New Release -- April 20, 2010

[JustHikk]

Originally Posted by lulu836

Right now the semi is a total dud. You can only get ham and pepperoni. The ham costs you 500 coin and I forgot how much the pepperoni is but the cost per item is outrageous. Ham is used by 2's so you only get 2 of anything you produce with 1 left over which is useless...

Total waste of FC IMHO.

Pepperoni is 350 coins. I didn't pay attention to it when I ordered everything but when its finished, I will figure it out. If you put in 5 fuels (1 gift of fuel) and 350 coins, how many of a product do you get compared to what you would get as a gift.

If you put in 500 coins and 5 Fuel to get the same amount of ham that you would get as a single gift, its a rip off. But, based on all the other facilities and the profit margins they have, I doubt VERY seriously that the truck is "useless" although it may be.

As for the facility itself, I have 11,000 gallons of fuel (I don't use the tractors either) and I have 110 Million coins in the bank, another ~50 Million (I haven't added it up lately, a week ago it was 35 million) in storage. Nothing else to spend it on but the tractor trailer.

I just hope they do it like they did the first two facilities (sugar and flour) where it was a stand alone facility and then had the "Get Help" feature to it.

[JAS0643]

Originally Posted by JustHikk

Pepperoni is 350 coins. I didn't pay attention to it when I ordered everything but when its finished, I will figure it out. If you put in 5 fuels (1 gift of fuel) and 350 coins, how many of a product do you get compared to what you would get as a gift.

If you put in 500 coins and 5 Fuel to get the same amount of ham that you would get as a single gift, its a rip off. But, based on all the other facilities and the profit margins they have, I doubt VERY seriously that the truck is "useless" although it may be.

As for the facility itself, I have 11,000 gallons of fuel (I don't use the tractors either) and I have 110 Million coins in the bank, another ~50 Million (I haven't added it up lately, a week ago it was 35 million) in storage. Nothing else to spend it on but the tractor trailer.

I just hope they do it like they did the first two facilities (sugar and flour) where it was a stand alone facility and then had the "Get Help" feature to it.

1 gift of fuel gives you 300 gallons of fuel and you only need 5 gallons per order of meat. You get 5 meat items per order which is way less then you get as a gift so right now having the truck is not that helpful if you have friends that will send you the meat. When more meat comes out though it will be more helpful because you don't want to only get meat from your friends or have to depend on them all the time for it. It will also depend on what else you need with the meat, now you need flour which is used in a lot of other stuff so it limits how many pizzas you can make. If they give us something to do with meat that doesn't use flour then ordering it will be very helpful.

[Rhassa]

Thank you for all the cool new things we can do on our farms. I'm excited to see what you all come up with next.....like maybe a new tab in storage for a place to store our products for sale so we don't accidentally sell our harvests that are needed to produce our products? I have done that a half dozen times now, my own fault, but it's way to easy to hit the wrong item when they are scattered amongst the things to sell. Just a suggestion for consideration.

[earlgray]

Originally Posted by Raul

Hey there,

We just released a couple of new features:

1. There is help system now available in the game for people that don't understand how to operate the facilities and harvesting animals. You can see the help from several palces:

a. Click on the facility and select Help from the Menu
b. Click on the Help button on the Facility window
c. Click on the Help button on the Facility Tab on the Store

2. We moved the Semi-Trailer Truck which was previously on the Decoration category to the Tools category, this truck will allow you to Order products that can not be produced on the farm, like Ham, Pepperoni and other things in the future like chicken and meat.

Notice that it consumes fuel to operate, and it works similar to the facilities, you have a tab to place Orders (Things to Order), and then another tab to monitor the status ('What's In Transit').

It also contains a Help system in case you need more information.

More facilities comming this week.

Enjoy.

Thanks

--Raul

I think the facilities are grand and I have been enjoying the ones I have, but two things:

1 - first and foremost, PLEASE issue some sort of official statement regarding the neighbors-gone-missing situation - do you have any idea what the problem is, who is working on fixing it, will we get them back? With a third of my neighbors gone, I not sure I should have much confidence that I won't log on one day and have my whole farms gone, or my XP, or my FC. And so many people have lost so many neighbors they have can't hire people to plow, or plow 4 squares at a time. How can you just stay silent on this??? New capabilities aren't so intriguing in the face of a major glitch like this, so if you want us to be excited about them, address the problem.

2 - and while I enjoy the facilities, I think it would be nice if you could have a few additions in other areas too. There have been lots of suggestions about other things to add, are they all in vain? If I could have just one other thing, it would be the lilac bush I have wanted for so long!

[JAS0643]

Originally Posted by earlgray

I think the facilities are grand and I have been enjoying the ones I have, but two things:

1 - first and foremost, PLEASE issue some sort of official statement regarding the neighbors-gone-missing situation - do you have any idea what the problem is, who is working on fixing it, will we get them back? With a third of my neighbors gone, I not sure I should have much confidence that I won't log on one day and have my whole farms gone, or my XP, or my FC. And so many people have lost so many neighbors they have can't hire people to plow, or plow 4 squares at a time. How can you just stay silent on this??? New capabilities aren't so intriguing in the face of a major glitch like this, so if you want us to be excited about them, address the problem.

2 - and while I enjoy the facilities, I think it would be nice if you could have a few additions in other areas too. There have been lots of suggestions about other things to add, are they all in vain? If I could have just one other thing, it would be the lilac bush I have wanted for so long!

Here is the official help thread for losing neighbors.

http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=320058

The mods have reported that the developers have made no changes in the neighbors and that it appears to be a facebook problem. This problem is happening on other apps not just farm town, so we will have to wait for facebook to fix the problem.

[kschilpe]

Thanks for the updates, sure hope one of the new facilities is a winery, can't wait for that. Thanks

[lavanah]

I was missing 2 of my neighbors this morning. But I have them back now, no big deal. Just wondering what happened. Can't wait to see the new facilities.

[Auntie Debb]

Still missing more than half my neighbors and trophies associated with having a specific number of neighbors. I can no longer hire to plow! FarmTown is the only app where I'm missing neighbors so it is confusing that developers are saying it is a FaceBook problem. Has FaceBook communicated what their time frame is on getting the FarmTown problem resolved?

[Adam Williams]

I am missing over HALF my neighbors. I've re-invited but lost even more.

[lulu836]

Count me in on that also. Would love to see the neighbor thing solved as well.