[msdymond]

Originally Posted by Miamine

Sorry, think I posted this in the wrong spot... but this was more about the economy of Farm Town than hiring practices.

At the moment we have facilities that sometimes need one day, four hour or even 2 hour crops. Only a couple of items need pineapples (juice, canned and for pizza) We need to plant wheat (2 days), and tons of tomatoes (2 days) and a 12 hour sugar cane crop. We also need our trees done, we need apples and cherries for the pies, and strawberries (1 day) for tons of things.

However, the workers don't want to do these crops. They don't want to do trees, and if I ask them, they make up some excuse and leave my farm half finished. They don't want strawberries, grapes or sugarcane, they definately don't want rasberries even though my facilities dose. All they want is to harvest pineapple and plow. That's no good to me, I need someone to do all the work. I offer only one person work for all 3 farms. Even then, they get to the first one, see the sugar cane and then they run off.

A lot of people are planting fields full of pineapples, and I can't compete with them, even though they will hire 10, and I will only hire one. I need crops for my facilities, and that means a mixed crop.

Slashkey need to reward workers for doing trees. At the moment it's not worth doing, so the farmer has to do it themselves. They need to offer experience points for harvesting trees. People with big orchards have a nightmare trying to find sensible help.

I'm hopping that once everyone has their 3 farms and enough money this obsession with pineapples will settle down. Or more and more farmers like me who need crops for facilities will desert the market place, and then the hiring of workers will end.

Slashkey, please look at the economy of the game now we have tons of new players and these new facilities.

I look for people that are eager to plow and tell them that they can plow what they harvest. And that there will be trees to be done before the plow invite. It usually works. I am up front. They don't get invited to plow till ALL of the harvesting is done.