I really did not like the new system. It took me 45 minutes to finish just the harvest on one friend's farm, rather than 10 min like before. At that point she had to leave, and so 3 hours later I was finally able to spend another 45 hours helping her plow... was very frustrating, however...
I can see what you were trying to do, and I got to thinking about it. What if you just remove the avatars altogether? I mean, maybe some people will scream over that too but seriously, if there is no avatar, the crops can just instantly delete when we click, allowing them to disappear as fast as we can possibly click and no need for the avatar graphic to be involved and slowing us down at all.
The problem with the new system for me, was that I "click" about 5 times faster than the system could delete crops. Therefore there was always a wait until I could click again. I was constantly seeing the "wait I'm busy" message and I'll tell you by the end I wanted to slap my avatar lmao. Anyway, if you removed the avatar altogether would it speed up the process allowing us to harvest/plow as fast as we can click or is there a loading time no matter what?
Another possibility, might be a lot more complicated to work out, but if it could be set up so that the game automatically divides the number of crops by the number of harvesters/plowers? It could work like this..
Once the farmer begins to hire, a "queue" is established where harvesters are held until the farmer decides he/she has hired enough, and "releases" them from the queue, so they all hit the farm at the same time. While they are being held in the queue, the game calculates how many farmers in the queue and how many crops on the farm, and releases them to a farm with predesignated crops per each harvester. Technically, once the harvesters have hit the farm, all the crops have been harvested for the farmer, but each harvester would see (only) their portion of crops to harvest, and they would be required to actually do the clicking to earn their share. While harvesting/plowing their own section, it would be the same old "click ahead" system so they could go as fast or as slow as they want.
Anyway, I just felt since I did some complaining that I should offer an alternative at least.
Thank you so much for a wonderful game, Farmtown is my favorite game and I thank you all for you hard work making it for us! (And for reverting it back...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for that lol) I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas or (insert Holiday of your choosing here), and a Happy New Year!!
