New Release -- December 22nd, 2009 - UPDATE

[Efwis]

Originally Posted by SleepyHallow

Have they reverted the plowing and harvesting back to the old way yet?? haven't been to the market to find out... not looking forward to finding out that way lol ..... thanks

as of your post they have not changed it back yet. but the day is still young.

[Wild]

Originally Posted by SleepyHallow

Have they reverted the plowing and harvesting back to the old way yet?? haven't been to the market to find out... not looking forward to finding out that way lol ..... thanks

Originally Posted by Efwis

as of your post they have not changed it back yet. but the day is still young.

A word of caution here.... they did not say that they WERE going to change it back, they said "most likely we will be reverting to the old version" and since making that announcement many more have expressed the desire to leave it the way it is, so we are not sure what will happen at this point.

[Efwis]

Originally Posted by Wild

A word of caution here.... they did not say that they WERE going to change it back, they said "most likely we will be reverting to the old version" and since making that announcement many more have expressed the desire to leave it the way it is, so we are not sure what will happen at this point.

i'm sorry wild, but i have to disagree with you on this. as stated when you go to the game

Hello Farmers! In order to minimize lost XP/coins we did some changes to the way the game works when you are hired, but we are restoring the old version sometime today due to popular demand. Thanks.

[SunnyD]

Umm when you first start the game you do get this message:


Hello Farmers! In order to minimize lost XP/coins we did some changes to the way the game works when you are hired, but we are restoring the old version sometime today due to popular demand. Thanks.

so yes they said they are reverting back to the old way........

Originally Posted by Wild

A word of caution here.... they did not say that they WERE going to change it back, they said "most likely we will be reverting to the old version" and since making that announcement many more have expressed the desire to leave it the way it is, so we are not sure what will happen at this point.

[bradwill]

Originally Posted by Wild

A word of caution here.... they did not say that they WERE going to change it back, they said "most likely we will be reverting to the old version" and since making that announcement many more have expressed the desire to leave it the way it is, so we are not sure what will happen at this point.

According to what everyone sees at the top of their FarmTown screen, the above you just stated isn't accurate:

Hello Farmers! In order to minimize lost XP/coins we did some changes to the way the game works when you are hired, but we are restoring the old version sometime today due to popular demand. Thanks.

[Wolftrack]

MY HATS OFF TO THE PROGRAMMERSThis new format is great
I've posted a number of times recently about trashers coming into farms and hygrading or just randomly clicking all over the place including right where your working, even if theres a ton of other field
As Little Hos Stated

It just takes a bit of Skill, Co-Ordination and Stratedgy

I've noticed these "Trashers" are having a heck of a time in a field because they can't just randomly click all over the place with out having to wait for their guy to catch up if they jump more than one square at time
Theres nothing that's going to be fool proof, and there are always going to be people that whine over the smallest changes or perceptions they have
This board is full of those people (I've read quite a few on this thread alone)
I would preffer to have a few glitches and keep the TRASHERS at bay than to go back because a few people don't like change
I will put it out there for those who absolutely HATE CHANGE and constantly whine about it...
!!!Get a checker board!!!

[The Farmers Hot Daughter]

I started playing months, and months ago. I have my addiction to this game at an acceptable level. lol I have continued to enjoy it more and more as the game has been given updates such as; being able to harvest and plow faster rather than having to wait for each field to complete before moving on. ( This is what happened today when I got on today)

It's to slow.... I found with the new changes it offered me the opp to play and not be stuck at the game for hours and hours. I still played but enjoyed not being stuck at one field for 1.2 hr or more. The was the game was a few days ago was awesome.

You won't be able to please everyone, but we as farmers should be able to decided if we want to hire 1 person to harvest to hiring 6. Same goes with plowing. I should be able to decide how many I want to hire or not. Those who don't like to work with more than themselves are selfish for not wanting to share the work and should let ppl know in the market that they prefer to work alone. That will solve thier problems.

Oh,, one more thing. I would love to be able to have the option to fire people one you hire them. Some are very selfish and make it difficult for others once on the field. Just a thought. It's a game, and in games sometimes you die, so I think it's only fair that you can be fired. lol let's try it out. Please, please put the game back to how it was 2 days ago.

[lmoreno58]

I like the older version yea even with this new one you just did there still was the ones doing all over the place but the older version even though for some reason mine was slow and till the coins caught up with the harvest i had to wait for it to switch over to plowing oh well i would rather have that. This new one is terrible slow especially the plowing one at a time. Dont know what the answer is seeing you have a small farm and they hire like 10 which is rediculous so i just leave they need to realize you dont get anything extra for hiring that many. Maybe limit it but not to 1 or 2 maybe more but not 10. Why cant you figure out why when we harvest it has to wait for the coins to catch up before it switches over to plowing!

[CAY]

There were a couple things I liked about the Dec 22nd update. It's alright with me if you change it back, though I would've liked more time to try it out. What I've noticed during my brief experience with it was that plowing this way is in fact slower. I always work in straight lines, but I used to be able to click two rows in the time it now takes to do one. However, harvesting in this way seems very speedy if you again work in straight lines and are working alone. It is slower than the previous way when working with other farmers. Finally, let me say that I would not like a limit on how many workers can be hired. Such a change would take versatility out of the game, which is part of what makes Farm Town stand apart. A month ago I was losing xp whenever I was hired, but in the last few weeks this has been corrected and I haven't noticed any lost xp or coins from the queuing process. Thanks for listening to feedback

[johnross]

I like the new version better. You just to "save" your work.