New Release -- April 28th, 2011

[arjoychlouel]

Originally Posted by Raul

[Please see additional notes and fixes at the bottom of this post]

Hi There,

We just released a new version of the game with the following features and bug fixes:

1. Mother's Day items.

2. Product Adjustments:

- Tripled production in Cinnamon Factory
- Cheese production is now twice as fast, 2 hours instead of 4, this is like duplicating production if you have enough milk
- Salt received as gift now comes in batches of 200 instead of 100

3. Plower 5 x 5 (FC): If you already own the Plower 4 x 4, then you can buy this new plower to plow up to 25 fields at a time.

4. Friend Activity Panel: Right below the game screen there is a panel that shows you how your friends are helping you, like who: sent you regular/farm cash gifts, sent you ingredients, worked at your facilities, worked at your farm, sold you products, watered your flowers, etc.

5. Sell All Selected Products in Market: Each product in the market window will have a check box in the upper left corner (except when using the Non-Ingredients filter). Also, there is a 'Sell Selected' button below the filter selector (top-right) that will allow you to sell all selected (checked) products in one click.

The check box state is remembered from session to session so if you have a set of products that you always sell, you just need to check those products only once.

Once a product is selected it will show as selected on all the filters.

6. Harvest-Plow Combine 5 x 5 (FC): If you already own the Harvester 5 x 5 and the Plower 5 x 5, then you can buy this new Harvest-Plow Combine to harvest and plow 25 fields at once.

If You own this tool and someone hires you for multiple jobs including harvest and plow, you will be able to use this tool as well.

7. Harvest Storage Increased: This time we increased the storage by 50% so you should be able to play longer time before your storage get's full again.

8. Pool Bar (FC): Produce Cocktails. You can produce Peach Liqueur in the Distillery.

Apple Martini
Bloody Mary
Sex on the Beach
Mojito
Pina Colada
Bourbon Highball
Bellini
Sangria

9. Sports Accesories Factory (coins): Produce Sports Accesories. The Maple tree can now be chopped, then the logs used in the Sawmill to produce the Maple Lumber Pile. You need the Maple Lumber Pile to produce some sports accesories and, in the future, some fine musical instruments.

Foil
Volleyball Ball
Flat Bow and Arrows
Bowling Pin
Swimming Goggles
Ping Pong Racket
Shuttlecocks
Basket

10. Sports Arena (coins): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Hotdog
French Fries
Cheese Burger
Orange Soda
Farmerade
Foil
Bowling Pins
Flat Bow and Arrows
Ping Pong Racket
Basket

11. Glass Factory, School-Office Supplies Factory and Dance Club: Coming Tomorrow

We are also considering when a Hire Multiple is used for the employee to tele-transport always, so you don't have to wait for the harvest progress bars to finish in order to start plowing.

On the next release we will make several improvements to the gifting system and provide the capability for specific products and crops leveling, each product and crop will have 5 or 10 different levels, based on the total amounts of products done or crops harvested. The level will be used in the future to grant you different benefits.

Enjoy!

Thanks

--Raul


1. Launched the Glass Factory, Office/School Supply Factory and Dance Club Service Facility

2. When you are hired the avatar will jump (not walk) much more frequently now, so if you were hired with the Hire Multiple option for harvest and plow you will have to wait much less to start plowing

3. Combine 5 x 5 added to the plow vertical tool bar. In future releases we will find a way to include the 5x5 tools as well, or may be just replace the 4x4 tools with the 5x5 versions automatically if user owns them

4. We added a clarification note when selling selected items in market: "Note: When you select a product, all its variations (regular, large and gift) will be selected and sold as well"

5. Myspace crops and products disappearing from storage is now fixed

6. Fuel tanks credits given to users which may have lost fuel with the latest update

7. The cursor for the Plower 5 x 5 now have the correct size

8. The Graphic Help (?) for both Windmills now shows correct ingredient quantities for wheat

9. When hired and using the Combine tool, sometimes other people present on the same farm were seeing random uncompleted fields and the progress bar never went away

2. When you are hired the avatar will jump (not walk) much more frequently now, so if you were hired with the Hire Multiple option for harvest and plow you will have to wait much less to start plowing

i try that multiple hire why the avatar didnt jump?

[kejarvis@sbcglobal.net]

I lost ALL of my fuel from gifts and 4 refineries. I was given NONE back. Farm Town is started to be as bad as Farmville with it's glitches and not much fun anymore. I am disappointed that there is no way to contact then and remedy their errors. I just want my darn fuel back--spent a long time getting it!!

[k1ss]

I think the upgrades are gr8 and ty for fixing a lot of the glitches BUT please please get rid of the enqueing. It is becoming a real pain especially if your picking 5 or more trees/crops on 1 farm the enqueing is freezing up everything and making work a lot harder and takes up more time .

[Whoopsidaisy]

Originally Posted by dansd111

Longtime player here too and I hate to sound ungrateful, but it is getting old. Filling facilities and working in neighbors facilities over and over... ugh!

The announcement about diversity ranking a few months back has caused my neighbor's facilities to greatly multiply. So many people have facilities spread out over 8 or 9 farms. It takes forever to help.

I buy them all because they fit into my town or village etc. and I think they are cute-all the little buildings (yeah, I know-I'm weird, lol). I didn't have to and I don't have to fill them all. If it's a chore, then don't fill them, or better yet don't buy them all. I used to try to fill mine every day, now I fill them or most of them about twice a week. People could start being more selective and just have, say, a vineyard with the facilities that go with that or a shopping center or a spa with just the stuff needed to pretty you up, exercise equipment, perfume, flower shop, beauty salon etc- no need to go all out with everything that's for sale. There are thousands of possibilities. Most people who have all the facilities just cram them all on a couple of farms anyway with no type of organization or theme just so they can make more coins and raise more levels but once they top out they sit and complain they don't have anything to do. They added the monthly contests to add more incentive to decorate. I think it also adds incentive to organize and specialize too. I know it did for me. Just like the new service facilities made me start slowing down production. If they are full no need to keep producing hundreds more of something. My imagination refuses to let me get into the rut of fill, empty, work, fill, empty, work. I have a huge list of things I plan for my farms and I haven't even started

[Fanny Farmer]

Hi:
I just want to thank the developers for replacing the fuel because of a glitch. That was very thoughtful.
Also, the new releases are great too. I am at level 138 which I note is, "Total Insomniac."
That is true. With 9 farms, facilities and fishing, I am kept so busy that there is no time to sleep. Lol. I sometimes can't sleep, so spend time farming. Although, there are times when I possibly could sleep, but have so much to do at the farm, there is no time.

I got rid of several other applications because of all the pop ups and need to beg for every blessed thing. Also, Farm Town has kept me too busy to play them. Some people complain about Farm Town, but then, some people are never satisfied. I love the free gifting and being able to exchange a gift for something that you actually need.

Thanks again, developers for all the improvements and all the hard work that you do to try and keep us all happy. Keep up the great job. !!

[kathieis]

Thank you very much for the updates!

[Randall_Lind]

Originally Posted by dansd111

Longtime player here too and I hate to sound ungrateful, but it is getting old. Filling facilities and working in neighbors facilities over and over... ugh!

The announcement about diversity ranking a few months back has caused my neighbor's facilities to greatly multiply. So many people have facilities spread out over 8 or 9 farms. It takes forever to help.

I guess farming does get old but It is called farm town for a reason.

[k1ss]

Ok im confused im working on farms and every now and again im getting ALREADY DONE flying up why is this if im the only 1 working on the farm ... so it leaves it unplowed but your able to use the plower to fill in the ALREADY done plots is this a gliche or am i missing something ?

[Texas Belle]

Originally Posted by InePine

I agree, im getting fed up with more and more facilities, i have over 100 farm town friends, about 10 put out a link every day and about 5-8 people come to work at my farm. I think most of them are getting overwhelmed with the amount of work required with the facilities because i see alot of people online, so they obviously still like playing, but the facility aspect of the game is just more work then fun now. I suggest an All-button in all facilities like we have in the semi truck, or maybe even add a Stock-All-button in the facility manager per facility so we dont even have to open it if we know we want to stock it to the max. And something like a facility manager for working on other peoples farms.

And sheeps that give more wool, like the cows and the hens, I am going to have to get another shed just for sheep and already have 3..

[Tony D]

Hi, can we please keep this thread on topic.. just a reminder , we do not permit dicussions about layering techniques on this forum..

Thanks