Discussions about Quests

[Taz D]

>Also, I know this is MY problem, but ALL my friends and neighbors have quit playing!

You need to get some new neighbors... just ask... there are a lot of people willing to add farmers who are playing the quests.


LOL, I know, I know, LOL!

BUT FB/FT requires that neighbors be FB FRIENDS and I will not "friend" strangers. All my FB friends are ACTUAL real life friends! If I could have neighbors without them being FB Friends that would change things. Best we can do with that now is "buddy" them and that doesn't help with gifts, bonuses, quests. Oh well.[/quote]
Hi John,
It isn't possible to have neighbors without them being Facebook friends. However, with the security settings in Facebook you can limit what information they see of yours. I segregate all my friends into groups for what ever game or group I have them from. The other thing to think about is not to put any personal information beyond what is rewquired by Facebook in your profile on Facebook and then no one can see the information.

[JohnAlbertini]

John - what you need to do is go through all your neighbours who are doing quests (they will have a blue dot on their picture) gather as many of the quest ingredients as possible then when you have enough "help" stickers for the remaining ingredients THEN use the stickers
Dizzy Miss

Like I said, I have zero friends or neighbors still playing. I play on my wife's account so I have that neighbor but that is it. And I refuse to FB "friend" people I don't personally know and neighbors must be friends first.

I now know I can "get" ingredients from her which I thought she had to respond to a help note. That should help some.

Thanks everyone.

[bluangel1956]

Why do I keep getting quests that are with levels I am not even at? It's frustrating to try to complete only to find out the building you need isn't available until you reach that level at which you can buy it.

[Taz D]

Why do I keep getting quests that are with levels I am not even at? It's frustrating to try to complete only to find out the building you need isn't available until you reach that level at which you can buy it.
Hi bluangel,
I moved your post to the feedback thread about quests. I am sorry, but quests are assigned randomly. It does not check what level you are on, or what facilities you own. You can check which facility you nbeed for the last step by hovering mouse over that step and it will tell you. That way you can check when you first open the quest to see if you can complete it.

[Fred Bee]

My cousin is having a lot of problems with quests as well. The last 4 quests have ALL been for FC facilities and factories she does not own, and since the point it to earn $$ and FC she cant play. I have been a little luckier, and only 1 of my last 4 have been for FC things I don't own, but still that one stopped me from getting 2 FC. Very frustrating.

Fred Bee, gentleman farmer

[msdragonfly]

That's ridiculous - I have a new quest this morning requiring copper ore. The social lifeline I was given was to buy it from someone in the market. You can't buy copper ore from someone!!!!!

[lburn11]

The quests and coop quests are getting ridiculous in that if you don't ever buy new FC facilities you will be given quests with facilities that you don't own. I don't believe that it is random because I buy facilities almost every month and rarely get a quest that I don't have a facility for. On the other hand, my friend is financially unable to buy new facilities and has been bombarded with quests that he doesn't have the facilities for. I don't, for a minute, believe that this is random. I believe that the game is programmed this way. I further believe that the game can be programmed with a delete feature so that a new quest can be given out in it's place. My friend has 5 open quests and is only able to complete 1 of them. He is at the highest level of the game and the quests are the only way for him to get any farm cash to buy bigger tools or facilities and there is no way he can do it with the way the quests are set up and the way the pay outs are set up. Some changes definitely need to be made.

[dglight]

https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/

I hope this shows my quest page. I have completed all I can, but since you cannot go to the facility any longer that is needed to make one thing before making another, and it does not show all of the required materials, I cannot finish my quest. I have had this problem several times on the ones with a lot of "parts" needed. There is no scroll on the side and if there is, since an update quite some time back, everything is too large for the page.

Please help,
Thanks,
Donna

[Tiger]

https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/

I hope this shows my quest page. I have completed all I can, but since you cannot go to the facility any longer that is needed to make one thing before making another, and it does not show all of the required materials, I cannot finish my quest. I have had this problem several times on the ones with a lot of "parts" needed. There is no scroll on the side and if there is, since an update quite some time back, everything is too large for the page.

Please help,
Thanks,
Donna

Hi Donna,

No, sorry that is just a generic link and will take anyone who clicks it to their own farm.

If you can't see the full quest menu or the scroll bar, then it sounds like your browser zoom has changed. Please check and set it to 100%.

[Patricia_B2009]

I DO NOT think it is right to take a players FT CASH that they struggled to get doing the quests (reg) this should be left alone and not taken from. Some people get sick and unable to play 24 hrs a day. Like me I have been sick for over a month with Bronchitis/Flu I get over that and then I get sick from my 5 month old baby nephew and Boom I had 3.00 FT cash I busted my butt on and lost it today because of some crazy 7 day rule??? I will NOT SUPPORT FT no longer... this stinks. So many People are getting mad about it to thru FB LIVE CHAT... this is not fair. People spend all their time on FT and get ripped off????

[Taz D]

I DO NOT think it is right to take a players FT CASH that they struggled to get doing the quests (reg) this should be left alone and not taken from. Some people get sick and unable to play 24 hrs a day. Like me I have been sick for over a month with Bronchitis/Flu I get over that and then I get sick from my 5 month old baby nephew and Boom I had 3.00 FT cash I busted my butt on and lost it today because of some crazy 7 day rule??? I will NOT SUPPORT FT no longer... this stinks. So many People are getting mad about it to thru FB LIVE CHAT... this is not fair. People spend all their time on FT and get ripped off????
Hi Patricia,
I am sorry you have been sick and hope you are getting better. I moved your post to the Feedback thread on Quests as your post is not a suggestion, but is instead an opinion. The idea behind the quests is that you work toward a goal of completing a certain amount of quests within a specific time. It would hardly be a challenge if they were good for an unlimited time. From what I have seen in your data the most you would have gotten would have been 1 farm cash had you collected by 9:20 PM Eastern time tonight and not 3 farm cash. You still have some quests left that if you continue working on some more then you can still collect your farm cash when you get enough of them. All is not lost a sonly the older ones have dropped off. and the newer ones are still there. You can check how much longer a quest is good for by clicking on the Show Quests button.

[unicorns4me]

Here we go again.

I am receiving far more quests for facilities I don't have than I get for ones I do have. I am sorry but I no longer believe this is random. Too many for that. It's the same with the regular quests. Very disappointing. I know they need to make money but do they have to be so greedy about it? I've decided I will no longer invest real money in this game for this reason. It's no wonder people quit playing. They keep doing this they will have no players left. Trying to enjoy this feature is like flogging a dead horse. Sorry but the truth has to be stated.

[marymarcel]

Here we go again.

I am receiving far more quests for facilities I don't have than I get for ones I do have. I am sorry but I no longer believe this is random. Too many for that. It's the same with the regular quests. Very disappointing. I know they need to make money but do they have to be so greedy about it? I've decided I will no longer invest real money in this game for this reason. It's no wonder people quit playing. They keep doing this they will have no players left. Trying to enjoy this feature is like flogging a dead horse. Sorry but the truth has to be stated.

Hi unicorns4me:)

I moved your post to Feedback for Quests

I'm sorry this happened to you, I dont have all cash facilities either, and I also get quests for I dont have the facilitiy to complete. Sometimes I get 1 farm cash, which for me is better than nothing. Other times I purchase the facility I need to complete my quest because I consider I can use it as I have products stored.

I enjoy the game my way, trying to help my friends, if I have time trying to "design" a farm, but I do things at my own time. If I get 2 cash for quests, I'm happy, if not I continue with the next week thinking it will be better.:)

[unicorns4me]

Hi unicorns4me:)

I moved your post to Feedback for Quests

I'm sorry this happened to you, I don't have all cash facilities either, and I also get quests for I don't have the facility to complete. Sometimes I get 1 farm cash, which for me is better than nothing. Other times I purchase the facility I need to complete my quest because I consider I can use it as I have products stored.

I enjoy the game my way, trying to help my friends, if I have time trying to "design" a farm, but I do things at my own time. If I get 2 cash for quests, I'm happy, if not I continue with the next week thinking it will be better.:)

Thank you for placing this in the right area. The quests are pretty much all I am interested in these days. The worst part is getting 3/4 of the way through to discover I don't have the required facility even though I do have the final facility....a total time waster. I am battling to stay interested in the game. I love getting the 1 cash.... if I do get the 2 cash it's a bonus, but it is very rare. :)

[marymarcel]

Thank you for placing this in the right area. The quests are pretty much all I am interested in these days. The worst part is getting 3/4 of the way through to discover I don't have the required facility even though I do have the final facility....a total time waster. I am battling to stay interested in the game. I love getting the 1 cash.... if I do get the 2 cash it's a bonus, but it is very rare. :)

Hi unicorns4me:)

When you open a quests, click in the squares to check if you have the facilities. For the regular ones, if you have the last facilitiy but not one in the middle, then you can try the lifelines, I know, they are also random assigned but sometimes you will get the correct one.

For cooperative quests, if the last step is to load into a service facility you own, then try to keep a Help note for the previous step, as it is not easy to find the product among your friends.:)

[unicorns4me]

Hi unicorns4me:)

When you open a quests, click in the squares to check if you have the facilities. For the regular ones, if you have the last facilitiy but not one in the middle, then you can try the lifelines, I know, they are also random assigned but sometimes you will get the correct one.

For cooperative quests, if the last step is to load into a service facility you own, then try to keep a Help note for the previous step, as it is not easy to find the product among your friends.:)


:) Thanks I will try that. I didn't know you could use the lifelines for the things we have to make in a facility (regular quest)

And just to prove my point of frustration with the devs........ I have received YET ANOTHER reg quest for a building that requires farm cash to buy... I think they are deliberately doing this. Sorry but proof is in what appears in my game. :rolleyes:

[Taz D]

:) Thanks I will try that. I didn't know you could use the lifelines for the things we have to make in a facility (regular quest)

And just to prove my point of frustration with the devs........ I have received YET ANOTHER reg quest for a building that requires farm cash to buy... I think they are deliberately doing this. Sorry but proof is in what appears in my game. :rolleyes:
Hi Unicorns4me,
I am sorry but it is set up using a randomizer programming code to choose a number. That number corresponds to a quest. There isn't any way to prove to you that it is totally random, but the fewer facilities yoiu own the more likely it is for you to get quests for facilities you don't own. The randomizer does not check what level you are on or what facilities you own. Whether you believe it or not there isn't any way to prove to you that it is random and as fair as it can be.

[feistyfarmergirl76]

Hi there,

I wonder if the devs could develop a filter of some sort for quests. For example, if a player is only able/willing to complete quests with coin bought facilities, perhaps a button saying "Coin facility quest" could be created for the player to click on that.

If a player is willing to accept a quest that requires either a FC facility or coin bought facility, then a button saying " FC or coin facility quest" could be created.

The quests could still be randomized, so there is still risk in accepting a quest, but at least those who have only coin facilities would have a better shot at completing a quest.

Thanks for your time!

[Taz D]

Hi there,

I wonder if the devs could develop a filter of some sort for quests. For example, if a player is only able/willing to complete quests with coin bought facilities, perhaps a button saying "Coin facility quest" could be created for the player to click on that.

If a player is willing to accept a quest that requires either a FC facility or coin bought facility, then a button saying " FC or coin facility quest" could be created.

The quests could still be randomized, so there is still risk in accepting a quest, but at least those who have only coin facilities would have a better shot at completing a quest.

Thanks for your time!
Hi feistyfarmergirl,
If you wish to make a suggestion please put it in the Suggestions section where the developers will be morew likely to see it instead of the Feedback section. You can't start a new thread there but you can reply to one that fits your suggestion.

[feistyfarmergirl76]

Sorry about that, I will post this in the Suggestions section.

[Suntanned]

Tried some finally, and am not impressed. Letting them expire now. Waiting for quests that can garner real farm cash, not just chump change.

Most everything is based on Sunflowers and Blueberries, which take forever to grow, so how are we to earn significant Farm Cash with quests that are designed to avoid that?

Suntanned

[Aussie Rae]

Tried some finally, and am not impressed. Letting them expire now. Waiting for quests that can garner real farm cash, not just chump change.

Most everything is based on Sunflowers and Blueberries, which take forever to grow, so how are we to earn significant Farm Cash with quests that are designed to avoid that?

Suntanned

a. you make sure you have plenty of active quest playing neighbors.. then open a quest every 12 hrs, you can have 5 open altogether at the same time. You don't need to grow any crops for the Co-0p Quests, you search your neighbors quests and buy from them, or place a Yellow Help Sticker on an item.. but only if you have really tried to obtain those items.. save the stickers til you have the same number of items as the stickers or you may not be able to finish. You only need to do 4 C0-Op quests in 7 days to get 1fc. Do 13 in 7 days to get 2fc.
For normal quests, you make sure you have a quest farm and have crops growing.. or use a lifeline and hope to get one that works for you. You only need to do 3 in 7 days to get 1fc, and do 8 in 7 days to get 2fc. If you own all the facilities, its extremely easy to get 4fc every week, once you understand how the quests work.. its not rocket science, just common sense.

[rickwheeler2002]

why when im trying to earn cash are every one of my quest requiring me to spend cash to earn it. is it asking to much to give me quests that i buy things with coins so i can earn cash to buy the buildings that require cash :mad:

[marymarcel]

why when im trying to earn cash are every one of my quest requiring me to spend cash to earn it. is it asking to much to give me quests that i buy things with coins so i can earn cash to buy the buildings that require cash :mad:

Hi rickwheeler:)

I moved your post to Feedback on Quests.

If you want to make a suggestion, please post in our Suggestion section, so the developers can see it.

You cant open a new thread there but you can post as a response to a thread that fits with your idea.:)

[Dulcinea]

The idea behind the quests is that you work toward a goal of completing a certain amount of quests within a specific time. It would hardly be a challenge if they were good for an unlimited time.

I think you may be missing our point, Taz. What we're saying is that we've already "worked toward the goal" -- and we've achieved it! Now we would like the reward we've earned. It's as simple as that. We're not asking that the quests don't expire. We understand that they need to be completed within a limited time and that we need to complete so many. What shouldn't expire is our reward. I've got 1 FC, which I will only get if I remember to claim it when I log in tomorrow. I will log in, but I might forget that I've got 1 FC coming to me and not claim it before expires. It's happened before. I can't remember everything. What I would like is for the game to remember it for me. Give me a pop-up when I log in tomorrow, congratulating me on a job well done. A pat on the back and 1 FC added to my account without my having to do anything beyond what I've already done.

Give us what we've earned. That's all we're asking. Give us what we've already earned.

[Taz D]

I think you may be missing our point, Taz. What we're saying is that we've already "worked toward the goal" -- and we've achieved it! Now we would like the reward we've earned. It's as simple as that. We're not asking that the quests don't expire. We understand that they need to be completed within a limited time and that we need to complete so many. What shouldn't expire is our reward. I've got 1 FC, which I will only get if I remember to claim it when I log in tomorrow. I will log in, but I might forget that I've got 1 FC coming to me and not claim it before expires. It's happened before. I can't remember everything. What I would like is for the game to remember it for me. Give me a pop-up when I log in tomorrow, congratulating me on a job well done. A pat on the back and 1 FC added to my account without my having to do anything beyond what I've already done.

Give us what we've earned. That's all we're asking. Give us what we've already earned.
Hi Dulcinea,
If you want to suggest they create a pop up for that then please post your suggestion in the Suggestion section where the developers will see it. You cannot start a new thread there but you can reply to an existing one that fits your suggestion.

[peggyannvt]

When I am ready to collect my FarmCash for a quest and co-quest, it tells me how many more minutes. If I wait that amount of time and click on "Collect FarmCash" for the next two minutes, it reads not enough quests completed. Then it will let me collect the Farm Cash.
Can the minutes be fixed?

[marymarcel]

When I am ready to collect my FarmCash for a quest and co-quest, it tells me how many more minutes. If I wait that amount of time and click on "Collect FarmCash" for the next two minutes, it reads not enough quests completed. Then it will let me collect the Farm Cash.
Can the minutes be fixed?

Hi peggyannvt:)

This use to happens when you have the quest manager open waiting for the collect button turns blue. It is something similar as when you are on the farm waiting for a crop to be ready.

Just go to facebook and then load the farm again and it will be fixed.:)

[Dulcinea]

Hi Dulcinea,
If you want to suggest they create a pop up for that then please post your suggestion in the Suggestion section where the developers will see it. You cannot start a new thread there but you can reply to an existing one that fits your suggestion.

I did that last month. This is my feedback/opinion on why the current way of doing things is wrong.

[nettie1212]

trying to earn FT$ and all five quests are requiring FT$ facilities. So now I am stuck for another three days and will be lucky now to make 1FT$

[isamarie]

i m geting fedup with the quests, i had 13 complet quests 10hrs before can collect the farm cash, when i reach the time to can collect my cash 3 quests had gone and apear only 10 so only 1 farm cash was given to me and this is not the first time, so what are they making fun of us? sometimes you buy farm cash facilities to can finish the quest and to have the 13 to can get rthe 2 farm cash then they will erase our finished quests
, if it will hapen again i will stop playing for the quests and better cheat to can get the farm cash even if you have to wait to can get that cash.

[Taz D]

i m geting fedup with the quests, i had 13 complet quests 10hrs before can collect the farm cash, when i reach the time to can collect my cash 3 quests had gone and apear only 10 so only 1 farm cash was given to me and this is not the first time, so what are they making fun of us? sometimes you buy farm cash facilities to can finish the quest and to have the 13 to can get rthe 2 farm cash then they will erase our finished quests
, if it will hapen again i will stop playing for the quests and better cheat to can get the farm cash even if you have to wait to can get that cash.
Hi isamarie,
If you complete the last step for quests for the next week right after collecting your farm cash, then you run the risk of them dropping off the list if you do not collect at exactly the same time the next week. Quests are only good for 7 days to the second after the last step is completed. The way to keep from losing quests by this is to wait 1 day after you collect your farm cash before you complete the last step of those quests.

Added: I checked and you collected on the Jan 2 at 8:56 (Eastern Time), then completed 3 quests at 9:56 and then on Jan 9 collected at 10:21. So those 3 quests expired and dropped off on Jan 9 at 9:56 before you collected.

[isamarie]

thanks for the information, i dont remember what i did but nxt time i will keep it on my mind,
thanks again.
ISAMARIE

[cbl456]

Every week when I try to collect my FC, I have difficulty. Example: today, I went to collect my FC and it said 3 more minutes. I waited 4 minutes and it then told me Not Enough Quests (I had 8 completed). So, I reload Facebook and try again, same result. Then I open quests (8 showing), jump to the Marketplace and try again. About 4 or 5 minutes later of jumping around, reloading, I finally collected my 2 FC. I don't know why I am getting this message. Every week, this delays the time by 5-10 minutes that I can collect my FC. Hopefully you can fix this glitch so that I will be able to collect the FC on my first attempt. thanks.

[marymarcel]

Every week when I try to collect my FC, I have difficulty. Example: today, I went to collect my FC and it said 3 more minutes. I waited 4 minutes and it then told me Not Enough Quests (I had 8 completed). So, I reload Facebook and try again, same result. Then I open quests (8 showing), jump to the Marketplace and try again. About 4 or 5 minutes later of jumping around, reloading, I finally collected my 2 FC. I don't know why I am getting this message. Every week, this delays the time by 5-10 minutes that I can collect my FC. Hopefully you can fix this glitch so that I will be able to collect the FC on my first attempt. thanks.

Hi cbl456:)

This usually happens when you are waiting to collect your farmcash on the farm or with the quest manager open.

Try to check how many minutes you have to wait till collect and then go to facebook. Wait for 2 or 3 minutes more than the time you saw and then enter your farms again and try to collect.:)

[rickwheeler2002]

i would love to but have no permissions for that but thanks for moving my post to wearever you wanted it not wear i put it

[Taz D]

i would love to but have no permissions for that but thanks for moving my post to wearever you wanted it not wear i put it
Hi Rick,
If you are talking about making a suggestion, you cannot start a new thread in that forum, but you can reply to an existing thread fitting your suggestion. Click on the thread you want to add your suggestion to and then click on Reply at the top or bottom of that page.

[Fred Bee]

Hi cbl456:)

This usually happens when you are waiting to collect your farmcash on the farm or with the quest manager open.

Try to check how many minutes you have to wait till collect and then go to facebook. Wait for 2 or 3 minutes more than the time you saw and then enter your farms again and try to collect.:)

This has happened to me twice. Wouldn't it be easier just to fix the timer, so it knows that you have enough quests and that the time is up? Why should we have to go to facebook, wait another 3-5 and come back in?

BTW, it only happens to me when I have 8 quests completed.

Fred Bee, gentleman farmer

[Taz D]

This has happened to me twice. Wouldn't it be easier just to fix the timer, so it knows that you have enough quests and that the time is up? Why should we have to go to facebook, wait another 3-5 and come back in?

BTW, it only happens to me when I have 8 quests completed.

Fred Bee, gentleman farmer
Hi Fred,
It also happens if you are on a farm and the crop says 1 minute to go then changes to ready. If you immediately pick up the tool to harvest it will not recognize that the crop is ready. For that you have to refresh the farm.
In the case of the quests if you are waiting for it to turn blue then the same thing happens and for that you have to at least click play. There isn't any way to fix it as it is a case the data between your computer and the server just hasn't updated yet. By clicking play that forces an update.

[cbl456]

Hi cbl456:)

This usually happens when you are waiting to collect your farmcash on the farm or with the quest manager open.

Try to check how many minutes you have to wait till collect and then go to facebook. Wait for 2 or 3 minutes more than the time you saw and then enter your farms again and try to collect.:)

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What you instructed me to do, is exactly what I am already doing. By going back to Facebook and waiting, delays the time that I am able to collect. I was supposed to collect at 8:37' and it was probably 5 minutes before I was actually able to collect. This means that next week I won't be able to collect until approx 8:42. Every week my collection time is being delayed

[birdsong54]

I Am Very Upset with the Brown Box Quests in that I Have To BUY an F A C in Order to Complete a Quest like the One I AM Stuck with involving the Wheel Chair.. I am 4 F C short to Buy It and Can t Earn F C from the Earn Box because I spent 2 Plus Hours Trying to Qualify from Surveys then I tried a few other things from Your Listed Stuff and Have to Spend Cash for All that I Tried I am a Disabled Person and Only have 3 dollars in my bank at this time. Then I have to Complete 13 Quests fro 2 F C . that's UN-FAIR. Plus 8 Quests I think it is on the other to get F C ...

[Taz D]

I Am Very Upset with the Brown Box Quests in that I Have To BUY an F A C in Order to Complete a Quest like the One I AM Stuck with involving the Wheel Chair.. I am 4 F C short to Buy It and Can t Earn F C from the Earn Box because I spent 2 Plus Hours Trying to Qualify from Surveys then I tried a few other things from Your Listed Stuff and Have to Spend Cash for All that I Tried I am a Disabled Person and Only have 3 dollars in my bank at this time. Then I have to Complete 13 Quests fro 2 F C . that's UN-FAIR. Plus 8 Quests I think it is on the other to get F C ...
Hi birdsong,
I moved your post to the General Feedback subject thread on quests, since this post is not a question or asking for help for a specific problem.
Please note that Slashkey does not have any control over those Earn Cash offers as those are done by Trilpay for Facebook.
Also not that it is possible to open 14 quests for the co-op quests within a 7 day week so 13 is obtainable. All the quests are randomly assigned and sometimes you will get some that are for facilities that you don't own. The game does not check what facilities you own or what level you are on when assigning the quests.

[lburn11]

The quests are getting absolutely ridiculous. It is practically impossible to get the required amount of quests completed in the allotted time due to the quests that I don't have the facilities for. I really enjoyed them at first but now find it's not worth my time since I can only get 1 FC for my quests. Instead of spending so much time and server resources giving us a useless tool that costs 100 FC, why not fix the game so that it gives you quests that you have the facility for. IT CAN BE DONE but it's obvious you have become greedy for cash that a large percentage of players don't have. Also, the amount paid out for completion of the quests is a joke! If you want us to play the quests, why not make it more worth our while and increase the payouts?

[Jean's Farm]

The quests are getting absolutely ridiculous. It is practically impossible to get the required amount of quests completed in the allotted time due to the quests that I don't have the facilities for. I really enjoyed them at first but now find it's not worth my time since I can only get 1 FC for my quests. Instead of spending so much time and server resources giving us a useless tool that costs 100 FC, why not fix the game so that it gives you quests that you have the facility for. IT CAN BE DONE but it's obvious you have become greedy for cash that a large percentage of players don't have. Also, the amount paid out for completion of the quests is a joke! If you want us to play the quests, why not make it more worth our while and increase the payouts?


It is a game.....and if I only get $1 for a quest.....that's an extra $1 I didn't have yesterday.

I have all facilities and I find it challenging to get 8 quests a week. It CAN be done.

[lburn11]

Well, good for you. Judging by the look and size of your farms and the fact that you say you own all the facilities you obviously have the money to spend to buy everything. Not all of us are so fortunate but by the sound of your comment you could care less. It can't be done when you are getting three quests in a row that you don't have the facility for. This is consistently happening to me. And yes, it is a game but when they want us to put out cash to buy facilities in order to complete quests or progress further in the game it doesn't equal fun any more. The developers put all of their time into designing new tools that cost an exorbitant of FC and don't listen to what the players want then there is a disconnect there. Yes, it is their game but if they want to retain players they need to give the players what they are asking for or at least give more incentive to play the game.

[Jean's Farm]

Well, good for you. Judging by the look and size of your farms and the fact that you say you own all the facilities you obviously have the money to spend to buy everything. Not all of us are so fortunate but by the sound of your comment you could care less. It can't be done when you are getting three quests in a row that you don't have the facility for. This is consistently happening to me. And yes, it is a game but when they want us to put out cash to buy facilities in order to complete quests or progress further in the game it doesn't equal fun any more. The developers put all of their time into designing new tools that cost an exorbitant of FC and don't listen to what the players want then there is a disconnect there. Yes, it is their game but if they want to retain players they need to give the players what they are asking for or at least give more incentive to play the game.

I do not have the money to spend. I choose to spend an occasional $40 on this game to get 250 FC. I don't go out a lot.....a movie, and dinner cost $40 now. Gives you a couple hours of pleasure. This game gives me pleasure every day. And the $40 I spend lasts more than a couple hours.

I choose not to get into a debate with you about this. You have your opinion....I have mine and I feel from talking to a large amount of people who play but do not post on here that I am in the majority!!!!

[lburn11]

Do the math. 8 quests in 7 days. You get 1 quest in a little under a day. When you get 3 quests in a row that you don't have the facility for then it can't be done. Same goes for the coop quests. This is consistently happening and if you read the posts from people complaining about the quests, I think you are in the minority, not the majority. Good luck with all your money.

[Taz D]

Do the math. 8 quests in 7 days. You get 1 quest in a little under a day. When you get 3 quests in a row that you don't have the facility for then it can't be done. Same goes for the coop quests. This is consistently happening and if you read the posts from people complaining about the quests, I think you are in the minority, not the majority. Good luck with all your money.
Hi lburn,
The quests are assigned randomly by the program. If you have gotten some in a row that you don't have the facility for it is just the luck of the draw.
You may not get 2 farm cash every week and even having all the facilities does not mean you will be able to get 8 in a 7 day period, but it can be done. If you can get 3 quests 1 week, hgold any additional quests over to the next week by not completing the last step of those quests until 1 day afetr you collect your farm cash (1) for the 3 quests. Then you have those quests you held to complete for the next week and along with what quests you are assigned that week then you will have a chance of getting 8 to be able to collect 2 farm cash that week.

[Pamgow]

Do the math. 8 quests in 7 days. You get 1 quest in a little under a day. When you get 3 quests in a row that you don't have the facility for then it can't be done. Same goes for the coop quests. This is consistently happening and if you read the posts from people complaining about the quests, I think you are in the minority, not the majority. Good luck with all your money.

I must be rather unusual. I only own 7 FC facilities, yet in the last 4 weeks, I've been able to complete 8 quests in 7 days 3 times and 3 quests in 7 days once. It's all about how you play the game. I hold the last step of each quest and as new ones come up, determine if I can complete them. If I can, I hold the last step just as long as I can before completing. This way I know if I can complete 3 in 7 days or 8 in 7 days because I can "see ahead". The seven days begins ticking as soon as I collect the cash from the previous seven days. If I don't finish the last step on the next quest for 2-3 days into the 7 day period, I'm more likely to finish 8 quests than not and I can also see if I'm going to get quests I won't be able to complete and choose the 3 I want to complete in 7 days and hold the rest for the next seven day period. It's called strategy.

I've also been very selective about the FC facilities that I have purchased analyzing which ones will work the best with the coin facilities I own (I own all the coin facilities) so that steps requiring FC facilties can be completed unless the FC facility is the last step. Food preserve factory, oil refinery and oil factory have been the most useful for completing the quests, furniture factory has also been very helpful. The other facilties are the fish farm, bee farm and a stable.

[Vivienne57]

I do not have the money to spend. I choose to spend an occasional $40 on this game to get 250 FC. I don't go out a lot.....a movie, and dinner cost $40 now. Gives you a couple hours of pleasure. This game gives me pleasure every day. And the $40 I spend lasts more than a couple hours.

I choose not to get into a debate with you about this. You have your opinion....I have mine and I feel from talking to a large amount of people who play but do not post on here that I am in the majority!!!!

I too don't go out hardly and really enjoy playing Farm Town. I have spent cash on the game because I don't play any other games machines like Xbox or Nintendo or Play Station. And, at least FT doesn't go out of date :)

[rjlinkjr]

The Blue quest are a waste of time, folks have quit playing as there is no way to complete them. They are either to long a time or at the last minute you come up with 8 hr or bunches of 6 and 8 hr. most all my players have quiot playing the Blue Quest

[marymarcel]

The Blue quest are a waste of time, folks have quit playing as there is no way to complete them. They are either to long a time or at the last minute you come up with 8 hr or bunches of 6 and 8 hr. most all my players have quiot playing the Blue Quest

Hi rjlinkjr:)

I moved your post to Feedback for Quests, so you and others can discuss your ideas and get new ones.

[leighwj1960]

The Blue quest are a waste of time, folks have quit playing as there is no way to complete them. They are either to long a time or at the last minute you come up with 8 hr or bunches of 6 and 8 hr. most all my players have quiot playing the Blue Quest

I personally love the quests. If done properly the quests are a very simple way to earn free FC every week.

[Grammy 11]

It is a game.....and if I only get $1 for a quest.....that's an extra $1 I didn't have yesterday.

I have all facilities and I find it challenging to get 8 quests a week. It CAN be done.

Cheers, Jean! Long live the quests!!! :)

[dorissau]

well when I got up this morning, I had 13 co-quests done and 8 regular quests.. it said I had 3 1/2 hours before I could collect. I am sitting here, watching my quests disappear and I cannot save them. No wonder people are frustrated!!!

[Taz D]

well when I got up this morning, I had 13 co-quests done and 8 regular quests.. it said I had 3 1/2 hours before I could collect. I am sitting here, watching my quests disappear and I cannot save them. No wonder people are frustrated!!!
Hi Dorissau,
According to your data, you should be able to collect 45 minutes from now. I see 2 quests that will be close to dropping an hour after that time (co-op quests). If you are already seeing them drop check your computer date and time.
For your regular quests, I only see 7 completed and 1 in progress to complete a couple hours after your collection time but within time that you won't lose any.

[dorissau]

absolutely NO WHERE does it say 45 minutes!! You must be checking from a different time zone. My clock is correct at 9:42 a.m.

[Taz D]

absolutely NO WHERE does it say 45 minutes!! You must be checking from a different time zone. My clock is correct at 9:42 a.m.
Hi Dorissau,
I am going from the time you collected on the 7th of March which was 11:00 AM eastern time, which at the time I posted that it was 10:15 eastern. That is why I said 45 minutes.
Currently both of your collection buttons should be blue for you to be able to collect now if you wish. The data on the servers is stored using Eastern time zone as that is where Slashkey is located.

[maui02]

I completed 8 quests in less than 7 days. When I tried to claim 2 Farm Cash it told me I hadn't completed 7 days and had to wait 3 hours. When I waited the 3 hours and tried to claim, it had deleted 1 of my quests so I couldn't get 2 Farm Cash. Before when I completed 8 quests it let me claim Cash immediately.:(

[Taz D]

I completed 8 quests in less than 7 days. When I tried to claim 2 Farm Cash it told me I hadn't completed 7 days and had to wait 3 hours. When I waited the 3 hours and tried to claim, it had deleted 1 of my quests so I couldn't get 2 Farm Cash. Before when I completed 8 quests it let me claim Cash immediately.:(
Hi Maui,
Your 8th quest (Load Taming Whip) was completed on Mar 7th at 3:24 PM ( Eastern time). If you waited until after that time today to collect (which according to your data you haven't collected yet) then that quest has expired.

A quest is only good for collecting farm cash 7 days exactly to the second after the last step has been completed. That means that at 3:24 PM Eastern Time today that quest was no longer counted.

This is why we recommend that you not complete the last step of any quest that you are holding over to the next collection, not be complete until at least 1 day after you collect.

[artbee]

No they are not. Some times you can get help and sometimes you can't. Some time the help is good and sometimes it is not good for you. It has help me get green money to buy tools and other things. i do between 60 and 75% of my quests

[dorissau]

I completed 8 quests in less than 7 days. When I tried to claim 2 Farm Cash it told me I hadn't completed 7 days and had to wait 3 hours. When I waited the 3 hours and tried to claim, it had deleted 1 of my quests so I couldn't get 2 Farm Cash. Before when I completed 8 quests it let me claim Cash immediately.:(

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I don't know anybody who actually understands that those quests expire the very second after 7 days, but the system won't let us cash in when we've completed 8.

[Taz D]

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I don't know anybody who actually understands that those quests expire the very second after 7 days, but the system won't let us cash in when we've completed 8.
Hi Dorissau,
The other rule you are forgetting is that you cannot collect again until exactly 7 days have passed since your last collection. So even if you have your 8 quests complete you can't collect until those 7 days have passed.

[kevat508]

Just commenting. Why does it update factory ownership when you click on quests then give you ones you can't do as you don't own the factory's or are not even at a level to purchase the one needed.

[Taz D]

Just commenting. Why does it update factory ownership when you click on quests then give you ones you can't do as you don't own the factory's or are not even at a level to purchase the one needed.
Hi kevat,
It updates facilities ownership so the Open button can be placed on an item when you need to produce in a facility. If it is an item you don't have the facility for it doesn't show the open button. All of that happens after the quest has been randomly selected for you.

[kevat508]

Thanks TAZ D Another Farmtown mystery solved for me.
Sometimes it shows the open button but when you click on it You are told you need to have the facility Which can be annoying if you dont look properly at it till you get to that step. But its $ for free so never mind.

[Firinn12]

I realize the Quests are random, and it isn't possible to keep down the ones requiring unowned facilities, but, seriously, there needs to be at least one opt-out option every once in awhile, or a player gets stuck as I have this past week with facilities I have no desire to purchase having a duration of 7-8 days!! Two in my box already (true expiring tomorrow sheesh long wait), and new one yesterday 7 DAYS holding up one spot for my weekly Quests, with who knows how many more "random" Quests coming up I can't/won't do. No reply necessary, just expressing frustration, that's all.

[Taz D]

I realize the Quests are random, and it isn't possible to keep down the ones requiring unowned facilities, but, seriously, there needs to be at least one opt-out option every once in awhile, or a player gets stuck as I have this past week with facilities I have no desire to purchase having a duration of 7-8 days!! Two in my box already (true expiring tomorrow sheesh long wait), and new one yesterday 7 DAYS holding up one spot for my weekly Quests, with who knows how many more "random" Quests coming up I can't/won't do. No reply necessary, just expressing frustration, that's all.
Hi Firinn,
I have moved your post to the Feedback thread about Quest as you are not asking a question.

[jeemersmom]

:mad: To earn two farm cash, one must either complete FOURTEEN coop quests or be online and ready to hit the claim farm cash button immediately that it becomes available. This is entirely WRONG! I see this as an underhanded attempt by the devs to coerce farmers to buy facilities that they do not have. No, we do not have to buy, but with farm cash as hard to come by as it has been, but the carrot of farm cash hung out before some farmers is very hard to pass. Please do not defend this because it is so wrong as to be indefensible. :mad:

[Taz D]

:mad: To earn two farm cash, one must either complete FOURTEEN coop quests or be online and ready to hit the claim farm cash button immediately that it becomes available. This is entirely WRONG! I see this as an underhanded attempt by the devs to coerce farmers to buy facilities that they do not have. No, we do not have to buy, but with farm cash as hard to come by as it has been, but the carrot of farm cash hung out before some farmers is very hard to pass. Please do not defend this because it is so wrong as to be indefensible. :mad:
Hi jeemersmom,
I have moved your post to the General Feedback thread for Discussion about Quests, because you are not asking a specific question or have a specific problem we can help with.
Just to point out that you need 13 and not 14 quests completed within 7 days exactly to collect 2 farm cash.
If you will hold the quests you have that the last steps are not completed before collecting for 1 day after you collect, then you won't be rushed to collect the next time. If you complete a quest as soon as you collect then yes you do run the risk of losing it if you do not collect at exactly the same time each week.

[Greenfrog]

First time poster, long time lurker. I own about half of the facilities you have to buy with real money and all the ones you can buy with in game money. I am on round two of the personal quest and cooperative quest. Right now i am stuck at 5 of 5 (all my available personal quest slots) with the last item to get from a Real money facility I do not own, coincidence? I think not. I have managed to complete 3 of the quests because they did not ask for a real money facility to finish. So... I will not be able to continue to try and get to 7 quests finished for the 2 FC and I do not have an option to opt out of a quest if I know i cannot complete it. This in and of itself (not having an option) leads me to believe you are more or less telling me i have to purchase to play the quest. You have crossed a line and people are calling you out. I understand you all need to make money but using the guise of a quest all can play is misleading. I do not see an even playing field as I will have to spend alot more real money to make at most 4 FC a week (208 a year) for a grand total of 4 maybe 5 facilities worth. This last quest alone should i have decided to finish would have cost me a years worth of questing. It doesn't take 3 chalkboards of physics to figure out it don't add up! Sorry I think your greed is showing.

[Taz D]

First time poster, long time lurker. I own about half of the facilities you have to buy with real money and all the ones you can buy with in game money. I am on round two of the personal quest and cooperative quest. Right now i am stuck at 5 of 5 (all my available personal quest slots) with the last item to get from a Real money facility I do not own, coincidence? I think not. I have managed to complete 3 of the quests because they did not ask for a real money facility to finish. So... I will not be able to continue to try and get to 7 quests finished for the 2 FC and I do not have an option to opt out of a quest if I know i cannot complete it. This in and of itself (not having an option) leads me to believe you are more or less telling me i have to purchase to play the quest. You have crossed a line and people are calling you out. I understand you all need to make money but using the guise of a quest all can play is misleading. I do not see an even playing field as I will have to spend alot more real money to make at most 4 FC a week (208 a year) for a grand total of 4 maybe 5 facilities worth. This last quest alone should i have decided to finish would have cost me a years worth of questing. It doesn't take 3 chalkboards of physics to figure out it don't add up! Sorry I think your greed is showing.
Hi Greenfrog,
I have moved your post to the thread on Feedback for Quests as you post has nothing to do with the Neighborhood Chains Contest.
The quests are assigned randomly without knowing what facilities you own. You have just as much chance of gettring oine with a facility you own as you do one with a facility you don't own. I know that you think this is not the case as you have 5 you can't complete, but that is the way the program is written to randomly pick the quests.
It takes 8 regular quests to get the 2 farm cash, but onely 3 to get 1 farm cash, which you do have completed already.

[lndknyn]

I just missed 2 farmcash by 1 minute. I am through with even trying to get 8. It is the second time. I was sitting at my computer waiting. It is unfair. I am so disappointed that you set it like that. I have been on here since almost the beginning and have enjoyed it until now. Even in the beginning when there were times it didn't work right, I understood we were on uncharted territory. But really guys this is not right.:mad:

[Taz D]

I just missed 2 farmcash by 1 minute. I am through with even trying to get 8. It is the second time. I was sitting at my computer waiting. It is unfair. I am so disappointed that you set it like that. I have been on here since almost the beginning and have enjoyed it until now. Even in the beginning when there were times it didn't work right, I understood we were on uncharted territory. But really guys this is not right.:mad:
Hi lndknyn,
Please note all times are in Eastern time zone as that is what the servers record. You last collected on apr 28th at 19:44 (7:44 PM). Your oldest quest for this 7 days was completed on April 28th at 22:48 (10:48 PM), so you had 3 hours before that quest dropped off the chart. You posted in here at 19:55 (7:55 PM) which meant you had 2 hours left to collect before you lost the 8th quest.
I am sorry, but the rules are that a quest is only good for 7 days exactly to the second toward the farm cash collection. This is why we always suggest not to start the last step of any quests that will carry over until the next day, so you have a lee way if you can't get to them at that time.
You still have time to get the 2 FC for the 8 quests if you start one and complete it as your next quest does not drop off until Saturday May 7th at 00:29 (12:29 AM)

[DaisyDuke1988]

I bought the blacksmith supply factory and it is sitting on my farm 6, but i am not able to click the OPEN button on my last quest step- I DO own the facility and I have cleared everything! I went to the farm and clicked start the item- I also went in to my facility manager and started the last step but none helped!! HELP!!

[Taz D]

I bought the blacksmith supply factory and it is sitting on my farm 6, but i am not able to click the OPEN button on my last quest step- I DO own the facility and I have cleared everything! I went to the farm and clicked start the item- I also went in to my facility manager and started the last step but none helped!! HELP!!
Hi DaisyDuke,
Please try clearing your memcache (link below), then when the page of unsetting text opens close that as it is done.
If your farm is open close it. Then reopen and try again.
https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/p...lear_memcached (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached)

[barbara nixon]

when trading:confused: with non neighbors for the coop quest, how do i put my farm link in the discussion?

[Taz D]

when trading:confused: with non neighbors for the coop quest, how do i put my farm link in the discussion?
Hi barbara,
If you buy something from them leave a message and they can follow that message back to your farm to buy from you.

[anotherfarmer]

I enjoy doing quests but frustrating at times like my last quest was kidney failure remedy ONLY 2 items needed you would think easy ??? = NO.......... every day of that whole quest I had no neighbours with any of 2 items, I came here to co-quest help every day and again nothing....... I even went to market not that you can tell by looking who does and does not do quest so had to click on one person at a time to find 1 item so I could put sticker on the other ---- simple in mind but the quest ended up expiring....... all those days to get 2 items and cant find them................ so maybe as not many items are made with those products = hard to find......... so I lost a quest with no fault of my own :(

[Qivis]

I was about to complain again about quests saying nothing has been harvested when I have harvest all 9 items planted, but realized whereas I thought I had harvested 9 turnips I had planted parsnips by mistake instead!

[janielane]

Clicked on every single link on every page, found ONE ingredient that I could use on my 5 quests!!!

[johncinj]

Clicked on every single link on every page, found ONE ingredient that I could use on my 5 quests!!!

If you list your quests and add your own link others can try to help. New quests open all the time.

[janielane]

If you list your quests and add your own link others can try to help. New quests open all the time.

I tried that too, all that happened was a moderator berated me daily for something I was doing wrong. I gave up on it.

[LazyMare]

Clicked on every single link on every page, found ONE ingredient that I could use on my 5 quests!!!

I tried that too, all that happened was a moderator berated me daily for something I was doing wrong. I gave up on it.

Hi Janie

As your posts were not a list of your available CQ ingredients they have been moved to General Feedback Quests thread.

If no-one else has listed items you need, the best thing to do is to write a post listing your available ingredients, including things you need and already have, along with a working farmlink and ask for people to leave you a note on your farm if they buy something from you. You can then click on the little green man in the thank you message to get to their farm to buy what you need.

If you're unsure of how to post your farmlink, instructions can be found here : http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=590390

[RozeeS]

This game is becoming a pain! If I go to the market, inn or realtor, People unknown to me can look at my community quests and get stuff from me without my permission!

I know I am getting coins for what they buy from me but what if it is something I have little of and I need!

I think I need to stop playing FT until you address many of the issues with the "community spirit" in this game instead of allowing people to take what they want without my permission

I feel already that I am involved with my neighbours weekly chains contests whether or not I click on the dice and whether or not I want to participate! This should be a voluntary thing.

This game is no longer under the control of the player. You are deciding for me! When I go to a community place such as the market, inn or realtor; people can check community quests and take as they please! Anyone can take anything from my inventory for a community quest without my knowledge if I am in one of those community places. And I dont want to be involved in my neighbours community chains either unless I want too!

This is NOT FUN for me for me anymone and until you make changes to this game I will no longer be playing

[Pesto Farmer]

Today I got the third consecutive co-op quest to produce Buckwheat Kasha in a facility I do not own. As stated in this forum, the quests are "randomly assigned" but seriously, three in a row for a facility I don't own - and believe me, I own plenty. I've been doing co-op quests since they started and successfully getting Farm Dollars weekly. I have never had two of the same quests in a row, much less 3. Bad odds so I guess this is just a rant.:(

[MaderaGuy]

Four quests in a row all requiring paid facilities? Maybe I'll stop playing the game for another couple years. I'll buy cash every now and then but if you make it required for every quest, I can hang the game up again. Lets not get greedy...

[mgseymer]

I have never gotten the "gift Help Line" to work. Please explain the way to use this to help finish a quest. I needed rubber boots, made a request for them, got lots of them and put them into my storage. This did not work. What did I do wrong?

[marymarcel]

I have never gotten the "gift Help Line" to work. Please explain the way to use this to help finish a quest. I needed rubber boots, made a request for them, got lots of them and put them into my storage. This did not work. What did I do wrong?

Hi mgseymer:)


The lifelines dont work for the last step of a quest. You have to own the facility and start/load the product by yourself.

Also rubber boots are not giftable items, if you clicked in the + icon for them, you are receiving ingredients to make them but not the rubber boots themselves.

You have full information about lifelines in the following link form the Game Guide

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5157794#post5157794

[Pesto Farmer]

Four quests in a row all requiring paid facilities? Maybe I'll stop playing the game for another couple years. I'll buy cash every now and then but if you make it required for every quest, I can hang the game up again. Lets not get greedy...

I feel your pain.

[ccheney]

I got my second Quest and I need a juice factory. That is a FC factory and I don't have enough FC to buy it and won't have enough it before the quest expires in 3 more days so I will have to let it expire. My question is will I be able to redo the quest when I get a juice factory?

[Taz D]

I got my second Quest and I need a juice factory. That is a FC factory and I don't have enough FC to buy it and won't have enough it before the quest expires in 3 more days so I will have to let it expire. My question is will I be able to redo the quest when I get a juice factory?
Hi ccheney,
Once the quest has expired it is gone. Whether you get the same quest again later depends on whether you get it again. The quests are randomly assigned, so there will be a chance that you will get it again sometime in the future as much as there is a chance you may never see it again.

[Auntie Al]

Just a tip that I find helps on quests. I maintain 2 farms of Quest crops. I plant 10 each of crops that take 12 or more hours to grow. I plant 10 because that is the most crops I have ever needed at once for a quest. I keep them until they are about to waste in case I need them for a quest. Ex. This morning I needed soy beans, cotton and blueberries for a new quest. I had all of them grown and ready to harvest. What I don't need I harvest and replant. The faster the quest is completed, the larger the coin return. It take a little time to maintain but better than waiting for a 3-day crop to mature. See what you think.




http://r1.slashkey.com/images/Marcelapictures/quests.jpg

[Dulcinea]

Just a tip that I find helps on quests. I maintain 2 farms of Quest crops. I plant 10 each of crops that take 12 or more hours to grow. I plant 10 because that is the most crops I have ever needed at once for a quest. I keep them until they are about to waste in case I need them for a quest. Ex. This morning I needed soy beans, cotton and blueberries for a new quest. I had all of them grown and ready to harvest. What I don't need I harvest and replant. The faster the quest is completed, the larger the coin return. It take a little time to maintain but better than waiting for a 3-day crop to mature. See what you think.

Yeah, I do that, too. I also have a separate quest farm for trees and flowers that I only harvest when needed. I just check the maximum number I would need for any product and plant that many, though keeping the farm fertilized doubles the output so I actually have twice what I need. I also rotate my animal house collections so I'm never more than a few hours from collecting on those.

[Auntie Al]

Same here on trees and animals. I got nailed once needing milk!

[ccheney]

Hi ccheney,
Once the quest has expired it is gone. Whether you get the same quest again later depends on whether you get it again. The quests are randomly assigned, so there will be a chance that you will get it again sometime in the future as much as there is a chance you may never see it again.

Thanks for the reply.

[farmerKBW]

I've seen this addressed in posts as far back as 2009, so I'll add my voice, because hopefully there's strength in numbers at some point.

I just started doing quests last week, today started my 3rd week of doing them, I just do the regular ones (the brown box). I click on the lifeline to see what it is, and sometimes, it's helpful.

But, when it's the "gift" lifeline, I have yet to see it be helpful. I'm sure that the lifeline is most likely generated at random, but can the quest generator know somehow that the tasks it has assigned - the items one has to obtain - are NOT on the gift list? I have yet to get a "gift" lifeline where even ONE item is on the gift list! Either only link that lifeline with quests where at least one item is on the gift list, eliminate that lifeline, or allow things that aren't normally on the gift list to be gifted for quests.

My friends who do co-op quests feel bad for me, because today, the ONLY step I have in my quest is to harvest grapefruit. And my lifeline is the gift lifeline. If it was the worker lifeline, that would've been wonderful, I'm a superneighbor to 2 friends who do co-op quests and they allow me to come to their quest farms and work for what I need, or they post their facilities for me to work. But no one can do anything with that. And tomorrow, while I'm still waiting for my grapefruit trees to harvest, I'll start a new quest, and not be able to have a lifeline, because I have this one open that I can't use.

People have been begging since 2009 to be able to close out a lifeline when it's unusable. This is 7 years later, and I see that that's still not possible. That's kind of ridiculous. There's only two steps to my current quest, neither step can use this lifeline, I should be able to close it out so I can use a lifeline for tomorrow's quest before today's quest is finished. Otherwise, lifelines are useless. I had one gift lifeline on a quest last week, my first week of doing quests, where I couldn't complete the quest because I couldn't purchase the final facility, I couldn't afford the FC facility. And the ENTIRE WEEK, I couldn't use lifelines, because that one was hung up on a quest that was open for an entire week.

If you're going to have lifelines, at least let us close them out if they are inappropriate. Or make sure they are never inappropriate. Why have a gift lifeline on quests where no items are on the gift list? So, that's my suggestion, something needs to be done with those lifelines so that they are appropriate and usable. I don't mean that I need a guarantee that I can use it - I had a lifeline yesterday of being able to buy things I needed in the market, except no one was selling anything - then that's my problem, I had to grow the crops myself. That's fine with me, that's not the same as they were something that couldn't be purchased in the market. All I want is for the lifelines to be appropriate for the quest, and/or give us the ability to close the lifeline before the end of the quest if we can't use it.

[Taz D]

I've seen this addressed in posts as far back as 2009, so I'll add my voice, because hopefully there's strength in numbers at some point.

I just started doing quests last week, today started my 3rd week of doing them, I just do the regular ones (the brown box). I click on the lifeline to see what it is, and sometimes, it's helpful.

But, when it's the "gift" lifeline, I have yet to see it be helpful. I'm sure that the lifeline is most likely generated at random, but can the quest generator know somehow that the tasks it has assigned - the items one has to obtain - are NOT on the gift list? I have yet to get a "gift" lifeline where even ONE item is on the gift list! Either only link that lifeline with quests where at least one item is on the gift list, eliminate that lifeline, or allow things that aren't normally on the gift list to be gifted for quests.

My friends who do co-op quests feel bad for me, because today, the ONLY step I have in my quest is to harvest grapefruit. And my lifeline is the gift lifeline. If it was the worker lifeline, that would've been wonderful, I'm a superneighbor to 2 friends who do co-op quests and they allow me to come to their quest farms and work for what I need, or they post their facilities for me to work. But no one can do anything with that. And tomorrow, while I'm still waiting for my grapefruit trees to harvest, I'll start a new quest, and not be able to have a lifeline, because I have this one open that I can't use.

People have been begging since 2009 to be able to close out a lifeline when it's unusable. This is 7 years later, and I see that that's still not possible. That's kind of ridiculous. There's only two steps to my current quest, neither step can use this lifeline, I should be able to close it out so I can use a lifeline for tomorrow's quest before today's quest is finished. Otherwise, lifelines are useless. I had one gift lifeline on a quest last week, my first week of doing quests, where I couldn't complete the quest because I couldn't purchase the final facility, I couldn't afford the FC facility. And the ENTIRE WEEK, I couldn't use lifelines, because that one was hung up on a quest that was open for an entire week.

If you're going to have lifelines, at least let us close them out if they are inappropriate. Or make sure they are never inappropriate. Why have a gift lifeline on quests where no items are on the gift list? So, that's my suggestion, something needs to be done with those lifelines so that they are appropriate and usable. I don't mean that I need a guarantee that I can use it - I had a lifeline yesterday of being able to buy things I needed in the market, except no one was selling anything - then that's my problem, I had to grow the crops myself. That's fine with me, that's not the same as they were something that couldn't be purchased in the market. All I want is for the lifelines to be appropriate for the quest, and/or give us the ability to close the lifeline before the end of the quest if we can't use it.
Hi farmerKBW,
I have moved your post to the General Feedback thread about quests to answer you. First the quests have not been around since 2009. They were not started until mid 2012.
Gifts are not the only way to use the Gift Lifeline. You can also use the Ingredient Requests to get those items that you can't get from the gift page. For your grapefruit it is used in the herbal tea factory, spa supplies factory, healthy juice stand, and honey derivatives factor. If you have one of those facilities then you can ask for ingredients for any of the products in those facilities that use grapefruit.
The lifelines just like the quests themselves are randomly assigned, which means the program has a random number generator that picks a number between 1 & 3 for the lifelines. There isn't any input way to select by quest, so there is no way to select a lifeline by what type of quest it is.

[farmerKBW]

Thanks for the clarity about that lifeline, why doesn't the game say that? All it says are gifts, and the icon is the gift icon, so it makes it seem that it can only be from the gift list.

As for dates, I messed up. I was looking to my right, which is where everyone's date they joined the forum is, and interpreted that as the posting date. It's been a long day, the quests have my head spinning. Sorry about that.

I never attempted them until week before last, and I did read the forum's guide for them, but it's not as detailed as it could be. Even my friends who've been doing quests for a long time don't know that they can gift ingredients, because I've complained to them about the gift lifeline and none of them has said, "I can gift that to you as an ingredient."

I don't have any facilities that I haven't gotten specifically for each quest, so can they gift the ingredients to me for the facility for which I'm doing the quest? Or does it have to be a different facility? I'm only doing quests to earn more FC for tools, I'm trying not to spend FC to do it, defeats the purpose.

Add on question after going back to my farm: I have the ingredient I need in my storage - in this case it's grapefruit. Perhaps because of that, I can't find where the facility has an option to ask for more. Again, I don't normally do facilities, so I'm looking for buttons, even on hover (I did them a long, long time ago, on another profile, when they first started, but I've forgotten everything I knew). Each quest wants you to get things anew for it, so even if I had 5,000 grapefruit in storage (theoretically), I still need new ones for this quest. How do I ask for a gift of those through a facility if I have plenty in stock as far as the facility is concerned?

Thanks! I'd ask my neighbors, but like I said, they are clueless how the gift lifeline works.

[marymarcel]

Thanks for the clarity about that lifeline, why doesn't the game say that? All it says are gifts, and the icon is the gift icon, so it makes it seem that it can only be from the gift list.

As for dates, I was going on what comments I saw on the quests forum that I was reading - maybe some of the oldest comments should be weeded through, since there are comments that go back to 2009.

I never attempted them until week before last, and I did read the forum's guide for them, but it's not as detailed as it could be. Even my friends who've been doing quests for a long time don't know that they can gift ingredients, because I've complained to them about the gift lifeline and none of them has said, "I can gift that to you as an ingredient."

I don't have any facilities that I haven't gotten specifically for each quest, so can they gift the ingredients to me for the facility for which I'm doing the quest? Or does it have to be a different facility? I'm only doing quests to earn more FC for tools, I'm trying not to spend FC to do it, defeats the purpose.

Hi farmerKBW:)

Taz is not available at this moment.

I will give an example for asking for ingredients.

You have the Healthy Juice stand and you need grapefruits to make Grapefruit juice. Then you need to open the facility and then click in the + icon for the Grapefruit juice. You will see the pop up asking for ingredients for the juice. When you post it, your friends will see the request and will send you the ingredients you need, in this case, grapefruits.

Those ingredients will go into your gift box and you have to store them to count into your quest.:)

[farmerKBW]

Hi farmerKBW:)

Taz is not available at this moment.

I will give an example for asking for ingredients.

You have the Healthy Juice stand and you need grapefruits to make Grapefruit juice. Then you need to open the facility and then click in the + icon for the Grapefruit juice. You will see the pop up asking for ingredients for the juice. When you post it, your friends will see the request and will send you the ingredients you need, in this case, grapefruits.

Those ingredients will go into your gift box and you have to store them to count into your quest.:)

It's not letting me do that. I click on the +, and it starts to show a pop up, then it goes away. I thought maybe it was my pop up settings, so I tried a different one than the one that's my quest, and it showed the request right away. So it's not letting me request the ingredient that I need.

I tried the grapefruit a couple of times, then I tried 2 others. I tried the grapefruit again, and it still didn't give me the request, then it told me that I made 5 requests. I didn't post any of them, but it counted the ones it didn't give me.

I'm just not going to do quests. It's just too much headache for too little return. I'm using up way too many coins to get things to do them, and it won't even let me request the ingredient even on a gift lifeline, so I'm just done with them. Thanks anyhow!

[marymarcel]

It's not letting me do that. I click on the +, and it starts to show a pop up, then it goes away. I thought maybe it was my pop up settings, so I tried a different one than the one that's my quest, and it showed the request right away. So it's not letting me request the ingredient that I need.

I tried the grapefruit a couple of times, then I tried 2 others. I tried the grapefruit again, and it still didn't give me the request, then it told me that I made 5 requests. I didn't post any of them, but it counted the ones it didn't give me.

I'm just not going to do quests. It's just too much headache for too little return. I'm using up way too many coins to get things to do them, and it won't even let me request the ingredient even on a gift lifeline, so I'm just done with them. Thanks anyhow!


I'm sorry, I have tried and got the same.

We will send this to the developers to let them know the problem with asking ingredients in this facility

[Dulcinea]

Thanks for the clarity about that lifeline, why doesn't the game say that? All it says are gifts, and the icon is the gift icon, so it makes it seem that it can only be from the gift list.


I had the exact same problem. For years I thought the gifting lifeline only applied to free gifts. It was only as I was reading the forum that I realized it also applied to ingredient requests. The information is included, quite clearly, in the Quests (http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=468066) thread under Help and Support. It was my own fault for not reading close enough. But I do wish it could be included somewhere in the game. I actually got a quest today where I'll be able to request the Candle with Holder to get Scented Candles and finish the quest. It makes me very happy when the lifelines do what they should do like that. :)

[Zany Clover]

For the second week, when I open the regular quest box to redeem the item I need to reach the completion of #8, one of the items has been deleted so instead of the 7 that had been there the total has been reduced to 6, which means when I click the last item I only have a total of 7 vs the 8 needed. ....very discouraging--especially since I watch those numbers so carefully. Shirley alias Zany Clover

[Taz D]

For the second week, when I open the regular quest box to redeem the item I need to reach the completion of #8, one of the items has been deleted so instead of the 7 that had been there the total has been reduced to 6, which means when I click the last item I only have a total of 7 vs the 8 needed. ....very discouraging--especially since I watch those numbers so carefully. Shirley alias Zany Clover
Hi Shirley,
A quest is only good for exactly 7 days to the second for collecting the farm cash after the last step of that quest is completed. Quests are not added to the chart by the time you collect the coins for them, but by the time the last step is completed, even though they are not added to the chart until you do collect the coins.
So for example if a quest completes at 9:43 PM on Monday then it will no longer count for farm cash at 9:43 on the following Monday.
This is why we recommend you not complete the last step of any quests you are carrying over to the next week for at least a day after you have collected. That way you have some time if you are not ready to collect at exactly the same time each week and won't lose quests due to them expiring for the collection.

[Zany Clover]

The issue was not with the last quest to be completed. The previous time I opened the quest box, I finished quest no. 7, and it was added to the completed box. The total was correct. When I went back to click the completed final quest, which should have made a total of 8, the number in the completed quest box BEFORE I clicked the just completed quest was 6 instead of 7---one of the completed quests that had previously been added to the box had been lost or was gone. Thus when I clicked my final quest, which should have been #8, it made the total advance by 1--correctly--but the total was only 7 completed quests, not the 8 required---which I actually had finished.

[Taz D]

The issue was not with the last quest to be completed. The previous time I opened the quest box, I finished quest no. 7, and it was added to the completed box. The total was correct. When I went back to click the completed final quest, which should have made a total of 8, the number in the completed quest box BEFORE I clicked the just completed quest was 6 instead of 7---one of the completed quests that had previously been added to the box had been lost or was gone. Thus when I clicked my final quest, which should have been #8, it made the total advance by 1--correctly--but the total was only 7 completed quests, not the 8 required---which I actually had finished.
Hi Shirley,
Please note all times listed below are in Eastern Daylight Savings Time as that is the time zone for the servers. If you are in another time zone you will have to convert the times to your zone.
The first quest you completed after you collected last Monday (July 4th)at 13:53 (1:53 PM) was completed at 21:19 (9:19 PM) on the 4th. That means that quest would no longer count and would drop off at 21:19 tonight. You didn't collect tonight until 22:07 (10:07 PM) which means that first quest you completed on the 4th was no longer countable because it was 7 days and 48 minutes old. That is why it dropped back from 7 completed to 6 completed.

[farmerKBW]

Hi farmerKBW:)

Taz is not available at this moment.

I will give an example for asking for ingredients.

You have the Healthy Juice stand and you need grapefruits to make Grapefruit juice. Then you need to open the facility and then click in the + icon for the Grapefruit juice. You will see the pop up asking for ingredients for the juice. When you post it, your friends will see the request and will send you the ingredients you need, in this case, grapefruits.

Those ingredients will go into your gift box and you have to store them to count into your quest.:)

Today, I have a different quest, and I had the same lifeline. I'm having a hard time getting the quests to recognize my oil refineries when I have to make petroleum, which is frustrating. I usually have to go through 3 cycles before it shows that it has even one barrel, and I don't know why.

Anyhow, it's doing this today, so I decided - since the petroleum is for making turpentine to make a rubber mat - to request the ingredients for a rubber mat. One of my neighbors sent me the materials for many rubber mats, which means a lot of turpentine, too. But, the quest hasn't registered any of the gifts my neighbor gave me.

I tried refreshing my farm, but it still is waiting another 4 hours for my facility to make petroleum for the third time since I started this quest. Since it also then takes several hours to make turpentine then the rubber mat, both of which I've made many of today, now it's taking me into tomorrow for a quest I should have been able to finish today easily, since I started at 4:30 in the morning (I woke up to feed my cats and decided to get a start on the day before I went back to sleep).

So, even when I DID get ingredients on the gift lifeline, my quest isn't recognizing them.

[Taz D]

Today, I have a different quest, and I had the same lifeline. I'm having a hard time getting the quests to recognize my oil refineries when I have to make petroleum, which is frustrating. I usually have to go through 3 cycles before it shows that it has even one barrel, and I don't know why.

Anyhow, it's doing this today, so I decided - since the petroleum is for making turpentine to make a rubber mat - to request the ingredients for a rubber mat. One of my neighbors sent me the materials for many rubber mats, which means a lot of turpentine, too. But, the quest hasn't registered any of the gifts my neighbor gave me.

I tried refreshing my farm, but it still is waiting another 4 hours for my facility to make petroleum for the third time since I started this quest. Since it also then takes several hours to make turpentine then the rubber mat, both of which I've made many of today, now it's taking me into tomorrow for a quest I should have been able to finish today easily, since I started at 4:30 in the morning (I woke up to feed my cats and decided to get a start on the day before I went back to sleep).

So, even when I DID get ingredients on the gift lifeline, my quest isn't recognizing them.
Hi BKW,
The steps of the quest must be done in order. When you asked for the ingredients for the rubber sheet, you only get turpintine and latex and those can't register until you have done the cruse oil barrel and then the petrochemical barrel.
What ingredient requests did you post? To get to the turpintine, you would need to ask for Petrochemical barrels first to get the crude oil barrels, then ask for the turpintine to get the petrochemical barrel, then ask for rubber sheet to get the turpintine and the latex. Then you would have to accept those in the same order or the quest will not recognize them. So you see you don't get the product you ask for, but get the ingredients to make the product.
If you are doing it yourself for this then you need to start 1 batch in an oil pump (3 hours), then start a batch of the petrochemical barrels (6 hours), and then start 1 batch of turpintine (6 hours). So it can take some time that way.

[Dulcinea]

I'll put this here because it's not really a support question, just something that's been puzzling me. How come sometimes when I'm going through my co-op quests and I buy items from neighbors, I'll get a number on the left side of the slash? I know that a number on the left side means a completed quest and a number on the right means an expired quest. Why would it indicate a completed quest when all I've done is buy an ingredient? I thought maybe it meant I had a quest ready to run or that someone had helped me with an ingredient, but sometimes it shows up when I've completed any step of the quest. E.g., I just bought purple grapes for a Red Wine Aged 3 Yr quest, and I got a 1. It doesn't happen every time either. Just now and then. Is there some rhyme and reason to this or do those numbers just act quirky sometimes?

[Taz D]

I'll put this here because it's not really a support question, just something that's been puzzling me. How come sometimes when I'm going through my co-op quests and I buy items from neighbors, I'll get a number on the left side of the slash? I know that a number on the left side means a completed quest and a number on the right means an expired quest. Why would it indicate a completed quest when all I've done is buy an ingredient? I thought maybe it meant I had a quest ready to run or that someone had helped me with an ingredient, but sometimes it shows up when I've completed any step of the quest. E.g., I just bought purple grapes for a Red Wine Aged 3 Yr quest, and I got a 1. It doesn't happen every time either. Just now and then. Is there some rhyme and reason to this or do those numbers just act quirky sometimes?
Hi Dulcinea,
The number on the left indicates any quest completed. That would be either a co-op or regular quest.

[farmerKBW]

Hi BKW,
The steps of the quest must be done in order. When you asked for the ingredients for the rubber sheet, you only get turpintine and latex and those can't register until you have done the cruse oil barrel and then the petrochemical barrel.
What ingredient requests did you post? To get to the turpintine, you would need to ask for Petrochemical barrels first to get the crude oil barrels, then ask for the turpintine to get the petrochemical barrel, then ask for rubber sheet to get the turpintine and the latex. Then you would have to accept those in the same order or the quest will not recognize them. So you see you don't get the product you ask for, but get the ingredients to make the product.
If you are doing it yourself for this then you need to start 1 batch in an oil pump (3 hours), then start a batch of the petrochemical barrels (6 hours), and then start 1 batch of turpintine (6 hours). So it can take some time that way.

My oil pumps are working constantly - I have crude coming out at all times, non-stop, so there's never a time when I'm not making crude. When I'm doing quests, the same is true for petrochemical - I start batches when I see I need them for a quest, but I also have batches going at all times. The quest wasn't picking up on ANY petrochemical batches I produced, particularly the ones I started at the time the quest started. So then it didn't pick up on the turpentine I made from those petrochemical barrels, either. It pretty much didn't pick up on anything I did with those facilities. By the time I requested the gifts, I had produced 3 batches of petrochemical, and at least one of turpentine. I also had already produced rubber sheets, but those were from ingredients I had before the quest, and the quest doesn't count those, I just liked to have them ready.

So, I was doing things in order, the quest wasn't picking up on them, and even when I got the gift of the items - by that time my facilities already produced them fresh for that quest - the quest didn't recognize them. I had to abandon that quest anyhow, it didn't show me all of the facilities that I needed, and the next to last one was an FC fac, so I just gave up. But it was consistently failing to pick up on those things -- and I did figure out why after a while: it wanted me to set things to go in my other refinery, not the one I was using. I don't know why it mattered, but when I tried starting a batch of petrochemicals in my second refinery, then the quest picked that up. I don't think it should matter which one I was using, they're the same thing. I was using the one on my default farm, which is also where I put all of my facs that I used for quests.

I started everything when the quest started, but what good are the lifelines if they don't advance the quest faster than if we didn't use them? None of it's making sense to me, so I just quit doing it. I play this game for fun, and the quests have been too frustrating. I mean, the one quest, I couldn't even request ingredients per the lifeline because the request wouldn't pop up, when I have a lifeline that lets me get materials from working for them on farms and in facilities I don't always get those materials - even though my facs are already working on those items - and I'm constantly buying new facilities. It's just too much confusion and frustration for 1 or 2 FC a week.

[Taz D]

My oil pumps are working constantly - I have crude coming out at all times, non-stop, so there's never a time when I'm not making crude. When I'm doing quests, the same is true for petrochemical - I start batches when I see I need them for a quest, but I also have batches going at all times. The quest wasn't picking up on ANY petrochemical batches I produced, particularly the ones I started at the time the quest started. So then it didn't pick up on the turpentine I made from those petrochemical barrels, either. It pretty much didn't pick up on anything I did with those facilities. By the time I requested the gifts, I had produced 3 batches of petrochemical, and at least one of turpentine. I also had already produced rubber sheets, but those were from ingredients I had before the quest, and the quest doesn't count those, I just liked to have them ready.

So, I was doing things in order, the quest wasn't picking up on them, and even when I got the gift of the items - by that time my facilities already produced them fresh for that quest - the quest didn't recognize them. I had to abandon that quest anyhow, it didn't show me all of the facilities that I needed, and the next to last one was an FC fac, so I just gave up. But it was consistently failing to pick up on those things -- and I did figure out why after a while: it wanted me to set things to go in my other refinery, not the one I was using. I don't know why it mattered, but when I tried starting a batch of petrochemicals in my second refinery, then the quest picked that up. I don't think it should matter which one I was using, they're the same thing. I was using the one on my default farm, which is also where I put all of my facs that I used for quests.

I started everything when the quest started, but what good are the lifelines if they don't advance the quest faster than if we didn't use them? None of it's making sense to me, so I just quit doing it. I play this game for fun, and the quests have been too frustrating. I mean, the one quest, I couldn't even request ingredients per the lifeline because the request wouldn't pop up, when I have a lifeline that lets me get materials from working for them on farms and in facilities I don't always get those materials - even though my facs are already working on those items - and I'm constantly buying new facilities. It's just too much confusion and frustration for 1 or 2 FC a week.
Hi BKW,
The key is in your last paragraph. You can't start all the steps production as soon as you start the quest. You have to first start the crude oil production in the oil pump at the time you start the quest. Then you have to wait the 3 hours for that to complete. After you have a green check in the crude oil, then you can start a batch of petrochemical. That step takes 6 hours, so you can't start the turpentine until you have a green check in the petrochemical. When the petrochemical has completed with the green check then you can start a batch of turpentine. That is what I mean by doing the steps in order.
How does the gift lifeline help speed things up? If you request the ingredients for each step as we previously said, then you can accept those individually in the correct order of the steps one at a time (do not use the store all) and you can complete all those steps quickly rather than waiting the long times.
Please note that if you have started a step (time showing), then the gift will not work because you already started the step in your own facility.

[Dulcinea]

Hi Dulcinea,
The number on the left indicates any quest completed. That would be either a co-op or regular quest.

Ah, so it is a glitch then. That's what I thought. I get a number on the left side of the slash when:

1. I have a completed regular quest.
2. I have a completed cooperative quest.
3. One of my neighbors has sold me a product after I've used the yellow Help sticker.

And occasionally but not always,
4. When I complete any step in a quest, such as today when I bought the purple grapes for my Wine Cellar quest.

Just thought there may have been something I didn't know, but I guess it's just one of those things. Thanks for the help, Taz. :)

[Taz D]

Ah, so it is a glitch then. That's what I thought. I get a number on the left side of the slash when:

1. I have a completed regular quest.
2. I have a completed cooperative quest.
3. One of my neighbors has sold me a product after I've used the yellow Help sticker.

And occasionally but not always,
4. When I complete any step in a quest, such as today when I bought the purple grapes for my Wine Cellar quest.

Just thought there may have been something I didn't know, but I guess it's just one of those things. Thanks for the help, Taz. :)
Hi Dulcinea,
I checked this after you posted about it and I don't see any number when completing a step.

[Dulcinea]

Hi Dulcinea,
I checked this after you posted about it and I don't see any number when completing a step.

It's intermittent. Sometimes I see it, and sometimes I don't. Actually, I think today might have been the first time it showed up after buying an item. Usually it's when someone sells me something I've asked for, but then again, not always. It's just weird like that. I thought there might have been a reason, but it's probably just a glitch.

[KnittyGirl]

Has anyone else opened the last 2 Quests and found they are the same one? Produce 100 Paint brushes?? This has to be a first with 2 identical quests back to back.

[Dulcinea]

Has anyone else opened the last 2 Quests and found they are the same one? Produce 100 Paint brushes?? This has to be a first with 2 identical quests back to back.

That's happened to me before. They were co-op quests, and it was a shame I'd already bought ingredients for the first because I could have knocked them both off at the same time.

[Aussie Rae]

Has anyone else opened the last 2 Quests and found they are the same one? Produce 100 Paint brushes?? This has to be a first with 2 identical quests back to back.

it happens regularly..

[Dulcinea]

It's intermittent. Sometimes I see it, and sometimes I don't. Actually, I think today might have been the first time it showed up after buying an item. Usually it's when someone sells me something I've asked for, but then again, not always. It's just weird like that. I thought there might have been a reason, but it's probably just a glitch.

Okay, this is the last I'll say on this, but just in case anyone's interested, my quest numbers were showing 0/2 just now. I looked at my regular quests. I have two in progress and none expired. The number still showed 0/2, which suggests the glitch has nothing to do with the regular quests. I looked at the co-op quests. None expired there either, but I have one with two hours left in the final step, a second I'm waiting till later to complete, and a third for Produce Pumpkin Pie. I hadn't touched the first two, but I had just gone through my neighbors and bought all the necessary ingredients for the Produce Pumpkin Pie quest. And that's when my number went from 0/0 to 0/2, right after I bought the ingredients. So there we go. Somehow buying ingredients for co-op quests is making my numbers act wonky.

[linda rae]

i would like the developers give those that have cq quest a color different than those listed when you go to the market place... that way we can click on that farmer and look and see if they have any thing we can buy from them and they will know i have cq quests open .. as it is you have to click every one and alot of them don't do them.. just a suggestion .. i think its a good idea . what do you think ...?

[Taz D]

i would like the developers give those that have cq quest a color different than those listed when you go to the market place... that way we can click on that farmer and look and see if they have any thing we can buy from them and they will know i have cq quests open .. as it is you have to click every one and alot of them don't do them.. just a suggestion .. i think its a good idea . what do you think ...?
Hi Linda Rae,
I have moved your post to the General Feedback thread about quests. If you wish to make a suggestion, please post it in the Suggestions section and not in the General Feedback section, so the developers will see it. You can not start a new thread in the Suggestions , but you can reply to one there that fits your suggestion.

[Sunshinelvr]

FT says I didn't finish 4 quests in 7 days..please! I finished at least 7, and more. Because they usually take some of my quests and add them to the last batch and that way I lose any credit for even finishing them on any quest. Will you please give me my one little bitty farm cash dollar?

well thank you! that was quick! Now are you going to fix the problem about not allowing some of my quests to count on any given period or do I just keep losing them to space?

[Taz D]

FT says I didn't finish 4 quests in 7 days..please! I finished at least 7, and more. Because they usually take some of my quests and add them to the last batch and that way I lose any credit for even finishing them on any quest. Will you please give me my one little bitty farm cash dollar?

well thank you! that was quick! Now are you going to fix the problem about not allowing some of my quests to count on any given period or do I just keep losing them to space?
Hi Sunshinelvr,
The not having enough to collect message usually comes up when you are sitting waiting for the button to turn blue. The only way to get them then is to try closing and restarting your farms and check again. If that doesn't work then clearing the memcache usually will fix it.
Quests are only good for 7 days from the time the last step is completed and that doesn't mean when you collect the coins. Waiting to collect the coins until after you collect your farm cash does not change the completion time. Those quests would be added on the previous week's quest chart, so can't show for the current week.
Actually according to your data you completed 8 co-op quests for this week's collection for which you got your 1 farm cash. It takes 13 quests completed to get 2 farm cash. All the rest were completed prior to 7 days ago on Jul 27th at 11:54 PM eastern time.

[unicorns4me]

I have to say I am becoming extremely annoyed to be done out the ability to enjoy either the co-operative or the normal quests due to the fact that in the past week most of those quests have been CODED for facilities that cost FC.

Please do not try to tell me this is random.... too many to be random. Too much greed requiring players to spend money. I'm a pensioner.. I have more important things to spend my money on. :mad:

[matie390]

I agree.........i had 3 this time that needed fc facts.....and the thing is i have spent quite a bit of money on fc..........

[chisherman]

Echoing what others have said... three of the quests I've been given this week require me to spend $5 or $10 in FarmCash to complete them. I have purchased facilities in the past and frankly spent too much money on this game already. Would really like some quests I can actually complete, either using facilities that just cost coins or in facilities I've already purchased. FarmTown is a fun game I've been playing for years, but it's been getting really frustrating lately. :(

[SandyTurba]

I thought I liked doing the quests till I started losing completed quests. Many of us don't have all the facilities to complete a quest so we have to wait for the next one. If we get a few in a row we can't complete, it messes up the 7 day rule. I have completed 3 quests but have has the last 2 in a row to where I couldn't complete them. So I wanted to turn in my 3 quests before I lost them. Well, I am going to lose 2 this time, since I have to wait 3 more days to turn them in and they will drop off my total in 2 days. This is wrong!!!!!!!!!

[Taz D]

I thought I liked doing the quests till I started losing completed quests. Many of us don't have all the facilities to complete a quest so we have to wait for the next one. If we get a few in a row we can't complete, it messes up the 7 day rule. I have completed 3 quests but have has the last 2 in a row to where I couldn't complete them. So I wanted to turn in my 3 quests before I lost them. Well, I am going to lose 2 this time, since I have to wait 3 more days to turn them in and they will drop off my total in 2 days. This is wrong!!!!!!!!!
Hi SandyTurba,
I fail to see how having 2 you can't complete messes up the 7 day rule. Is this for co-op quests or regular quests? If it is for co-op quests you can open 2 per day or for regular quests 1 per day. If you have complete 3 and have 2 that you can't that still leaves 2 more days at the least to get more quests completed before the first ones drop off.
Please provide a link to your farms so we can check this. Going to your farm and copying the address does not work as that is a generic link that takes us to our own farms. The automatic linking does not work either so you will have to create one and paste it here in a reply. Please follow the instructions on how to do that are in the following link:
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=579554

[SandyTurba]

http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=1661342079&farm_ix=Y
TY, Sandy

[Taz D]

http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=1661342079&farm_ix=Y
TY, Sandy
You oldest quest of the 3 was completed on the 23rd at 11:15 AM (all times are eastern time). You collected your farm cash last time on the 22nd at 4:56 PM. That means you will be able to collect again at the same time on the 29th which is well before that oldest quest will drop off the list. Since you already have 3 completed quests then you will still be able to collect 1 farm cash even though you have 2 quests you can't complete.

[majarmus]

This issue is for both QUESTs and COOP-QUESTS (CQs).

When I am on my farm and I have 7 QUESTs completed and the 8th QUEST completes, if I click on the QUEST ICON (brown ICON with "?") I get the following message "Not enough quests completed". However if you look at the bottom of my farm it says I have completed 8 QUESTS within the last 7 days (or I have completed 13 CQs within the last 7 days). Also if I look at the DETAILS of both of my QUEST and CQs using the SHOW QUESTS button directly above the CLAIM FARMCASH button, the detailed screen also shows I have have completed 8 QUESTS within the last 7 days (or I have completed 13 CQs within the last 7 days). However I can NOT collect my FARMCASH (2 $$).

The CLAIM FARMCASH button background is BLACK, can NOT collect my $$$ for completing the required QUESTs (or CQs) ... vs the CLAIM FARMCASH button background being LIGHT BLUE, which is when I CAN collect my $$$ for completing the required QUESTs (or CQs).

I have to close by BROWSER and get back to FARMTOWN in order to collect my FARMCASH for completing the required QUESTs (or CQs).

I have used both a PC and a MAC and this 'FEATURE' is the same on both PLATFORMS. I have used various BROWSERs (SAFARI, OPERA, FIREFOX) and this 'FEATURE' is the same on both PLATFORMS and ALL BROWSERs that I have used to play FARMTOWN.

This is NOT a SHOW STOPPER ... just a annoyance.

I have attached several (4 files; 3 for CQs, 1 for QUESTs) SNAP SHOTs to show you what I have described above.

Fixing this BUG would be appreciated!!!

Thank you in advance for your time and help

Mark

[Taz D]

This issue is for both QUESTs and COOP-QUESTS (CQs).

When I am on my farm and I have 7 QUESTs completed and the 8th QUEST completes, if I click on the QUEST ICON (brown ICON with "?") I get the following message "Not enough quests completed". However if you look at the bottom of my farm it says I have completed 8 QUESTS within the last 7 days (or I have completed 13 CQs within the last 7 days). Also if I look at the DETAILS of both of my QUEST and CQs using the SHOW QUESTS button directly above the CLAIM FARMCASH button, the detailed screen also shows I have have completed 8 QUESTS within the last 7 days (or I have completed 13 CQs within the last 7 days). However I can NOT collect my FARMCASH (2 $$).

The CLAIM FARMCASH button background is BLACK, can NOT collect my $$$ for completing the required QUESTs (or CQs) ... vs the CLAIM FARMCASH button background being LIGHT BLUE, which is when I CAN collect my $$$ for completing the required QUESTs (or CQs).

I have to close by BROWSER and get back to FARMTOWN in order to collect my FARMCASH for completing the required QUESTs (or CQs).

I have used both a PC and a MAC and this 'FEATURE' is the same on both PLATFORMS. I have used various BROWSERs (SAFARI, OPERA, FIREFOX) and this 'FEATURE' is the same on both PLATFORMS and ALL BROWSERs that I have used to play FARMTOWN.

This is NOT a SHOW STOPPER ... just a annoyance.

I have attached several (4 files; 3 for CQs, 1 for QUESTs) SNAP SHOTs to show you what I have described above.

Fixing this BUG would be appreciated!!!

Thank you in advance for your time and help

Mark
Hi Mark,
This only happens if you are sitting watch and waiting for the button to turn blue. The same thing happens if you are on a farm when a crop becomes ready. The only way to get it to show the crop to allow you to harvest is to refresh the farm. In the case of the quests you have to close your farms and reopen for the button condition to update. There isn't a fix for this as the data will not update for a period of time ( so data update doesn't interfere and slow down operations) unless you close and restart your farms to force the update.

[majarmus]

Thank you TAZ for your fast reply.

I have 'RELOADED' my farm (to use your words --- 'TO FORCE RELOAD MY FARMTOWN DATA') after I have seen that the 8th QUEST (or 13th CQ) has been completed with in the last 7 days and MORE than 7 days have passed since I started my QUESTs (or CQs) by either:

1) selecting the 'PLAY button' (button to the right of the 'SEND GIFTs button' at the top left of my farm).
2) clicking on the same farm that I am currently on (say farm #11) by using the 'boxes' in the upper left hand corner of my farm that corresponds to farm #11 in this example (3rd row of boxes, 3rd box from the left on row 3).
3) using 'CTRL R' .... to reload my FARMTOWN page.

My FARM does RELOAD in all 3 of these cases, however, my FARMTOWN data is NOT ... 'FORCED RELOADED'.

None of the above 3 things that I have tried changes the background of the CLAIM FARMCASH button from BLACK to LIGHT BLUE. The ONLY way I have been able to get the CLAIM FARMCASH button background to be LIGHT BLUE so I can collect my 2 $$$ is to restart my BROWSER.

I have also cleared my FARMTOWN CACHE MEMORY and that also does not help either. Clearing FARMTOWN CACHE MEMORY does not 'FORCE RELOAD' my FARMTOWN DATA.

I ALWAYS have to close my BROWSER and open it again and navigate back to my FARM to be able to collect my FT $$$ AFTER completing 8 QUESTs in 7 days or 13 CQs in 7 days if I am in FARMTOWN and I reach the required # of COMPLETED QUESTs to be able to COLLECT my 2 FT $$.

I do understand that if FARMTOWN kept updating 'data' in the background every X (say 30) SECONDS ... it would greatly slow down the performance of the game.

Mark

[Taz D]

Thank you TAZ for your fast reply.

I have 'RELOADED' my farm (to use your words --- 'TO FORCE RELOAD MY FARMTOWN DATA') after I have seen that the 8th QUEST (or 13th CQ) has been completed with in the last 7 days and MORE than 7 days have passed since I started my QUESTs (or CQs) by either:

1) selecting the 'PLAY button' (button to the right of the 'SEND GIFTs button' at the top left of my farm).
2) clicking on the same farm that I am currently on (say farm #11) by using the 'boxes' in the upper left hand corner of my farm that corresponds to farm #11 in this example (3rd row of boxes, 3rd box from the left on row 3).
3) using 'CTRL R' .... to reload my FARMTOWN page.

My FARM does RELOAD in all 3 of these cases, however, my FARMTOWN data is NOT ... 'FORCED RELOADED'.

None of the above 3 things that I have tried changes the background of the CLAIM FARMCASH button from BLACK to LIGHT BLUE. The ONLY way I have been able to get the CLAIM FARMCASH button background to be LIGHT BLUE so I can collect my 2 $$$ is to restart my BROWSER.

I have also cleared my FARMTOWN CACHE MEMORY and that also does not help either. Clearing FARMTOWN CACHE MEMORY does not 'FORCE RELOAD' my FARMTOWN DATA.

I ALWAYS have to close my BROWSER and open it again and navigate back to my FARM to be able to collect my FT $$$ AFTER completing 8 QUESTs in 7 days or 13 CQs in 7 days if I am in FARMTOWN and I reach the required # of COMPLETED QUESTs to be able to COLLECT my 2 FT $$.

I do understand that if FARMTOWN kept updating 'data' in the background every X (say 30) SECONDS ... it would greatly slow down the performance of the game.

Mark
Hi Mark,
It seems to be a little different for everyone. For me, if I have to do it I always have to clear the memcache to get it to update. For others it may only be closing the farm and reopening. Refreshing the farm or clicking the Play doesn't seem to do it though.
You just have to know what works for you, but there is nothing they can do without effecting the speed of the game. It doesn't seem to happen except when you are sitting waiting for the button to turn blue.

[ccheney]

This week alone I have had the "Load Soda co-op quest twice and The Bowling Ball Return quest twice. Before that I had The Forge Hood quest twice and Load French Window Co-op quests twice. I have also had the Load Fish Dinner and Load Handmade Ring quests twice. Just now I got the Load Terrazo Tile for the second time in 2 weeks. I'm getting fed up with getting the same quests over and over.

[JSchuster]

I am so disappointed with the quest round. On many occasions I have had the required number of request to get 2 FC. For life reasons I am not able to get on line at the required time to collect the 2 FC. There are many reason that can conflict with a persaon ability to collect the bonus FC. The program does not take that into consideration.
My request would be that the system automatically post the FC to your account when you get the required amount and the time period has been reached. It is so frustrating when you work really hard to achieve the maximum allowed. Thank you for listening.

[Taz D]

I am so disappointed with the quest round. On many occasions I have had the required number of request to get 2 FC. For life reasons I am not able to get on line at the required time to collect the 2 FC. There are many reason that can conflict with a persaon ability to collect the bonus FC. The program does not take that into consideration.
My request would be that the system automatically post the FC to your account when you get the required amount and the time period has been reached. It is so frustrating when you work really hard to achieve the maximum allowed. Thank you for listening.
Hi JSchuster,
Please post any suggestion you have in the suggestion section where the developers will see it and not in the general feedback. You cannot start a new thread there, but you can reply to an existing one that fits your suggestion.

[majarmus]

Taz,

Thank you for your previous replies to my posts.

I asked why can't I collect my FARM CASH for completing my QUESTs/CQs while I have my QUEST/CQ window open before the 7 day timer is reached and then the 7 day timer is obtained AND passed while the window is still open.

See my PIX below with respect to STARTING a NEW QUEST or CQ ...

I am on my farm. The NEW QUEST/CQ CUBE (located at the top left of my farm below the FUEL ICON) is grey because it has been less than 20 hours since I started my last QUEST (or less less than 10 hours since I started my last CQ). If I open (CLICK ON) the grey QUEST/CQ CUBE ... the QUEST/CQ window opens and it tells me I have to wait 1 more minute until I can start a new QUEST/CQ. I close the window. I repeat this ... open and close the window ... until the time to start a new QUEST (20 hours) or CQ (10 hours) has been obtained AND passed and then I am ABLE to start the new QUEST/CD ... WITHOUT RELOADING the game or WITHOUT closing my browser and then restarting my browser. You can see in my PIX below that the 3rd QUEST was GREY because the 20 HOUR timer was not reached. When the 20 HOUR timer was reached the 3rd QUEST turned light brown to indicate the 20 HOUR timer was reached, however, I did not RESTART my browser ... I just kept opening and closing the QUEST window until the 3rd QUEST turned light brown.

How come the COLLECTING of FARM CASH ($1 or $2) when completing the required number of QUESTs/CDs does not work in a similar way?

SUCH AS --->>>>
If I open the QUEST/CQ window to collect my FARM CASH and it is too soon (less than 7 days has been reached since I started my first QUEST/CQ) ... if I close the window and reopen the window AND I have also met the 7 day requirement this time I open the QUEST/CQ window ... I SHOULD be able to collect my FARM CASH ($1 or $2) ... but instead I get the ERRONEOUS 'NOT ENOUGH QUESTs (CQs) HAVE BEEN COMPLETED' error message. I SHOULD be able to just keep opening and closing the QUEST window until the 'CLAIM FARMCASH' button in the lower right hand corner of the QUEST window turns light blue from black when I have met the 7 day time requirement to collect my FARM CASH ($1 or $2) ... rather than having to close my browser and reopen my browser so that I can collect my FARM CASH ($1 or $2).

Starting a NEW QUEST/CQ does not REQUIRE me to close my browser and restart my browser when I am on my farm and I have met the requirements to start a NEW QUEST/CQ ... so why do I have to closer my browser and restart my browser to collect my FARM CASH ($1 or $2)? Both of these operations {Starting a NEW QUEST/CQ; Collecting my FARM CASH ($1 or $2)} should FUNCTION/OPERATE the same, no???

[ccheney]

I have to say I am becoming extremely annoyed to be done out the ability to enjoy either the co-operative or the normal quests due to the fact that in the past week most of those quests have been CODED for facilities that cost FC.

Please do not try to tell me this is random.... too many to be random. Too much greed requiring players to spend money. I'm a pensioner.. I have more important things to spend my money on. :mad:

I had a quest recently that required four FC facilities to complete the quest . That required spending 140 FC. I let it lapse. I can see requiring one or maybe two FC facilities for one quest but not four.

Another problem I have is not one of my co-op quests matches or even comes close to what my neighbors are doing so there have been at least three this week that have lapsed because I couldn't buy the ingredients nor could I ask for them because I either had no help notes or not enough notes. This is unfair. How can you complete quests if you don't have reasonable access to what you need?

[Aussie Rae]

Quest: a long and difficult effort to find or do something. Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary
If they were easy for everyone, and required no effort, they would just be called a fc handout..

[ccheney]

I get that. All I am saying is we should have a fair chance of getting the items we need and when none of your neighbors are doing the same quests or any quests that use any of the items you need nor can you ask for help to get the needed items because you have 1 help note and 5 needed items that is not a fair chance.

[Taz D]

I get that. All I am saying is we should have a fair chance of getting the items we need and when none of your neighbors are doing the same quests or any quests that use any of the items you need nor can you ask for help to get the needed items because you have 1 help note and 5 needed items that is not a fair chance.
Hi ccheney,
You also have another resource in the Social section in the Co-operative Quests - Help With Buying Item. Very rarely do I find a neighbor doingthe same quest, but I do find most common items in other quests from them. When I can't find the necessary item from them then I go to the thread in social to try to find it. There are also co-op quest groups in Facebook that you can join and find items through those too.
Remember that a quest is not like a just filling your facilities in the facility manager. It goes from the very first steps of growing/harvesting crops, trees or flowers needed all the way through to the last step of producing the item or loading the item in a service. That is why they can be hard because of the time required to do them or not having the facilities you need to complete them.

[ccheney]

If you read my post I said there are times I need 5 items and get one help note.

[Taz D]

If you read my post I said there are times I need 5 items and get one help note.
Hi ccheney,
You will never get enough help notes to get everything. It has never been planned for you to be able to get all of the steps with help notes. You do not need a help note to be able to use the forum thread to go to someone's link in that thread and buy an item you need from them. You will pay a higher price than you would from a neighbor, but it is a way to get those items you can't get from your neighbors.

[cbl456]

Would you please fix the known bug of the time delay when collecting FC for the quests. Every week when I collect my FC, it gets delayed for approx 3-4 minutes. A couple of weeks ago, I was able to change my collection date to Sundays at 8:30; Today I should have collected at 8:47 and wasn't able to collect until 8:51. Please fix this known bug. Thanks

[Taz D]

Would you please fix the known bug of the time delay when collecting FC for the quests. Every week when I collect my FC, it gets delayed for approx 3-4 minutes. A couple of weeks ago, I was able to change my collection date to Sundays at 8:30; Today I should have collected at 8:47 and wasn't able to collect until 8:51. Please fix this known bug. Thanks
Hi cbl,
I moved your post to the feedback thread about quests as this is not a suggestion.

[JbarLFarms]

I get that. All I am saying is we should have a fair chance of getting the items we need and when none of your neighbors are doing the same quests or any quests that use any of the items you need nor can you ask for help to get the needed items because you have 1 help note and 5 needed items that is not a fair chance.

I belong to a couple of the FT co-op bonus groups on Facebook and it really helps to get the items you need if your neighbors don't have them. The only way I've not been able to complete a quest is if I don't have the facility to finish the final step. Just a thought. Good luck.

[carlvogel]

Yes I do have to agree with the end process if we do not have the facility to finish then we should be able to work on a farm that has the facility in order to get the quest completed.

[The Duck]

I had eight quests completed with one quest in the chart at 6days, 23hours 58minutes when the time to claim 2 FarmCash completed, i.e., 7 days had passed. Hitting the "claim reward" button returned "not enough quests completed", not even giving credit for three completed quests. Conclusion - this is one of the most expensive games you can play. Slashkey will do everything in its power to force you to pull out the old credit card and buy FarmCash. They would certainly win the "Biggest Rip-off" award if there was one for on-line games.

The Duck

[Taz D]

I had eight quests completed with one quest in the chart at 6days, 58 minutes when the time to claim 2 FarmCash completed, i.e., 7 days had passed. Hitting the "claim reward" button returned "not enough quests completed", not even giving credit for three completed quests. Conclusion - this is one of the most expensive games you can play. Slashkey will do everything in its power to force you to pull out the old credit card and buy FarmCash. They would certainly win the "Biggest Rip-off" award if there was one for on-line games.

The Duck
Hi The Duck,
I moved your post to the quests feedback thread. This happens when you are sitting waiting for the time to be up for collecting your FC for the quests. The only thing you can do is close your farms and then reopen to collect.

[kittenkatter]

:p Am I imagining this or is it really a problem? The last 3 coop quests that involved fruit died a slow death of starvation. A three step quest requiring both grapes and raisins had no chance, because unless someone had grapes, there will be no raisins, either. With only one sticky note, it was doomed from the start. There never seems to be enough fruit available to finish. Now another one has come up. With so many different fruits needed for this one fruit cocktail quest, it seems inevitable that this one will bite the dust, too. That will be four in a row. I have found purple grapes only once in three weeks. Working steadily I used to be able to get two farm cash most weeks, but not for the last few times. Quest #13 is almost certain to be one with fruit.

[Aussie Rae]

:p Am I imagining this or is it really a problem? The last 3 coop quests that involved fruit died a slow death of starvation. A three step quest requiring both grapes and raisins had no chance, because unless someone had grapes, there will be no raisins, either. With only one sticky note, it was doomed from the start. There never seems to be enough fruit available to finish. Now another one has come up. With so many different fruits needed for this one fruit cocktail quest, it seems inevitable that this one will bite the dust, too. That will be four in a row. I have found purple grapes only once in three weeks. Working steadily I used to be able to get two farm cash most weeks, but not for the last few times. Quest #13 is almost certain to be one with fruit.

left messages on your farm with links where you can get Cherries, Peaches and Pineapples... it pays not to use your yellow stickers until the last minute or if you have the same number of items needed as you have stickers.

[Taz D]

:p Am I imagining this or is it really a problem? The last 3 coop quests that involved fruit died a slow death of starvation. A three step quest requiring both grapes and raisins had no chance, because unless someone had grapes, there will be no raisins, either. With only one sticky note, it was doomed from the start. There never seems to be enough fruit available to finish. Now another one has come up. With so many different fruits needed for this one fruit cocktail quest, it seems inevitable that this one will bite the dust, too. That will be four in a row. I have found purple grapes only once in three weeks. Working steadily I used to be able to get two farm cash most weeks, but not for the last few times. Quest #13 is almost certain to be one with fruit.
Hi kittenklatter,
I have moved your post to the General Feedback section thread for Feedback on Quests.

[lillyobrien]

Quest lifelines need to be changed so that we don't have to be forced to sit for 7 days waiting for one we can not finish to expire before we get another life line.I refuse to pay any more real money to buy facilities so holding that over my head won't work!

[Taz D]

Quest lifelines need to be changed so that we don't have to be forced to sit for 7 days waiting for one we can not finish to expire before we get another life line.I refuse to pay any more real money to buy facilities so holding that over my head won't work!
Hi lillyobrien,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread about Quests, because you are not posting a question or a specific problem. If you wish to make a suggestion about the quests please post it in the Suggestions section. You can not start a new thread there, but you can reply to a thread that fits your suggestion.

[olded]

I have been playing the quest for quite a while. No it seems that in order to finish I need to BUY the facilities to finish the quest and it has gotte quite expensive, therefor I guess I will have to quit the quest section of farmtown and perhaps just stop playing all of it.
Very disapointing this is the way for "farmtown" to make money.

Ed Smith

[Taz D]

I have been playing the quest for quite a while. No it seems that in order to finish I need to BUY the facilities to finish the quest and it has gotte quite expensive, therefor I guess I will have to quit the quest section of farmtown and perhaps just stop playing all of it.
Very disapointing this is the way for "farmtown" to make money.

Ed Smith
Hi Ed,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread about Feedback on Quests since you are not asking a question about quests.
I will tell you that the quests are randomly assigned and you have just as much chance of getting a quest requiring coin facilities as you do to get one requiring a farm cash facility. And also just as much chance to get one requiring facilities you own as for facilities you don't own.
When quests are assigned the quest generator does not look to see what facilities you have. The quest manager only looks to see if you have the facility needed once the quest has been assigned.

[ccheney]

Rather then blindly accepting a quest I'd like to be able to know if nothing else what facilities we will need to complete it before we accept it. It's a waste of time to accept a quest only to find out we don't have the facilities necessary to complete it and then have it sit for days until it expires.

[marymarcel]

Rather then blindly accepting a quest I'd like to be able to know if nothing else what facilities we will need to complete it before we accept it. It's a waste of time to accept a quest only to find out we don't have the facilities necessary to complete it and then have it sit for days until it expires.

Hi ccheney:)

If you want to make a suggestion please post it in our Suggestion Section, where the developers can read it.

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

Here is the link to Suggestions:

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

[ZachariaW]

This is annoying, yesterday I had 13 points but I couldn't collect. Today I lost one, was back to 12 points, solved a quest but again lost 1 point during the two hours waiting for the quest which I thought would earn me 13 points.

It is already not possible to earn FC once you reached level 775, now the quests are so restrictive too. I guess I stop playing. No rewards for playing.

No need to answer, just venting my disappointment.

[Taz D]

This is annoying, yesterday I had 13 points but I couldn't collect. Today I lost one, was back to 12 points, solved a quest but again lost 1 point during the two hours waiting for the quest which I thought would earn me 13 points.

It is already not possible to earn FC once you reached level 775, now the quests are so restrictive too. I guess I stop playing. No rewards for playing.

No need to answer, just venting my disappointment.
Hi ZachariaW,
I have moved your post to the general feedback thread about Feedback on Quests, since as you say you are venting.
I will say this that the quests have not changed in difficulty except to add quests for the new facilities each month. The time frame for getting the required number of quests has always been exactly 7 days. If a quest is completed outside of the last 7 days exactly it won't count and that hasn't changed either.
You can open up to 17 co-op quests a week if you opened one every 10 hours. Even if you open only 2 a day that is 14 quests.
If you have quests that are going to carry over then try not starting the last step on those until the next day as that will give you a buffer time so you don't lose quests before your collection time.

[RichieRoo]

im trying to build my farm cash notes up by doing quest but im getting very annoyed that i cant complete quest due to not having the FC facilities please consider doing all quests without having to use FC facilities im top level and cannot get anymore notes and i cannot afford to buy FC so quests are my last option until i get half way through a quest to find i cannot finish its wasting my time

[Taz D]

im trying to build my farm cash notes up by doing quest but im getting very annoyed that i cant complete quest due to not having the FC facilities please consider doing all quests without having to use FC facilities im top level and cannot get anymore notes and i cannot afford to buy FC so quests are my last option until i get half way through a quest to find i cannot finish its wasting my time
Hi RichieRoo,
I moved your post to the General Feedback thread about quests as your post is not a suggestion.

[tbirdcat]

Hey Taz.... I don't know what happened to my post here about my Alfalfa missing in the light blue box quest. I bought it from a fellow neighbor Sunday or Monday ( I don't remember when but it was in the post I a few days ago.. the next day it was gone.. I only have 2 sticky notes for that particular quest and I bought the alfalfa from a neighbor and placed a sticky on the silage container... I only have 1 sticky note left and needed that for the final step in the quest.. but now that my alfalfa is missing I cannot finish the quest because no one else has had that particular quest.. I would like my alfalfa back so I can finish the quest....thanks for any help you can give me....

[marymarcel]

Hey Taz.... I don't know what happened to my post here about my Alfalfa missing in the light blue box quest. I bought it from a fellow neighbor Sunday or Monday ( I don't remember when but it was in the post I a few days ago.. the next day it was gone.. I only have 2 sticky notes for that particular quest and I bought the alfalfa from a neighbor and placed a sticky on the silage container... I only have 1 sticky note left and needed that for the final step in the quest.. but now that my alfalfa is missing I cannot finish the quest because no one else has had that particular quest.. I would like my alfalfa back so I can finish the quest....thanks for any help you can give me....

Hi tbirdcat:)

Taz moved your post to the thread about Cooperative quests in the Help & Support section and answered you.

You find it in the following link:

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6114342#post6114342

[jfedwards]

what exactly does it mean by the traders thing that allows u to trade with other farmers for an item u need to do a quest? how do u trade?

[Tiger]

what exactly does it mean by the traders thing that allows u to trade with other farmers for an item u need to do a quest? how do u trade?

Hi Jfedwards,

The Trader's lifeline allows you to buy from another farmer. You ask them to sell you something and they click on your avatar and choose the option "sell products to XXX" It can not be used to buy products made in facilities just basic items. More details and all the lifelines are explained in the Game Guide >>
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5157794#post5157794

[Aussie Rae]

ok, now I am officially giving up on the NCC.. its says I have 1 of each of this weeks facilities when in fact I have 2 of each. Done the memcache, cleared browser cache, download etc..

[Taz D]

ok, now I am officially giving up on the NCC.. its says I have 1 of each of this weeks facilities when in fact I have 2 of each. Done the memcache, cleared browser cache, download etc..
Hi Aussie Rae,
Instead of giving up, how about giving me a link to your farm so I can look and try to fix it? The clearings you can do will not fix this.
Just incase you need instruction for getting the link. Going to your farm and copying the address does not work as that is a generic link that takes us to our own farms. The automatic linking does not work either so you will have to create one and paste it here in a reply. Please follow the instructions on how to do that are in the following link:
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=579554

EDIT: I have run the clean NCC contest Info for you. Please close your farms, reopen and check again.

[Aussie Rae]

Thank you Taz, have just checked and all is fine now, so whatever you did worked, :) MUCH APPRECIATED, ♥

[Jean's Farm]

If you have 14 minutes till a quest expires and you start it but it takes an hour to finish it......do you still loose the quest??? TY!!!

[Taz D]

If you have 14 minutes till a quest expires and you start it but it takes an hour to finish it......do you still loose the quest??? TY!!!
Hi Jean,
Can't say either way for sure. You will just have to wait and see what happens.

[columbonet]

Why does it issue solo quests needing locked factories?

[LazyMare]

Why does it issue solo quests needing locked factories?

Hi Columbonet

The quests are generated at random and don't look at which factories you do or don't own beforehand
For more info please see this chapter of the Game Guide :)
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=489690

[Jean's Farm]

If you have 14 minutes till a quest expires and you start it but it takes an hour to finish it......do you still loose the quest??? TY!!!

Hi Jean,
Can't say either way for sure. You will just have to wait and see what happens.

Hi Taz.......FYI....it let me finish the quest and collect the coins. So I guess as long as you start the last step before time runs out you are good!!! TY!!!

[columbonet]

Hi Columbonet

The quests are generated at random and don't look at which factories you do or don't own beforehand
For more info please see this chapter of the Game Guide :)
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=489690

I guess I was confused because it usually shows a pic of the needed facility in the item box. It showed the pic of the final facility (which I had), but not the pre-facility, so I wasn't aware I needed it until that step came up. This caused me to waste a lifeline, which in turn caused me to miss my 8th and final quest.

[Aussie Rae]

I guess I was confused because it usually shows a pic of the needed facility in the item box. It showed the pic of the final facility (which I had), but not the pre-facility, so I wasn't aware I needed it until that step came up. This caused me to waste a lifeline, which in turn caused me to miss my 8th and final quest.

If you click on the picture in a quest, it will show you which facility etc you need.

[mandyd1919]

I enjoy doing quests . But why are quests involving paying for facilities... Im trying to level up and get money not have to pay all the time for farm cash. its getting boring doing this.

[LazyMare]

I enjoy doing quests . But why are quests involving paying for facilities... Im trying to level up and get money not have to pay all the time for farm cash. its getting boring doing this.

Hi Mandy D
The quests are generated at random and don't look to see which facilities you do or don't own

[MissWatusi]

I have the employee lifeline (the one with the scythe) and I need blueberries. Someone hired me to harvest their blueberries. However, the blueberry portion of the quest was not checked off as completed. I have plenty of blueberries in storage. What am I doing wrong?

[LazyMare]

I have the employee lifeline (the one with the scythe) and I need blueberries. Someone hired me to harvest their blueberries. However, the blueberry portion of the quest was not checked off as completed. I have plenty of blueberries in storage. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Miss Watusi

Employees only get 10% of what they harvest so to get 1 blueberry you would need to harvest a minimum of 10 unfertilised blueberries, or a minimum of 5 fertilised blueberries.
Sometimes a few just don't register so it's worth using the single harvest tool.
For the quests we have to complete each step, regardless of what we already have stored

Please run memcache:
https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached
then reload your farm before getting a rehire to harvest blueberries

If it still doesn't work please provide a link to your farms
Instructions on how to are here: http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=590390

[MissWatusi]

Yep, that's my problem. Thanks for your quick response. Glad to have that information.

[LazyMare]

Yep, that's my problem. Thanks for your quick response. Glad to have that information.

You're very welcome

[jeemersmom]

22 minutes late in claiming my $2 and I loose half of it. This is why I said in a previous post that one should have more than 13 quests completed just in case the deadline is missed by a few minutes. :confused::confused::confused::mad::mad:

[Taz D]

22 minutes late in claiming my $2 and I loose half of it. This is why I said in a previous post that one should have more than 13 quests completed just in case the deadline is missed by a few minutes. :confused::confused::confused::mad::mad:
Hi jeemersmom,
You can also delay completing the last step of those quests you are holding over until the next day and then youy will have a buffer of time if you are late.

[leighwj1960]

22 minutes late in claiming my $2 and I loose half of it. This is why I said in a previous post that one should have more than 13 quests completed just in case the deadline is missed by a few minutes. :confused::confused::confused::mad::mad:

This is why I never complete my first quest of the week until 3 - 5 days AFTER collecting for the previous week. I typically wait until I either have 5 open quests or one of the quests is about to expire.

[tmoulder]

To Anyone that will listen --

i do one quest a day. In the last four days i have "randomly" gotten request for products that I cannot produce or load 75% of the time -- 3 out of 4. I have over 90% of the facilities that i could possibly own. how is it that quests can keep coming up for items in that small 10% that i do not own?

okay, i feel better now, Rant off.

Tom Moulder

[looby_lou]

Why oh Why oh Why.....I love doing quests but hate that sometimes it issues me with a quest I cannot complete due to not having that facility....Farmtown Cash is expensive I save for facilities by doing quests.....wish Farmtown would say release 3 different quests per time so you have the choice, anything really at this moment I am busy making something for an Argentinian restaurant that I do not own unless I buy it.....but was saving up for something else...this really tees me off:mad::mad::mad:

[Taz D]

Why oh Why oh Why.....I love doing quests but hate that sometimes it issues me with a quest I cannot complete due to not having that facility....Farmtown Cash is expensive I save for facilities by doing quests.....wish Farmtown would say release 3 different quests per time so you have the choice, anything really at this moment I am busy making something for an Argentinian restaurant that I do not own unless I buy it.....but was saving up for something else...this really tees me off:mad::mad::mad:
Hi looby_lou,
I have moved your post to the General Feedback thread about quests, as you do not havea question or problem about specific quests. If you want to make a suggestion about the quests please post it in the Suggestions section. You cannot start a new thread there, but you can reply to one that fits your suggestion.

[looby_lou]

as I work stupid hours and it seems nearly all my neighbours dont play anymore having difficulty with other quests and my boat, as yes you guessed it they dont play anymore so have to remove people or not bother with those, I am hoping to gain 1 fc this week but have had a couple of weeks when I managed to gain 2....just think I need some neighbours that actually play

[Tiger]

as I work stupid hours and it seems nearly all my neighbours dont play anymore having difficulty with other quests and my boat, as yes you guessed it they dont play anymore so have to remove people or not bother with those, I am hoping to gain 1 fc this week but have had a couple of weeks when I managed to gain 2....just think I need some neighbours that actually play

Hi Looby_lou,

I moved your post to feedback for quests as you are not requiring help with a problem in the game. All i can suggest is perhaps you get some new neighbours that are willing to do the quests and also the ships.

We have an area in the social section where people that are looking for neighbours post. You may want to send some of those a request or post your own request for neighbours. Here's the link to that section >>
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=391198

[supertrucker]

i am not happy... i had 4 quests completed, patiently waiting for a few days so i could claim my farmcash, and THEN the fiasco with the 'New Year' happened - my quest counter showed all zero's for a day or 3, despite it also knowing that i had 4 completed... when the counter registered the 4 quests i had done, there was still time to wait - not sure why though - but while i was waiting, 3 of the 4 quests expired - that is, they no longer counted towards any reward... now, since the 'glitch' wasn't the fault of any user, what is being done for all those farmers who completed quests - either type - only to not be able to collect the rewards from them? if something had gone wrong on this end, fine - that's not slashkey's fault, it sucks to be me; but this wasn't the result of something on this end... what are they gonna do about it?

[Taz D]

i am not happy... i had 4 quests completed, patiently waiting for a few days so i could claim my farmcash, and THEN the fiasco with the 'New Year' happened - my quest counter showed all zero's for a day or 3, despite it also knowing that i had 4 completed... when the counter registered the 4 quests i had done, there was still time to wait - not sure why though - but while i was waiting, 3 of the 4 quests expired - that is, they no longer counted towards any reward... now, since the 'glitch' wasn't the fault of any user, what is being done for all those farmers who completed quests - either type - only to not be able to collect the rewards from them? if something had gone wrong on this end, fine - that's not slashkey's fault, it sucks to be me; but this wasn't the result of something on this end... what are they gonna do about it?
Hi Supertrucker,
If you feel that this is the case then you need to contact Support about it. To contact Support click on the link below, fill out the form and submit it. Be patient as it can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days for them to respond to you depending on how many tickets they have ahead of yours.
http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/settings2/support/
You will receive an automatic response email when you submit your ticket. That email will have your ticket number and a link for you to check the status of your ticket, so please do not delete that email. If you do not see the email then check your spam folder as sometimes those emails get classified as spam.

[Histotech]

How much time do we have to collect for the Quests once the 7 day window is open?

[marymarcel]

How much time do we have to collect for the Quests once the 7 day window is open?

Hi Histotech:)

When the Collect farmcash button turns blue, then you are able to get your cash.

You can get the cash at the exact moment the button turns blue or you can wait. It depends on when you completed the first quest for that week.

Let me give you an example: If you collected your cash on Tuesday at 9:00 am and you completed the first quest for the new week that same day at 11:00 am then the next week the button will turn blue at 9:00 am and you will have 2 hours to collect your farmcash before the first quest drops off the chart in 2 hours.

The blue button remains blue until you collect or till you have less than 3 quests for regular quests or less than 4 quests for cooperative quests.

[Histotech]

I enjoy the Co Op Quests but find it unreasonable that completing 4 gets you 1 Farm Cash, then to get one more dollar in FC, you have to complete 13! Way more than double. Isn't that being unreasonable with us? Especially, when it costs so much to buy anything at the Store. Give us a break. 8 or 9 Quests would be a lot friendlier. Most end up buying additional FC anyway. Would it really hurt you financially to compromise here?

[Allykat]

hi could we please have the remaining time left for quests not just when they were finished. It would be easier.

[Taz D]

hi could we please have the remaining time left for quests not just when they were finished. It would be easier.
Hi Allykat,
Please post your suggestion in the Suggestions section where the dewvelopers will see it with all the other suggestions about quests. You can not start a new thread in that section, but you can reply to the one that fits your suggestion.

[princessboo06]

I love quests! But I have a question regarding Personal Quests. I have the ability to use a life line (preserver) 1: harvest tool, meaning I can go and harvest what I need by getting hired to harvest it, 2: Buy, so I can go to market and buy items I need. 3: The PRESENT??? or gift box? What is that, you can't buy or harvest what you need. It says get from friends or receive as a gift from neighbors. BUT none of what I need can be given as a gift. For instance I needed coconut. NOT a tree, just coconuts. Not an option as a gift. Can we consider expanding the gifts to products we need?

[marymarcel]

I love quests! But I have a question regarding Personal Quests. I have the ability to use a life line (preserver) 1: harvest tool, meaning I can go and harvest what I need by getting hired to harvest it, 2: Buy, so I can go to market and buy items I need. 3: The PRESENT??? or gift box? What is that, you can't buy or harvest what you need. It says get from friends or receive as a gift from neighbors. BUT none of what I need can be given as a gift. For instance I needed coconut. NOT a tree, just coconuts. Not an option as a gift. Can we consider expanding the gifts to products we need?

Hi princessboo06 :)

The gift lifeline allows you to request for gifts or ingredients and your friends can sent them, once they are in your red gift box you have to store them to count into your quest. You can ask for them using a factory that uses that ingredient to make one of its products.

For example, if you need coconuts, you can open the Soft Drink factory and then click in the + icon for "coconut water" and ask for ingredients. Your friends will send them to you, you will see them in your gift box and you have to store them.

[SeaJay]

Hi princessboo06 :)

The gift lifeline allows you to request for gifts or ingredients and your friends can sent them, once they are in your red gift box you have to store them to count into your quest. You can ask for them using a factory that uses that ingredient to make one of its products.

For example, if you need coconuts, you can open the Soft Drink factory and then click in the + icon for "coconut water" and ask for ingredients. Your friends will send them to you, you will see them in your gift box and you have to store them.

Sweet! I just learned something. Now I understand why people request such random things to be sent to them. Thanks!

[Alexandra_J]

Hi Peeps, question for you all. Hope you'll understand what i am trying to figure out. I know Farm Town is 5 hours behind England. But what I want to know what State of America you are in for the future just in case someone asks me and they aren't registered to here, or not sure where to look etc. I always thought that you are in California but that doesn't seem to be the case according to my mobile phone. I know you are EST I believe too right?? Then again I've got California at 13:29 and Cornwall, UK at 18:29 so that is 5 hours. Even I'm confused now lol.

[Tiger]

Hi Peeps, question for you all. Hope you'll understand what i am trying to figure out. I know Farm Town is 5 hours behind England. But what I want to know what State of America you are in for the future just in case someone asks me and they aren't registered to here, or not sure where to look etc. I always thought that you are in California but that doesn't seem to be the case according to my mobile phone. I know you are EST I believe too right?? Then again I've got California at 13:29 and Cornwall, UK at 18:29 so that is 5 hours. Even I'm confused now lol.

Hi Cornish Lil Princess,

The devs are in Miami, Florida. The game servers are in Dallas, Texas.

[Alexandra_J]

Hi Cornish Lil Princess,

The devs are in Miami, Florida. The game servers are in Dallas, Texas.

Thanks Tiger, I've put my phone setting to Miami now instead of California.

[Tiger]

Thanks Tiger, I've put my phone setting to Miami now instead of California.

you are welcome :)

[dorissau]

I just had the weirdest thing happen.. !! I had a yellow stickie on a couple items in my co-quests and when I checked, there is a photo of some woman, identified only as "a friend" who sold them to me... I couldn't place her, so looked all through my neighbors.. not there.. then looked all through ALL the 400 FT friends and she's NOT THERE!!! How could someone I do not know, a FT stranger, sell me stuff in my quests???

[marymarcel]

I just had the weirdest thing happen.. !! I had a yellow stickie on a couple items in my co-quests and when I checked, there is a photo of some woman, identified only as "a friend" who sold them to me... I couldn't place her, so looked all through my neighbors.. not there.. then looked all through ALL the 400 FT friends and she's NOT THERE!!! How could someone I do not know, a FT stranger, sell me stuff in my quests???

Hi dorissau :)

Perhaps she is not your friend/neighbor up now, possible you deleted her, but she has you as neighbor so she is able to sell you products.

This same thing happens when you receive a ship from a Friend.

[dorissau]

Ok Mary... thanks. It's still creepy! HA

[marymarcel]

Ok Mary... thanks. It's still creepy! HA

Your are welcome dorissau :)

[Jean's Farm]

I just had the weirdest thing happen.. !! I had a yellow stickie on a couple items in my co-quests and when I checked, there is a photo of some woman, identified only as "a friend" who sold them to me... I couldn't place her, so looked all through my neighbors.. not there.. then looked all through ALL the 400 FT friends and she's NOT THERE!!! How could someone I do not know, a FT stranger, sell me stuff in my quests???

Hi dorissau :)

Perhaps she is not your friend/neighbor up now, possible you deleted her, but she has you as neighbor so she is able to sell you products.

This same thing happens when you receive a ship from a Friend.

It's the same as posting a bonus.....anyone who plays can click on the bonus even if they are not a FB friend of yours. There are groups that have FB pages that will match people who need help with the co-op quests. They get the link to your farm from one of your FB friends and FT neighbor and they can sell you stuff you need and they can buy what they need for their quests from you. They pay you premium prices for what they buy from you, tho. And if you buy from them for your quest you pay premium prices for what you buy.

[marymarcel]

It's the same as posting a bonus.....anyone who plays can click on the bonus even if they are not a FB friend of yours. There are groups that have FB pages that will match people who need help with the co-op quests. They get the link to your farm from one of your FB friends and FT neighbor and they can sell you stuff you need and they can buy what they need for their quests from you. They pay you premium prices for what they buy from you, tho. And if you buy from them for your quest you pay premium prices for what you buy.

Hi Jean :)

I'm sorry but that is not correct.

A stranger only can buy from you, paying more coins, but they cant sell products to you for coop. quests.

Only friends or neighbors are able to sell you products for your coop. quests.

[cgsfarm]

why, when one has an ordering station attached to at semi, do we still have to wait an hour, rather than 30 minutes for that part of the quest to be completed.

[Taz D]

why, when one has an ordering station attached to at semi, do we still have to wait an hour, rather than 30 minutes for that part of the quest to be completed.
Hi cgsfarm,
Only reason I can say that happens is because the semi is normally an hour and the quest part of the program only looks to make sure you have that and does not look for the ordering station.

[Jean's Farm]

Hi Jean :)

I'm sorry but that is not correct.

A stranger only can buy from you, paying more coins, but they cant sell products to you for coop. quests.

Only friends or neighbors are able to sell you products for your coop. quests.

Sorry, my mistake, marymarcel. :)

[marymarcel]

Sorry, my mistake, marymarcel. :)


No problem Jean :)

It is true about bonuses or ingredients that can be sent by anyone no matter if they are friends or not. :)

[Auntie Al]

I don't know if this has been asked, didn't have time to read through 101 pages, but is it possible to get a timer that shows exactly when our 7 days of the quest period ends?
Does the clock start when we begin the first quest of a new 7 day period or when it ends? Would be nice to have a timer.

[Taz D]

I don't know if this has been asked, didn't have time to read through 101 pages, but is it possible to get a timer that shows exactly when our 7 days of the quest period ends?
Does the clock start when we begin the first quest of a new 7 day period or when it ends? Would be nice to have a timer.
Hi Auntie Al,
Please post your suggestions in the Suggestion section where they will be grouped with other suggestions about the same subject and not in General Feedback. You can not start a new thread there but you can reply to one that fits your suggestion.

What you are asking is not really possible. The button will turn blue exactly 7 days after the last time you collected. It will then stay blue until you collect again or until you get down to less than 3 quests completed and still on the chart.
Quests are good for collecting the farm cash for exactly 7 days to the second after the last step is completed.

[tazzie joan]

Hi, I am so upset about how hard I try to earn 2 FC for 8 quests in 7 days. I went to claim my 2 FC reward last night to be told ( on a pop up) I need to wait for a couple of hours until my 7 days are up. So I have to wait until the morning being in Australia and it was too late to stay up, to find out that I miss 8 quests in 7 days reward and it has gone back to 5. Can that be corrected as it is really not fair. Regards, Joan

[Taz D]

Hi, I am so upset about how hard I try to earn 2 FC for 8 quests in 7 days. I went to claim my 2 FC reward last night to be told ( on a pop up) I need to wait for a couple of hours until my 7 days are up. So I have to wait until the morning being in Australia and it was too late to stay up, to find out that I miss 8 quests in 7 days reward and it has gone back to 5. Can that be corrected as it is really not fair. Regards, Joan
Hi Joan,
I have moved your post to the General Feedback subject thread for feedback on quests. Quests are only good for the FC collection for 7 days exactly to the second. When you go beyond that then that quests is no longer counted.
This is why we recommend that you wait at least a day after you collect before completing the last step of any quests you are holding over to the next week.

[tazzie joan]

Thank you TAZ D, it is a bit hard when it won't let you though :( I had the 8 there but it said that the 7 days weren't up and try accept after a couple of hours ( not sure exactly how long it said :(

[Taz D]

Thank you TAZ D, it is a bit hard when it won't let you though :( I had the 8 there but it said that the 7 days weren't up and try accept after a couple of hours ( not sure exactly how long it said :(
Hi tazzie joan,
But it looks to me like you waited a lot longer since you have yet to collect. Your time to collect would have been at 1:00 AM eastern time on Monday March 20th. Your oldest quest had 8 more hours after that time before it was too old. I don't know what the time difference is for you.
It said however many more hours before you could collect because you cannot collect again until at least 7 days exactly to the second after the last time you collected. That is why you have to wait.

[tazzie joan]

It is 3.15 pm Thursday 23rd March right now, I had just finished my 8th quest and went to collect ( within my 7 days), but it said my 7 days weren't up to try again in a couple of hours which was in the middle of the night when i was asleep. So I went to claim it this morning and I had lost it. But it seems that that didn't happen , maybe a glitch ?

[Taz D]

It is 3.15 pm Thursday 23rd March right now, I had just finished my 8th quest and went to collect ( within my 7 days), but it said my 7 days weren't up to try again in a couple of hours which was in the middle of the night when i was asleep. So I went to claim it this morning and I had lost it. But it seems that that didn't happen , maybe a glitch ?
Hi tazzy joan,
Unless you have more than one farm set, the one I looked at that is registered here your collection time should have been 4:01 PM Tuesday March 21st your time. You last collected on Tuesday March 14th at 4:01 PM. That is according to the time you just gave me.

[tazzie joan]

no worries TAZ D, I don't understand, so I will just leave it I think, had no trouble before now lol. I just don't know how to tell when my 7 days are up sorry. Thank you so much :)

[Taz D]

no worries TAZ D, I don't understand, so I will just leave it I think, had no trouble before now lol. I just don't know how to tell when my 7 days are up sorry. Thank you so much :)
Hi tazzie joan,
Next time you collect, write down the date and time you did so. Then you will know that exactly at the same time 7 days later will be the earliest you will be able to collect again.
Also if you will not start the last step of any quests you are holding over until at least a day after you have collected then you won't lose quests because you will have extra time if you need it to complete your quests.

[the_southern_peach]

Please allow me to grumble just a little bit. I enjoy doing both the regular quests and the cooperative quests. However, lately it seems that at least half the quests require the final step to be taken in a facility that i do not already own, and that requires FC to purchase. Right now I have 2 regular quests that are almost complete but both require a FC facility that I don't own to finish the quest. I have let both reqular quests and co-op quests expire because of this.

I do own a kazillion other facilities...do you guys really need to use quests to prod me into buying more FC facilities?

[Taz D]

Please allow me to grumble just a little bit. I enjoy doing both the regular quests and the cooperative quests. However, lately it seems that at least half the quests require the final step to be taken in a facility that i do not already own, and that requires FC to purchase. Right now I have 2 regular quests that are almost complete but both require a FC facility that I don't own to finish the quest. I have let both reqular quests and co-op quests expire because of this.

I do own a kazillion other facilities...do you guys really need to use quests to prod me into buying more FC facilities?
Hi the southern peach,
I am sorry, but the quests for both types are assigned randomly and they do not look to see what facilities you own.

[Lene Bay]

I give up the quests because I always get something I can't finish as I don't have the correct facility (as I can't afford to buy it).

[ossilady]

Very disappointed! Started NEW Quest Monday, June 5. It was a two item quest, I had one item ready to harvest (corn). then clicked on last item to finish (in 1 hour), when i went back and clicked on it, I was told that the Quest was more than 7 days old and I would not get nothing!! I RECEIVED THIS QUEST THIS MORNING! SO ANGRY!

[Tiger]

Very disappointed! Started NEW Quest Monday, June 5. It was a two item quest, I had one item ready to harvest (corn). then clicked on last item to finish (in 1 hour), when i went back and clicked on it, I was told that the Quest was more than 7 days old and I would not get nothing!! I RECEIVED THIS QUEST THIS MORNING! SO ANGRY!

Hi ossilady,

Your 2 step quest for Make Grain Alcohol was completed on 2017-06-05 15:21:42 EST.
You collected your 2 FC for quests later that day at 2017-06-05 21:44:46 EST so that quest counted as part of last weeks quests. Not collecting the coins for a quest does not keep it for the next weeks quests, you need to not start the last step in order to hold it over for the following week.

[artbee]

I like the quest as I can get 1 or 2 farm town cash for own and cooperated ever 10 days.
Some are ones I don't have but many I do have.

[Hokiechip]

I give up the quests because I always get something I can't finish as I don't have the correct facility (as I can't afford to buy it).

I've been playing FT for years, but am tired of getting quests that require me to buy facilities that I don't own. Enough is enough. I'm done.

[ccheney]

I've been playing FT for years, but am tired of getting quests that require me to buy facilities that I don't own. Enough is enough. I'm done.

I have a total of five quests. Four regular and one co-op quest. Of them two regular quests and the one co-op quest I can't do because between them they require 4 FC facilities none of which I have. And they will all be sitting there taking up space for at up to the next 4-7 days.

[Stu3]

Useless Lifelines (This is a Quest i have and shows USELESS LL) There needs to be a way we can remove or alter these Lifelines

prntscr.com/fyxeoi
Non of these items shown can be helped with LL and the box i crosed out was done previously

[Taz D]

Useless Lifelines (This is a Quest i have and shows USELESS LL) There needs to be a way we can remove or alter these Lifelines

prntscr.com/fyxeoi
Non of these items shown can be helped with LL and the box i crosed out was done previously
Hi Stu,
I moved your post to the feedback thread about quests so I could answer you.
Your quest picture did not show up so I am not sure what quest you are talking about. Which one of your farm sets is this quest for? If we know that then we can look at the data concerning this quest.
Not all lifeline are going to work in every situation. And since they are assigned randomly you may get one that won't help.

[Granny T]

I have no idea if this is the proper place to put this but I hope so. I find it very annoying when I complete 13 quests in less than 7 days and have to wait 17 hours before I can collect the $2 farm cash. So I slept last night, missed the deadline and now I have to do another one to get the $2. My suggestion is to pay the cash as soon as the quests are complete.

[Taz D]

I have no idea if this is the proper place to put this but I hope so. I find it very annoying when I complete 13 quests in less than 7 days and have to wait 17 hours before I can collect the $2 farm cash. So I slept last night, missed the deadline and now I have to do another one to get the $2. My suggestion is to pay the cash as soon as the quests are complete.
Hi Granny T,
You need to put your suggestion in the Suggestions section where we gather all the suggestions about each subject area. This is the feedback section and not for suggestions.
You can't start a new thread there, but you can reply to one that fits your suggestion.

[Linda Marie]

The Quests are Fun .. If you have the Facility to pull off the final step .. For those of us with 0 Cash to invest in Game .. I still have a 3x3 seeder and am 820 .. With how long it takes to make a Farm $ The Big Tools are Just a Dream and Buying Facilities an impossible Dream .. LOL LOVE FARMTOWN

[ribbonsmom]

My problem is, I just finished all steps in a quest but the last on. I purchased the facility to finish the quest. Problem is it doesn't let me do this step, although I have all the ingredients. It just goes to a page that tells me what I need, but I have plenty of everything. THis is the second time this has happened to me, I lost out on one quest because of it. Please let me know what I can do.

[Taz D]

My problem is, I just finished all steps in a quest but the last on. I purchased the facility to finish the quest. Problem is it doesn't let me do this step, although I have all the ingredients. It just goes to a page that tells me what I need, but I have plenty of everything. THis is the second time this has happened to me, I lost out on one quest because of it. Please let me know what I can do.
Hi Ribbonsmom,
Please provide a link to your farms so we can check this. Going to your farm and copying the address does not work as that is a generic link that takes us to our own farms. The automatic linking does not work either so you will have to create one and paste it here in a reply. Please follow the instructions on how to do that are in the following link:
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=579554

You may have green checks in all the boxes, but may not have enough in your storage to start the step. What is it telling you that you need more of?

[Allykat]

Hi

One issue regarding quests that I hear about is that people aren't able to complete them in time. Often because they aren't able to purchase ingredients or facilities due to their level.

I am on level 850 so purchasing items is not such an issue although there are still a number of quests that I don't get to do.

While the point is it isn't supposed to be easy to complete them all in time and therefore is a challenge.

For those on lower levels at times it must be impossible. as they won't be able to purchase even the basics eg: crops, let alone facilities restricted by their level.

I would like to see the quests graduated so that those who are just starting out have a fair challenge not an impossible one.

Cheers

[Taz D]

Hi

One issue regarding quests that I hear about is that people aren't able to complete them in time. Often because they aren't able to purchase ingredients or facilities due to their level.

I am on level 850 so purchasing items is not such an issue although there are still a number of quests that I don't get to do.

While the point is it isn't supposed to be easy to complete them all in time and therefore is a challenge.

For those on lower levels at times it must be impossible. as they won't be able to purchase even the basics eg: crops, let alone facilities restricted by their level.

I would like to see the quests graduated so that those who are just starting out have a fair challenge not an impossible one.

Cheers
Hi Allykat,
If you wish to make a suggestion then you need to put your suggestion in the Suggestions section where we gather all the suggestions about each subject area for the developers. This is the feedback section and not for suggestions.
You can't start a new thread there, but you can reply to one that fits your suggestion.

[Allykat]

sorry tried to find the right place but it seems i got it wrong will copy and paste it in the right one

[ribbonsmom]

http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=1358033706&farm_ix=0
It does't tell me that I need anything just what all it calls for. and I have everything. Thanks

[Taz D]

http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=1358033706&farm_ix=0
It does't tell me that I need anything just what all it calls for. and I have everything. Thanks
Hi ribbonsmom,
Which type of quest is it and what is the quest for? Regular or co-operative?
You have several open in progress.
What happens when you click on the "Open" for that facility in the quest?

[ribbonsmom]

It is a regular quest. Produce 1 Arena Entrance. I have done all the steps. When I click one the factory step it opens up a page that tells me what all I need to produce this product. . 2 oak logs, 1 red ink, 1 yellow ink, and 1 blue ink. I have plenty of all. I purchased that facility and placed it on a farm. What should I do now. Like I said before, this is the second time this has happened to me. First time I let it slide, but I think there should be a solution. Thanks for your help. Jan

[Taz D]

It is a regular quest. Produce 1 Arena Entrance. I have done all the steps. When I click one the factory step it opens up a page that tells me what all I need to produce this product. . 2 oak logs, 1 red ink, 1 yellow ink, and 1 blue ink. I have plenty of all. I purchased that facility and placed it on a farm. What should I do now. Like I said before, this is the second time this has happened to me. First time I let it slide, but I think there should be a solution. Thanks for your help. Jan
Hi ribbonsmom,
From what I see in your data that quest you have 8 of 10 steps completed. You listed 2 oak logs. For that quest you need 4 oak logs not 2 ( I am sure you have the 4 logs)and then oak lumber. The oak lumber is made in the sawmill.
The reason you are seeing the ingredients listed for the product is because you do not have the "Open" button on the facility due to not having all the steps completed with a green check on them.

[ribbonsmom]

I do like doing quests! I don't mind buying facilities with coins if I don't have it. But right now I have 3 quests that are to the finishing point and all of them call for facilities that I don't have and costs farm cash. I think this is very unreasonable! I am trying to upgrade my tools, and they take a lot or fc. I think it would be nice if we would have a heads up as to what facilities are needed to finish that quest. At least if it takes farmcash! Please I am pretty disappointed about this. I have worked hard, and wasted time in getting these quests done. Pleas do something about this.

[knolan]

When I hover over a players profile pic during the quests the word (Deleted) is after every person's name...... Why is that? What is it for?