New Release -- December 1st, 2016

[PawPaw99]

My first ship has set in the first port for 1.4 days now with no activity. I looked up this neighbor and found he is no longer active on farmtown, actually he has not played since Jul 2012. In my neighbor list he is showing as level 0 with no active date. when I checked the instructions given for the ships when released I see the following
"Once the Ship is Dispatched, the Mayor will assign an itinerary to that Ship consisting of the 30 most recently-active neighbours you have. Each of those neighbours will have a Port. Your Ship will visit the Port of your most recently-active neighbour first, and the Port of your least recently-active neighbour last. "
How could a neighbor that has played since Jul 2012 be considered my most active neighbor. Something is definitely wrong with the selection process.
Not ready to give up on ships yet, but there needs to be some fixes applies.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by PawPaw99

My first ship has set in the first port for 1.4 days now with no activity. I looked up this neighbor and found he is no longer active on farmtown, actually he has not played since Jul 2012. In my neighbor list he is showing as level 0 with no active date. when I checked the instructions given for the ships when released I see the following
"Once the Ship is Dispatched, the Mayor will assign an itinerary to that Ship consisting of the 30 most recently-active neighbours you have. Each of those neighbours will have a Port. Your Ship will visit the Port of your most recently-active neighbour first, and the Port of your least recently-active neighbour last. "
How could a neighbor that has played since Jul 2012 be considered my most active neighbor. Something is definitely wrong with the selection process.
Not ready to give up on ships yet, but there needs to be some fixes applies.

Hi Pawpaw,
They would not have been on the list unless they had at least opened their farms recently, even if it is just to look. Since their status isn't showing for you then I am guessing you asked them to find out they have not played since July 2012.
That said, the developers are looking into coming up with a better way to select the neighbors for port stops. Please be patient while they work on this.

[village idiot]

Here are a couple of solutions to several problems that exist in the cargo ship portion of the game... 1. on screen notification (live) to tell farmers that a ship is in port. similar to the blue dot for the Co-op Quests. 2. An opt out/in feature in the tools drop down similar to the Funeral Supply / Home Facilities. This would have to default as Out to be fair to farmers sending out ships so the ships will only stop at a farm of someone that wants to play this portion of the game. Happy Holidays to all.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by village idiot

Here are a couple of solutions to several problems that exist in the cargo ship portion of the game... 1. on screen notification (live) to tell farmers that a ship is in port. similar to the blue dot for the Co-op Quests. 2. An opt out/in feature in the tools drop down similar to the Funeral Supply / Home Facilities. This would have to default as Out to be fair to farmers sending out ships so the ships will only stop at a farm of someone that wants to play this portion of the game. Happy Holidays to all.

Hi village idiot,
You do have notification when you have a ship in your port. You get a red circle with a number in it on your toolbox. When you open the toolbox the red circle and number is on your seaport manager.

[JuliaK]

Originally Posted by Taz D

Hi village idiot,
You do have notification when you have a ship in your port. You get a red circle with a number in it on your toolbox. When you open the toolbox the red circle and number is on your seaport manager.

that is what is supposed to happen...not necessarily happening... I have been getting red circles since yesterday and only twice when I have looked has there been any ships for me to work on...so maybe a little glitch somewhere... I just reopened by farmtown, the no 4 was displaying but no ships in port...

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by JuliaK

that is what is supposed to happen...not necessarily happening... I have been getting red circles since yesterday and only twice when I have looked has there been any ships for me to work on...so maybe a little glitch somewhere... I just reopened by farmtown, the no 4 was displaying but no ships in port...

Hi JuliaK,
If you open and the ship is not there then that is one from where you are their neighbor, but they are not yours. Currently as soon as you open the seaport manager for those then they are automatically loaded for you. That is why they are not there.

[Conjetta]

Originally Posted by village idiot

Here are a couple of solutions to several problems that exist in the cargo ship portion of the game... 1. on screen notification (live) to tell farmers that a ship is in port. similar to the blue dot for the Co-op Quests. 2. An opt out/in feature in the tools drop down similar to the Funeral Supply / Home Facilities. This would have to default as Out to be fair to farmers sending out ships so the ships will only stop at a farm of someone that wants to play this portion of the game. Happy Holidays to all.

I think your second idea is great!!! I sent a message asking a neighbor to move mine along and she said she didn't want to be involved with the ships. So my ship has been sitting in her port for almost two days. Thanks for the suggestion, and I hope the developers use it!!!!!

[snickddle]

Many of us go away and cannot access farmtown...so what do we do..there should be a limit on how long our ships can sit in a port without it automatically being moved along..this is a holiday week and alot of peeps are away or just plain busy..of have a life other than farmtown.....but with that said thanks for all you do for us players..love the game

[Majik Merlin]

I agree with the majority, we need to have some kind of notice that ships are in our 'port' so we can dispatch them. Why not do it the same way you do trains?? or as someone else said, coded dots somewhere (EASY to notice).

My poor neighbors kept asking me to dispatch theirs and I couldn't figure out how. Now I know, but I feel it not time effective to have to check every time I log in, there are so many other things I need to address when I log on.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by Majik Merlin

I agree with the majority, we need to have some kind of notice that ships are in our 'port' so we can dispatch them. Why not do it the same way you do trains?? or as someone else said, coded dots somewhere (EASY to notice).

My poor neighbors kept asking me to dispatch theirs and I couldn't figure out how. Now I know, but I feel it not time effective to have to check every time I log in, there are so many other things I need to address when I log on.

Hi Majik Merlin,
If you look at your toolbox icon when you open your farms, if there is a ship in your seaport then you will see a red circle with a number in it (the number is how many).
With the trains you have to open the My Requests to see that trains are there for you to boost.