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Let the Q&A begin!

I'll be checking this forum thread regularly for questions throughout the next hour.

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My apologies! I had assumed you were talking about the Christmas event currency. Many ranch items can only be acquired once, but I can consider letting you buy duplicates of the Candy Cane Snow Globe, or perhaps add more different snow globes in future updates.

For the time being, we don't plan to let Mounts exceed level 40.

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We're doing well over here, thank you! Haha, that is a great idea! I'll see about letting you get the crafted toys during next Christmas. Thanks for sharing!

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I can see how a "Fertilize All Crops" button would save time. I'll consider it! Thanks for the suggestion.

The fishing hole flag suggestion is one I really like! It's been suggested before and is still on my list to consider. Thanks for the reminder :)

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So the more of the game you can see, the more taxing it will be for your computer to run, as there's more objects on screen to render.

On web, there's a "Quality" option in the gear menu that adjusts how wide the game is to make it run better; High quality being the widest and slowest, and Low quality being the slimmest and fastest.

So by setting the game to full screen, it's more demanding on your computer, and may explain why you're seeing this lag. This largely depends on how powerful your computer processor is, so it will vary from player to player.

Unfortunately there's little I can do to improve this for you, given the technology the game uses. If I have the time, I'll consider poking around for some optimization, but in the meantime you can play the game in a smaller window to improve performance.

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It's about balancing how big players can make their bonuses. Mounts are already one of the most powerful ways to provide a variety of bonuses and/or few powerful bonuses. Plus, if you stack on Pets, Runes, and Trinkets, then you've got a lot of ways to maximize your bonuses!

It's a very delicate balancing act to make the game both challenging and rewarding to play.

The higher level the mount, the more powerful they it becomes, so increasing the max might imbalance the progression of the game. I absolutely get the appeal of continuing to level your pets and mounts past 40, but doing so requires a delicate assessment of the power available to players and plenty of number crunching and graph making to get it to feel right and satisfying.

Anyways, I hope that answers your question! Leveling up mounts and pets past 40 is not off the table, but it's more work than you might first think.

Glad you made it work without the globes! Your Doo Doo Xmas Tree Maze sounds, uh, interesting! xD