New Release -- August 30th, 2011

[driverdave]

Ok to recap on the time to waste timer

i have over the last 5 hrs run a test on the time to waste clock and it is indeed accurate my methodology was as follow

plowed a single field on a non irrigated farm
planted 1 single plot of raspberry
it took 120 minutes (2hrs) to ripen
when it was ripe the time to waste started at 2.7 hrs(162 minutes)
i monitored it over the next 162 minutes (2.7 hrs)
there was no change in appearance untill the time to waste timer ran out
the field was unharvestable by any means
(and i have all the harvesters and the combine)

this was a true test carried out in a methodical fashion and the findings speak for themselves

1 . the time to waste timer is accurate
2. at least for raspberry there is no appearance change until the time to waste has run out
3. when it was showing wilted wasted plot it was not harvestable

[HelenJS22]

Originally Posted by driverdave

Ok to recap on the time to waste timer

i have over the last 5 hrs run a test on the time to waste clock and it is indeed accurate my methodology was as follow

plowed a single field on a non irrigated farm
planted 1 single plot of raspberry
it took 120 minutes (2hrs) to ripen
when it was ripe the time to waste started at 2.7 hrs(162 minutes)
i monitored it over the next 162 minutes (2.7 hrs)
there was no change in appearance untill the time to waste timer ran out
the field was unharvestable by any means
(and i have all the harvesters and the combine)

this was a true test carried out in a methodical fashion and the findings speak for themselves

1 . the time to waste timer is accurate
2. at least for raspberry there is no appearance change until the time to waste has run out
3. when it was showing wilted wasted plot it was not harvestable

I find the case to be proved !! Well done driverdave, and thank you

[driverdave]

Originally Posted by HelenJS22

I find the case to be proved !! Well done driverdave, and thank you

Thank you Helen it might settle the issue i wish i could do one like that for the red sprinkler but the opinions are so widely differing on that one.....i know it works and i think some of the people (no names mentioned or fingers pointed at any perosn here, but if the shoe fits ....wear it) are way too fussy and have overly high expectations

[HelenJS22]

Originally Posted by driverdave

Thank you Helen it might settle the issue i wish i could do one like that for the red sprinkler but the opinions are so widely differing on that one.....i know it works and i think some of the people (no names mentioned or fingers pointed at any perosn here, but if the shoe fits ....wear it) are way too fussy and have overly high expectations

I think it would be hard to put the red sprinkler to a sufficient test to satisfy everyone. You definitely need to have your wits about you a little more using the red one, but my poor scattered wits enjoy the challenge. I'm producing twice as many flowers for my flower shop, and I haven't lost a crop that I've irrigated ..... yet

[driverdave]

Originally Posted by HelenJS22

I think it would be hard to put the red sprinkler to a sufficient test to satisfy everyone. You definitely need to have your wits about you a little more using the red one, but my poor scattered wits enjoy the challenge. I'm producing twice as many flowers for my flower shop, and I haven't lost a crop that I've irrigated ..... yet

thats absolutely correct........ we need to be nice to the mods tonight they have their work cut out for them...theres one hell of a lot of spam / advertising and posts with links in that they are going tohave to weed out

[kosp41302]

I am lovin the updates-- haven't gotten the red sprinkler yet. is it a bad thing that i already know what i want to do with farm 12 and farm 13 when we get them?

lookin forwar to the next update which i am hoping will come by the 22nd that way i will have 5 days work free to mess with new goodies

[driverdave]

Originally Posted by Caren Katsmom

Your test proved that crops NOT irrigated with the red sprinkler have accurate Time to Waste clocks, which include an added amount of time beyond what was expected. The Combine didn't work for you because you attempted to harvest a raspberry crop that was, in fact, gone to waste. Your test did NOT prove anything regarding crops that were irrigated with the red sprinkler... or anything regarding crops there weren't irrigated with the red sprinkler, but on farms owned by a player with the red sprinkler in storage.

I have experienced that crops irrigated with the red sprinkler have INACCURATE Time to Waste clocks. I have screenshots of my seemingly-wasted crops, with the Time to Waste bubbles displaying that I had about 8 hours to go before they would go to waste. I absolutely harvested these "in limbo" irrigated crops with the Combine, while they looked wasted, and got to keep the harvested crops.

Let's keep the information we provide to the developers accurate.. especially when we label our experiments as scientific.

firstly ....i own a red sprinkler and it is in my storage the experiment was WHOLLY to test the accuracy of the gone to waste timer...nothing to with irrigation and my reported results ARE accurate the data on the appearance of the crop was merely a sidebar to the main issue BUT that experiment sets the benchmarks for another one using irrigation........... however if you take the trouble to follow the post back i was in actual fact answering a post from Taz.....Taz had a sugarcane crop that was not irrigated and it was showing 16.6 hrs to waste and that seemed to be out of whack .....so i tested to see if the time to waste timer was accurate....if you read the post properly i do specify an unirrigated plot...however i will now do an irrigated one just to settle this one way or the other

[driverdave]

Ok Experiment 2
this is ti test the crop appearance and waste timer accuracy in an IRRIGATED crop

plowed a fresh single plot on farm 11 planted raspberry on it and irrigated it
my local time now 3.55pm rasp showing 59 mins to ready
my local tme now 4.55pm rasp ripe and showing 3.7 hrs (222 mins) to waste
my local time now 5.13pm rasp still showing ripe and timer showing 3.4 hrs (204 mins) to waste time accurate in terms of displayed time to waste vs actual minutes at this point
ok its 6.37 pm and the rasp stilll lookin good showing 2 hrs to wasted so far timer accurate vs actual time
now down to .9 of an hr (54 minutes) raspberry plot still looking healthy timer still accurate

OK WE HAVE A PROBLEM ....AT 33 MINUTES TO WASTED IT IS SHOWING AS WILTED
looks like we have proven there is a problem Caren Katsmom was right and now it has been replicated and verified so over to the devs for a fix
mods pls pass to devs