I am having the same issues as most of the people on this forum: "already done" messages, refueling problems, loading issues going to an employer's farm, invisability issues, chat issues, hiring problems, seeming to be in more than one place at the same time. Please note we went to adobe, did the uninstall, reboot, clear cache, and install recommendations..it has not worked ~in that order.
On my farm, my main issues are the refueling notices, and workers not being able to finish. I only hire at a maximum 2 workers, usually one one. The pointer is kinda annoying..
At the market place, some of these happened before the 12-22-09 release, but they have gotten a lot worse since then. I experience what I call the ghost town, one or two people in the market. But I see a lot of people talking in the chat box. Then wham, there are tons of people there. What is really wierd is that some of the conversations are carrying over from one market place to the next, this is after I have joined and entered another market place. I am having trouble hiring people. Either a lot of people are just hanging around in there or away from their computer or they are not getting the hire requests. I have had people take the job, only they did not send or I did not receive the confirmation note. This causes me to continue trying to hire other people. Sometimes I do not know they have worked on my farm until I have returned or I see the coin / exerience points change. The later does not happen all the time until I change rooms or return home.
I have dial up, so changing rooms has always been an issue with me, but it is diffently worse now.
When I get to anothers farm to work, the already done messages usually start between 5-30 clicks later. This is very frustrating. The lag between working on a field and getting credit is horrible! I also experience getting messages, hire requests from people still in the marketplace. I remember some of their names and they are no where in the room I am in. It now takes between 30 secs -5 mins for me to "enter room". I understand some of these problems are related to my dialup, but it was never ~ ever this bad! I am also getting disconnected more since the release, not just on another farmer's farm, but marketplace etc.
My recommendations: 1) if it aint broke don't fix it. 2) if it is broke, be sure you have a fix before you release it. 3) a limit to the number of hires ~ esp, if the dreaded already dones are going to be here to stay. 4) If a limit to workers is not made a 1st come 1st get credit for system as far as each indiviual plot is concerned~ not preference for crops. 5) A hire request is voided after a min of not being answered.
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I forgot to tell you the server number and what social network. The server number was WF53 and social network is Facebook. Also, last night I was planting and I noticed a layered crop..first time that has happened in a long time, I tried to delete it, but it would not take. I refreshed and it was gone. I plowed for someone and as everyone knows, the worker is not suposed to be able to plow anything but a harvested field or gone to waste field, I plowed to fields out side of that...wacky.
It has been a while since I registred on Slashkey, I can't remember if I linked my farm. How can you find out if your account is linked to your farm?
Http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/?farm_id1679182754 (I typed it out), name of my farm is Bullock Farms no trees (yeah I am a tree hugger!)
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New server number is WF 56, sill having most of the same issues though. Another suggestion, list the last 5-10 jobs that you have been on. Sorta like the buddie or inbox, that way if you do get disconnected, you can send a message to the employer....