New Release -- April 18th, 2018

[Raul]

As part of the new requirements by Facebook, every 90 days you will have to re-authorize the Farmtown game to access your basic information like name, picture and friends which are essential to the operation of the game.

***The only information about your friends that we access is the name and picture, and we use that info strictly inside the game, we don't provide or sell that info to any third party.***

See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Updates at the end of this post. Last changes released on May 10th, 11:30PM.

Hi There, En Español AQUI (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=635674)

1. 46 x 46 farm expansions for farms 11 - 20: The price is 30 Billion coins or 30 Farm Cash.

Note: With the optimizations we released last year bigger farms perform well enough even on old computers and even better if the farm contains lots of duplicated items.

2. Employee / Employer Improvements:

a) When you are hired as an employee, if your browser crashes in the middle of your work or you reload your browser by accident, if you enter the game again in the next 10 minutes you will see another hiring screen explaining that you didn't complete your last job giving you the option to return to your previous employer farms and continue working.

b) When hiring others to work your farms if you enable the 'Let employee use my fuel' option, your fuel will always be used first, only when you, the employer, don't have fuel available the employees fuel will be used.

c) All and None buttons added to the Hire Multiple screen

d) On the 'Farmtown Wall Request' screen, we will highlight in pink those posts from users that you have visited recently to work their facilities. If you click on those posts, it's very likely that you receive the warning from the mayor that you already worked the facilities for that user.

3. Global Ingredient Planner Improvements:

a) When you open the Global Ingredient Planner we will show no information until you make the desired changes to all the filter dropdowns and then click the 'Update' button on the right, this way you don't have to wait every time you change each filter.

b) All your filter selections will be remembered the next time you open the Global Ingredient Planner

c) Added 18 months and 2 years time ranges

d) Added a new sort 'By Facility' where you can see the products grouped by facility type, ex: all your inks, all your metal sheets, etc

4. Facility Chains Manager Improvement: When you click the blue neighbour icon in the 'Add Chains' tab we will show you the info of each of those neighbours that you could potentially import/export products to.

5. Wildlife Removal Services (FC): Provides Wildlife Removal Services and can be stocked with products from the Critter Control Supplies.

6. Flavored Water Factory (Coins): Produces Flavored Water.

Lemon Water
Orange Water
Watermelon Water
Pineapple Mint Water
Grapefruit Rosemary Water
All Green Water
All Fruit Water
All Citrus Water

7. Beach Motel (Coins): Provides Beachside Lodging Services and can be stocked with products from the Flavored Water Factory.

8. Hungarian Restaurant (FC): Produces Hungarian Food.

Langos
Goulash
Fishermans Soup
Fozelek
Chicken Paprikash
Porkolt
Lecso
Somloi Galuska

New products from other facilities: Paprika in the Spice Factory.

9. Taste of Korea (FC): Provides Korea Cultural Exchange and Food Tasting Services and can be stocked with products from the Korean Restaurant.

10. Taste of Britain (FC): Provides Britain Cultural Exchange and Food Tasting Services and can be stocked with products from the British Restaurant.

Enjoy!

--Raul

PS. The changes to the NCC we announced on the previous release will be released in about 2 weeks.

Post-Release Info - April 20th, 5:00PM

- BugFix: When hired by friends to work their farms or their facilities, sometimes a screen will show up by mistake asking you to complete legacy quests (those that require tools like Rake, Gloves and Water Hose).
- Better grouping of products in the 'By Facility' sort in the Global Ingredient Planner.

Post-Release Info - April 23th, 7:10PM

- The 'Reuse Last Itinerary' option for ships need some clarification, this option only works when you have at least 1 ship currently dispatched that has not been unloaded yet, we will update the wording of the confirmation messages to clarify this requirement.

Post-Release Info - April 24th, 10:30PM

- BugFix: Sometimes hire request sent in the market were lost, not reaching the intended employee.

- We replaced the 'Let employee use my fuel' checkbox by a dropdown with the following options:

1. Let employee use my fuel first -> this is the one we had earlier today
2. Let employee use my fuel last -> this is the one we had a month ago, before the last release
3. Do not let employee use my fuel

- We added this dropdown to the Super Neighbour setup screen, so you can specify whatever option you like for each of your Super Neighbours.

Post-Release Info - April 26th, 1:30AM

- Released the Hungarian Restaurant.

Post-Release Info - April 27th, 11:00PM

- While we continue troubleshooting the issue of missing Hire Request confirmation messages, we will be disabling and enabling again the 'Employee remaining hired after a browser crash' feature (2.a above). Currently it is disabled.

Post-Release Info - May 1st, 11:30PM

- Released old Mothers Day items and 8 new Mothers Day items, 2 as gifts, 4 at the top of the Mothers Day category in the store and 2 at the bottom.

Post-Release Info - May 9th, 2:00AM

- Bugfix: Players sometimes getting the "Wait I'm Busy" message by mistake on different contexts, like when moving avatar, trying to open the Facility Manager and may be other scenarios as well.
- Bugfix: Employees kept receiving hire requests even when they have already been hired and working the farm.
- Bugfix: Employers not receiving the confirmation message that the employee has accepted the hire request. On this one, we think there could still be situations where the confirmation message may not arrive, but at least this should be happening as infrequent as it was happening a month ago, before the recent changes.

Post-Release Info - May 10th, 11:30PM

- Continued improving message delivery reliability in the marketplace, for example, before this change, if you have sent a hire request to user U1, then another user U2 send you a hire request, if during the period that the hire request of user U2 is on your screen, user U1 confirms your hire request then you will not see that confirmation. What we did in this case is that all confirmations sent by other players to requests initiated by you will be queued and will be shown eventually after you close the current request being shown on the screen. This applies to buddy and selling product requests as well.

Also, before this change, if during that same period, another user U3 send you a hire request, that request will be simply ignored and the sender will never know. In this case, what we did was to send and auto-reply to the sender telling her that you are currently interacting with another user.

Known Problems:

None.

[barbaraelwart]

Thanks very much for the update.

I have a problem today with the Notepad in the Facility Manager and now see it is part of the new release. However, when I press UPDATE - nothing happens !! Hopefully this will sort itself out soon :)

[Keef]

awesome thanks for the new stuff

[Lara]

thanks for the update

[mareface]

YAY thank you!

[mareface]

Just tried to load beach motel and the flavored water ingredients came up

[texans]

How come then since I have all the facilities that I get a pop up message saying my farm has too many facilities?

[aatredes]

Just tried to load beach motel and the flavored water ingredients came up

I just had the same thing happen FYI

[Edoka]

Thank you so very much for the team :-)
This release is special to me as I am Hungarian and always wanted to see Hungarian restaurant in my favorite game <3

[kperry7411]

awsome Thank you

[CARMEN TERESA]

muchas gracias!

[JuliaK]

hi all, thanks for the update and I know you all work extremely hard to keep the game functioning
BUT
am really undecided about the new facilities... it used to be one of each FC and Coins and then it went to 2 of each... now we have two coins and 4 fc in most updates and that is just becoming so expensive for the normal player and the are very clever in that if you dont purchase and you do the Quests, you may not be able to complete them without ALL the facilities. I know it is a FREE game and I realise they have to make some $$ to keep it going but yeah getting a bit tough on the pocket especially when both hubby and I play... its taking the fun out a tad

[Tiger]

Thanks very much for the update.

I have a problem today with the Notepad in the Facility Manager and now see it is part of the new release. However, when I press UPDATE - nothing happens !! Hopefully this will sort itself out soon :)

Hi barbaraelwart,

I have just tried mine and it's working fine. Did you change the filters in there to what you wanted them to show before you clicked update? If you did which filters did you pick?

[Tiger]

Just tried to load beach motel and the flavored water ingredients came up

I just had the same thing happen FYI

Hi mareface and aatredes,

The Beach Motel is loaded with the items from the Flavored Water Factory so you should be seeing flavoured waters to load in there.

[JKatz]

It appears that hire requests in the market are not being rec'd. I've sent about 50 & never get an acceptance or refusal but people keep begging for jobs.

[Qivis]

Suddenly one of my Super Neighbors reports that she cannot harvest my farms. Even though I have billions of fuel available she is getting a message that states she has tried to deduct too much fuel.

[Tiger]

It appears that hire requests in the market are not being rec'd. I've sent about 50 & never get an acceptance or refusal but people keep begging for jobs.

Hi Katz,

I have just hired with no problems. Which jobs were you hiring for?

Try clearing your FT memcache. To do that Click Here (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached). A window will open with a list of "unsetting", that is the memcache being cleared. Close that window and FT if you have it open in another window. Then reload and try again please.

[Tiger]

Suddenly one of my Super Neighbors reports that she cannot harvest my farms. Even though I have billions of fuel available she is getting a message that states she has tried to deduct too much fuel.

Hi Qivis,

What job is she doing when she gets that message? Is it just harvest crops or other items as well? Does she have any fuel?

An SN just tried trees, who has fuel and that seems to be working ok.

[Palmarina]

Hi, thanks a lot for the updates.
However, when I click on the My Neighbours tab, I can't see my neighbours anymore. I cleared memcache, but that didn't help. Is it only me or do other gamers have a similar problem?

[Qivis]

Hi Qivis,

What job is she doing when she gets that message? Is it just harvest crops or other items as well? Does she have any fuel?

An SN just tried trees, who has fuel and that seems to be working ok.

She prefers crops but does other things as well. I suggested to her that she try clearing the Farm Town memcache but apparently she is having similar problems on the farms of others even after trying that.

What I did learn though is that she did not know that the available fuel is shown on screen while she is working on other farms. She asked how she would know when her own fuel is used up. So I think she probably did use it up and was trying to use mine when it hit zero. I also do not know what browsers other than Chrome she may use if this would make a difference.

[JKatz]

Just harvest/plow on all my farms that are ready. I have cleared my cache & will try again.


Hi Katz,

I have just hired with no problems. Which jobs were you hiring for?

Try clearing your FT memcache. To do that Click Here (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached). A window will open with a list of "unsetting", that is the memcache being cleared. Close that window and FT if you have it open in another window. Then reload and try again please.

[Sqrl]

I don't understand the rationale behind the switch on fuel when hiring.

[Tiger]

She prefers crops but does other things as well. I suggested to her that she try clearing the Farm Town memcache but apparently she is having similar problems on the farms of others even after trying that.

What I did learn though is that she did not know that the available fuel is shown on screen while she is working on other farms. She asked how she would know when her own fuel is used up. So I think she probably did use it up and was trying to use mine when it hit zero. I also do not know what browsers other than Chrome she may use if this would make a difference.

Hi Qivis,

To to market and start to hire someone but don't complete the hire. Check in the hire window if you have allowed fuel to be used. When she is on your farm working, as of this update, it should be using your fuel not hers.

[Qivis]

Hi Qivis,

To to market and start to hire someone but don't complete the hire. Check in the hire window if you have allowed fuel to be used. When she is on your farm working, as of this update, it should be using your fuel not hers.

I have just worked the first 8 farms of another neighbor for whom I am Super Farmer and noticed my fuel did not drop by a single tank. This is consistent with the aforementioned update, but one of my accounts that I have kept for testing purposes (even after learning of Facebook's one account rule) just worked 2 of my farms and my fuel gauge did not change until I refreshed FT in my own browser window. And this is somewhat consistent with the changes as well even if a bit delayed. I am going to have to assume that the issue is something unique to Ana's account or computer since it will be a few weeks until even my testing account runs out of his own fuel and is able to experiment further. Thanks for the help and suggestions though. :D

I forgot to mention that she is 6 hours ahead of Eastern US time since she lives in Spain and I am in the same time zone as Slashkey if this makes any difference.

[clougo]

can someone point me to that please

[Qivis]

I don't understand the rationale behind the switch on fuel when hiring.

Many farmers have complained about having to use up their own fuel before they can use that of their employers. This is in part because fuel is also used when filling semi-trucks and using tools for collecting from and filling factories and shops. I seem to remember Raul saying something about possibly changing it in one of the surveys he sent me a couple months ago. :)

[Sqrl]

Many farmers have complained about having to use up their own fuel before they can use that of their employers. This is in part because fuel is also used when filling semi-trucks and using tools for collecting from and filling factories and shops. I seem to remember Raul saying something about possibly changing it in one of the surveys he sent me a couple months ago. :)

Oh sure, I understand why the fuel refuseniks wanted the change, I just don't see what's in it for those who've actually bought the Oil Refinery.

[Tiger]

can someone point me to that please

Hi clougo,

Open your Facility Manager and up top right you will see a little notepad. Click on it and it opens the global ingredient planner.

[peekachoo]

Thank you for the new updates , and for all the work you do on the game.

I may be a bit slow today, but what is the Global Ingredient Planner, and where can I find it .....thanks :)

[Tiger]

Thank you for the new updates , and for all the work you do on the game.

I may be a bit slow today, but what is the Global Ingredient Planner, and where can I find it .....thanks :)

Hi peekachoo,

Open your Facility Manager and up top right you will see a little notepad. Click on it and it opens the global ingredient planner.

[Qivis]

Oh sure, I understand why the fuel refuseniks wanted the change, I just don't see what's in it for those who've actually bought the Oil Refinery.

I have several neighbors who own 1 oil refinery, but refuse to buy more than one even knowing that it might lead to them running out of fuel more often than they would like - because they want to use farm cash for other things.

[RoseArienh]

Thanks for the update! I've been wishing for exactly that type of beach motel. That was a nice surprise with my morning coffee. :)

[debhurst51]

Thank you guys/gals. Love new stuff; have to wait for payday though :( Love to see you getting more variety of regular restaurants and not the "Taste of" stuff. Those take forever to get to 100%. Cheers....Deb

[Sqrl]

I have several neighbors who own 1 oil refinery, but refuse to buy more than one even knowing that it might lead to them running out of fuel more often than they would like - because they want to use farm cash for other things.

There are many many things to buy with FC, to be sure! This is one reason why I suggested they make the refinery coins.

[Lila63]

I hire at the market and have always checked use my fuel. Some farmers have none and I'm happy to share. I don't understand the change. We have always had to use our own fuel to play. Not sure I want to share with people who have as much or more than I do. They get coins, XP, and a bonus for working and now they don't have to use their own fuel.

[clougo]

thanks for helping

[Qivis]

I hire at the market and have always checked use my fuel. Some farmers have none and I'm happy to share. I don't understand the change. We have always had to use our own fuel to play. Not sure I want to share with people who have as much or more than I do. They get coins, XP, and a bonus for working and now they don't have to use their own fuel.

It is just an assumption, but it looks like either Raul et al just took that part of the update offline again because of certain issues or the neighbor for whom I am working has run out. More likely the latter. My fuel was not changing while working as a Super Neighbor until I got to her 22nd farm and she is not online at the moment for me to ask her if she is out of fuel. So I cannot tell which is the case - only that my Super Neighbors are happy that they will be able to use my fuel in the future {from my 5 oil refineries that I keep using to make it even though I go months between fill-ups!} :D

[Lila63]

I'm hoping they change it back. I've unchecked my box until they do.

[jeannine_p]

thanks for the update!! these are some wonderful updates to existing things, much appreciated. and the fuel change is brilliant. as it is, with all the facs i work, i only refuel about once every 2 years. i always have checked to let employees use my fuel, and since we can exchange gifts for whatever we want, getting fuel is no longer an issue for anyone, or shouldnt be. i dont mind sharing mine with others. well done devs!! <3

[Moose Mob]

Isn't "Taste of Britain" an oxymoron?

(as I hang out in Thailand)

[Sqrl]

Isn't "Taste of Britain" an oxymoron?

(as I hang out in Thailand)

Nowhere does "taste" imply enjoyable, lol. As I hang out here in, yes, Britain.

[Noel Anne]

Thanks for the improvements! and new facilities...altho' I do wish there were more coins ones offered instead of fc, lol. Is anyone else having problems getting the Orchard Supplies combo to work in the Facility Chains??? Another neighbor and I have never been able to work it...

[Tiger]

Thanks for the improvements! and new facilities...altho' I do wish there were more coins ones offered instead of fc, lol. Is anyone else having problems getting the Orchard Supplies combo to work in the Facility Chains??? Another neighbor and I have never been able to work it...

Hi Noel Anne,

If you have the Orchard Supplies Shop, then you need someone with the Orchard Supplies Factory as a chain that can export to you. It won't work if you both have the Orchard Supplies Shops as chains.

You can read up about the Facility Chains in the Game Guide
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=632506

If you have any further questions on this or anything else not related to the new release please post them in Help and Support.

[Noel Anne]

Both my neighbor and I have the Orchard Supply shop as well as the Orchard Supplies factory....we both added them to the chain the way we were supposed to and do all the rest... this one isn't working

[Alexandra_J]

I'm confused on this:

When hiring others to work your farms if you enable the 'Let employee use my fuel' option, your fuel will always be used first, only when you, the employer, don't have fuel available the employees fuel will be used.

Ummmmm, before this the Employee's fuel was used first and then when they didn't have fuel then the Employers fuel was used. So have Slashkey moved it around?

[Missy Lou]

love the improvements. TYVM :)

[Taz D]

I'm confused on this:

When hiring others to work your farms if you enable the 'Let employee use my fuel' option, your fuel will always be used first, only when you, the employer, don't have fuel available the employees fuel will be used.

Ummmmm, before this the Employee's fuel was used first and then when they didn't have fuel then the Employers fuel was used. So have Slashkey moved it around?
Hi Cornish,
Yes they have reversed the fuel usage.

[Missy Lou]

If I don't have "let employee use fuel" they will use their fuel correct?
Please confirm whose fuel is used by SN when SN is on my farm.
TYVM.

[Laurel Hardy]

Great updates, Thanks

[Taz D]

If I don't have "let employee use fuel" they will use their fuel correct?
Please confirm whose fuel is used by SN when SN is on my farm.
TYVM.
Hi Missy Lou
Your SN's uses your fuel currently. We will check with developers to see if this option for fuel can be added for SNs.

[denolee]

Where is the enable fuel option for Super Neighbors? I can't find it.
Thank you.

[Taz D]

Where is the enable fuel option for Super Neighbors? I can't find it.
Thank you.
Hi Denolee,
It is not an option at this time. SNs apparently are using your fuel.

[billypanther]

thank you :-)

[Aneida]

Thank You :)

[barbaraelwart]

Hi barbaraelwart,

I have just tried mine and it's working fine. Did you change the filters in there to what you wanted them to show before you clicked update? If you did which filters did you pick?

Hi, I did change the filters before clicking update and nothing happened. However, now, several hours later all is well. I guessed it would sort itself out during the day :) :)

[Tiger]

Hi, I did change the filters before clicking update and nothing happened. However, now, several hours later all is well. I guessed it would sort itself out during the day :) :)

That's great barbaraelwart, thank you for coming back to let us know :)

[mastermouse]

ok I finally found the Global Ingredient Planner. I dont understand the purpose for it.

[WillowTreeFarm]

Brilliant, just brilliant, having the posts on the wall requests turn pink when you have worked on those facilities! Some of my neighbors post their facilities 3 or 4 times a day and it was so hard to remember which ones I had worked. Thank you for the update.

[martha1953]

I have a question... on the fuel rule, does this apply to super neighbors? If so, how do i unselect it? thanks

[Taz D]

ok I finally found the Global Ingredient Planner. I dont understand the purpose for it.
Hi Mastermouse,
It has been there for a long time, but not called "Global" before. It can show you what you are short of or how much you need to fill for several numbers of days.

[Taz D]

I have a question... on the fuel rule, does this apply to super neighbors? If so, how do i unselect it? thanks
Hi Martha,
It currently only applies to super neighbors in that they use your fuel. Changes for thatmay come soon, but we will have to wait for the developers to work on this. There will be an update here if or when anything changes on this.

[Cherry's Farm]

Thanks for the update. It appears that there is a problem when hiring in the market. I usually hire for one or two things at a time rather than all jobs. I hired for flowers. It appeared that I could not then hire someone else for harvest and plow. I guess this is for the time/job extension which is a good idea if someone gets booted. However it is a hassle if popping on quickly to get harvesting sorted. I don't often accept multi-jobs myself. In the end I spotted my worker and rehired for flowers and harvest and plow. Now later and off to the market to try and hire for the rest of the jobs.

[bcm151]

Sad to say, I have been playing ft since April 2019 but the last few releases there have been more fc items to coin items. This initial release is already 90fc items with 1 more yet to go, yet if you can complete all the quests in the same period you only get 12, unless there are levels added, that would not cover half of the facilities. I guess I will soon be another player who will soon give up the game.

[Taz D]

Thanks for the update. It appears that there is a problem when hiring in the market. I usually hire for one or two things at a time rather than all jobs. I hired for flowers. It appeared that I could not then hire someone else for harvest and plow. I guess this is for the time/job extension which is a good idea if someone gets booted. However it is a hassle if popping on quickly to get harvesting sorted. I don't often accept multi-jobs myself. In the end I spotted my worker and rehired for flowers and harvest and plow. Now later and off to the market to try and hire for the rest of the jobs.
Hi Cherry,
I am not sure why you were not able to hire a second person for different jobs. We will have to test this.

[mastermouse]

Hi Mastermouse,
It has been there for a long time, but not called "Global" before. It can show you what you are short of or how much you need to fill for several numbers of days.


thank you very much for the info.

[Taz D]

Thanks for the update. It appears that there is a problem when hiring in the market. I usually hire for one or two things at a time rather than all jobs. I hired for flowers. It appeared that I could not then hire someone else for harvest and plow. I guess this is for the time/job extension which is a good idea if someone gets booted. However it is a hassle if popping on quickly to get harvesting sorted. I don't often accept multi-jobs myself. In the end I spotted my worker and rehired for flowers and harvest and plow. Now later and off to the market to try and hire for the rest of the jobs.
Hi Cherry,
I am not sure why it didn't work for you but we tested this and had no problems. Were you possibly trying to hire for different jobs but on the same farm?

[Cherry's Farm]

Hi Cherry,
I am not sure why you were not able to hire a second person for different jobs. We will have to test this.
Thanks. Several others in the market were saying their sent hires were not working either. I will go back later when I have time and see what is happening.

[Cherry's Farm]

Hi Cherry,
I am not sure why it didn't work for you but we tested this and had no problems. Were you possible trying to hire for different jobs but on the same farm?
Yes, some of the farms have several items for work so when I hire there is sometimes cross over of different work. It is my habit to hire for trees, check work, ALL farms tree work selected and sent then a separate hire for say, Fishing and Chop, some may be the same farms. So in one visit to the market my usual habit was 4 hires I think, different jobs but yes there would be some cross over on farms.

[Taz D]

Thanks. Several others in the market were saying their sent hires were not working either. I will go back later when I have time and see what is happening.
Hi Cherry,
If you are trying to send a hire to someone who has already had one sent before yours then you won't be able to as they do not let new hires load over the top of the one already sent. The worker has 30 seconds to accept or decline. They will not get another hire request until that one expires or they decline.

[Cherry's Farm]

Hi Cherry,
If you are trying to send a hire to someone who has already had one sent before yours then you won't be able to as they do not let new hires load over the top of the one already sent. The worker has 30 seconds to accept or decline. They will not get another hire request until that one expires or they decline.
Yes, I am aware of that restriction when hiring, it is great as very annoying when another used to come over the top of a hire you were trying to accept. After my initial hire this morn I sent or tried to send about 10 hires at least for other jobs and none seemed to work, I noticed others saying their hires weren't working either so thought it was worth mentioning in case someone else was having the same problem. I often have to send several hires to get one accepted but farmers weren't replying at all so presumably the hires didn't go through and from the comments in the market others were finding the same.

[sestree]

Nice Raul - Thanks. So far no issues. I *did* expect problems since facebook itself is doing some changes and that usually causes conflicts but so far no. My only issue is my own which is I name my farms and move them around so it takes me FOREVER to figure out which farms I can upgrade. No y'all's problem --- that lil mess be mine. FWIW, since I'm a flake, once I get a farm set the way I want I leave it alone so I'm one of the (I assume) very few who would prefer more farms vs expansions to the ones we have. Again JMHO .........

ETA - if anybody is having really odd issues? Facebook itself is doing some strange upgrades. My facebook went all wonky last night for about 2 hours. Since the games are tied to facebook......yeah sometimes it's their fault. I have friends who are having login issues with facebook at the moment so just an FYI (yeah Taz we have a private snark group of programmers and geeks where we are just not nice or pleasant and currently facebook is the recipient of our posts in there .......... ooops?)

[Farmer_Susan]

LOVE the pink backgrounds!!! So helpful! Thanks so much for the update. Saving up for my first 46x46. :D

[dcsully]

I'm in the middle of upgrading all my farms - the last one I did is still the same - how do I get my money back? still says 44 x 44

[Daisy-A-Day]

LOVE LOVE LOVE the highlights on the farmtown wall. Thank you.

[Taz D]

I'm in the middle of upgrading all my farms - the last one I did is still the same - how do I get my money back? still says 44 x 44
Hi dcsully,
I see upgrades for farms 11 (last one done), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Also see in the middle of all those upgrades farm 26 to 44x44. Please note these are the original farm location number and not necessarily the current position of the farm if you have moved any around.
This shows that your original location farms 12 & 13 have not been upgraded.
If this helps you to know what farm is where you upgaded in the following order 20, 14, 15, 18, 26 (44), 18, 16, 19, & 11.

[dcsully]

oh I know I've moved them around - but I'm talking about farm 8 - I paid to upgrade and didn't get it - it would be farm 13 I believe or 14 - not quite sure - but I honestly paid to update it!! :(

[Taz D]

oh I know I've moved them around - but I'm talking about farm 8 - I paid to upgrade and didn't get it - it would be farm 13 I believe or 14 - not quite sure - but I honestly paid to update it!! :(
HI Dcsully,
Your farm in the 8th position is your original location 26 farm which can only go to 44x44 which you did upgrade it too.

Go to your farm 8 by this modification of your link in your signature:
https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=1210308623&farm_ix=25

Please note that the farm numbers actually start with zerto so farm 1 would be farm 0 in the link.

[Wayne L]

hi all, thanks for the update and I know you all work extremely hard to keep the game functioning
BUT
am really undecided about the new facilities... it used to be one of each FC and Coins and then it went to 2 of each... now we have two coins and 4 fc in most updates and that is just becoming so expensive for the normal player and the are very clever in that if you dont purchase and you do the Quests, you may not be able to complete them without ALL the facilities. I know it is a FREE game and I realise they have to make some $$ to keep it going but yeah getting a bit tough on the pocket especially when both hubby and I play... its taking the fun out a tad

I agree with you & the prices have all gone those of us that are not in the USA & are paying higher premiums because we are not even 3/4 parity on the dollar maybe if the the updates farms where only 25 each way $ Coin evquivalant would keep more ppl palying.Maybe reducing number of $ Facilities & Clients & reduce to $25 & make them on par. I have played since begining now thinking I cannot afford it any more as a retiree on limited income as many are.

[leighwj1960]

[COLOR=Red]

[B]2. Employee / Employer Improvements:

a) When you are hired as an employee, if your browser crashes in the middle of your work or you reload your browser by accident, if you enter the game again in the next 10 minutes you will see another hiring screen explaining that you didn't complete your last job giving you the option to return to your previous employer farms and continue working.



I was working a large fishing job this morning and was booted when I lost connection. When I came back in (less than 5 minutes later) I DID NOT get the option to return to the job even though there were still several farms left.

[heartnrose]

Having trouble with faces anyone? On my neighbor line they are showing correctly, but everywhere else they are blank faces only. Started after the update. So far not causeing problems that I know of but somebody posted on FB that they were having the same problem and it was showing her inactive and even though they are working her facilities, the amounts are not going down, showing not worked in other words. Cleared memecache several times and still showing blanks. Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you very much. :)

I stand corrected. I posted facilities and 3 people worked them all. Some are showing no work done, some only down to 80% and some normal. In other words, it is a hit and miss which ones are correct and which ones are not. Faces still now showing anywhere but in neighbor lineup. Thank you for any advice :)

[Tiger]

i stored products from the new flavored watered factory how come the beach motel says it has nothing to work in it .just posted hope something shows up in the beach motel soon.first time i posted since friday

Hi MOM GLENDA,

I checked your data and it doesn't look like you have any of the flavored waters in storage. Was the facility worked, did you see products in the done section? Double check the flavored water factory and see if they are still in there. I have just stored from mine and the products went to storage fine.

If not try clearing your FT memcache. To do that Click Here (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached). A window will open with a list of "unsetting", that is the memcache being cleared. Close that window and FT if you have it open in another window. Then reload and see if that corrects it moving forwards.

[painter1112]

Are you guys out of your minds?? 3 FC factories!!! Are you trying to get people to STOP playing your game?. Too many FC units plus you make getting FC way too hard to get!
I have played your game for several years and am about to get tired of trying and trying to grow the farms without very much success. I WILL NOT put my real money into this thing IT'S A GAME NOT REAL.

[sod farmer]

Since the update I get a notification that my ship prep has completed (yes - completed and dispatched) every time I reload the game. I have cleared cache and browser histories, tried different browsers, and cleared memcache. I still get the notification for the ship that was dispatched last night.

[Taz D]

Since the update I get a notification that my ship prep has completed (yes - completed and dispatched) every time I reload the game. I have cleared cache and browser histories, tried different browsers, and cleared memcache. I still get the notification for the ship that was dispatched last night.
Hi sod farmer,
Have you tried starting another ship today. That might clear that notification out.

[Taz D]

Having trouble with faces anyone? On my neighbor line they are showing correctly, but everywhere else they are blank faces only. Started after the update. So far not causeing problems that I know of but somebody posted on FB that they were having the same problem and it was showing her inactive and even though they are working her facilities, the amounts are not going down, showing not worked in other words. Cleared memecache several times and still showing blanks. Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you very much. :)

I stand corrected. I posted facilities and 3 people worked them all. Some are showing no work done, some only down to 80% and some normal. In other words, it is a hit and miss which ones are correct and which ones are not. Faces still now showing anywhere but in neighbor lineup. Thank you for any advice :)
Hi Heartnrose,
We have sent an email to the developers conserning the pictures. As far as the work not being equal does not mean they are not being worked. Not everyone has the trains so those without may not be going to all the farms or not completing all the facilities on farms. If you don't have the trains that is a lot to do specially for those who have a lot of farms with lots of facilities on them.

[heartnrose]

Hi Heartnrose,
We have sent an email to the developers conserning the pictures. As far as the work not being equal does not mean they are not being worked. Not everyone has the trains so those without may not be going to all the farms or not completing all the facilities on farms. If you don't have the trains that is a lot to do specially for those who have a lot of farms with lots of facilities on them.

Okie Dokie Taz, and Thank you very much for the information. Will just be patient and it always seems to work out in the end. Again, thank you. :D

[Texas Belle]

Thank you guys, great release..

[Tuckertbnc]

Yes, I am aware of that restriction when hiring, it is great as very annoying when another used to come over the top of a hire you were trying to accept. After my initial hire this morn I sent or tried to send about 10 hires at least for other jobs and none seemed to work, I noticed others saying their hires weren't working either so thought it was worth mentioning in case someone else was having the same problem. I often have to send several hires to get one accepted but farmers weren't replying at all so presumably the hires didn't go through and from the comments in the market others were finding the same.

My request were apparently going thru but no answers , the people just disappear and then I see they are on a farm ... I try to not hire but 1 person per farm / job .. but often I get no reply and a worker just shows up on the farm ...

[sod farmer]

Hi sod farmer,
Have you tried starting another ship today. That might clear that notification out.

Hi Taz,
I just started prepping another ship and reloaded the farm. I am not getting that notification any more. Thank you.

[drr30]

Are you guys out of your minds?? 3 FC factories!!! Are you trying to get people to STOP playing your game?. Too many FC units plus you make getting FC way too hard to get!
I have played your game for several years and am about to get tired of trying and trying to grow the farms without very much success. I WILL NOT put my real money into this thing IT'S A GAME NOT REAL.

I agree there are to many fc factories but in reality the developers can only keep the game running with fc items this is how they get paid. With the exception of the oil refinery you really don't need fc factories. I have over a 1000 factories on my farm and less then 50 are fc and all were paid for from fc I've earned in the game.

[bjyhey3]

Wow! I'm just playing along with my farm and decide to check in to see what's going on and we have had a new update while I was snoozing...Thank You

[Rugby]

As a super neighbor, it used to be that I used my fuel first to harvest. That helped my lower XP neighbors who generally have less fuel. With the recent update, I use their fuel first. Any way to go back to the "old way" for super neighbors where I use my fuel on my neighbor's farm until I run out?

[Taz D]

As a super neighbor, it used to be that I used my fuel first to harvest. That helped my lower XP neighbors who generally have less fuel. With the recent update, I use their fuel first. Any way to go back to the "old way" for super neighbors where I use my fuel on my neighbor's farm until I run out?
Hi Rugby,
Currently no there isn't a way to go back to the other way.

[Rugby]

Hi Rugby,
Currently no there isn't a way to go back to the other way.

Would the devs please consider the option for super neighbors? Thanks.

[max_river]

thank you for the amazing up date and your hard work you do. also thank to the mods on here that help us with all the issues and complaintes we have it takes time away from there farms. one thing I want be buying and restrants that cost fc until the fix the shortage of eggs..I never understood why the eggs are only harvest once a day and eggs are every 8 hrs..

[Taz D]

thank you for the amazing up date and your hard work you do. also thank to the mods on here that help us with all the issues and complaintes we have it takes time away from there farms. one thing I want be buying and restrants that cost fc until the fix the shortage of eggs..I never understood why the eggs are only harvest once a day and eggs are every 8 hrs..
Hi max_river,
The super chicken coop is twice a day, every 12 hours. Those hold more hens (500) and give more for the Leghorn Hens.

[lauralmarie]

Are you guys out of your minds?? 3 FC factories!!! Are you trying to get people to STOP playing your game?. Too many FC units plus you make getting FC way too hard to get!
I have played your game for several years and am about to get tired of trying and trying to grow the farms without very much success. I WILL NOT put my real money into this thing IT'S A GAME NOT REAL.

Just how do you think all of the people who work hard on the game to keep it going day to day are supposed to be paid for their work? It takes Real money to support the game so if you want it to be here for you to enjoy you'd better hope enough people continue to spend money on it!

[Aussie Rae]

Are you guys out of your minds?? 3 FC factories!!! Are you trying to get people to STOP playing your game?. Too many FC units plus you make getting FC way too hard to get!
I have played your game for several years and am about to get tired of trying and trying to grow the farms without very much success. I WILL NOT put my real money into this thing IT'S A GAME NOT REAL.

its a good thing that no one is actually forced to spend real money on the game, if you can't afford the fc facilities, just buy the coin ones... plenty of people play this way...

[Aussie Rae]

LOVE the pink backgrounds!!! So helpful! Thanks so much for the update. Saving up for my first 46x46. :D

I must have missed something... "pink backgrounds" ?????

[Taz D]

I must have missed something... "pink backgrounds" ?????
Hi Aussie Rae,
This is what she is referring to:

d) On the 'Farmtown Wall Request' screen, we will highlight in pink those posts from users that you have visited recently to work their facilities. If you click on those posts, it's very likely that you receive the warning from the mayor that you already worked the facilities for that user.

[Aussie Rae]

Hi Aussie Rae,
This is what she is referring to:

d) On the 'Farmtown Wall Request' screen, we will highlight in pink those posts from users that you have visited recently to work their facilities. If you click on those posts, it's very likely that you receive the warning from the mayor that you already worked the facilities for that user.

oh, thanks Taz.. I do have a few neighbors that post multiple times throughout the day so that will help if I ever forget I have already done their farms, :) it can get frustrating I guess if you have a few who post more than once a day, :)

[Zeeky Banutski]

Where is the Global Ingredient Planner located?

[Taz D]

Where is the Global Ingredient Planner located?
Hi Zeeky,
It is in your Facility Manager. Click on the notepad in the upper right corner next to the magnifying glass.

[Taz D]

Raul has just added the following:

Post-Release Info - April 20th, 5:00PM

- BugFix: When hired by friends to work their farms or their facilities, sometimes a screen will show up by mistake with the legacy quests (those that require tools like Rake, Gloves and Water Hose).
- Better grouping of products in the 'By Facility' sort in the Global Ingredient Planner.

Known Problems:

- None

[Tuckertbnc]

its a good thing that no one is actually forced to spend real money on the game, if you can't afford the fc facilities, just buy the coin ones... plenty of people play this way...

That's what I do - only buy the coin factories .. I haven't bought a Farm Cash factory in years .. save what I 'earn' from Quests and leveling up for the advanced tools ...

[Autumn06]

What do you mean "re-authorize FarmTown?" How do I do that and when will I know, will there be a pop up message?

[Taz D]

What do you mean "re-authorize FarmTown?" How do I do that and when will I know, will there be a pop up message?
Hi Autumn,
Yes there will be a pop up when you open your farms or click to collect a bonus or send an ingredient requested by a neighbor.
There is more detailed information in the following link:
http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=635554

[mareface]

Thank you sooooooooo much for the pink highlight when working facilities.

[Trixye Sue]

Has anyone had any issue hiring and/or being hired in the Marketplace? Since the new update, I (and a few others) have tried repeatedly to hire people but the request does not go through. I have had to resort to hiring from the Inn. Secondly, after I accepted a request from someone hiring me, several more request come to me even after I began working the farm. On top of this, the marketplace shows up on the farm I am working on which give the impression that it is a multi hire when it is not. Now for the biggest issue. If by chance there is a convention working the farm, I will lose gas if I fish or HP or anything someone else has already done but it has not disappeared giving the impression that it is still available to be worked. (I hope that makes sense.) I have asked several other farmers about this and it is not only me. Any comments???

Thanks!

[Tiger]

Has anyone had any issue hiring and/or being hired in the Marketplace? Since the new update, I (and a few others) have tried repeatedly to hire people but the request does not go through. I have had to resort to hiring from the Inn. Secondly, after I accepted a request from someone hiring me, several more request come to me even after I began working the farm. On top of this, the marketplace shows up on the farm I am working on which give the impression that it is a multi hire when it is not. Now for the biggest issue. If by chance there is a convention working the farm, I will lose gas if I fish or HP or anything someone else has already done but it has not disappeared giving the impression that it is still available to be worked. (I hope that makes sense.) I have asked several other farmers about this and it is not only me. Any comments???

Thanks!

Hi Trixye Sue,

We've only had one complaint that the hire requests are not always going through and they said they had to reload the game to try again. They were also having some connection issues so we are not entirely sure if that was related as we are unable to reproduce this.

What do you mean the marketplace is on top of the farm? Do you mean you are seeing other avatars on the farm when you arrive that were in market? If so, they are what we refer to as ghosts, the avatars appear there but the farmers are not there, they are still in the market. Were there just one or two or a lot of them? If you refresh the farm you are on, they should disappear.

Regarding your last issue, again if you refresh the farm you are on it will update with whatever work is still needing to be done. That's the only way to know what work is left if more than one farmer is working the same jobs.You should not lose any fuel for work already done by someone else. If you see any deducted it should correct when you reload.

[Dan H]

Has anyone had any issue hiring and/or being hired in the Marketplace? Since the new update, I (and a few others) have tried repeatedly to hire people but the request does not go through. I have had to resort to hiring from the Inn. Secondly, after I accepted a request from someone hiring me, several more request come to me even after I began working the farm. On top of this, the marketplace shows up on the farm I am working on which give the impression that it is a multi hire when it is not. Now for the biggest issue. If by chance there is a convention working the farm, I will lose gas if I fish or HP or anything someone else has already done but it has not disappeared giving the impression that it is still available to be worked. (I hope that makes sense.) I have asked several other farmers about this and it is not only me. Any comments???

Thanks!

I have been having the same issue with trying to hire a Neighbor; When hiring a Neighbor, The Hire Request sometimes never arrives at the Neighbors farm. This started after the latest update and is failing on both Chrome and IE browsers. Both farmers have to shut down and restart their farms to receive the Hire Request. It is intermittent, but a pain never the less. I just updated Chrome to it's latest version and cleared cache, but no help there, as I suspected. I am running Windows 7.

[dave1949]

I have been having the same issue with trying to hire a Neighbor; When hiring a Neighbor, The Hire Request sometimes never arrives at the Neighbors farm. This started after the latest update and is failing on both Chrome and IE browsers. Both farmers have to shut down and restart their farms to receive the Hire Request. It is intermittent, but a pain never the less. I just updated Chrome to it's latest version and cleared cache, but no help there, as I suspected. I am running Windows 7.

Same problem here, it's a pain to keep reloading the game before you can hire.

[Santmyer]

A comment about the current release. My favorite feature is the pinked out background to show the neighbors whose facilities I have already work especially since a few like to post every few hours or so.

My question is does anyone else have an issue with this feature not working for certain neighbors? I have a neighbor whose hire facility goods never turns pink even when I work it multiple times. Same neighbor's referrals do show as shaded after working those once. Could this be a matter of them refilling certain farms after I have worked them? Just curious if there is something I can do to change this and if this is problematic for any of you posting.

[Tiger]

A comment about the current release. My favorite feature is the pinked out background to show the neighbors whose facilities I have already work especially since a few like to post every few hours or so.

My question is does anyone else have an issue with this feature not working for certain neighbors? I have a neighbor whose hire facility goods never turns pink even when I work it multiple times. Same neighbor's referrals do show as shaded after working those once. Could this be a matter of them refilling certain farms after I have worked them? Just curious if there is something I can do to change this and if this is problematic for any of you posting.

Hi Santmyer,

Are you saying you can work this persons production facilites, then go straight back and work them again and get more goods? That shouldn't be happening, you should be getting an oops for the facilites that you had already worked. You would be able to work any facilites that hadn't been filled the first time you tried.

[Santmyer]

Hi Santmyer,

Are you saying you can work this persons production facilites, then go straight back and work them again and get more goods? That shouldn't be happening, you should be getting an oops for the facilites that you had already worked. You would be able to work any facilites that hadn't been filled the first time you tried.

No Tiger what I am saying is that when I go through the farm request wall, this neighbor's post is never shaded and I have responded to the post thinking maybe I had missed it, but I do get the oops on all farms. It is just one specific neighbor and has happened multiple times.

[Taz D]

No Tiger what I am saying is that when I go through the farm request wall, this neighbor's post is never shaded and I have responded to the post thinking maybe I had missed it, but I do get the oops on all farms. It is just one specific neighbor and has happened multiple times.
Hi santmyer,
They don't turn pink until you reload the wall. After you have worked theirs please try refreshing the page.

[pigtails]

The option to go back to the last job that I didn't get to finish isn't working for me. It worked one day and now it doesn't pop up any more. Please try to fix this for me, I really need it. Thanks so much.

[Tiger]

The option to go back to the last job that I didn't get to finish isn't working for me. It worked one day and now it doesn't pop up any more. Please try to fix this for me, I really need it. Thanks so much.

Hi pigtails,

Did you reload the game within 10 minutes? Were there any more farms to work on after the one you didn't finish? If there was another farm after the one you left then you should have got the pop up.

[Santmyer]

Hi santmyer,
They don't turn pink until you reload the wall. After you have worked theirs please try refreshing the page.

Hi Taz, I tried refreshing even before I came to the forum to post. It did not make a difference. Now just curious if anyone else is having the same issue.

[Farmer_Susan]

I'm having hiring issues, too, so I think it must be something caused by this release - I haven't been having hiring issues until now.

What's happening for me is that I only sporadically get notified if someone has accepted my hire request. What's happened twice now today is that I assumed I didn't have anyone, so I tried to hire someone else - I ended up clicking on 3 people - didn't get confirmations that any had accepted my request so I assumed I didn't have anyone. Each time, I ended up with 2 people on my farm. I always try to hire solo - so not knowing I already have someone is a problem.

[marymarcel]

I'm having hiring issues, too, so I think it must be something caused by this release - I haven't been having hiring issues until now.

What's happening for me is that I only sporadically get notified if someone has accepted my hire request. What's happened twice now today is that I assumed I didn't have anyone, so I tried to hire someone else - I ended up clicking on 3 people - didn't get confirmations that any had accepted my request so I assumed I didn't have anyone. Each time, I ended up with 2 people on my farm. I always try to hire solo - so not knowing I already have someone is a problem.

Hi Susan :)

We have received reports about the hire requests are not working properly, we were not able to reproduce this problem but have emailed the developers to let them check into this.

[RFMad]

The last couple times that I've tried to use the "Use last Itinerary" in the ships, it says that no ships have been sent recently so I don't have an itinerary to use. Is there a time limit for that? I have sent out ships and had them return within the time limit for the ships and have been doing this since the beginning.

[Taz D]

The last couple times that I've tried to use the "Use last Itinerary" in the ships, it says that no ships have been sent recently so I don't have an itinerary to use. Is there a time limit for that? I have sent out ships and had them return within the time limit for the ships and have been doing this since the beginning.
Hi RFMad,
Have you been sending out ships daily or have you skipped some days?

[RFMad]

Hi RFMad,
Have you been sending out ships daily or have you skipped some days?
It's been a couple days since they all seemed to land at the same time but I can only send one at a time. I'm preparing one now and have the other 2 to do.

[Taz D]

It's been a couple days since they all seemed to land at the same time but I can only send one at a time. I'm preparing one now and have the other 2 to do.
Hi RFMad,
The only posts I have seen about this they have not sent a ship out every day. So it may be that if you didn't send one out yesterday then you may not have an itinerary to reuse.

[RFMad]

Hi RFMad,
The only posts I have seen about this they have not sent a ship out every day. So it may be that if you didn't send one out yesterday then you may not have an itinerary to reuse.
It seems like I did get to reuse the itinerary before the last few days than when I sent the 3 I have one each day. But then these ships all came in at the same time today and then one I am preparing doesn't have an itinerary to use. I have to wait till tomorrow afternoon to see about the next ship.,

[Tiger]

Update from Rauls post >>

If you are having issues sending Hire Requests and receiving Hire Responses, please post here on this thread the chat server you are connected to, either F3 or F4.

You will find your chat sever number when you first load your farm, in the chat box.
Please also let us know when this issue first started happening for you.

[leighwj1960]

Hi pigtails,

Did you reload the game within 10 minutes? Were there any more farms to work on after the one you didn't finish? If there was another farm after the one you left then you should have got the pop up.

I had the same problem and reported it here but never received a response.
Yes there were more farms (about 10 more)
Yes I did refresh within 10 minutes (probably closer to 5)
No I never got the option to return to the job

[Tiger]

I had the same problem and reported it here but never received a response.
Yes there were more farms (about 10 more)
Yes I did refresh within 10 minutes (probably closer to 5)
No I never got the option to return to the job

Hi leighwj1960,

My apologies that we missed your other post.

Thank you for your report. Is this still happening to you? If it is, is it happening every time?

[MadamePondarosa]

3 a) don't get this point. After clicking "update" button it still take quite a while to gain result. When changing filter, update button must be pressed. Don't see how this urge things?

[Tiger]

3 a) don't get this point. After clicking "update" button it still take quite a while to gain result. When changing filter, update button must be pressed. Don't see how this urge things?

Hi MadamePondarosa,

Previously when you loaded the IP it would load the default settings, then for each of the filters you changed it would refresh again, which you had to wait for. This way you choose your filters first and then it loads them all up in one go. However if you have a considerable amount of facilites it probably will still take a bit of time to load them all.

[Franny2]

I, too, am having hiring issues in the marketplace. When I hire (even when someone is begging for work), I get no response. Then, finally after several tries, I get someone to respond and go with her/him to my farms. When I get there, I see two or three working. I don't hire multiples for the same farm so it is very embarrassing to find workers that I didn't even know I had hired.
My farm is F3

[beverduster]

whats going on now, this is the 3rd time i have not been able to post my facilties to be work, they dont even show up on my timeline, i have also noticed the last couple the game has been dragging bad, i forgot to look to see if they changed my server again

[Tiger]

whats going on now, this is the 3rd time i have not been able to post my facilties to be work, they dont even show up on my timeline, i have also noticed the last couple the game has been dragging bad, i forgot to look to see if they changed my server again

Hi beverduster,

What exactly is not happening? Are you getting the box to post to Facebook? If you are what happens when you click Share? Are you allowing your facility post to show on wall requests? Have you tried posting from different facilites than your usual ones? If not try that and see if you get the same problem.

For your slowness issue please try the items in the following post and see if they help you http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352666
There are server tests in that post you can try, see if any server responds slowly for you.

Please load your game and see which servers you are on and let us know.

[leighwj1960]

Hi leighwj1960,

My apologies that we missed your other post.

Thank you for your report. Is this still happening to you? If it is, is it happening every time?

This is the only time it has happened but my computer has not crashed in the middle of a job since then either.

[Tiger]

This is the only time it has happened but my computer has not crashed in the middle of a job since then either.

Hi leighwj1960,

Thank you for additional information. If it happens again let us know please. Also let us know what you were doing prior to that job in case it makes a difference. If it can be reproduced it may be easier to find the problem.

[cassi2m]

Connecting to town mainframe (Chat Server: F3, Farm Server: w202) ...

My friends husband had heart surgery today so I logged in to her account earlier.

This morning tried to hire someone from market, never received hire notice.

She told me that others were reporting issues with hiring. I asked her to go to the Inn to see if it was the Market.
Made no difference.

Reported to Rob, he asked me to report here.
---
Just tested again and results:

Just hired for 1 farm harvest trees.
I did not receive the ok i'll go with or have errands to run...message, she just disappeared, I thought she took another job, was ready to try someone else.

I could not tell if she accepted the job until she began working and the
message came across screen that Fran harvested Acacia trees, etc.

I had to remember which farm it was, manually choose to go home to that farm so that I could thank her for the help.

Hope that helps you some,
Cathy
ps you have part of it resolved, just a bit more :)

[WingmanFarm]

Just posting my problem to add to everything you already have

Chat connection is F4

I have a strange problem. I tend to get hired a lot and will have 2 or 3 requests all come at the same time. In one case I finished the first farm and was into the second farm when I get a hire request. I left the marketplace like 3/4 minutes or more before and those hire requests follow me ( I am being stalked--LOL). Just now I accepted a request, got to the farm and while adjusting my cursor I accidentally hit the second request and ended up on their farm. I am sure the first hirer will get another worker but it is annoying having 1 to 3 requests following you when you left the marketplace like 3..5 minutes before.

I also missed out on 2 jobs where the hire request never showed up. Even after the hirer refreshed, it did not work.

[twistedmartini]

Server F4. Problem is intermittent.

There also seem to be intermittent problems with the new continue hire after rebooting feature. Sometimes it works for my hires and sometimes it doesn't

[cassi2m]

Hi guys, a Different server issue, mine:

Rob and sk/ft
To Rob: I hired mine to test it and if you see my timeline pics are public view on this post. Will post on forum, too.
* Connecting to town mainframe (Chat Server: F4, Farm Server: w206) ...my server. i hit play before hired, too, in case that was an issue. Fresh start on farm:

Testing my server
Issue: hired at market when I was home

I had hired a guy, he fished my ft cash lakes and left. All was smooth when I hired that guy, we both came to my first farm, the appropriate one.

Now I am reading my farm messages, ready to reply to grandma when a hire request comes in from some random person.

I accepted it to see what's up and took screenshots of various things. He finally answered me and told me that I was still showing in the market ready to work, although I was home. See timeline for pics k?
Will post this on the board after this with pics on timeline. Will you show to Raul? Thanks :)
Cathy McCormick
pics in order last is of his farm, name, level etc.

[cassi2m]

https://www.facebook.com/cathymcormick
that's me
and here is farm link
http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=100001435536715&farm_ix=25

re: hired at market although i was home answering farm messages. had just hired a person to test my server and report to ya'll.
see prior post, pics are there with my note to rob on support sk etc.
These are now public and it is a public post so that you can see them.

Thank you for the work on this.
Cathy

[cassi2m]

New issue reported to Rob:

A friend had issues see pic for more on my timeline.

He is on ChatF3 FarmServer: w206. She hit play to recheck and is showing CF3 FS w205.

On her farm, received a message from stranger saying he needed her to hire him. She doesn't know him nor has she hired him recently. She had no work on her farms. She ignored message and went to his farm to check his server number. I joined and took screenshots. See attached.

They crossed servers, unless he server hopped, or our connection is via Chat Server 3 and the FarmServer doesn't pertain.

See pics for more info:
see my timeline for pics.
Cathy

[kevat508]

Refresh won't clear the hire problem now F4 W206

[MOM GLENDA]

why do people complain about buying farm cash .they seems to not believe that facebook has to be paid for this game to be on here .also the workers have to be paid to keep this game running plus make the things in the store.Raul needs to tell everyone it takes cash to keep farmtown on here and cash to pay the people that help him.if no one bought cash there be no farmtown to play

[beautysmom]

Susan, this has been happening to me for years--it appears to be a function of my ISP speed. And it frustrates me, because I hate hiring multiple people for what are sometimes only small jobs. And it happens, I think to lots of others, because I often find myself working against others, when I get hired by someone in the marketplace....

[marymarcel]

Hi all :)

From Raul notes for the New Release

Post-Release Info - April 23th, 7:10PM

- The 'Reuse Last Itinerary' option for ships need some clarification, this option only works when you have at least 1 ship currently dispatched that has not been unloaded yet, we will update the wording of the confirmation messages to clarify this requirement.

[Dan H]

Update from Rauls post >>

If you are having issues sending Hire Requests and receiving Hire Responses, please post here on this thread the chat server you are connected to, either F3 or F4.

You will find your chat sever number when you first load your farm, in the chat box.
Please also let us know when this issue first started happening for you.

I have been having the Hire Request issue since the latest version release.
(Chat Server: F4, Farm Server: w205)

[Farmer_Susan]

I know layered farms technically aren't supported so I'm not asking for help - mostly just reporting an issue so the devs know about it.

I bought my first 46x46 farm. Was so excited! Cleared all plowed fields (it was layered so it had over 9000 fields) and began the process of creating a layered farm on my new 46x46. I did it the same way I always have - and worked consistently - didn't stop or take breaks. But by the time I got to my 3rd farm to plow it, it had kicked itself out of offline mode and made me reload the whole farm - which, of course, meant that I couldn't plow that one. Net result is that I only got a 2-tiered farm, not the 3-tired I was trying for, i.e., I now have fewer fields than I did with my 44x44. Will try again at some point, but it seems like there's some kind of auto-reload on offline farms if they sit too long. I notice it when I'm working people's facilities, too (I always do those offline so I can have more than one tab open at once.) Would be great if we could have longer before it makes us reload.

[Tiger]

I know layered farms technically aren't supported so I'm not asking for help - mostly just reporting an issue so the devs know about it.

I bought my first 46x46 farm. Was so excited! Cleared all plowed fields (it was layered so it had over 9000 fields) and began the process of creating a layered farm on my new 46x46. I did it the same way I always have - and worked consistently - didn't stop or take breaks. But by the time I got to my 3rd farm to plow it, it had kicked itself out of offline mode and made me reload the whole farm - which, of course, meant that I couldn't plow that one. Net result is that I only got a 2-tiered farm, not the 3-tired I was trying for, i.e., I now have fewer fields than I did with my 44x44. Will try again at some point, but it seems like there's some kind of auto-reload on offline farms if they sit too long. I notice it when I'm working people's facilities, too (I always do those offline so I can have more than one tab open at once.) Would be great if we could have longer before it makes us reload.

Hi Susan,

It's your browser that is auto refreshing. All i can say is you will need to be a little quicker, try another browser might work better for you, for that, or find another way to do it, but as you know layering instructions are not permitted to be posted on the forum.

[WingmanFarm]

You really need to get this hire requests fixed. I hired one person and no response after 10 minutes. So I hired a second person. Now I have both working my farms. This is getting downright ridiculous!

[Dan H]

Update from Rauls post >>

If you are having issues sending Hire Requests and receiving Hire Responses, please post here on this thread the chat server you are connected to, either F3 or F4.

You will find your chat sever number when you first load your farm, in the chat box.
Please also let us know when this issue first started happening for you.

Hire request failed to arrive 0730 on 4-24-2018 from (Chat Server: F37, Farm Server: w206)

[Farmer_Susan]

Hi Susan,

It's your browser that is auto refreshing. All i can say is you will need to be a little quicker, try another browser might work better for you, for that, or find another way to do it, but as you know layering instructions are not permitted to be posted on the forum.

Thanks, Tiger. I didn't realize it was a browser issue. I can try a different one - or maybe there's a setting for that. I was trying to hurry! LOL

[WingmanFarm]

This will give you an idea of how long a hire request follows you. I accepted a request that took me approx 20 minutes. I left FT after finishing and reloaded FT. ( I have to go out of FT because marketplace chat will not allow you to talk if you go to the marketplace after doing a farm -- had to reload over 30 times yesterday.:( )

Anyways what do I get when I get loaded--a hire request that would have been sent 20 minutes when I was in the marketplace.:eek:

[Sqrl]

Someone just tried to hire me after saying they were having trouble hiring, and I immediately got kicked off the server. Chat server F36, farm server w202. They said everyone they tried to hire disappeared. Could be why hire requests aren't getting through? idk

[rockcandymountain]

On Facility Manager/Clipboard the first drop down box is missing several facilities. Was this done intentionally?

[marymarcel]

On Facility Manager/Clipboard the first drop down box is missing several facilities. Was this done intentionally?

Hi rockcandymountain :)

The first option to All Facilities, will show you the facilities and services you own.

Is that option not showing up facilities/services you purchased?

[rockcandymountain]

On my drop down list under Facility Manager/Clipboard...It says I have 18 petrochecmical plants. Yet when I open Facility Manager and count them, I count 19. I've recounted them several times.

[marymarcel]

On my drop down list under Facility Manager/Clipboard...It says I have 18 petrochecmical plants. Yet when I open Facility Manager and count them, I count 19. I've recounted them several times.

Please open your Facility Manager and be sure all your Petrochemical plants have the check mark in the little box beside the facility picture.

If you unchecked one of them, then you will count 19 in the Facility manager but the Ingredient planner first option will only show up 18 as they are the ones checked.

[JNelson]

On my drop down list under Facility Manager/Clipboard...It says I have 18 petrochecmical plants. Yet when I open Facility Manager and count them, I count 19. I've recounted them several times.

you might have accidentally put 2 on the same farm?

[JNelson]

can you take the Easter stuff down please, and maybe put up mom's day early or something .?

[Tiger]

can you take the Easter stuff down please, and maybe put up mom's day early or something .?

Hi JNelson,

We have a contest open that designers need access to the Easter items for. They will be taken down after the contest closes.

[Tiger]

UPDATE from Rauls notes >>

Post-Release Info - April 24th, 10:30PM

- BugFix: Sometimes hire request sent in the market were lost, not reaching the intended employee.

- We replaced the 'Let employee use my fuel' checkbox by a dropdown with the following options:

1. Let employee use my fuel first -> this is the one we had earlier today
2. Let employee use my fuel last -> this is the one we had a month ago, before the last release
3. Do not let employee use my fuel

- We added this dropdown to the Super Neighbour setup screen, so you can specify whatever option you like for each of your Super Neighbours.

Known Problems:

- We are still trying to figure out why some of the hiring confirmation messages are getting lost, which causes the employer doing multiple hires for the same job. There is a chance that this issue could have been fixed as well but we are not sure, so please report on this thread if you are still experiencing it.

[goofyshoes]

:D:D:D:DHUGE HAPPY DANCE RE: THE BUMPED OFF FEATURE!!!!!!!

love love love it!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

[Tiger]

UPDATE >>

Post-Release Info - April 26th, 1:30AM

- Released the Hungarian Restaurant.

[dave1949]

When at the market cant move aviator, keeps saying, wait Im busy.

[tina7447]

Same for me. Can't move when at market. Also when I accept a hire and go to farms, I keep getting other hire requests from people still in the market. :(
F3 w203.

[Tiger]

When at the market cant move aviator, keeps saying, wait Im busy.

Same for me. Can't move when at market. Also when I accept a hire and go to farms, I keep getting other hire requests from people still in the market. :(
F3 w203.

Hi Dave and Tina,

I have just tried this and it's working fine for me. It sounds like the marketplace hasn't finished loading. Try reloading your game and go back again.

Tina, it sound like your avatar may still be at market during the time you go to the job you accepted. All you can do is decline the new job requests when they appear.

[dave1949]

Hi Dave and Tina,

I have just tried this and it's working fine for me. It sounds like the marketplace hasn't finished loading. Try reloading your game and go back again.

Tina, it sound like your avatar may still be at market during the time you go to the job you accepted. All you can do is decline the new job requests when they appear.

Tried that, cleared memcache etc. It still the same

[dave1949]

Hi Dave and Tina,

I have just tried this and it's working fine for me. It sounds like the marketplace hasn't finished loading. Try reloading your game and go back again.

Tina, it sound like your avatar may still be at market during the time you go to the job you accepted. All you can do is decline the new job requests when they appear.

Im at the market hired some one to chop for me, now I cant move, keep saying Wait Im busy

[Tiger]

Tried that, cleared memcache etc. It still the same

Im at the market hired some one to chop for me, now I cant move, keep saying Wait Im busy

Hi Dave,

What are your server numbers please? You will find them in the chat box when you first load your game.

Do you have the same problem if you go to the Inn or the sell and trade market? Are you having any trouble moving around your own farm or anyone elses?

See if you can get to market via another route. Go to a neighbours farm and then go to market, you might connect to another server.

We might need to give this some time and see if it clears itself up.

[dave1949]

Hi Dave,

What are your server numbers please? You will find them in the chat box when you first load your game.

Do you have the same problem if you go to the Inn or the sell and trade market? Are you having any trouble moving around your own farm or anyone elses?

See if you can get to market via another route. Go to a neighbours farm and then go to market, you might connect to another server.

We might need to give this some time and see if it clears itself up.

Hi. I can get to the market, no problem, I can move around at the market, but when I hire some one that's when the problem starts. NO problems moving on my farms. I've gone to the market via neighbours farm still the same issue. Not tried at the Inn.
F36 W206. Thanks

[Tiger]

Hi. I can get to the market, no problem, I can move around at the market, but when I hire some one that's when the problem starts. NO problems moving on my farms. I've gone to the market via neighbours farm still the same issue. Not tried at the Inn.
F36 W206. Thanks

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your server numbers. I've just tried that as well and it's still working for me. We are going to have to wait a while and see if this clears up. In the meantime, if you wish, you can report it to support. They may have more reports than we do at the moment.

[tina7447]

Hi Tiger, thank you for reply. The last time it happened I was working on someone's farm and it was nearly done. I clicked and another hire came up and I caught on it and went to the new hirer's farm. Not a major problem, I will ride it out for a few days and see what happens. Thank you. :)

[dave1949]

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your server numbers. I've just tried that as well and it's still working for me. We are going to have to wait a while and see if this clears up. In the meantime, if you wish, you can report it to support. They may have more reports than we do at the moment.

OK no problem Thank You

[jeannine_p]

i am now having the issue of when i hire someone from market, i dont get the message that they accepted, so i stand around and wait and end up hiring another,. and i dont get their message that they accepted or declined the work offer. ive tried this on a couple different browsers, same issue n matter which one. i have run the memcache several times, and then tried it again, same problem. i primarily use chrome, and im on win10

Chat Server: F4, Farm Server: w203

[jeannine_p]

im just curious... none of the ingredients in the flavored water factory requires the carbonated water from the semi? only the fruit? thats what im seeing... can someone let me know if thats correct? thanks!

[Tiger]

im just curious... none of the ingredients in the flavored water factory requires the carbonated water from the semi? only the fruit? thats what im seeing... can someone let me know if thats correct? thanks!

Hi jeannine_p,

No it's not using carbonated water.

[maggiel29]

Been on hols with no internet so excited to see this - a belated thank you. It was released on my 37th Wedding Anniversary :)

[marymarcel]

Hi all :)

From Raul notes for the New Release:

Post-Release Info - April 27th, 11:00PM

- While we continue troubleshooting the issue of missing Hire Request confirmation messages, we will be disabling and enabling again the 'Employee remaining hired after a browser crash' feature (2.a above). Currently it is disabled.

[Noel Anne]

Love the new "pink" on the ft wall req...however, the 12 hour repeat ability doesn't seem to be working consistently well...one of my neighbors couldn't access my facilities for over 24 hours...and I've had similar issues. Is anyone else having this problem?

[marymarcel]

Love the new "pink" on the ft wall req...however, the 12 hour repeat ability doesn't seem to be working consistently well...one of my neighbors couldn't access my facilities for over 24 hours...and I've had similar issues. Is anyone else having this problem?

Hi Noel Anne :)

If you want to rework the same facilities/services for a friend, you have to stop working factories for 8 hours, for example while you sleep.

Let me give you an example: let say you worked A factories at 09:00 am so you will be able to rework those same factories at 05:00 pm. But if you worked B factories at 03:00 pm, then all times reset and you will be able to rework A and B at 11:00 pm

If your friend has not stopped working factories for 8 hours, then yes, it is probably they are getting the "oops" message when trying to rework your factories.

Tell your friend to load their own farm before starting to work other factories and click in the tool box. Then click in the clock icon and under Gamewide button they will see the options for Rework Facilities and Rework Service Facilities.

If those options have a green tick then they can rework facilities, if not, they will see how much time they have to wait to rework facilities.

[Noel Anne]

Thank you so so so much for this information...hadn't know we'd have to stop working ALL facilities/clients for that period of time for repeats!!! I appreciate your response, thank you!!!

[marymarcel]

Thank you so so so much for this information...hadn't know we'd have to stop working ALL facilities/clients for that period of time for repeats!!! I appreciate your response, thank you!!!


You are very welcome :)

[Aussie Rae]

this problem of people from the market following us home is getting worse, used to be only one or two ghosts made the trip.. just had 7 follow me and more are arriving, also the chat box at the bottom of the game is still active and I can see what is being said... too funny!! this is the first visit to market after logging on this morning, lets hope the devs can sort the mess out.... LOL ps, ended up with 11 avatars on my home farm.. the chat box finally closed... will run memcache and reload... :)

[rockcandymountain]

Hi rockcandymountain :)

The first option to All Facilities, will show you the facilities and services you own.

Is that option not showing up facilities/services you purchased?

The options available are all marked. However there are facilities that just don't show up. In the first drop down list there is a list of facilities with the number I have in parenthesis. Yet there are facilities like the Bank that I own that aren't listed. I can go on and list several more that are NOT showing on the list. I have banks on every farm btw.

[marymarcel]

The options available are all marked. However there are facilities that just don't show up. In the first drop down list there is a list of facilities with the number I have in parenthesis. Yet there are facilities like the Bank that I own that aren't listed. I can go on and list several more that are NOT showing on the list. I have banks on every farm btw.

Hi rockcandymountain :)

The Bank and other factories which cant be worked by friends are not showing up in the All facilities option as those facilities dont use ingredients. When you load them you use your coins.

You have a list of non workable facilities in the Game Guide for Facilities chapter:

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=478002

For other facilities which use ingredients, All facilities option will show you the amount into brackets, for the ones which have a check mark. So if you own let say 6 Metal mill but you unchecked 2, you will see 6 in the Facility manager, but only 4 in All facilities option as you only need ingredients for 4 metal mill not 6.

[WillowTreeFarm]

A comment about the current release. My favorite feature is the pinked out background to show the neighbors whose facilities I have already work especially since a few like to post every few hours or so.

My question is does anyone else have an issue with this feature not working for certain neighbors? I have a neighbor whose hire facility goods never turns pink even when I work it multiple times.

My husband & I are having this problem also. We have the same neighbor and when we work her facilities and her referrals, then reload, only the facilities post turns pink, the referrals post does not turn pink.

[Taz D]

My husband & I are having this problem also. We have the same neighbor and when we work her facilities and her referrals, then reload, only the facilities post turns pink, the referrals post does not turn pink.
Hi WillowTreeFarm,
I have checked this and can't duplicate it. All I have worked facilities and services for have turned pink after I reload the tab.

[bruhelmboldt]

Happy Mother's Day, Taz!! ;)

[Taz D]

Happy Mother's Day, Taz!! ;)
Uh thanks but I am not a mother. :confused:

[Snookie Sue]

As of this morning I was still not getting some notifications. Some hires are very gracious when I apologize, others not so much. :(

[leighwj1960]

Last night and again this morning I tried for almost an hour to get someone to work my farms and I received no response to any of the hire requests. I finally had to take care of the work myself

[art4227]

Last night and again this morning I tried for almost an hour to get someone to work my farms and I received no response to any of the hire requests. I finally had to take care of the work myself

I have or had this issue sometimes. When this was happening, I would not see a 'hiring' message go out. I found that if I reloaded the game, the hiring would then work.

[Aussie Rae]

(Chat Server: F4, Farm Server: w206) hired in the market this morning, did not get any notification from the worker to say she had accepted the work, but a notification appeared across the screen when she started working... she did all the work hired for and got the bonus on all farms..

[kevat508]

(Chat Server: F4, Farm Server: w206) hired in the market this morning, did not get any notification from the worker to say she had accepted the work, but a notification appeared across the screen when she started working... she did all the work hired for and got the bonus on all farms..

This often happens with me as well and now and again i get people who i havent clicked on to hire working on my farms.
It's a nuisance but it doesnt matter as long as the work is done.

[pigtails]

I can no longer go back to work when I get booted from a farm. It was working, then it stopped, then it started again and now it has stopped again. Don't know why it doesn't give me the option to go back. Please help.

[Taz D]

I can no longer go back to work when I get booted from a farm. It was working, then it stopped, then it started again and now it has stopped again. Don't know why it doesn't give me the option to go back. Please help.
Hi Pigtails,
I have moved your post to the release announcement as the developers are still working on the hiring. That function is currently disabled as stated by Raul:

Post-Release Info - April 27th, 11:00PM

- While we continue troubleshooting the issue of missing Hire Request confirmation messages, we will be disabling and enabling again the 'Employee remaining hired after a browser crash' feature (2.a above). Currently it is disabled.

[Qivis]

Hi Pigtails,
I have moved your post to the release announcement as the developers are still working on the hiring. That function is currently disabled as stated by Raul:

Post-Release Info - April 27th, 11:00PM

- While we continue troubleshooting the issue of missing Hire Request confirmation messages, we will be disabling and enabling again the 'Employee remaining hired after a browser crash' feature (2.a above). Currently it is disabled.

I have not experienced these types of problems myself, but thanks for reminding us. I have over 3000 friends listed as having farmed in the past or present, but many of them are afraid to ask questions in the Forum for various reasons such as fear of asking "stupid questions" or looking foolish for reporting things. So if I see these issues pop up on the Facebook wall I will at least have the information to pass along to them.

[ccheney]

I'm not getting confirmation that my work request was received and accepted or declined by the person I sent it to. This happened again tonight. I sent a job request to someone. I waited and got no response and the person was still there. I went to the farm I hired for to check and no one was there except me. I went back to the market the person I asked was gone. I sent a request to someone else. Waited a minute or so. No response and the person was still there. I went to my farm again and no one there. I went back to the market the person was gone so and tried one more time to hire someone and same thing. So I gave up and went back to my farm and lo and behold when I got there, there were three people there working.

[Taz D]

I'm not getting confirmation that my work request was received and accepted or declined by the person I sent it to. This happened again tonight. I sent a job request to someone. I waited and got no response and the person was still there. I went to the farm I hired for to check and no one was there except me. I went back to the market the person I asked was gone. I sent a request to someone else. Waited a minute or so. No response and the person was still there. I went to my farm again and no one there. I went back to the market the person was gone so and tried one more time to hire someone and same thing. So I gave up and went back to my farm and lo and behold when I got there, there were three people there working.
Hi ccheney,
I moved your post to the current release thread as the developers are still working on this problem. As stated by Raul in the release announcement:

Post-Release Info - April 27th, 11:00PM

- While we continue troubleshooting the issue of missing Hire Request confirmation messages, we will be disabling and enabling again the 'Employee remaining hired after a browser crash' feature (2.a above). Currently it is disabled.

Known Problems:

- We are still trying to figure out why some of the hiring confirmation messages are getting lost, which causes the employer doing multiple hires for the same job. There is a chance that this issue could have been fixed as well but we are not sure, so please report on this thread if you are still experiencing it.

[Cherry's Farm]

I was kicked off a hire back to my own farm, usually asked to return home, not this time, it just seemed to refresh the page. Hey Presto, home. Chat Server F4 Farm Server W204.

[Farmer_Susan]

I'm not sure if this info will be helpful but that's my intention:

I've been having to clear my memcache a LOT in the last few days. In the past, I'd only have to clear it every few weeks but here lately, it's every few hours. Oftentimes it's my ships that I can't open.

Then this morning, I hired someone, then came back in about an hour to plant. I checked my "Show Work Information" thing and all the same things were still showing that had been there an hour ago. At first I thought maybe the person I hired hadn't gotten there but then I noticed that the timer was off - said I could check again in 91 minutes. The work had all been done. Clearing my memcache is fixing these miscellaneous things but I thought the devs might want to know about them.

[Taz D]

I'm not sure if this info will be helpful but that's my intention:

I've been having to clear my memcache a LOT in the last few days. In the past, I'd only have to clear it every few weeks but here lately, it's every few hours. Oftentimes it's my ships that I can't open.

Then this morning, I hired someone, then came back in about an hour to plant. I checked my "Show Work Information" thing and all the same things were still showing that had been there an hour ago. At first I thought maybe the person I hired hadn't gotten there but then I noticed that the timer was off - said I could check again in 91 minutes. The work had all been done. Clearing my memcache is fixing these miscellaneous things but I thought the devs might want to know about them.
Hi Susan,
What timer are you talking about?

[Farmer_Susan]

Hi Susan,
What timer are you talking about?

If you click the "Show Names" thing on the top of the farm blocks - then you click "Show Work Info" - if you do that again before 10 minutes have passed, you get a message that says, "You can pull updated information again in x minutes." Mine said 91 and seemed to be stuck.

[Taz D]

If you click the "Show Names" thing on the top of the farm blocks - then you click "Show Work Info" - if you do that again before 10 minutes have passed, you get a message that says, "You can pull updated information again in x minutes." Mine said 91 and seemed to be stuck.
Hi Susan,
That sounds like it would be your computer date/time was off. I think clearing the memcache just gave your computer time to update to correct time.

[Farmer_Susan]

Hi Susan,
That sounds like it would be your computer date/time was off. I think clearing the memcache just gave your computer time to update to correct time.

What would have caused my computer date/time to be off? And also, how would it have said 91 minutes? I didn't think it was ever supposed to go above 10?

[Taz D]

What would have caused my computer date/time to be off? And also, how would it have said 91 minutes? I didn't think it was ever supposed to go above 10?
Hi Susan,
You Date and time might get off because it hasn't synced up with a time location that provides time correction.
If that time is off lets say it is 81 minutes behind then it would show you need to wait 91 minutes (difference be tween 81 and 91) to get updated information.

[Farmer_Susan]

Hi Susan,
You Date and time might get off because it hasn't synced up with a time location that provides time correction.

And the lack of syncing could have happened even though I was sitting here using my computer the whole time - just not on Farmtown?

[Taz D]

And the lack of syncing could have happened even though I was sitting here using my computer the whole time - just not on Farmtown?
Hi Susan,
It could if the site that is used was not available at the time. Farm Town depends on the clock on your computer for recording time for your game.

[Queen.of.Clutter]

I'm not getting confirmation that my work request was received and accepted or declined by the person I sent it to. This happened again tonight. I sent a job request to someone. I waited and got no response and the person was still there. I went to the farm I hired for to check and no one was there except me. I went back to the market the person I asked was gone. I sent a request to someone else. Waited a minute or so. No response and the person was still there. I went to my farm again and no one there. I went back to the market the person was gone so and tried one more time to hire someone and same thing. So I gave up and went back to my farm and lo and behold when I got there, there were three people there working.

***** Same thing just happened to me ... it's getting worse instead of better. I have been going back to the farm to check after each hire - waited 2 to 3 minutes ... actually re-loading the game too. I was back in the Marketplace to hire a 3rd time and saw scrolling on the screen. Went back to my farm AGAIN and ended up with 2 people and couldn't even click on the one to say I was sorry. It takes a good 15 - 20 minutes just to hire anymore.

[Taz D]

***** Same thing just happened to me ... it's getting worse instead of better. I have been going back to the farm to check after each hire - waited 2 to 3 minutes ... actually re-loading the game too. I was back in the Marketplace to hire a 3rd time and saw scrolling on the screen. Went back to my farm AGAIN and ended up with 2 people and couldn't even click on the one to say I was sorry. It takes a good 15 - 20 minutes just to hire anymore.
Hi Queen of Clutter,
The developers are still working on this problem as stated in the release notes and no solution has been released yet.

[Farmer DeDe]

Howdy,

I have tried to hire...do not get a response so I hire another farmer and before you know it, there is a convention going on on my farms with multiple farmers working. I only hire solo.

Also, I only work solo so if I spot a working convention (not ghosts) I leave. This caused a farmer who hired me giving me grief in the marketplace for leaving without finishing. Obviously, she did not know the return to farm feature has been disabled because she ranted on and on that, I could have returned to finish. Nor was she aware of the convention going on at her farm.

Finally, and the most annoying, is when I am working a farm - especially a high coin fish farm - all of a sudden here comes more work request and POOF here I go to another farm that is not one of the ones I was hired to do because while working the farm I was supposed to be working I accidentally click the accept for the one that popped up. With farm purchases in the billion coin range, fish farms are very lucrative and the ones that are the most regretted when bumped off. Rant over :(

[Taz D]

Howdy,

I have tried to hire...do not get a response so I hire another farmer and before you know it, there is a convention going on on my farms with multiple farmers working. I only hire solo.

Also, I only work solo so if I spot a working convention (not ghosts) I leave. This caused a farmer who hired me giving me grief in the marketplace for leaving without finishing. Obviously, she did not know the return to farm feature has been disabled because she ranted on and on that, I could have returned to finish. Nor was she aware of the convention going on at her farm.

Finally, and the most annoying, is when I am working a farm - especially a high coin fish farm - all of a sudden here comes more work request and POOF here I go to another farm that is not one of the ones I was hired to do because while working the farm I was supposed to be working I accidentally click the accept for the one that popped up. With farm purchases in the billion coin range, fish farms are very lucrative and the ones that are the most regretted when bumped off. Rant over :(
Hi DeDe,
The developers are still working the hiring issues. Please be patient while they try to figure out and fix the problem.

[Farmer DeDe]

Here is something I have noticed. If a farmer is standing right behind you and you are picked to work, I think they get the invite, also. The reason I think this is happening is there was a farmer that was standing behind me so that you could not see her but you saw her hair. Sure enough, we both landed on the farm to work. I left because I only work solo. I assume the farmer picked me because I was the one you could see. Just a thought...

[ccheney]

I have started getting work requests from people in the marketplace after I have left it and am back on my farm or on someone else's farm. Only my avatar is showing on the farm I am on at the time. It happened today just a little while ago. I had gone back to my farm from the marketplace after giving up trying to hire and had been there on my farm at least a minute when two separate work requests popped up.

[Queen.of.Clutter]

Hi Queen of Clutter,
The developers are still working on this problem as stated in the release notes and no solution has been released yet.

MUCH better today !! Notifications were spot-on ... got everything hired out in under 5 minutes! Thanks to the developers for working on this fix.

[madisgigi]

When I go to the market and get hired to work, sometimes after I arrive on the farm and start working, i get more hires. I click them off but when I finish and go back to the market, my avatar won't move , just says "busy". If I don't get any hires when I am on the farm working then everything is fine.

[WingmanFarm]

This is getting out of hand.

I commented before about freezing issues and is anything it is getting worse and worse. I MUST log out of FT every time I work another farmers farms before I go anywhere. If I go to the marketplace, my avatar freezes or I cannot chat. If I go home I cannot open my cargo ships or facilities.

Recently when being hired and there is another worker I will go to another of that farmer's farm --however it freezes and gets stuck on "joining room". I was just on a job all by myself , finished one farm and clicked to go to the next. Again I get to joining room and it freezes. This is worse than just a freeze go out of FT and all ok. I actually have to turn off my computer.

Oh and the new feature of being able to rejoin back to the farm --it like so many things does not work. Another glitch to add to the ever growing list.:(

[Taz D]

When I go to the market and get hired to work, sometimes after I arrive on the farm and start working, i get more hires. I click them off but when I finish and go back to the market, my avatar won't move , just says "busy". If I don't get any hires when I am on the farm working then everything is fine.
Hi madisgigi,
I moved your post to the current release subject thread.
The developers are still working on the hiring issues. The only way to get past the stuck avatar is to close and restart your farms then go back to the market.

Post-Release Info - April 27th, 11:00PM

- While we continue troubleshooting the issue of missing Hire Request confirmation messages, we will be disabling and enabling again the 'Employee remaining hired after a browser crash' feature (2.a above). Currently it is disabled.

Known Problems:

- We are still trying to figure out why some of the hiring confirmation messages are getting lost, which causes the employer doing multiple hires for the same job. There is a chance that this issue could have been fixed as well but we are not sure, so please report on this thread if you are still experiencing it.

[Taz D]

This is getting out of hand.

I commented before about freezing issues and is anything it is getting worse and worse. I MUST log out of FT every time I work another farmers farms before I go anywhere. If I go to the marketplace, my avatar freezes or I cannot chat. If I go home I cannot open my cargo ships or facilities.

Recently when being hired and there is another worker I will go to another of that farmer's farm --however it freezes and gets stuck on "joining room". I was just on a job all by myself , finished one farm and clicked to go to the next. Again I get to joining room and it freezes. This is worse than just a freeze go out of FT and all ok. I actually have to turn off my computer.

Oh and the new feature of being able to rejoin back to the farm --it like so many things does not work. Another glitch to add to the ever growing list.:(
Hi Wingman,
I moved your post to the current release subject thread. The developers are still working to try and solve these hiring problems. Please be patient until they can find and fix the problems.

As far as you freezing on a farm while you are working try turning off all items in the preferences that you are not currently working on. Then when you finish that job switch to the next item you need to work on. If you are freezing so much that you have to restart the computer then it sounds more like a memory problem which unchecking the show items you do not need will help.

[WingmanFarm]

Hi Wingman,
I moved your post to the current release subject thread. The developers are still working to try and solve these hiring problems. Please be patient until they can find and fix the problems.

As far as you freezing on a farm while you are working try turning off all items in the preferences that you are not currently working on. Then when you finish that job switch to the next item you need to work on. If you are freezing so much that you have to restart the computer then it sounds more like a memory problem which unchecking the show items you do not need will help.

One quick question that was suggested to me.

Is it possible it is a flash problem?

[Taz D]

One quick question that was suggested to me.

Is it possible it is a flash problem?
Hi Wingman,
If you mean the freezing it is possible. Only one way to find out and that is to uninstall and reinstall Flash. Use the following link for Adobe's uninstaller. Do not use the windows uninstaller as that will not remove all the files and could leave a corrupt one.
Please use the following link for the uninstaller.

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/...r-windows.html (http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html)

[Autumn06]

Not sure where to put this, I think that since the problems with hiring others and not getting a hire confirmation message it is making other problems pop up. When I am in the Market Place and I try to move to another spot, the message "Wait.....I'm Busy" rises from my avatar and no it doesnt have anything to do with clearing my cashe or history because I've already done that. Sometimes I can move and other times I can't. People continually stand in front of me and I have to keep moving and when I can't I have to refresh my browser. It's annoying, just an FYI

[Taz D]

Not sure where to put this, I think that since the problems with hiring others and not getting a hire confirmation message it is making other problems pop up. When I am in the Market Place and I try to move to another spot, the message "Wait.....I'm Busy" rises from my avatar and no it doesnt have anything to do with clearing my cashe or history because I've already done that. Sometimes I can move and other times I can't. People continually stand in front of me and I have to keep moving and when I can't I have to refresh my browser. It's annoying, just an FYI
Hi Autumn,
I moved your post to the current release thread as this is also part of the hiring problem. This usually happens after you have done one job and gone back to the market.
The developers are still working on the hiring issues. The only thing I can say is be patient while they try to find the problem and fix it.

[marymarcel]

Hi all :)

From Raul notes for the New Release

Post-Release Info - May 9th, 2:00AM

- Bugfix: Players sometimes getting the "Wait I'm Busy" message by mistake on different contexts, like when moving avatar, trying to open the Facility Manager and may be other scenarios as well.
- Bugfix: Employees kept receiving hire requests even when they have already been hired and working the farm.
- Bugfix: Employers not receiving the confirmation message that the employee has accepted the hire request. On this one, we think there could still be situations where the confirmation message may not arrive, but at least this should be happening as infrequent as it was happening a month ago, before the recent changes.

[Farmer_Susan]

YAY!!! I just love our devs. : )

[Dulcinea]

UPDATE from Rauls notes >>
- We replaced the 'Let employee use my fuel' checkbox by a dropdown with the following options:

1. Let employee use my fuel first -> this is the one we had earlier today
2. Let employee use my fuel last -> this is the one we had a month ago, before the last release
3. Do not let employee use my fuel

- We added this dropdown to the Super Neighbour setup screen, so you can specify whatever option you like for each of your Super Neighbours.

I only just noticed that my fuel is being depleted more rapidly. Turns out it's because the default on our Super Neighbours has been changed.

Here's the quote from the Game Guide:
When using tools, the fuel will be used from the neighbours fuel unless they have no fuel and then it will be yours that is used.

Could the default pretty please be returned to what it was before, with our SN using their own fuel first? Thanks. :)

[Taz D]

I only just noticed that my fuel is being depleted more rapidly. Turns out it's because the default on our Super Neighbours has been changed.

Here's the quote from the Game Guide:


Could the default pretty please be returned to what it was before, with our SN using their own fuel first? Thanks. :)
Hi Dulcinea,
You can change the fuel usage for each of your Super Neighbors. You have the choice of whether they use your fuel first or their own fuel first or not use your fuel at all. The choice is yours in the Edit Super Neighbor in the menu when you click on them in your neighbor bar.

1. Let employee use my fuel first
2. Let employee use my fuel last (meaning they use their fuel until they run out)
3. Do not let employee use my fuel

[Dulcinea]

Hi Dulcinea,
You can change the fuel usage for each of your Super Neighbors. You have the choice of whether they use your fuel first or their own fuel first or not use your fuel at all. The choice is yours in the Edit Super Neighbor in the menu when you click on them in your neighbor bar.

1. Let employee use my fuel first
2. Let employee use my fuel last (meaning they use their fuel until they run out)
3. Do not let employee use my fuel

Well, it's just that the default's been changed, and players may not realize it as I didn't.

But it doesn't matter. I just went through and changed to option three, which is what I'd wanted anyway. Thanks, Taz. :)

[Taz D]

Raul has added the following fixes:


Post-Release Info - May 10th, 11:30PM

- Continued improving message delivery reliability in the marketplace, for example, before this change, if you have sent a hire request to user U1, then another user U2 send you a hire request, if during the period that the hire request of user U2 is on your screen, user U1 confirms your hire request then you will not see that confirmation. What we did in this case is that all confirmations sent by other players to requests initiated by you will be queued and will be shown eventually after you close the current request being shown on the screen. This applies to buddy and selling product requests as well.

Also, before this change, if during that same period, another user U3 send you a hire request, that request will be simply ignored and the sender will never know. In this case, what we did was to send and auto-reply to the sender telling her that you are currently interacting with another user.

[Kiwi2015]

Great new possibilities. (How do I access the global planner?)
Thanks

[marymarcel]

Great new possibilities. (How do I access the global planner?)
Thanks

Hi Kiwi2015 :)

The global planner is the Ingredient Planner. Please open your Facility Manager and click in the little notebook. Then you can change some of the options given there and click in Update button to get the information.

[WillowTreeFarm]

I'm sorry I don't know where to post this so I'll try here. My friend has lost her FT request page and I have read the topics under Help & Support and did not find an answer for her. Could you please point me to the correct answer to help her. Thank you.

[Tiger]

I'm sorry I don't know where to post this so I'll try here. My friend has lost her FT request page and I have read the topics under Help & Support and did not find an answer for her. Could you please point me to the correct answer to help her. Thank you.

Hi WillowTreeFarm,

Are you talking about "My Requests" or "Show FarmTown Wall Requests"?

You get to the latter through the "My Requests" tab.

If she can't see them have her exit and reload the game.

[WillowTreeFarm]

It is her "Show Farm Town Wall Requests" page and she has reloaded the game and restarted her computer and it's still not there.

[marymarcel]

It is her "Show Farm Town Wall Requests" page and she has reloaded the game and restarted her computer and i'ts still not there.

Hi WillowTreeFarm :)

Tiger is not available at this moment.

So, when she clicks in My requests tab the blue link for Show FarmTown wall requests is not showing up or the link is there, but when she clicks on it the page is blank?

Has she tried another browser to check if she gets the same problem?

If she has no problems using other browser, then she can try clearing her memcache and browser cache for the one having issues.

For memcache she has to click in the link below, a new window will open with a short list of unsettings. She has to close that window and her farm if it was open during the clearing. Then she can reopen her farms and check if the page for wall requests is fixed.

https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached

For clearing browser cache, please she has instructions in the following thread:

http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=421890

If nothing works for her, then it is better for her to join the forum so we can work with her. :)

[Mrs Borgies]

“d) On the 'Farmtown Wall Request' screen, we will highlight in pink those posts from users that you have visited recently to work their facilities. If you click on those posts, it's very likely that you receive the warning from the mayor that you already worked the facilities for that user.”

I guys, I Love this new update, but finding that some of my neighbours do not go pink after working their farms. I have done all the usual refresh, clearing the browsers and even started using a freshly installed browser. Nothing helps. Is there anything else I can do or is this a hiccup yet to be worked out?

[Taz D]

“d) On the 'Farmtown Wall Request' screen, we will highlight in pink those posts from users that you have visited recently to work their facilities. If you click on those posts, it's very likely that you receive the warning from the mayor that you already worked the facilities for that user.”

I guys, I Love this new update, but finding that some of my neighbours do not go pink after working their farms. I have done all the usual refresh, clearing the browsers and even started using a freshly installed browser. Nothing helps. Is there anything else I can do or is this a hiccup yet to be worked out?
Hi Mrs Borgeies,
For them to change you have to restart the poage asd they don't change right after you work them. There is an occasional glitch that some don't change.

[Mrs Borgies]

Hi Mrs Borgeies,
For them to change you have to restart the poage asd they don't change right after you work them. There is an occasional glitch that some don't change.

Thanks for your reply.....I do refresh the page and see some changes.....today is really bad, hence my post.
Hopefully it will sort itself out....I love the feature. Cheers. 🙂

[Taz D]

Thank you very much everyone for your feedback on the April release and the new version of the game. I am now closing this thread.


If you require help with the game please post in Help and Support. (http://www.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=1)
For feedback for the game post in General Feedback. (http://www.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186)
Ideas for the game post in Suggestions. (http://www.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2)