New Release -- December 22nd, 2009

[bumblevee]

what normally takes 20 mins now takes 2 hours. this change sucks big time. i usually hire only 1 to 2 people on my farms cos i hate overcrowding but i guess i have to hire like 20 workers now to get the job done as fast.

[Gambitt]

To Farm Town:

So How many Credits am I going to get for my Quad-Core computer on an F/o line, now that you've cut my speed back to that of your pathetic server????

My time is money, and I expect you to pay for it, since you've chosen to waste it!

The ONLY reason for the mixup, is that you've been spending the money people PAY for this game getting your jollies, instead of upgrading the servers beyond what the average home user has!

[aceyducey]

I was an addicted fan of FT. It's the only game I played. Tonight I did a harvest and plow job for a friend and neighbor. A 5 -6 min former job took me well over 1/2 hr. I am not planting or working on friend's farms until a better method is introduced. I can't afford the kind of time imposed on me now when harvesting and plowing. I have no idea how seeding will go and don't intend to find out.

I will not leave or quit the game. However, I will sit back and wait to see what happens. If it doesn't improve, then I will leave. JMHO.

[tall-p]

I have been loving this game for a few weeks... but this fix reallllly stinks. It takes TOO long to do what we did rapidly in the past. If it stays this painfully slow I will stop. It makes no sense, and the only thing it does is make us watch our little avatar walk all the way across the field.

[Sandman1967]

I like the changes... harvesting, plowing much faster now except for those who want to hog all the work.

Hog the work? How is working fast a problem?
I hire 1 or 2 people! NO PROBLEM! When I hire, I expect them to be fast!
maybe these idiots that hire 10 people at a time.

[CynthiaSue]

Perhaps they did do it to cut back on cheats. I don't know. I do know that it took the person plowing my 700 plot field a very long time to get done. It kind of encourages me to hire more than one person, if I am in a hurry. Also, people could have done away with the greed plowers and harvesters by only hiring one person at a time to do either. I have always hired one person and if they did me well on harvesting, allowed them to plow as well. If someone made a mess of the field, they usually didn't stay and I rehired someone to clean up the mess and plow. It has worked for me. While they were waiting for it to be safe to be hired to plow or to leave, we would chat if I was on the farm. Now they can't chat without stopping what they are doing. By the time they are done, they are ready to leave. This way discouraages one to go a long distance to plow if there is not much to do, as it takes the avatar a long time to walk across a large field. On the plus side, people don't lose coins or points by leaving the farm too soon. Of course, putting out a notice that one needs to wait for the coins and points to quit goign up before leaving the farm, would also help. Or perhaps they could make it so the person can't leave until it is safe, just like if I am seeding, it won't let me do things sometimes and says I am busy.

Perhaps this change is needed in order to make it work for everyone. I don't like it, but don't find it impossible, just slow. I really don't know why games don't simply put up a pop up when a new change is implemented. They LOVE pop ups! That way people would not be in the dark. Lots of people thought only they were having trouble, and tried different things to remedy it. Why not just give us a pop up and let us know about the changes? COMMUNICATION. That is really important to me. Why not communicate. It would probably even cut back on upset people. It isn't like people arent' goign to find out anyway. But, they would at least know what is happening.

Too bad you can't give us a choice of which way we want it. That way everyone could be happy. But, if this does away with cheaters, perhaps everyone should have it.

[jeniece]

I hate the new slower harvesting option! Takes too long!!!

[Sandman1967]

With all due respect, who on earth made up the game rule that all harvesting and plowing must be equally divided among all players on that farm? I've never heard of anything so ridiculous. So if I'm a fast accurate clicker, by your rules, I have to be "nice" and share 50/50 or 33/33/33 or 25/25/25/25 even if the other players are slow, "freezing", don't know how to play, etc.? And if someone gets more than their share, you label them rude and greedy? What do you do, count the squares just to be sure??

Welcome to the Socialist Republic of FarmTown.

Right on! Could not say it better!

[tomjw217]

I realize there were problems before, but the new method of harvesting/plowing just stinks. It's slow, jerky, and hard to adjust to. I used to enjoy watching my avatar walk around cleaning up all the fields I had finished. The only time I lost points/coins was when I was too anxious and left before my avatar had finished. My bad, not the game's. Fortunately, I've reached my goals so I won't be playing nearly as much. This was a terrible change that made playing FT much worse. Sorry.

[tall-p]

I like the changes... harvesting, plowing much faster now except for those who want to hog all the work.

Hog the work?? Do you mean "Now everyone is slow like me?"

[Tyler45]

Hog the work?? Do you mean "Now everyone is slow like me?"

that isn't nice :rolleyes:

[daddyjake]

Could there being 70% less problems be because there is now 90% less hiring going on? The problem wasn't the speed of the game. It was the selfish and crazy mass hiring to do a one or two person job. The speed of the game as it was had me tearing through the levels as it was fast and enjoyable to spend hours on end planting and harvesting for myself on my multiple accounts. Now, I feel that I may be going into far earlier retirement than I otherwise would have. Basically you have slowed down every player to the speed of the slowest player...... The reason why people like myself clicked all over the place was because I HATE mass hiring. It is no fun to see a plantation full of pineapple going to 5 or 6 people. Return it to the way it was before and instead limit the amount of people that can be hired to 5 or less.... The ideal number would be 2.... One to harvest and one to plow. Once upon a time it was enjoyable and reasonable to plant wall to wall trees..... Now that we have been turned back to the stone age it isn't nearly as enticing. You have a harvester for crops would it be possible to enable it to harvest 4 trees at a time? Would it also be possible to allow us to plant trees just like we do flowers? Flowers like dirt paths and stones allow us to or at least allowed us to plant one right after the other without clicking on market each and every purchase. Was there a problem with that before? Or is it worth giving it a shot? I am also very pleased that the game doesn't simply die at level 34..... That was a crazy number.... There have been a lot of great improvements to the game and to an extent as the slowed down version of the game is now does has it's benefit.... We just have to have the time to go as slow as we now have to go or to sit and wait while others do our dirty work for us. Are any of the ideas floating around slashkey being presented to your constituency or simply forced out there for a shot? Also, when it comes to hiring you have made it more desirable to hire friends that are our neighbors instead of going to the beggars market as it is cheaper to plow. We often hire only one person to take care of our harvesting and then plowing. Was that taken into consideration when making this new release? I do very much like the larger cursors as now you can see the bull dozer when going through to delete things. Before this latest release if you double hired a person to plow or harvest for you the plow shear or reaper disappeared making it faster/easier to get the work done. When you are on your own farm you don't have such an option. Is that something that could be addressed also? Would it be possible to add a hide cursor option whether hired by someone else or doing work for yourself? In closing will you please enable palm trees to be purchased for coins. That is all thank you for your time.

[VANESSA HUTCHING]

hi there,

first, the bert account was hacked recently and there were some posts made on his behalf, we are researching this issue now.

Second, we just released a new version of farmtown a while ago. As stated before, we were going to focus mainly on the lost xp/coins issues which are critical at this point. However, in order to minimize the lost xp/coins issues, we had to make some changes to the way harvesting/plowing works when you are hired.

before, when multiple people were hired on a farm, everybody starts clicking randomly on every field, and there are a lot of collisions, people harvesting/plowing on the same fields, as you don't see clearly where other people are working.

The new way is this, if you harvest fields that are close to where your avatar is, then your avatar will be teletransported and will be a very quick transition, it should be as quick or comparable to what it was before, however if you click on a field that is farther away, then you will have to wait until your avatar gets to that field to continue working.

This change will make that on some instances you work slower, on the other hand people get more dispersed while working on a farm, you can actually see them where they are working, and there will be much less collisions between them. This will also add another component to the game, now it's not just blindly clicking on the fields, you have to also consider the position of other players and your chances to avoid collisions and to get more work done. Now, when you click on a field that another player did before you, then you will see a message saying "already done", before, there was no feedback at all.

Of course, we know this release will cause a lot of complains as well, because in order to improve one area we had to change the behaivor on another area which some users will not like it, but compared to the issue of frequent losing more xp and coins, we just decided this was the way to go.

So far we have detected that there are 70% less issues with lost xp/coins that before, and it should improve with time even more.

As a separate note, the cursors on the game have been made larger and they don't get overlapped by other items on the game.

Thanks

--raul

ok every what was done to farm town needs to be undone. I do not have time to sit around and wait on my avatar to get to each spot before i move on. I talked to tons of people in the market thats like me if it stays this we are deleting it and will play something else. Fix it back the way it was. Cant you get up to date with out messing the whole dang game up all together. Come on already just put it back the way it was.

[angelsamongus]

Ok what is the big deal here i hate the new harvesting and plowing you have done put it back please i don't like having to follow my avator through all of the harvesting and plowing that was a real stupid idea and i have had alot of people tell me they don't like it at all if it is not changed back i will get alot of my friends to leave farmtown and i can do it too trust me

[amberdh]

ok every what was done to farm town needs to be undone. I do not have time to sit around and wait on my avatar to get to each spot before i move on. I talked to tons of people in the market thats like me if it stays this we are deleting it and will play something else. Fix it back the way it was. Cant you get up to date with out messing the whole dang game up all together. Come on already just put it back the way it was.

Thats what everyone said when the devs updated the harvesting and plowing last time. :)

[richearl]

This may sound selfish, but half the fun for me is chatting. I could zoom ahead and let my avatar catch up and chat. If I just want to harvest and play by myself I play Farmville.

[MandyW]

Simple, happened on my farm too. a full 16 X 16 plowed in 15 seconds...

Fast finger and mouse? I doubt that :)


As long as I've been playing this game that has NEVER happened with anyone I've hired. If there are people who use cheat programs it's probably just a handful if any at all. And what's the big deal if somebody uses a cheat? It's not hurting anyone. As many players as there are I think the odds of running into someone using a cheat is very slim.

[Gambitt]

Hog the Work??

I PAY for this machine and It's fiber optic line... if others can't keep up, then give them a 56K modem server, and put them on it!!!

[theoxman]

This new change is pathetic. It is the ABSOLUTE WORST change they could have made. The intentions were excellent but the corrections are horrible. This sounds more like the stupid health care bill than anything. They said they fixed 70% of the XP lost problems...if they are going to do something this bad they should have fixed all of them.

Bottom line...SlashKey got it wrong. Terribly wrong.

[Tyler45]

Hog the Work??

I PAY for this machine and It's fiber optic line... if others can't keep up, then give them a 56K modem server, and put them on it!!!

you don't pay for the game though ;)

[tall-p]

Too bad you can't give us a choice of which way we want it. That way everyone could be happy. But, if this does away with cheaters, perhaps everyone should have it.
Cheaters? I never saw a cheater... what is there to cheat about?

It did seem that some people were a whole lot faster than normal... but then I was one of them. I could click AND move but now that option, that skill has been disabled. I wont be playing any longer if I have to creep from square to square.

[rpres30]

I have been doing this game now since febuary and i have loved the changes but i aabsolutely hate this change!!! there are other solutions to this problem like limit the number of people one person can hire at a time on their farm instead of doing something like this you all should do something to the ones who cause people to loose those xp points and coins and 99% of the time they r not loosing them they just dont know that its added as soon as you click it there are many options to doing something about this!!! I love this game and so does my family but i don't have a whole day to sit and harvest and plow one field because people wanna cry over loosing a few xp points or money for it!!! So do something about this problem or i can promis you that you are gonna have alot not be doing this anymor its rediculous!!!

[wesnipes]

I've been a devoted fan, hopped over, field hogs, the whole gambit but I made my progress from learned skills and speed. Neither of them apply now. This is now a nursing home game. Please change it back or all the months and time I've put into it I'll have to say good bye to.

[susan0962]

This upgrade totally sucks. I'm a level 60 and will not be playing any longer at this speed. Dumb dumb dumb. My 13 yo son, level 42 won't play any more and my 10 yo daughter won't play any more. This upgrade was NOT well thought out. Bye bye FT. :(

[VANESSA HUTCHING]

Ok every what was done to farm town needs to be undone. I do not have time to sit around and wait on my avatar to get to each spot before i move on. I talked to tons of people in the market thats like me if it stays this we are deleting it and will play something else. Fix it back the way it was. Cant you get up to date with out messing the whole dang game up all together. Come on already just put it back the way it was. If you would go on the farm town page that the game has and read all the stuff on there and how the people are hating the new way you would there is not gonna be a fram town if you dont fix it back the way it way. People just dont havbe the time you think they should have to play this game it takes 20 to 30 minutes just to do one job. Y'all are making it way harder than it has to be. I have never last any xp/coins. I bet this is not even read by anyone that can fix the problem.

[jeannieb]

>>>>>>Before my only major complaint would have been to loose the box on the plow feature and just use the cursor..

If you hire a person "twice" it takes away the red plow and just lays down the mark. It is hard to get each owner to do this though but it is great.

[theoxman]

As long as I've been playing this game that has NEVER happened with anyone I've hired. If there are people who use cheat programs it's probably just a handful if any at all. And what's the big deal if somebody uses a cheat? It's not hurting anyone. As many players as there are I think the odds of running into someone using a cheat is very slim.

No joke. This is a terrible release. Terrible. They have turned FarmTown into Farmville.

[susan0962]

i've been a devoted fan, hopped over, field hogs, the whole gambit but i made my progress from learned skills and speed. Neither of them apply now. This is now a nursing home game. Please change it back or all the months and time i've put into it i'll have to say good bye to.

well said!!!

[Sandman1967]

Hog the Work??

I PAY for this machine and It's fiber optic line... if others can't keep up, then give them a 56K modem server, and put them on it!!!

Very nice! That is my thoughts!

[Tiny1]

Wow i usually dont complain on any upgrades made to this game but this new one down right blows!!! Please change it back its awful!:mad:

[theoxman]

This upgrade totally sucks. I'm a level 60 and will not be playing any longer at this speed. Dumb dumb dumb. My 13 yo son, level 42 won't play any more and my 10 yo daughter won't play any more. This upgrade was NOT well thought out. Bye bye FT. :(

I'm level 60 as well (currently #58 in XP on one list). I wonder if they had the foresight to ask some L60's to test it out and give some feed back. Their previous releases have been real gems...this one is a corporalite (look up the word).

[natasha25]

Please change back. It is way to slow for me. May be you can change how many people people hire. this way is so slow im uninterested. I know you aare doing all you can and thats good. :p

Thank you

[clburns1005]

Hi There,

First, the Bert account was hacked recently and there were some posts made on his behalf, we are researching this issue now.

Second, we just released a new version of FarmTown a while ago. As stated before, we were going to focus mainly on the lost XP/Coins issues which are critical at this point. However, in order to minimize the lost XP/Coins issues, we had to make some changes to the way harvesting/plowing works when you are hired.

Before, when multiple people were hired on a farm, everybody starts clicking randomly on every field, and there are a lot of collisions, people harvesting/plowing on the same fields, as you don't see clearly where other people are working.

The new way is this, if you harvest fields that are close to where your avatar is, then your avatar will be teletransported and will be a very quick transition, it should be as quick or comparable to what it was before, however if you click on a field that is farther away, then you will have to wait until your avatar gets to that field to continue working.

This change will make that on some instances you work slower, on the other hand people get more dispersed while working on a farm, you can actually see them where they are working, and there will be much less collisions between them. This will also add another component to the game, now it's not just blindly clicking on the fields, you have to also consider the position of other players and your chances to avoid collisions and to get more work done. Now, when you click on a field that another player did before you, then you will see a message saying "already done", before, there was no feedback at all.

Of course, we know this release will cause a lot of complains as well, because in order to improve one area we had to change the behaivor on another area which some users will not like it, but compared to the issue of frequent losing more XP and coins, we just decided this was the way to go.

So far we have detected that there are 70% less issues with lost XP/coins that before, and it should improve with time even more.

As a separate note, the cursors on the game have been made larger and they don't get overlapped by other items on the game.

Thanks

--Raul

The new plowing and harvesting....STINKS!!!! It takes to long to harvest and plow when u have to wait for ur avitar to clear. there r a lot of unhappy farmers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RosieB49]

One other thing.....
its a game and we're supposed to be having fun.
There is now fun in everyting taking MUCH longer to do.
xp/coins are secondary to Realtime being lost.
there will always be another crop around the corner, worring about every xp point and every coin is pointless in this game

I'm sad. Love playing this game but these changes make it too hard. Please fix it.

[lulamay]

Hate, hate, hate the new "upgrade". It took me almost 30 minutes to plant my 2nd farm. If this isn't changed and quickly, I'll find something else to play. Very frustating.

[Momma Woods]

I went to the market and accepted a job. Was hired to plow. Plowed a whole field and did not get the first xp or coin. Is this a fix, I don't think so.I really hate this upgrade, I would rather lose coins and xp points than have it this way. I appreciate the fact that you are trying to fix the problems, but if it stays like this I am done playing Farm Town.

[Sandman1967]

No joke. This is a terrible release. Terrible. They have turned FarmTown into Farmville.

........And that is why I stopped playing Farmville!
If it does not get fixed, then I am done with Farmtown!

[Blazer25]

I have to put in my opinion. I HATE the new way of plowing/harvesting. Yes, it is annoying when people just start clicking "anywhere" and this does stop that, but i keep nice even rows and its still slow for me. I really wish you would change it back the other way. I too would rather loose coins from one time to another then to have this aggrivation. It makes it frustrating instead of fun

[Tyler45]

Hate, hate, hate the new "upgrade". It took me almost 30 minutes to plant my 2nd farm. If this isn't changed and quickly, I'll find something else to play. Very frustating.

uhhh the new update didn't affect planting at all.. you can still keep on clicking when you plant.

[Brez]

Are you kidding me?

Maybe I missed it as I didn't see to what benefit this serves.


And... if this is the way it's gonna be from now on...Two farms for sale!!

I'm not gonna comply. I'm gonna hit the road.

Back to the Ville


LOL. Oh nooooo we have a collision. Is that the reason???? technically what does that mean? Issues with server connects? Issues with what exactly?

[santafaytt]

I have a autoclicker it is not cheating just a better mouse trap and it works well on this new **** to you still have to put in the work i have a lot of people who have me do there farm cause they are busy people and i get it done fast just like real life if you can find a tool to do the job better you will buy it.i never have any problems when i work on a farm with 2 farmers on it you start putting 5 to 6 sometimes 10 game starts locking up computers you cant harvest anything limit the number of farmers on a farm and speed up the game cause its no fun the way it is now hurts your eyes and cant get nothing done in the market

[TrinityOaks]

Now that I've had an opportunity to try the new plowing method (haven't tried harvesting yet), I've found it's not NEAR as bad as everyone is claiming. Yeah, it's slower, and I don't like that, but it's not nearly as bad as it was before they introduced the queued plowing. At least the avatar hops from one square to the next (most of the time, unless it's traveling a long distance), instead of walking all over the farm to get to a square right next to the one it just did.

My main complaint is that the red/green square seems to be even more inaccurate than before, making me RECLICK the square 2, 3, 4, or more times before it "takes". PLEASE give us yellow highlighting, instead!

If you can fix the plowing accuracy to where we almost never have to reclick a square, I can live with this new change.

[Gambitt]

paying for FC and paying to play the game are very different.

Some people can't get fast internet because of where they live.. oh wait, that is their problem, not yours right??? :rolleyes:


That's WHY is aid to put them on their own 56k server... Then they can play at what they PAY for, And I'll play at what I pay for...

Let me guess... You bought a Cavalier, and complained that you couldn't race the Ferraris?????????????

[craftj66]

i can't stand the new way. you have to plow areas close to one another or risk your avatar wandering around aimlessley. i hate to be hired to harvest or plow now it makes it too difficult.

[sjm30741]

I didn't like how slow it was to work today, but definitely see how it could eliminate some of the aggressive behaviours when several people are hired. Of course, that is also eliminated when the farmer only hires one or two to work a big farm! I think that's what most of us at higher levels have learned to do. I personallly didn't have the problem with lost coins/pts, but for those who did, I'm sure any fix to that is worth the trade-off in speed. I appreciate you explaining what was done and why.

[Tyler45]

That's WHY is aid to put them on their own 56k server... Then they can play at what they PAY for, And I'll play at what I pay for...

Let me guess... You bought a Cavalier, and complained that you couldn't race the Ferraris?????????????

nah. i don't race... :cool:

[Flying Dizzy]

All you had to do was wait on the farm you were hired on until the counter showing your xp and coins quit running by your avatar. Once it stopped and you were just zipping around the farm to the field patches you could leave as all your counters were done properly. If you left before the on screen little words weren't done running through, yea, you would lose your hard work. It was pretty simple I thought. The now very slow harvesting and plowing is no good.
You make this game too difficult cause every time you change something FarmTown is full of glitches for days after that.
I haven't gone to Farmville cause I think it is corny, but most of my neighbors and fb friends have because of the constant glitches.
And I am hovering in level 60 waiting for something new to happen.

[ChristyP]

Hello...

Just one problem that I know of.. I have been hired out of the market several times tonight.. and each time I would harvest.. the person was nice enough to hire me to plow and which my Avatar would FREEZE.. each instance was that way.. I had to wait until the Avatar cleared and caught up or refreshed the entire game and lost coins.. and then no PLOW for me.. Please help

[rmg427]

It has happened to me many times, to the point that I started writing down my money and points each time I went to a farm. But after a while I realized I was not really losing the points and money. What appeared to be happening was I was clicking on a plot, and getting the money for harvesting or the points for plowing, regardless of whether or not someone had beat me to the plot. When I left the farm, my money or xp's would read much higher than when I reloaded and they went down. I think they were just adjusted to what I actually earned at the other farm, not what was reflected on my screen when I left. I started counting my clicks as I was harvesting, and waiting on a farm until all harvesting was done. Some of the plots that I got paid for were actually not mine. Same on another farm with plowing. I think once the game catches up, it is adjusted correctly, at least in my case.

With the new changes, after today I will not hire or hire myself out. A lot of players are students or have jobs. A person can harvest a REAL farm in the amount of time it takes to harvest for someone. Everyone's time is important, and a game is supposed to be fun. Although I love the game, I do not have the time to spare. Most people would play for an hour or 2 and take care of their own farm(s) and then maybe take on a couple of jobs. The time to do that now has doubled, and that's without hiring out. I don't think many people have 4 or 5 hours to spare in order to do what you did in an hour. Developers need to take into consideration the time involved in order to play this game.

[MandyW]

paying for FC and paying to play the game are very different.

Some people can't get fast internet because of where they live.. oh wait, that is their problem, not yours right??? :rolleyes:

Yeah that's right. Where I live, we didn't get DSL till last year. So if there was a game that I couldn't play because my slow dial up wouldn't let me I didn't play it. I didn't blame it on people with a faster connection than me and demand that they suffer along with me. :rolleyes:

[gmatoni]

If you didn't ALLOW anyone to hire more than 2 workers at a time - you wouldn't have the problem of "crashes" in the first place!!! I've been on small farms with 13 other workers - that's insane!!!! And if you didn't permit people to hire plowers while harvesters were still working on the farm - at the SAME TIME often - you would also cut down on the "jumping around" and avitars "crashing into each other." With this new change I've been on farms where some players haven't, apparently, been as affected as others!!! That's just WRONG!! I now hate to hire or be hired, too! Heck - if folks don't like Farm Town, they can go to FARMVILLE!!

[LainyLvsJJ48]

so ok i get why u made the change but can you tell me why my screen jumps when i try to drag it to move to a new position and when i click on the arrows to move the field??

You have to go into your settings. That is the wrench picture at the top right. Uncheck "follow avatar while moving". That should help you out;)

[elkturd]

I registered just to say I HATE IT. I cant belive the time it took to even harvest and actually I left my plow job due to the time it is taking. please put it back!

[1jcc@att.net]

WHY AM I being told when trying to plow for someone else on their farm that I don't have enough money!?!?

[Tyler45]

Yeah that's right. Where I live, we didn't get DSL till last year. So if there was a game that I couldn't play because my slow dial up wouldn't let me I didn't play it. I didn't blame it on people with a faster connection than me and demand that they suffer along with me. :rolleyes:

uhh either did i??? :confused:

[1jcc@att.net]

Hello...

Just one problem that I know of.. I have been hired out of the market several times tonight.. and each time I would harvest.. the person was nice enough to hire me to plow and which my Avatar would FREEZE.. each instance was that way.. I had to wait until the Avatar cleared and caught up or refreshed the entire game and lost coins.. and then no PLOW for me.. Please help



When I was plowing I was getting messages saying I didn't have enough money -- but I was plowing FOR someone who hired me!!

[Flying Dizzy]

All you had to do was stay on the hired farm until the on screen counter wordings quit running (the ones by your avatar), then you could leave and have all the credit you earned. It only took a minute or two even on a large farm. I am level 60 and hovering cause I did this and never lost credit once it happened to me the first time.

[lmoreno58]

It sucks now. I love farmTown and have 60level but i will definately be stopping. It is ridiculous how slow it is especially the plowing. I still get hired and these people hire 10 to do a little farm and it is terrible. now the avatar's bounce around and it sucks. Change back or i will leave and alot others. I had problems before but i would rather have that then this ****.

[AnnRKey]

Just want to go on record to say I do not like the new change.

Regards

[LainyLvsJJ48]

If you didn't ALLOW anyone to hire more than 2 workers at a time - you wouldn't have the problem of "crashes" in the first place!!! I've been on small farms with 13 other workers - that's insane!!!! And if you didn't permit people to hire plowers while harvesters were still working on the farm - at the SAME TIME often - you would also cut down on the "jumping around" and avitars "crashing into each other." With this new change I've been on farms where some players haven't, apparently, been as affected as others!!! That's just WRONG!! I now hate to hire or be hired, too! Heck - if folks don't like Farm Town, they can go to FARMVILLE!!

I totally agree with you on allowing ppl to hire more than 2 ppl. THAT is what they should have changed instead of the way we harvest and plow!!! And I HATE Farmville.....lol. It's not as awesome as Farm Town

[sjm30741]

My main complaint is that the red/green square seems to be even more inaccurate than before, making me RECLICK the square 2, 3, 4, or more times before it "takes". PLEASE give us yellow highlighting, instead!

If you can fix the plowing accuracy to where we almost never have to reclick a square, I can live with this new change.

Yes, I definitely noticed this as a problem tonight- that's what slowed me down more than any other facet of the change. I hate having to place those squares perfectly to get a click to work! Can this be fixed, please?

[Grumpa Jim F]

Aggressive behavior can be eliminated with a FIRE option.

was hired to plow on a farm that had about 15 - 18 people running around and as nice as I tried to plow there was a crowd and somewhat more problems thar the old way.

[Momma Woods]

This is not a fix. Still do not get xp's and coins. Having to wait on the avatar is silly. Why is that there are numerous times when you can't see or be seen by the person(s) that are on the same farm with you.
When you go to Market you can see chat box conversation: but not the name of who said it. At times Avatars can not be seen even tho the chat box is showing conversation.

[sugarbear2402002]

all i can say if it is going to be like this made a mess of the game with plowing an harvesting for people woth slow computer you can keep this game i will go back to runescape so im sorry it not worth playing

[queen88]

how come when I plow it says I do not have enough money??? what is up with that?????

[Flying Dizzy]

Bingo bango to you - that is exactly true - I am hovering past level 60 with no where to go cause it worked so well, i never lose points or xp cause I wait on the farm for a few minutes until the on screen counters by the avatar quit running which is way before you are done zipping around the field patches. Then leave immediately and get to the next hired job you can get! Where are the new levels past 60?

[Brez]

I didn't like how slow it was to work today, but definitely see how it could eliminate some of the aggressive behaviours when several people are hired. Of course, that is also eliminated when the farmer only hires one or two to work a big farm! I think that's what most of us at higher levels have learned to do. I personallly didn't have the problem with lost coins/pts, but for those who did, I'm sure any fix to that is worth the trade-off in speed. I appreciate you explaining what was done and why.

Thats just the way it is... It's like playing ALL-IN Texas Holdem then complaining people are going all in.

Anyone can hire as many as they want to work on their farm. I agree as I am not a fan of a whole bunch of people working on a farm and not gaining as much as they could with less ... What can you do...

I've left farms because there were to many people. Try that.

The change in the way does not in essence change anything. It's still the fastest mouse clicks get the more work done.

The pain is it a annoyance to watch the person flying all over while constantly saying "I'm Busy" which is most likely going to cause more flash overhead on browsers than before.

Lets see if they manage to crash the flash player.

[peggysuetoocool@yahoo.com]

Right on! Could not say it better!
HEAR, HEAR, HEAR!!!!!! What has this world become when people think everything has to be fair. If I work harder, faster, longer...I deserve to get ahead. That is the incentive here!

[Flying Dizzy]

I am with you, but I hope corny Farmville isn't the only choice to go farming?

[longhornz21]

As slow as it is now, I would rather risk losing coins or XP. It is waaaay too long of a wait for workers to harvest and plow my farms...even hiring multiple workers. This is ridiculous!!! I'm NEVER going to work another farm, it's a waste of time!

[thefarmislost]

HATS OFF RAUL!!!!! I personally think its a great fix, it forces people to harvest in an organized manner to be fast. I personally notice very little change, maybe a tad slower, but who cares really. The ones of us who did work in straight lines got help to save us from the idiots who liked to click all over the place and leave fields in a mess, my guess is the people crying the most will be the people who beg all the time and click wildly. In either case one thing they cant complain about is a loss of money and XP!!! Theres no way to please everyone but at least you have a level playing field if they arent losing money and XP.

First off, I do work in a straight line. Second, I do not beg, I am not an idiot, nor do I click all over the place. Third, I did lose XP and coins when that was a problem.
Since this update, I have not been able to finish a job due to lost connections. That, or the time it takes just to complete a job! I have also lost points today because it is still not adding right. If this upgrade was to keep people from randomly clicking, it may have fixed that problem. However, it will also keep those of us non-idiot, non-random clicking people from doing anything at all!
Random clickers are annoying, but really people, just leave the farm and get another farmer to hire you! This upgrade is ridiculous, cumbersome, and absolutely off-putting!

[Blazer25]

Please, please, please change it back. I am not a messy harvester/plower but this just annoys the heck out of me. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be fast. I would love to sit on here hours a day but I have little kids. If people want to go slow, they can click slowly, but I like to go fast...the farmers I work for like when I go fast too. I really love this game, but I think I too will quit playing if they dont change it back. It's no longer fun for me.

[Denali]

and if you get hired to a farm with 10 ppl harvesting and it makes it slow, then you can always leave and go get another job!!! how often is it that you get hried to back-to back-to back-to back jobs with 10+ ppl on them??? most people do not hire that many people, so chances are you'll get a better job if you just leave and go find a new one.... simple fix. now get rid of this new "upgrade".

[shayster]

I do not like the new way. I liked the older version. Nobody complained and everything was working just fine. I agree, it if ain't broke, don't fix it.

[bruhelmboldt]

Another vote for changing back to the old way. Too slow this way. I never hire more than one person and usually none, and you're slowing *me* down to help the greedy!

[Gambitt]

i WANT THE MONEY I PAID VIA PAYPAL RETURNED..... YOU CHANGED THE RULES AFTER I PAID.

THIS IS FRAUD, UNDER US LAW, AND I EXPECT A REFUND BY 7AM!

[SPOTSROCK]

been harvesting now for over an hour with the new program.. I HATE IT.. not only is it slow.. but i keep looseing the connection... so i have to reboot all over again.. and lose that farm i was working on..
Its hard on the eyes with the 'i am busy' hangin over my aviator's head.. and the popping of the figure ..

really there has to be another way to fix the problem.. as now i see another problem ...

might be time to take a break from farming while you work this out.. my eyes can't take it..

[Frank Garzoli]

Change it back, or I quit. Period.

[LucyBee]

Get used to it... threatening to leave does nothing.


Don't be so quick to think 47+ pages of negative responses will do nothing. This game went from my favorite to my least favorite in the time it took me to harvest my first farm today after the upgrade. I will not play this game anymore until the so-called "fix" is fixed! I have never seen any "hackers" or people harvesting farms in 10 seconds, but even if I did how dang hard is it to leave and find a new job??? This fix has made this game intolerable and there are way too many apps out there competing for my time AND MONEY to deal with this frustration. If you are in the 0.00001 percent that likes this upgrade then good for you. I am done until its changed!

[Brez]

I've experienced this twice earlier while using the new method.


I was going at it plowing... Hoping around like a little jack rabbit with my little "I'm Busy" continually going off into the sky when all of a sudden I got the boots from the server. This time the box came up by itself instead of having to hit save.

I did the ole disconnect and re-connect and when I got back I was literally stuck. I could not move at all and every time I tried to click on a new harvest or plow plow it just said "I'm Busy".

Happened twice now under the new method of harvesting/plowing. Could be a further glitch.

Oh did I mention that the new method suck bigtime.

I'm with the other 99.9% posts here. If this is it. then this is it.

[elkturd]

I want my money back via pay pal as well, I spent hrs before this stupid move you made

[knighta]

Relax folks, Raul is working hard on this game. Yes, that's right, it is a GAME.



A game is supposed to be fun. This is not fun. I hate these changes.

[litaruby]

Hiya,

Firstly thanks for developing FarmTown and spending time on making it a great game. Since you have made these "changes" I find that i am not enjoying the game as much. I know that you have explained that these are to help us but the only problem is now when your harvesting or plowing and click on field that someone else has done it does not say "already done" until your points catch up to where you are. If it said this straight away when you clicked on it it would make it alot easier. at them moment i find that its a waste of time. Dont get me wrong i love farmtown and can understand you are trying to help. but i still experience long delays with things loading, points and coins not always coming up, fields staying up as ready to harvest when they have already been harvested among other things.

[MsBooky35]

Well thanks I guess..for all those who were losing xp/coins, I was one of them in the beginning of the changes but it worked itself out..I guess there is nothing I can do but deal with it until further fixes come along. I appreciate all you do, Farmtown is my fav. Thnx for directing me to the right post..Melissa

[shelleyl]

Well, like you said, some people won't like it, and I must say, I fit that description. The problem is time....everything takes way too long now which was a real problem months ago. I never lost any points or experience points because I know how to use the save button. The only time I lost coins was when I didn't save occasionally during a harvest or plowing. Now I can't play on my breaks at work and when I hire others they either take minutes to show up or can't move once they do show up. Waiting for that avatar was a problem months ago and now it's a problem again....and yes, that oh so infuriating "wait I'm busy" message is back. I've been playing a while, I play on 7 different friends accounts and my main farm I am level 60, just spent to buy farm 2 on that account and one other because I love this game. But this "downgrade" is definately a step backwards. Please put it back the way it was because speed is an issue. It just isn't fun this way. I just had to plow my own farm because no one I hired could move. Talk about losing coins!!!! Please remove this change and teach people to "SAVE". Thanks for listening.

[Gambitt]

A GAME is something you play for Free!

I PAID REAL MONEY TO PLAY FT, AND I EITHER EXPECT IT FIXED, OR I WANT MY MONEY BACK PLUS INTEREST!!!

[Metallicat]

i WANT THE MONEY I PAID VIA PAYPAL RETURNED..... YOU CHANGED THE RULES AFTER I PAID.

THIS IS FRAUD, UNDER US LAW, AND I EXPECT A REFUND BY 7AM!

No, it isn't fraud. It's perfectly legal. You're over-reacting.

[RosalieMarieM]

Thank you Farm Town. From the beginning I have and still do love this game. I am in awe of those who have developed and maintain this game. With this in mind I have to say to those people who complain about everything- BYE!!!

I have never heard so many complaints about a game that is for free. Of course people are entitled to their opinion, but to quote my mom, "You are entitled to your opinion, but you're wrong!"

Thanks for the great work Farm Town. I am never leaving!

[PickleSnickle]

did the "collisions" of which you speak hurt anyone??

i don't care WHERE people are when they work on my farm. when i worked on someone else's i could see where they'd harvested or plowed. too bad if i don't click quickly enough.

this morning i hired harvesters and plowers and got my whole farm done (AND planted) in 10 minutes. tonight, it took OVER an hour. i don't have this kind of time. FT is a fun little break for me, if it takes me an hour to turn over my farm, i'm done playing.

[Gambitt]

Metallicat buy a lottery ticket, that asks you to pick 6 numbers out of 69... Then after you buy the ticket, they decided to change it to 6 numbers out of 269... Fraud! Plain and simple!

[DramaQueen]

My main issue with the new harvesting and plowing my person gets in my way...and that makes me have to double click on an area.... and is there anyway to make the plowing device a bit smaller... it also is very distracting... I would rather just have an arrow...

[Blazer25]

Change it back. There are several negatives about this new change. It was fine the way it was. If someone hires too many, leave and find another job. If someone is jumping around and you dont like it, leave. You can see if you are getting your coins or not...if you are not getting them, have the farmer re-hire you. If that doesnt solve the problem, then leave and goto a different job. I WILL QUIT if it doesnt get changed back. I love this game, so its ashame. I am a fast worker, I am a neat/clean worker, and I am a fair player...there are more players like me than like the bad ones. Don't punnish us all.

[Sherie Flagg]

PLEASE CHANGE PLOWING AND HARVESTING BACK!

Normally I just let things slide, but today's update was bad enough to make me register here just so I could comment about it!

I have enjoyed this game for months. I am very busy with a full time job and I am in a masters program. I have made a lot of friends here on farm town, some that will hopefully last a lifetime. I enjoy the game - I enjoy the competition. I have practiced to get fast at harvesting and plowing and I have friends that have played more than I and are faster.

I understand this game is free, but nothing free is worth this much hassle! The new update is not fun or acceptable. Please return the game to the way it was. I do not want to quit this game, but I do not have the time it takes to play the game if the harvesting and plowing does not go back to the way it was.

[Brez]

First off, I do work in a straight line. Second, I do not beg, I am not an idiot, nor do I click all over the place. Third, I did lose XP and coins when that was a problem.
Since this update, I have not been able to finish a job due to lost connections. That, or the time it takes just to complete a job! I have also lost points today because it is still not adding right. If this upgrade was to keep people from randomly clicking, it may have fixed that problem. However, it will also keep those of us non-idiot, non-random clicking people from doing anything at all!
Random clickers are annoying, but really people, just leave the farm and get another farmer to hire you! This upgrade is ridiculous, cumbersome, and absolutely off-putting!

It does not force a straight line. You can go diagonal just a fast. It's radius of having to walk is quite far. Probably more than 4 plots away and it will have to walk.

Lucky you. I got booted twice while using the new method. The disconnect came up right away probably over buffered something due to a whole mess of "I'm busy" messages being transfered from the server to my flash client.

Its nice that you label people who use other methods as idiots. I'm curious what makes you a NON-Idiot.

As far as trying to clarify the correct way of processing...People can do whatever they want however they want. Their are no rules stating it has to be done in a line.

The one good statement is at least you are on the page with the rest of us and agree this upgrade is not liked.

[TurkEclipse]

OK you fixed one problem, you say.. Could you now fix the problem of people leaving my farm when plowing and harvesting? You should write the code so that they cannot leave until completed!?!?? Thank you for the the GREAT improvement!

[tall-p]

Ive only been playing for a couple of weeks, but Im addicted... and the new fix BLOWS.

I may be one of the folks that people object to during harvests because I FLY. Ive been playing computer games since the 8088 days. Im fast, and a few people I harvested with were vexed, but what the heck, am I supposed to go slow to make them feel good?

I hope you unfix this... or I will leave along with many others who have posted.

[free_a_spirit]

this is how people were moving quickly up the levels, or quickly plowing/harvesting fields, and not losing coins and xp.

TIP 1
Hit save when you are done clicking

TIP 2
wait on the farm you were hired on until the counter showing your xp and coins quit running by your avatar. Once it stopped and you were just zipping around the farm to the field patches you could leave as all your counters were done properly. If you left before the on screen little words weren't done running through, yea, you would lose your hard work.

TIP 3
make sure go under the wrench, and untick trees, flowers, buildings, and the last 2.

TIP 4
start in an area where no one was working, and do side to side or top to bottom, but click fast and be courteous to not extend yourself to others areas.

TIP 5
ask to be rehired to plow to take away the red square

TIP 6
coordinate with your neighbors to meet up at certain times to harvest/plow each others fields..i hire you, you hire me, we work at same time, get done sooner, plant sooner, level up sooner.

TIP 7
use please and thankyou and ask rather than demand to be hired

TIP 8
don't hire more than 2 people at a time, 1 to harvest, 1 to plow. this way harvest plow seed harvest plow seed...its all done at the same time. when you hire 5+ people to do the same job, several things would happen.
a)people would fight over plots. if i clicked the same plot you just clicked, which one does the server see first? to me, it looks like me, but to the server, maybe it looked like you...so, people assumed they lost xp/coins.
b)the whole farm got bogged down
c)you lost time anyways because it took all them people longer actually to do what 2 people + you could have done
d)people started to have ghost workers, and ghost plots. its rather annoying to think harvesting or plowing is all done, but its not upon a change.

TIP 9
what do you need more at the time you are looking for work? are you in need of coins or xp? if coins, concentrate on harvesting a field and leaving back to mp to be hired to harvest again. if you need xp, then concentrate on being hired for plowing, and leave the harvesting to those looking for coins.

TIP 10
if your trying to move up the levels, plant fields that take less time to mature. raspberries take 2 hours....how many times can one plant, plow, and harvest a raspberry field in a day???? alot!!


really, people, its not that difficult.

[mommy dearest]

This is not working. I and many others DO NOT have all day to harvest and or plow!!! It's too slow.

[DSully]

This new update is horrible....Farm Town is not any fun now....I am going to join my friends, family, and neighbors and boycott Farm Town until it is changed back to the way it was....

[Brez]

OK you fixed one problem, you say.. Could you now fix the problem of people leaving my farm when plowing and harvesting? You should write the code so that they cannot leave until completed!?!?? Thank you for the the GREAT improvement!

I bet there is going to be more of that with the new changes to working.

People getting the boots from the server or just outright leaving because they don't like it.

[lanesnana]

I agree it is taking at least 5 min to get to a farm then everything is already done....Not happy going to farmville hopefully same people don't run it. lol I hope they change it back. Still taking a long time to finish only to find out it is saying already done. I had a lady clicking 2x my speed and over ran what I was doing. Talk about greed...

[wsbohannon]

I absolutely HATE HATE HATE this new harvesting plowing method. It is way too slow and too hard. I about to quit this game. it's not fun anymore. ALWAYS something going on with it.

[kevco2001]

I think if anyone reads the forums, which I do, when something weird happens, they would understand what you are trying to do. I think it will all work itself out. If people don't like the mode in which you operate things, they don't have to participate in the game anymore.

[TrinityOaks]

I PAID REAL MONEY TO PLAY FT, AND I EITHER EXPECT IT FIXED, OR I WANT MY MONEY BACK PLUS INTEREST!!!
You didn't pay to play Farm Town. You paid for Farm Cash to purchase individual game pieces within Farm Town. You got what you paid for. Plain and simple. You don't get a refund.

[ellshere]

i WANT THE MONEY I PAID VIA PAYPAL RETURNED..... YOU CHANGED THE RULES AFTER I PAID.

THIS IS FRAUD, UNDER US LAW, AND I EXPECT A REFUND BY 7AM!

In order to request a refund please go to the game page. At the bottom of the game page click on the word contact (not the word contact here in the forum), fill out the form that pops up and send your request directly to the developers. We are unable to provide refunds of any sort in the forum.

[Suzzanne]

Well, this is not how it works for me at ALL! I can only plow or harvest if my avatar is on the next field and it will not move 1 spot ahead at all. It is just horrible and I am afraid I wont be playing much longer.. That is a shame to because I am in the top 100 now. :'( Mine was always slower than everyone elses before the change but now it is just a nightmare.

I do think that there were other options for you to go. However that said you have provided me endless hours of fun while clearing my mind. I guess I will be off to find a new game.... and start from scratch. :'(

[Blazer25]

Please, can't you see how upset people are...I think 62 pages (and quickly growing) should be enough to see that the "majority" are very unpleased. Change it back to the way it was. I am one of many who will Boycott or Quit unless it is changed back. I love this game but I also have a job and a family...I don't have 30 minutes harvest or plow one farm. The game isn't fun if you can't work at your own pace. BRING THE OLD FARMTOWN BACK!

[jef steele]

As it now stands, I can only harvest or plow one block at a time, and have to wait for my avitar to complete the last block before I can click on a new one. If this is the "fix" for some problem, it doesn't work for me. If the game proceeds in this manner, I will move on to something more promising and entertaining - such as reading a book.

[canary12]

i do not like the new version
it is very slow to move around the field
i liked the other version better
i never lost xp or coins as long as i was paying attention to the numbers
oh well did not like the clumsy movemets now
not as much fun

[speedmonkey]

I used to love this game. I was working my way towards being able to buy a second farm and now I will never make it there. The new changes are so slow and time consuming that until they are fixed I am done! I can't even work on my own fields fast enough to do any good much less go work for someone else. I would rather suffer through running into other people and losing point and cash than this. It is insanely slow and no longer worth my time. If you want to fix the problem limit the number of people that can be hired at once. Now we all must suffer for the few. I will no longer be playing after I harvest the crops I already spent my time and effort to plant. GOOD BUY FARM TOWN!:mad:

[knighta]

Although a minor change, my question is why?

Before this new change when you ran out of fuel your avatar would stop. Now they just keep going saying I need more fuel and you can't stop this until your avatar stops. What was the purpose for this change? It's retarded.

[flo99]

Please go back to the old way, its harder to harvest and plow takes more strenght to click the mouse. I only did one farm and my finger hurts.

I did lose my xp and points and the constant seeing im busy now is in the way of if your missing a spot.

This is a game if were all working on the same field shouldnt we try to compete to see who can get the most of there time here. If people go slower then whats the fun of gathering the levels.

another thing I rather hire a fast farmer then wait forever to get my fields done on my farm.


Please Change IT Back!

[DramaQueen]

Ive only been playing for a couple of weeks, but Im addicted... and the new fix BLOWS.

I may be one of the folks that people object to during harvests because I FLY. Ive been playing computer games since the 8088 days. Im fast, and a few people I harvested with were vexed, but what the heck, am I supposed to go slow to make them feel good?

I hope you unfix this... or I will leave along with many others who have posted.

That is also why I am hired by many of my nieghbous is because I got the job done in no time... and now forget it... the new way I look like a jack rabbit, my person gets in my way of myself... I would like it back the way it was... :mad:

[WebFoot]

If they wanted to fix some thing, they could disable the ****ed ads knocking us off the game!!!!! That would be most helpful.

[knighta]

If they wanted to fix some thing, they could disable the ****ed ads knocking us off the game!!!!! That would be most helpful.

IE8 and Firefox have programs to block ads. Besides that is Facebook not Farm Town. So blame Facebook they did it.

[MandyW]

Have they changed it back yet? I wouldn't know because I'm not playing anymore till they do.

[lcswdonna]

OK now I have been on several farms, and it is incredibly slow. I will certainly not be leveling up at the rate I have been, I am at Level 54 in about three months. I do not use a cheat program, actually did try one and found that I can click faster without it. Is that what this is really about? Or is this really the only way to fix the missing coin/exp issue. Rack your brain, maybe there is another fix that you have not thought of yet. Plzzzzzzzzzzz (I not only have never used that horribly misspelled word on FT before, I will not hire anyone who uses it, but I am feeling huge amounts of loss here)

[Sensualbliss]

Hi ,
I have noticed when i click the save after doing a job , it takes a while to save and in the mean time i can't go home or to the market it won't take me anywhere, it waits until the coins have stopped adding up, this has been happening for a while now . It annoys me because people want me to plow after i harvest and i can't until the coins stop or it saves, in the mean time other workers at the same farm are able to plow straight away and i am left waiting, by the time it finally saves the plowing is all but done ??

Iv'e done everything i can think of to fix this issue ....I have cleaned my whole computer up to no avail . Sometime it will let me go to the Inn where it continues to add coins up and not save , sometimes it can take upto 4 minutes to stop depending on the size of the harvest !

Other times i don't get the coins at all so what do you suggest to fix this up ?? Is it my end or something else ?

Thanks for any help muchly appreciated !

[mikej35]

I think we need to boycott farmtown until its all fix the new changes sucks and if they want us here to play they will it back to the way it was....

[WebFoot]

I'd like to harvest your pineapples by myself right now. They're ready!

[CLRodney]

Are you out of your minds? How about: "I'm busy" 400 times per field? one mississippi two mississippi.. Fuggetaboutit........ i'm outta here

[FarmerCraig]

Do not like the new harvesting and plowing at all. It really slows down the game. People hired me to plow because I could do it so fast. Now it's slow and you have to wait on the avitar. This really puts a damper on my ability to play. I don't want to play anymore. You finally sped things up and now you slow it down again. Why wait on an avitar anyway. The avitars are not even needed really. Please change back to the fast way of plowing and harvesting. People get mad having to wait and thus hire too many helpers and then the game grinds to a hault.

[dunnjp]

Thanks so much!!! You have managed to take the challenge out of this game... Probably won't play anymore, hope that you are happy with the choice that you have made.:mad:

[sharibalog]

is there anyway i can get an e mail when it is changed back? cause i don't think i'll be playing it until then IT IS WAY TO SLOW !!!

[Blazer25]

Lets change the harvesting/plowing back to the old way and work on fixing how many people can be hired at a farm! Also, allow farmers to "kick off" workers who are being sloppy!!

[tinzaroo]

The new release really blows. The game has gone majorly backwards ... I know there were issues with lost XP and coins, but there must be another solution. This release is messy, time consuming for the players, and frustrating. It doesn't add any value to game play, and in fact it detracts from satisfying game play.

The "already done" message is just ridiculous. I get that message about 30 seconds after I have clicked on the fields! By then, I have gone along an entire row - wasted time and energy.

I know what it's like to work hard on a software release and then have everyone hate it! But sometimes you gotta just suck it up and realise that it just wasn't a great solution. Your users are your best gauge for knowing whether or not the release was a success!

Come on guys ... go back to the drawing board, and in the meantime, roll it back. All these users can't all be wrong!

I love FarmTown - but yep it might be time to hang up the harvester and plow if it stays this way. Too frustrating.

:o)

[ATL47]

OMG! I love this new release!

Great job developers!!!!!!!!!

[Cow Cavrone]

Folks (SlashKey.)

The new release 'speed' is just plain god-awful. Let me clarify: The bigger the farm is, the exponentially larger the time factor becomes. I love your game, don't get me wrong...but users (especially those with dual farms) can't be wasting an hour of their time trying to get their farms harvested, plowed and seeded. (especially when it took @15 minutes before.)

To be fair, I understand the reason 'why' you made the changes. The collisions were annoying to be sure. However the current solution, while seemingly effective, may not have been the most optimal approach.

TECHNICAL SUGGESTIONS:
1) Consider limiting the number of hires per harvest /plow events. Keep in mind, each hire is an entire 'dedicated thread' on the server, which has to reconcile an independent instance of your farm's display and updated data status. So, 5 hires Plus you.. equals 6 instances of your farm to appease the working group's sense of status and progress during the job. The LESS threads you burden the server (especially at presentation layer) , the BETTER the traffic responses (I.e Server requests for updates) If I am wrong about this , please accept my apologies.

2) The random order of clicks on a field might impact the arrays that index the events. To be sure, more than one hire on the farm will cause havoc regarding collisions, Note: the bug is a symptom of the server trying to decide precedence between two simultaneous inputs (i.e two plow events in the same space and/or at the same time. Hint (You would never have that problem if you only had one hire on the job) . SO you can see why your current release doesn't necessarily rank efficient in resolving this bug.

3) Granted, what fun is only one hire...and since the time duration of farming is driven by amount of labor...were back to the "Black hole" of user time. In that respect, your new release does indeed maintain the benefit of multiple hires...thus sustains the fun. So here is my suggestion:

Like you did for the farm owner's harvesting, plowing and seeding... Consider increasing a hire's harvest and plow tool to 4 or greater plots per click event. Therein lies your balance and the reduction of collisions. The manner in which you have currently designed your cursor's highlight feature (when hovered over a set of plots), appears to inherently help the players avoid collisions. (You 'have' to hover precisely over a section and wait for the yellow to light up) This method 'controls' the player's 'click ahead' and yet affords the 'click ahead' to be used.

Just my 2 bytes

Grant (Cow Cavrone) Lvl 60

[WhatisupwithFTnow]

I cannot function at all in a productive manner now. Everything is so slow and the people I hire also hate it because it takes so long to get anything done. If you keep these changes, I'm dumping Farm Town and going to FarmVille. There was nothing wrong with the way it was before these changes except that some people do not understand how the game works and complain with their conspiracy views that someone is taking something away from them. Good grief. Then, Farm Town caved in and did a retro change to prehistoric Farm Town. Please change it back like it was and next time you might get more feedback from EVERYONE before taking such drastic measures. I have a feeling that you are about to lose a whole lot of players if you keep this change. Just saying....

[fan24nascar]

Please go back to the speed and the way it was. It is now so slow, I hate to be hired or to hire anyone.

Thanks.

I don't care for this current upgrade. Was harvesting earlier and the other people were harvesting 4 to my 1. Why??? I am a very fast harvester and plower, but now. The same for plowing. they are going faster than I am. This shouldn't be. It took me almost 45 minutes to harvest a simple farm alone, when it could have been done in under 10 minutes the previous way.

[lanesnana]

I agree that time is the main problem with new fix. Yes, you had a hard time knowing if you were getting credit or someone else but that hasn't changed.. I'm still having that prob. I also had to plow my own farm after the person I hired got kicked off. I tried at least 10 or more times to hire him again and it wouldn't work even after adding him as a buddy. something is still haywire. I want it fixed I love farmtown.... best game on fb.

[MandyW]

OMG! I love this new release!

Great job developers!!!!!!!!!

OMG! You're like.. one of maybe five?

[Booda]

Hello all
I will express my feeling about the New Release December 22,2009

I HATE it the game will be history because I will leave
I am a paying customer for Farmtown I have spent many Real $$$ for
items for my farm and for friends & family but now I will discourage all from
playing farmtown I have been a true beleiver in the game and though that it
was running fine but this upgrade is a Downgrade - and everyone said that Farmville is better will I never thought so I thought that Farmtown was the best because it looked more realistic I will be leaving the game if it stays the same :((

Mr Farmer - James Henderson

[Gambitt]

Gee... Someone that knows something about servers (unlike the Farm Town Programmers)

Good for you Cow Cavrone!!!

[ATL47]

OMG! You're like.. one of maybe five?

who cares. i am expressing my opinion. leave me alone and move on with your life.

[marci2877]

Although I do appreciate the upgrades and everything, the new harvesting and plowing upgrade SUCKS big time. Please change it back. If not, then I will leave the game. It's not fun anymore if it takes for ever to harvest and plow.

[dolphinlvr]

NEW UPDATE SUUUUUUUUUUXXXXXXXXXXX !!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: It took me over 30 mins to harvest my husbands farm tonite. :eek: :eek: Neither he nor I have that much time to spend just trying to harvest one anothers farms. I can understand that there may have been some problems but surely there was another way to fix them!!!!!:confused: This is ridiculous! PLZ PLZ PLZ go back to the old way! :( :( :( Oh yeah there is always Farmville, Paradise Island, and countless others.............

[orban1963@yahoo.com]

time to quit playing farm town it is so **** slow click on a field to plow takes 4 or 5 clicks to plow each field.i will go play something else for a week or 2 and test farmtown then and see if you have fixed the problemreturn it to the way it was just stop every one from hireing more than 2 to work to work on there farm then the problem is fixed and we still have our speed back.....:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:: mad::mad:

IF it's Not FIXED then Most will Quit....way to slow now noone has the time to play it now...takes for ever..............................

[Fitob]

I hate those large tools. they are bigger then the avatar and get in the way.. The "new" way of plowing and harvesting is taking a step back. This is how it was a few months ago. I'm about to give up on this and I've spent real money in here. I'll let others speak for themselves but these new/old changes dont seem hardley worth it anymore

[Mhiingan]

Why not limit hires to one with the same speed as before? Would it not eliminate alot of the greed farmers. The way it is now - it takes hours to harvest/plow & seed a farm. Then if you have 2, multiplies the frustration. Getting coin is great, lag is alot less, however, the speed of one square at a time greatly lengthens the time to produce. I guess the bottom line for most of us is - we do not have all day to spend on one game let alone all day to be on the computer. The game itself is great, but the continuous glitches have been very frustrating.

[ricomamushka]

I believe you have altered the game in a bad way. Instead of helping the people that were losing the xp which by the way never happened to me, you slowed down the people that were just getting the hang of the game like me. I could not even finish my job I was hired to do for lack of time. Not to mention how long it now takes two to do my field. This change was a mistake the game is no fun.

[Muckaroundalot]

I Have two full size farms,I will not be able to play & have fun now.It is just far too slow now when I hire,always One farmer and they reap the benift of my crop & plow,who is going to want to do it square by square now.

Please restore it back to what it was like yesterday.

[theoxman]

OMG! You're like.. one of maybe five?

I've only seen 3 so far.

[Brez]

I seriously think they need to start conducting surveys on issues to see what the consensus is.

I have not been experiencing the XP/Coin loss issues myself for about a month now and If my opinion mattered (like the rest of the players affected with issues) and were given the opportunity to provide feedback I would have said that I was experiencing the issue no longer.

Yet they don't have such simple little radio button survey's in place to gather feedback and compile metrics on the bigger issues.

If this upgrade is an attempt to further fix the XP/Coin loss issue then for me they fixed something that is no longer broken.

Well they fixed it making 8 minutes of work last 12-16 minutes.

Not fun.

[diana_ lynn]

I am not crazy about the slowness of this game now but I do respect the problems and issues about loosing coins/xp points as I have lost many, however if you could speed it up just a bit instead of one plot at a time period maybe 5 plots at a time. I like the fact that people can't bounce all over the place anymore that was very frustrating to me as a farmer and as a fellow worker.

[Tool-Man32]

I think I'm gonna take a long vacation from this game and see what happens. As it currently is I just can't devote half my day to do what previously took 30 minutes. I guess for those who don't work and spend their days on their pc, this won't affect them but it's ruined my farming experience. Hi Ho Hi Ho off to Farmville I go!

[wrm]

I'm just waiting to see if the farntown games goes back the way it was! If not I'm out!

[lanesnana]

Folks (SlashKey.)

The new release 'speed' is just plain god-awful. Let me clarify: The bigger the farm is, the exponentially larger the time factor becomes. I love your game, don't get me wrong...but users (especially those with dual farms) can't be wasting an hour of their time trying to get their farms harvested, plowed and seeded. (especially when it took @15 minutes before.)

To be fair, I understand the reason 'why' you made the changes. The collisions were annoying to be sure. However the current solution, while seemingly effective, may not have been the most optimal approach.

TECHNICAL SUGGESTIONS:
1) Consider limiting the number of hires per harvest /plow events. Keep in mind, each hire is an entire 'dedicated thread' on the server, which has to reconcile an independent instance of your farm's display and updated data status. So, 5 hires Plus you.. equals 6 instances of your farm to appease the working group's sense of status and progress during the job. The LESS threads you burden the server (especially at presentation layer) , the BETTER the traffic responses (I.e Server requests for updates) If I am wrong about this , please accept my apologies.

2) The random order of clicks on a field might impact the arrays that index the events. To be sure, more than one hire on the farm will cause havoc regarding collisions, Note: the bug is a symptom of the server trying to decide precedence between two simultaneous inputs (i.e two plow events in the same space and/or at the same time. Hint (You would never have that problem if you only had one hire on the job) . SO you can see why your current release doesn't necessarily rank efficient in resolving this bug.

3) Granted, what fun is only one hire...and since the time duration of farming is driven by amount of labor...were back to the "Black hole" of user time. In that respect, your new release does indeed maintain the benefit of multiple hires...thus sustains the fun. So here is my suggestion:

Like you did for the farm owner's harvesting, plowing and seeding... Consider increasing a hire's harvest and plow tool to 4 or greater plots per click event. Therein lies your balance and the reduction of collisions. The manner in which you have currently designed your cursor's highlight feature (when hovered over a set of plots), appears to inherently help the players avoid collisions. (You 'have' to hover precisely over a section and wait for the yellow to light up) This method 'controls' the player's 'click ahead' and yet affords the 'click ahead' to be used.

Just my 2 bytes

Grant (Cow Cavrone) Lvl 60
Wow you have some great ideas...hope they listen. I have ofter wondered why we couldn't harv. like 4 plots at a time and plow 4 plots for other people like we can on our farms. love the ideas...

[totalriffraff]

today i was doin my farm town thing as usual cept for one thing i cant plow or harvest the old way was fine i never had a problem with the coins and points but have one now i used to be able to farm and talk to friends now the only thing i have time for is "click" pause "click" it took me an hour to do a friends farm i didnt have time to talk to them as far as im concerned im goin to farmville or county life to farm

[jericamom]

I completely agree. it takes absolutely FOREVER to harvest/plow, and I still get plots hogged by other people. i can understand why it's being worked on because I hated losing coins/xp points, but geez....there has to be a happy medium. It literally takes me 3 times as long to harvest/plow as it did before.

[DSully]

rip farmtown....

[ROLLON2]

:mad: i Are u kinding me.. We are now going to stay going 1 space at a time!!?? Its all about being is quick and moving on to the next job. You guys are turning this Great game into **** like Farmville. Whatever.. i just wont play as much...:confused:

[wsbohannon]

I'm new to this forum. I don't know where to post my question so I will post it here. Then, if you could direct me to where I need to post it, I would greatly appreciate it.

How do I find out how to "layer' my fields??

[MsBooky35]

I just cannot believe this I worked so hard to get to level 60 and build up my second farm all for this...I just got done saying yesterday how bad farmville sux and farmtown is the best of the farm games and now I cant even play it. Guess I will go waist my time on Country life it seems to be the only one I enjoy now days ....i love seeing my bees come out of their hives and actually pollinate my clovers and all my animals actually have a purpose other than just take up space on the farm. With as many apps as I play and a my job etc I just dont have time to sit on farmtown all day while someone harvests and plows for 2 hrs to get my crops in and more planted...guess I will just move on..so sad I really loved u farmtown!

[MsBooky35]

I'm new to this forum. I don't know where to post my question so I will post it here. Then, if you could direct me to where I need to post it, I would greatly appreciate it.

How do I find out how to "layer' my fields??

why would u wanna do that now with this new fix users are saying u cant harvest them anyway!

[eam0910]

If you do not like this upgrade and wish for it to be changed back, please post in the thread below
http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=285118
__________________
visit Conors Farm =]

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE FACEBOOK FAN PAGE OF OUR MOVIE
WATCH FARM TOWN: A FARMERS DESPERATION (FARM TOWN MOVIE) CLICK HERE!

[Mudhole]

Please change it back it takes to long to work for someone.

Mikey lvl 60

[mikej35]

I AM GOING TO START A BOYCOTT UNTIL ITS ALL FIX AND BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE:mad:

[DanaG]

I just wanted to put my two cents in that I HATE the new update done today, Dec. 22 2009 as it has made the game slower than it has ever been before! Why in the world would you mess with this just when you were getting it to the point of becomming fun to play again?

I've NEVER in my whole time on FT heard of there being "collisions" of farmers plowing or harvesting so I think that's a rediculous excuse that ya'll are using. So, would you PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do us all a HUGE favor and put it BACK to the way it was before you all "FIXED" it??? OMG

I know you were just trying to do something to help, but please, its even messed up chatting on your own farm and I'm going to stop playing if it continues being this way.
Thank you for your time!
Dana :mad::mad:

[tinzaroo]

I vote for being able to hire two max on a farm, and a fire button to get rid of them if they are useless!!! LOL

[mykerry]

I have only been on Farmtown for about a month and a half. This new update is awful. I can't plow or harvest on someone elses farm. It takes forever and that is being kind. I click on an area and it seems to start harvesting, and then I click on ten or fifteen harvest areas before the next harvest actually happens. I really am saddened, because I used this game as a stress reliever. I don't think I will be playing much in the future if I cant make progress in a timely manner. I hope I posted this correctly and would appreciate some direction from anyone who might be able to help. Thanks. I hope this is a temporary change. Farmer Kelly

[Fitob]

The slowness just to harvest is more time then I'm willing to give. It takes all day now just to harvest, plow , then plant with that stupid big seed bag. I never lost xp points either.. Arn't there enough other issues to keep the designer busy other then adding what was not broken?

[FamousFarmer]

I would rather lose some xps and coins. the slowness makes it frustrating and takes some of the fun away. I wish you would back out this change

[speedmonkey]

Don't bother the new update no longer allows having layers from what I have read.

[MsBooky35]

I vote for being able to hire two max on a farm, and a fire button to get rid of them if they are useless!!! LOL

Love the FIRE BUTTON IDEA!! YESS YES FIRE THEM ALL!!!! For real, great Ideas on this post!

[Fitob]

Also there are farmers who higher multple people just to see if they will fight. I've not seen or experienced any "collisions" thats laughable. just irritated when several people are trying to harvest or plow the same plot. Fix it where only two can be hired per farm and I've suggested before get a FIRE control button of some kind..
Farmer Vicks Picks

[plbright]

Personally, I think this SUCKS. I'm constantly banging into other avatars now. And MEGA slow. I used to be really fast at plowing, now I'm lucky if I get three plots to their 20. I'm LOSING money because of this, since I'm not making as much as I used to. As soon as I enter a farm after being hired, I click on the closest plot, like your instructions say... but so has everyone else. And then its like my avatar has to wait.. because I get "wait, I'm busy" after I click the next plot. And then it takes a bit before I even move anywhere.

It really sucks. It was bad before, and then you made the queuing, and that was TONS better. I am so not going to be happy with this. Thanks.

[William Fitzgerel]

The avitar moves very slow except when you are harvesting or plowing. If you have to move across the field, you might as well as forget it because by the time your avitar gets there the work is done. It will not let you start on the other side of the field until your avitar gets to the spot and then as long as you don't get to for ahead of your avitar it works pretty good. There are some bugs that need to be worked out that is for sure.

[speedmonkey]

I vote for being able to hire two max on a farm, and a fire button to get rid of them if they are useless!!! LOL

AMEN TO THAT! We shouldn't be stuck with people that don't work once you hire them or they just make a mess of your field forcing you to hire someone else to fix the problem. If you don't want to hire someone to clean up the mess you are required to hemorrhage our coins to fix it your self. I AM ALL FOR A FIRE BUTTON AND LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE YOU CAN HIRE!

[prossmiller]

thanks for the effort to fix my ex pts problems. Not sure I like the new format at all, but I do appreciate the points staying in my bank! I should be at level 50 by now with all I've lost, but I'm only at 41. Love the game though!

[ROLLON2]

Wow you have some great ideas...hope they listen. I have ofter wondered why we couldn't harv. like 4 plots at a time and plow 4 plots for other people like we can on our farms. love the ideas...

Its ok to have 2 or 4 spaces on your own farm but no way on others. Then the farms wouldnt get done by others and thats unfair. I got an idea.. why dont you ask friends for gift gas and do yourself with 4 plots. I do..

[ramseye45]

I think we just need to get use to the change. Actually is better when there is more than 1 person in a field
If you just stay where you are and start harvesting and or plowing in a straight line it actually is pretty fast. Lo and behold you are not jumping all over the place to try and irritate someone by stealing where someone is working. I like the change. Merry Christmas

[plbright]

I have only been on Farmtown for about a month and a half. This new update is awful. I can't plow or harvest on someone elses farm. It takes forever and that is being kind. I click on an area and it seems to start harvesting, and then I click on ten or fifteen harvest areas before the next harvest actually happens. I really am saddened, because I used this game as a stress reliever. I don't think I will be playing much in the future if I cant make progress in a timely manner. I hope I posted this correctly and would appreciate some direction from anyone who might be able to help. Thanks. I hope this is a temporary change. Farmer Kelly

I totally agree... I used this as a stress RELIEVER... now it just causes stress. I've been playing for months. I was ready to quit before because it was like this, then they started the queuing, and I stayed because it made it ever so much easier. Now I've tried twice to plow tonight, and where I would usually plow 100's of plots, I get about 20 because it's taking so long.

Why do they insist on fixing what is not broken? He mentions running into people??? I never had that happen before, now it happens constantly.

[ak_n_kat]

:confused:This is not helpful but slower and is actually making me think FarmVille is looking good.
Hi There,

First, the Bert account was hacked recently and there were some posts made on his behalf, we are researching this issue now.

Second, we just released a new version of FarmTown a while ago. As stated before, we were going to focus mainly on the lost XP/Coins issues which are critical at this point. However, in order to minimize the lost XP/Coins issues, we had to make some changes to the way harvesting/plowing works when you are hired.

Before, when multiple people were hired on a farm, everybody starts clicking randomly on every field, and there are a lot of collisions, people harvesting/plowing on the same fields, as you don't see clearly where other people are working.

The new way is this, if you harvest fields that are close to where your avatar is, then your avatar will be teletransported and will be a very quick transition, it should be as quick or comparable to what it was before, however if you click on a field that is farther away, then you will have to wait until your avatar gets to that field to continue working.

This change will make that on some instances you work slower, on the other hand people get more dispersed while working on a farm, you can actually see them where they are working, and there will be much less collisions between them. This will also add another component to the game, now it's not just blindly clicking on the fields, you have to also consider the position of other players and your chances to avoid collisions and to get more work done. Now, when you click on a field that another player did before you, then you will see a message saying "already done", before, there was no feedback at all.

Of course, we know this release will cause a lot of complains as well, because in order to improve one area we had to change the behaivor on another area which some users will not like it, but compared to the issue of frequent losing more XP and coins, we just decided this was the way to go.

So far we have detected that there are 70% less issues with lost XP/coins that before, and it should improve with time even more.

As a separate note, the cursors on the game have been made larger and they don't get overlapped by other items on the game.

Thanks

--Raul

[caroleliza74]

Sorry for the lost coins, but harvesting and plowing are so slow now that I'm getting bored with the game. Also, what is the deal with the huge picture of the seed I'm planting or the harvester? it gets in the way and I can't see what I'm doing. Thanks for trying but please change it back.

[ak_n_kat]

This is horrible...It takes too much time. If you can't click your mouse...fast enough that is your problem. The old way is better. In order to make changes can I suggest having the program save what you have done and atomatically update your points when hitting save??? Wouldn't that be nice.:D

[knighta]

who cares. i am expressing my opinion. leave me alone and move on with your life.

But she is so right.

[ROLLON2]

i am going to start a boycott until its all fix and back to the way it was before:mad:

count me in!:)

[raindrops300]

I do appreciate farmtown. I have never complained about anything before, but this is awful. I always used to pick a corner furtherest away from anyone else and start working. If I was at a farm crowded with workers, I just would do my few plots, say thanks and leave. I never had a problem with collisions and never saw anyone collide. I was leveling up pretty fast by hiring out, but now I don't want to work for anyone anymore. It takes too long. Please change it back.

[Little Critter]

I understand that the change was needed. I hated to work with random clickers. The thing I would have done is allowed a 2 -3 square advance so that the coin and XP or wait is not covering your avatar (makes it hard to see). Tanks for the good work and everyone remember that this game is a BETA and changes will occur from time to time. Have a great day. ~G~

[texaswolf]

I think we just need to get use to the change. Actually is better when there is more than 1 person in a field
If you just stay where you are and start harvesting and or plowing in a straight line it actually is pretty fast. Lo and behold you are not jumping all over the place to try and irritate someone by stealing where someone is working. I like the change. Merry Christmas

In order to "steal", someone has to own the item. Because you are working in an area doesn't mean you own the crops around it. Its fair game. the old style with the bars were more like "claims" to crops. all this does is cater to slower players who enjoy spending all day on the farm. the style before this brought me back from Farmville, now i will be going back to play it until they fix this.

[Herbie_Husker]

So after reading several pages of posts I've come to the conclusion that the majority of players do not like the change because of the slowness of game play now and the small minority that do like the change are the ones that are slowwww at harvesting and plowing and want to cry that it’s not fair. Newsflash people life is not fair! Only the best get into the NFL, should they change the rules so someone who is a pee wee level ability football player can play in the League? Heck no! If you are too slow then get faster, if your internet connection is too slow, get a better one otherwise go find something to your level of ability. Might I suggest Legos or dolls?

[sharibalog]

thanks for the effort to fix my ex pts problems. Not sure I like the new format at all, but I do appreciate the points staying in my bank! I should be at level 50 by now with all I've lost, but I'm only at 41. Love the game though!

now it will take three times as long because it takes that long to harvest or plow

[Syb54]

I did read the entire post.

This change SUCKS. Who has time to do things like that? Really!? It has made so slow I may as well change to prehistoric internet connection, before dial up even.

So you wanted to fix something, fine, but don't make the change suck ***. Honestly, if this is the way its gonna be, I see lots of people leaving this game.

YES! YES! YES! This change was not for the better! I suppose those that may stay would be 13 and 14 year olds. It is not worth my time (or many others) if you leave this change. It doesn't seem to me to be a fix, but a problem created. IMHO...I think some young ens thought they were losing coins when they really weren't but didn't see that as they clicked the coins added up, but didn't continue. Avatars were still working after coins added.

[ROLLON2]

Whats with losing xp's and coins thing? I dont get it? I've been playing this game for over a year and i dont say im loosing coins.. So what.. You'll get them next time. I'm on 44 with over 6mill. Do u think i care about loosing coins or xp's?? Sounds to me its all the newbies complaining. You will get there. The only bs i see right now is making the avatar work 1 plot at a time. The speed way was awesome. I might have done 5 or more farm in 30 min. And made about $200,000. Now im lucky to walk with $25,000. This is a problem.

[KikiCruea]

Hate it!! Hate it!!! Hate it!!!! slows everything down. I really prefere the way it was before this last change....this causes me to loose all my love for the game and frustrates me to no end. Sorry, I understand there were issues...but this just makes me completely sad...don't even feel like playing anymore....booooooo....

[ja_dawgma]

Thanks-although this does make work slower(for now), it also returns it to the relaxing FUN it used to be in the early days of FarmTown! No more ridiculous complaining about 'hogs', being 'greedy'; no more overlapping of fields. I have enjoyed this game ever since I became addicted (and proud of it!) last March! Keep up the good work, it's much appreciated!

I didn't know about the upgrade/fixes...went to a farm to harvest tonight and encountered my first person who said "I want this all to myself" and later..."get away from this patch, it is all mine!". This is what the new system is reducing folks to. In my humble opinion, so what if a few (or 70% of folks list some XP points). The whole point, I thought, was to make this interactive and allow people to visit while playing a game. On my second job, I met a nice gal while working for her..and had a great life-enhancing chat. Don't know what you are really shooting for, but the complainers will STILL be the complainers. The greedy will STILL be greedy. Thank you for having folks slow down during the holidays and chat with each other...this is truly a GIFT!

[Sandman1967]

OMG! I love this new release!

Great job developers!!!!!!!!!

...................................Sure!
69 pages and how many people signed up just to say that the new version sucks!
There is allot of first time posts here tonight!
This is not a fix, this is a mistake!

[texaswolf]

YES! YES! YES! This change was not for the better! I suppose those that may stay would be 13 and 14 year olds. It is not worth my time (or many others) if you leave this change. It doesn't seem to me to be a fix, but a problem created. IMHO...I think some young ens thought they were losing coins when they really weren't but didn't see that as they clicked the coins added up, but didn't continue. Avatars were still working after coins added.

13 and 14 year olds would not play with this slow speed. They would rather click away for crops....i'd look at the other end of the age scale.

[texaswolf]

...................................Sure!

lol, right? Developers friends a families love it.

[squeak365]

Just seems so much SLOWER now...aggravating if you have to go more than one or two away from where you were a mere second ago. I may not be hiring nor going to market as often...this is the sort of thing that makes me QUIT a game...such as the lag in Cafe World and Roller Coaster Kingdom...if it is more irritating than a help, I will quit the game. I understand you needed to make some sort of change...but...I would rather lose a few coins or EXP than have to play it this way.

[texaswolf]

I didn't know about the upgrade/fixes...went to a farm to harvest tonight and encountered my first person who said "I want this all to myself" and later..."get away from this patch, it is all mine!". This is what the new system is reducing folks to. In my humble opinion, so what if a few (or 70% of folks list some XP points). The whole point, I thought, was to make this interactive and allow people to visit while playing a game. On my second job, I met a nice gal while working for her..and had a great life-enhancing chat. Don't know what you are really shooting for, but the complainers will STILL be the complainers. The greedy will STILL be greedy. Thank you for having folks slow down during the holidays and chat with each other...this is truly a GIFT!

its a game about climbing levels to buy things they offer. if you want to socialize with people all day long i suggest Yoville or even chat rooms...or hang out in the market all day. most people are here to play the game.

[Sandman1967]

I didn't know about the upgrade/fixes...went to a farm to harvest tonight and encountered my first person who said "I want this all to myself" and later..."get away from this patch, it is all mine!". This is what the new system is reducing folks to. In my humble opinion, so what if a few (or 70% of folks list some PX points). The whole point, I thought, was to make this interactive and allow people to visit while playing a game. On my second job, I met a nice gal while working for her..and had a great life-enhancing chat. Don't know what you are really shooting for, but the complainers will STILL be the complainers. The greedy will STILL be greedy. Thank you for having folks slow down during the holidays and chat with each other...this is truly a GIFT!

I chatted more before the "Fix"!
Amen, Texaswolf!

[LKD]

I think this is a great improvement on several levels. If it stops even 50% of losing XP this is the top improvement. Following right behind is the end to random harvesting and plowing, pushing in ahead of other workers and general bad manners. It takes about two or three rows of harvesting or plowing to get use to and then it's smooth sailing. You know who is working where and much of the pushing and jostling is avoided.
Kudo's al around!

[snoopy2009]

I agree with the person who wrote about how it is now impossible to chat with people while harvesting or plowing... which is the only thing that makes this game better than farmville... this game sucks without that!!! and I will, like many others, be gone VERY SOON if things don't go back to the way they were.

I am new (today) to this forum stuff... it takes a huge amount of HATE for something if I actually complain. And I am complaining... loudly. ugh!

If you are going to keep this, then you need to make each square worth 15 exp pts and make it so a person can level up after about 500 pts... because it will take the same amount of time to get to the next level as it did before today... now I am glad I didn't bust my tail to try to get to level 44 so I could buy a second farm... there is no point...

sad for farmtown users...

[BirdWhisperer]

Not a smart idea people! I can't stand it and won't be playing on here as much now until this is fixed and we can plow and harvest fast. I don't have TIME to go this slow. Give people the option to choose if you want under preferences, but don't slow it down. yuck!
I won't do nearly as much harvesting or plowing for others now. What is the point of the game if we can't do that and interact and/or chat? If this is how this game is going to be.. i will be done with it and will check out other online games.

I am also not a person to play alot of online games. This is my only one.
So, I would appreciate it fixed. Go read the chat in the marketplace.. people are not happy at all.

[beviam]

Thank you for the explanation.
I was beginning to think something was wrong with my browser.
I did like being able to do more than one square at a time.

[ROLLON2]

OMG! I love this new release!

Great job developers!!!!!!!!!


YEAH OK SURE.....................! YOU JUST HAVE NO IDEA DO YOU!:confused:

[BirdWhisperer]

Yah... and I am also not one to post on forums unless something needs attention - good or bad. You are getting a ton of negative feedback on this one. All the other changes to the game have been really good!
Please change it back to harvesting and plowing fast.

[wr5aw]

If you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like Farm Town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "I quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

[ldyump]

This upgrade is sooooo slow, I may not continue playing this game. It takes forever to harvest or plow. Please go back to the old way. If you are worried about people running into each other, then limit the number of people that can be hired for one plot.

[texaswolf]

I chatted more before the "Fix"!
Amen, Texaswolf!

me too. i can almost guarantee they change it back once they see the number of active daily users drop. it will be reduced to the folks who meet up daily to talk about the weather. The daily players will become 3 day planters, due to the annoyance of the new style.

[Little Critter]

if you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like farm town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "i quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

...amen...~g~

[Capt. Conor]

I cannot believe what Slash Key has done, they have destroyed farm town,

[crodgers]

I am thrilled that it kills the random clickers - I don't like random clickers, I ignore them! I like more methodical clickers so I can plant right behind their plowing...

As far as speed, it is not that much slower for me... I still clear 2-3 squares per second when plowing or harvesting for someone - unless there are lots of people or animals present. Even the old way slowed down in those cases.

There's something that could improve performance - something to turn off animals. You can freeze them now, but something about a bunch of animals still takes up a lot of processing time when you try to harvest or plow near them (while they are on your screen). I think code still runs to attempt to move the animal every second (or whatever) and if freeze is on, it just doesn't update the animal's position. But it still does something to take up processing... If we could prevent them from showing up that would be great!

[ja_dawgma]

I have NEVER not gotten any coins or XP points I earned. NEVER, but I sure am having a heck of a time hiring people now that it takes all day to harvest or plow.

You've made some great improvements in the past and I know you're working to fix problems as they occur, but surely the changes to harvesting and plowing today can't possibly be the solution to ANYTHING.
I hired just one person to harvest, surely that person can't collide with himself. Why not just let them hire one person and let them harvest or plow at a normal speed.

I'm sure you'll find an answer to this NEWLY created problem.

Thanks for all your effort.

I've never been to this forum before today..my whole family plays farm town and love the competitive nature of multiple harvest/plowing...folks who have complained about losing a few points here and there are just that...losers and complainers. Go back to the old system. Please =)

[smcint]

I really do not like the upgrade, while I understand and appreciate that you were trying to fix some of the issues you were experiencing this new upgrade is extremely frustrating... it is just TOO SLOW!!! After working 10-12 hour days this was one thing that I truly looked forward to after work and traffic, simple, mindless enjoyment. But now it is just as frustrating as ever with all of the waiting. Please go back to the other format or I will be quitting the game just as I did with the other game that were taking too long. You have an awesome concept and I for one would rather lose a few coins or XP point in lieu of the slowness!

[crodgers]

I cannot believe what Slash Key has done, they have destroyed farm town,:rolleyes: get real... it is not that bad!

[squeak365]

Limit the number of people that can be hired on a farm.



THIS IS A BETTER SOLUTION...I have been hired for a job with so many other people, there was no point in staying so I leave. I hire ONE unless that person is so slow I cannot stand it...then I go back for ONE more...

Please fix this "fix". It sucks. Seems to me there are more in the forums now than playing the game.

[brwniemom]

I do like this way as I'm getting used to it, the only thing that made me not like it was that it seemed faster b4 because u were able to plow more than 1 field at a time and now your waiting for the avatar to catch up because you see that annoying comment "wait I'm busy!!!" every time u click on a field so that's something that I don't like....but I love that the icons are bigger so you can actually see what seeds you are planting in case you made a mistake and clicked the wrong one you can now see that!!! I guess we'll have to just play with it and see how it goes....I'm already at level 56 so getting close to the end again!!! and not sure what to do then, but I'm sure the developers are working on adding new things just like they did for todays new releases...so I'll just keep playing and wait and see...thank u for all the hard work the developers are doing and having to listen to us complain I'm sure that it makes it difficult for them because as we all know You can't please everyone!!!, but at least some of us are willing to say THANK YOU!!! for the good jobs that u are doing :) :)

[texaswolf]

If you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like Farm Town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "I quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

yep its a pain, but when you put a product out there that relies on active users or it sinks and you lose money...you get to work. especially when a lot of those users put real money into it. So therefor people who come to play this game, should not have to worry about how hard it is to do it.

[Rick Clark]

Look, it's now such a pain to harvest or plow it won't be long before NOBODY will harvest your crops or plow your fields.

You have taken a fun to play socially interactive game and made it so frustrating to play that soon you will lose all of your players.

It may be true that it avoids collisions, but the collisions are not the problem. The problem are the players that hire 20 people at a time and create a feeding frenzy in the first place.

It would be much better to put the harvest and plow settings back where they were and place hiring limits on employers instead. This would eliminate the problem without the higher frustration level and make the game more profitable for the employees and a better, higher quality job for the employers because of the decreased competition.

I urge you to take this under serious consideration, I do enjoy this game but will not continue to play when it's this frustrating.

[lore28]

well this change totally SUCK dont like it at all....i had never lost any coins or xp, and its frustrating cause takes a job to be done forever at this pace will never be able to get to another level...SUCKS

[pattycakes1964]

ok I do like the way it is now, I am not getting walked on by other players who decide to jump all over the field and gather as many points as they can.People actually have to plow rows to have speed im just as fast as i was before because i plow rows zig zagging back and forth. If you jump then yes it is very slow. Make a pattern and keep moving in one direction it works well ;)

[Sandman1967]

If you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like Farm Town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "I quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

I can tell you are LEVEL 1!

[chellhuck]

This is bogus. It is taking me forever to work by myself on my own farm or a friends farm. Keep this up and I'll quit this game and move on to something that is not a pain in the neck.

[lore28]

Totally agree with you

[TommyD]

Say what you want but it's way to slow. I agree with the majority. I don't mind that you have to be in your area to harvest but for the love of god, it's like my avatar got lazy and fat overnight and now moves at a snails pace. As someone with full time jobs who likes to come home and unwind for a few minutes with Farmtown, I can say that I will be one of those 3 day players and not the daily player I am now. As for the **** about getting use to harvesting in a pattern and it's just as fast? Not even close to being true. And has anyone noticed that you can still harvest trees the old way? When is that going to change? I may hold on to the App at least for a little while but I won't be playing as much. Shame since I did enjoy it.

[texaswolf]

ok I do like the way it is now, I am not getting walked on by other players who decide to jump all over the field and gather as many points as they can.People actually have to plow rows to have speed im just as fast as i was before because i plow rows zig zagging back and forth. If you jump then yes it is very slow. Make a pattern and keep moving in one direction it works well ;)

actually you dont have to do rows, i have seen people go right down the middle diagonal still. People who jumped around everywhere weren't making as much money as people doing rows anyway. all this did was take away the advantage of faster clickers.

[Sandman1967]

:rolleyes: get real... it is not that bad!

....ah...yes it is!

[ja_dawgma]

its a game about climbing levels to buy things they offer. if you want to socialize with people all day long i suggest Yoville or even chat rooms...or hang out in the market all day. most people are here to play the game.

I have a full and busy life; don't need to hang out and chat in rooms with folks who do not. I DO NOT like the new change that came about...but found a happy reward for ti since the slow/lag time forced me to it. I/we play the game and enjoy it. Have Farmville going but prefer Farmtown because we can interfacew ith humans. It is a game, but with human parameters. Thanks for the advice, but I prefer to live my own life within the social norms comfortable for me and my family. Real life and climbing the "ladder" have enough pressure =)

[Sandie Angel]

Well YAY!! For you!

But for the rest of us non slowpokes, this just BLOWS!! :mad:

You can still go very fast, if you go from left to right and then from right back to left; top to bottom and then from bottom back to top. You can still click very fast as if you're playing Nintendo or any other video games.

If you go line by line as I have described it, how fast you go is controlled by yourself. I'm faster than anyone because I'm used to playing games, your finger has to go clicking fast on the mouse if you want to go fast.

You can't just go randomly click on any fields anymore, otherwise your avatar will go around in circles and doesn't know where it should go next. Just follow straight lines in the manner that I have described above. I had done several farms after the upgrades and I have never been happier.

THIS IS FANTASTIC IF YOU FOLLOW STRAIGHT LINES!!!!!!

left to right, and then from right back to left and then back to right ...and so on.

top to bottom, and then from bottom to top, and then back to the bottom...and so on..

You will find you're actually so much faster, if your finger can click fast, then this upgrade is your cup of tea!!

Sandie Angel :)

[kennywood™]

If you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like Farm Town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "I quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

The problem with your post is that none of us are claiming to be able to do any of that, but the developers of the game are. This app has more glitches than ANY I've ever seen and it's largely due to the fact that they don't fix what's already wrong before they start implementing new things. The fact that they didn't stop and fix the problem with the XP/coin issue back when it first began (and before players started posting thousands of pages about it) is now biting them, because as stated, in the original post, the new changes we're now seeing are a result of those XP/coins issues. I've been making this point for the longest time now (fix what's wrong first), but, clearly, it's fallen on deaf ears. Apparently, there's better logic at work, though I've yet to see it's results.

[texaswolf]

You can still go very fast, if you go from left to right and then from right back to left; top to bottom and then from bottom back to top. You can still click very fast as if you're play ing Nintendo or any other video games.

If you go line by line as I have described it, how fast you go is controlled by yourself. I'm faster than anyone because I'm used to playing games, your finger has to go clicking fast on the mouse if you want to go fast.

You can't just go randomly click on any fields anymore, otherwise your avatar will go around in circles and doesn't know where it should go next. Jus follow straight lines in the manner that I have described above. I had done several farms after the upgrades and I have never been happier.

THIS IS FANTASTIC IF YOU FOLLOW STRAIGHT LINES!!!!!!

left to right, and then from right back to left and then back to right ...and so on.

top to bottom, and then from bottom to top, and then back to the bottom...and so on..

You will find you;re actually so much faster, if you finger can click fast, then this upgrade is your cup of tea!!

Sandie Angel :)

compared to how fast most people could click before this way isn't even close, i agree its faster, but not even close to before.

[TommyD]

Very true. It's been one day and I only do high end harvests where I use to help anyone, I don't plow for anyone any more because it's just not worth the time involved. Such a shame.

[john f h]

thankyou roul i think it is fairer for everyone but it does slow the game down and i think farmers will start to get impatiant

[snoopy2009]

If you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like Farm Town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "I quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

you MUST be level 1... because this game used to be FUN!!!!! why waste the time rewriting all those lines of code, web-based apps, etc., if what you're doing makes the game CRAPPY and a useless waste?!? hope they saved the old code... because this new code is doodoo. and I mean that in the nicest possible way. :-)

[texaswolf]

I have a full and busy life; don't need to hang out and chat in rooms with folks who do not. I DO NOT like the new change that came about...but found a happy reward for ti since the slow/lag time forced me to it. I/we play the game and enjoy it. Have Farmville going but prefer Farmtown because we can interfacew ith humans. It is a game, but with human parameters. Thanks for the advice, but I prefer to live my own life within the social norms comfortable for me and my family. Real life and climbing the "ladder" have enough pressure =)

exactly, thats why a nice little unwind with this game a few minutes at a time was nice. the new style takes too long. more and more people will go to multiple day crops, and it will lose its daily fun.

[dquartieritoo@yahoo.com]

I started playing FarmTown about 3 wks ago, I truly appreciated the game and the fun it gave. I also found friends from the past that I have not heard from in over 20 years.
That's part of the fun of Farm Town meeting people and playing the game. The new harvest and plowing rules has taken the fun out of the game. It is so slow that you doing nothing but wait around. Can't even talk to other people. You have truly ruined the game. It's take me less time to farm my real farm of 20 acres than I can do one farm on the game. It truly got boring, wasting time of the user. I work hard and I play hard. To bad some people can't work as fast as other. I try to hire 1 neighbor or friend to do my farm. Now I have to have min, 2 harvester and 2 plowers to accomplish what one could do. By hiring one neighbor or friend you could help the people that you asked to play the game. My neighbors and friends are no longer playing. They are off line. Don't want the hassel of time lost or wasted. Very depressing. Listen to the maket talk, people don't even want to work anymore. I lost xp and coins, but I am level 37 and over 3.5 million. Didn't hurt me as much as the new change. Lost a whole crop becuase hard to find harvesters. You truly have made other games more acceptable, by this change. Slow people just have to get faster or they have to go somewhee else. The proper change for this soultion is to change the hiring process, limit hires to only 1 or 2, then the problem would go away. I had no problem with many workers, I just stayed away from them, if that didn't work I left and went elsewhere. I play this game till all hours of the night and now I don't have the desire to play. Raul YOU RUINED IT. MAKE THE CHANGES BACK TO WHERE THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AND LETS FORGET ABOUT THE MINOR ASPECTS OF LOST XP AND COINS, THEY MAKE ENOUGH ANYWAY. I will continue to play for a few days and see what the outcome of this new change is. If it stays the same I WILL QUIT AND FIND ANOTHER GAME!! And as the saying goes That,s no Bull.

[crodgers]

....ah...yes it is!Clearing 2-3 squares per second is not that bad! :p

[bubba cliff]

I really, really hate this upgrade. It has brought plowing and harvesting to a virtual standstill. Since the avatar is always on top of the field you are working on, he is often in the way. (You are always clicking on it instead of the field.) Trees are a major issue since they don't tend to be close together to harvest. If you miss a field you might as well abandon it as try to backtrack, etc., etc., etc. Issues have been addressed but I wanted to add my extreme displeasure for the recond.

I love FT and the new changes (second farm, new buildings) have got me playing again ... until now. It's HORRIBLE!

[ROLLON2]

ok one more thing.. In the Preference area where it say "Wait for Each Plow/Plant" IS AN OPTION right? Well how about you make that up to poeple whether they want to plow/harvest fast or slow. Go back to Fast. And oh yeah poeple all over are right i can't chat and play anymore. You know if farmville makes a market where there is chatting u can say bye bye farmtown

[r21]

I did read the opening message,and I realize they were trying to fix a problem.However,they have created a bigger problem.When you slow people down,they(like myself) are gonna lose interest.they made things much worse and I believe game participation will suffer,as will their ad revenue..the bottom line..i think your gonna see a lot of complaints like this.

[tall-p]

Ive read many pages here about this update. I hope the developers pay attention! This fix is for old codgers and creepers that want people to go sloooow, and stay inside the lines. It is a game ender for the swift and lively.

[gma kathy]

Yeah.....this pretty much sucks. Think I'll be moving to Farmville or that Island.

[hhunting]

I understand the reasoning for it, but it is now so slow...I miss the quick click!

[Efwis]

If you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like Farm Town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "I quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

been there done that, and guess what, I would never, ever do something like this farce of a fix. Farmtown was fun until this downgrade. yes i said downgrade. if it was an upgrade then all these posts wouldn't be here would they????

I personally didn't have the missing coin/xp issue that caused this "fix" that isn't a fix at all to happen. sure i lost a few here and there, but that didn't keep me from having fun playing the game. Just gave me a reason to work a little harder for what I wanted.

You can still go very fast, if you go from left to right and then from right back to left; top to bottom and then from bottom back to top. You can still click very fast as if you're playing Nintendo or any other video games.

If you go line by line as I have described it, how fast you go is controlled by yourself. I'm faster than anyone because I'm used to playing games, your finger has to go clicking fast on the mouse if you want to go fast.

You can't just go randomly click on any fields anymore, otherwise your avatar will go around in circles and doesn't know where it should go next. Just follow straight lines in the manner that I have described above. I had done several farms after the upgrades and I have never been happier.

THIS IS FANTASTIC IF YOU FOLLOW STRAIGHT LINES!!!!!!

left to right, and then from right back to left and then back to right ...and so on.

top to bottom, and then from bottom to top, and then back to the bottom...and so on..

You will find you're actually so much faster, if your finger can click fast, then this upgrade is your cup of tea!!

Sandie Angel
i disagree with you on this, I always went left to right top to bottom and it was quicker before this joke of a fix was implemented.

I have tried to play this with the new downgrade and have decided that after my crops are mature, and i have harvested them, the unplowed fields will sit and wait for this to be properly upgraded back to where it was.

if they really wanted to remove the collisions, they should make it where you can hire only 2 or 3 harvesters and 2 or 3 plowers.

[keblank]

I really don't like playing this game this way anymore. It's way to slow. You cannot see where you're working because of the points that are in the fields. I think I'm going to play a different game that's faster. I only played farmtown, but now I think that I move on to another game. I'm very dissapointed.

[totalriffraff]

i have always gone in a straight line in lowing and harvesting i use to be able to take a break and chat while my little guy worked now all i can do is click pause click im having to wait for my my little guy at each field it took me over an hour to harvest a friends farm that took me 15 min before and i didnt have time to say anything to them cause if i tried to it would have taken over 2 hours to get done i understand the part of hiring multiple people to do a farm with the people fighting over crops and harvest but what bout the rest of us that have dedicated people we talk to everyday i ran 3 farms on here cause i like the game and was addicted too but i dont have the kind of time it takes with these new changes

[chellhuck]

Level 60 and yes I have written code

[snoopy2009]

Clearing 2-3 squares per second is not that bad! :p

except that when your avatar keeps getting in the way, which is almost always... it makes it more accurate to say that it takes about 2-3 seconds per square... which is REALLY bad.

[FarmerInMyDell]

Raul,

I understand and appreciate your motivation for the latest change, but from the hiree's point of view, what you have done is revert to the way harvesting/plowing was 6-12 months ago. There is now no queuing at all, and for the first time in many months I again have to contend with being kicked off a farm in the middle of a job. I have to keep clicking on "Save Pending Changes" or my coins and experience *DO NOT* keep up or get tallied at all, and I eventually get kicked off. So your motivation is *NOT* even being realized!

The holidays are a time for nostalgia, but not this kind, and not on Farm Town. You had things working fairly efficiently, and now it feels like the old clunky FT. With multiple farms, I just cannot afford the time and frustration this brings back to the game. Find another way!

[ROLLON2]

If you've never written millions of lines of code, and if you've never written web-based apps, and if you've never worked with javascript, and if you've never written interactive flash apps, then you haven't a clue what it takes to produce and maintain fun apps like Farm Town. I suggest that if you can't live with the status quo then you need to re-examine why you play. For those of you screaming "I quit", don't let the door hit you on the way out. More bandwidth for me.

To the developers - thanks for all you do. Been there. Done that.

So like i said earlier.. newbies. This one is on level 1 with 0 xp's. Go ahead have more bandwidth. Come join me at level 44 if you dare.. with the way it is now. Come on... Look at this person really! All whom are talking quitting are in the upper levels that actually playing the game. Thats there job to work and make us happy.

[TommyD]

Okay, gave it one more shot and I'm done. Can't take the harvest speed and there were about 8 other harvesters with me. This is a sign of things to come. i use to like hiring 1 maybe 2 to harvest for me. More coins and XP for them. Now I'd have to harvest about 8 people myself if I don't want to wait forever so now I'm just going to sit the farm out for now and wait for the next change. Hope they do the right thing and fix this. Plan on checking back in a few days when the Pineapples are done.

[r21]

I agree completely!

[shiylo]

Hello developers I am in agreement with the people who hate the changes at level 60+ and millions of dollars it has taken the challenge out of the game made it more for the younger or people who don’t like a challenge seems these changes are to keep people in their place instead of having fun as for myself I have never lost a dollar or an xp the game was a blast now it take forever to do a harvest or plow and everything is on top of everything to me this game is now a dud.. hard to see with the huge tools and words flying all over the avatar right on top of everything not to mention it feels like your under someone’s thumb not this girl I will be finding another game seems the game has had a lot of creativity taken out of it along with the challenge of it humm could be a meany phoo but why you all know why the changes. I know what your saying the changes are for but those of us who play the game hard know better. People make things up so it looks better well it looks worse and the play has gone out of it thanks for what was a grand game it really is to bad it was the best game out their till now…:mad:
Farm again not linked to me right and level is off wow didn't we have a grand update ...Whooo hooo...

[Chicky's Place]

This update has caused FAR more problems than it has fixed. It's annoying when you don't get all your coins when you harvest someone's fields but it's worse to spend so long harvesting I go insane. I can't hire people to plow on my farm anymore. From what I've heard I'll no longer be able to put my trees on top of my crops, which will mean ugly little squares around all my trees and flowers.
I've loved playing Farm Town but this is an update that I would leave the game over. It's just not fun anymore and I don't have the freedom to design my farm the way I want.

[raindrops300]

There is a new updated thread that says that they are going to revert back to old version. Please go support reverting back if you prefer that.

[Sapai]

I don't have a problem with the new harvesting/plowing.

I think it will be good for the game as it will stop the spastic harvesting/plowing. It will also make harvesting/plowing more fair to those who like to hire more then one.

You know. I have to say something here. I've already posted, but here goes.

Stop assuming people who are unhappy are somehow GUILTY of some sin. That is NOT the case. Most of us have a nice clatch of neighbors who mostly trade and only go to the market for extra cash/coins.

If I get on a field with greedy grabbers, I just do what I can and wait until they are done because they ALWAYS leave lots of leftovers to pick up. Most are begging to plow before the harvest is even finished!

Stop blaming people who are unhappy with this. We are not guilty of all that we are being accused of.

Especially at least in my case, I would never use a BOT. Since it is against the rules, I assume there is some way to determine if they are being used. I'm not going to risk being banned by using one. What's the point? To have more points? Please.

If we want to get into the blame game, perhaps those who think this is faster were the slowest, pokiest farmer in Town? And now that everyone else is handicapped, you feel better? That's just sad.

[Cosatot]

Training wheels and Referees on the play ground are not needed. I experienced the same problems with XP and Coins, but instead of crying to the teacher, I changed browsers and the way I played, problem solved. Now I have to learn to play with these new controls? What ever happened to the best wins? Before there may have been jerks who cheated me, but now its the game controllers? Give me back the Jerks, at least with them I could fight back. Building a game for the "least common denominator" is only a deterrent to excellence. You may have reduced the problems of the "least", but have you calculated the reduction in "excellent". Let us start a Professional non-competitive T-ball league, we will make millions (sarcasm). Sorry for the sarcasm.
! ! ! Strive for adequate.! ! !