New Release -- December 22nd, 2009

[MargefromTN]

I understand why they changed it. BUT...if people are dumb enough to participate in a group harvest, they deserve the mess. With the new release, a SOLO plower is slowed down to perhaps 1/3 the speed before. I'm an organized harvester/plower... up one row, down the next, hire buddies who work like I do. and they are moving at a turtles pace. It really takes the fun and challenge out of the game!

I'm sorry if the folks who like to work with 10 other people on the same plot had a problem; that's their greed. I have NEVER complained about an upgrade, but this penalizes the experienced and methodological workers....even plowing your own property is painfully slow. it does NOT go faster when you are plowing adjacent plots, it is FAR slower than it was before.

Or perhaps Mercury Retrograde has slowed the server down???

but it's dreadful. it's not FUN tonight.

[Sandie Angel]

I'm enjoying the new version. Thank you so much!!! I think the trick is to click on the field that is next to our avatars instead of going to a field that is far away from your avatar when you begin clicking. Some players like to begin their clicks in a pattern, and they always loved to begin clicking from the top of the farm and then move down as they click. But everyone knows that now this method doesn't work well when you go into a farm to harvest with multiple farmers there. Everyone just clicks randomly without any patterns, thus causing the well-patterned players to do the same.

I like the new version because if you just click the field next to you to begin your clicking, you will be working on your own speed. How fast you want to click to the field next to it and thereafter is of your own makings. You can make your avatar go faster by clicking faster to the next field and the next, or you can go slower is you wish. You control you own clicks and your control your own speed.

The trick is when you finished clicking a block of fields, then take the closest block of fields that is next to you. Don't try to click on a field that is at the opposite end of where your avatar is, or far away from your avatar, as it will take time for your avatar to walk over there to begin clicking. ALWAYS click on the closest field and then begin clicking away. Now there is no doubt that YOU ARE getting your XP points and your pay, as you can clearly see that every time you click a field.

The seeding is also an improvement. I like it when I can see the picture of the crop that I'm planting, so there will not be any mistakes. I had personally made so many errors with planting seeds in my second farm, I could be planting beets in the beginning, and then someone said something, and I had to refresh the screen. When I came back I would be picking the wrong seed to plant. This happened at least two or three times when I first got my second farm.

Now with the new seeding tool, I can see the picture of the crop I;m planting, and I really like this. The only thing is to watch out for your fuel, when you think your fuel could be running out then refill it before proceeding, for this new version does not tell you that your fuel are out' but you always know how many fields your farm has, and how many fuel you've got left to seed, so there's no mystery there.

I LOVE THIS NEW VERSION!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!

Sandie Angel

[Kath132]

Can harvest this way, BUT game won't allow me to plow after harvesting fields. Do you guys know what the heck your doing? Let's program this right!

Originally Posted by Kelsey

Thank you very much Raul. We appreciate everything you do for us.

[Kim81685]

this is awful!!!!!!!

i used to go straight to a corner to start working OUT OF OTHERS WAY... and now i can't plow anything until i'm standing on it... this is AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

Please change it back.

[cocowboy1008]

I like the thought behind what you did, I do agree that there really were some rude people who just started clicking away. However, I am (well I guess i should say was) a very fast harvestor and plower, I was always courteous and worked in a pattern to stay out of teh way of others, however now it is very slow and time consuming... It definitely isnt as much fun as it was before. BUT..... I do have an idea for a compromise if you plan on leaving it this way....

The tractors and harvestors basically go to waste because most of us hire it out done, so how about making it possible to use our tractor and harvestor on others farms so at least we can do four squares at a time to make it a little faster?!?! Mine just sit on my farm now to look pretty all I use is the seeder...

Thanks

Mark

[Eliza the Flower Farmer]

I never random harvest for strangers I always just trade harvests with my real life friend's and now it took so long for me to harvest my friend had to leave and couldn't wait to hire me to plow.
I'm afraid this is the way it is going to be now noone has an hour to sit and wait for me to finish their farm! It is going to get to where noone wants to hire anyone anymore!!

Please I'm begging you to change it back I have a real life but loved this game to wind down now it takes so long there is no way I can play it. But this is my favorite game. T.T /sob

[anthronurse]

I love Farm Town. I play it everyday. BUT, this last update is Horrible!! Plowing and harvesting take so long now. I understand that this was a fix to an existing problem. Well, it may have fixed that problem, yet it has made an even bigger one. I will no longer be playing. Sorry. I can't work with this. Please consider changing it back. Please.

[buddymaine]

It is TOTALLY TERRIBLE! It is not just a complaint, it is not fun anymore. I cannot even use my seeder that I paid 60,000 coins for. So, what is the use. Please put it back to where it was. You are going to lose a lot of supporters!

[Chuckcbr]

Please change harvest and plow back to the old way!!!new way is so stupid and slow,,,everyone at the market is complaing about it and for a good reason, It is not good and who ever came up with this should be fired !!!

[skoocher1999]

This is AWFUL! Change it back!!!!