Harvest Moon Summer Group Play Options

[Harvest Moon Rac...]

Well here it is. The big winner is AWL, was very glad to see so many people interested in this :D
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Anyways, just get started on a file of AWL (SE or AnWL are great too) and post your stats or just anything interesting that happens in your game. Screen shots and even brief summaries are welcome, and I encourage it. I think a seasonal status or maybe half year status would probably be best to do.

Have fun guys, and keep everyone updated on your progress (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalagrin.gif)

[Kozunai]

I know I'm double posting, but oh well. I dont really care.

Chapter 1, Season 1, Spring

Name: Kozunai
Farm: Chorus Farm
Dog: Kody
Starting Cow: Bella

Things I purchased:
I purchased a hen, and named her Harmony. I also purchased a rooster, his name is Score. I bought quite a lot of fertalizer for my field, now I have four rows of grass growing. I need a lot more fertalizer before my entire field will grow... :( but I'm gonna purchase the pond first (haven't done so yet) because in this game the pond and tree area in your field aren't really surrounded by grass. I also bought the fishing pole and the brush.

People I befriended:
I made friends with Nina rather quickly. (In this version you don't start out friends with anybody, not even Takakura...) Nami was the second person I befriended, usually she is one of the harder people to befriend. I thought that Muffy was my friend because she has a red heart in her diary, but alas, she still doesn't look at me when I walk by... I finally managed to get Gustafa to be my friend, and the only reason I mentioned him in this update is because he became my friend on Spring 10th! Although no matter how many times I try to get him to give me the Weird Sickle, he never does...? Oh, and Lumina still wasn't my friend by the end of Spring (she is now though, and she also has three hearts now, but that is going to be saved for the summer update). I saw both Nami and Lumina's first heart event. I answered them both the right way, and didn't offend either of them.

Random Observations:
I think one of the biggest things that changed between the two version is that now, everyone takes the day off when Van comes to town. Well, except for you and Takakura, but everyone else changes their schedule so that they can go by Van's, and yes, they do actually shop there. They will also mention things about Van's shop. When I spoke to Romana and Ruby before Van's shop opened for the day, they both said "I thought that the shop was going to open today." When I spoke to Lumina after Van had closed up for the day she said, "Are you going to open your shop today?" To which I did, and sold things to several valley go-ers.

The next thing I noticed is that people have more a set schedule in this game. I liked the randomness of the original AWL, so the fact that they will mostly be in a specific place is sad... For example, Lumina is in her room from the time she wakes up until 10, when she goes downstairs to play the Piano. After 12 she goes back to her room until 1:30, then she goes and walks down to the Firework Twins place. Then she heads back to the Villa, and in between 7 and 8 she is in Romana's room with Romana and Sebastian. Then at 8 she heads back to her room for the night.

The prices on seeds and everything from Vesta's farm has been greatly reduced. The Banana seeds in the original were 1300G, I believe. In AWL:SE they have been reduced to a mere 280G. That is a big change, it's really good though, because I bought five Banana seeds my very first day! They are almost ready to be picked too!

That's it for this update! I'm gonna combine the Spring and Summer pictures and post them when I post the Summer update which will be sometime this weekend.