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Old Oct 31 2009, 03:12 PM
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Thank you so much for the storage and for all the mods and devs do. This is such a good game and a great way to meet new people.
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Old Oct 31 2009, 04:00 PM
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Thumbs down Oh storage... how I looked forward to thee until now

I'm usually just a lurker on this board... but I feel I have to say something now. I've been waiting and hoping for the day that storage would be available for everyone. Then today when I went to move my pile of unsorted rivers around yet again in an attempt to make them look at least somewhat like I meant to place them that way (as opposed to the truth... that I want to rearrange my farm, don't have a place for them yet, and am forced to resort to moving them from corner to corner because I can't sell them, don't want to delete them, and have no storage).

Lo and behold... when I looked at my options in the process of moving my rivers around, I suddenly noticed that I had STORAGE! I was so excited I literally danced with joy!

...Until I noticed after moving just a few items that I couldn't place any more in there. May I just take a moment to state how emphatically I HATE the emphasis placed on neighbors in this game? It wouldn't be a problem if we could just add our in-game buddies as our neighbors, but I really, really, REALLY do not want to add random friends I have never met to my facebook account.

Facebook is my way of keeping in touch with my real life friends that I would have otherwise lost contact with over the years. I go to my wall to see what my FRIENDS are up to... not what some random stranger is up to that I had to add to my friends list just to play a game.

I have a few friends that also play Farm Town, but not enough to allow me to sell things, or hire people to plow... and now I can't even put all of my rivers and odd junk into STORAGE, something that is usually just a given in a game like this where people have to buy items (especially seasonal things) to rearrange.

I can deal with not being able to sell things... I can deal with having to plow my own fields, but now that my long anticipated storage is finally here, and seeing what is required to actually make use of it... sheesh, what an absolute let down. At least I had something to look forward to before... now I'm wishing I'd never gotten my hopes up.
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I'm usually just a lurker on this board... but I feel I have to say something now. I've been waiting and hoping for the day that storage would be available for everyone. Then today when I went to move my pile of unsorted rivers around yet again in an attempt to make them look at least somewhat like I meant to place them that way (as opposed to the truth... that I want to rearrange my farm, don't have a place for them yet, and am forced to resort to moving them from corner to corner because I can't sell them, don't want to delete them, and have no storage).

Lo and behold... when I looked at my options in the process of moving my rivers around, I suddenly noticed that I had STORAGE! I was so excited I literally danced with joy!

...Until I noticed after moving just a few items that I couldn't place any more in there. May I just take a moment to state how emphatically I HATE the emphasis placed on neighbors in this game? It wouldn't be a problem if we could just add our in-game buddies as our neighbors, but I really, really, REALLY do not want to add random friends I have never met to my facebook account.

Facebook is my way of keeping in touch with my real life friends that I would have otherwise lost contact with over the years. I go to my wall to see what my FRIENDS are up to... not what some random stranger is up to that I had to add to my friends list just to play a game.

I have a few friends that also play Farm Town, but not enough to allow me to sell things, or hire people to plow... and now I can't even put all of my rivers and odd junk into STORAGE, something that is usually just a given in a game like this where people have to buy items (especially seasonal things) to rearrange.

I can deal with not being able to sell things... I can deal with having to plow my own fields, but now that my long anticipated storage is finally here, and seeing what is required to actually make use of it... sheesh, what an absolute let down. At least I had something to look forward to before... now I'm wishing I'd never gotten my hopes up.

Neighbors are what makes this game FUN !!! Meeting new people, watching them start with nothing and build something - Farm Town is a "canvas" and everyone that plays it is painting their own picture !

Be happy and enjoy - this is not solitaire !

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I would be your neighbor and I am a nice person - really I am !
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Old Oct 31 2009, 04:32 PM
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Neighbors are what makes this game FUN !!! Meeting new people, watching them start with nothing and build something - Farm Town is a "canvas" and everyone that plays it is painting their own picture !

Be happy and enjoy - this is not solitaire !

Hugs !

I would be your neighbor and I am a nice person - really I am !
Oh, don't get me wrong. I love meeting new people and chatting with them on Farm Town. I love inviting people to my farm to harvest (even though I have to apologize ahead of time that I won't be able to hire them to plow), and I love going to other farms to harvest/plow/just chat and admire what they've accomplished. I even love adding buddies to my buddy list. My only problem with the neighbor system is that in order to have neighbors, I'd have to start adding people that I do not know in real life to my actual facebook friends list, which I use to keep track of friends who in recent, post-college years have scattered throughout the country. If I've known someone online for a very long time, I don't mind having a few people on my friends list that I've never physically met, but I don't want to become one of those friend collectors with 500 people they do not know, all for the sake of a game.

We have a buddy list in the game... I just don't understand why we can't use THAT for neighbor requests? I like going to my wall to see what my friends are up to... I don't want to have to sort through hundreds of random posts from total strangers just to find that one relevant post from someone I actually know.

And all I wanted was some storage... who knew it would be this much hassle?

Edit: Beautiful farm by the way, Ayah! Part of the reason I'm hanging onto my rivers is that I eventually want to layer them in a similar manner to what you've done. I just don't have anything to do with them in the meantime... and so much for storage.

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We have a buddy list in the game... I just don't understand why we can't use THAT for neighbor requests? I like going to my wall to see what my friends are up to... I don't want to have to sort through hundreds of random posts from total strangers just to find that one relevant post from someone I actually know.

And all I wanted was some storage... who knew it would be this much hassle?
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It's possible to block your Facebook friends from accessing your Wall and information, and you can also hide theirs so for all intents and purposes they aren't there at all.
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Old Oct 31 2009, 05:15 PM
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It's possible to block your Facebook friends from accessing your Wall and information, and you can also hide theirs so for all intents and purposes they aren't there at all.
yes.... its very easy and very helpful. I have a few 'friends' that are limited to my info and that I limited myself on theirs. Just go to your privacy settings
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Old Oct 31 2009, 05:26 PM
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It's possible to block your Facebook friends from accessing your Wall and information, and you can also hide theirs so for all intents and purposes they aren't there at all.
That makes it a little better... but is it really necessary to go through so much trouble just to have access to the most basic functions of a game? If I have to block everything with certain friends, then what is the point in adding them as my friends in the first place? It just seems like friend collecting to me (and I suppose that is exactly what it is, lol). I don't mind having my facebook account open to the public... people who know how to look me up can feel free to see what I'm up to at any time, as far as I'm concerned. The thing that's awkward to me is the thought of having to add complete strangers to my friends list all for the sake of one game. Call me old fashioned, but that is just far too weird for me... I like using my friends list as an address book of sorts... not a collectors case.
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