New Release -- December 22nd, 2009

[mbw]

This is even against what Facebook is all about. It gives people LESS time to talk to each other. Because they have to keep looking for their next field to be done harvesting or plowing. Instead of being social.

This is the WORST thing the Farm Town developers could have ever done.

[brigarkee]

The problem with these harvest/plow changes is that it seems like you guys are switching it up quite frequently... you finally get used to one thing and then onto another curve ball... I HATE this new change, I think it is very time consuming... only at certain times is it moving at a decent speed... when I click on a field I had to wait for my guy to walk every path of a farm around every fence, it is just HORRIBLE!
You guys need to put it back to the way it was... if people would pay attention to their points, they would notice that it was given immediately upon clicking a field... just like BEFORE that change... all points would eventually tally up once you refreshed or clicked go home.
Everything was fine before this last change.... I am walking away tonight from a game I usually would spend another hour at after working on 2 farms plowing... too exhausting and annoying for words... because no matter how hard you try to stay in line with your plowing.. you have all these numbers drifting up in front of you.. you can't see if you are hitting the next field over and end up having to wait for your avatar all over again.

Been playing this for a while now... and thank you ... yes... you have finally given me the reason I've been waiting for, to spend more time AWAY from facebook

[Jaysgirl]

I don't have alot of time to sit here and do this so a couple times a day I get on here and just hammer away and my husband has a farm as well so he does the same. We have two boys that keep us very busy and farmtown is our way of winding down and relaxing. It is not relaxing at all the way it is now. It's frustrating and aggervating. I don't want to hire or be hired or plant or anything. Please fix it back. It will take forever to level up. It takes so long to do anything now that I just don't have time to do it. Time or patience for that matter. I loved when I could say hang on , Dear just one more job and in five mins be done and off to do whatever I need to do. Now I don't even have time for one job. It is just to slow and takes to long. I feel like my one form of relaxation that I enjoy doing has been turned into something else to aggervate me.

[BirdWhisperer]

Stupid! I hate this new way of harvesting. I am a fast harvester and can't stand how long it takes to get this done now and actually don't want to play the game. Please change it back. I understand about the losing of XP/coins, but there MUST be a better way to do it, and let us continue to click while waiting for the coins to add up. I also found that hitting the SAVE button helped with that problem and it would load up. There must be something to works much better than what you just did. I don't have 20 MINUTES to harvest one farm. I don't intend to spend ALL day playing on the game, and have a window of time to enjoy it. Please change it back, or make it harvest much much faster than it is now. not real crazy about the big seed bag, or harvester tool but can live that if needed. Thank you.

[hlaveli]

Overall - i am unhappy with the new changes made to harvesting and plowing. I found large farms taking an excessive amount of time to harvest and plow. I also find that the coin saving and XP count gets in the way of seeing what I've plowed and what I haven't. It's just in the way. Overall a bad move on the part of your developers. In the past, I may have been able to harvest/plow ahead of time, but I always waited till my avatar finished displaying the points/coins. In that way I never lost cash or XP. It's a shame you had to change code to fix one thing and trash something else that affected the user as both the Farmer and the Harvester/Plower. It's been bad enough since the change that I've considered no longer playing the game. Not what I would call an Improvement.

Thanks for the forum!

[ktsmom9]

Originally Posted by Franklyn

Thank you for this upgrade. At last I can continue you plough and harvest quickly using a methodical method without plots disappearing from under me by 'invisible' and somewhat greedy farmers. I have not lost out at all tonight as my method is very quick unlike those who use a random method. Keep up the good work. :-)

Those of us who have very rapid eye-hand coordination were able to harvest/plow very quickly. We are not "greedy", we're just FAST. Or WERE, until FT hamstrung us today with this obnoxious new mode of working.

I'm delighted that people who never bothered to click on "save" are no longer losing their XP's due to their own ignorance. I've never lost any coins or points, but then, I always remembered to click "SAVE". DUH.
Computer use 101.

Please at least get rid of the neurotic zooming avatar, in hopes that not having excess graphics might speed things up a bit.

The other problem here is that when you have lazy/sloppy workers, it will take FOREVER for those of us who are/were fast to go behind them and do clean up work. In fact, I will probably flat REFUSE to do so now, as it will take forever.

[BirdWhisperer]

If this doesn't get resolved to make EVERYONE happy, I am done with Farmtown. Hope to see if it gets fixed back to how it was or better/faster.

[bethv2001]

The new harvesting and plowing are horrible.makes our whole faming quit farmtown.remove it.thank you

[sugarhunyicet@yahoo.com]

the new way is not convenient at all!!! i would rather lose some xp points or coins than to take forever harvesting or plowing a field. if multiple workers on a single farm were the issue then you should have limited the # of people a person can hire to 2 at a time. Its a shame because i really liked this game and i think he changes that were made are only going to hurt the amount of people that play. Im really disappointed

[Audioqueen]

I too am unhappy with the new changes. How about a toggle in the preference section so that those of us who don't care whether or not we lose coins or XP points can toggle back to the old way of plowing/harvesting or have it set for our farm so that we can have the option of quicker harvest/plow.

I used to think I was losing points because I thought they added as I clicked to plow. However, I found that if I clicked on the save pending changes, and left the farm I was plowing on, my xp points increased when I refreshed.

I have 2 farms here and 2 farms at Myspace, this is my therapy, but with the aggravating "improvements", I may as well go play Bejeweled Blitz or Farmville.

How about that toggle?