New Release -- December 22nd, 2009

[actollergang]

I love Farm Town but I really do not want to play anymore. The new way to harvest and plow is a nighmare! Some folks still harvest and plow faster so the problem is not really solved. There are some really greed farmers out there and think they need to harvest or plow the whole farm! Maybe the solution would be to limit how many can be hired to harvest or plow on a farm. I found if I used my laptop computer it is a lot faster than my PC but I am very frustrated with the changes and it does not matter which computer I use. I understand why this was done and that is a good thing but...I missed out on coins and XP and never complained. Seems the farm did not load the same for those that came after me and could harvest crops I already harvested or the same with the plowing. Maybe that could be fixed too. Really wish it could be put back the way it was.

[tdw2]

Hi Guys,

I've lost a pile of money, and points... probably 2 levels worth, but I haven't complained - to me, it's an unfortunate part of the game that I could live with. The problem is, the apparent fix may have fixed the points and coins issues, but it has caused the game to slow down so much, that it's no longer fun........ fun is after all, why we're here, to escape reality for a while (for some, more time than others). I don't think this is anywhere near as much fun as it was yesterday or a few days ago, therefore I think you need to find a better fix than this, or risk losing a lot of players.... to you, this reads advertising revenue, which is not fun, it's serious. I hope you read this and give it some deep thought. I am signing out, will try again in a day or so to see if you've figured out a better way to do this. Incidentally, while you're about it, it seems crazy that I can hire harvesters but not plowers.... just because I don't have enough neighbours.
Cheers, and please keep working at it, Terry

[springjabs]

Please change it back to the way it was I know alot of people that are going to stop playing cuz it is so slow that we spend forever trying to harvest a feild

[barbara788]

I love the new update. It was so frustrating before and lets face it there are some aggressive players who just click to be clicking. I for one love the change and now the game will be fair for all who play it. Thank You

[Agent Scully]

This change is causing my browser to crash or my computer to freeze and if i don't get hit with that i get server connection so i lose the work anyway ,,,,sorry i hate this change no fun when you can no longer play the game.

Even the old old way where the avatar went off it's own merry way never caused me the problems this is today.

Hope you will revise this so i can enjoy my favorite on-line game again, otherwise my level 60 2 farms has been for nothing.

[Ithaca]

The changing in program sucks, it too slow, and I don't like it. I will give it a chance, but the way things are now, i think i m gonna stop playing it. I don't like having to wait for avatar to catch up. Yes there were people that were hoggs on the field, but it also has to do with the speed of your internet. And beside it just a game, it not like you actually won something of money value so what it the other players get more coins or xp it a freaking game. And now it is so slow. It takes 30 minutes to harvest and plow a field and it totally sucks big time. And another thing you don't have to hire no more than 2 people to harvest or plow your fields instead of 5 or more that where the problems is by hiring to many people at one time. So maybe they should do a program that only allows you to hire no more than 2 people at a time.

[Baloo_uk]

I only registered on the forum tonight, but I am lvl 56 with 2 farms,
that I did not register meant I had nothing usefull to say.

But this new update is exremely bad and I am really considering leaving the game as I don't have over 2 hours to tend to my farm each time, especially if it means 2 hours of constant clicking.

[JC's Beach]

Originally Posted by Raul

Hi There,

First, the Bert account was hacked recently and there were some posts made on his behalf, we are researching this issue now.

Second, we just released a new version of FarmTown a while ago. As stated before, we were going to focus mainly on the lost XP/Coins issues which are critical at this point. However, in order to minimize the lost XP/Coins issues, we had to make some changes to the way harvesting/plowing works when you are hired.

Before, when multiple people were hired on a farm, everybody starts clicking randomly on every field, and there are a lot of collisions, people harvesting/plowing on the same fields, as you don't see clearly where other people are working.

The new way is this, if you harvest fields that are close to where your avatar is, then your avatar will be teletransported and will be a very quick transition, it should be as quick or comparable to what it was before, however if you click on a field that is farther away, then you will have to wait until your avatar gets to that field to continue working.

This change will make that on some instances you work slower, on the other hand people get more dispersed while working on a farm, you can actually see them where they are working, and there will be much less collisions between them. This will also add another component to the game, now it's not just blindly clicking on the fields, you have to also consider the position of other players and your chances to avoid collisions and to get more work done. Now, when you click on a field that another player did before you, then you will see a message saying "already done", before, there was no feedback at all.

Of course, we know this release will cause a lot of complains as well, because in order to improve one area we had to change the behaivor on another area which some users will not like it, but compared to the issue of frequent losing more XP and coins, we just decided this was the way to go.

So far we have detected that there are 70% less issues with lost XP/coins that before, and it should improve with time even more.

As a separate note, the cursors on the game have been made larger and they don't get overlapped by other items on the game.

Thanks

--Raul

Love it!!!! Great job guys! Taken back a little at 1st but came here to check it out. This will put a stop to all those sloppy farmers giving me the blues.

[Mermystiq]

Sorry, I have to agree....this is a terrible change....I just finished harvesting and plowing a 40x40 plot and it took me 45 minutes....I also lost xp along the way, that was much better than trying to harvest and plow now.

[SPOTSROCK]

besides taking to long ... i am now going into time out after harvesting just a couple of rows.. and then lose the job.. !~

being aware of the other harvesters is nice.. BUT to position myself at the opposite corner takes forever for aviator to get thru the gates/ bridges / paths.. so by the time she gets there... well there is not much left for me to do... IF i don't go into time out first.. !

I want to say Thank you for working on the issue... but i don't believe this is the answer either ..

thanks for listening... i think.. you are listening..