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These are ideas and examples. I haven't been around for a few years, and have no clue if any of them have been suggested before; nor am I quite sure what I would search for in the Forum to determine this.

QOL ideas for BW2
A] Ways to easily find specific players.
0. (Button) In the main game window while visiting a players Ranch, a Button to the right of the Back to Your Ranch Button that says "Where am I?". Button triggers the text that says "{Player_name} Ranch", this is the same text that displays on scene load. This is a method by which to determine which Ranch, Golf Course or Event you are currently on. *10/27 Just figured out where to look for this location information. Leaving this in because lazy author syndrome is real.
1. (Button) "Favorites" Button by Player Profile Button, and (Drop Down) sort by Favorites in Drop Down menu. Similar to Inventory Favorites.
2. (Tag Field and Drop Down) Ability to add tags, and (Search Filter) search by tag. Probably not necessary to have a list of tags but this may easily be done by looking in the drop down menu. Might not be necessary to have more than 5 player created tags. Similar to Search by Name.
3. (Check box or Drop Down) Ability to filter by who has unhelped flux crops, and other crops of similar mechanism/rarity. Similar in function to Has Crops Sort/list of Helpers on Crops in Ranch.
4. (Check box or Drop Down) Ability to sort/filter and visit Event/Ranch places for photo/voting contests. Conflates Visit in Event Dialog popup into View All Friends Dialog. Similar in function to Has Crops/Visit Golf Course.
5. Set Visit my Event Area to off by default. Ability to set this on or off by default. (Popup Dialog) On first load after Event start. "Do you want to allow people to visit your [Haunted House] this year? [Yes] [No]". This is an option the game remembers between Events. May require a change in Event programming.
6. (Color) (Amount) Different colored ! on Avatars for Events, Flux, etc. Possibly multiple !'s. Similar to Has Crops !.
B] Chat
7. Sort muted accounts to the top of chat. When a player is unmuted their posts are displayed in chat retroactively. When muted a players posts stop being displayed, but are still added to the local chat log in real time. Since I haven't seen a comparable mechanic in BW2 or CNE: Similar to Message Config (upper right) in Trimps at https://trimps.github.io/.

Examples:
1)There are 3 friends I have who have things like slots and statues, I don't remember their in game names.
Available methods. I could spam chat with the phrase "Do you have slot machines?" I could also visit up to 250 ranches. Most of my friends are max level, so I can't sort that way. Almost all of my friends are active and have crops, so that method is ineffective. I am reduced to manually going through up to 250 Ranches by hand to find these players, and once located I have no way to tell which Ranch I am currently on, *10/27 again I am leaving this here because of lazy author syndrome* lastly I must record this information elsewhere like in a text document or spreadsheet.
Flowthrough vision. I have found one of the 3 friends in the 37th Ranch I visited. I click on "Where am I?" The text hongkongelder's Ranch transitions in and fades out. I click on View All Friends. I click the Button "Favorite", to the left of hongkongelder's Avatar and under the View Profile Button. I add the player created tag "Goodies". I add this tag to hongkongelder by clicking on a Star Drop Down located above the View Profile Button, and then on the Tag "Goodies" in the Drop Down menu. I type "goo" into the Search Box. The View All Friends Dialog displays the Friends Goober3, and hongkongelder.
Incorporates ideas 0,1,2.

2)I have several friends who like to build/share ranch layouts and Haunted Houses, etc.
Available methods. I can watch chat for actual entries. Finding potential participants is currently easiest by looking in the Event Progress dialog and clicking Visit in the Your Friends progress list. About 90% of these are people who just didn't bother turning off the on by default Visit my Event option. Not terribly difficult, but not as user friendly or robust as the View All Friends Dialog.
Flowthrough vision. The Halloween Event has started. I log in to Bush Whacker 2. A Popup Dialog appears that says "Do you want to allow people to visit your [Haunted House] this year? [Yes] [No]". If I click the Yes Button, then the Visit Button for the Event is turned on by default. If I click the No Button, then the Visit Button for the Event is turned off by default. If I click the X Button, then my preference from previous Events is set. If there I have never answered this Popup Yes or No, then the Visit Button for the Event is turned off by default. I can always change this by looking for the NPC with a blue !. The Popup Dialog will not show for the rest of this years Halloween Event. I go to the View All Friends Dialog. I select Event/Contest from the Drop Down Menu. 4 friends who answered yes to the Popup Dialog stack at the start of list. These Friends ! are orange. They have a colored clickable Button whose tooltip on mouseover says "Visit Event" below the Visit Ranch Button. All other Friends have a greyscale nonclickable Button that gives no tooltip.
Incorporates ideas 4,5,6.

3)I have many friends who sometimes have Flux Flax.
Available methods. I have no method other than watching chat or blind luck to know who currently does have flux, or if I have helped.
Flowthrough vision. From the Drop Down Menu in the View All Friends Dialog, I select Has Flux. The 3 out of 250 Friends who have Flux crops that I haven't helped stack at the top of the list. The ! on these Avatars is blue. Next is 2 players who have flux crops and I have helped. Their ! is grey. Default sort of remaining Friends.
Incorporates ideas 3,6.

4)I see from time to time references in chat to people I have muted. Occasionally I wish to unmute these people.
Available methods. Scroll through the entire list of people in chat, hoping to find the right one. Or ask someone else what a muted person said. (ChatLog) ChrisJr30: indeed they do [redacted]; WildlifeGuru007: @[Redacted], did you hear the latest anthropological find, they discovered cannibals don't eat clowns, due too them tasting funny (EndChatLog) I sort through all the people in chat. I find [redacted] at around position 49 out of 60. I could unmute [redacted] and ask what they said. I can also not unmute [redacted] and ask the chat in general what they said. I cannot otherwise determine what [redacted] said.
Flowthrough vision. Muted people are at the top of the chat list. I can unmute and mute them easily using the existing Mute/Unmute Buttons after clicking on a player name. Unmuting shows the unmuted persons posts in the chat retroactively, so you don't need to ask what the unmuted person said. Muting hides all lines from muted person, but still saves them to the local chat log.
Incorporates idea 7.

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If you select 'Can't decide', then that's NOT a vote. A vote is an affirmative response.

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@Russ ... you can buy the Tall Palm Tree from the Burglary Boutique for 200 Island Tokens. After that they are available to buy at your ranch store for 2500 gold.

Also, when you are using the Jungle and Beach Themes on your ranch or island, you will find that your Leafy Green, Leafy Tan, and Leafy Brown trees will automatically convert to different types of palm trees. And you'll see the tall palm trees along the parameter of your ranch or island too. Pretty neat!!!