New Release -- December 7th, 2011
 

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Dec 9, 7:00PM EST.

Hi There,

We just released a new version of the game with the following features and bug fixes:

1. Holiday Items (All in Coins): Released last week. 24 new items compared to last year.

2. Improved Visibility Options: Last week we added a new option in the preference window 'Show Seasonal Items' to hide all Seasonal Items. Also, from now on, when you hide 'Decorations' all Winter items will be hidden as well.

3. 7 New Fences: 50s Fancy Fence, Concrete Stone Fence, Garden Wooden Fence, Stone Wrought Iron Fence, Lattice Fancy Fence, Gothic Fence and White Wooden Fence.

4. 26x26 Farm Expansions for first 4 farms: Here are the prices - 10,000,000,000 coins (10 billions) or 30 FarmCash.

5. Dans for Fish: When you earn all the 6 fish Belts you can now keep going to earn the next 6 Dans. This will keep increasing your chances of getting more fish with each future catch.

6. Crazy Fruits Minigame: Several weeks ago we enabled the multiplayer support for the Rounds Up minigame. Today we are launching our second minigame, Crazy Fruits, which already have multiplayer support enabled.

As usual, you have 3 stages and you can go into Practice mode to play each of the stages and improve personal records or you have the option to play multiplayer with all your friends currently in the farm, in this case, the user who finish all the 3 stages first win.

7. Hint about which farms have workable facilities: When working on your friends facilities we now show each farm with workable facilities in the farm selector.

8. Trading Improvements: The trading limits have been increased, here are the rules:

1. Maximun 12 hour limit increased from 1000 to 1500 to all players

2. Based on your Best Diversification Rank you can keep increasing that limit based on these rules:

Best Diversification Rank between 2000 and 5000, trading limit increased by 500 units
Best Diversification Rank between 5000 and 10000, trading limit increased by 1000 units
Best Diversification Rank between 10000 and 30000, trading limit increased by 1500 units
Best Diversification Rank between 30000 and 60000, trading limit increased by 2000 units
Best Diversification Rank between 60000 and 100000, trading limit increased by 2500 units

3. Based on the amount of business clothes you own. There are now 3 business clothes available in your Avatar Editor 'Clothes' section. For each business cloth you own your limit is increased by 1000 units, meaning, if you own the 3 business clothes your limit will be increased by 3000 units.

9. Brow Sprinkler is Back: The Brown Sprinkler is now back in the extended tool box and will function exactly as before, it will water and revive your flowers but will not accelerate anything.

The Red or Orange Sprinkler will still remain in the extended tool bar (right next to the Brown one) functioning as before, the Red one will cut the growing time for flowers and crops in half, the Orange one will cut the growing time for flowers, crops and trees in half. Both of them will water your flowers as well.

Notice that when you buy the Orange one, it will still replace the Red one in the extended tool bar and from that point on the Red one will function as the Orange one.

10. Art Studio (Coins): Produces Art Pieces.

Wind Chime
Sun and Moon Craft
Old Man Sculpture
Hand Sculpture
Leather Mask
Leather Longhorn Craftcut the growing time for flowers and crops
Red Flower Painting
Horse Painting

11. Casino Supplies Factory (FC): Produces Casino Supplies.

Poker Chips Tray
Craps Dice Stick
Drop Box
6-Deck Dealer Shoe
Chips Set
Poker Table
Casino Chair
Roulette Wheel

12. Art Gallery (Coins): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Diamond Vase
Wind Chime
Sun and Moon Craft
Old Man Sculpture
Hand Sculpture
Leather Mask
Leather Longhorn Craft
Red Flower Painting
Horse Painting

13. Casino (FC): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Playing Cards
Poker Chips Tray
Craps Dice Stick
Drop Box
6-Deck Dealer Shoe
Chips Set
Poker Table
Casino Chair
Roulette Wheel

In future releases we will introduce enhanced daily quests and off-line train commerce.

Thanks

--Raul

Post Release Fixes - Dec 9, 7:00PM EST:

- Farm Selector when working your friends facilities should now highlight the correct set of farms
- Even if the farm is not highlighted, you can still click on it to navigate to the farm and water flowers
- Stock the Casino Service Facility with 3 Drinks: Apple Martini, Bloody Mary and Mojito
- Minigames: You can now move the mouse below the minigame window and the game will still detect those movements
- Fruit Catching Minigame: When playing multiplayer, the Basket won't go under the friends bar

Known Issues:

- None

New hint for workable farms is not working for Service Facilities...only allows you to go to the first farm.
Other than that great release!!

Thanks for the new release
 

Thanks for the fun coin items on this release. I'll have to hold off on the FC items, though, till after Christmas. ;-) I appreciate the hard work!!

Wow! So soon! Thanks for the upgrades! Good job as usual!

Thanks Raul Fantastic as always (-:

woo hooo...

buyer limits really increased .... ;)

trains are coming......:D:D:eek::D:D

bigger farms...!!!!! :D:D

Also the regular facility hint shows farms that have non-workable facilities like the animal sheds, mines, trucks, etc. Don't know if this is not how it is supposed to work or if it is working right.
Even if these are supposed to be hints it will not let you go to any of the other farms at all.

Thanks, really appreciate that you can now hide winter items. The hint on which farms has workable factories should be extremely helpful. By my calculation nearly 50 million per plot for upgrades on farms 1-4 is a bit excessive and will certainly present a goal for those begging for more space.

Oh oh, daily quests? Like that other farm game? Say it ain't so! I am wondering about new products for existing facilities, like fruitcake or eggnog for the holidays? Any news on that front? Thanks for another great update :)

woo hoo can now purchase 6000 items from other farmers (-:

now we need a laundromat facility and a dry cleaners facility to wash all these business suits :D

What are you thinking of that are daily quests?

There seems to be a few problems with working facilities.

1. If a farm has a facility of any kind on the farm the farm is highlighted. This does us no good because the people that have an oil pump on all farms will have all farms highlighted.
2. When someone click on a post to help with facilities they are taken to the farm the facility the person posted is on lets say it is on farm 4, but when they click yes to work facilities they are taken to farm 1. The only "facilities" on this farm are the animal buildings and an oil pump there are no working facilities. I don't understand that change if I am on farm 4 and click yes when the farm reloads (which I still don't get) I should still be on farm 4 not farm 1.

Most people put the farms that have facilities on them in the post when they post this has seemed to work great for me and others. I do like that you are trying to help us out and make it easier for everyone but it needs a little twicking. This is what I would like to see happen.

Have the farms that have facilities that can be worked by others highlighted if there are no "workable facilities" on a farm don't highlight it.

What I would really love to see happen is this.

Let us use the facility manger on other peoples farms. That way we can open the facility manger and go down it and work the facilities and service facilities quickly and easily from one farm and one post.

I do hope these goals you are going to introduce later will reduce the price of farms a little. Not every player is making 10 billion coins every week. I don't mind having to work for the land but 10 billion is just crazy and I am not going to spend farm cash on land. I don't have a problem with it for other things but the land prices have just gotten way to much. The very few that have 10,000 facilities shouldn't be catered too.

That shouldent happen as the oil pump is classed as a tool

there will be some glitches with this no doubt that the devs will have to tweak to make perfect.

The oil pump is classified as a tool but I worked a neighbors farm tonight and she has only an oil pump on 3 of her farms and all farms where highlighted. I know there will be glitches sometimes hence my post letting the developers know about the glitches I found. I don't need you telling me what should and shouldn't be happening I am reporting what I have seen happen so the developers can fix it.

Yay - thank-you thank-you thank-you we wanted trains me and Stonefish! (Sorry StoneFACE)

oil pump may be considered a tool - but it is listed in the facility manager on your own farm - and when working other peoples factories if they have 5 total factories plus animal barns and mines on 1 farm - it lists that there is work in 5 plus factories instead of just the 5 factories - i hope that they fix that so that either oil pumps, animal barns, and mines/pits would either be workable by others (through the factory hire posts) or to remove them from the list of factories that are workable when you get hired to work factories

hahaha.... who is Stonefish??

you brought a smile to my stoneface

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Havent had enough coffee to wake up yet!! Sorry Stoneface - but a train WILL be great! My Dads cousin used to build his own model trains and had one going round the garden and in his "train shed"! I have his original Hornby Flying Scotsman if you are into trains!"

Sorry Mods off topic :D

Isn't 10 billion coins a lil high??? I've been playing this game for 3 years already and have NEVER even come close to that amount of coins... and Im not rich enough to spend actual money on this game like so many other people... this seems a tad unfair to people that are not well off but still like to TRY to enjoy the game

and there was me thinking you ran out of ideas for facilities and services and again you have surprised me never even thought of those :D so what can i say but thank you very much and keep up the good work :)

Love the new updates, but unfortunately (as already pointed out) the highlighting farm with facilities feature is not working properly. Am sure the Devs will be tweaking it and resolving the problem/s.

What I encountered is when working client services for a friend, they indicated they had work on three farms. When I went to work these farms, only ONE was highlighted and I was unable to access the other two farms at all. I then clicked on their work facilities request and was able to access the farms, but had to manually click on each of the service facilities. Also, I went to two of their farms that only had the non-accessible facilities (mines, etc.) and none of the workabe ones.

I do love the concept as many players don't list their working farms and it takes forever if we want to wade through checking their farms for available work.

I do have to comment that I went "GULP" when I saw the cost of the farm expansions...WOW!!!! I'll bet it will be a while before many people can earn enough coins to get them and I am one who will not be able to afford the funds to buy FC; but it will definitely give those zealous addicts something to shoot for.

Thanks for that update.

With the improvements in the ability to sell stuff for me and is looks like the start of the farms going to 32X32 which is great by the way, I won’t need to layer anymore. I will just buy what I need from my neighbors however, I will most likely still stay on the cycle of me posting my products from my facilities basically every three days so I can get all the crops I need, but now from my neighbors, not from my layers.

I can and only want to upgrade one farm, which is my farm 4, as the others basically don't have any crops on them at this time, however, I am sure that there will be more upgrade to the farms later.

Response to Cost of 4th Upgrade to Farms 1-4
 

You have to be kidding me!!!! Does anyone playing this game have $10 BILLION in the bank? Why so much??? What is with you guys here? You make it so difficult for people to expand and grow. It is so frustrating that it makes people want to quit? Some of your restrictions are absurd at best.

Response to issues stinks. I swear, this game is getting more and more frustrating to play, and more depressing than it is enjoyable. I wish I had never started playing this game at all. I did so only because I love the farming games and was having major issues with FarmVille.

You discourage people instead of encouraging them. $10 BILLION for a 4th upgrade??!! You act as if the land for this is coming from your own home town and not a game developer (or a pretend one).

I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU WANT SOOOOO MUCH FOR THE EXPANSION ON THOSE FARMS!! THAT'S JUST TOTALLY ABSURD!! I've been playing this game forever and I have never come close to having that much coins!! Come on Farm Town Devs. get REAL here!!! :( :( :( :( I may have to give up on this game and go to Castleville and stay there, since ya'll are DREAMING anyway!! ALSO why don't ya'll sell a Farm Cash gift card in the stores like Zynga does.. I'd ask for them for Christmas :D

Excuse me -- 10 billion coins or $30 FC? That makes no sense, way too high for the expansion.... Sorry.

Of course that is an huge amount of coin.... but .... so what...

With a good amount of facilities and service facilities, a farmer can make billion$ and eventually buy it.

I see too much use of the word "unfair" when ever something becomes available and the long time players can get it "right now", while some of the newer players can't get it "right now".

Actually the first thought I had when I saw the 26x26 was this:

Is this a sign that farm 12 was the last farm.... and now we only can expect occasionally (4 at a time) expansions of the existing farms? I certainly hope NOT.


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Objection #1 Do you REALLY need the expansion to continue to enjoy the game?

Objection #2 How is this expansion, which we thought from the beginning was NEVER going to happen, all of a sudden a problem?

Objection #3 It took "forever" to raise a million coin to buy that Big Red Mansion... lots of time, lots of effort, lots of coin (at that time).... and that was a "symbol" of success in this game. I think complainers ought to remember they can make tens of millions each week even without any Farm Cash Facilities..... so be patient, put in lots of time, lots of effort, and make the lots of coin necessary for this "symbol" of success.



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Thanks for the update!! I see a lot of facility work and acorn squash being planted in my future! :)

I haven't had time to assimilate all the new things yet.

But an immediate reaction; THANK YOU for giving us back the brown sprinkler. It was a minor but constant irritation not to have it.

:):):):)Merry Christmas StoneFace:):):):)

Stoneface: Merry Christmas!!

I have never had close to ten bill coins but do not mind a challenge! It gives me something long term to look forward to.

Thanks for the release Raul. Off to check out the fences.

I totally agree - and the new fences are great BTW

:):D Merry Christmas Stoneface and everyone :D:)

10 billion is steep but 30 FC seems reasonable to me. And to answer your original question, some players do have the 10 billion. I know because I'm one of them.

Not only did one of my neighbors buy the 26x26 upgrade to farm 1, she is sitting on another 10 billion for the next farm.

Just play the game the way you want to.

Facilities
 

There is a glitch with working the service facs. It is showing only the farm where the facilities are posted from - not all the farms where service facilities are available.

Also, I am unable to click on the facilities individually to work them now. This is NOT GOOD! :mad:

Hi

The Devs Have been Notified of this glitch.

Hopefully wont take long to fix :)

Add to 10 billion to enlarge a farm paying 20 FC to get more items at market. Never mind no one has sold me anything in the market for WEEKS. I offer to pay top price for anything and get no takers.

Is this game going off Beta and starting to charge a real money fee to play? I play to get away from the real world for a bit. It seems the real world, with all its avarice and whining about how I am supposed to support you rather than you encouraging me to stay loyal is seeping in under the door - but for 50 FC I can get a barrier to stop the seepage. Nice.

I am overjoyed about the new 26 x 26 additions for the first four farms... BUT....why so much??? it is unrealistic!!! I am in my farm every day three or four times a day.....I have been playing your games for Years and I am one of your biggest fans and supporter but hey....give us a break!!! 10 billion each??? I've spent a lot of my hard earned cash to play this game too!!
Whew, I feel better....venting helps!!!!

Farm selector working?
 

I don't see anything that identifies anything other than fertilized and non-fertilized farms...am I missing something?