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Originally Posted by Miamine
At the moment we have facilities that sometimes need one day, four hour or even 2 hour crops. Only a couple of items need pineapples (juice, canned and for pizza) We need to plant wheat (2 days), and tons of tomatoes (2 days) and a 12 hour sugar cane crop. We also need our trees done, we need apples and cherries for the pies, and strawberries (1 day) for tons of things.
However, the workers don't want to do these crops. They don't want to do trees, and if I ask them, they make up some excuse and leave my farm half finished. They don't want strawberries, grapes or sugarcane, they definately don't want rasberries even though my facilities dose. All they want is to harvest pineapple and plow. That's no good to me, I need someone to do all the work. I offer only one person work for all 3 farms. Even then, they get to the first one, see the sugar cane and then they run off. A lot of people are planting fields full of pineapples, and I can't compete with them, even though they will hire 10, and I will only hire one. I need crops for my facilities, and that means a mixed crop.
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That's because they have already weighed their ROI (return on investment) for each click, and found the low cost crops not worth the time or effort to do them. Each "click" for each person has a cost (their time, their effort) - so who wants to click on sugarcane or raspberries for a few pennies when the same click on a pineapple is worth in the $$$.
Seriously, if you are using those low cost crops in your facilities, harvest them yourself using your machines, and then hire to plow. There are lots of people out there looking for points.
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Originally Posted by Miamine
Slashkey need to reward workers for doing trees. At the moment it's not worth doing, so the farmer has to do it themselves. They need to offer experience points for harvesting trees. People with big orchards have a nightmare trying to find sensible help. I'm hopping that once everyone has their 3 farms and enough money this obsession with pineapples will settle down. Or more and more farmers like me who need crops for facilities will desert the market place, and then the hiring of workers will end. Slashkey, please look at the economy of the game now we have tons of new players and these new facilities.
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The facilities HAVE changed the game, and how many of us play it. Farmers with facilities now plant crops for their commercial and retail outlets, but those crops don't translate their harvest value into production. So, if you farm for a raw "production use" product, start farming smart - do it yourself. Don't waste time trying to hire people to harvest cheap crops - you spend more time trying to get people to do it than it would take you to do it yourself. Start hiring out just to plow instead - their effort shares the points with you, as well as freeing you up to being able to plant directly behind the plower.