New Release -- September 1st, 2012
 

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Sep 6th, 9:00PM EST.

Hi There,

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

1. 40 Regular (non Farming) People in the Store (coming on Monday)

2. Faster to work neighbour facilities: If you have a train dispatched, the more diversified your train is (variety of its freight cars) the more the Mayor will help you when working neighbour facilities. The mayor will work 5% more facilities for each different freight car in your train, meaning, if you have at least 10 different freight cars dispatched the Mayor will do all the work for you.

3. Search Bar in the Store: The Store and Realtor windows now have a Search Box in the top right that allows you to quickly type part of the title of an item and it will show you all items from all categories that match that partial word. For example, typing 3 will show you all the 3x3 tools. Typing yellow will show you all items with the word Yellow in the title.

4. New Freight Cars (coming on Monday):

Lumber Car: Brings you Pine Lumber Piles, Oak Lumber Piles, Maple Lumber Piles and Ebony Lumber Piles
Bulkhead Car: Brings you Stainless Steel Sheets, Aluminum Sheets and Copper Sheets
Cattle Car: Brings you Cows, Goats, Hens, Turkeys and Horses (usefull if you don't have enough by getting them as gifts)

5. Toy Trouble Minigame: It's a Toy building minigame. 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.

The Goal of this minigame is to combine all same toy parts matching a particular color to build a complete toy and meet the Store demands.

6. Dispatching Trains with any Shape: You can now build trains in all shape and forms with different turns using all available freight cars. ALL the coupled cars will now be dispatched along with the locomotive. They don't need to be in a straight line anymore.

7. Freestyle Farm Designer (FC): There are now 2 tools for the hard core designers which will allow you to get very creative in your farms easily.

Orange Freestyle Farm Designer: Allow Layering of Paths and Ponds. This tool upgrades your yellow hand Edit Tool and enables paths and water items to almost fully overlap other items.

Green Freestyle Farm Designer: Allow Layering of All but Plants. If you already own the Orange Freestyle Farm Designer you can buy this Green Freestyle Farm Designer to allow any item except plants (fields/crops/tress/flowers) to almost fully overlap other items.

You can use these tools while designing on others farms as well.

8. Bug Fixes and Improvements:

- A week ago we released a verison that should experience much less flash plugin crashes
- Situations like been unable to dispatch a train (even if the train was unloaded but not dispatched again) should now be pretty much fixed. If you get this again you most likely dispatched a train from another farm. We will provide soon more information about current dispatched trains.
- When hidding decorations, people will be hidden as well
- Sometimes there were some empty boxes in the belt manager window, this should now be fixed
- This bug "...Since I dispatched the train, that farm is highlighted when neighbors work my faciities" is now fixed
- When you are collaborating with another player designing a farm together, you should now experience less hangs and crashes. Also, you will be able to rotate trains and freight cars as well. In the next release the owner may allow you to rotate farmcash items as well.

9. Playground Gear Factory (Coins): Produces Playground Gear.

Teeter Totter
Slide
Swing
Dome Jungle Gym
Rope Jungle Gym
Train
Merry Go Round
Trampoline

10. French Restaurant (FC): Produces French Food.

Escargots
Croissant
Nicoise Salad
Tartiflette
Coq au Vin
Beef Burgundy
Lamb-Pork Baeckeoffe
Banana-Strawberry Bites

New or Updated related products on other facilities:

Snails in the Semi Trailer Truck
Canned tuna production increased by 50%

11. Playground (Coins): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

(All products from the Playground Gear Factory)

12. Day Care (FC): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Chicken Noodle Puree
Apple Squash Oatmeal Puree
Macaroni Beef and Veggies Puree
Nasal Aspirator Set
Feeding Bowl Set
Rocker
Rocking Horse

New levels and Farm 16 in the next release.

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Updates - Sep 1st, 1:40PM EST

- The bug with seeds dissapearing when scrolling is now solved but we still discovered some minor bugs on that area

Post Release Updates - Sep 1st, 2:45PM EST

- Seeds filtering/sorting should be solved now

Post Release Updates - Sep 6th, 2:30AM EST

- When changing the Seeds sort order (by harvest time, stored amount, etc) that sorting should not change randomly anymore

- Weird 'Seeds' and 'Realtor' filter words in Item Storage window Filter Dropdown removed

- When you are designing a farm for others realtime, if you have the freestyle tools that tool will also be shown in your toolbox, meaning you can select the green man walk tool to rotate items and then select the freestyle tool back from the toolbox to continue editing

- New Train Freight Cars are now live. Remember that when unloading the Cattle Car, the animals go directly to the item storage (not animal storage)

- The new people are now released in the new People category in the Store

- The Strawberry Icecream which was really a Bar in the Icecream Factory is now the Strawberry-Choco Bar

Post Release Updates - Sep 6th, 9:00PM EST

- The Mayor will now recognize the last 3 freight cars we launched to determine how many facilities to work, if you have at least 10 freight cars dispatched the mayor will do all facilities. THIS FIX WILL TAKE EFFECT AFTER 8 HOURS.

- Animals will not count anymore to determine the Usage of your item storage, meaning you can move any amount of animals to your item storage without using any slots, this also apply when unloading animals from the Cattle Freight Car to your item storage

- If you open the Train Manager and you see a message that you can't dispatch the train because you already have a train dispatched, that message will now include the farm you used to dispatch the previous train. To fix the issue and be able to dispatch a train again you need to first put a locomotive back on that farm and unload that previous dispatched train.

Known Issues

- None

Thanks Raul..

Woooooooohoooooooooo! More farms on the way! You guys are AWESOME!!!!!!

More goodies . . Thanks guys . . .wheeeeeeee!! and more people coming too. . . I am off to play now, thanks again. LOL

Awesome Thanx :)

Awesome!! Thanks for the updates

Kudos to the search option! I have been waiting for it for a LONG time!! That will save a LOT of time when I'm searching for one little thing in the shop!!

I don't know if this has anything to do with the update, but when I sort my seeder by "Stored Amount" my seeds all disappear. I have to reload the game to get it back. My seeds seem to be fine as long as I don't sort them out of the default setting. Anyone else having this issue?

Edit: The seeds show up on the initial load....but as soon as you scroll, they disappear. I just called my friend in Oregon and had her try it and she said hers is doing it too.

Thanks Raul thanks for the tools that lets us layer things on our farms. This will come in very handy. :D

Thanks Raul :) great release :)

GREAT update - thank you, but I have the same issue when seeding

thanks Raul and dev team!!!! y'all ROCK!!! :D:D:D

CAN WE PRETTY PLEASE HAVE A LOAD ALL IN THE NEXT UPDATE FOR FACS??? thanks thanks thanks thanks!!!!!

awesome!!!

I haven't been playing this game for long but want to say thank you so much because it's a really fun game to play. I love these updates too. Thank you to all involved. Have a great day everyone!

the new neighbours working arrangement is AWESOME!!!!! I havent worked a neighbours facs in almost 12 months because it was just too much.. this is brilliant

I also have the same problem when trying to load what I want to plant - when I start to scroll all my seeds disappear!!! :confused:

I knew there was a reason for not dispatching my train with its 9 carriages, will do so when the new ones are released...thank you!!!!! sob sob...I miss seeing all my little people I had scattered over my quest farm......really don't want to see the other decorations etc....maybe we need the option to allow the people to be seen...or maybe I will remove all the other decorations to another farm....and I love the new freestyle farm designers...gotta run, lots to do....thanks again, lol

wow thanks raul

Typical - I just cleaned out my storage to pay for my next land upgrade!

Thanks Raul, another nice update!

Hi everyone, the developers have been informed about the seeds vanishing from the seeds window :)

Thank you for the update however, I did like being able to see the people hiding decorations is cool but the people being visible made the farms look more real ... anyone else thinking the same way?

start to type crops in the search bar and the crops come back!!:)

Yahoo!!! Excited to see the new people.

One question, what about paths/layering? Can I put paths ON TOP of things again instead of their always sinking under other items?

yes....i want to see all my people!!!!:)

So do the 'decorations'. Suggestion: Just hide them when they are in the way of doing something else

It's all good AGAIN. thank you so much. already have everything we can get today cant wait for Monday to get here :) blessings to all of you for your hard work

URGENT cant sort seeds other than default in seeder menu
 

Oh no - yes its happening to me - how on earth am I going to plant my Quest farm which is in harvest time order!!! Re-selecting the default doesnt bring them back either - I had to reload the game. This is serious guys - it was working yesterday before this new release with the search button.

Just followed a suggestion above if you type crops in the search bar and hit return they come back and you can then sort them as usual

Thanks for the update - you snuck that one in I wasnt expecting it - thanks for all the hard work especially with the concurrent probs with Flash caused by Adobe. Love the idea of the trains and working neighbours facs.

Hi, The devs have been informed about the issue with the seeds list :)

I love the new release and can't wait for the people on Monday, which for us in Oz will be Tuesday. But I am having problems with all my farms not loading after I load the first farm. I'm getting farms with nothing but the background when they finally do load. Google Chrome has updated today which may have something to do with it. I'm on WF5 and Flash version 11.4. Please help!

Anne :(

New release sept 1 problem
 

Since the new release came out my listing of seeds to plant by " stored amount" and "harvest time" do not work. I cannot even access all the seeds to plant crops. I DO have the newest flashplayer. I have never had trouble before this new release. Help please. Thank you.

No that doesnt work I only get those seed items with "c" in the name - and you cant use the search box with the full screen so its very hard to plant. Really I dont think we need the search box in the seeders - the existing sorting features made finding what crops we need relatively easy.

4. New Freight Cars (coming on Monday):

Lumber Car: Brings you Pine Lumber Piles, Oak Lumber Piles, Maple Lumber Piles and Ebony Lumber Piles
Bulkhead Car: Brings you Stainless Steel Sheets, Aluminum Sheets and Copper Sheets
Cattle Car: Brings you Cows, Goats, Hens, Turkeys and Horses (usefull if you don't have enough by getting them as gifts)

Please can we have select boxes on these, especially the Cattle car, so we dont have to have every item in a car - I need goats at the mo but I dont need the others.

Raul

problem with the search

when you set filter only 14 seeds are showing up if you change the filter it eigther just shows 14 or goes blank when you scroll

Glitchy
 

The cursor is glitchy when trying to move things around since Sept 1 release. I have newest flashplayer and never had this before the new release.

There is something wrong with the dialogue box when working others facilities. Instead of saying how many facs there are and how many the mayor will work it just says something like "there is work in the sawmill and the mayor will complete the last 4 for you" I have a dispatched train with 9 cars so I presume the mayor works 90% of the faciltiies on any farm. BTW I adore this idea.

Thanks for the new release, I knew it would be on the 1st so everyone could enjoy it for the Labor Day weekend. Now I have to go look at all the new items.

I just dispatched my train with its 9 carriages....I could not wait til Monday for that extra one!!! love it!!!! worked a neighbours who has 107 facilities on one farm...and only had to click 6 times....not bad...the mayor did 101....woo hoo....will be even better with that extra carriage but I just could not wait!! he he he