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Originally Posted by Raul
Hi There,
We have been monitoring you feedback and most likely we will be reverting to the old version early tomorrow and try to find a better compromise.
One of the alternatives that we considered was to only allow one worker harvesting and one worker plowing on your farm at the same time. This was also suggested by several other users on the other thread, however we thought that was going to be even more problematic.
Please provide some feedback about this other alternative on this thread, or if you rather prefer the way it was before, unlimited hiring, faster work but more potential for collisions and lost coins/XP.
thanks
--Raul
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Raul, for what it's worth, I think it would be a mistake to revert back to the previous method.
I will admit that, at first, I was disconcerted at the loss of the queued fields and the fact that I again had to wait for my avatar to mosey over to where I was working (flashbacks to last summer!). However, if people would just give it a chance and WORK WITH IT for a while, they might find -- as I did -- that the change is not such a big deal as they think. XPs and coins credit right away, moving around isn't as tedious as it used to be pre-queued fields, and it doesn't take all that much more time to harvest/plow. If certain automated considerations don't work with this now, well, they weren't supposed to be used in the first place (if you'll pardon me for mentioning it).
I find it strange that you would consider retracting a change less than 24 hours after its implementation, based solely on demands here, and especially since the other possible fixes you have in mind are less satisfactory and even more likely to receive an outcry. What will you do then? Dial everything back and forth as people demand it?
With every major change to how the game is played, you've had posts in the forum that demand it be changed BACK or they'll leave the game and take all their neighbors with them. They're not indispensable, new players come on all the time. You have far more players who are willing to adjust and give this a try (ever hang out in the MPs? Last night and this morning, nobody was having a cow over this, just jumping in and working).
Please at least give this particular change a bit of time for people to stop b_itching about it, work with it for a while and THEN provide something more constructive in the way of feedback before you make a knee-jerk retraction, Raul. It sets a bad precedent.