Harvest Moon: A New Beginning Progress Topic, also for questions and stuff Options

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

Character information:

Name: Jerome
Skin: White
Face: Normal
Hair: Wavy Perm
Color: Black
Eyes Gold
Gear: Boy's Overalls

Farm name: Beluga
Birthday: Summer 13th
Title: Egg-Stage Farmer

Current Date: Spring 15th
Money: 22329
Animals:
1 Cow, Manilo.

I think that's everything relevant... feel free to add anything I may've missed. Anyway, usually we have a similar topic when everyone's beginning to play a new game. s'fun to talk about experiences and have a place for quick questions to ask other players. Right now, I don't have too many people in town. After Neil showed up to give me my first cow, Iroha showed up a few days later. Hopefully since I have a blacksmith now I can start getting some actual work done instead of just gathering/farming stuff...

[Mizukithepanda]

Well. This requires a full status update, I think.

Name: Claire
Skin: Yellow
Face: Wide-eyed
Hair: Ponytail
Color: Pink
Eyes: Purple
Gear: Light Green Raincoat

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Farm: Farron
Birthday: Summer 8th
Titles:
3rd Year Novice
Sous Chef
Novice Fisherman
Novice Trapper
Elite Catcher
Brands:
Milk - No Name
Eggs - No Name
Vegetables - Popular

Current Date: Fall 31st
Money: 91013g
Animals:
4 Cows, Saab, Toyota, Ford, and Volvo
1 Sheep, NASA
1 White Alpaca, FDA
1 Horse, Disney
4 Chickens, Sony, JVC, Compaq, and Acer
2 Silkies, Nokia and Apple
12 Beehuts, but the bees are dead. ;A;
Sheet Music: 9
Town Renovation Plans: 1, 2, and 3 complete, 4 95% complete, 5 100% prepared for, but not completed.

Okay, so I managed to win an intermediate class crop festival with a 2.5 star Big Spinach. That means the only thing left for me to do to complete Town Renovation Plan 4 is compete in two more Gardening Tours. Goddammit.

I'm am completely stoked about winning. You just have no idea. I thought it was going to be another month of misery - planting, fertilizing, and replanting the same damn thing over and over again until I'd raised its star rank. But no. Instead... instead it's going to be a month of boredom. I'm getting married to Yuri as soon as I have a large enough buffer of gold for the 100k Blue Feather to not leave me destitute, and the only things left for me to pour my money into are a couple of makers that I'm missing ingredients for. (They're things I can't get in fall or winter, unfortunately.)

On another note, horses in this game suck. They're barely faster than walking, take a few seconds to get rolling, and are a real pain in the ass to cart around during foraging runs. That said, they can cut a good bit of time if you're trying to run over to the other side of town or something like that. Regardless, unless you just want one to sit in your barn and look cute, I don't recommend shelling out the cash.