New Release -- December 22nd, 2009 - UPDATE 2

[luker93]

I find this so much faster especially the plowing! The hiring is what makes this game unique from all the other ones out there. keep up the great work and thanks for providing us such a great game!

[willow1962]

new release
the new harvesting symbol is a nightmare-with the ready to harvest signs and the coins sigh as u harvest u cannot see the crops at all-rubbish

[capricorn1]

Originally Posted by willow1962

new release
The new harvesting symbol is a nightmare-with the ready to harvest signs and the coins sigh as u harvest u cannot see the crops at all-rubbish

Those huge tools - harvesting, seeding - do not let the player focus on the field he intends to work on.


Farm town project team probably needs to refresh their knowledge of "Human factors in Design" .


If the huge tools are meant to help those having poor eyesight and the elderly, offer them as an option to those that need them.

Do not force them on those who have good eyesight.


Regarding the "ALREADY DONE" message when multiple harvesters work on a farm, the issue is timing and my guess is that balancing of queues is dramatically off. This has gone out of control, as a result of trying to fix other problems.

The result is loss of feedback; the worst problem for an interactive game. The team probably thinks that they will fine tune the queuing parameters and the timing parameters "on the fly". Releasing this version is not good judgment.

In any event, the timing parameters are hugely off. This is not beta testing - this is alpha testing, better left for in-house testing.

Last but not least, Fixes are meant to actually improve the game experience; not degrade it.

Hey fellows, keep up the good work:
PLEASE DO NOT RELEASE FIXES THAT DEGRADE GAMING EXPERIENCE.

[krbrown2000]

Well said! Applause!

Just planted a bunch of four-day crops. It'll be interesting to check back and see if things have settled down a bit. Right now, it's too volatile to even mess with.

Hope everyone has a happy holiday!

Originally Posted by capricorn1

Those huge tools - harvesting, seeding - do not let the player focus on the field he intends to work on.


Farm town project team probably needs to refresh their knowledge of "Human factors in Design" .


If the huge tools are meant to help those having poor eyesight and the elderly, offer them as an option to those that need them.

Do not force them on those who have good eyesight.


Regarding the "ALREADY DONE" message when multiple harvesters work on a farm, the issue is timing and my guess is that balancing of queues is dramatically off. This has gone out of control, as a result of trying to fix other problems.

The result is loss of feedback; the worst problem for an interactive game. The team probably thinks that they will fine tune the queuing parameters and the timing parameters "on the fly". Releasing this version is not good judgment.

In any event, the timing parameters are hugely off. This is not beta testing - this is alpha testing, better left for in-house testing.

Last but not least, Fixes are meant to actually improve the game experience; not degrade it.

Hey fellows, keep up the good work:
PLEASE DO NOT RELEASE FIXES THAT DEGRADE GAMING EXPERIENCE.

[KimmieKim]

Originally Posted by capricorn1

Those huge tools - harvesting, seeding - do not let the player focus on the field he intends to work on.


Farm town project team probably needs to refresh their knowledge of "Human factors in Design" .


If the huge tools are meant to help those having poor eyesight and the elderly, offer them as an option to those that need them.

Do not force them on those who have good eyesight.


Regarding the "ALREADY DONE" message when multiple harvesters work on a farm, the issue is timing and my guess is that balancing of queues is dramatically off. This has gone out of control, as a result of trying to fix other problems.

The result is loss of feedback; the worst problem for an interactive game. The team probably thinks that they will fine tune the queuing parameters and the timing parameters "on the fly". Releasing this version is not good judgment.

In any event, the timing parameters are hugely off. This is not beta testing - this is alpha testing, better left for in-house testing.

Last but not least, Fixes are meant to actually improve the game experience; not degrade it.

Hey fellows, keep up the good work:
PLEASE DO NOT RELEASE FIXES THAT DEGRADE GAMING EXPERIENCE.

thumbs up, great post!

[illumi]

i see its still not rolled back today yet.
Coins and xp are still lagging faaaaaaarrrr behind, really faaaaaarrr behind which still makes me stand ages on a farm.
still getting booted very much. most jobs for harvesting, even if i am first on a farm and mark the plot first.....it shows already done all the way as soon as a second harvester arrives(maybe coins and exp lagging way behind, i really mean waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy behind, has to do with this being possible). still sucks and makes me upset. what about rolling back, what happened to that??
even if this upgrade works great for some, it doesnt for the majority, and that why it should be rolled back.

[lgkreipe]

developers, while i truly thank you for all of your hard work and trying to fix the bugs that other players were having, i have to admit.... i hate the new launch. I never had any issues up until this latest launch, and it has truly hit hard. I spent over an hour yesterday/this morning trying to hire people to do my farms. id hire one or two, go to the farm with them, and after 10 minutes, they both would leave because it was 'taking too long.' my farms arent exactly covered in plots, and before it would take maybe 10 minutes total for harvest and plow, if i only hired one person. now... it takes alllllll ddddaaaayyyyyy lllllooooonnnnggg..... and at one point i was hired to do a huge farm of pumpkins, i couldnt harvest anything. they only hired me, but every time i clicked on a plot, it said already done, or wait a moment. the farmer kept refreshing his page, to double check he accidentally hadnt hired someone else who had harvested, and everything was still there. it just wasnt 'harvestable.'
truly, im grateful that you are aware of the issues of the players, and want to fix them... but i really hope you'll take off this latest version. i very much miss the old way. that way was so easy, and fast. i never once had an issue with it. I hope there is some compromise that can be reached...

thank you so much for all of your hard work, i do appreciate it!

[ali67]

i totally agree go back to the old way !!!!!

[susan gardner jimison]

thanks u thank u, it is working again and i love it!!!! now if u could keep the screen from freezing, ha ha ha every time i clicked on the other avatar to hire to plow it would ask me if i wanted to send a message. good thing it was my sister cause it took me 20 mins to hire her, it would freeze on me every time, thanks again

[cmoore388]

The issue I have had and I am still having is with the so called "BLINKING". That has everything to do with the flash/static banners at the bottom of the page,,. All these issues started as soon as Farmtown added them. Get rid of them and solve the problem.

This game takes alot of flash to play so you add those banners and it takes it all for them to run and makes the game "BLINK/STAGGER/LAG".

I dont have or have had any problem with this in the past with the Facebook ads on the side of the page. It has all to do with the bottom of the page you can tell that with every move the banner makes your FT game stagger. Understand?

It seems to me its all coming down to the banners placed in the footer of the game page,,, JMO