waiting 6 hours or more for some ingredients to get done for this etc till the end and when collect it doesn't seems to count like it might take anoter12 hours to complete it cause of the long wait to get it done even though I STARTED a day or so before the 7 days are up ... again in this situation

Hi Amanda,
I am sorry, but the quests are assigned randomly, so you could just as easily get one the only takes a couple hours or one that takes a day or two to complete because of long steps. All of the steps in the quests take ezactly the amount of time listed in the facilities. Your neighbors can not speed up the times for quests by working your facilities.

I know quests run for 7 days, is there a way to know when/what time my 7th day ends, or do the days simply run from 12:00 am - 11:59 pm?

Hi Gr8l8k8,
In the show quests it will show you days only until they get to the last day where it will say 6 days and so many hours. From that you can roughly calculate when it will expire. There isn't any way to specifically tell exactly what time.

Weird Timing Problem in Quest
 

So, I have quests that - for example - require an item that takes 1 hour to complete. I started the quest yesterday; once a day, I "start all" and "load all," so of course sometimes I have to wait the next day for a really long facility task to complete (like a 24-hour wine aging).

But this morning - when it had been way more than 1 to 6 hours for all facilities - I still could not start a batch. So I have quest steps I can't start, even though the facility should have available "batches" based on production time.

Also - I sort my facilities by utilization, and this morning some of them were showing 103.4% and other similar 100%+ utilization - which shouldn't be possible.

It seems like something in the production facilities is "stuck" and not allowing batches to complete? Just strange.

Hi KLSiegel,
I have the same problem with a quest today. The additional production percentage is because of the additional amounts you can get from the Farm Pass rewards. Unfortunately we both will have to wait to start those steps until the percentage drops below the 100% to be able to start any more.

Follow Up on Facility Behavior
 

See attached screenshots.

First shows the What's Pending, clearly showing that there are items done (which means batches should be able to be started).

Second shows the Things to Produce, and as you can see, there are no batches available to start for Copper Sheet (or anything else but in the shot you can only see the Copper Sheet item).

Yeah, the ones showing 100%+ aren't the ones giving me grief. It's just...frustrating.

can people work facilities that are on a quest farm

Hi amanda1955,

If it's only set as a Quest farm, then yes they can work them, as that only prevents you from harvesting any animal sheds on the Quest farm when using the Harvest All at the top of the Facility Manager.

It's when a farm is set as Private that some may not be able to work them. Those that don't own the trains that qualify for the mayor helping with the facility work or those that do own them but are not dispatched would not be able to.