New Release -- December 22nd, 2009 - Page 78

Gambitt · #**771** Dec 23 2009, 01:33 AM

Glad to see the "un-release" thanks for listening to our users!

laughingeyes · #**772** Dec 23 2009, 01:35 AM

I find that it is NOT fast between adjacent plots. I have always gone to a far corner on multiple hires on another farm, then worked row by row. It went quickly! Now, it takes me litterally 10 times as long to do a job. It's NOT FUN anymore. Find another way to fix it folks. It is SO boring...like watching water boil.
Frankly, there are PLENTY of other apps to play online, so when you completely **** up your app, you'll find many of us senior players leaving out of boredom.
Sure wish you'd tried to find another way to fix it, OR at LEAST asked for people's opinions before you made the decision. I've been playing for about 2 months, and have never had a problem receving my credits.
A DISGUSTED 4 hours a day player

laughingeyes · #**773** Dec 23 2009, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Sapai

Me too, Candi Yam. Me too.

I have made so many new friends all over the world! It has been such a rewarding experience up to this point. I am heart sick.

Me too...it's what I'll really miss. BUT, come on over to Farm Ville, or Island Paradise (where you can swipe from other people's harvest...kind of fun) for another couple of great games.

janisko · #**774** Dec 23 2009, 01:38 AM

Besides being slow my connection to the server is still timing out. It happened three times at one farm and fortunately I was able to save it. I thought this wasn't going to happen with the supposed fix?

Brandy from Retirement Dream (below) was harvesting and plowing at Waterfall Orchard #2 (also below). Both of us were on WF26. The timing out only happened when plowing, just as before.

I clear my cache every time I close my browsers and have all of the Flash updates on both. I run WIN XP with both IE8 and Firefox (latest version).

For me this fix wasn't a fix. The server still tries to boot me and I'm working at a fraction of my normal pace.

All this said... I still appreciate the hard work the developers put into this game and realize it's still in beta but PLEASE test these changes before they are implemented. And test them on real farms!

mickmse2 · #**775** Dec 23 2009, 01:39 AM

instead of making the plowing and harvesting slower by making your mini me follow u... why not fix it where only one person at a time can work on a farm... it would end the competition and give the one person a chance to work at their own pace....

laughingeyes · #**776** Dec 23 2009, 01:41 AM

A more adept fix would have been to LIMIT the number of hires someone could have on their farm at one time....four maybe, dependent on size of farm. That would have been farm, spread out the work more, and NOT resulted in the mess you all have created of slower than snail harvesting and plowing, taking the excitment, challenge, and joy right out of the game.

Farmer Castle Man · #**777** Dec 23 2009, 01:44 AM

The new harvest and plow feature STINKS!!! Vampire Wars made some mistakes trying to add more "bells and whistles"....now a bunch of us just up and quit. Sometimes more is LESS! I've been Level 60 for a while and really enjoyed December 21st. Now, it's time to move on and drop another game ONCE AGAIN. Farm Town was the favorite.....not any more.

laughingeyes · #**778** Dec 23 2009, 01:44 AM

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For me this fix wasn't a fix. The server still tries to boot me and I'm working at a fraction of my normal pace.

PLEASE test these changes before they are implemented. And test them on real farms![/quote]

Same for me...I run XP, with all updates on all (flash, XP, etc), and kept getting run time bump offs...that was frustrating...THAT is what lost me points!

And now it's just at a snail's pace....I prefered the run time errors, frankly!

Why not have a test option, then when you want to test a "fix", we'll all play it for you and provide feedback, so that when you do fixes, you can make sure they are workable for your users!

BR_Hamster · #**779** Dec 23 2009, 01:48 AM

Hi Raul, and all farmers.

Although I can see why you are trying to solve a problem with harvesting and plowing the old way was considerablly quicker - the new way, I am now finding it after 24 hours almost impossible to hire any harvesters.

If we are only able to hire 1 harvester and 1 plower at any given time on 1 farm this should resolve that ?

Other than that it is a cool game.

Capt. Conor · #**780** Dec 23 2009, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by crodgers

get real... it is not that bad!

talking from experience, it was, I was doing some tallying today, more that 25 people quite within the first 14 pages of this update