Will we get more festivals???

[zack123]

So I was wondering if we will ever get any more festivals in the game. And from what I see the most likely season to have a new festival would be fall.
Since:

• Spring: 5 days of festival (2 are obligatory, 1 is optional)
• Summer: 4 days of festival (2 are obligatory, 1 is optional)
• Fall: 2 days of festival (2 are obligatory)
• Winter: 7 days of festival (2 are obligatory, 2 are optional)

By obligatory I mean festivals that lock an area of the map and end the day after you leave, while optional are the ones that do not lock away an area of the map and you can come and go as you please without the day ending just because you leave.
So by this logic if we ever get a new festival it would make sense for it to be in fall and be an optional festival lasting 2/3 days. Possibly somewhere between the 4 and 11 of Fall.
What do you all think?

 

[NestorGB]

maybe not a whole festival. maybe something more like the trout derby? it would be interesting with a festival on ginger island, wouldnt it?

 

[zack123]

maybe not a whole festival. maybe something more like the trout derby? it would be interesting with a festival on ginger island, wouldnt it?

The trout derby is counted as a festival, and a festival like the trout derby is the ones I called optional (because they don't interfere with the map). But I agree a festival in the island resort would be cool.

 

[Nonak]

A GI festival would be great for livening it up, there was a suggestion to have the luau be there every other year too.
What kind of a festival tho? I'm thinking maybe some sport-ish event, if it on the resort maybe beach volleyball?

 

[Cuddlebug]

What about a carribean Barbecue together with the pirates, Sam's playing the Ukulele and the Mermaid sings...

 

[WorstDecorator]

Kinda festivaled out tbh. I already don't like that Desert Fest conflicts with salmonberry season. That calendar outside Pierre's store is getting a bit cluttered, you know?

also squid derby ate my Bait Maker one time so I have a vendetta as it were.

I do think the variation in certain festivals in alternate years (chiefly thinking of the egg festival having different egg placement) was a nice change in the last update. (Haley actually remembering to bring her camera now is a nice touch, too.) Fine-tuning the festivals we have is more interesting to me than adding more.

But as far an optional fall festival, some sort of harvest festival seems the natural choice. I mean the Valley Fair is kinda that already but maybe some larger multi-day thing that more directly taps into Oktoberfest or Thanksgiving-style parties that traditionally celebrate a successful harvest with a big feast. Maybe two optional feast days culminating in a third mandatory Valley Fair Day?

 

[Lothengriol]

Anyone else think it's kind of weird how the religion of Yoba doesn't appear to have any holidays? I'd suggest one for the Yobaists. Yobbers? Yobronis?

 

[Cuddlebug]

Anyone else think it's kind of weird how the religion of Yoba doesn't appear to have any holidays? I'd suggest one for the Yobaists. Yobbers? Yobronis?

Good point, btw. Maybe the Feast of the winterstar, isn't that stardrop somehow related to Yoba?

 

[Lothengriol]

Good point, btw. Maybe the Feast of the winterstar, isn't that stardrop somehow related to Yoba?

Oddly enough, I cannot recall any connection between Yoba and Stardrops. The Stardrops are definitely connected to the Feast of the Winter Star (and the Winter Star itself) but the game doesn't even make a connection between the Feast of the Winter Star (or the Star itself) and Yoba.

 

[Lew Zealand]

There is a single day we can rule out for a potential Fall festival: Fall 10. This is because CA in his infinite (choose one)

[ ] Wisdom
[ ] Dumb luck

has set every single festival up to perfectly not interfere with the Most Hallowed And Very Organized-Feeling And Not-At-All-Coincidentally Satisfyingly Efficient method of growing each Season's best crop for 3 harvests using Deluxx Speed-Gro.

Farmer Bobbi

Bombs and plants on Day 1
She harvests and replants on Day 10
She harvests and replants on Day 19
She harvests on Day 28 and plants Fiber Seeds

No wasted days and all the max-g-per-tile Seasonal crops use this identical harvest method:

Now even she mostly notices something kinda funny here. If she squints. And Emily points out the pattern, just like when they're designing outfits. Listen, Bobbi can't be super great at loads of things like Farming or whatever and if you're not going to be super great at something, you might as well not be super great at anything. You know, so nothing feels singled out and stuff.

Anyway, the 10th is Right Out!

That said, having another Winter Festival might be nice as there's less farming to be done in wintertime and another festival will distract Bobbi from the knowledge that for the like 22nd year she STILL won't get a @%%&*@% Tea Set!

 

[Cuddlebug]

Oddly enough, I cannot recall any connection between Yoba and Stardrops. The Stardrops are definitely connected to the Feast of the Winter Star (and the Winter Star itself) but the game doesn't even make a connection between the Feast of the Winter Star (or the Star itself) and Yoba.

Yes, I suppose you’re right... I thought I’d read about it in one of the Lost Books, but it only mentions a fruit in general terms, not specifically a Stardrop.

 

[Lothengriol]

There is a single day we can rule out for a potential Fall festival: Fall 10. This is because CA in his infinite (choose one)

[ ] Wisdom
[ ] Dumb luck

has set every single festival up to perfectly not interfere with the Most Hallowed And Very Organized-Feeling And Not-At-All-Coincidentally Satisfyingly Efficient method of growing each Season's best crop for 3 harvests using Deluxx Speed-Gro.

I never made this connection, evidently my farmers are running themselves too thin to get their noggins joggin' until they finally have the resources to mass-produce Ancient Fruit in the later years. Thanks for sharing this!