New Release -- August 30th, 2011

[spoiler1041]

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

This could have already been pointed out (I don't have time right now to read back), but there is a problem with the crops. My friend and I farm together. She just called me to come harvest her wheat. She saw the wheat as ready and yellow and she could harvest it. I saw her wheat as still green and it told me she still had 15.9 hours left even tho she was harvesting at the time. These crops had NOT been watered with the mobile sprinkler.

So we went to my farm where I had tomatoes ready. We both saw them as ready to harvest (they had been sprinkled), but when I put out the hire order, I got the message saying I had to wait until crops were ready before hiring someone to harvest. :confused::confused::confused:

I used "crops and trees" not the crops only and it worked...

[Aussie Rae]

I made a mistake and bought the new improved brown sprinkler as well as the new red one, suddenly realised I already had a brown one in storage...sent an email off to slashkey and they refunded the 45fc to my farm ....luv those guys!!!....now just have to figure out how to work the darn thing..have crops ready but won't let me hire anyone...aarrggg..its a problem as we have no way of knowing how long till we can water a crop...it needs to be "improved"...the manure spreader shows how much time the farm is fertilised for...this irrigations thing needs to show the time as well..lol

[MslaFarmerMT]

same problem here. tried to hire someone to harvest flowers because they were ready and she said it still showed as 49 minutes left and wouldn't let her harvest. I was able to harvest myself just fine. The flowers were not irrigated.


HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

This could have already been pointed out (I don't have time right now to read back), but there is a problem with the crops. My friend and I farm together. She just called me to come harvest her wheat. She saw the wheat as ready and yellow and she could harvest it. I saw her wheat as still green and it told me she still had 15.9 hours left even tho she was harvesting at the time. These crops had NOT been watered with the mobile sprinkler.

So we went to my farm where I had tomatoes ready. We both saw them as ready to harvest (they had been sprinkled), but when I put out the hire order, I got the message saying I had to wait until crops were ready before hiring someone to harvest. :confused::confused::confused:

[gomh]

nothing but problems with the new mobile sprinkler -- seemed like such a good idea, but while some of the irrigated crops show "W" with mouse over, some don't, even if it shows reduced time. And it doesn't cut harvest time in half as per the announcement -- normal harvest of green grapes is 1 day (24 hours) So why is it that upon planting, the mouse over says 19.8 hours remaining? My rudimentary grasp of math tells me that half of 24 is 12 hours, not 19.8. Can you explain?

[twtywill]

With the red sprinkler, can you only use it once per farm, per day?

[TerriFlynn]

The reason that with a 1 day crop it says 19.8 hours is that a FarmTown day is only 20 hours. A 2 day crop is not 48 hours, but 40, 3 days are 60, 4 days are 80 and 5 day is 100 hours.

[gomh]

nothing but problems with the new mobile sprinkler -- seemed like such a good idea, but while some of the irrigated crops show "W" with mouse over, some don't, even if it shows reduced time. And it doesn't cut harvest time in half as per the announcement -- normal harvest of green grapes is 1 day (24 hours) So why is it that upon planting, the mouse over says 19.8 hours remaining? My rudimentary grasp of math tells me that half of 24 is 12 hours, not 19.8. Can you explain?

Just checked on the cotton I planted about an hour ago (normal harvest time days) and the screen said 3.2 days remaining - not exactly half, now is it? Also, it's a real hassle to have to move sprinkler in and out of storage to use in each farm. I'm upset that I paid all those fcs for essentially nothing but trouble.
:( :mad:

[matrix1272]

Just checked on the cotton I planted about an hour ago (normal harvest time days) and the screen said 3.2 days remaining - not exactly half, now is it? Also, it's a real hassle to have to move sprinkler in and out of storage to use in each farm. I'm upset that I paid all those fcs for essentially nothing but trouble.
:( :mad:

I'm also having problems with the Sprinkler

You don't have to move the Sprinkler in and out of storage, leave it in storage and use in from within the toolbox or whatever the call it :-) Where the facility manager is

[suecraftsalot]

I have the brown sprinkler and the red sprinkler. I planted a 4x4 square of raspberries to test it. It immediately told me that the raspberries would be ready in 59 minutes. I was so excited. On further examination, I have realized my brown sprinkler is no longer available to use even though it is still in my storage. This is forcing me to cut growing time in half for crops on any farm I water my flowers. Though this will be wonderful in some situations, with a busy schedule, I often plant the longer growers...I liked the option to choose which sprinkler to use. I hope that they make both available when they fix the harvesting bug I have been reading about. No one but myself can harvest them and it appears that the time to waste is shortened as well.

[matrix1272]

I have the brown sprinkler and the red sprinkler. I planted a 4x4 square of raspberries to test it. It immediately told me that the raspberries would be ready in 59 minutes. I was so excited. On further examination, I have realized my brown sprinkler is no longer available to use even though it is still in my storage. This is forcing me to cut growing time in half for crops on any farm I water my flowers. Though this will be wonderful in some situations, with a busy schedule, I often plant the longer growers...I liked the option to choose which sprinkler to use. I hope that they make both available when they fix the harvesting bug I have been reading about. No one but myself can harvest them and it appears that the time to waste is shortened as well.

I agree, we don't always want our growing time cut in half!!! PLEASE give us the Option of the Red or Brown Sprinkler.................

[peachy51]

Thanks for the Clydesdale love the look of this one a whole lot better than the other one. I do have a request can you pls. adjust the stables to the size of the Clydesdale or make the Clydesdale smaller. That will look a whole lot better!


LOL ... my Border Collies are bigger than the cows they are herding too :eek:

[Tiger]

I have the brown sprinkler and the red sprinkler. I planted a 4x4 square of raspberries to test it. It immediately told me that the raspberries would be ready in 59 minutes. I was so excited. On further examination, I have realized my brown sprinkler is no longer available to use even though it is still in my storage. This is forcing me to cut growing time in half for crops on any farm I water my flowers. Though this will be wonderful in some situations, with a busy schedule, I often plant the longer growers...I liked the option to choose which sprinkler to use. I hope that they make both available when they fix the harvesting bug I have been reading about. No one but myself can harvest them and it appears that the time to waste is shortened as well.

I agree, we don't always want our growing time cut in half!!! PLEASE give us the Option of the Red or Brown Sprinkler.................

Hello,

This may have been something overlooked by the devs when the red sprinkler was introduced. For now just take the brown sprinkler out of your storage when you just want to only water flowers and not speed up growing process.

Thanks

[Pete's Piggy]

The new RED sprinkler is a problem for me as well. I watered two farms. When the crops showed as being Ready to Pick, I was unable to hire anyone to pick them. I could picked them myself but, could not hire another farmer. I kept getting a notice that the crops Were Not Ready! But they showed as being ready on my screen as well as the potential picker's screen. And, I could have picked them myself.

Please look into this.

[Tiger]

The new RED sprinkler is a problem for me as well. I watered two farms. When the crops showed as being Ready to Pick, I was unable to hire anyone to pick them. I could picked them myself but, could not hire another farmer. I kept getting a notice that the crops Were Not Ready! But they showed as being ready on my screen as well as the potential picker's screen. And, I could have picked them myself.

Please look into this.

Hello,

A message has been sent on to mods about this, we will have to be patient and wait for the devs to fix it.

[nanasuieb]

Guess I'll wait for the red sprinkler but thank you for everything else and it when it gets fixed. I have to wait 2 days before I can do anything else. I work 12-14 hours a day but LOOK OUT FRIDAY, HERE I COME!!!!!!

[paulcr]

Hope I didn't miss this any place...but does anyone know what the purpose of the Maple Cork Tree might be?? :)

[Ole Hoe]

Hope I didn't miss this any place...but does anyone know what the purpose of the Maple Cork Tree might be?? :)
I think it makes fishing corks.

[matrix1272]

Hope I didn't miss this any place...but does anyone know what the purpose of the Maple Cork Tree might be?? :)


Its used in one of the New Facilities :-)

[Ole Hoe]

nothing but problems with the new mobile sprinkler -- seemed like such a good idea, but while some of the irrigated crops show "W" with mouse over, some don't, even if it shows reduced time. And it doesn't cut harvest time in half as per the announcement -- normal harvest of green grapes is 1 day (24 hours) So why is it that upon planting, the mouse over says 19.8 hours remaining? My rudimentary grasp of math tells me that half of 24 is 12 hours, not 19.8. Can you explain?
Remember that a Farm Town day is 20 hours, not 24.

[paulcr]

Its used in one of the New Facilities :-)

LOL I just figured it out by planting one and havesting it and looking in storage, but thanks for the replay :D:D

[Ole Hoe]

Hello,

This may have been something overlooked by the devs when the red sprinkler was introduced. For now just take the brown sprinkler out of your storage when you just want to only water flowers and not speed up growing process.

Thanks

The problem is...the brown sprinkler is no longer in our storage. Mine disappeared since last night. I can only use it when I go to a neighbor's farm. I can't for the life of me figure out how or why FT would remove my brown sprinkler. I bought it and have had it for 1/2 a year. I would like to have an option when I want to just water.

[matrix1272]

The problem is...the brown sprinkler is no longer in our storage. Mine disappeared since last night. I can only use it when I go to a neighbor's farm. I can't for the life of me figure out how or why FT would remove my brown sprinkler. I bought it and have had it for 1/2 a year. I would like to have an option when I want to just water.

I could not agree more, we bought them with hard earned real money, they should stay where we put them and we Should have the Choice to Use which ever one we want to use!!!!!

[Tiger]

The problem is...the brown sprinkler is no longer in our storage. Mine disappeared since last night. I can only use it when I go to a neighbor's farm. I can't for the life of me figure out how or why FT would remove my brown sprinkler. I bought it and have had it for 1/2 a year. I would like to have an option when I want to just water.

Hello,

Can you double check your ITEM storage with the filter set to "Tools" please.
I've just checked on mine and my brown sprinkler is still in item storage. When you own the red one, that's the one that shows up in the extended toolbox when you are on your own farm. When you go to a neighbours farm to visit, the sprinkler icon changes colour to show the brown one.

Thank you

[peachy51]

The problem is...the brown sprinkler is no longer in our storage. Mine disappeared since last night. I can only use it when I go to a neighbor's farm. I can't for the life of me figure out how or why FT would remove my brown sprinkler. I bought it and have had it for 1/2 a year. I would like to have an option when I want to just water.


I just looked in my storage and I have two mobile sprinklers in there ... the brown one and the red one ... and i can move whichever one I want to the farm.

[dojewo]

ok, after reading back I see that others are having the same issues with the sprinkler that I'm having. So I will give the developers time to fix this, thanks all for the fun new stuff.

[ShayALaMode]

What a wonderful birthday gift.:D

[Taz D]

What a wonderful birthday gift.:D
Happy Birthday!!

[dojewo]

well I do have a little complaint, I've watered all my farms with the new red sprinkler and only one of them even says that it's watered with the "w". So I'm hoping this isn't good for just one farm a day???? 45 and 50 farm cash spent today for the sprinklers and I hope they get this fixed. I've gone back to each farm and tried to water it again, and that didn't put the little "w" on the fields or flowers when I hovered over them either.

[Taz D]

well I do have a little complaint, I've watered all my farms with the new red sprinkler and only one of them even says that it's watered with the "w". So I'm hoping this isn't good for just one farm a day???? 45 and 50 farm cash spent today for the sprinklers and I hope they get this fixed. I've gone back to each farm and tried to water it again, and that didn't put the little "w" on the fields or flowers when I hovered over them either.
Refresh your farm. Raul is on and just added some fixes and corrections to the top post for this release.

[dojewo]

Refresh your farm. Raul is on and just added some fixes and corrections to the top post for this release.

Thank you Taz, you are always so quick with the answers, and thank you Raul

[dojewo]

ok, I had to go back and re-water each farm and I finally got the "w" on each one, thanks for the fix Raul

[supertrucker]

if you're going to give us 'time to harvest' in days/hours/minutes, give it to us in HOURS and MINUTES, not decimal equivalents of hours; i can do enough math to convert 0.6 hrs (for example) into minutes (36), but it's so much easier (and less stressful) if that information is already there, with the math already reduced to its simplest form.

[Taz D]

if you're going to give us 'time to harvest' in days/hours/minutes, give it to us in HOURS and MINUTES, not decimal equivalents of hours; i can do enough math to convert 0.6 hrs (for example) into minutes (36), but it's so much easier (and less stressful) if that information is already there, with the math already reduced to its simplest form.
I agree with this totally. I had no problem with the pecentage amounts because I use a report program that changes that to the date/time when a crop will be ready. Changing to the time setup of now is going to make that hard to do if I forget to reset something, but if it was at least in hours and minutes I could work with that.

[dojewo]

I don't know why this happened but for some reason the only farm I couldn't get irriagated and have the "w" come up on was farm 6 and it was full of rice. Don't know if others are having a problem like this? It worked on all my other farms.

[JAS0643]

Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-The size of the Clydesdale horse will be decreassed a bit soon



Raul here is a picture of the stable and the clydesdale next to another animal building. The thing that is out of proportion is not the clydesdale it is the stable. Please make the stable bigger and leave the clydesdale alone he is the right size.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l170/jas0643/stable.jpg

[liza1214]

ooooo NAKED trees.............very ugly!!!......lol
each time i arrive on that farm i feel like they r flashing me and it ain't a pretty site!!!!
LOL
P.S Raul we getting some tree trench coats next up date???
hehehe!!!

ok on a more serious note many thanks for the update well worth the wait.
p.s. could we please have some new flowers in the next...tyvm!!!

[tnbskts]

Personally I am not that enamored with this.
I don't know anyone who tells time as 1.6 days. How about just leaving it as Hours and minutes? If you tell me it is 40 hours then I can figure out that it is 1 day and 16 hours. Then I can convert it to a clock time to put in my documentation.

Good idea, especially since there's a difference between FT days and actual days whereas hours are hours in both systems. Even something like 1d16h would be more intuitively obvious than the decimal.

I love the border collie! Haven't had any dogs cluttering up my farms for years but I couldn't resist this one. Bought a brown dog to keep him company.

Several people have pointed out about the palm tree - was just wondering why it can't be made harvestable, I'm sure we can use dates in some of the facilities.

[Barbara3]

Thanks for all you have done .Now please work out a way we can use pay pal with out a credit car PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[peachy51]

Raul here is a picture of the stable and the clydesdale next to another animal building. The thing that is out of pronation is not the clydesdale it is the stable. Please make the stable bigger and leave the clydesdale alone he is the right size.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l170/jas0643/stable.jpg

I agree 100%

[Taz D]

Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-The size of the Clydesdale horse will be decreassed a bit soon. UPDATE: I saw a user mentioning that the issue was not the Clydesdale horse but the stables, but making stables bigger may take some more space which some people may not like, I will ask for some feedback to the mods on this one.

I think this might show the perspective a bit better. Note the difference in size between normal Horse and Clydesdale. I realize they are different, but this looks more like a Shetland pony next to a Clydesdale.
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/303587_241566572545578_100000767109621_598376_5804 640_n.jpg

[nettie1212]

We could only water our farms and our neighbor farms with the Brown Sprinkler. So you don't need to buy a brown one.;) I think it is a privilege for our Neighbors, and not just our buddies or people we are working for to be able to water their flowers. Although, it would be nice. I was hired to harvest a whole farm of flowers... but they were dead, and the player didn't follow me to their farm, so I couldn't do the job. It would be nice if we had that option, so that if we find ourselves in this situation, we can water for us to harvest, but the play doesn't get the benefit of the flowers being watered after we harvest.

I am not understanding your message. I purchased the new sprinkler.. It says in the forums we could water the flowers on buddies farms or anyones farms. I was unable to do this. Thus the reason for the post

[nettie1212]

I am wondering if we will be able to water the farm with the red sprinkler if a neighbour has already watered the farm, which I hope so because I did buy it for speeding up my crops and don't want to ban my neighbours from gaining coins for themselves. I can see my brain going into overload with this new tool! :D

Thank you so much for such a great update! :D

Good point

[JAS0643]

I think this might show the perspective a bit better. Note the difference in size between normal Horse and Clydesdale. I realize they are different, but this looks more like a Shetland pony next to a Clydesdale.
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/303587_241566572545578_100000767109621_598376_5804 640_n.jpg

First the old horse has so many issues going on size just being one of them. It should not be the standard the new horse is compared to. I would like to pretend the old horse never existed. Second if they make the Clydesdale smaller I think they will look more like a dog then a horse. My vote is to offer an alternative view of the stables keeping the same look they have now but making them bigger so the Clydesdale's look more proportional to the building.

[kahra01]

Raul here is a picture of the stable and the clydesdale next to another animal building. The thing that is out of proportion is not the clydesdale it is the stable. Please make the stable bigger and leave the clydesdale alone he is the right size.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l170/jas0643/stable.jpg

Good Point! :)

LOL the chicken coop looks bigger than the stables!

[Taz D]

What I would really like to see is if the same proportions were apllied for all objects including our avatars. You might have to change the zoom level minimum up slightly so everything could be seen but it would certainly look a lot better.

[JAS0643]

What I would really like to see is if the same proportions were apllied for all objects including our avatars. You might have to change the zoom level minimum up slightly so everything could be seen but it would certainly look a lot better.

While I agree with your opinion, it is probably not as easy as it sounds.

[jenifoofoo]

irrigating grown crops does no good, right? have to irrigate while in some stage of growth?

makes a 2 day crop grow in 1 day? Is that actually 20 hours?

Obviously it's great, but a bit of a mind trip figuring everything differently!

[JAS0643]

irrigating grown crops does no good, right? have to irrigate while in some stage of growth?

makes a 2 day crop grow in 1 day? Is that actually 20 hours?

Obviously it's great, but a bit of a mind trip figuring everything differently!

Yes the farm has to be irrigated after you plant crops and you can only irrigate a farm once a day. That means you can only speed up one crop on that farm a day.

If you irrigate right after planting then yes it turns a 2 day crop into a one day crop. Yes that is actually 20 hours. If you irrigate a crop several hours after you plant it then it will only half the time that is left not the total time a crop takes to grow. What that means is if you plant a 2 day crop wait 20 hours to irrigate it then you will have 10 hours left of growing time instead of 20 it will not go back to the time you planted the crop and half that total growing time.

[rposer@googlemail.com]

Well, I remember old days when we all discussed about sizes and scales of houses and animals. We can stop this discussion. Last time nothing happens and that lead us to facilities and houses where smurfs live next door to King Kong. The charm once was to have right scaled houses and that everything fit together, this idea is dead since years. Some responsibles really forgot to look at the game when typing the source codes in their PCs'....

And BTW: I`m not happy with the update. A "start all" buttom without a user-installed preselection option (like the selling stuff, where I can chose for the future what is automatically sold and what not) at the mines was a useless tool.

A good thing was the red sprinkler!

new facilities.... oh boy, what for? I can`t even produce enough metal ore in my mines and I have mines on each farm.

the new tree: great to have one, but ... 1 facility to use it in... wow :-(

new Lama and new sheep: great, but you really should think a little of reducing the FC amount from 5 to 3 or maximum 4, so that it makes sence for me to buy these animals.

I like the new dog. Cute one, but where do I get the dog house?

In total this is an average update. Sorry, but really new ideas weren`t born ! Especially when you are top level nothing changed as there are no new goals. That lead us to the old discussion: we need something (maybe quests or whatever) that keeps the maximum level-players attracted to the game and make also the entry for new players interessting. Ok, now everyone is happy because of the new update, but in 2 weeks, the complaints stay the same. Change something !

[chocoholics2]

While I agree with your opinion, it is probably not as easy as it sounds.

true, the sport stadium would need to be the size of a whole farm :):):):)

[chocoholics2]

I like the new dog. Cute one, but where do I get the dog house?



Its in "Farm Decor"

[HelenJS22]

how do you get the second function to irrigate i just clicked the red sprinkler from the extended toolbox and it just grabs the brown sprinkler

It seems to me that it will only grab the red sprinkler out of storage when it is 'due' to be used again. If you have watered already within the allotted time frame it only lets you use the brown one.

[HelenJS22]

I see Raul is going to ask for moderator feed back re the size of the clydesdale. Please can I cast my vote for leave him exactly the way he is. Clydesdales are very large horses, and I love that he stands out on my farms. For those who want proper proportion, perhaps we could have a new stable for the clydesdales to live in.

[al_bundy]

i think increase the size of the red roofed stables and make it that only clydestales can be added to it and keep the green roofed stables as is for the normal horses

[Satis]

I see Raul is going to ask for moderator feed back re the size of the clydesdale. Please can I cast my vote for leave him exactly the way he is. Clydesdales are very large horses, and I love that he stands out on my farms.

Agree. We might need a new blacksmith's though. Mine (on my Little Gidding farm) look as if they're about to kick the existing forge to pieces!

[StoneFace]

Well, I remember old days when we all discussed about sizes and scales of houses and animals. We can stop this discussion. Last time nothing happens and that lead us to facilities and houses where smurfs live next door to King Kong. The charm once was to have right scaled houses and that everything fit together, this idea is dead since years. Some responsibles really forgot to look at the game when typing the source codes in their PCs'....

And BTW: I`m not happy with the update. A "start all" buttom without a user-installed preselection option (like the selling stuff, where I can chose for the future what is automatically sold and what not) at the mines was a useless tool.

A good thing was the red sprinkler!

new facilities.... oh boy, what for? I can`t even produce enough metal ore in my mines and I have mines on each farm.

the new tree: great to have one, but ... 1 facility to use it in... wow :-(

new Lama and new sheep: great, but you really should think a little of reducing the FC amount from 5 to 3 or maximum 4, so that it makes sence for me to buy these animals.

I like the new dog. Cute one, but where do I get the dog house?

In total this is an average update. Sorry, but really new ideas weren`t born ! Especially when you are top level nothing changed as there are no new goals. That lead us to the old discussion: we need something (maybe quests or whatever) that keeps the maximum level-players attracted to the game and make also the entry for new players interessting. Ok, now everyone is happy because of the new update, but in 2 weeks, the complaints stay the same. Change something !


I tend to agree with most of what you post. I guess that we have to acknowledge that there is a big difference in a designer and a developer. One of my sons attended one of only 5 colleges in the US that base all their curriculum (web, motion picture, animation, music etc) on the computer. His course of study included computer grapics/web/etc design and .... and.... development.

When he returned to Michigan he received numerous job offers because... unlike the applicants the companies usually see..... he could both design and develop.

Apparently this difference is still a relevant obstacle in producing a good end product.... and might possibly exist at slashkey also.


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[StoneFace]

i think increase the size of the red roofed stables and make it that only clydestales can be added to it and keep the green roofed stables as is for the normal horses

.... but then we would need "normal" horses..... :p

[chocoholics2]

Agree. We might need a new blacksmith's though. Mine (on my Little Gidding farm) look as if they're about to kick the existing forge to pieces!

HI, to be frank, none of the animals are "to scale" so why worry about 1 horse?
I know it looks odd, but then a sports stadium the size of pocket hanky looks odd too. I'd leave it as it is.

[StoneFace]

It seems to me that it will only grab the red sprinkler out of storage when it is 'due' to be used again. If you have watered already within the allotted time frame it only lets you use the brown one.

Well I tried to water today.... and the red sprinkler was chosen, and showed on the farm, and the rain fell.......

but there is no (W), and the time remains the same after multiple refreshes.


hhmmm


sounds like the fix might be just to

.... forget the time limit on watering
.... forget the 1000 limit on buy and sell (especially now since more farmers will have more to sell - come on devs, wake up)
.... forget the insistence on some strange design decisions that are not up to the higher quality of the overall game

One item in the release did not affect or bother me and that was the 25 new levels.... but I can see where many farmers had the first thought... WTF ... is there anything I could even buy for $25?? Maybe half a sprinkler....lol

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[1fritz]

Raul and Devs...Just wanted to thank you for the great update. There are a lot of great things here. Love the Boarder Collie, The time display is fantastic especially the time till the crops goes to waste very helpful. Super sheep & Llamas wonderful.Like the loader gadget again very helpful.

I'm sure the sprinkler is probably the best part, once I figure it out.

And of course FARM 11 :D:D:D

Thank you again for another great update! :D

Fritz

[StoneFace]

HI, to be frank, none of the animals are "to scale" so why worry about 1 horse?
I know it looks odd, but then a sports stadium the size of pocket hanky looks odd too. I'd leave it as it is.

Maybe the Sports Stadium is just for Tiddly-Winks. Air Hockey, and board games.

:cool:

[Sandie Angel]

I was happy to see the "Farmmart", I thought Farm Town was finally listening to my suggestion, but there was no Sugar or Milk in there; I'm sad that farm town has never even listen to anything that I have suggested. It is hard to run 11 farms with very little sugar, mulk, and cheese. Enough said about this. VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH THE FARMMART INDEED!!

Why doesn't farm town ever listen to anything I have suggested?

Sandie Angel :(

[MoonBaby5656]

I'd Love to get the new sprinkler to REALLY work at making my crops grow faster!
Love the updates! How about 50 new levels next time? I don't think you'll catch up and give us Old Timers a challenge! Another suggestion here is to offer Farm Cash Gift Certificates in Increments of $ 5 or $10 to give in the store. I think that would be great for sales!

[alemap]

thank you sooo much

[riprock]

Remember that a Farm Town day is 20 hours, not 24.
in addition to a farm town day being 20 hours, if you watered that farm previously that day for another crop and then planted your grapes after harvesting the previous crop, you won't be able to irrigate it again until the next day as you can currently water just once a day. Maybe in the future they will allow you to use the red sprinkler with every new planting. One can only hope

[dojewo]

question, is there a way to know the last time we irrigated our farm? I know you can only do it once a day but with some crops it might matter if I'm ever going to get some sleep. LOL

[cjbraswell]

all the updates are always good, just wish other things could be addressed, for example...the production of Chromite Ore in the mineral mine. there is never enough of it and since we cannot get help in that facility to speed up production from friends, i think the devs should increase the production of it for us. and don't say get another mineral mine, i have 4 already.

[leesac]

6. Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops, double growing speed (do not revive crops): If you already own a Brown Mobile Sprinkler you can buy this Red Mobile Sprinkler to irrigate flowers and crops at the same time. Irrigated plants will grow twice as fast and will have a (W) when you mouse over them.

Notice you will not see an immediate change in growth, what will happen is that all crops and flowers in the farm that are still growing will be fully grown twice as fast from that point on.

You can irrigate a plant more than once, but it's growth speed will only double the first time. As before, you can irrigate only once per day. It's OK if someone irrigated your farm that same day.

When you use this tool on other people farms it behaves as if you were using the Brown Sprinkler, growing speed doesn't change.

This tool is an extension of the Brown Mobile Sprinkler, meaning, unlike the Manure Spreaders, you are irrigating the plants, not the farm, so if you plant new ones and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them.



If the red sprinkler irrigates the PLANTS not the FARM, then we should be able to water each and every crop we plant. As the sprinkler works now if you plant and water, a short crop like raspberries you shorten their growing time. If you replant the field with another crop that day, the sprinkler DOES NOT WORK for that crop. This needs to be changed so each crop planted can be watered. Otherwise it is of very limited use, and I just wasted my 50 farmcash.

[webbo all tools]

had the same thing happen bought 5 of them moved them to barn and they disappeared same with some sheep hope they find a fix those beasts cost real money:mad:

Yeah its bad, i lost 2 and got 4 ??? no idea

[paulcr]

Thanks for all you have done .Now please work out a way we can use pay pal with out a credit car PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

I can use Pay Pal w/o credit/debit card...is your checking account verified on Pay Pal???

[paulcr]

ok, I had to go back and re-water each farm and I finally got the "w" on each one, thanks for the fix Raul

Ok...I too had to go back and water now that Raul fixed it...and it worked!!! The harvest times dropped to about 1/2!!! Thank you Raul!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry if this was asked before, but with the grow time reduced by 1/2 does that also reduce the time you have to harvest before the crops rot by 1/2 or do you still have the same original full time to harvest....i.e., if unwatered it takes 1 day to grow you would have 1 day after that before it rots, but if it now only takes 1/2 of a day to grow when watered do you then only have 1/2 day to get it harvested before it rots?

BTW....it would be a great feature to have a setting that you could allow your neighbors to go and harvest without being hired so that if you aren't able to get to your crops before they rot they can go a head and harvest them for you :) :) :)

[mollyg]

Thanks for the super upgrade!! This one is amazing, and all your hard work is appreciated. I have a question. I bought the red sprinkler but don't see my brown sprinkler for use on my farm. There will be times when I don't want the crop time decreased, yet I need to water my flowers Help!! Have i overlooked an option?

[plbright]

-When using the Red Mobile Sprinkler, sometimes you had to refresh to see the growth speed increased, or after a refresh the increase in growth speed was lost. Some of these issues are now corrected.

I tried out the red sprinkler last night, but it didn't speed up the crop. I hadn't fertilized it yet, is this a must? Or do their have to be flowers to water on the farm?

[chocoholics2]

I was happy to see the "Farmmart", I thought Farm Town was finally listening to my suggestion, but there was no Sugar or Milk in there; I'm sad that farm town has never even listen to anything that I have suggested. It is hard to run 11 farms with very little sugar, mulk, and cheese. Enough said about this. VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH THE FARMMART INDEED!!

Why doesn't farm town ever listen to anything I have suggested?

Sandie Angel :(

Hi Sandie, can you clarify please? the Farmart (not Farmmart) is where you sell stuff you have made, not buy it.
you cannot buy anything in the facilities.

cheers
David

[Jewbana]

After such a great update, I hate to complain (but you know I will!) I still can't hire or get hired to harvest a crop after it's been "sprinkled." Thanks again for a job super well done!

[Original Tee]

thanks so much for getting the red sprinkler fixed so that we could irrigate after a friend watered our flowers. worked perfectly this morning.

as for the clydesdale size: i really do not want to see the stable size increased. i have mine surrounded by trees on the back and sides. if you change it then i'd have to redo the trees on that farm and i can't even imagine the glitches it would cause for someone that has the stable exactly between two buildings. going down in size on the horse should not cause issues with the program but going up in size on the stables could possibly corrupt some farms.

[caligirl62]

what r the newer trees used for? like the big and small Tuscan trees, and the cork oak tree? please help!! thank u!!!

[Sandie Angel]

Hi Sandie, can you clarify please? the Farmart (not Farmmart) is where you sell stuff you have made, not buy it.
you cannot buy anything in the facilities.

cheers
David

Sorry, it isn't the Farmart I'm talking about, it's the TOWNMART I'm talking about. In the past I have suggested a Farm Grocery Store where we can buy finished products like milk, sugar, hen eggs, and cheese, which in my opinion is vastly used in farm town in numerous facilities. But I have not seen these items being in the Townmart. It would be nice to have a farm grocery store where farmers actually sell some of their fresh produce. I know real farmers do that. Some real farmers even have restaurants in their farms to offer their fresh produce to clients. There is nothing wrong to have a farmers grocery store in their farms to offer fresh produce to clients This will be so much better for players because we are always short of the milk, sugar, hen eggs, and cheese.

When I first looked at the Townmart, I was really happy because I thought that was it, but what it is selling isn't what it should be. I stil would like to see a farm grocery store that sells fresh produce, especially milk, sugar, hen eggs, and cheese that ALL players (old and new) and can buy.

Sandie Angel

[caligirl62]

YAY!! Have been anxiously awaiting new levels and extra goodies!! Thanks so much.......must say though I was disappointed not to see the Start All on the Saw Mill facility. Having so many trees means that I have to have a saw mill on every farm and I still can't keep up .... would be soooo nice to have the maximum amount sent to production increased big time....LOL Would be willing to purchase with FC to have Start All on saw mill.....PLEASE consider. Thanks again!! Way to go Farm Town ;o)

they need to have the START ALL in ALL of the facilities!!!!! PLEASE!!!:)

[TexasTornado]

I used the new sprinkler on my crops. They are now ready faster but when I go to the marketplace to hire someone to harvest me I get the message that my crops are not ready to harvest. I am having to harvest them all myself. I also had watermelons that said they were ready (and they should have been) but they were wasted and could not be harvested.

[caligirl62]

Ok...I too had to go back and water now that Raul fixed it...and it worked!!! The harvest times dropped to about 1/2!!! Thank you Raul!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry if this was asked before, but with the grow time reduced by 1/2 does that also reduce the time you have to harvest before the crops rot by 1/2 or do you still have the same original full time to harvest....i.e., if unwatered it takes 1 day to grow you would have 1 day after that before it rots, but if it now only takes 1/2 of a day to grow when watered do you then only have 1/2 day to get it harvested before it rots?

BTW....it would be a great feature to have a setting that you could allow your neighbors to go and harvest without being hired so that if you aren't able to get to your crops before they rot they can go a head and harvest them for you :) :) :)

I agree on this!! or when we r unable to get in to the game...because servers r down etc...

[JennaSweetness]

Is anyone having issues hiring people to harvest/plow the fields that have been watered? Everytime I try to hire someone for a field that I doubled the growth time, I get a pop up window saying "Farm X had nothing to harvest/plow" when the farm is ready.

[ClarkKent]

That's a good query. I saw only my red one now and not my brown one, and yes, sometimes I won't want the growth time doubled :confused:

You can still use your watering can. It's not as fast but it will work for now. I am sure the devs will give us a way soon enough.

[ClarkKent]

Ok...I too had to go back and water now that Raul fixed it...and it worked!!! The harvest times dropped to about 1/2!!! Thank you Raul!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry if this was asked before, but with the grow time reduced by 1/2 does that also reduce the time you have to harvest before the crops rot by 1/2 or do you still have the same original full time to harvest....i.e., if unwatered it takes 1 day to grow you would have 1 day after that before it rots, but if it now only takes 1/2 of a day to grow when watered do you then only have 1/2 day to get it harvested before it rots?

BTW....it would be a great feature to have a setting that you could allow your neighbors to go and harvest without being hired so that if you aren't able to get to your crops before they rot they can go a head and harvest them for you :) :) :)

The time for crops going to waste have increased. Where as a 1 day crop (20 hours) would go bad in 20 hours after being ready is now up to 40 hours when using the new sprinkler. Once your crops are ready you will see the little pop up over your crops that tell you when your crops will waste.

[ClarkKent]

what r the newer trees used for? like the big and small Tuscan trees, and the cork oak tree? please help!! thank u!!!

The big and small tuscan trees are not used for anything yet except for decoration. The cork oak trees are for Cork needed for the Fly Rod in the new Fishing Accessories Factory.

Use your chainsaw or ax to harvest the cork. And they take 40 hours (2 days) before being able to harvest again.

Hope this helps. Happy Farming

[ClarkKent]

With the new sprinkler, when I go to water my flowers - how can I water my flowers with the brown sprinkler now that I have the red sprinkler? Only the red sprinkler shows up in my toolbox, and it watered my flowers, but it also sped up my crops!

It looks as if you will have to use your watering can instead for now if you only want to water your flowers. OR take your brown one out of storage and put it on a farm, choose to water your flowers, as long as you don't click on the little green guy in the tool belt section, you can keep using the sprinkler from farm to farm. When you get done put it back in storage. Flowers stayed watered for 2 days.

[ClarkKent]

I see that the Clydesdale produces horsehair. Do you need to have the stable? What is the horsehair used for?

Yes you have to have a stable in order to harvest horse hair. The stable will also show up in your Facility Manger. You can harvest horse hair every 2 days (40 hours).

[ClarkKent]

Love the new update! So far, the only thing I see that I don't care for is that although the cork oak trees are chopable, they don't turn into stumps when chopped like the other trees do. This makes planning the layout of my farm a bit difficult. Can this be changed please? I'd rather have ALL chopped trees turn to stumps!

Thanks.

If you will notice the bark of the tree turns to a light brown or yellow color. You are not actually cutting down the tree to make lumber, you you are chopping off the cork from the side of the tree. Logically this makes sense. At least to me.

Hope this helps. Happy Farming.

[Ilsewdm]

Thanks for the upgrades. Well worth waiting for. I especially like the sprinkler, but wish it included fruit/nut trees as well.

[Dweeb]

"A Farm can only be watered once a day."

I guess I didn't understand this from the first post, having never had the first irrigation tool. I feel slightly cheated.

Sure, it's great, a 4-day crop is now ready in 2 days - and you'd never see the above in-game message.

But when we plant a 12-hour crop, and irrigate them = 6 hour crop.

When we plant a 2-day crop and try to irrigate them, after we plant them, the message above comes up.

So great, now I'm back to having sticky notes, telling me when I can irrigate my field again, so the current crops get some benefit from the tool which costs 95fc (45 for the first tool, 50 for the second).

Note: and no, the fields don't stay irrigate for a full day. We were told we had to use the tool each time we planted, and we have too - just not in the same day.

I have yet to figure out, is that once in the same 20-hour period (1 FT day), or once per calendar day.






6. Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops, double growing speed (do not revive crops): If you already own a Brown Mobile Sprinkler you can buy this Red Mobile Sprinkler to irrigate flowers and crops at the same time. Irrigated plants will grow twice as fast and will have a (W) when you mouse over them.

Notice you will not see an immediate change in growth, what will happen is that all crops and flowers in the farm that are still growing will be fully grown twice as fast from that point on.

You can irrigate a plant more than once, but it's growth speed will only double the first time. As before, you can irrigate only once per day. It's OK if someone irrigated your farm that same day.

When you use this tool on other people farms it behaves as if you were using the Brown Sprinkler, growing speed doesn't change.

This tool is an extension of the Brown Mobile Sprinkler, meaning, unlike the Manure Spreaders, you are irrigating the plants, not the farm, so if you plant new ones and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them.


Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-Brown Sprinkler can now be used to water any farm, not just neighbours farms
-When neighbor irrigate your farm, you can now use the red sprinkler right after that to double plants growth speed
-If you owned the Red Mobile Sprinkler sometimes the Brown Mobile Sprinkler was showing up instead of the Red Mobile Sprinkler
-When using the Red Mobile Sprinkler, sometimes you had to refresh to see the growth speed increased, or after a refresh the increase in growth speed was lost. Some of these issues are now corrected.

[JAS0643]

I see Raul is going to ask for moderator feed back re the size of the clydesdale. Please can I cast my vote for leave him exactly the way he is. Clydesdales are very large horses, and I love that he stands out on my farms. For those who want proper proportion, perhaps we could have a new stable for the clydesdales to live in.

My issue with the suggestion of a stable for the clydesdales is that both stables we have now are farm cash stables I don't want to buy another stable just for my clydesdales I bought the red stable because of the clydesdales. I refused to have a stable and the other horses on my farm even after they became harvestable. I got my horse hair through ingredient request. What I think a good option is to have switch views on the stables and clydesdales, that way people can make the stables bigger if they want, make the clydesdales smaller if they want or leave everything like it is now. It really doesn't bother me that the stable is too small for the clydesdale I just don't want the clydesdale to be made smaller I think it will look like a dog if they do that.

i think increase the size of the red roofed stables and make it that only clydestales can be added to it and keep the green roofed stables as is for the normal horses


The only issue with this suggestion is that both stables are fc items, if they where coin items it would be different.

[rlj3593]

new facilities on farm 11 dont show up in facility manager

[ronnig65]

Yes you have to have a stable in order to harvest horse hair. The stable will also show up in your Facility Manger. You can harvest horse hair every 2 days (40 hours).

I have a stable which I can harvest if I go to the farm to do it. It does not show up in my facility manager, however. I have had it forever, but hadn't put any horses in it until we began to be able to harvest them. Why doesn't it show? Do I need to do something? Thank you :confused:

[JAS0643]

I have a stable which I can harvest if I go to the farm to do it. It does not show up in my facility manager, however. I have had it forever, but hadn't put any horses in it until we began to be able to harvest them. Why doesn't it show? Do I need to do something? Thank you :confused:

This will be a pain in the butt to fix but it will fix it. Take all of your horses out of your stable put the stable in storage then put the stable back on the farm. You might have to reload the game after you store the stable then take it back out. Once you do this your stable will show up in your facility manger.

[NiMo1960]

Anyone else having problems posting facility help requests ?

[maggiel29]

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post.



Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-The size of the Clydesdale horse will be decreassed a bit soon. UPDATE: I saw a user mentioning that the issue was not the Clydesdale horse but the stables, but making stables bigger may take some more space which some people may not like, I will ask for some feedback to the mods on this one.

Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-Brown Sprinkler can now be used to water any farm, not just neighbours farms
-Animal buildings now have days/hours/mins instead of % as the Ready to Harvest time
-Some non-harvestable trees (like Palm trees) started showing 'Ready to Harvest' incorrectly, this is now fixed
-Mouseover info messages on trees has been enhanced, now it says Ready to Harvest, Ready to Chop or Ready to Bark depending on the type of tree
-When you are in your farm and crops/flowers says ready to harvest, when you hire others they should see them ready to harvest as well
-When neighbor irrigate your farm, you can now use the red sprinkler right after that to double plants growth speed
-If you owned the Red Mobile Sprinkler sometimes the Brown Mobile Sprinkler was showing up instead of the Red Mobile Sprinkler
-When using the Red Mobile Sprinkler, sometimes you had to refresh to see the growth speed increased, or after a refresh the increase in growth speed was lost. Some of these issues are now corrected.

Thank you - all seems to be working much better now

[maggiel29]

I think the Clydesdale is lovely - the Collie is more like a Pyrannean mountain dog tho! Actually the whole scale consistency is out - the B & B is too small especially compared to some houses for example. Maybe we could have small and large footprint options for everything - like the switch view on some facilities??

[maggiel29]

Raul here is a picture of the stable and the clydesdale next to another animal building. The thing that is out of proportion is not the clydesdale it is the stable. Please make the stable bigger and leave the clydesdale alone he is the right size.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l170/jas0643/stable.jpg

I love the Clydesdale - I totally agree - the stable is too small - and as I said before the Collie is too big!

[maggiel29]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=265306720154980&set=a.142908599061460.21188.100000269619874&type=1

The Clydesdale is lovely - IMHO both stables are too small - look at this one next to the cow shed and the donkeys. BUT the Collie is too big larger than the bull - although I love him he looks more like a Pyrannean Mountain dog

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=265306720154980&set=a.142908599061460.21188.100000269619874&type=1

Cant insert a photo but go to my Farm 2

[emw65]

Thanks for all the hard work to make this game as great as it is. I really appreciate it when we have a problem you try tofix it right away. You people are really great. Thanks again and again. Emw

[Texas Belle]

I have a stable which I can harvest if I go to the farm to do it. It does not show up in my facility manager, however. I have had it forever, but hadn't put any horses in it until we began to be able to harvest them. Why doesn't it show? Do I need to do something? Thank you :confused:

You have to have the horses on the stable for it to show on the facility manager, it is the same as any other facility.... when you don't have corn or flour or whatever your facility disappears from the facility manager until you refill it again, so it is the same with the stables, either horse, cows, hens and llamas and sheep... if you don't have anything on them, it does not show on the facility manager...

[Texas Belle]

Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-The size of the Clydesdale horse will be decreassed a bit soon. UPDATE: I saw a user mentioning that the issue was not the Clydesdale horse but the stables, but making stables bigger may take some more space which some people may not like, I will ask for some feedback to the mods on this one.

I think the Clydesdale is magnificent, reminds me of the Budweiser horses. Don't change them, neither the sheep and the llamas, now they are like they are supposed to be and more natural to be in the farm that size. I love the new animals don't touch them!!.... just tweak the stable some give people another option to enlarge like with the other facilities that we had a choice. Off my podium, thanks for the updates, now I can buy the sprinkler, lol

[Taz D]

You have to have the horses on the stable for it to show on the facility manager, it is the same as any other facility.... when you don't have corn or flour or whatever your facility disappears from the facility manager until you refill it again, so it is the same with the stables, either horse, cows, hens and llamas and sheep... if you don't have anything on them, it does not show on the facility manager...
If you change your filter to Facilities in All Farms instead of Active Facilities in all farms then you will see those facilites all the time whether they have production going or not.

[Texas Belle]

If you change your filter to Facilities in All Farms instead of Active Facilities in all farms then you will see those facilites all the time whether they have production going or not.

Thank you, never thought of that, dumb me, just hit one thing and never look elsewhere... thanks Taz

[rjohn726]

so far this is working out really well for me. Like the dog and the horse a lot, thanks for all that did the work on them

[lorrainemc]

this update was/is fabulous!!!...yes a glitch here and there....but the crew fixes them so fast!!!...love this game....only game I play and the only one I will play!!!
BUT have to say the BEST part of this last release has to be the "cork tree" I get so excited to see the color change when harvesting....lol... OK so it doesn't take much to make me smile....lol....it is the littlest things in life that are the greatest!!!...TY again Dev's for all your hard work!!....hugs to all:)

[beautysmom]

I am disappointed with the red sprinkler. Just harvested flowers and planted a half farm with raspberries, watered, left, came back and planted the second half of the farm.... Nope, couldn't do it.... "Flowers can only be watered once a day"--so this means it's worthless on the weekends, which is the only time I have to go 4 and 8 hour crops.... I can only do one watered crop a day.... Is this a glitch?

[caligirl62]

the new sprinkler...where can we use it? only our own...on neighbors....AND buddy's? or do the buddy's have to actually b neighbors?

[JAS0643]

I am disappointed with the red sprinkler. Just harvested flowers and planted a half farm with raspberries, watered, left, came back and planted the second half of the farm.... Nope, couldn't do it.... "Flowers can only be watered once a day"--so this means it's worthless on the weekends, which is the only time I have to go 4 and 8 hour crops.... I can only do one watered crop a day.... Is this a glitch?

No it is not a glitch you can only water one crop per farm once a day.

[beautysmom]

And now I am really annoyed because it does not work at all on my first farm, which has some flowers that never wilt....

[suekelly99]

Thanks for the new levels but that doesn't help those of us who are already at the highest level. With the new update, I'm not able to advance unless I stop playing FT for 4 or 6 months.

[Texas Star]

Thanks! Favorite game! I would prefer the change in size to the Clydesdale so it is more to scale with all buildings and other animals. Just changing the stable size would seem to make it out of sync with the other buildings nearby.

Please add the Tea Factory to the Belt Dryer. It seems to be similar to other items and perhaps was overlooked.

Please consider for the next release a "start all" tool for the Service Facilities. Because they use items I already produced, I don't need to consider how many of what I want to load. Thanks so much for considering these suggestions!

[Docperk]

Thanks for farm 11 and the new updates. Already bought all the tools and the facilities. Got me some trees, horses, etc. Lovin it. My only issue I have found so far is now on W31 I am back to seeing nobody in the market. I really hate having to load the market 10 times before I can see people to hire.

[Docperk]

Oops, please forgive my remark about the market, I didn't realize I was Offline when I went there.

[1fritz]

No it is not a glitch you can only water one crop per farm once a day.


Jas what if you plant two crops at the same time on the same farm then water? Are you saying only one get s the benefit of the quicker harvest time? I haven't had time to play and see what works and doesn't work.

Fritz

[Bonnie Jo]

Jas what if you plant two crops at the same time on the same farm then water? Are you saying only one get s the benefit of the quicker harvest time? I haven't had time to play and see what works and doesn't work.

Fritz

Not Jas, but I have watered mixed fields and they all speed up as long as you water after they are already planted.

[1fritz]

Not Jas, but I have watered mixed fields and they all speed up as long as you water after they are already planted.

Thank you Bonnie...I just tried 2 different 12 hour crops on a farm where flowers were wilted. The flowers were watered, and both crops harvest time was reduced. Thank you for info.

Fritz

[JAS0643]

Jas what if you plant two crops at the same time on the same farm then water? Are you saying only one get s the benefit of the quicker harvest time? I haven't had time to play and see what works and doesn't work.

Fritz

Not Jas, but I have watered mixed fields and they all speed up as long as you water after they are already planted.

What Bonnie said. When you water with the red sprinkler it will half the growing time left on all crops and flowers that are still growing on that farm. You can only water a farm once a day so if you plant crops that are a day or less and use the sprinkler you can not plant another crop and water it later that day and half the time. You can come back the next day and water that crop and it will half the growing time left at that point if you want.

At the risk of getting my hand slapped. The red sprinkler will half the growing time on all crops still growing on that farm even if you can not see the crop that is growing. ;)

[Bonnie Jo]

Thank you Bonnie...I just tried 2 different 12 hour crops on a farm where flowers were wilted. The flowers were watered, and both crops harvest time was reduced. Thank you for info.

Fritz
It also works if you have two different timed crops. I don't do it often, but sometimes I have a 3 day crop and a 4 day crop (for example) on the same field. I tried one of those earlier today and it shortened both of them to whatever half the time would be for each.

[Misticpsp]

I have 3 fields of crops that say ready to be harvested. The problem is, they look wasted. I am not able to plow or harvest. They will waste in 78 mins. What should i do? Any help appreciated.

[Jwebb]

You have to have the horses on the stable for it to show on the facility manager, it is the same as any other facility.... when you don't have corn or flour or whatever your facility disappears from the facility manager until you refill it again, so it is the same with the stables, either horse, cows, hens and llamas and sheep... if you don't have anything on them, it does not show on the facility manager...

I have facilities that are empty that show 0% on one account, but don't show up empty on the other...:(

[topgunnsbabygirl]

Thanks Raul>....:)

[Jwebb]

I have 3 fields of crops that say ready to be harvested. The problem is, they look wasted. I am not able to plow or harvest. They will waste in 78 mins. What should i do? Any help appreciated.


Try the combine if you have it...

[pythonis]

why are the questions some of are asking about the brown mobile sprinkler not being answered? Seems everyone is more worried about the irrigation and speed of crops rather than being able to water non-neighbor flowers.

[Bonnie Jo]

why are the questions some of are asking about the brown mobile sprinkler not being answered? Seems everyone is more worried about the irrigation and speed of crops rather than being able to water non-neighbor flowers.
I hope they don't fix it. I don't want non-neighbors watering my flowers nor do I want to water anyone's flowers who isn't a neighbor.

[pythonis]

omg and i thought i was a hateful person. Dont fix the stupid thing then.

[msa651]

The Red Sprinkler needs to let one know how much time is left before you can use it again. Currently if you irrigate a farm, harvest the crop and sow another crop all on the same day, you can not irrigate again and you have no idea other than the message that you can only water once a day.

[Bonnie Jo]

omg and i thought i was a hateful person. Dont fix the stupid thing then.
I'm not sure why that would make me hateful but whatever. I save my flowers for neighbor's who like to water them and I water a lot of my neighbor's flowers. I actually don't visit other farms except my neighbors and the occasional Contest entries. I don't work out of the MP anymore because of so many rude employers.

[Misticpsp]

Thank you JWebb, I did not get the crop, whgich was supposedly still good, but I now have plowed fields. Thank you

[JAS0643]

why are the questions some of are asking about the brown mobile sprinkler not being answered? Seems everyone is more worried about the irrigation and speed of crops rather than being able to water non-neighbor flowers.

If you will look at the first post of this thread Raul has updated it saying the brown sprinkler has been fixed where it will water anyone's flowers, so there is your answer to that question.

[Aussie Rae]

The Red Sprinkler needs to let one know how much time is left before you can use it again. Currently if you irrigate a farm, harvest the crop and sow another crop all on the same day, you can not irrigate again and you have no idea other than the message that you can only water once a day.

you can re water after 20 hours...I have found it great for 4,3 &2 day crops..won't bother with the shorter time growth crops..and I write down the time I irrigate each crop so that I know for sure...don't leave it up to guess work..I do agree with you that there needs to be a time showing on the irrigator, same as the manure spreader...lets hope they fix it, but until they do, write the times down, lol:)

[mduby]

Thanks for the great updates!!! My wife and I play FT daily and have all the facilities and tools. Love the game!!

[mduby]

But speeding up the crops (on your own farm) could be an unwanted side-effect. I'd like to choose which sprinkler to use.

Yes I agree. I hope to see the brown sprinkler back in the tool box for a choice between it and the red one. For now though you can go to the farm you want to use the brown sprinkler on and get it out of your storage and use it on that particular farm, then put it back in storage. For now that works but putting it back in our toolbox would be ideal, for a choice.

[onamission]

I posted the below glitch report in the official thread but nobody has acknowledged my post or given any advice. Posting it here now in the hopes that someone replies...

Red sprinkler is working fine on all farms except 11.

I have used the red sprinkler repeatedly on 11 and it always says that a farm can only be watered once per day. This has been happening since the new release. I just harvested my wheat and planted 4 day crops but am still unable to irrigate the new crops.

I have refreshed, cleaned out browser and flash, and uninstalled flash and installed latest version. All my usual fixes for one-off little freezy glitches have not worked.

I've just planted a few flowers to see if that would kick in the red sprinkler. No difference.

It's the same on firefox and chrome, I just tested them both now. I don't use IE at all. WF8

I have a milking shed with only cows, chook pen with only hens, shearing shed with sheep and llamas, 4 clysdale horses frozen, and a small copse of cork trees awa crops on farm 11. Nothing else, no layering in any shape or form, no stacking. All sheds have 100 animals in them.

Is there a mod around who can acknowledge my post please? Thanks for all help and advice :)

[Dweeb]

hi, i have just gone over 1 billion xp's but my level has stayed at 235. everyone else has gone up to 260, but not people over 1 billion xp's - would love to get that fixed. thanks

When I went to your farm, I only saw you at 10 million xp (and change), I saw you at 235 still - as seen in this screen capture, (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150272161035894&set=a.103521890893.104712.588355893&type=1) taken moments ago.

Have you played your account? or just visited your farm from a neighbor's? I didn't get my levels till I played.

http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=335690 - shows xp vs level, in post #8.

[pythonis]

If you will look at the first post of this thread Raul has updated it saying the brown sprinkler has been fixed where it will water anyone's flowers, so there is your answer to that question.when i wrote that it wasnt working still but is now. wouldve liked to have been told by someone it was a glitch being worked on when i asked the first time. thanks for getting it fixed but i doubt i'll buy the red one. too many glitches and gripes/whines/moans/complaints already

[chocoholics2]

Your screen capture is showing level 260 :)

The 260 at the top is the visitors level, the user with the problem is at the lower left.

[chocoholics2]

Still getting problems with irrigated crops.
My wife just hired me to do her potatoes then say they are ready but look wasted.
They cropped ok and she got 3rd dan I I picked up the bonus.

This issue is the image is out of sync with the state.

[Dweeb]

For me, it's wasn't 20 hours (1 farmtown day). I had to wait until the same time, calendar day that I used it yesterday.

I got it at 4am, and immediately used it - yesterday.

I had to wait until 4am today, to use it again. Yes, I've been trying each hour for the last 4 hours (when it passed the 20 hour mark).


"A Farm can only be watered once a day."

I have yet to figure out, is that once in the same 20-hour period (1 FT day), or once per calendar day.

[Dweeb]

Your screen capture is showing level 260 :)

You're looking at my level, top of the screen. The farm I'm visiting is in the lower left corner.

[al_bundy]

For me, it's wasn't 20 hours (1 farmtown day). I had to wait until the same time, calendar day that I used it yesterday.

I got it at 4am, and immediately used it - yesterday.

I had to wait until 4am today, to use it again. Yes, I've been trying each hour for the last 4 hours (when it passed the 20 hour mark).

im sure it is once every 24 hours that you can irrigate

[maggiel29]

[QUOTE=Raul;4823594]See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Aug 31, 5:25PM EST.


Known Issues - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-Clydesdale too big: After checking users and mods feedback, we will not reduce the size of the Clydesdale horse, instead we will provide bigger alternative versions for current stables
-Sometimes the state (growth) of the crop and the mouseover information message don't match
-No information about when can you irrigate plants again: The time remaining for the next irrigation will be shown when you mouseover the sprinkler in the extended tool box icon, similar to the manure spreader behaivor
-To avoid confusion about when your plants were irrigated or not, the Sprinkler will only show the water animation when you are allowed to irrigate the plants
-Some users wants to revive flowers but without doubling growth speed for crops in that farm: The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage.

Thank you - great service!

[maggiel29]

im sure it is once every 24 hours that you can irrigate

Yes mine will only work after 24 hours too - thats OK - Im settling to irigating all farms the same time every day and planning round that.

[maggiel29]

Thanks for the new levels but that doesn't help those of us who are already at the highest level. With the new update, I'm not able to advance unless I stop playing FT for 4 or 6 months.

Totally agree although I wouldnt stop playing LOL!! Would like the levels a bit further apart at the top!

[mduby]

You're looking at my level, top of the screen. The farm I'm visiting is in the lower left corner.

oops!! :eek: sorry 'bout that :o

[Rob T]

There appears to be some confusion over the red sprinkler, i will try to clarify it for everyone.

Unlike the manure spreader which fertilizes a farm for 72 hours, and you can plant as many crops as you like in that time and they'll all be fertilized... the red sprinkler does not work that way at all

Make sure that anything you want to be sped up on a farm is planted BEFORE you irrigate, you can only irrigate a farm ONCE per day, so if you plant a 4 hour crop and then irrigate, they will be sped up to 2 hours. If you then decide to plant another crop during that day, it will NOT be sped up until you can water the following day.

There is a glitch at the moment which the developers are working on... some crops will show as wasted, even tho the mouseover says they are ready. They aren't wasted, and you should be able to still harvest those.

[Farmer Rie]

WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING :

All those like us that has purchased the new red watering feature at $50, please beaware, as we have just discovered, that if your crop goes to waste, the earliest you can sort it is when the full time schedule is up unless you have the compained harvester/plow.

We have just found this out by doing it, if you hire someone to replow over wasted crop, they will collect the coins,but no xp, and you will still have a crop gone to waste. They can keep going back to your farm and collect the coins over and over again and each time they refresh that farm the wated crop will reappear, we will report this to the forum. It is obviously a flaw in the writting of the programme.

As i said above you can get rid of it if you or i presume they have a combi harvest or plow. If like me you don't then it's a case of waiting until the final wasted time is up. x

[Farmer Rie]

WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING :

All those like us that has purchased the new red watering feature at $50, please beaware, as we have just discovered, that if your crop goes to waste, the earliest you can sort it is when the full time schedule is up unless you have the compained harvester/plow.

We have just found this out by doing it, if you hire someone to replow over wasted crop, they will collect the coins,but no xp, and you will still have a crop gone to waste. They can keep going back to your farm and collect the coins over and over again and each time they refresh that farm the wated crop will reappear, we will report this to the forum. It is obviously a flaw in the writting of the programme.

As i said above you can get rid of it if you or i presume they have a combi harvest or plow. If like me you don't then it's a case of waiting until the final wasted time is up. x

[Deborah1979]

.... but then we would need "normal" horses..... :p

:eek: Sorry, I am about 10 pages behind in reading the forum...so this may already have been addressed, but saw that Raul wanted input about the Clydesdale size and barn sizes.

While I agree the Clydesdale is a very large horse in real life, I am VERY CONCERNED ABOUT CHANGING THE SIZE OF THE STABLES AND BARNS!!!

Would this not mean a different "footprint" i.e. much larger for these buildings??? And if that happens, and some of us already have our buildings surrounded by trees, flowers, deco, wouldn't we have to completely redesign the farm, or trees, etc would be growing out of the centers???

I wouldn't mind ALL of the buildings to be more to scale & realistic, but ONLY if it doesn't enlarge the footprint!!

So, my vote would be to either reduce the size of the Clydesdale or just leave it alone and I will learn to deal with it. :)

And last, but certainly not least.....Raul, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO US AND RESPONDING SO QUICKLY AND CORRECTING GLITCHES!!

[mduby]

OK here's the question. Say you are planting four hour fields on one of your fields today all day. You water the farm at 7am after you have planted a 4 hr crop, which cuts the harvest time in half. then the crop says (F,W) for fertilized and watered. In mine after I harvest the first four hr crop and plant another crop the (F,W) turns to (F) for the second crop, and the time is not cut in half. So is it water once daily for use on one harvest for a 24 hr period, or should it be (F,W) and times cut in half for all crops planted on that field for the next 24 hrs? Are there still bugs to work out on this? Respectfully asking. Thank you

[Bonnie Jo]

There appears to be some confusion over the red sprinkler, i will try to clarify it for everyone.

Unlike the manure spreader which fertilizes a farm for 72 hours, and you can plant as many crops as you like in that time and they'll all be fertilized... the red sprinkler does not work that way at all

Make sure that anything you want to be sped up on a farm is planted BEFORE you irrigate, you can only irrigate a farm ONCE per day, so if you plant a 4 hour crop and then irrigate, they will be sped up to 2 hours. If you then decide to plant another crop during that day, it will NOT be sped up until you can water the following day.

There is a glitch at the moment which the developers are working on... some crops will show as wasted, even tho the mouseover says they are ready. They aren't wasted, and you should be able to still harvest those.
Some of us don't always plant a whole field of the same crop. I was ok with the once per day thing on the farms where I have only one crop planted (or same maturity time crops) but I also have a couple of farms where I plant crops with different maturity times. This red sprinkler cost a lot of FC and as I see it now after having it a couple of days, it really wasn't worth it.

[dumptv]

I love updates and appreciate them, thank you. I love new services and facilities.

I am having a hard time finding which barns and crops are READY to harvest, because the mouseover message says "ready" in every case. perhaps it could say "1.5 hours remaining" and save the word "READY" for crops/barns that are actually ready to harvest.

thank you so much for your hard work. ♥

[Original Tee]

There appears to be some confusion over the red sprinkler, i will try to clarify it for everyone.

Unlike the manure spreader which fertilizes a farm for 72 hours, and you can plant as many crops as you like in that time and they'll all be fertilized... the red sprinkler does not work that way at all

Make sure that anything you want to be sped up on a farm is planted BEFORE you irrigate, you can only irrigate a farm ONCE per day, so if you plant a 4 hour crop and then irrigate, they will be sped up to 2 hours. If you then decide to plant another crop during that day, it will NOT be sped up until you can water the following day.

There is a glitch at the moment which the developers are working on... some crops will show as wasted, even tho the mouseover says they are ready. They aren't wasted, and you should be able to still harvest those.

Why couldn't it just work the same as the manure spreader with the plots remaining watered for the day? It would get rid of all the confusion and make more sense. It would be nice to be able to water my farm, plant 4 hour crops, get them in 2 hours, then plant my longer crops and have them still watered. I don't understand why the existing code for the manure spreader wasn't utilized for the red sprinkler with a 1 day instead of 3 day time frame.

[maggiel29]

I love updates and appreciate them, thank you. I love new services and facilities.

I am having a hard time finding which barns and crops are READY to harvest, because the mouseover message says "ready" in every case. perhaps it could say "1.5 hours remaining" and save the word "READY" for crops/barns that are actually ready to harvest.

thank you so much for your hard work. ♥

Maybe you need to clear your cache?? Or try a different browser - Chrome works best for me. It sounds as if you are only getting part of the mouse over message - that was a glitch a while ago with the new Flash update but It thought it had all been solved.
Mine only show ready in both cases when they ARE ready - my wool shed is now only showing ready in 1.6 days.

[maggiel29]

Why couldn't it just work the same as the manure spreader with the plots remaining watered for the day? It would get rid of all the confusion and make more sense. It would be nice to be able to water my farm, plant 4 hour crops, get them in 2 hours, then plant my longer crops and have them still watered. I don't understand why the existing code for the manure spreader wasn't utilized for the red sprinkler with a 1 day instead of 3 day time frame.

I think maybe because they dont want to make it TOO easy for us otherwise there is no challenge????

[Rob T]

Why couldn't it just work the same as the manure spreader with the plots remaining watered for the day? It would get rid of all the confusion and make more sense. It would be nice to be able to water my farm, plant 4 hour crops, get them in 2 hours, then plant my longer crops and have them still watered. I don't understand why the existing code for the manure spreader wasn't utilized for the red sprinkler with a 1 day instead of 3 day time frame.

If you'd like to suggest that to the devs, you're more than welcome to post into the suggestions area :) they always listen

[Original Tee]

If you'd like to suggest that to the devs, you're more than welcome to post into the suggestions area :) they always listen

Thanks for the reminder! I put it in Suggestions under Machinery both functional and non-functional.

[HelenJS22]

I think maybe because they dont want to make it TOO easy for us otherwise there is no challenge????

Agreed Maggiel29, While we need some things to be made quicker and easier, for me I'd rather still have some challenge to the game.

[lavanah]

How often can we water our farm with the red sprinkler, is it every 24 hours or 20 hours. And is there a way we can know that our farm needs watering?

[drr30]

I love the red sprinker upgrade I wish the developers would show how much time is left before you can irrigate again this would solve alot of cunfusion. Example I planted Wheat yesterday irrgated after i planted today went i harvested and replanted could not irrgate it. I figure out why wheat tasks 1.6 days to harvested not 2 days as beleved when irragated that cuts it to .8 days red sprinkler irrgates on a 1 day schedule need to wait .2 days to irragate my wheat. Please resolve

[Pustekuchen]

"The time remaining for the next irrigation will be shown when you mouseover the sprinkler in the extended tool box icon, similar to the manure spreader behavior"



I don't see any TIME when I hover over the red sprinkler:mad:
Also, I watered my farm 11 last night, and this morning, my tomatoes were at 1.6 days..then I irrigated, and now my tomatoes are going to be ready at 1 a.m....grrrrrr!

This whole thing really needs to be thought over and changed.....50 cash was quite expensive:eek:

[Bonnie Jo]

This whole thing really needs to be thought over and changed.....50 cash was quite expensive:eek:
Don't forget we also had to buy the previous sprinkler at 45 FC.

[Lois K]

PROBLEM

My farm 5 -- planted single layerof Vanilla -- only partially matured. Harvested that part.

The rest of the farm showed as brown, but said it had several hours to wither, but it was already withered.

It can't be harvested or plowed. Must delete the whole planted area to get rid of the withered crop of vanilla......... WHY did this happen?

[gomh]

I am still having trouble with this tool. After I irrigate the growth speed does not change I have tried reloading and repeating irrigation, but it still does not work. If you can't fix this, I will request return of FCs (and I know I have to contact developer to do this, not you. Please let me know when you have fixed the bugs associated with this tool. It would be terrific if I could depend on it to work.

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Aug 31, 5:25PM EST.

Hi There,

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

1. 25 New Levels: About 60 items all in coins, top level is now 260.

2. 4 New animals: 2 new superanimals (FC), the Heavywool Llama and the Longwool Sheep which produce 10 times more wool. The Clydesdale horse produce horse hair and the Border Collie which don't produce anything.

3. Farm 11: Here are the prices in coins (FC prices remains the same):

12 x 12 Farm 9: 11000000
14 x 14 Upgrade: 8000000
16 x 16 Upgrade: 9000000
18 x 18 Upgrade: 10000000
20 x 20 Upgrade: 900000000
22 x 22 Upgrade: 1000000000
24 x 24 Upgrade: 1100000000

4. Loader (FC): This tool allows you to Start All productions for a product with one click on any facility handling heavy loads: Mineral Mine, Open-pit Mine, Oil Pump, Oil Refinery, Windmills, Watermill, Sugar Refinery, Malt House and Smokehouse.

5. Improved Brown Mobile Sprinkler: Brown Mobile Sprinkler can now be used to irrigate flowers in any farm, not just neighbour farms.

6. Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops, double growing speed (do not revive crops): If you already own a Brown Mobile Sprinkler you can buy this Red Mobile Sprinkler to irrigate flowers and crops at the same time. Irrigated plants will grow twice as fast and will have a (W) when you mouse over them.

Notice you will not see an immediate change in growth, what will happen is that all crops and flowers in the farm that are still growing will be fully grown twice as fast from that point on.

You can irrigate a plant more than once, but it's growth speed will only double the first time. As before, you can irrigate only once per day. It's OK if someone irrigated your farm that same day.

When you use this tool on other people farms it behaves as if you were using the Brown Sprinkler, growing speed doesn't change.

This tool is an extension of the Brown Mobile Sprinkler, meaning, unlike the Manure Spreaders, you are irrigating the plants, not the farm, so if you plant new ones and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them.

7. Better Information Message: When you mouseover crops, trees, etc the ready to harvest time is now expressed in days, hours or minutes, which is more friendly than the % numbers. Also, once a crop is ready, there is a third line which shows the time remaining for the crop to go to waste.

8. Belt Showroom Screen: There is a new belt icon in the extended toolbar that will give you access to your Belt Showroom where you will see any belts you have achieved including products that you can't see on the store. We will be adding filtering and sorting capabilities to that screen soon.

You can also see the belts achieved by other players when visiting their farms.

9. Home Depot Store can now be stocked with gardening tools.

10. Fishing Accessories Factory (Coins): Produce Fishing Accessories.

Hook Set
Creel
Chair
Float
Lobster Trap
Lure
Gaff
Fly Rod

*You can get Cork by using the Axe to bark the Cork Oak tree. You can get the Cork Oak tree as gifts from friends.

11. Animal Accessories Factory (FC): Produce Animal Accessories.

Water Trough
Wool Shears
Curry Comb
Cowbell
Bottle Vaccinator
Milking Station
Feed Cart
Horse Saddle

12. Farmart (Coins): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Ladder
Wind Vane
Manual Seeder
Fruit Picking Bag
Scarecrow
Water Trough
Cowbell
Milking Station
Feed Cart
Horse Saddle

13. Towmart (FC): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Bamboo Utensil Set
Copper Frying Pan
Knife Set
Bathroom Air Freshener
Candles
Potpourri
Teddy Bear
Scooter
Doll

Enjoy!

Thanks

--Raul

Known Issues - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-Clydesdale too big: After checking users and mods feedback, we will not reduce the size of the Clydesdale horse, instead we will provide bigger alternative versions for current stables
-Sometimes the state (growth) of the crop and the mouseover information message don't match
-No information about when can you irrigate plants again: The time remaining for the next irrigation will be shown when you mouseover the sprinkler in the extended tool box icon, similar to the manure spreader behaivor
-To avoid confusion about when your plants were irrigated or not, the Sprinkler will only show the water animation when you are allowed to irrigate the plants
-Some users wants to revive flowers but without doubling growth speed for crops in that farm: The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage.

Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-Brown Sprinkler can now be used to water any farm, not just neighbours farms
-Animal buildings now have days/hours/mins instead of % as the Ready to Harvest time
-Some non-harvestable trees (like Palm trees) started showing 'Ready to Harvest' incorrectly, this is now fixed
-Mouseover info messages on trees has been enhanced, now it says Ready to Harvest, Ready to Chop or Ready to Bark depending on the type of tree
-When you are in your farm and crops/flowers says ready to harvest, when you hire others they should see them ready to harvest as well
-When neighbor irrigate your farm, you can now use the red sprinkler right after that to double plants growth speed
-If you owned the Red Mobile Sprinkler sometimes the Brown Mobile Sprinkler was showing up instead of the Red Mobile Sprinkler
-When using the Red Mobile Sprinkler, sometimes you had to refresh to see the growth speed increased, or after a refresh the increase in growth speed was lost. Some of these issues are now corrected.

Post Release Changes - Aug 31, 5:25PM EST:

-When farm owner see crops ready to harvest (irrigated or not), they should be able to hire fine now, without getting the ""nothing is ready to harvest" message.

[StoneFace]

Agreed Maggiel29, While we need some things to be made quicker and easier, for me I'd rather still have some challenge to the game.

Agreed.... and I see that the new "challenge" will require that I take a couple more brain cells out of storage and put them to work....

I don't bother using Big-Red on anything 12hours or less..... either it will be ready by the end of the day, or first thing in the morning.

The one-days are a toss up... green grapes for instance are used a lot by me (3 cellars, 8 wineries), but I don't have a problem keeping 100k in inventory.

For the two-day+ crops, I guess if I
[1] plant multiple 2-day+ crops on the same farm .... like onions and cucumbers, I can Big-Red them and they will short-time.
[2] or plant just one type of 2-day+ crop on a farm

Because the harvest time will be at least one day, I can just hit them with Big-Red after every re-plant of another 2-day+ crop.

so far(m), my brain is not hurting yet...... and if it does, I will just water it.(with Merlot, or Amaretto, or my avatar friend Johnny Walker Black.


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[Lois K]

I'm going to leave my farm 5 as is for a while. Hopefully, theproblem.. whatever it is, will get fixed before I totally delete and then replow the farm. I noticed that other farmers' farm 5's are having a problem with the new sprinkler.

[Original Tee]

I think maybe because they dont want to make it TOO easy for us otherwise there is no challenge????

I find this game to be plenty challenging. I'm just asking that a tool that I spent 50 FC to buy (95 FC if you count the brown sprinkler) give me a benefit that is worth the cost of it.

[barbara nixon]

when i signed in the am that all the new stuff came on of my dear neighbors said"u did it" the super llamas and sheep are here..he meant because i bought my last 25 llamas that day... my luck would be they would be released...lol..go figure...i'm happy they are finally here..been beggin for the for ever..always love the new stuff...keep up the good work..this game is so much fun..thanks to the devs...

[rebecca slaughter]

im so confused....
6. Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops, double growing speed (do not revive crops): If you already own a Brown Mobile Sprinkler you can buy this Red Mobile Sprinkler to irrigate flowers and crops at the same time. Irrigated plants will grow twice as fast and will have a (W) when you mouse over them.

Notice you will not see an immediate change in growth, what will happen is that all crops and flowers in the farm that are still growing will be fully grown twice as fast from that point on.

You can irrigate a plant more than once, but it's growth speed will only double the first time. As before, you can irrigate only once per day. It's OK if someone irrigated your farm that same day.

When you use this tool on other people farms it behaves as if you were using the Brown Sprinkler, growing speed doesn't change.

This tool is an extension of the Brown Mobile Sprinkler, meaning, unlike the Manure Spreaders, you are irrigating the plants, not the farm, so if you plant new ones and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them.

ok this is what has got me stumped....the last part says unlike the manure spreader im doing the plants not the farm....ok now when i plant a new crop it WILL NOT cut the growing time in half....i use the red sprinkler on the new crop and it does not show the w so i refresh and it does not show the w ,,,,now this does not happen on all of my farms...its like it pick whick one it wants to work on.....maybe i just need to keep working on it....

[maggiel29]

Agreed.... and I see that the new "challenge" will require that I take a couple more brain cells out of storage and put them to work....

I don't bother using Big-Red on anything 12hours or less..... either it will be ready by the end of the day, or first thing in the morning.

The one-days are a toss up... green grapes for instance are used a lot by me (3 cellars, 8 wineries), but I don't have a problem keeping 100k in inventory.

For the two-day+ crops, I guess if I
[1] plant multiple 2-day+ crops on the same farm .... like onions and cucumbers, I can Big-Red them and they will short-time.
[2] or plant just one type of 2-day+ crop on a farm

Because the harvest time will be at least one day, I can just hit them with Big-Red after every re-plant of another 2-day+ crop.

so far(m), my brain is not hurting yet...... and if it does, I will just water it.(with Merlot, or Amaretto, or my avatar friend Johnny Walker Black.


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Giggle - I will have a Southern Comfort please, on the rocks or a nice Single Malt!

[dansd111]

I think the red sprinkler is awesome!

It would really help a lot if it we could use it every 20 hours instead of 24. A 20 hour day it gives us more flexibility in scheduling. Let me explain my reasoning.

If someone does their farming before work about 7:00 in the morning (for example) and one particular day they are running 30 minutes late, the red sprinkler won't being ready until 7:30 the next day. And now it won't be ready until 7:30 each morning. You would have to use it at exactly the same time each day or it will slowly creep to a later and later time.

Please change the red sprinkler to have a 20 hour time frame!

:cool:

[maggiel29]

I find this game to be plenty challenging. I'm just asking that a tool that I spent 50 FC to buy (95 FC if you count the brown sprinkler) give me a benefit that is worth the cost of it.

It IS expensive but I was just second guessing Raul - and I think working properly its a great idea and IMHO worth the cost - yes there are some bugs with it - but they will go in time - cross fingers

[maggiel29]

"The time remaining for the next irrigation will be shown when you mouseover the sprinkler in the extended tool box icon, similar to the manure spreader behavior"



I don't see any TIME when I hover over the red sprinkler:mad:
Also, I watered my farm 11 last night, and this morning, my tomatoes were at 1.6 days..then I irrigated, and now my tomatoes are going to be ready at 1 a.m....grrrrrr!

This whole thing really needs to be thought over and changed.....50 cash was quite expensive:eek:

I dont see any mouse over either and so far Ive only managed to speed up Farm 11 once but forgot when exactly yesterday - it just tells me I cant water twice in one day. But once it settles in I am sure we will all love it - the belts thing is all calming down now as well now theyve been around a while. I didnt mind paying the cash, glad I got it, it just needs tweeking.

[chocoholics2]

I dont see any mouse over either and so far Ive only managed to speed up Farm 11 once but forgot when exactly yesterday - it just tells me I cant water twice in one day. But once it settles in I am sure we will all love it - the belts thing is all calming down now as well now theyve been around a while. I didnt mind paying the cash, glad I got it, it just needs tweeking.

hi, it says "WILL BE"
Its a known problem that will be addressed in the future, it is not listed under the post upgrade fixes section.

Thats how I read it anyway, you'll have to be patient.

Cheers
David

[Reta J]

hi, it says "WILL BE"
Its a known problem that will be addressed in the future, it is not listed under the post upgrade fixes section.

Thats how I read it anyway, you'll have to be patient.

Cheers
David

Thank you so much for posting this... It is under known issues .. I just read it and didn't pay enough attention to what section it was under LOL

Thank you Raul and Dev's for this update! I know there are a few issues, but overall, I think it's great!!

[Maxine Fosmark]

I have discovered that when the red sprinkler is used on my farms, I cannot hire anyone to harvest/plow. The message reads that I must wait until the crop is ready, even when it shows that the crop is ready to harvest and the wasted time figure shows. This means I am the only one who can harvest/plow my farms. I cannot even water my flowers without the crops being watered as well. Please help, no brown sprinkler is shown for me to use, only the watering can. The brown sprinkler is in storage, should I bring it out of storage? thanks
:)

[jcassemjr]

I hate the new sprinkler! One of my neighbors watered my flowers, and now I can't use the red sprinkler for 24 hours to shorten the harvest time of my flowers or crops. If our friends, buddies and employees (hired players) are going to be able to water our farms, if we have a red sprinkler, then it should should shorten the harvest time. At this point, this was the worst "improvement" in the game since day one. I'm sure that Slashkey has made a very nice amount of cash from this update, I know that I have dropped real Farm Cash on the new sheep and new FC facilities. We need this fixed ASAP, or we should get 1/2 the FC back for a tool that does not live up to expectations.

Also, they need to remove the PO UP when placing the new sheep into storage (not into the shed). I am moving my sheep from farm to farm as the wool sheds are ready to harvest, and I'm very well aware after the 10th sheep that I want to move it to storage and that I need to go to storage to move it back to a farm.

Other than that, it's a fantastic upgrade! I've been able to unclutter my farms, get trees off of crops and building off of crops and from under trees with the additional farm, and space out my facilities so that my facility farm is no longer a junk yard. My farms all look decent now!

[KEKLAOL]

6. Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops, double growing speed (do not revive crops): If you already own a Brown Mobile Sprinkler you can buy this Red Mobile Sprinkler to irrigate flowers and crops at the same time. Irrigated plants will grow twice as fast and will have a (W) when you mouse over them.

i take this to mean 4 hr crops ready in 2 hrs
8 hr crops ready in 4 hrs
12 hr crops ready in 6 hrs
1 day crops ready in 10 (12) hrs.

is this correct?

[Rob T]

6. Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops, double growing speed (do not revive crops): If you already own a Brown Mobile Sprinkler you can buy this Red Mobile Sprinkler to irrigate flowers and crops at the same time. Irrigated plants will grow twice as fast and will have a (W) when you mouse over them.

i take this to mean 4 hr crops ready in 2 hrs
8 hr crops ready in 4 hrs
12 hr crops ready in 6 hrs
1 day crops ready in 10 (12) hrs.

is this correct?

1 day crop ready in 10 hours yes :) providing you irrigate right after planting

[Sandraneta]

I think the red sprinkler should allow your crop to unwither / unspoil, for instant harvesting. Further, remove time constraints for its use. I truly enjoy the game, and appreciate the work performed by all involved. Nonetheless, I have chosen to pay a lot of money to play the game, and I think the game needs to be be less restrictive for those who pay for all of the farm cash tools. For example, when will a tool be introduced for the facilities and services so that one can start all with one click. I have played the game since May of 2009, and have hung in there through the games development. Clearly, you have to make a profit, but I think you could do better by the players to consider the tediousness of clicking ... seemingly endlessly to play the game. Please consider adding a "start all" for the facilities and services soon. With respect to the red sprinkler, I hope you will consider my comments. Maybe I need a break from the game to reconsider other options for game play and just wait out this games evolution. I think you do a good job, it just may be that I have become impatient waiting for the game to become more efficient. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best regards, and keep up the good work.

[Superaggie]

I have been on FARM TOWN for over a year and have tried to use this forum but have never been able to post a question or problem -

[Jewbana]

I have discovered that when the red sprinkler is used on my farms, I cannot hire anyone to harvest/plow. The message reads that I must wait until the crop is ready, even when it shows that the crop is ready to harvest and the wasted time figure shows. This means I am the only one who can harvest/plow my farms. I cannot even water my flowers without the crops being watered as well. Please help, no brown sprinkler is shown for me to use, only the watering can. The brown sprinkler is in storage, should I bring it out of storage? thanks
:)

I can't hire anyone either. I just watered a neighbor's farm, and now I'm upset that they can't use the red sprinkler. Bring back the watering can option. I had to buy the brown sprinkler before I purchased the red one, and I am not a happy camper.

[Rickrudd2828]

Since the new update I am unable to post my Facilities at all for people to work, as well when I am asked the question about posting my Belts, I am replying yes, but the post is not generating to my wall so that people can see them and help me. Any idea what is going on with this issue.

[Satis]

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Aug 31, 5:25PM EST.

Known Issues - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-Some users wants to revive flowers but without doubling growth speed for crops in that farm: The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage.

Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

Please no. I don't want to double the growth speed by mistake. This removes the element of planning and control that I like about this game. Please let us continue to have the brown water sprinkler as well.

[NiMo1960]

Since the new update I am unable to post my Facilities at all for people to work, as well when I am asked the question about posting my Belts, I am replying yes, but the post is not generating to my wall so that people can see them and help me. Any idea what is going on with this issue.

A few of us had an issue with this.
What worked for me was:
I changed my browser setting from IE7 compatibility mode to IE9 Standards mode.
Not saying it is the answer, but it may be?

[RachelPinkwas]

Please no. I don't want to double the growth speed by mistake. This removes the element of planning and control that I like about this game. Please let us continue to have the brown water sprinkler as well.

I agree.... UNLESS that what now happens is that additional time is added to the ready for harvesting time, and doesn't change the time until the crops waste. So, for instance, if without being irrigated a crop was due to go to waste at 3pm on a particular day it would still be ready to waste at 3pm on the original waste day. This would give us more time for harvesting without risking losing the crop before our original deadline. :confused:

[dansd111]

I agree.... UNLESS that what now happens is that additional time is added to the ready for harvesting time, and doesn't change the time until the crops waste. So, for instance, if without being irrigated a crop was due to go to waste at 3pm on a particular day it would still be ready to waste at 3pm on the original waste day. This would give us more time for harvesting without risking losing the crop before our original deadline. :confused:


Rachel,
There was an update in Raul's message (the first one in this thread). He said
"-Some users wants to revive flowers but without doubling growth speed for crops in that farm: The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage."

To me that means that you can still follow your same planning timeline and just leave the crops until you would normally harvest them.

[Satis]

Rachel,
To me that means that you can still follow your same planning timeline and just leave the crops until you would normally harvest them.

Yes, this is what I understood, but I still don't like it. If the crops are ready, I'll want to harvest them.

I don't see why keeping the 'watering only' sprinkler is so difficult.

[Tauni]

I purchased the red sprinkler and know that we can only water once daily. However, I can only use it on a couple of my farms. When I water/irrigate it will NOT show the "W". Anyone else having this problem? My crops don't get done in half The time. Oh...I play on Myspace if that info is needed PLEASE HELP :confused:

[Taffyapple]

Yeah same here...I can't seem to get my red sprinkler to work. So far it has ONLY worked on farm 11...what a tease and major bummer. Wish I knew what the trick was to get it to work....or where I can return it for a refund lol

[Superaggie]

New Mobile sprinkler worked fine when I first got it but today it doesn't work on the crops. I watered one farm and then planted crops but they didn't show to be watered so I tried to water again and I get the message that a farm can only be watered once per day. Another farm I waited until I had crops planted and then watered but they still don't show to be watered and the growing time has not changed.

[AngelicBlueEyes]

am I understanding the info correct and that the red sprinkler when mouse hovered over it will show the time you can irrigate again or how many hours is left on current irrigation like the manure spreader does? if that is case, mine and many others I talked to shows nothing when the mouse is hovered over the red sprinkler

[LoreneC]

am I understanding the info correct and that the red sprinkler when mouse hovered over it will show the time you can irrigate again or how many hours is left on current irrigation like the manure spreader does? if that is case, mine and many others I talked to shows nothing when the mouse is hovered over the red sprinkler



Here is the quote where Raul refers to the changes for the red sprinkler. Since it is listed as a "known issue" rather than a post release fix, it means they are working on making the change not that it has already been changed. Hope this helps.



Known Issues - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

-Clydesdale too big: After checking users and mods feedback, we will not reduce the size of the Clydesdale horse, instead we will provide bigger alternative versions for current stables
-Sometimes the state (growth) of the crop and the mouseover information message don't match
-No information about when can you irrigate plants again: The time remaining for the next irrigation will be shown when you mouseover the sprinkler in the extended tool box icon, similar to the manure spreader behaivor
-To avoid confusion about when your plants were irrigated or not, the Sprinkler will only show the water animation when you are allowed to irrigate the plants
-Some users wants to revive flowers but without doubling growth speed for crops in that farm: The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage.

[JAS0643]

-Some users wants to revive flowers but without doubling growth speed for crops in that farm: The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage.


You say we no longer need the brown sprinkler okay I have 2 questions about that.



We have to buy the brown sprinkler before we can buy the red sprinkler, if you sell the brown sprinkler will the red one still work?
Assuming the answer is yes to the first question, if there is an update to the red sprinkler at a later time and we must own the brown sprinkler and the red sprinkler before we buy the new sprinkler if we have sold the brown sprinkler will that cause a problem for us?

[KayGee]

The red sprinkler...such a great idea but still a mess. Maybe "super-poop" to speed growth would have been better, after all, instead of tying irrigation to watering. The red sprinkler is nigh unto useless with anything less than a 2-day crop. There are 2 problems. One (the lesser one) is that growth times, although expressed in terms of a 24-hour day, are still based on a 20-hour "FarmTown Day". The irrigating restriction, however, is based on a 24-hour day. Therefore, if we plant a 2-day (40-hour) crop and it grows in 20 hours, we still can't irrigate the next 2 day crop we plant for an additional 4 hours. This doesn't make sense. Of course, if they would remove the irrigating restriction all together, which they should since we have now paid $95 total farmcash for the red sprinkler, it would take care of the lesser problem. We should be able to irrigate right after we plant, since we are irrigating "crops", not "farms". They need to change it. <wave of hand>. BTW, great-looking dog, the border collie :)

[romreader1066]

Just hired neighbor to harvest farm.. Tomatoe field said "ready to harvest" Waist 1.1 days and it was already waisted. I used my new "red sprinkler" to speed crop growth. Took a picture and posted it. don't know how to get it to ya. but any assistance or feedback greatly appreciated. But u guys are doing a fantastic job. Greatest game!!!!! Thanks for everything.

[Momma Woods]

This tool is an extension of the Brown Mobile Sprinkler, meaning, unlike the Manure Spreaders, you are irrigating the plants, not the farm, so if you plant new ones and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them.


I very seldom plant a whole farm with crops that are harvested at the same time. Therefore I need to irrigate the newly planted crops so they will grow twice as fast, but it does not work and yes I know how to work the irrigation system or I would not have gotten the first crops to show the F-W.
Is this a glitch? How do we get a crop planted on a farm already with growing crops irrigate to grow 2 x as fast and show the F-w?

[katrina719]

Just hired neighbor to harvest farm.. Tomatoe field said "ready to harvest" Waist 1.1 days and it was already waisted. I used my new "red sprinkler" to speed crop growth. Took a picture and posted it. don't know how to get it to ya. but any assistance or feedback greatly appreciated. But u guys are doing a fantastic job. Greatest game!!!!! Thanks for everything.

Indeed that is what I just posted elsewhere.. crops grow in half the time, so unless you sit and crop sit... they die too soon.

[JAS0643]

This tool is an extension of the Brown Mobile Sprinkler, meaning, unlike the Manure Spreaders, you are irrigating the plants, not the farm, so if you plant new ones and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them.


I very seldom plant a whole farm with crops that are harvested at the same time. Therefore I need to irrigate the newly planted crops so they will grow twice as fast, but it does not work and yes I know how to work the irrigation system or I would not have gotten the first crops to show the F-W.
Is this a glitch? How do we get a crop planted on a farm already with growing crops irrigate to grow 2 x as fast and show the F-w?

You can only irrigate a farm once every 24 hours so if you are trying to irrigate more often then that that is what your problem is.

[1fritz]

It's interesting that the Border Collie and the Baby Deer are the same size. LOL

Love the Collie bought one for every farm :D

Fritz

[paulcr]

I really like the idea of the red sprinkler...I actually asked for something like that a couple of years ago. BUT the way it is setup to work just isn't logical. Fine if you can water only 1 time per day, but the double growth speed should continue through that day so if you harvest before the day is up and plant again the new plantings are on double growth too. Not knowing when you can water again and it will double the growth again (no I don't get the time to water pop-up when I hover over the sprinkler) is extremely frustrating....the whole thing is just too complex of a system to actually increase the enjoyment of the game. Also, the initial description of how it worked wasn't clear enough. Had it actually said that the double growth didn't pass along to the next planting if you harvested before that 24 hours was over. If it had been clear how difficult of a tool it is to use and you really don't get 24 hours of double growth if you havest and replant within that 24 hours I doubt I would have actually spent money to buy the FC to buy both sprinklers. Double growth speed....great concept. How it was presented and how it actually works...this is the first time I actually feel ripped off in all of the times I have paid for FC. I'm thinking either you need to change it so that the double growth speed applies to everthing planted on that farm within that 24 hours or offer a cash refund for those of us who paid for the sprinklers and they aren't working as advertised.:(:(

[ronnig65]

You have to have the horses on the stable for it to show on the facility manager, it is the same as any other facility.... when you don't have corn or flour or whatever your facility disappears from the facility manager until you refill it again, so it is the same with the stables, either horse, cows, hens and llamas and sheep... if you don't have anything on them, it does not show on the facility manager...

I have 100 horses in my stables and 2 clydesdales on the farm...:confused:

[SeaJay]

I really like the idea of the red sprinkler...I actually asked for something like that a couple of years ago. BUT the way it is setup to work just isn't logical. Fine if you can water only 1 time per day, but the double growth speed should continue through that day so if you harvest before the day is up and plant again the new plantings are on double growth too. Not knowing when you can water again and it will double the growth again (no I don't get the time to water pop-up when I hover over the sprinkler) is extremely frustrating....the whole thing is just too complex of a system to actually increase the enjoyment of the game. Also, the initial description of how it worked wasn't clear enough. Had it actually said that the double growth didn't pass along to the next planting if you harvested before that 24 hours was over. If it had been clear how difficult of a tool it is to use and you really don't get 24 hours of double growth if you havest and replant within that 24 hours I doubt I would have actually spent money to buy the FC to buy both sprinklers. Double growth speed....great concept. How it was presented and how it actually works...this is the first time I actually feel ripped off in all of the times I have paid for FC. I'm thinking either you need to change it so that the double growth speed applies to everthing planted on that farm within that 24 hours or offer a cash refund for those of us who paid for the sprinklers and they aren't working as advertised.:(:(

Also, I do remember reading that if we got the red sprinkler, that we would be able to water non-neighbors farms!!! What happened with that ..or did you make a boo boo releasing wrong info to soon??

[driverdave]

ok....heres how a humble colonial see's the new red sprinkler....

1 it can be used for ONE planting of crops PER FARM PER DAY (and does increase the crop maturation rate )
2 it also enables the speeded up growth of flowers (which only need irrigating once per day anyways

3 it was primarily designed to be used on 2 ,3 and 4 day crops (not so you can harvest a zillion raspberrys evrery hour ) of course it will work on shorter time crops but only at the usage rate in item 1

it allows the watering of non neighbours flowers but as stated does not increase the non neighbours crop maturation rate
It does work as advertised and is well worth the farmcash if used intelligently

and yes while i am here...THANKS RAUL for another great release keep em coming and may we please have a gift token system with an in game gift shoppe to redeem the tokens for what we really need/want

[Taz D]

I have 100 horses in my stables and 2 clydesdales on the farm...:confused:
You will have to take the horses out of the stable, move the stable to storage, refresh your game, put the stable back on the farm and reload the horses. The same thing happened with those who had the rabbit hutch before it became a facility.

[KayGee]

ok....heres how a humble colonial see's the new red sprinkler....

1 it can be used for ONE planting of crops PER FARM PER DAY (and does increase the crop maturation rate )
2 it also enables the speeded up growth of flowers (which only need irrigating once per day anyways

3 it was primarily designed to be used on 2 ,3 and 4 day crops (not so you can harvest a zillion raspberrys evrery hour ) of course it will work on shorter time crops but only at the usage rate in item 1

it allows the watering of non neighbours flowers but as stated does not increase the non neighbours crop maturation rate
It does work as advertised and is well worth the farmcash if used intelligently

and yes while i am here...THANKS RAUL for another great release keep em coming and may we please have a gift token system with an in game gift shoppe to redeem the tokens for what we really need/want

I actually resent the implication that the desire to use the red sprinkler for crops of less than 2 days of growth time indicates lack of intelligence. If, in your opinion, it works well, that is strictly an opinion. There is no question that it is frustrating to use, even with a 2-day (20-hour) crop. Either it should irrigate newly-planted crops with no time restriction or at the VERY least match the time in terms of FarmTown days. I saw something about mousing over it to find out when you can water again, but I am not getting that. As I stated in a previous post, you can't even replant a 2-day (20-hour) crop and irrigate it right away. You have to wait 4 hours. Makes no sense. It needs tweaking, and the more people state that, perhaps the more likely it is to happen. If you're perfectly happy with it, that's great, but I don't think you need to disrespect the opinions of others.

[pangea009]

I have to agree with you... When I hover I don't see a clock or timer... I just for the first time planted my farm 11 and had not used the sprinkler... why would I? the farm was not in existence... and it tells me that I can only water once a day.... Ok... so if I had not ever watered it..... why can't I water?

[driverdave]

I actually resent the implication that the desire to use the red sprinkler for crops of less than 2 days of growth time indicates lack of intelligence. If, in your opinion, it works well, that is strictly an opinion. There is no question that it is frustrating to use, even with a 2-day (20-hour) crop. Either it should irrigate newly-planted crops with no time restriction or at the VERY least match the time in terms of FarmTown days. I saw something about mousing over it to find out when you can water again, but I am not getting that. As I stated in a previous post, you can't even replant a 2-day (20-hour) crop and irrigate it right away. You have to wait 4 hours. Makes no sense. It needs tweaking, and the more people state that, perhaps the more likely it is to happen. If you're perfectly happy with it, that's great, but I don't think you need to disrespect the opinions of others.

Missed my point...... i wasnt imputing a lack of intelligence at all and if you read the post fully you will see that i did say it can be used on less than 2 dayers but only as allowed in item 1 i.e one use per farm per day .
the mouseover isnt working but given that we know its only allowed one use per farm per day that should not be a problem
when i said used intelligently it was more of a '' plan ahead and make the best use of this item ""
and as far as the timing thng goes it has long been a whinge of a lot of people that the farmtown day didnt match the realtime day......what may have been better is just to quote the crop times in hours only or hours and minutes as it seems decimals are too hard for people to work out and i was in no way disrespecting the opinions of others and its not my fault if others get that impression ..... i named no names and quoted no quotes in that post so dont go pickin on me dearie its my opinion and some clarification as i see it for informational purposes

[Sandy Mae]

Thanks for all the improvements. My favorite is the red sprinkler. This will help with getting farther as with facilities timing. Am still adjusting to the new levels of production. I am very dyslexic and have a hard time with spelling. Math is the worst. So I appreciate you doing most of the work.

[suepatches]

Please give me the other sprinkler back.. I now find myself using the water can to water my flowers If I dont want to water the crop. I would like the option to use either sprinkler. Call me old or stupid but I really fell like I took a step backwards with this only red sprinkler option. I love how we can speed up the crops but I really like to water flowers when they need it and not speed up a crop that I do not plan on staying up all night to harvest. betweeen facebook taking away game stories and posting everything we are doing im getting lost confused and depressed over all this.

[driverdave]

Please give me the other sprinkler back.. I now find myself using the water can to water my flowers If I dont want to water the crop. I would like the option to use either sprinkler. Call me old or stupid but I really fell like I took a step backwards with this only red sprinkler option. I love how we can speed up the crops but I really like to water flowers when they need it and not speed up a crop that I do not plan on staying up all night to harvest. betweeen facebook taking away game stories and posting everything we are doing im getting lost confused and depressed over all this.

you still have the other sprinkler...if you look in storage under items and filter for tools you will see it there ...just take it out and use it and out it away again or leave it on a farm

[Bonnie Jo]

3 it was primarily designed to be used on 2 ,3 and 4 day crops (not so you can harvest a zillion raspberrys evrery hour ) of course it will work on shorter time crops but only at the usage rate in item 1


Could you point me to where it says that in the release notes?

[jcassemjr]

I would have to say that given the last sentence which reads "... if you plant new one and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them" is in direct contradiction with the sentence which reads "As before, you can irrigate only once per day." How can both be true?

{B}6. Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops, double growing speed (do not revive crops):[/B] If you already own a Brown Mobile Sprinkler you can buy this Red Mobile Sprinkler to irrigate flowers and crops at the same time. Irrigated plants will grow twice as fast and will have a (W) when you mouse over them.

Notice you will not see an immediate change in growth, what will happen is that all crops and flowers in the farm that are still growing will be fully grown twice as fast from that point on.

You can irrigate a plant more than once, but it's growth speed will only double the first time. As before, you can irrigate only once per day. It's OK if someone irrigated your farm that same day.

When you use this tool on other people farms it behaves as if you were using the Brown Sprinkler, growing speed doesn't change.

This tool is an extension of the Brown Mobile Sprinkler, meaning, unlike the Manure Spreaders, you are irrigating the plants, not the farm, so if you plant new ones and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them.

Enjoy!

Thanks

--Raul



I think that this is where the frustration builds. Since we paid 50 FC for the sprinkler, many of us thought we were getting the ability to water each crop once it is planted, but that no plant can be watered more than once per day. Given that a new plant is planted, which clearly couldn't have been watered in the the past 24 hours (hence a new plant), and we are watering the plant and not the farm, it shouldn't matter if the farm was watered in the past 24 hours.

Given that this item was $8.00 USD, if you purchased the 250 FC for $39.99, it is only reasonable to expect that it would give you equal or more benefit than the 45 FC Combine and on the same par as the par as the Manure Spreader, which cost the same amount of FC and USD.

Even if it is working as intended, and not clearly stated, we are forced to either leave our farm plots un-planted for the time until the irrigation clock resets, thereby loosing productivity, or give up on the plant's time to harvest being truly cut in half, since we have to wait the rest of the 24 hour time period for the ability to irrigate to rest, and only reducing the time to harvest by half from that point the plants were irrigated, since Raul stated that it is "..from that point on."

For the sake of the game, the Dev's need to rework how this irrigation is working or refund the players their FC. There is not a store out there that will not take a product back that didn't live up to expectations. I'm not asking for my USD's back, just the ability to get my FC back.

[driverdave]

Could you point me to where it says that in the release notes?

the post is all about how i see it not any copying from release notes so it wont show that there ...however there is the scenario that some people (note i didnt say you!!! ) ...if they could.....would repetitively plant short time crops to gain exps and lvls etc

[Bonnie Jo]

the post is all about how i see it not any copying from release notes so it wont show that there ...however there is the scenario that some people (note i didnt say you!!! ) ...if they could.....would repetitively plant short time crops to gain exps and lvls etc
I have stated here many times that I don't irrigate any crop 1 day or less so that isn't my issue with the sprinkler. I don't need to speed up my short term crops. My issue is that I don't always plant the same long term crop across a whole field, nor do I always plant the same timed crops across a field. When half your field is ready and you harvest and replant it but can't irrigate it again until the 24 hours is up on the other half - that is not how it was explained in the release notes. I also don't like that they combined it with the brown sprinkler. I want to be able to just water my flowers and not have to even think about what it is doing to my crops.

[suepatches]

Ok I did not know that the other sprinkler was in storage (guess I believed the everything is in the tool box idea) so, never mind. Thanks for the help.:o

[Bonnie Jo]

Ok I did not know that the other sprinkler was in storage (guess I believed the everything is in the tool box idea) so, never mind. Thanks for the help.:o
When I took my brown sprinkler out of storage it turned into the red one once I placed it on the farm.

[suepatches]

Bonnie, You are so right, other sprinkler turns red as soon as I try to use it. so im out one sprinkler. Back to square one?:confused:

[Dweeb]

The problem they are probably trying to prevent, is runaway experience.

They already have it, with the x16 and x25 tools being used on other peoples farms, especially the Combo tool.

Can you imagine 10 farms of 1 hour raspberries, on a combo tool?

We should be able to irrigate right after we plant, since we are irrigating "crops", not "farms". They need to change it. <wave of hand>.

[jcassemjr]

I just tested removing the brown sprinkler out of the storage, onto a farm that wasn't irrigated in the past 24 hours, to see if I could indeed use it as it was purchased. Well it failed. When I clicked to use it, it too turned read, and irrigated the plants and not just the flowers. So, you cannot just water flowers!

This is like making the 3x3, or 4x4 tools work 5x5 since we own the 5x5 tool.

They need to get it fixed, because now I sped up a crop that only had 1 hour left, that I didn't want to waste the speed up feature on!

Where are the Mods? Why are we not getting better information from them?!?!?

[driverdave]

The problem they are probably trying to prevent, is runaway experience.

They already have it, with the x16 and x25 tools being used on other peoples farms, especially the Combo tool.

Can you imagine 10 farms of 1 hour raspberries, on a combo tool?

Hit the nail on the head there Dweeb ....... the sprinkler still has bugs but people can work around them till they are sorted ..personally i have no probs with it it does what i want it to do and i consider it fc well spent

[Bonnie Jo]

Hit the nail on the head there Dweeb ....... the sprinkler still has bugs but people can work around them till they are sorted ..personally i have no probs with it it does what i want it to do and i consider it fc well spent
When a tool changes how I have to plant my crops and water my flowers it is not FC well spent to me. I'm glad you're happy with it but from all the posts here it sounds like you are in a very small minority.

[driverdave]

maybe the mods are doing their farm 11 ...lol

[driverdave]

When a tool changes how I have to plant my crops and water my flowers it is not FC well spent to me. I'm glad you're happy with it but from all the posts here it sounds like you are in a very small minority.

i usually am but you see i am quite old and wont allow a little thing like this to upset me ...and as our tools and technology evolve so should our methods and practices .......i feel for your pain but i dont remember any new technology ....real or virtual that hasnt had bugs in it

[Bonnie Jo]

i usually am but you see i am quite old and wont allow a little thing like this to upset me ...and as our tools and technology evolve so should our methods and practices .......i feel for your pain but i dont remember any new technology ....real or virtual that hasnt had bugs in it
I am probably just as old (or close) as you are. When I purchase anything IRL I expect it to be as advertised and I also expect a store to make good on it when it isn't so. Saying this is new technology is stretching it a bit. It is just a stupid tool in a game which happens to cost real money and not "virtual money." I can understand why people are upset, even if it is just a game.

[jcassemjr]

The problem they are probably trying to prevent, is runaway experience.

They already have it, with the x16 and x25 tools being used on other peoples farms, especially the Combo tool.

Can you imagine 10 farms of 1 hour raspberries, on a combo tool?

I don't agree. I believe that if they could speed up harvest times, there would be less of a need for additional farms and limit the need to layer farms for players to keep the products in inventory to keep the facilities full.

A player can plow a field and delete a field twice for the same XP's in far shorter amount of time than planting and waiting for raspberries to grow, if they are only after XP's. They could sit in the MP and get hired over and over in 1 hour and earn farm more XP's. I sat in the MP for 45 minutes this evening, didn't beg for work, and had 8 hires, two of which were multiple farm/multiple actions, all solo. I have no idea what I earned, since I'm at level 260, but I'm sure that I earned farm more than 1024 XP's.

As I posted earlier, the release notes are contradictory, in my opinion. If this is how they intended, it provides far less benefit than the manure spreader which cost the same FC. I would only value this tool at half the FC price.

[jcassemjr]

maybe the mods are doing their farm 11 ...lol

Diverdave, you're probably right about the Mod's.

We all sat the forums when we couldn't/didn't want to wait for the new update Well, we got it, and we have to have something to talk about.

The sprinkler was great when the new release came out, I needed some crops to bolster my inventory, since I knew I was going to move facilities to other farms, without them being completely empty, and would loose those items in the facilities. I was able to plant, and then irrigate all 10 farm early after the release came out, and now have every facility back up to 100%, and building my stock back up.

I only see this tool valuable if I have allowed items to get down to a dangerous level or if I know that with my work schedule, that I won't have time in the normal cycle to get to a crop.

In my opinion, for 50 FC, the manure spreader doubled our yield for every crop we plant when the farm is fertilized be it a 2 hour or 5 day crop, so for 50 FC, the red sprinkler should cut the growing time in half every crop I plant, not just one every 24 hours.

If it was just going to be an enhancement with a slight advantage, it should have been at a lower price of the brown sprinkler, just like the 5x5's tools were a lower price from the 4x4's tool prices.

[jcassemjr]

I am probably just as old (or close) as you are. When I purchase anything IRL I expect it to be as advertised and I also expect a store to make good on it when it isn't so. Saying this is new technology is stretching it a bit. It is just a stupid tool in a game which happens to cost real money and not "virtual money." I can understand why people are upset, even if it is just a game.

And, the forums are the avenue for the players to communicate back to Slashkey and the developers on our thoughts and desires for the games. They clearly read the posts, and we all can and should express our opinions on what is working in the game and what isn't meeting our expectations. They have to give the players what the players want, in order to keep them spending money, and you are so right, it is "real money".

[suepatches]

Ok I am now back to give me my old sprinkler back and you can take the red one away and I will eat the loss of farm cash. I just want to play the game and do my own thing without all the stupid rules on times and stuff like that. Call it a lesson learned. I do not need to plant like nuts to get ex points. I feel if you tell us to rewater new crops we should be able to do so. But what ever, just give me the old sprinkler and I will continue on as before. I have done rather well in life but I am not a rocket scientist which is what you need to be lately to play. I am not into spread sheets, or graphs, just want to play and not worry about the next thing I have to work around.

[Taz D]

I think what really needs to be done is separate the sprinklers apart. Leave the Brown one to do flowers only and make the red on e only do crops. This would satisfy those who want to do flowers without doing crops. Also need to change the time period for the Red one to 6 or 12 hours instead of 24 hours.

[jcassemjr]

I think what really needs to be done is separate the sprinklers apart. Leave the Brown one to do flowers only and make the red on e only do crops. This would satisfy those who want to do flowers without doing crops. Also need to change the time period for the Red one to 6 or 12 hours instead of 24 hours.

Taz ---

You are right, that would solve my issues with the sprinkler, if they implements both of your suggestions and dropped it down to every 6 hours.

[JAS0643]

Please give me the other sprinkler back.. I now find myself using the water can to water my flowers If I dont want to water the crop. I would like the option to use either sprinkler. Call me old or stupid but I really fell like I took a step backwards with this only red sprinkler option. I love how we can speed up the crops but I really like to water flowers when they need it and not speed up a crop that I do not plan on staying up all night to harvest. betweeen facebook taking away game stories and posting everything we are doing im getting lost confused and depressed over all this.

There has been a change in what the red sprinkler does. When it came out if you planted a 4 hours crop and used the red sprinkler to speed it up right after you planted it would be ready in 2 hours and go to waste 4 hours after that for a total time of 6 hours. Now the time to go to waste has been extended to where it would be if you didn't speed up growth. If you plant a 4 hour crop it takes 4 hours to grow and you have 4 more hours to harvest the crop before it goes to waste. This is a total of 8 hours from the time you planted the crop and it went to waste. If you use the red sprinkler on the 4 hours crop right after planting the crop your corp will be ready to harvest in 2 hours and it will go to waste 6 hours after that. This gives you a total of 8 hours to get the crop after you plant it. It doesn't matter if you speed up growth you still have the same amount of time to get the crop as you would if you had not speed up the growth.

The problem they are probably trying to prevent, is runaway experience.

They already have it, with the x16 and x25 tools being used on other peoples farms, especially the Combo tool.

Can you imagine 10 farms of 1 hour raspberries, on a combo tool?


How does the combo tool give you more xps? You get the same amount of xp as you would if you used separate tools. While it may let you do the work a little quicker it doesn't really make that big a difference that people are running away with xps because of the combine.

[JAS0643]

I think what really needs to be done is separate the sprinklers apart. Leave the Brown one to do flowers only and make the red on e only do crops. This would satisfy those who want to do flowers without doing crops. Also need to change the time period for the Red one to 6 or 12 hours instead of 24 hours.

I do think the sprinklers need to be separate but I want to keep the option of speeding up the flowers. It takes so many flowers for the flower shop that I want to harvest them every 2 days instead of every 4. I had to water my flowers with the bucket today because they where ready to harvest but they where dead so I couldn't harvest them without first watering them. I had to use the bucket so I could then use the red sprinkler to water the flowers after I harvested them to cut the growth time in half. I would really like trees added to the sprinkler so I don't have to have close to 15,000 threes planted on my farms. I also vote for cutting the time for watering down to 6 or 12 hours that way people will not be planting 20 rounds of raspberries everyday and getting a billion xps in a week, but we can speed up more then one crop a day if we need to.

[Cookie01]

Ok I am now back to give me my old sprinkler back and you can take the red one away and I will eat the loss of farm cash. I just want to play the game and do my own thing without all the stupid rules on times and stuff like that. Call it a lesson learned. I do not need to plant like nuts to get ex points. I feel if you tell us to rewater new crops we should be able to do so. But what ever, just give me the old sprinkler and I will continue on as before. I have done rather well in life but I am not a rocket scientist which is what you need to be lately to play. I am not into spread sheets, or graphs, just want to play and not worry about the next thing I have to work around.

Absolutely! Spot on. Same here.

[peachy51]

Absolutely! Spot on. Same here.

Cookie, this is from Raul's post release update:

"-Some users wants to revive flowers but without doubling growth speed for crops in that farm: The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage."

So it seems it doesn't matter if they get speeded up. We will have the option to harvest them at a sooner time, but they will not go to waste until they would have if they had not been speeded up.

I was feeling the way you did until I went back and read all the post release notes.

[peachy51]

all the updates are always good, just wish other things could be addressed, for example...the production of Chromite Ore in the mineral mine. there is never enough of it and since we cannot get help in that facility to speed up production from friends, i think the devs should increase the production of it for us. and don't say get another mineral mine, i have 4 already.


I agree. I have 10 of these mines and still run out of stuff ... and then a lot of the new facilities use a ton of metal :(

[SeaJay]

ok....heres how a humble colonial see's the new red sprinkler....

1 it can be used for ONE planting of crops PER FARM PER DAY (and does increase the crop maturation rate )
2 it also enables the speeded up growth of flowers (which only need irrigating once per day anyways

3 it was primarily designed to be used on 2 ,3 and 4 day crops (not so you can harvest a zillion raspberrys evrery hour ) of course it will work on shorter time crops but only at the usage rate in item 1

it allows the watering of non neighbours flowers but as stated does not increase the non neighbours crop maturation rate
It does work as advertised and is well worth the farmcash if used intelligently

and yes while i am here...THANKS RAUL for another great release keep em coming and may we please have a gift token system with an in game gift shoppe to redeem the tokens for what we really need/want

Let me just add that the devs also made it so that the crops waste in the original amount of time!! They could have made it so that it's waste time was cut in half too. That's a huge bonus. Crops in half the time.......but it's almost like having double the time before they waste!!!

[Aussie Rae]

I really don't understand why you are all complaining..the new sprinkler is brilliant...after you plant, refresh, then water....its simple....I planted Peas, Rice, Wheat and Tomatos last night at 7.30pm and harvested them today at 3pm....I replanted a 4 hr crop on each farm and when I harvest tonight, I will replant with a 2 day crop, refresh and re water...its easy..lol

[Bonnie Jo]

I really don't understand why you are all complaining..the new sprinkler is brilliant...after you plant, refresh, then water....its simple....I planted Peas, Rice, Wheat and Tomatos last night at 7.30pm and harvested them today at 3pm....I replanted a 4 hr crop on each farm and when I harvest tonight, I will replant with a 2 day crop, refresh and re water...its easy..lol
It isn't that easy for us who sometimes plant different timed crops on a field.

[SueinSpain]

I think the Devs do a brilliant job and I have never begrudged paying for certain items but I really am disappointed with the new Sprinkler and hate the fact that it has total control. If we were given back the old one then those of us who have paid good money for the new one would then have the option which one we wanted to use like the other tools. I also feel that it is going to make it so much easier for XP to be gained unfairly. And before anyone says "well, what about the layering or stacking which gains XP unfairly," the Devs have known for a long time about this and have never stopped it. Please, please give us our old Sprinkler back. The next thing we'll be getting told is "Please use your harvested crops that are in Storage."

[Satis]

On a different note, the new animals are great fun. I unfroze them for a while. On Farm 11 I have a herd of sheep and a border collie; I set the sheep to eat and the dog to wag its tail.

When I went to Farm 1, the Clydesdale there was rearing up in the air.

I can't keep them unfrozen when I'm working on the farms, but it was entertaining. Well, it pleased me, anyhow.

[LoreneC]

I would not mind being able to irrigate only once per day if that day was a 20 hour farm town day.

Lets say I always irrigate every day at 8:00 but one day I am late. Then I am backed up on when to irrigate unless I skip a day. The 20 hours FT day allows some gap time for in real life things we all have going on.

My request is to change irrigation to once per day based on 20 hours.

Just my humble opinion of course.

Hopefully the devs will sort through this and make some sort of adjustments.:)

[StoneFace]

I just tested removing the brown sprinkler out of the storage, onto a farm that wasn't irrigated in the past 24 hours, to see if I could indeed use it as it was purchased. Well it failed. When I clicked to use it, it too turned read, and irrigated the plants and not just the flowers. So, you cannot just water flowers!

This is like making the 3x3, or 4x4 tools work 5x5 since we own the 5x5 tool.

They need to get it fixed, because now I sped up a crop that only had 1 hour left, that I didn't want to waste the speed up feature on!

Where are the Mods? Why are we not getting better information from them?!?!?


Mod = moderator, first. I would think that they are "moderating" the posts of the forum. And they have OFTEN advised posters to put the complaints and suggestions on the specific threads that the developers see and read.

IMHO, I don't give that much credit to a developer to be a jack-of-all-trades. They have produced a pretty good game - basically for free. They have added enhancements for $$ that players can choose to buy or not. They have displayed some funny shortcomings in the design of a number of buildings and animals (the scale, the appearance etc).

But over all, it seems like the biggest and loudest complaints are

1] Cost of optional equipment
2] Desire for more numerous, smaller, constant releases
3] The expectations that the volunteer mods "do more" when the "more" is never enough anyway

Now, on a personal note.... we have not had a release since LAST MONTH.... and my FT accounts each NEED a farm #12 !!!!


:rolleyes:

[StoneFace]

Hit the nail on the head there Dweeb ....... the sprinkler still has bugs but people can work around them till they are sorted ..personally i have no probs with it it does what i want it to do and i consider it fc well spent

Agreed... It took me a couple of plantings to figure out what it could do for me.... and yes, the release had its usually shortcomings/confusion in its lack of detail.

For developers who can code a herd of Clydes to all be in perpetual motion, you would think that they could have better information, and some degree of communication for the ones who "employ them" -- the players.


:eek:

[cjbraswell]

i love, love, love the red sprinkler! oh and did i say i love the red sprinkler?

it is really so easy to manage your crops with it. everyone is worrying and fussing over messing up their time schedule, or griping because you cannot continuously plant 4 hr crops and get the benefit.

well, you just have to throw your old calculations out the window and begin anew and calculate the half time in with it to get the benefits of this sprinkler.

i spent a day planting the hr crops, i watered my flowers, cutting the harvest time in half, i planted 4 hr crops twice, and did not water them. i then planted an 8 hr crop, watered them, and harvested them in 4 hrs. then planted my 12 hr crops and they were ready yesterday morning.

i had my morning coffee while i harvested the crops, flowers still had a bit of time left on them.

i then spent the day, literally all day out running errands. get home, cook supper, spend a bit of time with the family.

ok, time to harvest flowers, water them. now they are set for 2 days. wow, i have harvested flowers 2 days sooner than i would have.

hmmm....now what to do with my crops? while i think on that, i get all my fishing and tree shaking done.

so, since i will be out and busy again tomorrow, i went for 2 day crops. got all farms with crops on them planted with 2 day crops and watered.

now when i have time tonight, i will sit and harvest them. the 20 or 24 hrs will be up, not sure which one at this point, but i know it will be 24 hrs since i watered them, because i know what time i planted last night.

so i will be pretty good on my stock for 4, 8, 12 and 2 day crops. tomorrow being saturday, i will get some 1 day crops, then i will work on the 3 and 4 day crops going into the beginning of next week.

i don't know about you guys, but in approx 1 week, i will have harvested more crops than i ever have in that time frame.

so......

i love, love, love the red sprinkler, it is the best tool the devs have come up with, the second best would have to be the ones that gives us the start all buttons.

[kahra01]

I think the Devs do a brilliant job and I have never begrudged paying for certain items but I really am disappointed with the new Sprinkler and hate the fact that it has total control. If we were given back the old one then those of us who have paid good money for the new one would then have the option which one we wanted to use like the other tools. I also feel that it is going to make it so much easier for XP to be gained unfairly. And before anyone says "well, what about the layering or stacking which gains XP unfairly," the Devs have known for a long time about this and have never stopped it. Please, please give us our old Sprinkler back. The next thing we'll be getting told is "Please use your harvested crops that are in Storage."

You're right in that the Devs do a fantastic job on here and its the most brilliant game. I am however failing to see what the big deal is about the so called "unfairly gaining XP points" really has any bearing on the game. As long as the Devs keep releasing new levels, which they always do, I dont really care how people on lower levels get their points. Its only a game at the end of the day for your own satisfaction. The simple fact is that alot of the higher level players are getting far more points through their facilities than they are through stacked or layered fields. Their only incentive is to get the crops for the facilities and xp points are not the driving factor, certainly not for me anyway. As this game is BETA its understandable that new players now are getting far more advantages than those of us that started when the game started and this doesnt bother me at all. Like you, I would love to see the two irrigators separated and have their own functions... who knows, maybe the devs might do this but either way, once we get to understand the full functions of the red irrigator, im sure we will see its brilliance! :)

[quincy514]

I'm loving the updates... however I went to check on my farms and all my crops say ready to harvest -but are wasted and tell me they go to waste in 13.6 hours or 1.1 days..... why is this happening?? anyone else having problems?? PLEASE HELP!!! thanks

[driverdave]

I'm loving the updates... however I went to check on my farms and all my crops say ready to harvest -but are wasted and tell me they go to waste in 13.6 hours or 1.1 days..... why is this happening?? anyone else having problems?? PLEASE HELP!!! thanks

did you try to harvest them?? earlier posts mentioned some retrograde behaviour of crops and the very first post(rauls) i believe says that they are working on this but the crops should be harvestable however no doubt the mods will know the precise answer but for now try to harvest the crops and all should be well

[quincy514]

thank you so much!!!! :)

[NiMo1960]

Was just about to have a big moan.
Went to a field of Potatoes that had been red sprinkled.
Field looked wasted, even though it said 13.5 hours to go before being wasted.
Could only get the harvest/plow tool to work (harvest only tool refused to harvest).
I checked the storage levels all through this harvesting/plowing process and the storage figure stayed at same reading, even when I finished farm, I then went to another farm then returned to this farm, checked levels again and IT DID INCREASE.

Yes there are bugs, but it does at least look like you do not loose your crops.