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[Mephansteras]

Anyone know for sure if giving higher quality versions of gifts does any good? I see some stuff that assumes that, but no definitive info on it.

[Akura]

Spoiler: From what I've heard (click to show/hide)

The value of the gift is possibly the base for how much it improves relationship - silver or gold quality has a higher price which means higher relationship increase. Giving a gift they like(or better yet, love) applies a multiplier, and giving them a gift on their birthday applies another multiplier(if they don't like it, it's a negative modifier). However, this is just wild mass guessing, and I have not hard evidence.

[Greenbane]

That sounds better. As I said before, I don't like a final evaluation on an open-ended game that lasts dozens of hours to 'complete'. The diamond thing sounds really great.

I agree. The final evaluation mechanic imposes not only a time limit, but also pressure to do things "right" by some arbitrary standard. It's completely at odds with the "no rush, enjoy country life" nature of the game.

I'm playing completely blind in that regard, not knowing (nor wanting to know) what I'm expected to accomplish by the time the evaluation comes around. I'd rather not be graded by an entirely unnecessary mechanic, and feel it'd diminish the experience to find out in the end that I "did it wrong" in some way.

[Fikes]

I am surprised by the evaluation thing also. I really like "just playing." Every time I hit min/max mode in harvest moon I ended up annoyed with the game and more stressed than relaxed. It seems like everything in this game points towards relaxing play except the evaluation at the end. Just odd.

On the other hand it gives me something to work towards on my next play through. That being said, I have not even hit my first winter yet. Looking forward to just relaxing and playing this weekend.

[Girlinhat]

I always feel conflicted about these games.  On the one hand, it's a relaxing play where you just 'do farm'.  But on the other hand, once you've maxed your tools and are getting gold star produce, there's... not much happening.  You quite suddenly hit 'nothing to do' as you end up with crops under sprinklers so no need to farm, and all tools improved so no need to dungeon.  You just end up with mounting money and nothing to spend it on, because there's no special events or problems that encourage you to do anything.

[Wiles]

There is definitely a point when there is not much left to do, but honestly I didn't really feel that way until about 70 hours into the game. At that point I already had gotten a tremendous amount of value out of a 15$ title.

[Sappho]

You could just have the big climax happen when you've met certain conditions that imply you've already gotten just about everything out of the game. So with SV, for example, there's a big event that's triggered when you have X amount of each resource and have earned X amount of money. After that, you can either play on if you want (though there wouldn't be much left to do unless you enjoy the grind for its own sake) or set the game down feeling accomplished. I don't see any reason it needs to be tied to the calendar.

[Glloyd]

That sounds better. As I said before, I don't like a final evaluation on an open-ended game that lasts dozens of hours to 'complete'. The diamond thing sounds really great.

I agree. The final evaluation mechanic imposes not only a time limit, but also pressure to do things "right" by some arbitrary standard. It's completely at odds with the "no rush, enjoy country life" nature of the game.

I'm playing completely blind in that regard, not knowing (nor wanting to know) what I'm expected to accomplish by the time the evaluation comes around. I'd rather not be graded by an entirely unnecessary mechanic, and feel it'd diminish the experience to find out in the end that I "did it wrong" in some way.

It was totally overhauled in 1.05, check out the patch notes, you can resummon him with a diamond enever you like.

[Tnx]

Tested the gift quality for villagers thing.  A gold quality item I gave pushed a person from one to two stars, while giving the same gift with no quality modifier left the person at one star.

Also, has anyone cleared all the forage areas of rocks/branches south of the farm to see if doing so actually spawns more forageables?

[Akura]

It should. Someone earlier in the thread posted a screenshot of a rock spawning in the middle of their field on an unplowed tile.

[Glloyd]

Extensive interview with CA by PC Gamer.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Extensive interview with CA by PC Gamer.

Your URL doesn't lead anywhere, unless that was the joke and I missed it.

[Glloyd]

Your URL doesn't lead anywhere, unless that was the joke and I missed it.

Nah, I fucked up. Fixed it. It's about the future of Stardew.

There's also a GameInformer video interview with him from today as well, it's about 45 minutes long.

[Glloyd]

Which I linked to on the last page.

I missed that somehow, my bad.

[Vector]

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