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I absolutely love gardening/farming minigames! I have noticed one particular issue that irks me and probably irks a few others too.

The Watering Can seems to be quite finicky when attempting to water the seeds. For me, it's a 50/50 chance whether or not it actually waters the seed. My general suggestion is I wanna be able to do it fast, just like how I am able to plant the seeds quickly without issue.

As for the issue, I can attempt to explain it. I don't know anything about coding so forgive me for the lack of understanding but I will do my best. When you plant a seed, you use the normal cursor, and when the seed is planted and you hover over it, your cursor becomes a "Link Select" cursor over the clickable border. Here's the start of the problem: for some reason, that clickable border and using the watering can seem to really cause an issue. If you were to click-and-drag your "Link Select" cursor even a micrometer, it becomes a normal cursor, and the watering can no longer functions when you end your mouse-click (even if you do not go outside the clickable border). I like to click fast to water my seeds, so this can lead to tiny, accidental click & drags of the cursor. Having to stop and click on a seed 2-4 times to get the watering can to function correctly can get kinda irritating...

What I would truly like to see is the ability to click & drag along the screen in order to plant seeds and water seeds! This would add more fun to the mini-game and make things much more simple and fast for the players. Again, not understanding coding, this may require a lot of work and I just don't know. So at the end of the day, I believe that fixing the watering can would make the Berrygarden more fun. There's already a lot to do with it, but with a major part of the Berrygarden being so hard to get working, it can really kill the mini-game.

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I'm kind of neutral on this. What about mobile players?

Good point- being able to do both click & drag and tapping would be optimal. When I'm using the watering can at this point I just use my touchable monitor- but not everyone has one! xD

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Just out of curiousity, which Garden Level do you have?
Because you trade in the Squirtle Pail for the Wailmer Pail, which waters the entire lot, rather than seed-by-seed ^^'

As for planting; click-and-drag might cause seeds to be planted where you were planning on planting something else. Instead of the 2 seeds you wanted, you have the one seed you dragged too far...

So in that regard, I don't support.

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I'm level 7 right now. I don't mean to sound rude at all, I hope you understand what I'm saying here, but the Squirtle Pail doesn't function half the time. I appreciate the knowledge of the Wailmer Pail but the Squirtle one needs fixing on the 50/50 watering chance regardless- wouldn't you be annoyed too?

Thanks for that consideration as well- the seed dragging one. :3 Much appreciated! Click & drag shouldn't be added then, I agree. So what about the Squirtle Pail's issue?

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There's also the "zoom" function, so you can have a "larger click-area" compared to the default view. Have you utilized it?

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Yup, zooming in seems to be even worse for me, or have no difference. :o I seem to have better luck keeping it zoomed out.. x'D

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Of course that 50/50 chance should be fixed, so it works the way it should, but that sounds more like a bug-report than suggestion ;)

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Yeah understood, the suggestion's been declined even by me now so I'll take care of the bug report~

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