New Release -- March 19th, 2010

[Tony D]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

I've actually had quite a bit of fun with the new facilities.

Me too, 'tis great to have new things to do on the farm.

[Markey Mark]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

It takes 10 wheat to make one batch of 5 units of flour. If you have 135 pending then you loaded 270 wheat.

Well, that explains that!!! Thanks Mr. H. Isn't this the same equation they used to show that an expenditure of 2.1 Trillion was somehow going to reduce the national deficit??

[lebron55]

my $ disappeared....how do I get it back?? Wasn't much but STILL!

[QuietJan]

I absolutely love the new facilities...but...the time is waaay too long for the sugar, cheese, and goat cheese. It's really ridiculously out of whack for timing. Please reduce these times.

[Tony D]

Originally Posted by QuietJan

I absolutely love the new facilities...but...the time is waaay too long for the sugar, cheese, and goat cheese. It's really ridiculously out of whack for timing. Please reduce these times.

Hi QuietJan, Taking the sugar cane as an example :- Sugarcane sells for 133 coins - if you put 10 in the facility you will get 200 for it. This represent a pure profit of 670 coins every 2 hours. Given that you can load over 8 days (not sure of the upper limit) worth of sugarcane into the facility and have it generating around 8,000 coins extra a day for you, I think it is great.

[mandie1029]

The sugar refinery is a terrible awful idea for anyone with a large crop. The stupid thing takes 2 hours for 10 squares to process. I had 1010 squares and it hasnt even gotten past the 900s and its been at least one day. 2 hours for 10 crops thats 20 hours for 100 squares and I have 1010!!! thats 100 hours... WHAT, about 5 days!? I would have been better off just planting pineapples than wasting my time with something so terrible. I am far too impatient for that nonsense and would have made more of a profit just re-planting sugar cane. My honest opinion is the facilities are worthless in large number.

thats all I do enojoy other things about farm town tho

[Judy1953]

Why is everyone in such a terrible rush - just let the things process away - if you have excess sugar or milk and can't be bothered waiting - just sell it. It's just an option - and a very exciting one I think. I'm grateful for it - gives a new dimension to the game.

[Tony D]

Originally Posted by mandie1029

The sugar refinery is a terrible awful idea for anyone with a large crop. The stupid thing takes 2 hours for 10 squares to process. I had 1010 squares and it hasnt even gotten past the 900s and its been at least one day. 2 hours for 10 crops thats 20 hours for 100 squares and I have 1010!!! thats 100 hours... WHAT, about 5 days!? I would have been better off just planting pineapples than wasting my time with something so terrible. I am far too impatient for that nonsense and would have made more of a profit just re-planting sugar cane. My honest opinion is the facilities are worthless in large number.

thats all I do enojoy other things about farm town tho

Hi Mandie, what you have described is the great thing about the refinery. Buy putting the sugarcane in the refinery you are making an additional 67 coins per plot than if you had just sold the sugarcane ( around 7,000 a day) and for the next 5 days you can plant whatever you want in your field while the refinery is working away in the background making you money. The 1,000 plots will make you an additional 67,000 coins and 100 xps - I personally would not call that worthless.

[Aero 1]

Originally Posted by Tony D

Hi Mandie, what you have described is the great thing about the refinery. Buy putting the sugarcane in the refinery you are making an additional 67 coins per plot than if you had just sold the sugarcane ( around 7,000 a day) and for the next 5 days you can plant whatever you want in your field while the refinery is working away in the background making you money. The 1,000 plots will make you an additional 67,000 coins and 100 xps - I personally would not call that worthless.

But mandie is right to have to wait 5 days just to make an extra 67 coins per plot is a waste of time. if you plant peppers twice over 4 days you make a lot more coin for a day less I think it is a waste of time too.

Peppers 378 per plot over 2 days so 4 days is 756 and a day less instead of 178 over 5 days.

[jeanieNGMsfarm]

Originally Posted by Aero 1

But mandie is right to have to wait 5 days just to make an extra 67 coins per plot is a waste of time. if you plant peppers twice over 4 days you make a lot more coin for a day less I think it is a waste of time too.

Peppers 378 per plot over 2 days so 4 days is 756 and a day less instead of 178 over 5 days.

i agree price wise peppers are better. the new items get people to play more since it gives them more to do with shorter crops and you get the exp points.. for me i have one area just for my regular crop i like to plant allot of and a small area for my sugarcane