New Release -- December 22nd, 2009 - UPDATE 4
 

Hey there,

A new update has been released a couple of min ago (7:10 EST) with the following fixes:

1. The complains about the avatar been slow for some users when working for others should be now much less frequent or none at all, these should be noticeable mostly by users with slower computers.

2. Correction of the harvest counter on the storage

3. Tools are a little bit smaller now

Thanks

--Raul

Thank you, Raul. ;o)

Thanks for the info.

Thanks Raul. Kudos for listening to the players :)

Thank you Raul! I just can't believe how far Farm Town has came since I started playing!! Well done :)

as always, thanks Raul. This should help alot! :D
I wonder what the next update will be ;) ,

new release
 

Thank youso much. I know all of this has taken time and been hard. Thank you so much for listening to the players and trying to make it better for us.
I love Farmtown!! Level 60....

slow coin/point accumulation
 

WF2. I appreciate the updates. However, I don't see any difference. It is still taking a long time for the coins/points to finish collecting. i have a brand new machine so it's not an older, slower machine. My avatar moves very quickly. i don't have problems moving with the person on the farm... just the points. Thanks.

Thanks for trying but it's still just as slow as it ever was for me. Guess I'm just doomed to slow save/server timing out h e double hockey sticks. Oh how I miss the days when the points and coins would soar out of my avitars head. ;o(

p.s. this is on Myspace WMF 1.. haven't tried it on Facebook yet.

same ole same oh fr me as well WF22 fb user

Yep sucks on facebook too. WF 50. I've mentioned this before but I don't know if anyone paid attention to it or even if it's got anything to do with it.. but I've noticed when things start to slow way down, and I go to reload I have to log back in to FB or MS (whichever one I'm on at the time) first even if I've checked on FB to keep me logged in. I don't think MS has that option.

Thanks for all the updates.... I appreciate all of the wonderful things you have provided.... Here is some feed back I am sure you want to know about.....

I am finding that my avatar starts out very fast and then it gets choked down... once the counting finishes then the the avatar starts going at a good rate again. I have a new fast computer, 4GB Ram, but it does not seem to matter on a lot of the farms... I have harvested and plowed a few farms that the avatar moves on as it should... It is very frustrating for the farm owner and the worker. Does this have something to do with the servers that our farms are on? I hope you can fix this glitch...:D

Seems to be working great
 

I play very much and as of now, everything is working great.
Some complaints in marketplace by some about not seeing someone, but I'm not having that problem.
speed on harvesting, plowing and planting is great.

I think it does. I notice when i'm working with someone else, say harvesting, that my harvesting will be much faster than the other.
consider them to be on dial up, or maybe the farm itself where you are harvesting may be on dial up. must make a difference.

Experience Points
 

Nothing has changed for me with the update of Dec. 22. I can harvest and plow my own farm and others but I get absolutely no experience points for anthing except plowing. If I harvest my own or others, I am awarded no points just the coins. When if ever will this be fixed. I have all but stopped playing because after all who wants to stay on the same level that long?

I am on wf45 and mine is the same as it has been for over a week. It starts out fast and after harvesting 3-4 plots it boots me,then after I get hired again and if it doesn't boot me it is fast but after harvesting around 200 plots you can see it is starting to slow down,then around 300 your guy gets behind where you are harvesting and after it gets behind so far like around 50-60 you lose connection and have to reboot the game,then when you get back its the same way either boots you or lets you harvest fast til you have done well like I said before its all the same no changes,its fine if you are hired by a friend or neighbor you can go back to the farm but if its someone from mp your out of luck,you have to get it fixed,soon

This has been mentioned in the past but bears repeating. The more applications and windows one has open while playing the game the more issues you will have. Streaming music from another site, and surfing the web on yet another window, and chatting away on IM your Yahoo all at the same time will indeed have an impact on your game experience regardless of the power of your computer. We all get so used to the newer more powerful machines we sometimes forget there are limits at some point. For those of you who are still slow, try cutting down just a bit on your extra activities while playing the game.

I have evened turned all my spyblockers and virus scans off just to test mine and it still does the same thing,slows down I am running a T2500 @2.00 GHZ with 3GB of ram.So it shouldn't be slowing me down like it does just sitting here watching the task manager without doing anything on a farm it is holding at 56-65% all the time and thats on my 2nd farm with nothing but 800 plots planted with coffee. no animals no nothing.So that can't be what is slowing it down.

It has always been that way. Harvesting never gives experience points--only coins. Points come from plowing, planting, purchasing, and tending neighbors.

I too have done the same to test my system over the past few weeks. i have plenty of ram, power, and internet connection and run nothing except norton in the background. I agree there's more slowing it than my apps., which are not on. :) thanks for the suggestion though... it might help others.

Ok well that idea didnt work so well. All morning the people working on my farms are really really slow. They are complaining and i see how slow it is and they are now waiting to collect coins and Xp again before they accept the next hire request. What happened it was so much better 2 upgrades ago?

Hi I'm on WF41 and no change for me, sorry. my avartar zooms through the work but the coins can take up to an hour to catch up. I don't bother trying to plow if I have got a harvest job it is so frustrating.
I don't understand why we can't go back to the release when the coins came out of your head.
Thanks for a great game lets hope you can get us all sorted out
Thanks
JP
just been working and got booted coins still slow.

Wanna Fix IT?? Roll it back to the Pre-Dec 22nd Update and set up up a test bed for the Update and Fix it BEFORE you roll it out. Simple Really

I thought harvesting and coin counting was faster Now I see why it is.... thanks Raul and dev's you always surprise us.. And always listen to your players.. Kudos

First of all thanks Raul, you guys are wonderful...
In the wonder what the nexty update will be, and now I am going to be whinny, how about taking the halloween and Christmas items from the gifts, and maybe giving us something new? Please pretty please,
Celina

On WF56, and the coins from a harvest are clicking up just as slowly. I'm sitting now in the marketplace, not able to move, waiting for coins to click up every 10 seconds or so.

Thanks for trying, but the fix didn't work for me. Still hoping, but sure do miss being able to spend a weekend playing on FT and bumping up a level. Now I can only plant my own crops; harvesting or plowing for others just isn't worth the time I waste sitting and waiting, for me or the other farmers.

I don't have any other programs running except my AV software, and I'm on Facebook, using Firefox. This slow save problem has been going on since the first November release for me. I have a new version of flash (late December uninstall and reinstall) and the latest version of firefox. My computer is not new, but isn't decrepit, either, and I have DSL service.

Hope you can fix it soon, thanks for putting the time in trying!

Worse than ever - now others can harvest over me!
 

Not only is my harvest slow, but AFTER I clicked on every square and my avatar harvested every square so that it showed up as harvested for me (harvesting all on my own) THEN about half way through my coin count, another worker showed up, and his avatar started jumping around like it was harvesting where my screen already showed harvested. I asked him, and sure enough, he was harvesting squares that I had already clicked on, that my avatar had already sped through like an energizer bunny, and that my screen showed as harvested.

And guess what? Now I'm sitting frozen on some dude's farm, after harvesting a full farm of raspberries (which we get paid almost nothing for, but I harvested anyway because it's all part of the game and I also will plant berried for quick points), and now I'm still stuck on the farm, not able to do anything, and NOW all my coins are not crediting, but I'm stuck here watching "already done" clicking up across the screen.

So I've quit out of the game, came back here to repost that this is even worse yet than any of the fixes you have put in since early November for me, and I will go back to only harvesting, plowing, and planting my own farm.

I'm sad. I'll hang in for a while more, because I really like this game and don't play ANY other online games because I don't really have the time, but I got addicted to FT. But the game is not the same for me, when I get so resentful about not being able to work and now other farmers are evidently mad at my slow harvesting, except I'm clicking away fast as ever and it show all harvested for me. And I can't do work for anyone because I'm stuck now waiting for stupid already done messages to clear for about 20 minutes.

Hope you can fix it - please keep trying. And in the meanwhile, if anyone has any other suggestions for me for a game that is like FT (social aspects) but works better, I'm here, reading, so I can have something fun to do on the occasional weekend.:(

Farm $$$
 

what's the deal with sending a message to 10 friends and receive 500 Farm $$$ - is it all a hoax

Yes it is a hoax. Whenever you get the message about sending to x amount of people those are hoaxes. You can read more about this in known issues, glitches, and bugs here: http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=235530

hey when your all going update with january stuff it is week after january we stil got christmas items up for sale is it going be updated soon

The coins and points are much better but still having issues with it time to time not catching up and don't have any other applications or windows running or music or anything once in awhile I get timed out I haven't had a issue tonight will see thank you for all the work your doing to make the game better.

thank u for listening and trying to work out everyones problems, BUT
im still having probs loading either farms/coins/exp - by the time i get to someones farm to 'work' most of its done (and thats another headache - so many workers play havoc)- this can take up to 5 mins to load
and waiting in the marketplace for my coins to add is getting tiresome - i have to deny all work while previous coins/exp load
have new puter, latest flash, nothing running in background, ie.
wf13, wf52, wf12 -
I luv the game, but am getting frustrated!