New Release -- December 22nd, 2009

[Jimbob_Roy]

Thanks for working hard to make the best farm game even better. FarmTown is the only computer game that I play these days.

I took the new version out for a test drive for several hours at the Market, hired neighbors/was hired by neighbors as well.

This latest version is great for multiple-hire situations from the Market because it returns Finesse, Skill and Thoughtful Planning back into the game. Those quick on the uptake will learn that shotgunning mouse-clicks across a field are pointless.

However, these same changes make working in friendlier conditions with Neighbors and Buddies quite arduous, time-consuming, and probably quite discouraging for many players.

My day of testing resulted in considerably more hand fatigue than a string of all-nighters of prior farming. And to my dismay, I had great difficulty staying ahead of a Big Seeder while I was Plowing two 24x24 full-crop fields--such sluggishness as an experienced farmer has never happened to me before.

One suggestion could be to make the new version the one used for jobs hired at The Market to tame down the shotgun hogs/mouse tracker users --and use the prior version for hiring directly from one's farm/neighbor's farm... or make either version selectable by the hiring player.

I normally am a go-along-with-the-flow kinda guy. But if I had to choose between one or the other, I would have to choose using the "old" version prior to the Dec. 22nd version, despite the fact that it made multiple-hire jobs from the Market more of a finesse game.

Keep up the good work. Thanks!