New Release -- December 22nd, 2009

[ldyump]

This upgrade is sooooo slow, I may not continue playing this game. It takes forever to harvest or plow. Please go back to the old way. If you are worried about people running into each other, then limit the number of people that can be hired for one plot.

[texaswolf]

Originally Posted by Sandman1967

I chatted more before the "Fix"!
Amen, Texaswolf!

me too. i can almost guarantee they change it back once they see the number of active daily users drop. it will be reduced to the folks who meet up daily to talk about the weather. The daily players will become 3 day planters, due to the annoyance of the new style.

[Little Critter]

Originally Posted by wr5aw

if you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like farm town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "i quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

...amen...~g~

[Capt. Conor]

I cannot believe what Slash Key has done, they have destroyed farm town,

[crodgers]

I am thrilled that it kills the random clickers - I don't like random clickers, I ignore them! I like more methodical clickers so I can plant right behind their plowing...

As far as speed, it is not that much slower for me... I still clear 2-3 squares per second when plowing or harvesting for someone - unless there are lots of people or animals present. Even the old way slowed down in those cases.

There's something that could improve performance - something to turn off animals. You can freeze them now, but something about a bunch of animals still takes up a lot of processing time when you try to harvest or plow near them (while they are on your screen). I think code still runs to attempt to move the animal every second (or whatever) and if freeze is on, it just doesn't update the animal's position. But it still does something to take up processing... If we could prevent them from showing up that would be great!

[ja_dawgma]

Originally Posted by ed's farm123

I have NEVER not gotten any coins or XP points I earned. NEVER, but I sure am having a heck of a time hiring people now that it takes all day to harvest or plow.

You've made some great improvements in the past and I know you're working to fix problems as they occur, but surely the changes to harvesting and plowing today can't possibly be the solution to ANYTHING.
I hired just one person to harvest, surely that person can't collide with himself. Why not just let them hire one person and let them harvest or plow at a normal speed.

I'm sure you'll find an answer to this NEWLY created problem.

Thanks for all your effort.

I've never been to this forum before today..my whole family plays farm town and love the competitive nature of multiple harvest/plowing...folks who have complained about losing a few points here and there are just that...losers and complainers. Go back to the old system. Please =)

[smcint]

I really do not like the upgrade, while I understand and appreciate that you were trying to fix some of the issues you were experiencing this new upgrade is extremely frustrating... it is just TOO SLOW!!! After working 10-12 hour days this was one thing that I truly looked forward to after work and traffic, simple, mindless enjoyment. But now it is just as frustrating as ever with all of the waiting. Please go back to the other format or I will be quitting the game just as I did with the other game that were taking too long. You have an awesome concept and I for one would rather lose a few coins or XP point in lieu of the slowness!

[crodgers]

Originally Posted by ccalby

I cannot believe what Slash Key has done, they have destroyed farm town,

get real... it is not that bad!

[squeak365]

Originally Posted by ldyump

Limit the number of people that can be hired on a farm.

THIS IS A BETTER SOLUTION...I have been hired for a job with so many other people, there was no point in staying so I leave. I hire ONE unless that person is so slow I cannot stand it...then I go back for ONE more...

Please fix this "fix". It sucks. Seems to me there are more in the forums now than playing the game.

[brwniemom]

I do like this way as I'm getting used to it, the only thing that made me not like it was that it seemed faster b4 because u were able to plow more than 1 field at a time and now your waiting for the avatar to catch up because you see that annoying comment "wait I'm busy!!!" every time u click on a field so that's something that I don't like....but I love that the icons are bigger so you can actually see what seeds you are planting in case you made a mistake and clicked the wrong one you can now see that!!! I guess we'll have to just play with it and see how it goes....I'm already at level 56 so getting close to the end again!!! and not sure what to do then, but I'm sure the developers are working on adding new things just like they did for todays new releases...so I'll just keep playing and wait and see...thank u for all the hard work the developers are doing and having to listen to us complain I'm sure that it makes it difficult for them because as we all know You can't please everyone!!!, but at least some of us are willing to say THANK YOU!!! for the good jobs that u are doing