New Release -- December 22nd, 2009

[judyfay83301@msn.com]

I am so glad you posted this,I thought something was wrong with my computer.
It will take some time getting use to but at least I will be paid and get my XP's.
For now, we can live with this knowing you will have a better idea down the road.
Thank you

[chellhuck]

I would always plant in rows and have people step on me. This is worse

[LuckyLin1]

Thanks, Bert. I appreciate this change very much. I was soooo tired of peeps who tried to "hog" all of the work on a farm. They would randomly click all over a field, leaving multiple spaces not done. Then they would come back and just run over anyone who was trying to work in that area. I was sooo tired of saying, "Manners, please." Great job, Bert! Happy Holidays to all!

[loyall3]

Sorry, I now feel like a turtle stuck in mud.................I solved the problem myself with the old method, after harvesting and plowing I always clicked save, no lose of xp points or coins............but with a waiting period of course before you could be rehired from harvesting to plowing or on to a new job, now you are stuck with a small patch of work, working alone or with a group, takes avatar forever to get to new location....................not in a hurry to go to market for work and no one is going to hire one or two people to work anymore, they will need an army.............so slow!!!!

[Mustaine's Woman]

Originally Posted by crodgers

read it carefully - has not changed yet and may change by early tomorrow...

I read it properly...I'm sure we can live a night or two without farm town while they roll it back. If not, we just put up with the 22nd Update till they do roll it back.

[sunide]

Is that the people who were reporting the were losing XP's were probably wrong...

Before the previous update, (the most recent update prior to today's) when you clicked away on the fields, the XP's and coins were "awarded" as your avatar "worked" the fields. If you left the field before the avatar finished working the fields, the remaining XP's "floated out of your head" on the next screen...

AFTER the previous update, (the most recent update prior to today's), XP's and coins were awarded as the field was clicked, NOT as it was "worked" by the avatar, so, by time the whole farm was done and you left, there WERE NO xp's or coins to be awarded any longer as they were all already received. They were NOT missing...



I hate this new update. I think it is unnecessary and unfortunate.

[wr5aw]

I'm actually harvesting faster and with better accuracy and fewer missed fields. My cursor isn't jumping around like it used to. But then I always move in patterns/sections. I find that if you actually *think* as you harvest it's not that big of a deal to keep up with your avatar. Personally, I like it.

[andersonjeni]

The new harvesting option, is a backward move, not allowing the more experienced player to achieve the speeds we are used to. Most of your updates are welcome this is not.After working the farm for so long and getting quite high in the game it is almost worthless, slowing us down to this rate. It will put a lot of players off from enjoying the game. We have worked hard and long to get to this point, and it is so dissapointing.

[TheWifes]

This is insane!!! I just plowed 2 farms and down to the last 10 squares ALL of them were "Already Done", nothing showed and there was not an avatar near me. So much for the "fix". I started this game less than a month a go and I am already at lvl 25, I have never noticed that I lost coins or xp. The people that have were probably upset because they were not hired alone. I can say that this new way is horrible!! It takes forever and the avatar always stops working and says "Wait.. I'm busy" Change it back!! You will lose more people over this change than you will over the "lost xp/coins"

[Sapai]

Originally Posted by Candi Yam

I realise this game is in beta phase, but this last "new release" will be the death of Farm Town...I loved this game yesterday , now I am so frustrated I will most likely stop playing. It took me almost an hour to harvest and plow "most" of my neighbors farm. I am level 60, I know pretty much what I am doing here. But I do not have the time to spend an hour on a farm, all alone ( I like working solo) trying to do a good job for the person who hired me... I also respect other farmers who are working the same farm I work.. I try not to get in the area they harvest and only hope they do the same .
PLEASE rethink this latest move....I just harvested my own farm because I did not want to put anyone else thru the *bleep* I went through trying to harvest my neighbors farm...
It took a very long time just to harvest, plow, and plant 1/4 of my 2nd farm!

I have enjoyed this game so much but if you don't fix this mess you made today, I will leave, spend all my town in FarmVille (groan) and never spend another penny buying a thing here!

I do thank you for the fun I had here and for all the nice people I have met on Farm Town.

Me too, Candi Yam. Me too.

Early this morning I was helping a neighbor. It was so fast on her second farm, my avatar was just flying! I was typing "zoooooooooooooooooooom" in the chat window, and we were laughing so hard I was crying! It was FUN!

No more! After coming back this afternoon to this boondoggle, after trading with another neighbor for the new torture device method, I harvested and plowed my second farm, not wanting anyone else to have to endure it. And the (ahem) "fix" doesn't apply to our own farms. Just kiss your profit goodbye. Yesterday I had to pay twice for two plow jobs. I didn't rush over here to complain. I thought, "it will get worked out". NOT!

I have made so many new friends all over the world! It has been such a rewarding experience up to this point. I am heart sick.