New Release -- January 19th, 2013

[dnana]

Ok, just tested it and the 'produce faster' button does not work. A neighbor worked the link and it told her there was nothing to do. Still shows 1 batch, 2 hours to go on my end.

[Gregh]

Originally Posted by dnana

Ok, just tested it and the 'produce faster' button does not work. A neighbor worked the link and it told her there was nothing to do. Still shows 1 batch, 2 hours to go on my end.

Neighbours working a facility produce 20% of what is pending. This is based on batches, not number of products - I've never seen a fractional batch pending after someone worked my facs. A barn produces one batch at a time. Since you can't produce a fraction of a batch the output will be either rounded or truncated to the nearest batch, and either way 20% of 1 batch equals nothing. (Yes, I tried it myself! It was fun to post a barn but really it's just a novelty.)

Edited to add: Now, if they changed it to work like the Boost Train - so that neighbours working a barn would reduce the remaining time till the barn was ready - that might be an interesting enhancement! Perhaps I should go post this idea in Suggestions.

[dnana]

Originally Posted by Gregh

Neighbours working a facility produce 20% of what is pending. This is based on batches, not number of products - I've never seen a fractional batch pending after someone worked my facs. A barn produces one batch at a time. Since you can't produce a fraction of a batch the output will be either rounded or truncated to the nearest batch, and either way 20% of 1 batch equals nothing. (Yes, I tried it myself! It was fun to post a barn but really it's just a novelty.)

Edited to add: Now, if they changed it to work like the Boost Train - so that neighbours working a barn would reduce the remaining time till the barn was ready - that might be an interesting enhancement! Perhaps I should go post this idea in Suggestions.

Thanks, I was thinking that it might reduce the time till ready, that's why I noted that the time till ready did not change when she worked it. So why limit you to starting only one batch in the barns then give you a produce faster button if it's not going to make any difference? Still so much I don't know!