tried to give this one more shot since i had about 20k trees... then i got an error around 10k left and dropped to 68....

seriously nutaku, what the fuck? i'm done with this event cause of that. not trying anymore...

all i'm missing out on is billy getting skill lv 5 anyway since that was the last thing i was gonna get (since i rarely use gold girls now). i'm still in the process of leveling 5 different rainbow girls and 3 of them still need to bloom...

You didn't have 20k trees, you had less. The game "gave you" the trees from the boat race twice, but knew behind the scenes you really only had half that, so when you tried to trade them in it crashed.

The first time I did that it showed me that boat race message again and gave me the fake trees again... so I crashed again.

Next time in, I only had 10k trees and it let me buy gold without a problem. Lot of headache to work around their distribution bugs.

Will that is very probably the case, it is still frustrating.