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[Farrow]

So I'm a very technical player, especially for stardew I know most everything from Easter eggs to glitches and when I find something new I make sure to mention it to family when it can help them with stuff. For example the glitch that prevents villagers from destroying chests if you surround it in furniture items. That's useful if your keeping chests for friendships. But now I'm treated by family like a personal Wikipedia about stardew. Is this a normal phenomenon or is this a unique situation? And if anyone else has to deal with it how do you cope?

 

[Colleen&Potato]

Personally, I don’t think that there is any reason to cope. Just make them ask Google instead of constantly asking you. It’s pretty normal for a family who shares common interests to want help, tips, or even conversation regarding that interest.

 

[Farrow]

Personally, I don’t think that there is any reason to cope. Just make them ask Google instead of constantly asking you. It’s pretty normal for a family who shares common interests to want help, tips, or even conversation regarding that interest.

While that is a good suggestion I've tried and failed on numerous occasions. I don't like confrontation so I may have failed due to that but constantly being asked what fish spawns where and how likely it is to catch such and such fish with the curiosity lure is driving me insane

 

[SurprisedPikachuBob3]

I am like that with my friend group after introducing them all to stardew as well

 

[imnvs]

Pretend you know less. Say, "Well, I'd have to look it up too." If they press, ask, "Are you really asking me to check the wiki for you?"

 

[Lew Zealand]

1. Attempt to play SDV with your family
2. Fail
3. ???
4. Profit!



Bonus:

0. Make sure family likes things other than SDV much better. Drawback: you may get lumped into that SDV category

 

[LRangerR]

The pitfalls of being too good at something. It's a struggle.

You could always just tell them to slow it down and learn to enjoy the discovery aspect of the game, but I have a feeling that won't work out too well with your family.

Welp, good luck!

 

[Sigrah]

Friends? Not really, we like to be competitive with each other (on a friendly level), and we'll bounce and test different strategies with each other and see how they fit in with our respective play styles, so Google and Yahoo are our friends. But coworkers? All the dang time, along with how to design a farm.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

I don't know, most people on the discord and here know me to usually have experience and know a lot about the vague and niche aspects of the game and know practically anything that isn't hidden in game code.

To be completely honest I think I know quite a bit of the game but others here would have to attest for you to get any understanding.

I don't really have friends who play stardew irl, only a couple and I play with them 1 on 1, one just does their own thing and the other just makes me do all the technical things and asks me obscure questions so I guess, but neither are as invested into the game, with only like 100-200 hours between them on stardew and related subjects as opposed to my probably around 1400-1500.

People ask me questions and I answer, though I think it is fun when others who know the game good or know certain parts of it better than I tlak and we can both benefit from an encounter, if you ever want to chat about obscurities in the game, or questions, being general or about challenges, message me, I would enjoy chatting.

 

[imnvs]

Okay, I mean... I know a lot about this game, but I'm lazy about my knowledge. I don't memorize minutiae. I maintain a general knowledge and rely on expert advice (the wiki, and in extremis the folks on the forum or in discord) when I need to make a decision with which I am unfamiliar.

Being the wiki for other people seems exhausting. If I could get up the gumption to do so, I'd tell the folks that are trying to use me as such how that feels... that it would make me feel like they only use me as an information font. An information font... like wiki and google. These are questions they can ask the computers of the world and get an answer instantly, but they're making me do this for them instead? Who is playing this game and also does not have instant access to the entire world's breadth of knowledge?

They should only be asking you about tactics and strategies, you know, things that a computer can't answer for them. You're a human being and don't deserve to be treated as if you're a wikipedia article.

...and if you can't say this to them, at this point, I recommend you just send them all the link to this thread.

 

[Cuusardo]

I sympathize with feeling like a personal wiki. I'm sort of a human wiki at my job, and admittedly part of my job is answering those questions. But we also have an online resource that's essentially our work wiki, so I answer the question and tell them where they can find that answer in our resource. So I'd be inclined to tell people treating me like a Stardew wiki something like "I'll send you the link to the wiki so you can have that info at your fingertips on demand."