July 2021
I've brought in rare plants that were "perfect" quality, and pies that were "impeccable" quality, but somehow, I just get participation awards! I've had better luck winning the animal or oversized vegetable contests, but not those two for some reason.
July 2021
July 2021 - last edited July 2021
@Marinuttonen I ended up buying one from the magic realm because I'm a cheater cheater pumpkin eater. BUT yeah, it seems to be absolutely random for a few of us. I've even seen people cheat in oversized crops from debug with a weight of 0 and win a first place ribbon? But I'm lucky to get a participation reward for something I spent so much time in game taking care of???? It's really discoraged me from playing. At first, the participation rewards were an incentive to try harder, and I was so excited when I got my first participation reward. Once I got my 10th for things I tried so hard with, it became more of a slap in the face.
July 2021
Are we sure that the other contestants just aren't bribing the Mayor to win? I'd love to watch closer and see if anyone slips her some simoleons...
I haven't been to that many fair events yet, but during one, I had one contestant insult another contestant's entry, and there was a message pop up with the dialogue, so maybe the other contestants do more than just stand there and passively watch?
July 2021
@simvasion I'm not sure that's something npcs could do. I know the dialogue which you probably saw was just them viewing the entry, which is something you can do as well to get an inspired buff from checking out the competition.
August 2021
I've been having this issue too and I'm very frustrated by it. My rainbow milk only received a participation ribbon when the two other entries were a normal milk and a pumpkin milk. My excellent status lemon also only received a participation ribbon. If I put the effort into getting nice things to enter, I should receive better ribbons for it.
August 2021
Another example of a clearly superior item losing to normal quality commons/uncommons. At least this time I actually placed out of three lol
August 2021
August 2021
Still feels very off, like it doesn't seem like this was how the fair competitions were intended. Like if it was just my entries factoring and not other contestants. why would a contest be made like that? I also feel like some of the other fair bugs might be connected somehow, like people losing entries and not getting participation at all? Very big sign that something isn't right with the contests
August 2021
Same issue here. I entered a perfect quality snapdragon in the fair, as well as an excellent exotic fruit (dragon fruit) pie. Not only did they both lose to lower quality items, I only received one participation ribbon. The same thing happened in a previous fair for oversized crops.