with whatever I have. Seaweed for Raeger or whatever.

Question 8: So, how many of you actually feed your farmer food?

Since meal bonus is a thing now, I'm sure people will be inclined to eat food now, but let's talk about what we were doing before this awesome feature. Did you guys even eat? I actually ate at the restaurant, but I never cooked and ate for myself, ever. And if the restaurant was closed? No food for you buddy. And once I got the recipes from the restaurant and the stamina accessory combo, I used to go for months without any food.

But it wasn't always like this. There was this one game in which you were supposed to 'purchase' your meals in batches (HM1 I think), so I bought those. But I almost never cook and eat myself. I guess my farmer eats in their sleep or something

Maybe.....every.....full moon I feed my farmer.

Seriously. She eats. Maybe.

Question 9: Do you have preferences for what you grow and what animals you keep?

So we have a lot of choices, in crops especially. I love strawberries and melons, watermelons, pineapples, apples, bananas, mangos and grapes... and so my farm reflects that. I grow so many of the crops I like, and just prefer growing / cooking / shipping them. I love fruit trees (some of them) and I absolutely love strawberries. I grow them everywhere in spring, I have an entire greenhouse dedicated to them, and it's not gonna change in Trio. Plus even lychees were included, I'm so happy. I also like tea bushes, I think they look nice. I don't drink tea though.

On the other hand, I dislike Almond trees and peaches, cabbages and pumpkins and corn, the peppers (not in real life, but I just don't want to grow them in game), so they just usually don't get to grow much on my farms. Same with lemons and kiwis. I dunno.

On the animal side, I love rabbits, but sadly you can't get many of them. I also like chicks, but I don't like chickens as much. But chicks are cute, and in SoS they follow the mama chicken around, it's so adorable and cute and I probably shouldn't have hatched so many, but oh well.

I also like lambs. But I dislike cows. I'll always have one, and the bubble cow is cute, but don't like them all that much.

In pets I vastly prefer cats over dogs... up till now. Maybe trio will change that because they have all these different types of dogs.

I grow anything. It depends how lazy I actually am.

As for animals, again, it depends how lazy I am. One of each mostly.

.....I should've quoted Arcy instead. Literally just went through all 11 pages.......

[WeirdRG]

I'll start out just planting everything I can, but eventually focus more on the crops that are more profitable/ are used in the recipes I want. With livestock, I'll always end up with the most sheep but there'll be one of each at least (unlike two of each in ANB and SoS, since we'll be able to get normal and plus quality stuff from one). Looking over the pets, I'm probably going to get a Maine Coon, Bernese, German Shepard, Husky, Chihuahua, and a grey Capybara because those are the breeds closest to the irl pets I always use for names (the capybara in place of my chinchilla ). This is probably the first game since AP that I have more than two pets