New Release -- December 22nd, 2009 - UPDATE - Page 27

kccluck · #1 Dec 23 2009, 09:13 AM

I think it is a great idea to be able to hire one to plow, one to harvest. It slows me down so much to have ten people harvesting or plowing at one time. i have quite a few crops and only hire one or two people to work them, and they are usually finished very quickly.
Nana Cluck

steelwitness48 · #2 Dec 23 2009, 09:24 AM

Here's an idea, been kinda thumbing through the forum..havent seen this yet..but, how about a PAY BUTTON..click the pay button after each job, whether harvesting or plowing get paid instantly. As far as the number of workers hired, I myself have seen this repeatedly, pretty silly i think..no concideration fo rthe hired hands, and it does seem to lag alot when working a farm. And ive seen alot of crops being left behind, why would this be with so many workers? As for the Fire button, would be a good idea. As for the game itself, its pretty fun..I'm on level 60 , got there in a short time. I'm hooked..please put it back the way it was..its way to slow now. I dont want ot lose interest in the game.

picketree · #3 Dec 23 2009, 09:31 AM

i think the pay/fire button is a wunderful idea!!!!!

Travis (The Plower) · #4 Dec 23 2009, 09:20 AM

I would like it if the developers would just forget about trying to update the harvesting and plowing. It worked fantastically how it was and didn't need any alterations. I don't think that only allowing one person to harvest and one person to plow is a good idea either. My vote is that you put it back to the way it was. If you should decide to implement a "one harvest, one plow" thing, you need to add an option to fire someone if they work too slow. I don't think that i should have to sit around and wait for the slowest harvester on farmtown to take four hours to harvest my farm, and that could easily happen. Would you apply a time constraint for how long one single harvester could be allowed to harvest a farm with 1024 plots? I am just worried that my farm would be hijacked by a person i hired and they sat around and did nothing, thus making it necessary for me to harvest my own crops so they don't spoil before they get done.

ants eyelashes · #5 Dec 23 2009, 09:22 AM

The new format is awful..It takes forever to plow.. Thank you for returning to the old version. I would have left the game for good. The operative word being game. It's supposed to be enjoyable and not a great frustration.

FarmerCB · #6 Dec 23 2009, 09:22 AM

The new changes seem to work fine if there is only 1 harvester OR plower, but the second person hired seems to run much slower, whether they are hired to plow (behind a harvester) or as a second harvester/plower. I have no problems hiring only 1 person, but found it frustrating when I was hired as a 2nd (or 3rd) harvester/plower, only to have the first peron there "run circles" around me. (My machine has adequate memory and I'm at level 49, so not an experience/computer issue). My avatar only "teleported" when I was the first person hired... otherwise she plodded along quite slowly, regardless of direction of harvest (right -> left, top -> bottom, willy nilly :-))
I would suggest that you need to equalize the speed for all hired, rather than (what appears to be) a "First hired gets priority" system. Incidentally, I never lost coins/XP... they always registered correctly after a jump back to the market. I saved frequently while harvesting/plowing, tho, which may have helped.

momof9 · #7 Dec 23 2009, 09:30 AM

Joining the bandwagon here to say thanks for switching back to faster harvesting/plowing ..

I am ALL for only allowing 2 hires at a time no more than that . actually I never hire more than one for 2 reasons .. one it goes faster, and two it is exciting to get and give big jobs to help someone out with their points and coins.

Im a little confused by the wording on how you want to change the hire/plow amount of people .. you say

one to plow one to harvest .. would that mean that a hire could only do one or the other? I hope that is not the case .. I feel that the one who does all the harvesting for me should have the right to do the plowing too .. its a package deal ha!

thanks for all the hard work devs

hhunting · #8 Dec 23 2009, 09:23 AM

Thank you for reverting back to the old version! I spent an hour getting my two fields harvested yesterday and was starting to wonder if it was worth it. I don't hire three people -- just one usually -- so that slow version is REALLY slow.

I don't know about restricting to one, but how about 3 people harvesting or plowing? Nobody should need more than that and I've been on farms with 10 people hired.

Thanks again Bert for listening!!

DixieKaye · #9 Dec 23 2009, 09:24 AM

First of all, thank you for listening to all of us. I do love this game. I would prefer to go back to the way it was. Thank you again and Merry Christmas!

Franklyn · #10 Dec 23 2009, 09:26 AM

I've just finished ploughing for someone. They had also hired another farmer to plough. The other farmer managed to plough about a third of what I had done in the same time. It was interesting to watch her jumping about all over the place. She was indeed very slow. But after I advised her she soon picked up speed. I think those that only ever knew the 'quick' way will be the ones that find the change slow. Those that have been playing a while have learnt how to be more efficient and therefore 'quick.'