Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[bluehair]

well I just lost 5 million coins!!

[dogdays]

well I just lost 5 million coins!!

but they are soooooooooo sorry .its been a while since i played, but since my return i have had more problems than i can name:mad:

[SHEENASULLY]

a lot of people don't realise they need to regularly check their Flash Player, both to clear all sites from it and also to make sure its the only one enabled in their plugins..having 2 enabled means they fight against each other and cause problems.. these are easy and simple steps as well as regularly clearing cache, download history etc from your computors browser.. I also do a disk cleanup on my computer plus a system cleanup, especially after a windows update.. I have windows 8.1 and love it!!

hello Aussie Rae: how do you clean the flash player? I have to uninstall and reinstall just about everyday or it doesn't work properly and I end leaving jobs undone and this upsets me as well as whoever I was working for, quite often I will do the job by hand but this isn't always feasable either. I use firefox as a browser and a windows xp laptop and adobe flash with shockwave plugin.

marge
graykyle farmtown

[dogdays]

its the gaming site not the computer since i returned back to farm town it has become a pain the neck to play. i was able to retrieve my old farm. my wife couldnt but it still shows on my list .but she cant access her old farm. the list of complaints goes on and on and on. :mad:

[Taz D]

hello Aussie Rae: how do you clean the flash player? I have to uninstall and reinstall just about everyday or it doesn't work properly and I end leaving jobs undone and this upsets me as well as whoever I was working for, quite often I will do the job by hand but this isn't always feasable either. I use firefox as a browser and a windows xp laptop and adobe flash with shockwave plugin.

marge
graykyle farmtown
Hi Sheena,
This is the link to the Flash website to clean out the data saved for all websites that use flash:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
I recommend that you delete all that are listed there as that helps keep it cleaner.
The problem with XP is the older it gets the slower it goes. XP also does not support enough ram memory for todays games to be really effective. Support by Microsoft for XP has already been stopped and they are soon going to release Windows 10.

[alicepepper]

we hire - why can't we fire and get rid of the off the farm - like the apprentice - point a finger and have it say 'you're fired' and boot them back to the market place

[pvermeer]

could someone tell me how it works thanks

[Taz D]

could someone tell me how it works thanks
Hi pvermeer,
Your best place to get information on this is in the new release announcement for the June 9th release. Here is a link to that:
http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=613822

[ClaytinPA]

OK - whose bright idea was it to have the recent posting of links at the bottom of the heap and the ancient ones at the top -- is it to teach us how to scroll for a mile or two ?

[Tiger]

OK - whose bright idea was it to have the recent posting of links at the bottom of the heap and the ancient ones at the top -- is it to teach us how to scroll for a mile or two ?

Hi,

We're looking into this problem. Thanks for reporting it.

[pamme]

Even though I've been playing a very long time, I do not go to the Market to get hired to farm for others. I took a VERY long break a couple of years back because of the way I was treated by someone who had hired me to farm for them.

I never had a problem "sharing" with others. There's plenty for everyone. I never begged for someone to hire me. I just said "hello" to everyone who entered the room. I tried to be polite. I expected the same from the people who hired me.

So, one day, I was hired to work a farm, and I was told that I was "stupid, slow, useless," and that I shouldn't bother working for others ever again.
I stopped playing FarmTown for two years. I have never farmed for anyone again. I'm so afraid that I will be ridiculed that I just do my own thing every day.

Please try to treat others as you would like to be treated. It's called The Golden Rule.

[Dutch85]

Even though I've been playing a very long time, I do not go to the Market to get hired to farm for others. I took a VERY long break a couple of years back because of the way I was treated by someone who had hired me to farm for them.

I never had a problem "sharing" with others. There's plenty for everyone. I never begged for someone to hire me. I just said "hello" to everyone who entered the room. I tried to be polite. I expected the same from the people who hired me.

So, one day, I was hired to work a farm, and I was told that I was "stupid, slow, useless," and that I shouldn't bother working for others ever again.
I stopped playing FarmTown for two years. I have never farmed for anyone again. I'm so afraid that I will be ridiculed that I just do my own thing every day.



Please try to treat others as you would like to be treated. It's called The Golden Rule.

So sorry this happened to you. I know it's not easy to let the nasty stuff roll off your back. I go to the market to hire only. I did used to go there to get work when I needed to level up. I met some nice people and some not so nice. It took me a while to learn to just let it go when someone treated me badly. I'm glad you came back to the game and I hope you will stay and enjoy yourself.

[bluehair]

regarding firing people..sometimes the employee might be slow but that could be due to their computer. I find when I am harvest trees and flowers and chopping trees it takes me longer than when I am harvesting and low especially if the trees and flowers are not nicely lined up.

when I am hiring people I tend to try and hire lower level people when I need crops to be harvested as it means they can level up and I try to hire only person

[Judy Cowan]

People never take verbal abuse from someone who hired you just click on them and report them.. This practice is not allowed in FarmTown at all.. I know it is not their wish for you to be treated with anything but respect... The hiring market was meant for farmers to work for others but it does not mean because you do not have proper tools, or a slower computer that you are to be abused.. Never ever let them run you off the game.. The games is for everyone... Hopefully the developers can do something with these situations that are happening they have made giant steps with the new Super Neighbor.. Hopefully this will make getting those Xps that are needed somewhat easier...

[Judy Cowan]

My question is this I know what the Super Hire is, what are you going to do about the greedy gretchens that are going from farmer to farmer snatching all the crops, but leaving part of the trees and flowers undone... This has to be addressed somehow., next month they will be able to plant and the problem will worsen... Do something fast...

[Tiger]

My question is this I know what the Super Hire is, what are you going to do about the greedy gretchens that are going from farmer to farmer snatching all the crops, but leaving part of the trees and flowers undone... This has to be addressed somehow., next month they will be able to plant and the problem will worsen... Do something fast...

Hi Judy,

There is no Super Hire, only Super Neighbours that can work on a neighbours farm and they will only be able to plant if they are given permissions to do so. No-one hired from market will be able to plant.

[Judy Cowan]

okay lets repeat this I know what Super Neighbor is but we have people running around grabbing crops but not doing trees, flowers or water because none of those are attractive enough... Is this going to be addressed?? Its also a big problem if you hire they do only crops and take off because trees, flowers and water are not attracted... you only get money no XPs

[Tiger]

okay lets repeat this I know what Super Neighbor is but we have people running around grabbing crops but not doing trees, flowers or water because none of those are attractive enough... Is this going to be addressed?? Its also a big problem if you hire they do only crops and take off because trees, flowers and water are not attracted... you only get money no XPs

Hi,

There is no way to make anyone do a job that they don't want to do. If it's a stranger working for you they will lose the bonus chest.

If you would like to make a suggestion on this please do so in the Suggestions area of the forum where the developers will see it.

[tnbskts]

Since coming back after a longish layoff I'm trying to get used to the new features (most of which are brilliant!) but there's something I don't understand about the upgraded hiring feature. In the explanation of hiring in the forum, it says that you always use your own fuel when you're hired to work for someone else, but I noticed that when I'm hired it often tells me the person hiring me will let me use their fuel and tools.

I've been able to use their tools, no problem, but I always seem to be using my fuel regardless of whether the person hiring me has said I can use theirs or not. So is this just a feature for people being hired who don't have fuel of their own, or am I missing something?

[tnbskts]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I'm having a bit of trouble posting links on my wall. I know this is a FB thing, not a Farm Town thing, but I was wondering if there's a remedy.

I have my friends sorted into groups for the different games I play, so that when I post a link I'm only posting to people who are interested in that link and not all the people who play other games or don't play any. Trouble is, I can't get the Farm Town group to display. The two options showing are the groups for two other games, and even when I expand out the list of groups it doesn't show them all, and Farm Town is one of the groups that doesn't show.

So I can't post for help with facilities or to share bonuses or whatever without posting to all my friends, which I'm not about to do.

Does anyone know if there's a way to fully expand this group dropdown menu? Because I sure can't find one.

[Tiger]

Since coming back after a longish layoff I'm trying to get used to the new features (most of which are brilliant!) but there's something I don't understand about the upgraded hiring feature. In the explanation of hiring in the forum, it says that you always use your own fuel when you're hired to work for someone else, but I noticed that when I'm hired it often tells me the person hiring me will let me use their fuel and tools.

I've been able to use their tools, no problem, but I always seem to be using my fuel regardless of whether the person hiring me has said I can use theirs or not. So is this just a feature for people being hired who don't have fuel of their own, or am I missing something?

Hi,

The game will always use your fuel first. When you run out it will then use the hiring farmers fuel so that you don't need to go refuel or use the single tools.

[Taz D]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I'm having a bit of trouble posting links on my wall. I know this is a FB thing, not a Farm Town thing, but I was wondering if there's a remedy.

I have my friends sorted into groups for the different games I play, so that when I post a link I'm only posting to people who are interested in that link and not all the people who play other games or don't play any. Trouble is, I can't get the Farm Town group to display. The two options showing are the groups for two other games, and even when I expand out the list of groups it doesn't show them all, and Farm Town is one of the groups that doesn't show.

So I can't post for help with facilities or to share bonuses or whatever without posting to all my friends, which I'm not about to do.

Does anyone know if there's a way to fully expand this group dropdown menu? Because I sure can't find one.
When you open that place your pointer in the area where you have your group lists and then rotate your mouse wheel to scroll down to the ones not showing.

[tnbskts]

Thanks - that's pretty much what I thought was happening when I saw my fuel disappearing!

[Mountaineer]

Hi, just a note to say that nobody has to work with single tools anymore, all coin tools can be used, and even the employers tools, so at minimum, they can use a 3x3 :)
How do they use my coin tools? Do they or I have to be at a certain level? Not sure how it works, but I've had some lately start w/single tools. I told one that he could use my x4 harvester, and he said "okey for you" and left. Another told me he was hoping for bigger tools & left. For this reason, I now look for ppl who have all tools ~ they rarely complain. I don't know if both employer & employee have to have the same tools? It doesn't seem so, because when I work for ppl, it does let me use their huge h/p tool, turbo fisher, et al; so, I don't know why it wouldn't let these single-tool workers use my x4 harvester and x9 plow, unless a certain level is required to do so. I have the box checked that says the worker can use my tools. I find the market horribly frustrating because so many seem to have elaborate rules of work, etiquette, and expectations. Some workers take one look at my farms and leave (too small? not enough tools? Trees not lined up square?) Some employers play mean tricks & I wonder what I've done to offend them... Often I just work my own farm so I don't have to deal w/the marketplace stress.

[Taz D]

How do they use my coin tools? Do they or I have to be at a certain level? Not sure how it works, but I've had some lately start w/single tools. I told one that he could use my x4 harvester, and he said "okey for you" and left. Another told me he was hoping for bigger tools & left. For this reason, I now look for ppl who have all tools ~ they rarely complain. I don't know if both employer & employee have to have the same tools? It doesn't seem so, because when I work for ppl, it does let me use their huge h/p tool, turbo fisher, et al; so, I don't know why it wouldn't let these single-tool workers use my x4 harvester and x9 plow, unless a certain level is required to do so. I have the box checked that says the worker can use my tools. I find the market horribly frustrating because so many seem to have elaborate rules of work, etiquette, and expectations. Some workers take one look at my farms and leave (too small? not enough tools? Trees not lined up square?) Some employers play mean tricks & I wonder what I've done to offend them... Often I just work my own farm so I don't have to deal w/the marketplace stress.
Hi Mountaineer,
Currently they can't use your coin tools.

[tnbskts]

okay lets repeat this I know what Super Neighbor is but we have people running around grabbing crops but not doing trees, flowers or water because none of those are attractive enough... Is this going to be addressed?? Its also a big problem if you hire they do only crops and take off because trees, flowers and water are not attracted... you only get money no XPs

One thing you could do is to hire people separately for harvest/plow and for the other stuff. Then the people hired to do the trees and flowers can't go off and just plow every farm because they weren't hired to do it.

[tnbskts]

When you open theat place your pointer in the area where you have your group lists and then rotate your mouse wheel to scroll down to the ones not showing.

That doesn't work, it just moves the farm up and down, it doesn't do anything inside the Facebook notification box.

[Taz D]

That doesn't work, it just moves the farm up and down, it doesn't do anything inside the Facebook notification box.
hi tmbskts,
After you have opened the pop up to post, click the symbol in the lower left corner. Then click "See All Lists. then use your mouse or mouse wheel to scroll down the list. Select the one you want.
You can also set the list to use in your Facebook settings for Apps.

[tnbskts]

OK, I think I've sorted the problem. Apparently it was a smart list - goodness knows why because it isn't automatically updated or anything - and I'd archived it when I took a break from the game. I've restored it and I think it's showing now. I seriously hate smart lists. Sigh...

[Farmer YoMomma]

A fix for those with layers would be good, considering the amount of time i farm or fish on other peoples farms who have layers
Its simply not good enough to advise people against working on farms with layers. If the farm town interface cannot cope with layers without the screen giving a black box message or an error message ESPECIALLY when I fish in the amount of 25 million, it isn't fair to simply be fobbed off with well don't work layered farms then. If the game can't cope with layered farms then a way should be found to stop anyone having layered farms.
Or is that something else that ft falls short on.
That's in excess of around 140 million I have lost in the last 8 months.
Most annoyed but hey ho tough hmm.

[Aussie Rae]

A fix for those with layers would be good, considering the amount of time i farm or fish on other peoples farms who have layers
Its simply not good enough to advise people against working on farms with layers. If the farm town interface cannot cope with layers without the screen giving a black box message or an error message ESPECIALLY when I fish in the amount of 25 million, it isn't fair to simply be fobbed off with well don't work layered farms then. If the game can't cope with layered farms then a way should be found to stop anyone having layered farms.
Or is that something else that ft falls short on.
That's in excess of around 140 million I have lost in the last 8 months.
Most annoyed but hey ho tough hmm.

We can now hide crops, so if you are only fishing, having everything else hidden should allow you to work easier, also go offline, and set your quality to Low by right clicking on the farm... if you have crops, trees, flowers, buildings uncovered, you are making your computer work harder... hope this helps a bit..:)

[BethFB]

Hi Mountaineer,
Currently they can't use your coin tools.

Even if we have it state that employees can use our tools and fuel and they're not able to because of their own level or that of the employers level?
I had one person leave because they were using up their fuel when I had plenty for them to use.
Hopefully, this will change with the next few upgrades that regardless of the level of the employee they will be able to use the employer's tools. It will help them out more.

Beth

[Taz D]

Even if we have it state that employees can use our tools and fuel and they're not able to because of their own level or that of the employers level?
I had one person leave because they were using up their fuel when I had plenty for them to use.
Hopefully, this will change with the next few upgrades that regardless of the level of the employee they will be able to use the employer's tools. It will help them out more.

Beth
Hi Beth,
The coin tools are supposed to work, but quit working a bit back. They haven't fixed that yet.
Any level player is supposed to be able to use the employers tools, but right now it is only farm cash tools. For the fuel it has always been that if the employee has fuel they use their own until theirs is gone and then they use the employers.

[BethFB]

Hi Beth,
The coin tools are supposed to work, but quit working a bit back. They haven't fixed that yet.
Any level player is supposed to be able to use the employers tools, but right now it is only farm cash tools. For the fuel it has always been that if the employee has fuel they use their own until theirs is gone and then they use the employers.

Thanks Taz, I actually had a hiree quit working for me because he was using up his fuel instead of using mine and I told him that it might need your fuel first and when that's up you use mine. He said that's stupid, I'm gone and left to return to the marketplace. I went back there and I got someone who wouldn't abandon their job. The guy was there complaining about the fuel thing and I told him talk to the people on the forum for insight on it. He said screw the forums they don't care about the game itself. I told him that's your opinion of the forums then and that's your loss as I gain a lot of insight on the game via the people on the forum.

Beth

[Taz D]

Thanks Taz, I actually had a hiree quit working for me because he was using up his fuel instead of using mine and I told him that it might need your fuel first and when that's up you use mine. He said that's stupid, I'm gone and left to return to the marketplace. I went back there and I got someone who wouldn't abandon their job. The guy was there complaining about the fuel thing and I told him talk to the people on the forum for insight on it. He said screw the forums they don't care about the game itself. I told him that's your opinion of the forums then and that's your loss as I gain a lot of insight on the game via the people on the forum.

Beth
Hi Beth,
Thanks for the vote of confidence. That fuel rule has been in place that way since they allowed the use of employer's fuel. Before that if the worker ran out of fuel then they could only use the single tools. I have a feeling that he won't get hired or won't ever complete a job.

[BethFB]

Hi Beth,
Thanks for the vote of confidence. That fuel rule has been in place that way since they allowed the use of employer's fuel. Before that if the worker ran out of fuel then they could only use the single tools. I have a feeling that he won't get hired or won't ever complete a job.

Thanks Taz. I agree, he won't be able to complete a job because of that or if he does it would take him hours to do.

Beth

[leighwj1960]

Thanks Taz. I agree, he won't be able to complete a job because of that or if he does it would take him hours to do.

Beth

The solution to that is use up your fuel at your own farm before going to the marketplace to look for a job. There - problem solved!! http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[GRB]

With the addition of the Super Neighbor, I believe the intent of the Developers was to help farmers who for whatever reason, had to take a leave from the game. I was not intended for someone else to constantly do your farming.

[rjohn726]

Thanks for the improvements today in harvesting with a Super Neighbor.

In the past I needed to hit the Escape key to make the farm small as the harvesting was stuck and did nothing until I hit the Escape key.

Then the system seemed to add up stuff and get un-stugk. Then I made the farm big again and continued on with the Harvesting with the Super Neighbor.

I needed to do that with almost every farm I have.

Today I didn't need to do that at all, at least with the crops, I'll go on and see if the Trees are also ok, I haven't done the trees yet.

Thanks

[rjohn726]

The trees are still very difficule to harvest with a super Neighbor

[rjohn726]

The flowers are still fine.

I have always liked the way the flowers were harvested.

I just you would or could harvest the trees the same way that you harvest the flowers.

I know, it's just a part of the game.

[vonalm]

i worked my friend's farm as a super neighbor yesterday, and had no problems whatsoever.
h&P, fishing, trees and flowers were done without a hitch! :)

[bridgetdunn]

i love the ideal on super neighbor i was wondering if when we plant for them if we can use our ferteralizer and irragate their crops if they dont have none

[Tiger]

i love the ideal on super neighbor i was wondering if when we plant for them if we can use our ferteralizer and irragate their crops if they dont have none

Hi,

No sorry you can't use yours on their farms, but in a future release we may have access to their manure spreader, mobile sprinklers, if they own them.

[Dawn Bear]

ELLS, your top post sounds like a lawyer puked all over it, I got bored of reading it, good luck getting your message across

Please be kind in your posts. There is no need to make fun of others like that.

[Taz D]

Please be kind in your posts. There is no need to make fun of others like that.
Hi Dawn Bear,
You are quoting a post that was posted over 5 years ago.

[Santmyer]

Recently I have been reading many posts about how farm town should do this or add that to make working overloaded farms posted in the market place easier to work. I find that idea very offensive. There is the opportunity to own multiple farms for crops, trees, flowers, fish. I have all the large tools and can handle almost any overloaded farm with ease, yet I will still leave that type of farm. It is greedy on the poster's behalf.

On the flip side, I have seen a lot of the posts on this forum from those folks that hire and complain that "employees" should be punished for not finishing a farm. When I click on their link that takes me to their farms, I am appalled that they have the audacity to whine. How dare they when they have trees on top of 3x3 crops, on top of multiple oceans. Shame on you!

[dogdays]

it would help to have farms to where you can see what needs to be done. i have had to give up. because no matter how hard i tried i could not find the last item to be took care of .to get my bonus :(the stupid groves of trees unless i use your tools i will not harvest

[jessiesgram45]

Special Agent Mandii I love your post. Had to respond and let you know. I am just starting back up after being away from the game for many years, however I have 5 farms :-) I do co-op quest and individual quest. I try to remember what I need for faculties still working on that. However when I do go to the marketplace for work. I always say Hi Everyone, of course no one responds. I don't beg for a job. OMG I hate when people beg for a job. Well I got off track here but I wanted to say EXCELLENT post!

[CaroE]

it would help to have farms to where you can see what needs to be done. i have had to give up. because no matter how hard i tried i could not find the last item to be took care of .to get my bonus :(the stupid groves of trees unless i use your tools i will not harvest

There is an eye icon that appears in the bottom right hand corner when working - if you close it fully you will find the missing items - it is amazing to use as I had the same problem as you until I discovered it :)

[Emahenry41]

I'm unable to hire for multiple farms at one time. Some farms are faded when I need to select farms to be worked. I go to multiple hire click what I want done then to farms to be worked. When I click on the first farm it goes to the employee for hire before I can click the others. Anyone have similar problem?

[Taz D]

I'm unable to hire for multiple farms at one time. Some farms are faded when I need to select farms to be worked. I go to multiple hire click what I want done then to farms to be worked. When I click on the first farm it goes to the employee for hire before I can click the others. Anyone have similar problem?
Hi Emahenry,
When you go to the page to select farms for them to work, look at the top of that and select the tab that says Select Multiple Farms. Your farms should then each have a check box to the left side of them for you to select which farms you want them to work.

[maddiesauntie]

Super Neighbors should be able to edit farm names. . . If we trust them enough to do the work, we should trust them to rename the farms so everyone knows when the crops are ready :)

[Emahenry41]

I am unable to click on farms and hire for all. I can only do one at a time.

[Taz D]

I am unable to click on farms and hire for all. I can only do one at a time.
Hi Ema,
When you to the pop up to hire and get to the second page to choose farms click on the Mutiple Farms button at the top. then you can hire for more than one farm.

[sally ziemer]

One of my neighbors has posted for workers on her farm and i can't find it. This has happened more than once and I don't understand if I did something wrong. Thanks

[Tiger]

One of my neighbors has posted for workers on her farm and i can't find it. This has happened more than once and I don't understand if I did something wrong. Thanks

Hi sally ziemer,

Is this facility work you are looking for? Try the "Show Farm Town Wall Requests" page, it will show all farm town posts from your friends there. You get to it via the My Requests tab at the top of your game screen.

[sheric9]

Does anyone know what the colours mean? I was hired to work 20 farms and the different farms were coloured mauve and blue, the one I was on was yellow. just wondering

[Taz D]

Does anyone know what the colours mean? I was hired to work 20 farms and the different farms were coloured mauve and blue, the one I was on was yellow. just wondering
Hi Cheric,
When you are hired the blue farms are the ones you are hired to work as well as the yellow one which indicates the farm you are on. The mauve color means those farms are fertilize but you weren't hired for those.

[Pooky2483]

This has happened quite a number of times.

I hire someone to harvest and plough my farm(s) and when I come back, ALL my farms have gone to waste. I can appreciate it if someone had lost internet connection for some reason, but it is STILL happening when I ask a super farmer to work on my farm(s).

If someone doesn’t want to do the job for some reason then they should NOT accept the job in the first place. It's not just my farm(s), it's happening to my wife's farm(s) too.

[cherd1]

One of the reasons that I like the game is that it has always been one in which I control what I want to do. Now when I am working on someone's farm the game is dictating which tool I use. Yes, I know I can pick another but I want to pick my own from the outset. e.g. I finish harvesting crops and there are a number of flowers to harvest but the game gives me a fishing tool to fish in the water in the pig sty. I don't want to fish in the pig sty. If there is one tree to be chopped, it gives me a chain saw. If I use the chainsaw, I have just wasted fuel for 8 coins. Let me choose what I want to do and in the order that I want to do it. If I wanted to have the game direct my actions, I could go play a Zynga game. But, don't want to play that way.

[kmasco91]

I'm not sure if this has been suggested before but I think it would be nice to hire people to seed as well. Perhaps getting to pick what seed for what farm. I'm sure people would love the extra XP for it.

[Irene Jater]

I have been playing FT for a very long time. When I needed someone to help with my farms,I would go to the market,where other like minded people would be and be assured that the person I had hired would complete the job.
Slowly this has been changing. Firstly,- folks there are very rude when you are in the market or leave a rude message on my farm. Second, - I have come around men who seem to think it OK to use the market as a dating service. Third, - When you do eventually get someone to work,they have great pleasue in leaving your farm and not finishing.
I am wondering if there are other ways of hiring folks to work,without going to the market..a group on Facebook maybe.
Thank you

[Taz D]

I have been playing FT for a very long time. When I needed someone to help with my farms,I would go to the market,where other like minded people would be and be assured that the person I had hired would complete the job.
Slowly this has been changing. Firstly,- folks there are very rude when you are in the market or leave a rude message on my farm. Second, - I have come around men who seem to think it OK to use the market as a dating service. Third, - When you do eventually get someone to work,they have great pleasue in leaving your farm and not finishing.
I am wondering if there are other ways of hiring folks to work,without going to the market..a group on Facebook maybe.
Thank you
Hi Irene,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread aboout Hiring as this is more a complaint rather than a question we can answer. Unfortunately we can not control how people act in the market or about being hired. ZFor those who want to use the market as a dating place you can report those and they will be blocked from you. If there are any groups on Facebook for hiring you will need to search those out for your self as they are not part of Farm Town nor are they controlled by Farm Town.

[Tiger]

I have been playing FT for a very long time. When I needed someone to help with my farms,I would go to the market,where other like minded people would be and be assured that the person I had hired would complete the job.
Slowly this has been changing. Firstly,- folks there are very rude when you are in the market or leave a rude message on my farm. Second, - I have come around men who seem to think it OK to use the market as a dating service. Third, - When you do eventually get someone to work,they have great pleasue in leaving your farm and not finishing.
I am wondering if there are other ways of hiring folks to work,without going to the market..a group on Facebook maybe.
Thank you

Hi Irene Tater,

You have the ability to block anyone who sends you rude messages. Open the message and click on the red round circle with a line through it. This will send them to your blocked list and you will never get any messages from them again until you remove them from that list. If they are abusive to you, you may report them, for that option use the red flag attached to the message. That will report them to the developers and also send them to your blocked list and then they will be prevented from sending messages to anyone for a set amount of time.

I'm sure there are groups on facebook that can be very helpful, but I'm sorry you will not find them named in this forum as it against forum policy.

[Irene Jater]

Thank you very much for your reply. All of your suggestions have been done,thank you. I understand its against forum policy. And I have looked on facebook but Im unable to find any which people use regularly. With all the people that use FT,you would thing there would be loads and loads :(
Im finding it difficult to find decent workers.

[dell466]

Hi Irene,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread aboout Hiring as this is more a complaint rather than a question we can answer. Unfortunately we can not control how people act in the market or about being hired. ZFor those who want to use the market as a dating place you can report those and they will be blocked from you. If there are any groups on Facebook for hiring you will need to search those out for your self as they are not part of Farm Town nor are they controlled by Farm Town.

I would like to see the option to fire a rude worker. In several cases, after hiring multiple workers to take care of 19 farms with plenty of work to be shared, there has been some greedy worker complain that they only work alone. My standard reply is "My Farm, My Rules". If I could immediately fire them I would. Instead, I immediately choose the ignore option so that I do not hire them again in the future. By having the option to fire them immediately, it might teach them some manners.

[Taz D]

I would like to see the option to fire a rude worker. In several cases, after hiring multiple workers to take care of 19 farms with plenty of work to be shared, there has been some greedy worker complain that they only work alone. My standard reply is "My Farm, My Rules". If I could immediately fire them I would. Instead, I immediately choose the ignore option so that I do not hire them again in the future. By having the option to fire them immediately, it might teach them some manners.
Hi dell,
I am sorry but the developers have said they will not give us a way to fire a worker, nor will they give us a rating system. The only option you have is to ignore them as you have.

[Dan H]

This has happened quite a number of times.

I hire someone to harvest and plough my farm(s) and when I come back, ALL my farms have gone to waste. I can appreciate it if someone had lost internet connection for some reason, but it is STILL happening when I ask a super farmer to work on my farm(s).

If someone doesn’t want to do the job for some reason then they should NOT accept the job in the first place. It's not just my farm(s), it's happening to my wife's farm(s) too.

Why don't you work your wife's farms and she work yours? That's what my wife and I started doing several years ago. Problem solved.

[leighwj1960]

I would like to see the option to fire a rude worker. In several cases, after hiring multiple workers to take care of 19 farms with plenty of work to be shared, there has been some greedy worker complain that they only work alone. My standard reply is "My Farm, My Rules". If I could immediately fire them I would. Instead, I immediately choose the ignore option so that I do not hire them again in the future. By having the option to fire them immediately, it might teach them some manners.

I respect your right to hire multiple people but I would like to explain my reason for wanting to work alone.
I find that if there are multiple people working on the same farm at the same time my computer tends to freeze. This is why when I go to the marketplace to get hired I change my status to state that I will do all jobs but request solo only. If multiple people show up and I was hired for multiple farms I will go to the last farm in order and work backwards, if that isn't possible then I will just go back to my farm.

[bluehair]

I respect your right to hire multiple people but I would like to explain my reason for wanting to work alone.
I find that if there are multiple people working on the same farm at the same time my computer tends to freeze. This is why when I go to the marketplace to get hired I change my status to state that I will do all jobs but request solo only. If multiple people show up and I was hired for multiple farms I will go to the last farm in order and work backwards, if that isn't possible then I will just go back to my farm.


I am the same..also if I am hired to do harvesting and plowing and I see someone else already working on that farm I will go to another farm

[hancockcharlotte]

I agree with you.

[Pamgow]

Ditto. Sometimes I'm the only one there when I first get hired and then all of a sudden things come to a screeching slow down an I notice that there are suddenly more workers. I move on to another farm and forego any bonus I may have earned. It's not worth the jerky slow/freezing with the additional workers.

[ccheney]

When I am hired along with others to do all jobs it seems that everyone goes for H/P first which is fine and after I do my share ( I try not to hog everything as some people do) I move on to trees or flowers and everyone else stands around and waits for me to finish that so they can collect the bonus for the H/P they did. My trick is to hide my avatar in the trees start chopping or shaking trees or chopping flowers and then stop and click go offline so they think I left. Sometimes they finish but usually one by one everyone leaves. So I then comeback online so the farm owner can see someone is still there working continue on my own on that farm and the remaining farms. I'm not about to give others a free ride. If you want the bonus when you are working with me you have to help finish the job and that means do a little of everything you were hired to do.

[BethFB]

I tend to hire one person at a time for everything, but on occasion the other person leaves after doing one or two farms which leaves me in a bind as I usually am sowing my fields that the person has done only to go to my fourth farm to find it not even worked on. I have to then, stop everything, go to the market, hire another person and tell them in a PM that this is for all the farms that someone else didn't finish if you cannot handle it, tell me right now so I can hire more people. They usually come back with I will finish all jobs that I am hired for. I like those types of people.
The ones who waste my time is usually those who just want to harvest and plow one farm and then run with what bonuses that they have.

Beth

[KnittyGirl]

I love your "solution"!!

[KnittyGirl]

BethFB, sometimes it's not the workers' fault as their computer may be too slow and it crashes on them or kicks them off - this has happened to me - and there's no way of letting the farmer know. I try to drop a message as soon as I get hired when I see that it's a huge job and that way, when they answer back, I have a way of contacting them that I got kicked off and can get rehired. And, then again, there are those who just don't care. I always finish, unless my computer gets a wild hair up her butt and kicks me off! Lol

[Dulcinea]

You could also try adding them to your Buddy list.

[Aussie Rae]

You could also try adding them to your Buddy list.

Buddys do not get to claim the Bonus Chest so there is no point adding anyone unless they want to work for far less than they could.. Bonus gives Double XP, Coins and Goods..

[Dulcinea]

I don't know, I haven't worked for anyone in the marketplace in years. But back in the day, when we were hired, as a precaution in case we got kicked, we would add one another to our buddy lists. Why the buddy list would interfere with claiming the bonus chest now, I have no idea.

[Taz D]

I don't know, I haven't worked for anyone in the marketplace in years. But back in the day, when we were hired, as a precaution in case we got kicked, we would add one another to our buddy lists. Why the buddy list would interfere with claiming the bonus chest now, I have no idea.
Hi Dulcinea,
When the bonus chest was added it was set as only for strangers from the marketplace. Neighbors and buddies do not get the bonus chest.

[Dulcinea]

That's funny! What else is the buddy list good for, if not for finding people who aren't your neighbors? :lol: That's the only thing I ever used it for, anyway. But hiring strangers is so darn unreliable, I gave up on all that long ago.

[Aussie Rae]

That's funny! What else is the buddy list good for, if not for finding people who aren't your neighbors? :lol: That's the only thing I ever used it for, anyway. But hiring strangers is so darn unreliable, I gave up on all that long ago.

I think the Buddy list is old and outdated now that we have the Bonus Chest and the option to hire Super Neighbors to do our work, maybe Slashkey will remove it as time goes on..

[Dulcinea]

I think the Buddy list is old and outdated now that we have the Bonus Chest and the option to hire Super Neighbors to do our work, maybe Slashkey will remove it as time goes on..

I personally wouldn't miss it. You know what's interesting, though. Most every time I go to the buy and sell marketplace, someone there wants to add me to their buddy list. They don't try to buy anything from me or sell me anything; they simply ask if they can add me as a buddy. I've always wondered if they had a purpose in doing this, or if they were simply newbies with no idea what the buddy list was for.

[BethFB]

I just hired someone who is a level 48 to harvest and plow 23 fields. The first plot she did was with one of my bigger tools and then suddenly she went to the single harvester and plower. I gave her the ability to use my fuel and my tools, I even told her that she could use the bigger tools.
Is it because she doesn't have the bigger tools that she cannot use mine?

Thanks.
Beth

[BethFB]

And the hired girl left without finishing. :(

Beth

[Tiger]

I just hired someone who is a level 48 to harvest and plow 23 fields. The first plot she did was with one of my bigger tools and then suddenly she went to the single harvester and plower. I gave her the ability to use my fuel and my tools, I even told her that she could use the bigger tools.
Is it because she doesn't have the bigger tools that she cannot use mine?

Thanks.
Beth

Hi Beth,

As she started using your tools she must have had access to them. She may just be inexperienced as she is at a low level. If she was full screen she wouldn't have seen chat messages at the bottom of the game screen. I'm afraid only she knows why she changed what she did and left. Hope your next worker is better for you.

[BethFB]

Thanks Tiger, she didn't show up in the marketplace either so I think she may had to get off the computer fast. I hired two more workers and they finished the job in no time. I just wished that she kept doing the bigger tool as it would have leveled her up quickly as it did with several other low level workers that I hire and they were able to use my bigger tools just fine.
I think you are right about her, she was inexperienced in the bigger tools.

Beth

[Aussie Rae]

the last couple of days I have hired people from the market place who seem to have absolutely no idea that its best to hide everything before loading farms..and they try to harvest and plow with your facilities showing.. and then complain they cannot get a few that are under buildings.. also leaving crops on farms so they are not getting the Bonus Chest payout.. am fed up with these rank beginners who refuse to listen when you try to help them by message or on farm chat.. about to stop visiting the market place again.. I stopped previously due to shoddy farmers... about time to stop again... sorry, just had to have a grumble.. :)

[rebeccakeel]

for the last 3 or 4 days I cant hire one person for multiple jobs. I can only hire them for one farm at a time. It only allows me to click on one farm for them to work and closes out.

[marymarcel]

for the last 3 or 4 days I cant hire one person for multiple jobs. I can only hire them for one farm at a time. It only allows me to click on one farm for them to work and closes out.

Hi rebeccakeel:)

When you get the screen with the names of all your farms, you will see 2 buttons above the names:
Select one farm
Select multiple farms

Please click in Select multiple farms button to be able to hire for multiple farms.

[*Kai*]

Today something strange happened.. i hired someone at the market to harvest and plow all my farms. I am 100% sure that i clicked on "hire multiple" and then ticked "hire to harvest crops" and "Hire to plow". Selected "All Farms" and let her use my tools and fuel.

I even went back to the market and checked by clicking on another farmer.. only harvest and plow were ticked.

But still, the farmer i hired managed to harvest everything, and i mean EVERYTHING ! on my farms ? Flowers, trees, crops.. even caught the bloody fish ! what the H*** is going on ? ?

[Tiger]

Today something strange happened.. i hired someone at the market to harvest and plow all my farms. I am 100% sure that i clicked on "hire multiple" and then ticked "hire to harvest crops" and "Hire to plow". Selected "All Farms" and let her use my tools and fuel.

I even went back to the market and checked by clicking on another farmer.. only harvest and plow were ticked.

But still, the farmer i hired managed to harvest everything, and i mean EVERYTHING ! on my farms ? Flowers, trees, crops.. even caught the bloody fish ! what the H*** is going on ? ?

Hi Kai,

Sorry for the delay in replying, with it being the weekend we are a little thin on the ground.

How many times has this happened?

We will try testing this to see if we can duplicate it.

Let us know if it happens again.

EDIT TO ADD >>

We have done some testing and are unable to reproduce this. Just in case it was stray data causing the miss hire, can you please try clearing your FT memcache. To do that Click Here (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached). A window will open with a list of "unsetting", that is the memcache being cleared. Close that window and FT if you have it open in another window. Then reload and try hiring for just HP again.

Do report back if you still get the problem.

[Dutch85]

I don't usually go to the market and look for jobs, but a few days ago I decided to go and try to make some coins by working for other farmers. I never noticed this before, but there are so many looking for work and hardly anyone there to hire them. I checked a few different servers, and it's the same everywhere I go-no one is hiring and everyone wants to work.

[dkbrat]

I personally wouldn't miss it. You know what's interesting, though. Most every time I go to the buy and sell marketplace, someone there wants to add me to their buddy list. They don't try to buy anything from me or sell me anything; they simply ask if they can add me as a buddy. I've always wondered if they had a purpose in doing this, or if they were simply newbies with no idea what the buddy list was for.

I added a lot of people to buddy list that do Co-op quests. I can go to their farms when I am desperately looking for that one obscure ingredient. I think that is why people ask to add me to buddy list as I have Co-op quests in my avatar name

[artbee]

we should have caps the same colour of our tools green cap if you have 5 by 5 with H. or P a flower on top for flower harvest. when you doing a job with someone with big tools it not good. but some big job you need 4 people with small tools

[chriscotterill]

There have been some problems with the bonuses given when you fish for other farmers in the last 24-48 hours.

No coins were given and it seemed that the problem was fixed.

Until now I did not realise that the bonus coins and bonus fish have been cut down to about 20% what they used to be.

Is this an ongoing concern or is this now going to be the norm.

I wish that we were informed when major changes like this happen to the game.

You would now more than likely not want to fish for other farms.

Please let us know what is going on.

[Taz D]

There have been some problems with the bonuses given when you fish for other farmers in the last 24-48 hours.

No coins were given and it seemed that the problem was fixed.

Until now I did not realise that the bonus coins and bonus fish have been cut down to about 20% what they used to be.

Is this an ongoing concern or is this now going to be the norm.

I wish that we were informed when major changes like this happen to the game.

You would now more than likely not want to fish for other farms.

Please let us know what is going on.
Hi chriscotterill,
ANy time there is a change done on purpose the developers always post those changes in the release announcement. This was not a change, but was a glitch.
The developers are working on fixing this. We just have to be patient until they get the issues with this fixed.

[maddshots]

With the green hand and being able to stack so much now it is getting insane with the waters. I spent over 2 hours yesterday at the market fishing ONE farm! AND I do have a turbo boat! Granted I got over 200 million bonus coins but 2 hours for 1 farms fishing/ this is insane! And now many farms have several farms of these insane amounts of waters/ not just one farm/one is not told when hired that " I have so much water, plan to spend the day at it"! I get hired for some with hundreds of lakes/seas/etc. on all the farms up to 29 of them! We need fishing fleets! A group of turbo boats that will do all waters at once. I would be willing to pay FC for that! Tried to put this in suggestions but it said I do not have permission

[marymarcel]

With the green hand and being able to stack so much now it is getting insane with the waters. I spent over 2 hours yesterday at the market fishing ONE farm! AND I do have a turbo boat! Granted I got over 200 million bonus coins but 2 hours for 1 farms fishing/ this is insane! And now many farms have several farms of these insane amounts of waters/ not just one farm/one is not told when hired that " I have so much water, plan to spend the day at it"! I get hired for some with hundreds of lakes/seas/etc. on all the farms up to 29 of them! We need fishing fleets! A group of turbo boats that will do all waters at once. I would be willing to pay FC for that! Tried to put this in suggestions but it said I do not have permission

Hi maddshots:)

I moved your post to the thread for feedback for hiring.

You can't start a new thread in Suggestions section, but you can post as a response to a thread that fits with your idea. Please try this.

[ccheney]

I've run into heavily layered fish farms too. The problem is we need an insane amount of fish.

[Vivienne57]

Hi Kai,

Sorry for the delay in replying, with it being the weekend we are a little thin on the ground.

How many times has this happened?

We will try testing this to see if we can duplicate it.

Let us know if it happens again.

EDIT TO ADD >>

We have done some testing and are unable to reproduce this. Just in case it was stray data causing the miss hire, can you please try clearing your FT memcache. To do that Click Here (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached). A window will open with a list of "unsetting", that is the memcache being cleared. Close that window and FT if you have it open in another window. Then reload and try hiring for just HP again.

Do report back if you still get the problem.

Strange things do happen occasionally. One day I went on my farm and someone was there harvesting and plowing and I never hired anybody I had just logged on. She wasn't a neighbour or a friend because I checked. It was so painful watching her using the single harvest and plow tool so I hired her just so she could use my big tools. Not been back since.

[Dutch85]

I have a question...I know we get extra when we hire from the market, and the worker gets the bonus chest. Does this also apply if we hire a stranger from the inn? The game guide only mentions hiring from the market.

[Taz D]

I have a question...I know we get extra when we hire from the market, and the worker gets the bonus chest. Does this also apply if we hire a stranger from the inn? The game guide only mentions hiring from the market.
Hi Dutch,
It works from either market and from the Inn. You just can't hire them on a farm.

[Dutch85]

Thank you Taz

[*Kai*]

Hi Kai,

Sorry for the delay in replying, with it being the weekend we are a little thin on the ground.

How many times has this happened?

We will try testing this to see if we can duplicate it.

Let us know if it happens again.

EDIT TO ADD >>

We have done some testing and are unable to reproduce this. Just in case it was stray data causing the miss hire, can you please try clearing your FT memcache. To do that Click Here (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached). A window will open with a list of "unsetting", that is the memcache being cleared. Close that window and FT if you have it open in another window. Then reload and try hiring for just HP again.

Do report back if you still get the problem.

It only happened once, i haven't seen her on the market since (or she changed her name )

[*Kai*]

It only happened once, i haven't seen her on the market since (or she changed her name )

Well.. another farmer just did it again. I hired her on the market and i know i only ticked "hire to harvest crops and plow" and let her use my tools and fuel. And yet she did all my trees too !!

I even asked her how the hell she managed to harvest the trees, and then clicked on her once more. ONLY ! "hire to harvest crops, and plow " was checked !

I'm so tired of this, i dont want my trees done, i use them mainly for decoration.

Edit..and now she's busy doing all my flowers too.. i hate this !

[marymarcel]

Well.. another farmer just did it again. I hired her on the market and i know i only ticked "hire to harvest crops and plow" and let her use my tools and fuel. And yet she did all my trees too !!

I even asked her how the hell she managed to harvest the trees, and then clicked on her once more. ONLY ! "hire to harvest crops, and plow " was checked !

I'm so tired of this, i dont want my trees done, i use them mainly for decoration.

Edit..and now she's busy doing all my flowers too.. i hate this !

Hi Kai:)

Which tool is she using to harvest your trees and flowers? Is she harvesting them one by one?

[*Kai*]

Hi Kai:)

Which tool is she using to harvest your trees and flowers? Is she harvesting them one by one?

She was doing both the trees and flowers with a harvester.

I asked her several times how she did that (even after i double checked that only crops and plow was ticked) and she answered :

"with the tools via the toolbox symbol" so apparently she had all the necessary tools available.

[Taz D]

She was doing both the trees and flowers with a harvester.

I asked her several times how she did that (even after i double checked that only crops and plow was ticked) and she answered :

"with the tools via the toolbox symbol" so apparently she had all the necessary tools available.
Hi Kai,
Was she doing the trees and flowers 1 or 2 at a time or larger groups?

[*Kai*]

Hi Kai,
Was she doing the trees and flowers 1 or 2 at a time or larger groups?

Hi Taz.

I'm really not sure, as my trees are not in tight groups, but as i saw it she did them 1 or 2 at a time.

[marymarcel]

Hi Taz.

I'm really not sure, as my trees are not in tight groups, but as i saw it she did them 1 or 2 at a time.

H Kai:)

We have been checking into this and are sending an email to the developers about this problem. Thank you for your report:)

[adinar]

I just became a superneighbor for one of my neighbors who's farm is loaded with everything and the farms are 9xs I went thru 39million cans of fuel in one month just doing those farms. For awhile back I was only working on the quests so hadn't paid attention about the fuel situation thought no problem i'll just get another 25 to 30 million that should be stored at the fuel storage pump and to my surprise when I ran out and when to refuel I had only gotten 9million cans of fuel.Now I'm forced to use that fuel on the neighbor's farms as well as my own . Sure once I run out I can use her for her farms but I'm out of luck for my farms because there's no way I can get my facilities to work fast enough to get a decent amount of fuel.I feel being a superneighbor and being forced to use our own fuel for those neighbors is punnishment. We do all the work and get less than what even those that are hired from the market.Superneighors should have some perks over the standard hires otherwise what's the use of even being a superneighbor? One perk I feel is extremely important is the ability to use the neighbor's fuel not when the superneighbor's has run out but right from the beginning, then at least we have the fuel for our own farms. I don't expect anything positive this complaint will achieve but this is my view and my frustration in how this superneighbor thing is working out.

[Taz D]

I just became a superneighbor for one of my neighbors who's farm is loaded with everything and the farms are 9xs I went thru 39million cans of fuel in one month just doing those farms. For awhile back I was only working on the quests so hadn't paid attention about the fuel situation thought no problem i'll just get another 25 to 30 million that should be stored at the fuel storage pump and to my surprise when I ran out and when to refuel I had only gotten 9million cans of fuel.Now I'm forced to use that fuel on the neighbor's farms as well as my own . Sure once I run out I can use her for her farms but I'm out of luck for my farms because there's no way I can get my facilities to work fast enough to get a decent amount of fuel.I feel being a superneighbor and being forced to use our own fuel for those neighbors is punnishment. We do all the work and get less than what even those that are hired from the market.Superneighors should have some perks over the standard hires otherwise what's the use of even being a superneighbor? One perk I feel is extremely important is the ability to use the neighbor's fuel not when the superneighbor's has run out but right from the beginning, then at least we have the fuel for our own farms. I don't expect anything positive this complaint will achieve but this is my view and my frustration in how this superneighbor thing is working out.
Hi Adinar,
Just to point out a couple things. The reason for releasing the Super Neighbor ability was to be able to help your neighbors when they were not able to work their farms because of vacation or real life interfering. It was not for someone to do your farms for you all the time.
The use of the employer's fuel was added to help those who had a small amount or no fuel who were lower levels to allow them to use the employer's larger tools and not have to harvest crops one by one because they only had small tools and no fuel. It was not designed or planned to allow you to use the employer's fuel just because you are working on their farms.

[RichieRoo]

i have family who don't do jobs in market due to greedy people taking all the work so they only work on my farms to get coins and XP which isn't much i think neighbours should get bonus box as well to help them level up and get coins as not everyone goes to the market for jobs

[marymarcel]

i have family who don't do jobs in market due to greedy people taking all the work so they only work on my farms to get coins and XP which isn't much i think neighbours should get bonus box as well to help them level up and get coins as not everyone goes to the market for jobs


Hi RichieRoo:)

Please post your idea in our Suggestion Section to let the developers read it.

You cant start a new thread there, but you can post as a reply to a thread that fits with your suggestion.

This is the link to that section

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

[bluehair]

so I have hired this person twice now

when I hire a person I let them use my fuel and tools before they get to use my fuel they use their fuel until it runs out.

the first time I hired them they message me a while later saying thank you but you are using my fuel..I explain that when a person hires you you use your fuel first then when you run out you use the person who hires you.

fast forward 3 days later I happen to hire the same person (dont really take much notice of names) they message me you are using my fuel so reply back explaining when someone hires you and they let you use your fuel you use yours first then when you run out of your own fuel you use the person who has hired you.

hopefully they get it now

[Farmer_Susan]

This is a basic question but I don't remember the answer (and am too lazy to look for it at the moment ;) ):

When we're hired to work for neighbors, I know we don't get the coin bonuses. What's the rationale for that? Also, am I right that we DO still get a percentage of anything we harvest? When we don't get any feedback about what we got, it makes it LOOK like we didn't get anything except XPs (which I don't need). Maybe we get coins as we work? I actually haven't noticed. I just know the little treasure chest thingy isn't there so it gives me the sense that there's no feedback.

Also, does it matter if it's a regular neighbor or a super neighbor? Do we get more or less for working one or the other?

I may turn this into a suggestion once I understand for sure what's going on.

Thanks.

[marymarcel]

This is a basic question but I don't remember the answer (and am too lazy to look for it at the moment ;) ):

When we're hired to work for neighbors, I know we don't get the coin bonuses. What's the rationale for that? Also, am I right that we DO still get a percentage of anything we harvest? When we don't get any feedback about what we got, it makes it LOOK like we didn't get anything except XPs (which I don't need). Maybe we get coins as we work? I actually haven't noticed. I just know the little treasure chest thingy isn't there so it gives me the sense that there's no feedback.

Also, does it matter if it's a regular neighbor or a super neighbor? Do we get more or less for working one or the other?

I may turn this into a suggestion once I understand for sure what's going on.

Thanks.

Hi Susan :)

The bonus chest was released to give an incentive to people hired in marketplace.

You have full information about hiring in the following link from our Game Guide:

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=599222

[Memo2014]

I am having an issue with someone harvesting and plowing my farms WITHOUT BEING HIRED!!! Does anyone here know how to stop that? They are going right up under people I DO HIRE and harvesting and plowing. It is pissing me off!!!

[leighwj1960]

Maybe you accidentally set them up as a Super Neighbor. That has happened to me a couple of times.

[Memo2014]

Maybe you accidentally set them up as a Super Neighbor. That has happened to me a couple of times.

How do I know if I have someone set up as a super neighbor? I don't even know what that is. I am just coming back to the game after being away for awhile.

[marymarcel]

How do I know if I have someone set up as a super neighbor? I don't even know what that is. I am just coming back to the game after being away for awhile.

Hi Memo2014 :)

You have information about Superneighbors in the following thread from our Game Guide:

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6024726#post6024726

When you posted about this problem in the Help & Support section, you were answered in the following link:

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6172558#post6172558

[Memo2014]

OK. I checked the super neighbor section of the forum and I don't have anyone on my friends list set up as a super neighbor. :confused:

[Irishgal62]

I just want to post a question, and then see if anyone agrees with me....
If you post that you will do a certain job, you get hired, you do half the job then quit because you don't want to do it anymore....wouldn't that be considered "INCONSIDERATE"?
Here's my point, I hired someone to do a job on my farms that they posted that they wanted to do. They quit right in the middle of the job. My farms are not that hard to do. They said they wanted to do a certain job, so I hired them....then they quit. In a nice tone, (I wasn't angry) I told them not to post that they want to do a certain job and then not complete it. Well I was told that I was rude.....
My whole thing is..."Don't post that you will do a job, then don't complete it"...Don't leave that farmer you're working for in a bind.
Am I right or wrong???
I need to know because I don't want to do anything to be banned for here.

[Angel7]

I just want to post a question, and then see if anyone agrees with me....
If you post that you will do a certain job, you get hired, you do half the job then quit because you don't want to do it anymore....wouldn't that be considered "INCONSIDERATE"?
Here's my point, I hired someone to do a job on my farms that they posted that they wanted to do. They quit right in the middle of the job. My farms are not that hard to do. They said they wanted to do a certain job, so I hired them....then they quit. In a nice tone, (I wasn't angry) I told them not to post that they want to do a certain job and then not complete it. Well I was told that I was rude.....
My whole thing is..."Don't post that you will do a job, then don't complete it"...Don't leave that farmer you're working for in a bind.
Am I right or wrong???
I need to know because I don't want to do anything to be banned for here.

You have to be patient - many people lose their connection with your farm during harvesting, happens to me all the time. And sometimes yes, people will leave, things happen. Phones ring, doorbells ring, parents tell kids they must go to bed right now, etc. etc. If you get upset over this kind of thing, this is not the game for you as this won't ever solve itself, if that makes sense. You can always go to harvesting yourself, that's your only choice around this. Happy farming to ya.....:)

[ccheney]

I understand the frustration. I know things happen. Workers get booted or things happen and you have to stop what you are doing but I have had many workers pick and choose what they will do on my farms once they get there. For instance I ask for someone to harvest and plow crops and harvest and chop trees. They accept and then harvest and plow but then they only harvest one type of tree and chop one type of tree and leave the rest. Then they send a thank you note for the work. In other words they take what they need and leave the rest.

[Irishgal62]

Oh I understand that. My connection gets messed up as well. But I go back and ask them to re-hire me, just so I can complete the job I started, and that I told them I would do...
No, they said they just didn't want to do it anymore and left.
I ask for help in farming to help people level up and earn points. I honor my word; and I guess I've never seen so many who do not honor their word when they give it.
But this will not stop me from farming....I love this game!!!!
Thank you for your replies!!!! :)

[silverfoxx]

So let me see if I understand this correctly. You get no bonus pts which helps you level up if you work for a buddy or a neighbor? Only for strangers in the market place? What is the purpose in having buddies or neighbors if you are being penalized. At least that is how I perceive this. I know I deleted some neighbors that have not played in years and I lost space in my storage. Now I have to ask strangers to friend me on FB in order to add as neighbors to play the game for storage issue. I have a buddy that I am going to undo so that she can get the xp points. Just doesn't make sense to this ole geezer.

[Taz D]

So let me see if I understand this correctly. You get no bonus pts which helps you level up if you work for a buddy or a neighbor? Only for strangers in the market place? What is the purpose in having buddies or neighbors if you are being penalized. At least that is how I perceive this. I know I deleted some neighbors that have not played in years and I lost space in my storage. Now I have to ask strangers to friend me on FB in order to add as neighbors to play the game for storage issue. I have a buddy that I am going to undo so that she can get the xp points. Just doesn't make sense to this ole geezer.
Hi Silverfoxx,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread for discussions about hiring as you are not asking a question or reporting a specific problem that can be fixed.
The purpose of the bonus was to get people to come back to the market to hire and be hired. At the time the market place work was not being accepted because the rewards were not enough for the amount of work they were being asked to do.
If you wish to make a suggestion to change how it is done then please post your suggestion in the Suggestions section. You can not start a new thread there but you can reply to an existing thread that fits your suggestion.

[Kiwi2015]

I agree. I dislike hiring more people than I need. It happens now with out the notice of acceptance.

[ccheney]

You have to be patient - many people lose their connection with your farm during harvesting, happens to me all the time. And sometimes yes, people will leave, things happen. Phones ring, doorbells ring, parents tell kids they must go to bed right now, etc. etc. If you get upset over this kind of thing, this is not the game for you as this won't ever solve itself, if that makes sense. You can always go to harvesting yourself, that's your only choice around this. Happy farming to ya.....:)

The problem is if we lose the connection we have no way of letting the farmer know that we didn't intend to leave the job undone unless we can find each other again in the market place and in my experience that rarely happens. I and others have been suggesting for years that we have a way to go back to the farm we were working on should we get booted off but that suggestion it seems has fallen on deaf ears.

[ccheney]

I agree. I dislike hiring more people than I need. It happens now with out the notice of acceptance.

That happens to me a lot. I can send out 5 or 6 requests before I get a response. Several times recently I have inadvertently hired 2 or more people because I didn't get a response.

I also hate being hired and finding that I am one of 6 hired and we are all using the employer's 18X18 combine. No one gets much of anything from the job and arguing starts over who was harvesting/plowing where. If I see another person there when I'm hired I go to another farm if hired for more than one farm or I just go back to the market place.

[silverfoxx]

thank you Taz,

[ccheney]

I just want to post a question, and then see if anyone agrees with me....
If you post that you will do a certain job, you get hired, you do half the job then quit because you don't want to do it anymore....wouldn't that be considered "INCONSIDERATE"?
Here's my point, I hired someone to do a job on my farms that they posted that they wanted to do. They quit right in the middle of the job. My farms are not that hard to do. They said they wanted to do a certain job, so I hired them....then they quit. In a nice tone, (I wasn't angry) I told them not to post that they want to do a certain job and then not complete it. Well I was told that I was rude.....
My whole thing is..."Don't post that you will do a job, then don't complete it"...Don't leave that farmer you're working for in a bind.
Am I right or wrong???
I need to know because I don't want to do anything to be banned for here.
I agree. I went to the market place a few hours ago and asked who wanted to do stacked fishing on 11 of my farms. One person replied so I hired her. She did one farm then sent me a note saying she only did one farm because it was too much work and she only has a small blue boat. She had the option of using my larger boat since I always check "allow worker to use my tools." Don't accept a big job if you aren't prepared to see it through.

[goldendreamer]

As of today, I am not able to ask for workers for my farms or facilities. Is this happening to others or is is some glitch. Worked fine last night.:(

[marymarcel]

As of today, I am not able to ask for workers for my farms or facilities. Is this happening to others or is is some glitch. Worked fine last night.:(


Hi goldendreamer :)

All posting to facebook seems to be broken. We have emailed the developers about this problem.

[ccheney]

I just left the market place. There were 10 people there. 7 of them had the orange "Hire Me" status and of those 4-5 were saying "Need a job" or Joooob Please! or whatever . I tried to hire each of those 7 people to HP and do trees and every one of them turned me down. Why do people do this? Why turn your status orange and yell for a job if you have no intention of accepting it? I went to another market place which appeared to be same marketplace I just left as the same people were there plus a few more added and I finally got someone to do the work.

[Aussie Rae]

sometimes when you send a hire request, the person to whom its sent takes forever to reply that I tend to try another person, or else they accept but they don't appear to actually go to the farm and start any work.. maybe they have a slow connection or computer... or in a lot of cases, the person does not have every thing hidden in preferences and big farms take forever to load... so many don't seem to understand that they need to have EVERY THING HIDDEN, lol... and then when another person who has a faster computer and internet connection gets hired, they manage to get the work done in record time... I have also experienced workers who don't use the extent tools supplied by me.. have actually found some doing the harvesting, then trying to plow.. when they can do it once using the Harvest Plow Combine.. I think this is why we need a Fire the Worker so that they can them be able to return to market and perhaps get an easier job on a small farm... a lot of them don't finish the work either which is frustrating..

[ccheney]

sometimes when you send a hire request, the person to whom its sent takes forever to reply that I tend to try another person, or else they accept but they don't appear to actually go to the farm and start any work.. maybe they have a slow connection or computer... or in a lot of cases, the person does not have every thing hidden in preferences and big farms take forever to load... so many don't seem to understand that they need to have EVERY THING HIDDEN, lol... and then when another person who has a faster computer and internet connection gets hired, they manage to get the work done in record time... I have also experienced workers who don't use the extent tools supplied by me.. have actually found some doing the harvesting, then trying to plow.. when they can do it once using the Harvest Plow Combine.. I think this is why we need a Fire the Worker so that they can them be able to return to market and perhaps get an easier job on a small farm... a lot of them don't finish the work either which is frustrating..
The not using the extent tools may be for the reason I don't always use them. Not all computers can handle the extent tools. Many times I can get done faster and with less hassle with my little purple 6x6 combine than I can with the largest extent tools.

[Angel7]

I'm getting really really irritated at those people who come to get the crops, but leave the flowers and trees. They are willing to give up their bonuses just so they don't have to spend time doing it. Something needs to be done, either 1. punish them big time - maybe no xp's for any crops when there are items missed on previous farms? or 2. give them the big tools/benefits so they will do them (maybe rent the big tools to them for a percentage of the take). I don't have the money to buy every tool in the book, but I have small tools and loads of fuel, so they shouldn't complain. Something needs to happen here.

[Taz D]

I'm getting really really irritated at those people who come to get the crops, but leave the flowers and trees. They are willing to give up their bonuses just so they don't have to spend time doing it. Something needs to be done, either 1. punish them big time - maybe no xp's for any crops when there are items missed on previous farms? or 2. give them the big tools/benefits so they will do them (maybe rent the big tools to them for a percentage of the take). I don't have the money to buy every tool in the book, but I have small tools and loads of fuel, so they shouldn't complain. Something needs to happen here.
Hi ANgel,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread about Hiring as you are not posting about a problem or question that we can help you with.

[Ellsinore]

I'm getting really really irritated at those people who come to get the crops, but leave the flowers and trees. They are willing to give up their bonuses just so they don't have to spend time doing it. Something needs to be done, either 1. punish them big time - maybe no xp's for any crops when there are items missed on previous farms? or 2. give them the big tools/benefits so they will do them (maybe rent the big tools to them for a percentage of the take). I don't have the money to buy every tool in the book, but I have small tools and loads of fuel, so they shouldn't complain. Something needs to happen here.

Unfortunately, they will always find a way. "Herding cats" comes to mind. You can't change what they do, only what you do. For me, I just do my own farms. BUT if I find someone who does a good job, I Buddy them so I can contact them again. Yes, they are quite rare anymore.

I think the problems you're writing about are also the reasons why it's so hard to actually GET hired in the Market Place now. When I had an hour or so to kill and just wanted to "chill" I would hire out to do some farms. But it seems now there are lots of people looking for work, but few that are actually hiring. And I don't blame them.

I'd like to see a way to "fire" someone who is behaving badly. That would require a new feature, though, because trying to catch those little avatars while they are hopping around -- just to send them a message, for instance -- is almost impossible. :-)

[Aussie Rae]

Unfortunately, they will always find a way. "Herding cats" comes to mind. You can't change what they do, only what you do. For me, I just do my own farms. BUT if I find someone who does a good job, I Buddy them so I can contact them again. Yes, they are quite rare anymore.

I think the problems you're writing about are also the reasons why it's so hard to actually GET hired in the Market Place now. When I had an hour or so to kill and just wanted to "chill" I would hire out to do some farms. But it seems now there are lots of people looking for work, but few that are actually hiring. And I don't blame them.

I'd like to see a way to "fire" someone who is behaving badly. That would require a new feature, though, because trying to catch those little avatars while they are hopping around -- just to send them a message, for instance -- is almost impossible. :-)
I agree we need a "Fired" option that would kick them off the farm if they are not doing what they are hired for.. unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon.... I get frustrated when I hire someone who claims they can do the work, then find they have no idea how to use my Extent tools (Combine) and are instead harvesting, then plowing afterwards.. as well as not unticking the boxes in preferences so the farms load easier.. I have been lucky in the past to find good workers and must admit if I see someone (who was useless) in the market again I tend to click on them and hit the Ignore button so I don't ever hire them again.. a bit drastic but at the moment its the only way..

[Ellsinore]

I agree we need a "Fired" option that would kick them off the farm if they are not doing what they are hired for.. unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon.... I get frustrated when I hire someone who claims they can do the work, then find they have no idea how to use my Extent tools (Combine) and are instead harvesting, then plowing afterwards.. as well as not unticking the boxes in preferences so the farms load easier.. I have been lucky in the past to find good workers and must admit if I see someone (who was useless) in the market again I tend to click on them and hit the Ignore button so I don't ever hire them again.. a bit drastic but at the moment its the only way..

I disagree that it's a bit drastic -- but am pretty much with you on everything else. :-D

On the one hand, I like to help people just starting out. On the other hand, I, too, am often surprised that what would probably be experienced players can make such a mess on a farm. I asked one guy if I forgot to hire him to plow, and he said he thought everything looked fine to him. ? Since I discovered how the great new tools work quite by accident BY working another farm, I don't know why they can't find them. ("Oh! Is THAT what those do?! KEWL!" LOL!)

I steer away from "solo only!" people as they ironically seem to be the worst offenders! :-D

Learning experiences aside, if you agree to do everything on 30+ farms, then that's what should be done. You're right -- a "fire" option probably isn't in our future at all. And I think this because the Devs are SO good about introducing things that people are asking for if it can be done. I know the "fire" option has been discussed for ages.

[Taz D]

I agree we need a "Fired" option that would kick them off the farm if they are not doing what they are hired for.. unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon.... I get frustrated when I hire someone who claims they can do the work, then find they have no idea how to use my Extent tools (Combine) and are instead harvesting, then plowing afterwards.. as well as not unticking the boxes in preferences so the farms load easier.. I have been lucky in the past to find good workers and must admit if I see someone (who was useless) in the market again I tend to click on them and hit the Ignore button so I don't ever hire them again.. a bit drastic but at the moment its the only way..

I disagree that it's a bit drastic -- but am pretty much with you on everything else. :-D

On the one hand, I like to help people just starting out. On the other hand, I, too, am often surprised that what would probably be experienced players can make such a mess on a farm. I asked one guy if I forgot to hire him to plow, and he said he thought everything looked fine to him. ? Since I discovered how the great new tools work quite by accident BY working another farm, I don't know why they can't find them. ("Oh! Is THAT what those do?! KEWL!" LOL!)

I steer away from "solo only!" people as they ironically seem to be the worst offenders! :-D

Learning experiences aside, if you agree to do everything on 30+ farms, then that's what should be done. You're right -- a "fire" option probably isn't in our future at all. And I think this because the Devs are SO good about introducing things that people are asking for if it can be done. I know the "fire" option has been discussed for ages.
Hi Aussie Rae and Ellsinore,
The developers have said all along they will not add a fire option.

[Aussie Rae]

Hi Aussie Rae and Ellsinore,
The developers have said all along they will not add a fire option.

I think we all understand that Taz D, and I am finding its not worth the effort of trying to hire others anymore... easier and much much faster to do all the work myself... a shame that I cannot help others gain the XP coins and goods but thats the way the cookie crumbles, LOL

[clogger]

I have lots of work to do on many farms, but don't expect people I hire to do it all. I hire for flowers only or trees only or fishing only. That way I only get people who are willing to do the flowers, trees, whatever, because that is what they are hired to do.

Personally I don't like people who hire for all jobs on all their farms, and don't accept their offers. I find a lot of those folks don't check what they have available, just hire for all work on all farms. It requires me to show all on each farm, only to find their are no trees ready or no flowers ready etc. Waste of my time and computer space.

[Ellsinore]

At this point, I'm totally confused.

Since working from the market has been on the radar lately, I did that last night. I worked for two farmers. In each case, the tools needed automatically loaded and when the work was done for that tool, the next tool loaded. When there wasn't any more work to do on the farm, the tools weren't available anymore, I collected my bonus and moved on.

Actually, it was tons easier to work farms from the market than is it to work my own. :-D I've often thought it would be nice if the tools for trees, fish, flowers, would "disappear" when all those items are harvested.

But now I can't understand why people I have hired from the market have such a hard time using the new tools. If they're automatically available, why aren't they using them? Is this working this way only because I have them?

[Tiger]

At this point, I'm totally confused.

Since working from the market has been on the radar lately, I did that last night. I worked for two farmers. In each case, the tools needed automatically loaded and when the work was done for that tool, the next tool loaded. When there wasn't any more work to do on the farm, the tools weren't available anymore, I collected my bonus and moved on.

Actually, it was tons easier to work farms from the market than is it to work my own. :-D I've often thought it would be nice if the tools for trees, fish, flowers, would "disappear" when all those items are harvested.

But now I can't understand why people I have hired from the market have such a hard time using the new tools. If they're automatically available, why aren't they using them? Is this working this way only because I have them?

Hi Ellsinore,

If you or they have the bigger tools and fuel, the biggest tool is what they will be given to work with. If they don't have either tools or fuel then they will use yours as long as you have allowed the use of yours and fuel in the hiring window.

If you have allowed them and they still don't use them, then you would have to ask them why.

[Aussie Rae]

I have lots of work to do on many farms, but don't expect people I hire to do it all. I hire for flowers only or trees only or fishing only. That way I only get people who are willing to do the flowers, trees, whatever, because that is what they are hired to do.

Personally I don't like people who hire for all jobs on all their farms, and don't accept their offers. I find a lot of those folks don't check what they have available, just hire for all work on all farms. It requires me to show all on each farm, only to find their are no trees ready or no flowers ready etc. Waste of my time and computer space.

its not necessary to show all, when you get hired and arrive on a farm, the appropriate tool appears for you to use.. once you have done all the available work with that tool, if you have been hired for other work then the tool for that work will appear so you go to preferences and tick the box to show those trees or flowers... once all is done, you go back to preferences and untick that box.. you never load farms with all boxes ticked if hired on big farms... this why so many get booted, their computer cannot handle all the data.. so the flash may stop working for them...I always check via my farm stats to see whats ready before hiring anyone..have gotten picky lately and only hire those I know for sure can do the work.. so many claim they can.. when in fact they can't... due to not knowing how to use the big tools etc..and so many in the market have never been to the forum, never read the Game Guide.. :)

[ccheney]

I'm getting really really irritated at those people who come to get the crops, but leave the flowers and trees. They are willing to give up their bonuses just so they don't have to spend time doing it. Something needs to be done, either 1. punish them big time - maybe no xp's for any crops when there are items missed on previous farms? or 2. give them the big tools/benefits so they will do them (maybe rent the big tools to them for a percentage of the take). I don't have the money to buy every tool in the book, but I have small tools and loads of fuel, so they shouldn't complain. Something needs to happen here.

I have had people who not only left things undone but they chopped/harvested only the flowers and trees they wanted or needed and left the rest. I think the worker should get nothing,no crops no bonus and no xp's unless and until they finish the entire job they were hired to do.

[Connielouboogie]

Do I get experience points if I hire someone else to harvest/plow my crops?

[Taz D]

Do I get experience points if I hire someone else to harvest/plow my crops?
Hi Connielouboogie,
You get 1 experience point for each plowing they do, neither of you get experience points for harvesting as you get the crop instead for that. You can find out all about hiring in the Game Guide chapter on Hiring:
http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=599222

Next time you have a question or problem please post it in the appropriate subject thread in the Help & Support section rather than the General Feedback.

[catherinesmith]

Just a quick thank you very much for adding a hire for all jobs button :)

[leighwj1960]

I have lots of work to do on many farms, but don't expect people I hire to do it all. I hire for flowers only or trees only or fishing only. That way I only get people who are willing to do the flowers, trees, whatever, because that is what they are hired to do.

Personally I don't like people who hire for all jobs on all their farms, and don't accept their offers. I find a lot of those folks don't check what they have available, just hire for all work on all farms. It requires me to show all on each farm, only to find their are no trees ready or no flowers ready etc. Waste of my time and computer space.

Just a little comment on this. I've found that if anyone else is on the farm when I'm working even if we are doing different jobs my computer slows to a crawl and often crashes. I find it works better to hire one person for all jobs but maybe just a few farms not all.

[ccheney]

Just a little comment on this. I've found that if anyone else is on the farm when I'm working even if we are doing different jobs my computer slows to a crawl and often crashes. I find it works better to hire one person for all jobs but maybe just a few farms not all.

Really, with all the huge tools we have now it isn't necessary to hire more than one person. I find that if I am working with others and we are all using the employer's big tools we are just getting in each other's way. That is when I go to another farm or just leave all together.

[Autumn06]

I wish that people would come in here and read about the hiring problems. It is common sense to look to see if someone is already working on your farm, a person you hired, before hiring another person to finish. I have had so many ppl tell me "I didn't get the confirmation" which I know is a problem but please please I wish people would slow down and really look to see if that person is working. It should show up at the top of the game screen that that person is working. Sometimes people will work offline and it will not show them working. Also you can tell if the stuff needed to be done has been done or not, just look. Oh and another thing, a lot of people don't know about the automatic rehire, which is totally awesome. There should be a way for people to check these new details and processes. I know you post it at the top of the game but I get the feeling a lot of people do not read the forums

[Taz D]

I wish that people would come in here and read about the hiring problems. It is common sense to look to see if someone is already working on your farm, a person you hired, before hiring another person to finish. I have had so many ppl tell me "I didn't get the confirmation" which I know is a problem but please please I wish people would slow down and really look to see if that person is working. It should show up at the top of the game screen that that person is working. Sometimes people will work offline and it will not show them working. Also you can tell if the stuff needed to be done has been done or not, just look. Oh and another thing, a lot of people don't know about the automatic rehire, which is totally awesome. There should be a way for people to check these new details and processes. I know you post it at the top of the game but I get the feeling a lot of people do not read the forums
Hi Autumn,
I moved your post to the feedback subject about hiring as you are not posting a problem we can fix or a question we can help you with.

We can not force anyone to read the forums, so it is up to them to come to the forums and at least read the release notes.

[Autumn06]

I'm not sure where to post this question, I've looked in several threads and I still don't know where lol. I did read the most recent update release of farmtown but I didn't see the fix for "automatic rehire." Are you still working on this or are you not going to have it anymore?

[marymarcel]

I'm not sure where to post this question, I've looked in several threads and I still don't know where lol. I did read the most recent update release of farmtown but I didn't see the fix for "automatic rehire." Are you still working on this or are you not going to have it anymore?


Hi Autumn06 :)

From Raul notes for the New Release

Post-Release Info - May 23rd, 2:00AM

- Bugfix: When working neighbour facilities, sometimes the Mayor skipped the facilities on the farm where you landed.
- Enable the auto re-hiring after browser crash/game reload feature. This is a feature we introduced in the previous release that was temporarily disabled and is now enabled again.

[Autumn06]

haha thanks for pointing that out to me and thanks to everyone for the updates

[rodkay1@bigpond.com]

I battle to keep my fuel to give to people working my farms. I have noticed with the new release that it comes up hired with tool and fuel etc. This is great but everytime I get hired by someone that supplies fuel it comes out of mine..they have ticked to use my fuel first. I only have one oil refinery and grab as many free gifts of fuel as possible. Maybe they should add supply fuel (last) to fore warn people. I would gladly give up the work for those with heaps of fuel...I know my limitations...so its just a thought. Have a good day!!

[Tiger]

I battle to keep my fuel to give to people working my farms. I have noticed with the new release that it comes up hired with tool and fuel etc. This is great but everytime I get hired by someone that supplies fuel it comes out of mine..they have ticked to use my fuel first. I only have one oil refinery and grab as many free gifts of fuel as possible. Maybe they should add supply fuel (last) to fore warn people. I would gladly give up the work for those with heaps of fuel...I know my limitations...so its just a thought. Have a good day!!

Hi rodkay1,

If you would like a change to know which fuel option they have chosen before you accept the hire then please place your idea in the suggestions area of the forum where all ideas for the game are gathered, by subject, for them to see. Here's the link to that area>>
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

[Aussie Rae]

after repeatedly trying to hire workers who claim they want work, in some cases they are actually begging for work.... and then being turned down, I have resorted to IGNORING those avatars so I never have to see them again... weeding out the chaff from the wheat so to speak... it may seem drastic but over time I am sure only those who DO WANT TO WORK will appear in the market place, fingers crossed... hahaha...

[Queen.of.Clutter]

after repeatedly trying to hire workers who claim they want work, in some cases they are actually begging for work.... and then being turned down, I have resorted to IGNORING those avatars so I never have to see them again... weeding out the chaff from the wheat so to speak... it may seem drastic but over time I am sure only those who DO WANT TO WORK will appear in the market place, fingers crossed... hahaha...

Amen to that !! I feel the same way - people begging for work, then if they DO take the job, they only pick & choose what they want and never finish. It's to the point that I would just rather do it myself and nuts on the bonus chest ...

I hire for 5 farms at a time and most people only do one .... a lot STILL don't realize you get exp points for trees and flowers - they ONLY want h/p ... it's just easier doing it myself. I still try to hire, but it's more time consuming and frustrating lately ...

[ccheney]

Amen to that !! I feel the same way - people begging for work, then if they DO take the job, they only pick & choose what they want and never finish. It's to the point that I would just rather do it myself and nuts on the bonus chest ...

I hire for 5 farms at a time and most people only do one .... a lot STILL don't realize you get exp points for trees and flowers - they ONLY want h/p ... it's just easier doing it myself. I still try to hire, but it's more time consuming and frustrating lately ...

I am getting that too. I hire multiple farms and only one is done. I was wondering if it was a glitch and they were only seeing one farm highlighted? I am also fed up with people with a red status which means they want work and begging to do all jobs then turning down offers or doing only one part of the job or if I hire for example flowers taking only one type of flower.

[Queen.of.Clutter]

I am getting that too. I hire multiple farms and only one is done. I was wondering if it was a glitch and they were only seeing one farm highlighted? I am also fed up with people with a red status which means they want work and begging to do all jobs then turning down offers of doing only one part of the job or if I hire for example flowers taking only one type of flower.

I don't think it's a glitch, I really believe some farmers are just either uninformed, or downright lazy & feel entitled ... I went to hire yesterday, and I actually ended up with 6 or 7 people that the status color was orange (hired) but they didn't reply. The color changed to yellow? which means they ignored the hire request, but then a few seconds later they are begging for a job.

Again, it's just less hassle to do it myself, and skip out on the supposed bonus we get when we hire from the Marketplace. It's to the point I only post facilities once a week if I'm lucky ... it's not fun anymore, and that tells me I may have to re-think playing. Many years, and an EMBARRASSING amount of real money, and I just feel jaded .... *sigh*

[dleenorris]

I am getting that too. I hire multiple farms and only one is done. I was wondering if it was a glitch and they were only seeing one farm highlighted? I am also fed up with people with a red status which means they want work and begging to do all jobs then turning down offers or doing only one part of the job or if I hire for example flowers taking only one type of flower.

I have had that happen to me before - it only happens if I hire from my Farm 1 - most of the time people will come back and ask me if I hired for more than one field. If I am the one hired and I only get one field, I always ask the other person if that is what I was only hired to do.

[dell466]

I am so fed up with workers who think they are in control when they get hired. I have been berated by workers when I hire more than one to work my farms. Since I am the owner of the farm, I am the only one who has the right to determine who and how many people I hire. I currently have 27 farms and there is plenty to go around if I hire more than one for a specific job. So if you come after me for multiple hiring, be prepare to get marked as ignore. You will be the reason you no longer get hired for work on my farms. There are plenty of other players who will gladly work side by side with others.

[atvchick95]

I am so fed up with workers who think they are in control when they get hired. I have been berated by workers when I hire more than one to work my farms. Since I am the owner of the farm, I am the only one who has the right to determine who and how many people I hire. I currently have 27 farms and there is plenty to go around if I hire more than one for a specific job. So if you come after me for multiple hiring, be prepare to get marked as ignore. You will be the reason you no longer get hired for work on my farms. There are plenty of other players who will gladly work side by side with others.

It is not that we don't like to work with others - we have to fight the game (and sometimes the players) for anything! Example. Most people's internet is faster than mine, so it doesn't matter how fast I can work (which is pretty speedy when I have good internet) also when more than 1 person is hired for the same job, and 1 is done before the other, that one who is done has to fight the game , on constantly reloading the farm so it can reflect the entire job is done, so we can get our bonus and move on. These are the 2 main reasons I have went to wanting Solo work only for the last 8 plus years way before this bonus thing came out, I was so tired of people being scabs and literally hogging the entire farm, instead of working one section and letting the other person (or persons) work other sections, as soon as they notice another person is there they start jumping all over the land harvesting/plowing - what ever the job maybe - so the other persons get little to nothing

Just last night , I asked for work - solo only - I was doing just fine on my own, next thing I know another person hops in, and the entire farm that I hadn't done yet - (it was the biggest land you can get and i had it about half way done) was harvested in like 30 seconds, Yet I spent the next 10 minutes reloading the farm, so the game would finally realize it was done and I could get my bonus and leave all together even though I was hired for several farms, I wasn't fighting no scab for some coins and xp! And there have been times I was just so ticked off after reloading several times and it still telling me there was work to be done, when there was none I just up and leave without a bonus at all! and that is not fair to me(or others who have to do it)

It would be much better for those who prefer to hire more than one person to not hire all the people for the exact same job - especially when the farm is a 12x12 - don't need 7 people to harvest/plow even with my slow internet I can get that done in a minute, I alone can get 34 full to the brim all jobs(meaning harvest/plow, chop trees, shake trees, harvest flowers, and fish stacked/staggered waters of 100 plus on each farm) done in about 30 minutes and I have the slowest internet known to man - it's a a step up from dial up (I'm not kidding! and it's broad band high speed at that!) so if one insists on hiring multiple people hire one to harvest and plow, one to chop, one to shake trees, one to do flowers, one to fish This way everyone gets a job, everyone gets bonuses without issues, and frustrations, and no one can be a scab and steal all the work from others. The game has made me "Chop" tree STUMPS because it's all that showed b/c a scab took them all, but it refused to show it was a complete job, every time I reloaded there were only tree stumps, I had to click them - wasting my fuel and time, to get a tiny bit of coins and like 4 xp


As for those in the Market place begging non stop I am convinced they are using hacking software to play the game! I can't prove it of course, but I've played long enough and several other similar games, to know a "Bot" when I see one They set the program to do specific things, and it works the game when they're no where near the game !

[Autumn06]

TOTALLY TOTALLY AGREE WITH ATVCHICK95. A lot of people do not know how to "think outside the box." not trying to sound mean, but that is exactly what I do. You have to get creative with your thinking. You can't expect the creators and developers of farmtown to FIX everything, because they CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE. I hire someone to do their own chore so that he/she is working SOLO for that one chore, or two. Another idea is that if you do have a lot of farms, you can hire one person to do ALL jobs for say 1/2 your farms then hire another person to do ALL chores for the rest of your farms. Because even tho lots of people like to do multiple farms, sometimes they have to leave and don't tell you why. We don't normally have to rehire someone again since we have the "auto rehire" option. But if for some reason that person you hired doesn't come back, at least you have someone else doing the rest of your farms. then you can ask that person who is already working to do the farms that the other person left. There are so many options we can do ourselves without having the creators and developers fix for us.

[leighwj1960]

TOTALLY TOTALLY AGREE WITH ATVCHICK95. A lot of people do not know how to "think outside the box." not trying to sound mean, but that is exactly what I do. You have to get creative with your thinking. You can't expect the creators and developers of farmtown to FIX everything, because they CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE. I hire someone to do their own chore so that he/she is working SOLO for that one chore, or two. Another idea is that if you do have a lot of farms, you can hire one person to do ALL jobs for say 1/2 your farms then hire another person to do ALL chores for the rest of your farms. Because even tho lots of people like to do multiple farms, sometimes they have to leave and don't tell you why. We don't normally have to rehire someone again since we have the "auto rehire" option. But if for some reason that person you hired doesn't come back, at least you have someone else doing the rest of your farms. then you can ask that person who is already working to do the farms that the other person left. There are so many options we can do ourselves without having the creators and developers fix for us.

In addition to having trouble when others are hired for the same farm I have trouble when the person who hired me is on the farm planting while I'm harvesting. This is why I stay off of my farms until I get the notice that my hire has finished and moved to another farm.

[hancockcharlotte]

When there is a second or third farmer on one farm the bonus cannot be received by me. I try never to harvest etc. On a farm that another farmer is working but i hace been deprived of my bonus by other farmers. I never intentionally hire more than one farmer for a farm. It just isn't considerate or polite. I feel that doing so is rude.

[atvchick95]

In addition to having trouble when others are hired for the same farm I have trouble when the person who hired me is on the farm planting while I'm harvesting. This is why I stay off of my farms until I get the notice that my hire has finished and moved to another farm.

I was starting to think that was only an issue for me! I was blaming my internet LOL but every time the farm owner is on the land working - planting seeds- it lags me out, and I keep getting the pop up about what ever it was they planted in the end it takes me longer to do the job and I've even hid crops after I was done harvesting /plowing, or if it was just a empty plowed field when I was hired to do other stuff, and it still does it every time

[atvchick95]

When there is a second or third farmer on one farm the bonus cannot be received by me. I try never to harvest etc. On a farm that another farmer is working but i hace been deprived of my bonus by other farmers. I never intentionally hire more than one farmer for a farm. It just isn't considerate or polite. I feel that doing so is rude.

Yep, when that happens you have to keep hitting reload for that farm, until the game finally recognizes the job(s) are done, and not only is it annoying, but it's time consuming, I could of had my bonus collected and moved on to the next farm by the time I finally get it to see it's done and give me my bonus , now due to that - if I see someone else on the farm (and it's not the owner) before I start working and I was hired to do more than one farm I'll just to the last farm I was hired to do and work my way back, typically doing this -makes it as "Solo" as you can get when they hire multiple people. Especially if you work faster than the other person/people , example a few days ago I was hired for 30 farms, farm 1 had 3 other people which I saw them before I even started so I jumped to farm 30 by the time I finally met back up with any of them I was on like farm 10 and just finishing up when they ''arrived" . so I grabbed my bonus and headed back to the market place didn't bother to check any other farms to see if they did it all or not. It's the only way I can handle doing farms when they hire more than one.

And I agree it is rude of them to hire more than one for the same job especially when you specifically ask to do jobs solo

[ccheney]

I have 32 farms and most of them have everything on them. If I have all jobs available on my farms I break it up. I'll hire someone to do H/P and someone else to do trees and someone else to fish and someone to do flowers. That way no one is fighting over things and everyone gets something and they won't feel overwhelmed if they don't have large tools or tools larger than my 10x10 tools.

[ccheney]

And I agree it is rude of them to hire more than one for the same job especially when you specifically ask to do jobs solo

I also think it is rude to hire more than one person for the same job when they are all using the employers extended tools. No one is getting anything that way. What I do when that happens and if there are several farms given I will go to the last farm and work it and work my way up.

[leighwj1960]

I have 32 farms and most of them have everything on them. If I have all jobs available on my farms I break it up. I'll hire someone to do H/P and someone else to do trees and someone else to fish and someone to do flowers. That way no one is fighting over things and everyone gets something and they won't feel overwhelmed if they don't have large tools or tools larger than my 10x10 tools.

If I have multiple farms I tend to hire people to do all the jobs but split the farms up. For example 1 person might do all jobs on farms 1-4 and another 2-8.
I do it this way because just having someone else on the farm working even if we are not doing the same jobs tends to crash my computer or at least slow it to a crawl. I've even had trouble if the farm owner is replanting at the same time which is why I don't go to my farm until all the work is done.

[james_a_thompson]

Has anyone listed crops in order of cost effectiveness (e.g. largest coin gain based on purchase price, sale price, and growing time)? If so, where are the results posted?

[Taz D]

Has anyone listed crops in order of cost effectiveness (e.g. largest coin gain based on purchase price, sale price, and growing time)? If so, where are the results posted?
Hi James,
If anyone has it will be posted in the following thread:
http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=525662

[Sylentiger]

Help, I do not know where to post this, I am having trouble in both MarketPlaces, for hiring and also for selling. There is no one there. I have cleaned cookies, cache, meme, and rebooted and there is still no players in the MarketPlace or the INN.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Sylentiger]

Ignore the last post. I solved the mystery! Somehow the language selection on the marketplace tab was changed and that language has no players. I never saw that selection before. Guess ya do learn something new every day :)

[marymarcel]

Help, I do not know where to post this, I am having trouble in both MarketPlaces, for hiring and also for selling. There is no one there. I have cleaned cookies, cache, meme, and rebooted and there is still no players in the MarketPlace or the INN.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Ignore the last post. I solved the mystery! Somehow the language selection on the marketplace tab was changed and that language has no players. I never saw that selection before. Guess ya do learn something new every day :)

Hi Sylentiger :)

Glad you solved the problem and thanks for coming back to let us know.

And yes, when you have this kind of problem at market you need to check your language in your preferences, the wrench, and in the selected language when going to market :)

[LizaLee]

Good Morning; A question about expanding super-neighbor abilities. Could the abilities for super-neighbors be broadened to include hiring workers as depending on the demographics you have of players there are those of us who take frequent business trips and are unable to "play" daily but our super-neighbors may/do OR there are those of us who take extended vacations multiple times a year and need our super-neighbors to also hire sub-contractors to h/p etc. and I am requesting that the powers for super-neighbors be amended to include hiring sub-contractors on neighbors' farms to h/p and possibly seed etc. Thanks for your consideration

[Tiger]

Good Morning; A question about expanding super-neighbor abilities. Could the abilities for super-neighbors be broadened to include hiring workers as depending on the demographics you have of players there are those of us who take frequent business trips and are unable to "play" daily but our super-neighbors may/do OR there are those of us who take extended vacations multiple times a year and need our super-neighbors to also hire sub-contractors to h/p etc. and I am requesting that the powers for super-neighbors be amended to include hiring sub-contractors on neighbors' farms to h/p and possibly seed etc. Thanks for your consideration

Hi LizaLee,

The purpose of the super neighbour feature is that they do your farm work for you while you are away, not hire someone else to do them. If you want the benefits of hiring strangers to work your farms then you will have to do that yourself. If you still wish to request a change to that feature then you need to post it in the appropriate thread in the Suggestions (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2) area. This is section is the General Feedback area.

[dell466]

When are other players going to realize that the person hiring them is the owner of the farm and as such is entitled to hire as many people to do the job as they see fit? Today I received a message from someone complaining that they insisted they work solo and I had no right to hire an additional worker to do the same task. I informed them that is was MY farm and MY rules and they have absolutely no say in how I run MY farms. As it happened, I did not receive a message that this individual had accepted the job and their avatar vanished from the screen. So after a couple of minutes without any notification of work being started I hired a second worker. Fortunately, there is the option to ignore this player in the future, so I immediately made that choice. Based on this most recent experience, I feel that we need to impress on all players that the person hiring is in control and all their demands are only doing themselves harm as they will eventually get ignored by those who do not want or need the aggravation of dealing with their unreasonable demands.

[JohnAlbertini]

Pardon my venting, nothing on the game itself and I'm not sure what can be done to improve it.

I've spent a lot of time hiring out to work in the marketplace. There are as many farm layouts as farmers and I "get" folks working on designing their farms.

BUT some pay absolutely zero attention to the amount of work needed to harvest their farms. One example perhaps only slightly exaggerated I've been on farms with 10 trees that took TEN clicks with the Extended tool to harvest one at a time since they were SCATTERED all over the farm randomly. Same with flowers. A click to harvest EACH ONE scattered all over the farm. WHY?!

Can any guidance be offered to folks to pay at least SOME attention to harvest ease when designing?

Thanks for letting me vent. It makes working for others much more of a CHORE than it needs to be with a LITTLE forethought.

[Taz D]

Pardon my venting, nothing on the game itself and I'm not sure what can be done to improve it.

I've spent a lot of time hiring out to work in the marketplace. There are as many farm layouts as farmers and I "get" folks working on designing their farms.

BUT some pay absolutely zero attention to the amount of work needed to harvest their farms. One example perhaps only slightly exaggerated I've been on farms with 10 trees that took TEN clicks with the Extended tool to harvest one at a time since they were SCATTERED all over the farm randomly. Same with flowers. A click to harvest EACH ONE scattered all over the farm. WHY?!

Can any guidance be offered to folks to pay at least SOME attention to harvest ease when designing?

Thanks for letting me vent. It makes working for others much more of a CHORE than it needs to be with a LITTLE forethought.
Hi John,
As you are only venting and not making a suggestion, then I moved your post to the General Feedback subject thread about hiring. I am sorry but there isn't any way we can make the players design their farms in an orderly manner.

[Aussie Rae]

Pardon my venting, nothing on the game itself and I'm not sure what can be done to improve it.

I've spent a lot of time hiring out to work in the marketplace. There are as many farm layouts as farmers and I "get" folks working on designing their farms.

BUT some pay absolutely zero attention to the amount of work needed to harvest their farms. One example perhaps only slightly exaggerated I've been on farms with 10 trees that took TEN clicks with the Extended tool to harvest one at a time since they were SCATTERED all over the farm randomly. Same with flowers. A click to harvest EACH ONE scattered all over the farm. WHY?!

Can any guidance be offered to folks to pay at least SOME attention to harvest ease when designing?

Thanks for letting me vent. It makes working for others much more of a CHORE than it needs to be with a LITTLE forethought.
I tend to Ignore those type of farms so that I never see them again.... I don't design as I am more into the facility side of the game...

[NJones277]

I had a very disturbing "conversation" this morning with a relatively new farmer. She was very insulting - didn't like the way I did my farms, didn't like the way I listed my facilities to be worked, etc.

I've always tried to be helpful, especially to new farmers, but this disintegrated into her calling me unkind names and generally being rude. I have unfriended her.

Please remember that you never know what someone else is going through in their lives before you think to go off on them. This is a social game. I've played this game from the beginning and all I want is to have a good experience.

I'll not put her name here, but if anyone wants to know more, please contact me privately.

[Taz D]

I had a very disturbing "conversation" this morning with a relatively new farmer. She was very insulting - didn't like the way I did my farms, didn't like the way I listed my facilities to be worked, etc.

I've always tried to be helpful, especially to new farmers, but this disintegrated into her calling me unkind names and generally being rude. I have unfriended her.

Please remember that you never know what someone else is going through in their lives before you think to go off on them. This is a social game. I've played this game from the beginning and all I want is to have a good experience.

I'll not put her name here, but if anyone wants to know more, please contact me privately.
Hi NJones,
As this is not a suggestions I have moved this post to the General Feedback section thread about hiring as that is basically what you are talking about.

[NJones277]

Taz,
This was not a hiring situation. She was working my facilities and clients.

[Taz D]

Taz,
This was not a hiring situation. She was working my facilities and clients.
Hi NJones,
Working facilities and clients are hiring. You post a hire request for neighbors and friends to work your facilities.

[Tink1954]

I refuse to hire annoying beggars that take up 30 lines with with hire me pleeeeeeeeeeeze..work pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze.etc...drives me crazy..I watch and see who is not begging check their level and try to hire those who need to level up..I am low on fuel now..but I still try to help..If I am looking for a job, I usually sing..or just say I am bored And be silly lol! and always thank the person that hired me. I also had one that begged and begged came to my then cussed me and said some pretty raunchy things...geez, not only did I bounce him but reported him for the disgusting language lol! Play nice folks..On the lighter side i have met many wonderful folks who have become my friends over the years!@

[Taz D]

I refuse to hire annoying beggars that take up 30 lines with with hire me pleeeeeeeeeeeze..work pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze.etc...drives me crazy..I watch and see who is not begging check their level and try to hire those who need to level up..I am low on fuel now..but I still try to help..If I am looking for a job, I usually sing..or just say I am bored And be silly lol! and always thank the person that hired me. I also had one that begged and begged came to my then cussed me and said some pretty raunchy things...geez, not only did I bounce him but reported him for the disgusting language lol! Play nice folks..On the lighter side i have met many wonderful folks who have become my friends over the years!@
Hi Tink,
I agree with you. I do not hire those who beg over and over. I do have plenty of fuel and I set mine to use my fuel first and my tools.

[JohnAlbertini]

Not making excuses for rudeness but it amazes me how many people "design" their farms so utterly haphazardly random and hire people to harvest trees, flowers, fishing, crops that it takes many multiple times the number of clicks as it should with a little better placement.

I have been to farms with 15 trees that took 15 clicks with an extended tool to harvest because they were all spread out. Different waters placed over each other in differing orientations that it takes five clicks in virtually the same spot to fish them all.

If you are asking for someone to use their time, energy, fuel, to work for you I would think it is only considerate to put SOME time into more efficient design. Not saying they need to be super efficient but some organization can make doing the work many times easier.



I had a very disturbing "conversation" this morning with a relatively new farmer. She was very insulting - didn't like the way I did my farms, didn't like the way I listed my facilities to be worked, etc.

I've always tried to be helpful, especially to new farmers, but this disintegrated into her calling me unkind names and generally being rude. I have unfriended her.

Please remember that you never know what someone else is going through in their lives before you think to go off on them. This is a social game. I've played this game from the beginning and all I want is to have a good experience.

I'll not put her name here, but if anyone wants to know more, please contact me privately.

[leighwj1960]

Not making excuses for rudeness but it amazes me how many people "design" their farms so utterly haphazardly random and hire people to harvest trees, flowers, fishing, crops that it takes many multiple times the number of clicks as it should with a little better placement.

I have been to farms with 15 trees that took 15 clicks with an extended tool to harvest because they were all spread out. Different waters placed over each other in differing orientations that it takes five clicks in virtually the same spot to fish them all.

If you are asking for someone to use their time, energy, fuel, to work for you I would think it is only considerate to put SOME time into more efficient design. Not saying they need to be super efficient but some organization can make doing the work many times easier.

This is why when I redesign my farms I always work the farm myself the first time (or 2) to make sure I didn't accidentally stack something and that everything works efficiently. My farms are pretty full but everyone who works them comments about how easy they are to work on.

[NJones277]

Not making excuses for rudeness but it amazes me how many people "design" their farms so utterly haphazardly random and hire people to harvest trees, flowers, fishing, crops that it takes many multiple times the number of clicks as it should with a little better placement.

I have been to farms with 15 trees that took 15 clicks with an extended tool to harvest because they were all spread out. Different waters placed over each other in differing orientations that it takes five clicks in virtually the same spot to fish them all.

If you are asking for someone to use their time, energy, fuel, to work for you I would think it is only considerate to put SOME time into more efficient design. Not saying they need to be super efficient but some organization can make doing the work many times easier.

I don't usually hire people to work my farms. They are designed to my specs and I don't expect anyone to even want to work them. This all had to do with working facilities and clients - nothing to do with the farm, although she did point out that she didn't like the way my farms were laid our.

[Tink1954]

so really she had nothing to complain about? She was just doing factories? lol! I love doing folks farms and am always amazed at the creativity! You r welcome to come visit me and see how mine are! lol! Queen Tinkerbelle :)

[Santmyer]

I am only posting the following of what I sent to support last night in general feedback just to see if anyone else is having the same glitch or similar issue:

Hello. Over the past week or so when I have hired for the multiple jobs of harvest and plow on farms 13-16, I have been getting feedback from the employees that they get stuck on farm 13 and cannot proceed any further. They have asked if other people have been hired for that same block of 4 farms. The answer I have given is I hired them solo. I usually hire 4 farms at a time on 9 and above. I am not having any issues with any other farms besides this block. I can rehire or hire someone else to do 14-16 and there is no problem with the tasks getting done.

[Aussie Rae]

my solution to those annoying people who claim they are looking for work, but don't bother to reply when a request is sent to them is to click on the avatar and then on the IGNORE button, so I never have to see them again.. so many just sit in the market place and waste our time, sorry about the rant.. old age is my excuse, LOL

[JohnAlbertini]

my solution to those annoying people who claim they are looking for work, but don't bother to reply when a request is sent to them is to click on the avatar and then on the IGNORE button, so I never have to see them again.. so many just sit in the market place and waste our time, sorry about the rant.. old age is my excuse, LOL

Many times I go a long time with noone hiring so I do other things on my computer and check back every so often to see if there is a request to work. Not everyone is ignoring you! Ten minutes gets boring without any requests, LOL!

[leighwj1960]

Many times I go a long time with noone hiring so I do other things on my computer and check back every so often to see if there is a request to work. Not everyone is ignoring you! Ten minutes gets boring without any requests, LOL!

Me too and sometimes I need to leave the room to take care of something. I'm not ignoring people it's just that life got in the way. If I know I'm going to leave the computer for a few minutes I do go offline but you can't always plan for an emergency

[Aussie Rae]

Many times I go a long time with noone hiring so I do other things on my computer and check back every so often to see if there is a request to work. Not everyone is ignoring you! Ten minutes gets boring without any requests, LOL!

the ones I click on have just posted in the chat that they want work, but a few seconds later they have gone? sorry I am too busy myself to sit and wait for 10 mins for them to reply... its easier to never have to bother seeing them again as there are a lot of great workers, getting rid of a few not so great is a small price to pay, others will hire them so they won't lose out in the long run...

[SteelMagnolia1958]

I typically ignore those who are obnoxious in their pleading for jobs. I also try to avoid any interaction with someone whose avatar name seems suggestive. I'm just here to play a simple game. I don't use the market as a 'singles mingles' joint, and I don't respond to those aggressive farmers who insist I work on their many, multi-layered farms because they 'guarantee' I'll level up.

I've 'met' strangers in the marketplace who've made comments I don't think they should have, and, just as with facebook itself and other similar platforms, I think they believe themselves anonymous. I truly hope they wouldn't behave that way in 'real life.' They get ignored, too, and if it's too much, I'll report 'em.

And as for my poorly-designed, randomly placed trees. . . My farms are SMALL compared to those mega-farmers who design for efficiency and rapid advancement. And I only have 3 farms. I farm for my relaxation and enjoyment, and make no apologies for that.

Now, I'll step down from my soapbox and be on my way.

[hairball45]

As usual whoever responded to my original message has no concept of what was I was attempting to find out. This message had nothing to do with trees or anyone farming on my farms, so this just reinforces my comments about this forum. NO ONE here knows what the devil the other is doing and just keeps passing us along to other groups who don't know either. I do not require any responses anymore as they are entirely worthless, I will not thank you but just say goodbye. I will attempt to erase myself from this forum.

[Taz D]

As usual whoever responded to my original message has no concept of what was I was attempting to find out. This message had nothing to do with trees or anyone farming on my farms, so this just reinforces my comments about this forum. NO ONE here knows what the devil the other is doing and just keeps passing us along to other groups who don't know either. I do not require any responses anymore as they are entirely worthless, I will not thank you but just say goodbye. I will attempt to erase myself from this forum.
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[nightowl04200]

when you get hired in the market some of them hire other people too even thou you want to work solo i wish some one will fix this issue so the people who wants to be hire solo get that way its unfair for me as a worker to have 20 farms to do when there maybe half that because of the other worker has done those why bother to hire me for 20 when i wont be able to do them its like stealing my coins i would have gotten away from me

[Taz D]

when you get hired in the market some of them hire other people too even thou you want to work solo i wish some one will fix this issue so the people who wants to be hire solo get that way its unfair for me as a worker to have 20 farms to do when there maybe half that because of the other worker has done those why bother to hire me for 20 when i wont be able to do them its like stealing my coins i would have gotten away from me
Hi nightowl,
I am sorry, but there isn't any way to fix this. Who and how many a farmer hires is up to them and not something that can be regulated. There isn't any way to restrict how many they can hire. Most that I know do hire only one.

[nightowl04200]

not regulate but color coded saying i hire multi farmers or hire one farmer that might be a answer to the problem

[Taz D]

not regulate but color coded saying i hire multi farmers or hire one farmer that might be a answer to the problem
Hi nightowl,
There isn't any way to do that either. If you are there to hire you may only hire one, but if they are too slow or having trouble then the farmer may go back and hire another. Sometimes when trying to hire you may not get the message that they accepted and will hire another only to find out when you get back to the farms that you have hired two. Only thing I can offer is if you are hired with others you can either change and work a different farm or leave and go back to the market to get hired by someone else.

[luveblues]

Hi nightowl,
I am sorry, but there isn't any way to fix this. Who and how many a farmer hires is up to them and not something that can be regulated. There isn't any way to restrict how many they can hire. Most that I know do hire only one.

I am one of those who NEVER hires people who request solo only or obnoxious hire me posters. The solo only just irritates me for some reason and the second is pretty obvious. I do however, only hire solo and that has backfired on me more than once when my worker has abandoned my farm (for whatever reason) and my short term crops have gone bad. I have learned to either do those myself or stay on the game and monitor them.
But like others have stated, it is a game. Life happens and in the big scheme of things, it is just a small thing. I have played this game for over ten years and it has been a great distraction in times when I very much needed one. I can easily let go of the small stuff lol

[harrywhitmore@comcast.net]

Omg , now that is what i call a great flash player

[BethFB]

I love how the hiring process got. I was able to hire someone who was overjoyed in getting the honor of dealing with 40 farms, they told me that people just don't favor the lower level players. I do as I knew how it was to be a low level player with the not so good tools. I ask the folks on the marketplace who is a low level player, that person will be getting the job from me of 40 farms and use of my tools as I know how it was to be a low level player. They adore the acknowledgement from the high ranking players to be able to work their fields.

I would like if there was a color code for the low ranking members to have their names in so we could hire them faster. But I do like to chide the other high level players for not seeking out the lower ranked players to have working their farms.

Beth

[Tiger]

I love how the hiring process got. I was able to hire someone who was overjoyed in getting the honor of dealing with 40 farms, they told me that people just don't favor the lower level players. I do as I knew how it was to be a low level player with the not so good tools. I ask the folks on the marketplace who is a low level player, that person will be getting the job from me of 40 farms and use of my tools as I know how it was to be a low level player. They adore the acknowledgement from the high ranking players to be able to work their fields.

I would like if there was a color code for the low ranking members to have their names in so we could hire them faster. But I do like to chide the other high level players for not seeking out the lower ranked players to have working their farms.

Beth

Hi Beth,

If you want to know a farmers level, just click on their avatar and their level is at the top near their name, the only times it tends not to show is if the avatar name is long or sometimes if they have managed to put symbols in it. The latter we don't recommend as it can cause odd problems, but it's easily changed if that happens.

If that is not sufficient for you then you can always request your idea in the Suggestions (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2) area :)

[ccheney]

when you get hired in the market some of them hire other people too even thou you want to work solo i wish some one will fix this issue so the people who wants to be hire solo get that way its unfair for me as a worker to have 20 farms to do when there maybe half that because of the other worker has done those why bother to hire me for 20 when i wont be able to do them its like stealing my coins i would have gotten away from me

Do what I do. If I am hired and I find other workers when I arrive at the job site. I leave.

[marleneho]

Also sometimes you click on someone and they don't respond right away. So you think they don't want the job and you click on someone else. Then they both show up at your farm. I know the button turns from Orange to Yellow, but it takes a long time to turn.

[marymarcel]

Also sometimes you click on someone and they don't respond right away. So you think they don't want the job and you click on someone else. Then they both show up at your farm. I know the button turns from Orange to Yellow, but it takes a long time to turn.

Hi marleneho :)

Once a hire request has been sent out the person has 30 seconds to accept or deny the request, once the time runs out a denied confirmation will be sent back to the sender, plus a person can only receive one request at a time.

Also when sending a hire request, the avatar name label background color for the player you are trying to hire will change to Orange. If the player rejects the request or if the request expires after 30 seconds, the color will change to Yellow, this will provide a hint to avoid sending several hire request to the same players.

[Lila63]

I hired at the market for 8 farms for all jobs. I included use of my large tools and use of my fuel first. The farmer did the harvest and plow only. I caught up with her on the last farm and asked why she left the rest. She stated that she only did h/p yet she accepted my hire with all jobs listed. She was not a new farmer with 966 level. This isn't right. There should be some way that they have to complete the other jobs before the harvest plow and can't move to the next farm until all jobs are done. I had to rehire someone else for the trees, flowers and fish.

[Taz D]

I hired at the market for 8 farms for all jobs. I included use of my large tools and use of my fuel first. The farmer did the harvest and plow only. I caught up with her on the last farm and asked why she left the rest. She stated that she only did h/p yet she accepted my hire with all jobs listed. She was not a new farmer with 966 level. This isn't right. There should be some way that they have to complete the other jobs before the harvest plow and can't move to the next farm until all jobs are done. I had to rehire someone else for the trees, flowers and fish.
Hi Lila,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread about hiring to answer you. There is nothing that the developers can do for this. There isn't any way to make them do all the work. The only thing is if they do not complete the work on a farm they are hired for they will not get any bonus.

[ccheney]

Hi Lila,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread about hiring to answer you. There is nothing that the developers can do for this. There isn't any way to make them do all the work. The only thing is if they do not complete the work on a farm they are hired for they will not get any bonus.

There might be a way and I have put this in the hiring suggestions folder many times. It's true that you can't make all workers finish their jobs but you might be able to get more workers to finish the job if they are required to finish the job before collecting any coins and crops. Once the work is complete they get coins, crops and the bonus. Just like with a real job. You don't get paid until you do the work.

[Gail Green-jeans]

Hi marleneho :)

Once a hire request has been sent out the person has 30 seconds to accept or deny the request, once the time runs out a denied confirmation will be sent back to the sender, plus a person can only receive one request at a time.

Also when sending a hire request, the avatar name label background color for the player you are trying to hire will change to Orange. If the player rejects the request or if the request expires after 30 seconds, the color will change to Yellow, this will provide a hint to avoid sending several hire request to the same players.

Yes, this works MOST of the time. HOWEVER, MANY times I have waited, the person whom I tried to hire has turned yellow, and so I move on to someone else. 2nd person accepts and then, I get a notice that the first person (who had turned yellow) has accepted as well. Makes it look like I multi-hired when I actually did not according to the changing color system.

[marymarcel]

Yes, this works MOST of the time. HOWEVER, MANY times I have waited, the person whom I tried to hire has turned yellow, and so I move on to someone else. 2nd person accepts and then, I get a notice that the first person (who had turned yellow) has accepted as well. Makes it look like I multi-hired when I actually did not according to the changing color system.

Hi Gail Green-jeans :)

Sometimes this happens as data has not updated correctly.

But in case you get this problem more often, they you could report it to Support and see if they can figure out what is happening.

[jotwiss]

Is there a way we can see the % of what we are being hired for? I'm getting a little tired of being hired to harvest/plow crops, fish, chop tree and harvest flowers to find out, there is a small crop (1 or 2 9x9 plots), a river end or corner for fishing. a few rows of trees and then thousands of flowers... If you are having a hard time getting someone to harvest your flowers, maybe you should buy the largest flower harvester rather than add a small plot to harvest and a river corner to fish....:mad:

[marymarcel]

Is there a way we can see the % of what we are being hired for? I'm getting a little tired of being hired to harvest/plow crops, fish, chop tree and harvest flowers to find out, there is a small crop (1 or 2 9x9 plots), a river end or corner for fishing. a few rows of trees and then thousands of flowers... If you are having a hard time getting someone to harvest your flowers, maybe you should buy the largest flower harvester rather than add a small plot to harvest and a river corner to fish....:mad:


Hi jotwiss :)

Please post your idea in our Suggestion section where we have all ideas grouped by theme for the developers to read.

You can't open a new thread in that section but you can post as a reply to a thread that fits with your idea.

This is the link to Suggestions:

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

[KathJohnson]

Hi. I dont kow if this is the place to post it but I cant see anything closer in the other threads. My problem is two fold.
Firstly, when hired with other people my game doesnt show the crops / work that has already been done unless I reload the farm so I end up clicking for no reward which is rather annoying (its not a criticism of multi hiring, just that it would help if the game kept up with what is happening on the ground)

Secondly, I get so used to the game automatically picking up my bonus chest as I move farm to farm, and when I go back to the work wanted area that I often forget to collect it if I return to my own farm after a job. Especially annoying after a big job. Is there anyway to make the collection automatic for going home?

Many thanks for any help

[marymarcel]

Hi. I dont kow if this is the place to post it but I cant see anything closer in the other threads. My problem is two fold.
Firstly, when hired with other people my game doesnt show the crops / work that has already been done unless I reload the farm so I end up clicking for no reward which is rather annoying (its not a criticism of multi hiring, just that it would help if the game kept up with what is happening on the ground)

Secondly, I get so used to the game automatically picking up my bonus chest as I move farm to farm, and when I go back to the work wanted area that I often forget to collect it if I return to my own farm after a job. Especially annoying after a big job. Is there anyway to make the collection automatic for going home?

Many thanks for any help

Hi KathJohnson :)

About your first problem, when there are other workers hired for the same farm, you only have to refresh the farm you are on and that way you will see the done jobs.
I dont like to work on a farm where there are more farmers doing jobs, so if I was hired for multiple and sometimes all farms, I go to the last one and from there I work back to the first ones.

For your second problem, I checked your data and you have been collected your bonus chest when working for others. In case you forget to get it before going to the next farm, a popup will show up asking you to collect it before leaving the farm.

Now if you want to make a suggestion, please post it in our Suggestion section where we have all ideas for the game grouped by theme for the developers to read.

You can't start a new thread in that section, but you can post as a reply to a thread that fits with your idea.

This is the link to Suggestions:

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

[KathJohnson]

Hi MaryMarcel.
Thank you for your response and taking the time to look at my data. Yes I have been collecting my bonuses, I meant the specific case when I leave to return to my own farm, it doesn't seem to post up the 'Collect bonus...' pop up (as it normally does for moving between the work farms or returning to the job hire place) then and I only remember usually when I've pressed the button to go home lol. Its no biggie, I may pop it on the suggestions as you indicated :-)

Thank you again for getting back to me. Happy farming :-)

[marymarcel]

Hi MaryMarcel.
Thank you for your response and taking the time to look at my data. Yes I have been collecting my bonuses, I meant the specific case when I leave to return to my own farm, it doesn't seem to post up the 'Collect bonus...' pop up (as it normally does for moving between the work farms or returning to the job hire place) then and I only remember usually when I've pressed the button to go home lol. Its no biggie, I may pop it on the suggestions as you indicated :-)

Thank you again for getting back to me. Happy farming :-)

Sorry I didnt understand you the first time Kath.

Yes, you are right. If you are hired only for one farm or you are at the last farm and you click to go back home instead of going back to market, then there is no pop up warning you to collect the bonus chest, in those cases you have to remember to collect the bonus.

If you need more information, you can visit our Game Guide for Hiring (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=599222)

[iceberg]

sometimes when I get a hiring request before I can get it it goes on and another farmers message like not now I am trying to hire comes u can this be sorted plz

[Taz D]

sometimes when I get a hiring request before I can get it it goes on and another farmers message like not now I am trying to hire comes u can this be sorted plz
Hi Iceberg,
We have not been able to duplicate this as it is so intermitent, so no way to fix it.

[Sqrl]

Hah, I'm still sore over automatically reloading the game at the end of a job and seeing a 24 million coin bonus disappear....

[JohnAlbertini]

Something needs to be done about work done when hired at the marketplace or inn.

When I work for a Super Neighbor the work progresses smoothly and quickly.

When hired at the marketplace or inn it can take 2, 3, 4 MINUTES PER FARM (WAITING to load a farm then to do each tool which requires WAITING for each tool to become usable, then WAITING for the save count to drop to zero and the popup that pending saves have been completed, etc). From the time I click to go to the next farm until I can do the same for the next farm is excruciatingly slow. The actual work clicking takes maybe 15-20 seconds but the entire process takes MANY minutes. And invariably there is at least one instance, sometimes more than one, with a "Shockwave Flash isn't responding" popup.

It takes well over an hour to work all the farms when hired by a single farmer. I have one I work for like this on a regular basis. PLEASE fix this. It is the slashkey servers that are SLOOOOOOOOOW and make doing this work a major chore!!!

It is the WAITING for the server to catch up to what has BEEN DONE that takes forever.

[Taz D]

Something needs to be done about work done when hired at the marketplace or inn.

When I work for a Super Neighbor the work progresses smoothly and quickly.

When hired at the marketplace or inn it can take 2, 3, 4 MINUTES PER FARM (WAITING to load a farm then to do each tool which requires WAITING for each tool to become usable, then WAITING for the save count to drop to zero and the popup that pending saves have been completed, etc). From the time I click to go to the next farm until I can do the same for the next farm is excruciatingly slow. The actual work clicking takes maybe 15-20 seconds but the entire process takes MANY minutes. And invariably there is at least one instance, sometimes more than one, with a "Shockwave Flash isn't responding" popup.

It takes well over an hour to work all the farms when hired by a single farmer. I have one I work for like this on a regular basis. PLEASE fix this. It is the slashkey servers that are SLOOOOOOOOOW and make doing this work a major chore!!!

It is the WAITING for the server to catch up to what has BEEN DONE that takes forever.
Hi John,
It is not the servers that cause the slowdown, but is the amount of stuff that those farmers have put on their farms by layering facilities, trees, flowers and waters over and under staggered crop fields. The more they have on those farms the longer it takes to load all of those items before you can start work on the farms.
If you want them to load faster, try unchecking everything in your preferences that are not needed for the work you are going to do before you go to the market or inn. That way when you get to their farms those items will not have to be loaded.

[JohnAlbertini]

Then it IS the servers! Loading all those items is a function OF the servers, no?

[Sqrl]

The servers can only serve up the data as fast as the internet, your broadband, and your computer can take it. So you might as well say it IS my computer!

[JohnAlbertini]

The servers can only serve up the data as fast as the internet, your broadband, and your computer can take it. So you might as well say it IS my computer!

It takes it almost instantaneously when I work super neighbors so why so slow from the marketplace

[Sqrl]

Maybe your SNs aren't layered up to the max. I've been on farms where they have two layers of stacked fish, crops layered to 9, a layer of flowers, a layer of chop trees and a layer of harvest trees. I have a side game I play while waiting for them to load....

Another possibility is that everything on your SN's farms is cached because you've been there before, whereas farms you're working from the marketplace need to load things that aren't in your cache.

[Chanel5]

In response to the posts about hiring more than one person to harvest. I don't have a problem working with other people when harvesting, but I find that it sometimes slows down the game and the work takes ages. This is especially so if a bunch of people are hired to harvest layered fish ponds and sea coasts. I don't know if other people get this problem. Maybe it's just my slow computer to blame.

[Sqrl]

No, I definitely get the same problem. The slowdown is immediately evident when the second person arrives.

[Joyinlife]

Thanks for opening a discussion thread.

I still wish we had an option to fire people. I sincerely doubt the amount of people hiring just to fire is so significant that the rest of the population should be held hostage to slow, disrespectful or verbally abusive players. Sometimes I get a person on my farm that does nothing. What on earth are they doing??? Those are the ones I would like to be able to send home.

[Aussie Rae]

Sometimes I get a person on my farm that does nothing. What on earth are they doing??? Those are the ones I would like to be able to send home.


they are phantom avatars that follow you home from the market... reload the farm they are on and they disappear..

[Sqrl]

Either that or they're raiding your co-op quest(s).

[leighwj1960]

In response to the posts about hiring more than one person to harvest. I don't have a problem working with other people when harvesting, but I find that it sometimes slows down the game and the work takes ages. This is especially so if a bunch of people are hired to harvest layered fish ponds and sea coasts. I don't know if other people get this problem. Maybe it's just my slow computer to blame.

I have the same problem and have even noticed a slowdown if the person who hires me is on the farm with me even if they aren't doing anything. Going offline does tend to help but just let them know what you are doing so they don't think you abandoned the job.

[jbowles824]

Hi Iceberg,
We have not been able to duplicate this as it is so intermitent, so no way to fix it.

I see your response to the exact question I came here to ask, it is happening to me frequently.

[ccheney]

I am wondering what is going on in the marketplace? I am getting more more people who's status is red , are asking for a big job, solo and said they had big tools then they do nothing when they get to the farm. I go back to my farm with them so I know they are there then they leave saying too much work or my tools aren't big enough. Ummm...I hired you because you said you had big tools. I am also getting a lot people with the red work wanted status, asking for a job and when I try to hire them they reply that they are not interested but continue to ask for a job.

[Aussie Rae]

I am wondering what is going on in the marketplace? I am getting more more people who's status is red , are asking for a big job, solo and said they had big tools then they do nothing when they get to the farm. I go back to my farm with them so I know they are there then they leave saying too much work or my tools aren't big enough. Ummm...I hired you because you said you had big tools. I am also getting a lot people with the red work wanted status, asking for a job and when I try to hire them they reply that they are not interested but continue to ask for a job.

I am over hiring people unless they are someone I know and has worked for me in the past... too many dud workers now... unable to do the work hired for, don't know to untick the boxes in preferences.. have had some try to do my farms with facilities showing...plus crops trees flowers etc and then wonder why ft crashes or freezes.. I now Ignore those that I find are totally incompetent so I will never see them again... culling the dud workers, lol

[ccheney]

This is weird. I tried to hire someone to fish. He turned the job down or so it appeared because I got the pop up saying sorry I'm busy now. I hired someone else who accepted then I get a pop up from the first person, the one who appeared to turn it down saying they accepted the job and are on the way to the farm now.

[Santmyer]

The one sure thing that I am glad about each of us having to do all the work on our own farms is that maybe when we start being able to be hired again in the market, all the ones doing the hiring that have made it impossible to collect bonuses due to continually trying to search for a tree here or a flower there on the decorated farms and worse flowers and trees stacked upon stacked upon stacked will see the difficulty and correct it. ;)