New Release -- August 14th, 2014

[knolan]

Originally Posted by Taz D

Hi PawPaw,
The purpose for creating the bonus chest for strangers was to get people to hire more from the market and as an incentive for more to want to work from the market. This was lagging because there wasn't any incentive specially for doing trees, flowers and fishing.
As was stated you can be friends with the people you hire from the market and they will get the bonus. Along with that those friends can also work your facilities.

What is the benefit to the game for hiring from the market versus hiring your neighbors?

[Eradani]

Originally Posted by knolan

What is the benefit to the game for hiring from the market versus hiring your neighbors?

because if more people interact through the market, the game stays more interesting and more people play longer.

[beautysmom]

Okay, again--the dev's must be playing on the production servers. I have not been able to work clients in any farm I have been to today, for the most part, even friends and neighbors who have not posted in days, and now I can't work facillities either. Have cleared cached repeatedly, and am stressing now. Can my neighbors work mine? Sigh.... If only the next release would be worth bothering with, unlike the last few. And yes, I have cleared cache, run memcache and restarted repeatedly....

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by beautysmom

Okay, again--the dev's must be playing on the production servers. I have not been able to work clients in any farm I have been to today, for the most part, even friends and neighbors who have not posted in days, and now I can't work facillities either. Have cleared cached repeatedly, and am stressing now. Can my neighbors work mine? Sigh.... If only the next release would be worth bothering with, unlike the last few. And yes, I have cleared cache, run memcache and restarted repeatedly....

Hi Beautysmom,
I can't say whether they have been working on anything, but they usually confine it to a single server they use for testing any changes before they roll anything out to the rest of the servers.
Have you checked the times for reworking facilities or services in the clock tool in your toolbox? This will tell you how many hours before you can rework any of those. It is not how long since you worked an individual's facilities, but is how long since you have worked any facilities.