Cargo Ships
Cargo Ships This thread has been set up for any questions or problems you are having with Cargo Ships. Please read the following information BEFORE posting in this thread. Please also remember to tell us which version of the game you are using! We need to know if you are playing If you are seeing Manage on a ship at your port, click on this link: https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...42#post6542642 Before asking a general question please check the Game Guide Chapter 32 Ships before posting your question. Thank you! Ships Logbooks:
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Ship taking 45 mins for each container
Thanks for the ships back, but when they were disabled during migration, each container was taking 5 mins to load - now they have reset to 45 mins :(
It means even if I am on it, it will take 7 and a half hours to ready for despatch! If we have a full set of cranes, shouldn't the ship be loaded faster anyway? |
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As no-one has been able to dispatch a ship every day as the ships haven't been back the game until now, you no longer have the shorter load times for containers. Dispatching a ship every day is what shortens the container prep time. The more on your dispatch list the shorter the time gets. The overhead cranes just allow you to self load ports a set amount of times if they get stuck and they also enable the Load All in the seaport manger so you don't have to load every individual ship that arrives at your port. To quickly get the container prep time down, only load a couple of containers, perhaps the ones most important to you but don't dispatch the ship immediately, do it later that day. The reason I suggest you don't dispatch it immediately as at some point the ship will be removed from the dispatch list when it's reached 7 days since it was dispatched. If you were preparing the containers later than usual on another day or perhaps weren't doing one every day, if you lose a ship off the dispatch list while you are still preparing a ship that will change the container prep time to a bit longer again. Do that every day until you either have a prep time that you are happy to load more containers with or until you've done that on enough of them to get them all to their shortest prep time. Everyone is having to start over with longer prep times. If you would like a reminder on anything to do with the ships and also the container prep times you can see all that information in the Game Guide Chapter 32 Ships |
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If you want to make a suggestion for a change please post it in the Suggestions section. |
ok. i'm tired of searching and looking.
how do i close my port? i cannot find the technical language on the first page in any section nor do my page and forum searches lead me to a solution. please help. |
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You can close your post in your Preferences (the wrench at the top next to the green plug). Uncheck the box for Enable Ships. |
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that was embarrassingly easy. >< |
Not happy
Please remove the time limit on cargo ships ,i can not sit at my computer 24 hours ,i was on my last container and timed out , you unloaded all my containers and i have to start all over .this is not funny at all , remove time limit on loading ships, or they are no good for any one,tyvm
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Everyone is having to start over with longer prep times because no-one has been able to dispatch a ship every day as the ships haven't been back the game until now, so you no longer have the shorter load times for containers which is governed by the amount of ships you have dispatched in the last 7 days. What you can do to quickly get the container prep time down is to only load a couple of containers, perhaps the ones most important to you but don't dispatch the ship immediately, do it later that day. The reason I suggest you don't dispatch it immediately is because the ship will be removed from the dispatch list when it's reached 7 days since it was dispatched. If you were preparing the containers later than usual on another day and dispatching it later than previous ships, if you lose a ship off the dispatch list while you are still preparing a ship that will change the container prep time to a longer time. Do that every day until you either have a prep time that you are happy to load more containers with or until you've done that on enough of them to get them all to their shortest prep time. If you would still like to request a change to the ships please post that in the Suggestions area of the forum where the devs will see it. Here's the link to the one for the trains and ships suggestions: http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=634706 |
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Just a question on Cargo ships. When I started the 1st ship yesterday it was a 44 minute wait to finish containers. This morning it is 49 minutes! Why is it longer? I really MISS the 10 or 5 minute load times. |
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I moved your post to the Help & Support subject thread about the cargo ships. Each ship has different time lengths for preparation. The best way to get back to the shorter times is to load only 1 or 2 containers for each ship as you prepare one each day until you have gotten up to 7 days worth of ships that have been dispatched. Then the times will be back down to the shorter times. |
went to load ships this morning and a huge long errors comes up so wont let me do them tried several times just went top do my next ship and it let me do individually so hope it has fixed itself
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Glad it is fixed for you. If this happens again, please clear your memcache and if the error still shows up, then try to copy it or take a pic so we can see it. Thank you :) |
the red circle on the tool box said I have one ship and now it says two ships in my Seaport Manager.
I open the Seaport Manager and there is nothing there I am 1468597614 |
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Do you have any ships hidden? If so unhide them then check to see if you can see the ships to load. We have reported this issue to the developers. |
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this is in regard to sending other peoples ships onward.
five hours after I posted to the forum, the number in the red dot has changed to 3 So I'm guessing 3 people sent their ships to me and I can not see them, so I can not send them on. |
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Did you try what Taz asked and clicked on the eye in the seaport manager and see if you have check marks added for all of the ships you own? If you did not please do that and any missing check marks to see if either the ships you can't see show up or that new ones that arrive show up. If you did that and some check marks were not on, which ships did not have a check mark? Is it a specific color of ship that you can't see arrive or is it all ships from a specific few friends? Please check and see if the neighbor connection between you is one way or both ways. Optional: I can see you have stored all your ships, which wouldn't normally be a problem, you might want to see if you can find some space on a farm somewhere to see if you can get them out of storage to see if that makes any difference. If none of those help, the devs are aware that there is a problem and will try to find what's causing it to fix it. Until they do, your friends will have to temporarily either self load the ship you can't see, if they can, or skip your port for now. |
Thank you
I emptied my ship. reboot FT and I could see and send those waiting for my help
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what happened to our ability to skip a port we are stuck at? 100000401123530 when using my load all for ships i keep getting an embedded message, then have to hit play to reload game, after a couple of reloads it eventually works ... |
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You have the ability to Load Ship if you have the overhead crane for that ship or Skip the port if you do not have a load ship available. For the Load All problem try clearing your memcache. |
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clearing memcache works , so does reloading the game. I was reporting to let developers know there is an issue when using cranes the embedded message pops up frequently |
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Please try clearing your memcache (link below), then when the page of unsetting text opens close that as it is done. If your farm is open close it. Then reopen and try again. https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/p...lear_memcached |
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What embedded message pops up? If you are using the Load All with the cranes that would have nothing to do with your own ships and preparing them. |
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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=...00994349923935 |
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Next time this shows please copy the text in it rather than a picture so the developers can see the whole list. |
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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=...00994349923935 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=...00994349923935 it will not let me copy the text so i took pictures so you can see entire text -- it pops up in its own window. It cause entire game freeze, I have to use the browser reload page to get back into game, I have to do this on average 2 or 3 times before I can get the load all for sending along ships that have come into my port to work https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=...00994349923935 |
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I copied all of your relevaent posts for this problem to the closed thread about issues for the developers to look into this. |
Random question: What happens to your port if one of your ports is at a neighbours port that has their facebook deactivated or they've unfriended you but not un-neighboured you? Will it go pink?
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I'm not sure I'm understanding your question. You are the only one that has control over your own port. If you mean what happens to your ship if it goes to port where someone has decided to stop playing for whatever reason, then it's stuck there unless you self load it if you can, skip the port, or if it's port 30 it will automatically return back to you once 7 days have expired. |
Anyone else, noticing the timings on the cargo loads. Done the series of ships, to port ( to get timings of each load down to minimum), and then on second round first 3 (speed order) yellow timed out at correct 4:12minutes. pink & brown both at 4:24, Purple has now jumped to 6:24. normally the lowest ranking blue was only 6:6 minutes last time we worked them. they used to be in sequence of 12 second increases. is this a glitch?
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We will check the times for different ships and if something is not working, we will let the developers know. Thanks for your report :) |
The time to load the purple ship with all ships dispatched is supposed to be 5.4 minutes. The time is showing as 6.4 minutes when you first start preparing any container. I timed it using a stopwatch app and it is finishing in 5.4 minutes.
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We are aware of the posted times for the ships being incorrect and have sent this to the developers. The times they actually take to complete are correct. |
I have a problem with my brown ship. It was the second ship I sent out. I have sent my yellow ship out for the second time. The brown ship is stuck on 30. The neighbor sent me a message and said he did not want to do ships any more. I had already sent my ships out. He will not move two of my ships out of his port. I now have two ships sitting in port 30. He said is going to report me for abuse.
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I am sorry, but those ships will have to sit at their port until the time expires because of them not doing them. There is no way for you to skip port 30. We do not have any way to move them on either. |
Ships do not show in players ports
I have just started my 1st ship. I prepped it and dispatched it. The players that have it in their port according to my log book, are not showing up on their end. I have enabled ships in my preferences but when i message the player they say my ship is not there. I have used memcache and refreshed my farm and they said they did also, but to no avail my ship is not there. Not sure what to do.
Thanks My farm ID is :110618062791151 |
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Your ship is at port #2 so whoever was port one has sent it on. Your ship will only show in one person's port at a time. It is not like the trains where all get the boost notification at the same time. They have to go through the ports one at a time in the order of your itinerary. |
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