New Release -- November 13th, 2015

[Darrell Joe]

Originally Posted by marymarcel

Hi all

From Raul's notes for the New Release

Post-Release Updates - December 1st, 1:20AM

- Last Year's Holiday Items
- Buying trees from the store now works like buying flowers, you can keep buying the same tree repeatedly without re-opening the store or using the Buy Multiple option in the item menu

- More consistency and optimizations for farming tools:
a) Remove progress bars from seeder, combines and plower
b) When plowing new fields on the grass there is no transparency and the real fields appears quickly
c) The operation of the harvester now works the same as the combines, plower and seeder, in the way that your mouse don't have to be on top of a ready to harvest item to harvest the next set of items
d) The operation of the chainsaw now works the same as the tree shaker and the flower harvester in the way that your mouse don't have to be on top of a ready to chop item to chop the next set of items
e) More optimizations when using the combines

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally the chainsaw works like the tree shaker!!!!!!! You guys/gals/devs are awesome! And being able to buy multiple trees without extra clicks! Early Christmas for me!

[Clockworx]

Hi Raul and team, please look at increasing the fiberglass sheets in the next release. Run 4 Construction factories and still run out

[BobTheLazyFarmer]

Has anyone else noticed lately that Farm Town constantly uses your Internet bandwidth, even when doing nothing at all in your farms? It's a constant 40kbps usage, that just sucks up bandwidth apparently for no good reason. It didn't use to do this until recently. What's up with that?

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by BobTheLazyFarmer

Has anyone else noticed lately that Farm Town constantly uses your Internet bandwidth, even when doing nothing at all in your farms? It's a constant 40kbps usage, that just sucks up bandwidth apparently for no good reason. It didn't use to do this until recently. What's up with that?

Hi Bob,
I am not sure how you determined this as Farm Town does go through Facebook and Facebook is constantly updating too. I haven't seen any difference in the amount being used by Farm Town. It does however have to keep everything running as long as you have your farm connected even if you aren't doing anything on your farms and Farm Town has grown quite a bit over the years.

[BobTheLazyFarmer]

Originally Posted by Taz D

Hi Bob,
I am not sure how you determined this as Farm Town does go through Facebook and Facebook is constantly updating too. I haven't seen any difference in the amount being used by Farm Town. It does however have to keep everything running as long as you have your farm connected even if you aren't doing anything on your farms and Farm Town has grown quite a bit over the years.

The bandwidth usage is only when I'm using Farm Town, not when I'm only using Facebook. It happens even when I use Farmtown in offline mode. Happens with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. I only noticed this usage recently, as it never did it before.

When I look at the TCP remote IP address, it is 31.13.80.8, which is a Facebook server in Ireland.

Is it possible that recent updates to Farmtown is now using some method that constantly monitors the connections?

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by BobTheLazyFarmer

The bandwidth usage is only when I'm using Farm Town, not when I'm only using Facebook. It happens even when I use Farmtown in offline mode. Happens with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. I only noticed this usage recently, as it never did it before.

When I look at the TCP remote IP address, it is 31.13.80.8, which is a Facebook server in Ireland.

Is it possible that recent updates to Farmtown is now using some method that constantly monitors the connections?

Hi Bob,
If you are monitoring the Facebook IP and open Farm Town then you have added 3 more servers adding to bandwidth usage. Has Farm Town increased the data flow between you and the servers? It is possible but I certainly haven't noticed any difference in what I can have open simultaneously nor any slowdown caused by it.

[marymarcel]

Hi all

From Raul's notes for the New Release

Post-Release Updates - December 2nd, 8:30PM

- 29 Holiday Decorations: 5 as gifts, 14 at top of the Holiday category in the store, 6 at the bottom and 4 Winter items close to the bottom in the Winter category (Woman Skiing, Kids on Snow Sled, Man with Snow Shovel and Wooden Sled).
- Removed the "Freeze/Unfreeze while Farming" avatar menu option, it's now defaulted to 'Freeze while Farming' to all players to increase performance.
- More speed optimizations for crop tools, transplanter and multiplanter.

[Ammazetta]

Data usage has increased for me too, can't play like I used to for last week or so because I will run out of data allowance for the month.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by Ammazetta

Data usage has increased for me too, can't play like I used to for last week or so because I will run out of data allowance for the month.

Hi Ammazetta,
The only thing I can suggest then is to not leave your farm open when you are not working.

[dean10m]

Been playing FT since 2009 and could play all day long. Not anymore. FT sucks up data usage like mad, and I'm lucky just to get my crops done. I play with everything off except for my trees, flowers and crops and play offline. Anything else can you suggest to get the data usage down?