Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[HelenJS22]

I think absolutely HIS problem, but I also know that the opinion of so many in the market place agrees with his.

[MaiBrittEhlers]

its your farm - so you do as you like....
I find it very stressfull, if a farmer hires 2-3 to harvest with big tools, then im gone again :-)

happy farming

[Tony D]

Originally Posted by sharimom

Normally when I have a lot of different things ready on all my farms, in my opinion it's a lot easier and faster for me to hire one person to fish, another to chop, another to harvest flowers, another to harvest trees, and someone to harvest crops and plow.

That's what I did today and this is the message I received ~
from "fat guy"
FIRST TIME EVER DID SOMEONE GIVE ME THE **** WORK AND SOME SON OF A ***** ALL THE HARVEST AND PLOW. YOU ARE SOMETHING LET ME TELL YA.

I replied something close to how I started this thread and said GEEZE I guess you shouldn't have accepted the work if that wasn't what you wanted to do.

I'd like some opinions, does anyone else hire a different person for each job when everything is ready or do you try to hire one person and wait, and wait and wait for them to finish?

Hi, I moved your post into the rgead for hiring practices

[jason76]

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but since the majority of my crops are used in facilities is there any reason to hire other players to work on your farms? I've got all the tools and enough fuel to do it myself. Before you got more coins when someone else did it but since the majority of the crops are used in facilities then that doesn't matter to me. Just curious if I missed something. Thanks!

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by jason76

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but since the majority of my crops are used in facilities is there any reason to hire other players to work on your farms? I've got all the tools and enough fuel to do it myself. Before you got more coins when someone else did it but since the majority of the crops are used in facilities then that doesn't matter to me. Just curious if I missed something. Thanks!

Only reason I hire someone else is to help them out. They get a portion of the crop and some coins and get experience points for plowing.

[Tony D]

Originally Posted by jason76

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but since the majority of my crops are used in facilities is there any reason to hire other players to work on your farms? I've got all the tools and enough fuel to do it myself. Before you got more coins when someone else did it but since the majority of the crops are used in facilities then that doesn't matter to me. Just curious if I missed something. Thanks!

Hi, it is still cheaper for the ploughing if you hire someone else to do it

[LoreneC]

I still hire in the market because I like helping new farmers. Also I plant a lot of acorn squash to sell for coins and I get more if I hire it done.

[Miamine]

Originally Posted by pawtalker

I advertise myself as a combine. I want to be hired to harvest AND plow, period. If you don't want to hire for harvest and plow, don't hire a combine.

The job request shows you an offer, if it doesn't suit you then don't take the job, I don't have time to work out which tool does what, or who likes this or that. You also have the chat box, specify there that you will only harvest if you can plow.

[Miamine]

Originally Posted by kurlikew

First, if you're going to hire people to work in your facilities, it makes sense to make sure that they are condensed onto as few farms as possible so that your workers don't have to jump around to a bunch of different farms (and thus have to wait for each one to load, which can take a while). I can tell you I own every facility that's currently available, and even have multiples of some, and I have them all on four farms, and all my service facilities on one farm.

I'm very sure there are a great many people who will agree with these suggestions!

Many may agree, but I don't. I can't see the point of sticking all my facilities on one farm. Firstly farms like this are often difficult to collect from, if you get an xlink error, you can't find the facility to start again, and it's hard to go right back to the beginning and start again. Also, the developers have made the facilities look pretty, they might as well be unpainted squares if all you want to do is pack them up. I use the facilities to enhance my farms, so fish restaurants are by the sea and the shops are in the town. I'm not fussy about how others play the game, but I play the game for me, not to suit my workers. Lots of my neighbours that packed their facilities on to one farm, seem to be now moving them, to make their farms look pretty.

[BamaNana]

What drives me craziest when I'm in the Marketplace looking to be hired is when someone sends a request for me to plow, harvest, chop, and fish (just an example here), especially on multiple farms. No way to tell it's for multiple farms till I get to the job. Then, when I arrive on their farm(s), there are wall-to-wall trees to chop, one pond, and maybe a dozen plots to h/p. I don't mind a multi-hire, but I surely wish there was some way of knowing before I accept if I'm being asked to chop a million trees and h/p a dozen plots. Knowing that would go a long way toward deciding whether or not to take the job. Once I accept a job, I feel obligated to do everything I was hired to do and to complete the job before I leave.