New Release -- January 16th, 2020

[Raul]

See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Updates at the end of this post. Last changes released on January 31st, 11:20PM.

Hi There,

We just released a new update with the following features and bug fixes: En Español AQUI (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=644858)

1. 8 new Valentine Items: 7 at the top of the Valentines category in the Store and 1 at the bottom.

2. 25 New Levels: 25 new items in the Winter, Trees, Buildings, Farm Decor, Motion and 'Other' categories in the Store.

3. 50 x 50 farm expansion for Farms 11 to 20: Please note that these expansions are for the *original farms* 11 to 20. If you have moved your farms around using the Farm Selector Manager then you will need to find your original farms from 11 to 20 to expand them. You cannot expand a farm just because it is sitting in one of those locations in your Farm Selector.

4. 7 Overhead Crane tools: Each matching the colors of existing ships, they provide the following benefits:

a) Each crane matching the color of another farmers ship waiting on your Seaport will allow you to load that particular ship in 1 click

b) If you own all the cranes this will activate the 'Load All' button at the top of your Seaport Screen to load *all* the ships at your Seaport 1 click

c) After you dispatch a ship, if it gets stuck at a port for more than X minutes and you also own the matching color crane for that ship, you will be able to load the ship yourself a certain amount of times depending on the ship color:

Blue Ship ---> Self Load up to 1 port after being stuck for 60 mins
Orange Ship -> Self Load up to 2 ports after being stuck for 50 mins
Green Ship --> Self Load up to 3 ports after being stuck for 40 mins
Purple Ship -> Self Load up to 4 ports after being stuck for 30 mins
Brown Ship --> Self Load up to 5 ports after being stuck for 20 mins
Pink Ship ---> Self Load up to 6 ports after being stuck for 10 mins
Yellow Ship -> Self Load up to 7 ports any time you want

Note: As with the Skip button, the self Load button do not work on the last port. Also, to receive those benefits you have to add all the Cranes to your Item Storage.

5. Neighbourhoods Chains Contest Scoring Change: Before this change, the score of a neighborhood is computed by adding all the XP points you earn plus all the XP points that your neighbours earn working the facilities in the contest. We feel that this method is not well balanced as it put too much importance on your neighbours effort and too little on your own individual effort. With this update we changed the way the neighbourhood score is computed as follows:

a) Each XP your neighbour earn contributes 1 point, no change here
b) Each XP you earn, instead of contributing just 1 point, will contribute as many points as the number of neighbours you have participating in the contest

For example, if you have 100 neighbours in the contest and each of them earn 1 XP, then your neighborhood score will be 1 * 100 = 100 points. Then if you earn 1 XP yourself, this will add 1 * 100 = 100 points to your neighborhood score for a total score of 200. This basically makes your individual effort as important as the total combined effort of all your neighbours in the contest.

If you mouse over your total neighborhood score at the bottom of the screen, you will see a tooltip with two lines, one showing your individual contribution and another one showing the combined contribution of all your neighbours.

6. Equestrian Supplies Factory (FC): Produces Equestrian Supplies.

Horseshoe
Hand Held Horse Clipper
Horse Bits
Rein
Driving Bridle
Horse Fly Mask
Saddle Blanket
Rope Halter

7. Bird Supplies Factory (Coins): Produces Bird Supplies.

Bird Swing
Bird Ladder
Bird Climbing Net
Bird Breeding Nest
Bird Playground
Parrot Climbing Tree
Parrot Treat
Big Bird Cage

8. Tack Shop (FC): Provides Equestrian Retail Services and can be stocked with products from the Equestrian Supplies Factory.

9. Bird Shop (Coins): Provides Bird Supplies Retail Services and can be stocked with products from the Bird Supplies Factory.

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Updates - January 22nd, 2:00AM

- Released 25 new levels, see more info at the top of the post.

Post Release Updates - January 31st, 9:00PM

- 8 new Valentines items, see more info at the top of this thread
- Neighbourhoods Chains Contest scoring change, point #5 above

Post Release Updates - January 31st, 9:30PM

- You can now add the Seaport Manager as a shortcut and you can use it everywhere including in the Markets
- When receiving a hire request you will now see if your employer will let you use her fuel first or last
- BugFix: The Seaport Manager was only showing one ship from the same person even when there were multiple ships waiting on your port

Post Release Updates - January 31st, 11:20PM

- BugFix: Can not hire farmers in the market. Super Neighbours can not work your farms.

Known Issues:

- None.

[Taz D]

Thanks Raul!

[bjyhey3]

Thanks Raul

[sestree]

oooooo I see a Load All button on the ships. It's greyed out for now but happy happies for when it goes active.

eta - found the cranes :D

Thanks Raul.

[buffaloboy]

hi,
thank you for the update :) <3

greetz from austria vienna
tino


http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=100000188751345&farm_ix=39

[FarmerWitch]

Thank you - looking forward to seeing what we have!

[BarbLH]

Thanks, Raul & team! Looking forward to seeing what's in this new release.

[Aussie Rae]

ty, got the new facilities and all the cranes which will save a ton of clicking, lol.. looking forward to seeing what else is in this latest update, great job ft devs and mods :)

[Lara]

woohoo I am happy

[Moose Mob]

Cranes, facs, and the next set of farm expansions.

[Tom C]

Are cranes new?

[Aussie Rae]

Are cranes new?

they are called Overhead Cranes Tom, cost fc, except for the 1st one.. and they work!! saves a ton of clicking if you have a lot of ships arrive in your port...

[Tom C]

How long have we had the overhead cranes

[Bella Bello]

Thanks for the great update, Raul & Team!!

[Dr. Dirt]

I bought all the cranes. I had my brown ship stuck in a port 17 hrs. I only get the "skip port" option when I try to move it forward. In the store it says I can self load up to 5 ports that have been stuck for 20 minutes. How does that work? My purple ship has been stuck 7 hours and I should be able to self load up to 4 ports that have been stuck 30 minutes but I only see the skip port option there also. Do the cranes have to be in storage?

[mattie van tonder]

Hi There,

We just released a new version of the game.

Details coming in a few hours.

As usual, please report here any issues you may find in the meantime.

--Raul

dont see any new release so I suppose we'll have to figure it out ourselves, thank you, and no upgrading of under-performing FC facilities??

[Tiger]

I bought all the cranes. I had my brown ship stuck in a port 17 hrs. I only get the "skip port" option when I try to move it forward. In the store it says I can self load up to 5 ports that have been stuck for 20 minutes. How does that work? My purple ship has been stuck 7 hours and I should be able to self load up to 4 ports that have been stuck 30 minutes but I only see the skip port option there also. Do the cranes have to be in storage?

Hi Dr. Dirt,

When you buy the cranes the popup does tell you to put them into storage, so please do that and see if they work fine for you after that.

Edit to Add: Just bought them all. If they are out on a farm you can send any ships via the seaport manger, from any farm. BUT in order to get the Load Ship button on your own ship, instead of the Skip Port button they do need to be in storage.

[Aussie Rae]

How long have we had the overhead cranes

just released

[Dr. Dirt]

Hi Dr. Dirt,

When you buy the cranes the popup does tell you to put them into storage, so please do that and see if they work fine for you after that.

Thanks Tiger, putting them in storage worked. Sorry I didn't notice the pop up. :o

[Aussie Rae]

woo hoo.. just tested out loading my ships that were in other ports.. jumped from port 1 to port 8... this was just a trial to see what happens... maybe now I will do more ships myself... lol

[Rob T]

Thanks to you and the whole team for a great update :)

[marymarcel]

Thanks so much Raul and team !! :)

[Tiger]

Thanks Tiger, putting them in storage worked. Sorry I didn't notice the pop up. :o

Great, thank you for coming back to let us know :D

[Tiger]

Thanks very much Raul, especially for the Overhead Cranes, no more crazy amounts of clicking to send ships on! I don't care how many ships are sent to me now :D

[JNelson]

Q - will the overhead crane load and dispatch all ships in my port (i get over 150 of them a day) , and load and dispatch my own ship? or just the ships sitting in my port to send on

[Tiger]

Q - will the overhead crane load and dispatch all ships in my port (i get over 150 of them a day) , and load and dispatch my own ship? or just the ships sitting in my port to send on

Hi JNelson,

You will have to wait for Raul to release any details on the New Release items.

What we know so far is the following:

They do not prepare the containers on your own ships for you, you still have to prepare them yourself and dispatch your own ships.

They enable a Load All button in the Seaport Manager to automatically load the products on the ships that showing in your port, at that time, with one click, and send them on their way. If you own all of the Overhead Cranes and have put them into storage you can send all ships on, that are in your port with one click of the Load All button and will have chances to load products yourself on your own ships that may get stuck at a port.

Each Overhead Crane works on a specific colour of ship and has a specified amount of self loads and a specified time you have to wait until you can self load.

[craftywoman29]

I don't see a pic of the Parrot Climbing Tree in the Bird Supplies Shop. :)

[Taz D]

I don't see a pic of the Parrot Climbing Tree in the Bird Supplies Shop. :)
Hi Craftywoman,
We have already notified the developers of this.

[WillowTreeFarm]

Thank you for the update.

[Zeeky Banutski]

they are called Overhead Cranes Tom, cost fc, except for the 1st one.. and they work!! saves a ton of clicking if you have a lot of ships arrive in your port...

I hope they provide us a "Load All" button for our outgoing ships too...

[BethFB]

Will the overhead cranes load our containers or just the ships that comes in? If it does both, it will really help sending ships out faster.

Thanks Raul and team behind the scenes!

[Taz D]

Will the overhead cranes load our containers or just the ships that comes in? If it does both, it will really help sending ships out faster.

Thanks Raul and team behind the scenes!
Hi Beth,
As it is now, no they don't prepare the containers of your own ships. Whether they will later or not we will have to wait forRaul to post the details of the release. If you wish to make a suggestion to add that please post it in the Suggestions section.

[Farmer_Susan]

WOW! That "Load All" thing is AWESOME! Well worth it.

[TerriFlynn]

Loving the Load All!!

Thank you Raul and team

[dcsully]

so if my ship is in a port and I load it myself - does my neighbor still get the credit?

[Tiger]

so if my ship is in a port and I load it myself - does my neighbor still get the credit?

Hi dscully,

In order to get a reward they must load the ship. The reward is calculated according to their level, what containers are on the ship and how quickly they loaded it. If they don't load the ship they can't get their reward.

[tammyjo408]

thank you. this is the best.

[Texas Belle]

Thank you Raul & team, now let the games begin...

[WyoSugar]

I must be doing something wrong. I bought the blue overhead crane to see how it works. I put it in storage. When I got on, I had 17 ships waiting in my port. About 1/4 of them were blue. I still had to click every ship for each container they were carrying.

Thanks for the update :)

[Taz D]

I must be doing something wrong. I bought the blue overhead crane to see how it works. I put it in storage. When I got on, I had 17 ships waiting in my port. About 1/4 of them were blue. I still had to click every ship for each container they were carrying.

Thanks for the update :)
Hi WyoSugar,
Did you have to click on each one once or the 11 clicks you had to do before?
The Load All button only works when you have all of the cranes. From the release notes " If you own all the cranes this will activate the 'Load All' button at the top of your Seaport Screen to load *all* the ships at your Seaport 1 click"

[MOM GLENDA]

i love this update bought the facilitys and all cranes. the cranes are working great. be happy also when the new level come thanks so much Raul and the team

[texans]

With the new NCC Update, what about the individual effort of working others factories?

[Taz D]

With the new NCC Update, what about the individual effort of working others factories?
Hi Texans,
We have never gotten points for working others facilities. We get the points if they are on your team and refill their facilities. For them filling their facilities you still get 1 point per Xp that they earn as that will not change.

[rodneycs]

If you have the correct crane can you skip port 30? This is the biggest bone of contention that you have been unable to skip port 30.

[Taz D]

If you have the correct crane can you skip port 30? This is the biggest bone of contention that you have been unable to skip port 30.
Hi rodneycs,
Raul didn't say anything about that, so I would doubt it, though we do not have any information on it. The only way you will know is if you try it yourself. I always make sure I have a trusted neighbor in that position to make sure my ships don't get stuck there.

[rodneycs]

Why do you have to buy cranes for ships which you do not have?? Why can't you just buy cranes for the ships you have??

[Taz D]

Why do you have to buy cranes for ships which you do not have?? Why can't you just buy cranes for the ships you have??
Hi Rodneycs,
The cranes are mainly to help you with others ships so you only have to click 1 time instead of 11 times for each ship. And if you have all of the cranes then you only click once on the Load All button to load all of the ships in your port at that time.
You had to buy the ships in order when you met the qualifications for each, why wouldn't you buy the cranes in the same order?

[rodkay1@bigpond.com]

Love new updates but always waiting for facilities that help with others eg I have never started my Deli as it makes products that go nowhere? unless I am doing it wrong!!!!.. Cheers

[rodneycs]

Hi rodneycs,
Raul didn't say anything about that, so I would doubt it, though we do not have any information on it. The only way you will know is if you try it yourself. I always make sure I have a trusted neighbor in that position to make sure my ships don't get stuck there.

you still cannot skip port 30. I had to buy cranes for ships which I do not have and now cannot skip port 30. It just seems a money grabbing exercise.

[rodneycs]

Hi Rodneycs,
The cranes are mainly to help you with others ships so you only have to click 1 time instead of 11 times for each ship. And if you have all of the cranes then you only click once on the Load All button to load all of the ships in your port at that time.
You had to buy the ships in order when you met the qualifications for each, why wouldn't you buy the cranes in the same order?
You just buy ships which have the least load time and so no you did not have to buy ships in order.. That is what I did so I find it just a money grabbing exercise to have to buy cranes for slow loading ships which I do not have.

[Aussie Rae]

You just buy ships which have the least load time and so no you did not have to buy ships in order.. That is what I did so I find it just a money grabbing exercise to have to buy cranes for slow loading ships which I do not have.

I think is great to have the cranes.. if 9 ships arrive in your port overnight, who wouldn't want to be able to click only 1 time instead of 99 times to send them all on? but only if you can afford to purchase them... with rheumatoid arthritis, I find the click once to be an immense improvement.. no more sore wrist, :)

[billypanther]

thank you :-)

[kikarne]

Thanks for the latest update and fixes...

I am still enjoying the game and trying to build my property holdings...

My only niggle is... Some of the older FC Facilities are expensive for those of us with smaller waorking farms.. Is there a chance that we could have, maybe, a special sale on one of them with each update ?? For example.. a half price (or better) deal if we take on all the new Coin updates ??

Just a thought...

Thanks again

Dave ... :)

[lvlrsSweetPea]

I immediately bought them all and put them in my storage. Went to my port and clicked the Load All and almost fell off my chair with excitement! It used to take so long to load all the ships in my port! Thank you so much! Now if we could just do something with those darn trains... ha ha. Keep up the great work! You are much appreciated!

[macwinter]

Thank you for the great update.

[Paul Duds]

Crane - thanks for the self load that helps. I did forget I had used my self load already. There doesn't seem to be a way for you to know if you have. If i remember right it does tell you when you have some you haven't used, but not when you have run out, would like that hover info to also show 0 chances if possible. Thanks.

[Farmer_Susan]

I immediately bought them all and put them in my storage. Went to my port and clicked the Load All and almost fell off my chair with excitement! It used to take so long to load all the ships in my port! Thank you so much! Now if we could just do something with those darn trains... ha ha. Keep up the great work! You are much appreciated!


Ha! Yeah, this pretty much sums up how I feel about the cranes! LOVE them!!!

I'm also delighted to see the improvements to the Neighborhood Chains contest! Can hardly wait to see if it really does make a difference. It's fun to try hard to see if you can accomplish something - but the way it is now, we weren't able to do that because our efforts meant so little. Now maybe we can!

I just LOVE this game and for this exact reason. Raul LISTENS to us - takes in our feedback - and gives us a better game. Consistently. Love that. Thanks, Raul. :)

[Jezebel54]

Thanks Raul! Always love updates!

[Taz D]

Just a reminder to all, if you have a suggestion to change something please post them in the Suggestions section where we organize those by subject for the developers to view.


If you have a problem that isn't specifically about the current release please post those in the Help & Support section rather than here. This thread is only for the current release.

[Cora-Christa]

I think the proposed change would be VERY UNFAIR for MANY PLAYERS

Reason:
Since the number of neighbors is limited by the ID number, you cannot have as many neighbors as you would like, so ALL PLAYERS who can only have fewer neighbors due to this limitation are also disadvantaged in terms of points from the outset -Assignment of the new NCC regulation.

It would be nice if THIS was taken as an opportunity to rethink the proposed change !!!

I have read the example and i understand as follow:
the more NBs the more XPs - the fewer NBs the fewer XPs :(
ie. 100 NBs = 100 XPs, only 40 NBs = only 40 XPs

[Taz D]

I think the proposed change would be VERY UNFAIR for MANY PLAYERS

Reason:
Since the number of neighbors is limited by the ID number, you cannot have as many neighbors as you would like, so ALL PLAYERS who can only have fewer neighbors due to this limitation are also disadvantaged in terms of points from the outset -Assignment of the new NCC regulation.

It would be nice if THIS was taken as an opportunity to rethink the proposed change !!!

I have read the example and i understand as follow:
the more NBs the more XPs - the fewer NBs the fewer XPs :(
ie. 100 NBs = 100 XPs, only 40 NBs = only 40 XPs
Hi Cora-Christa,
The maximum number of neighbors ranges from 90 - 110 not that big a difference. All have a choice in prefernces whether they want to participate, so even if you have 110 neighbors that is not going to be the number of them that will play the NCC.
When the contest contestants are selected they are chosen by how many facilities they have on their team so those with less neighbors will be selected to compete with others who also have less facilities in their team.

[barbara nixon]

thanks so much for the 1 click thingy,,you guys rock..

[Dulcinea]

Hi Cora-Christa,
The maximum number of neighbors ranges from 90 - 110 not that big a difference. All have a choice in prefernces whether they want to participate, so even if you have 110 neighbors that is not going to be the number of them that will play the NCC.
When the contest contestants are selected they are chosen by how many facilities they have on their team so those with less neighbors will be selected to compete with others who also have less facilities in their team.

I thought who we were competing against in the NCC depending on the total number of facilities in our "neighborhood," not the number of people. Wouldn't it make more sense to base our points on the number of facilities? :confused:

[Taz D]

I thought who we were competing against in the NCC depending on the total number of facilities in our "neighborhood," not the number of people. Wouldn't it make more sense to base our points on the number of facilities? :confused:
Hi Dulcinea,
If you want to make a suggestion please post it in the Suggestions section.

[MaryinVA]

Seems like there is no longer any need to have neighbors load your ships, since you can send them on yourself after 30 minutes (at the most). I thought that if a ship stayed in my port for 12 hours that was a long time, but we all have down time (like sleeping!). If my neighbors expect that I am going to be loading their ships every half hour, I'll just close my ports.

[Taz D]

Seems like there is no longer any need to have neighbors load your ships, since you can send them on yourself after 30 minutes (at the most). I thought that if a ship stayed in my port for 12 hours that was a long time, but we all have down time (like sleeping!). If my neighbors expect that I am going to be loading their ships every half hour, I'll just close my ports.
Hi MaryinVA,
You still need neighbors to load your ships because you can only load and move them yourself a limited number of times as shown in this list:


Blue Ship ---> Self Load up to 1 port after being stuck for 60 mins
Orange Ship -> Self Load up to 2 ports after being stuck for 50 mins
Green Ship --> Self Load up to 3 ports after being stuck for 40 mins
Purple Ship -> Self Load up to 4 ports after being stuck for 30 mins
Brown Ship --> Self Load up to 5 ports after being stuck for 20 mins
Pink Ship ---> Self Load up to 6 ports after being stuck for 10 mins
Yellow Ship -> Self Load up to 7 ports any time you want

[Dulcinea]

Hi Dulcinea,
If you want to make a suggestion please post it in the Suggestions section.

So it makes sense then? Well, that's a surprise. I thought I was misunderstanding how it worked! :D

[Taz D]

So it makes sense then? Well, that's a surprise. I thought I was misunderstanding how it worked! :D
Hi Dulcinea,
I did not say it made sense or that I agreed with you. All I said was if you want to make suggestion to change it put it in the Suggestions section.

[Palmarina]

Hi, I bought the blue crane (coins) and put it in storage.
I had a blue cargo ship in my port. What do I do now? I don't understand how it works.
I had to click 11 times just like before to load it.
Help :-(

[Taz D]

Hi, I bought the blue crane (coins) and put it in storage.
I had a blue cargo ship in my port. What do I do now? I don't understand how it works.
I had to click 11 times just like before to load it.
Help :-(
Hi Palmarina,
Please try clearing your memcache (link below), then when the page of unsetting text opens close that as it is done.
If your farm is open close it. Then reopen and try again.
https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/p...lear_memcached (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached)


It should load the blue ship with 1 click, but it may not have recognized it at that point. If clearing the memcache doesn't work try taking it out of storage, click save, then close and reopen your farms and put it back in storage.

[Palmarina]

Hi Taz, thank you for your help. It worked now :-)
Me happy now :)


Hi Palmarina,
Please try clearing your memcache (link below), then when the page of unsetting text opens close that as it is done.
If your farm is open close it. Then reopen and try again.
https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/p...lear_memcached (https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?do=clear_memcached)


It should load the blue ship with 1 click, but it may not have recognized it at that point. If clearing the memcache doesn't work try taking it out of storage, click save, then close and reopen your farms and put it back in storage.

[Hagmart]

This farmer needs bigger harvesting tools to work the bigger farms.

When do you think these bigger tools will be released?

Maybe the FarmTown team will work on creating bigger tools for us to buy instead of making new facilities that of no interest to some farmers like me?

Thank you!

[marymarcel]

This farmer needs bigger harvesting tools to work the bigger farms.

When do you think these bigger tools will be released?

Maybe the FarmTown team will work on creating bigger tools for us to buy instead of making new facilities that of no interest to some farmers like me?

Thank you!

Hi Hagmart :)

Only the developers know when or if they are going to release new tools and they dont tell us in advance.

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

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

This is the link to Suggestions:
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

[emeeko13]

When will we see new flowers?

[Taz D]

When will we see new flowers?
Hi emeeko,
Only the developers know if or when we will have new flowers. They do not tell us in advance of what they will release until it is done. If you want new flowers then please post your suggestions in the Suggestions section. You can not start a new thread there but you can reply to one that fits your suggestion.

[texans]

I hit skip port after 19 min with my crane and got 0 products and it was my #2 person, why didn't I get products???

[Taz D]

I hit skip port after 19 min with my crane and got 0 products and it was my #2 person, why didn't I get products???
Hi Texans,
What ship was it?

If it said Skip Port then either you didn't wait long enough, as each crane has different time lengths between uses or there weren't any Load Ship actions left to be used. If it is set to allow you to load it then it will say Load Ship, not Skip Port.


This is the list of cranes with the number of times it can be used as well as the time limit you have to wait to use it.


Blue Ship ---> Self Load up to 1 port after being stuck for 60 mins
Orange Ship -> Self Load up to 2 ports after being stuck for 50 mins
Green Ship --> Self Load up to 3 ports after being stuck for 40 mins
Purple Ship -> Self Load up to 4 ports after being stuck for 30 mins
Brown Ship --> Self Load up to 5 ports after being stuck for 20 mins
Pink Ship ---> Self Load up to 6 ports after being stuck for 10 mins
Yellow Ship -> Self Load up to 7 ports any time you want

[mewolkins]

thanks so much for the cranes, love them.

[bruhelmboldt]

The Bird Supplies factory and the Bird Shop don't (and should) have supplies for bird feeders (outside) and bird watching! It's a big industry in the US. I'm a birder myself, so I know how much it costs. Disappointed.

[marymarcel]

The Bird Supplies factory and the Bird Shop don't (and should) have supplies for bird feeders (outside) and bird watching! It's a big industry in the US. I'm a birder myself, so I know how much it costs. Disappointed.

Hi bruhelmboldt :)

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

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

This is the link to Suggestion section:

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

[Sonytone]

thank you for the updates Raul and Devs! awesomeness!!!

[furry1993]

Will the Valentine items be available soon?

[JNelson]

Note: As with the Skip button, the self Load button do not work on the last port. Also, to receive those benefits you have to add all the Cranes to your Item Storage.

want to clarify wording .... i think you mean the cranes have to be put into storage for them to work ... but the wording say all cranes.... so my question do you have to buy all the colors for any of the features to work? ie if you buy just the blue its no use til u buy all the other colors ... i getting a lot of querries on this in my group and i want to make sure i understand correct and you meant they just have put into storage

[Taz D]

Note: As with the Skip button, the self Load button do not work on the last port. Also, to receive those benefits you have to add all the Cranes to your Item Storage.

want to clarify wording .... i think you mean the cranes have to be put into storage for them to work ... but the wording say all cranes.... so my question do you have to buy all the colors for any of the features to work? ie if you buy just the blue its no use til u buy all the other colors ... i getting a lot of querries on this in my group and i want to make sure i understand correct and you meant they just have put into storage
Hi JNelson,
In order for the Load All button in the upperleft corner to work you have to own all of the cranes. If you don't own all of them then button stays greyed out.

Any crane you own must be in storage for it to load that individual color ships with 1 click on each individual ship.

[JNelson]

Hi JNelson,
In order for the Load All button in the upperleft corner to work you have to own all of the cranes. If you don't own all of them then button stays greyed out.

Any crane you own must be in storage for it to load that individual color ships with 1 click on each individual ship.


thank you that is what i thought wanted to make sure since it was worded funny several people had questioned that part

[Tiger]

From Rauls notes, first post on the first page of this thread:

Post Release Updates - January 22nd, 2:00AM

- Released 25 new levels, see more info at the top of the post.

Moderator notes:
25 New Levels: 25 new items in the Winter, Trees, Buildings, Farm Decor, Motion and 'Other' categories in the Store.
1 Farm Cash for every new level reached.
New top level is 1125

[Eradani]

i just want to say that the gifts page is really nice with no holiday stuff at the top. wish it could be this way more often as a holiday from holidays

[FrankDieter]

Hello,

I got the Coins and FC cranes, in order, all of them, and stashed them in Storage as instructed.

However, when using the one-click to load my neighbours'/friends' ships, there doesn't seem to be any notification of extra goodies, or as many coins coming back to me as my rewards, as I used to get when doing each ship the required 10 times (each).

I'd rather take the time saving over the goodies/coins, but would be nice if we still got both, having just spent a slight fortune in Farm Cash to get all the cranes. :D

Comments/advice much appreciated - thanks! :)

[Tiger]

Hello,

I got the Coins and FC cranes, in order, all of them, and stashed them in Storage as instructed.

However, when using the one-click to load my neighbours'/friends' ships, there doesn't seem to be any notification of extra goodies, or as many coins coming back to me as my rewards, as I used to get when doing each ship the required 10 times (each).

I'd rather take the time saving over the goodies/coins, but would be nice if we still got both, having just spent a slight fortune in Farm Cash to get all the cranes. :D

Comments/advice much appreciated - thanks! :)

Hi FrankDieter,

There is a brief notification in white lettering when you use Load All that is an accumulation of the rewards for the ships. It is quick so easy to miss. This is an example of what you could see so you know what it looks like:

http://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Load All reward 2 ships.png

You will be getting your rewards according to what you are entitled to even if you miss seeing the notification :)

[JNelson]

while in marketplace went to clear some ships that arrived and game did not recognize i had the all overhead cranes =-- the pop up saying i needed all of them came up but they were all faded out since i own them all, had to go back to main field to clear the port

[Tiger]

while in marketplace went to clear some ships that arrived and game did not recognize i had the all overhead cranes =-- the pop up saying i needed all of them came up but they were all faded out since i own them all, had to go back to main field to clear the port

Hi JNelson,

The probable reason for this is that your not supposed to send ships on while at the marketplaces as you don't have access to the toolbox when at market, in order to get to the seaport manager to send them on. The popup opening the seaport manager at market may not have been intended. You are only supposed to access it to send ships on when on your own farm or another users farm.

It is possible to get the seaport manager to show up at market, but as it was not intended to work that way and in some cases, may not work every time, I'm not going to go into details on how to do it.

You'll have to wait and see if the developers decide to change this so ships can be sent on no matter where you are. They may decide to perhaps prevent the pop up opening the seaport manager or not showing the popup, when you are at market which, in this case, is giving you access to the seaport manager.

For the time being, for the Load All, you need to be on a farm and then it will work fine.

I did find that when you do have access to the seaport manager when at market, although the Load All is greyed out you can use the Load Ship on each ship and send them one by one. Whether you still get the coins and products doing it that way I have not checked into yet.

Edit to Update - Post Release Updates - January 31st, 9:30PM

- You can now add the Seaport Manager as a shortcut and you can use it everywhere including in the Markets

[FrankDieter]

Hi FrankDieter,

There is a brief notification in white lettering when you use Load All that is an accumulation of the rewards for the ships. It is quick so easy to miss. This is an example of what you could see so you know what it looks like:

http://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Load All reward 2 ships.png

You will be getting your rewards according to what you are entitled to even if you miss seeing the notification :)

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Dear Tiger,

Finally spotted the rather brief coins/rewards update in white text as noted. :)

Thanks for your help, and happy farming! :D

[Tiger]

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Dear Tiger,

Finally spotted the rather brief coins/rewards update in white text as noted. :)

Thanks for your help, and happy farming! :D

Hi FrankDieter,

You're welcome, it's only there a short while to stop it getting in the way if you wanted to view something else in the seaport manager.

[Farmer_Susan]

Question about the skip/self-load. Do they reset after that ship has come back home and been unloaded? For example, the blue ship only gets one self-load. But once it's back home and we send it out again, do we get another one?

[Taz D]

Question about the skip/self-load. Do they reset after that ship has come back home and been unloaded? For example, the blue ship only gets one self-load. But once it's back home and we send it out again, do we get another one?
Hi Susan,
Yes it resets. It is not a one time good deal...:)

[Farmer_Susan]

Hi Susan,
Yes it resets. It is not a one time good deal...:)

Ha! Good to know. I'm really loving that feature. :)

[Taz D]

Raul has posted the following update:


Post Release Updates - January 31st, 9:00PM

- 8 new Valentines items, see more info at the top of this thread
- Neighbourhoods Chains Contest scoring change, point #5 above

[Aussie Rae]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FARMTOWN, ps its Feb 1st in Australia, :)

[Taz D]

Hi All,
I have contacted the developers about the Super Neighbor and hiring problems for tools and farm displaying. Please do not post about this and wait patiently until the developers can find and fix the problem. Hopefully it will be a quick easy fix.

[Taz D]

Posted by Raul:


Post Release Updates - January 31st, 11:20PM

- BugFix: Can not hire farmers in the market. Super Neighbours can not work your farms.


Please close and reload your farms to get this fix released for your farms.

[Farmer_Susan]

So excited about the change to the NCC! Should be SO much more fun now that effort = reward. Thanks, Raul. :)

[BarbLH]

Hope you can help as I'm confused about my score on the NCC. On my farm my personal score currently shows as 3,099,274 but on my daughter's farm my current score is 32,971. I think what is on my daughter's farm is accurate, not what I see on my own farm. My other neighbors have "normal" scores. Has something gone wrong since the NCC scoring calculations were changed? Thanks in advance!

[Taz D]

Hope you can help as I'm confused about my score on the NCC. On my farm my personal score currently shows as 3,099,274 but on my daughter's farm my current score is 32,971. I think what is on my daughter's farm is accurate, not what I see on my own farm. My other neighbors have "normal" scores. Has something gone wrong since the NCC scoring calculations were changed? Thanks in advance!
Hi BarbLH,
The score you see for your score in "your" contest on your farm includes the additional points you get for each XP that you add multiplied by how many neighbors you have on your team.

The score you see in your daughter's contest only includes the exact XP you earned for the contest. Look at your daughter's score in her contest and it will show higher in that than when you look at her score in your contest.


The lower amounts are what you contribute to each other's teams. The higher score is what you contribute to your own team.

[bluehair]

I dont see any score for me in my NCC unless I am looking in the wrong place

[Taz D]

I dont see any score for me in my NCC unless I am looking in the wrong place
Hi bluehair,
You need to look in the My Neighborhood Chain tab and you should be at the top of the list.

[BarbLH]

Hi BarbLH,
The score you see for your score in "your" contest on your farm includes the additional points you get for each XP that you add multiplied by how many neighbors you have on your team.

The score you see in your daughter's contest only includes the exact XP you earned for the contest. Look at your daughter's score in her contest and it will show higher in that than when you look at her score in your contest.


The lower amounts are what you contribute to each other's teams. The higher score is what you contribute to your own team.

Thanks, Taz, I appreciate your explanation. I figured that's most likely what was happening. I guess I expected to see my actual & my "extra points" separately.

[bluehair]

this is how it shows on mine

[Taz D]

this is how it shows on mine
Hi Bluehair,
You haven't started your NCC then. The second (middle) tab will not show until you have started products in the facilities listed at the bottom.
You need to go to your preferences and find Enable NCC and place a check in the box. Then you need to start production in the facilities.
You can find all the information about the Neighborhood Chains Contest in the Game Guide:
http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=621846

[Aussie Rae]

I just counted the neighbors in my Neighborhood Quest and I have 61 not counting myself.. so far I have almost exactly half the total amount and have only posted my facs once...will be very interesting to see what transpires when the contest ends.. I really don't care if I don't get any fc, the extra goods are welcome though... :)

[texans]

Can we just go back to the old NCC version? I have lost over 10 neighbors because I am so good at NCC. I usually buy or get a plus 16 every week and have about 26-44 factories a week. Before, friends loved me and now they hate me because I win and destroy them in numbers now and they have no contest. Do I now, not buy anything? Let them win? No, I play the game how I love to play. If I cannot spend more, I won't. I am even blocked by these friends. This is crazy. Please have some sort of solution. Thanks.

[Taz D]

Can we just go back to the old NCC version? I have lost over 10 neighbors because I am so good at NCC. I usually buy or get a plus 16 every week and have about 26-44 factories a week. Before, friends loved me and now they hate me because I win and destroy them in numbers now and they have no contest. Do I now, not buy anything? Let them win? No, I play the game how I love to play. If I cannot spend more, I won't. I am even blocked by these friends. This is crazy. Please have some sort of solution. Thanks.
Hi Texans,
The amounts you are contributing to their contest hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed is the amount you contribute to your own contest. That higher number they can not see and would only know if you tell them. You were winning before so nothing has changed there. Whether you are winning doesn't have any bearing on whether they win because you don't compete directly with them. Instead you are helping them with all the XP that you earn when you fill your facilities.

[texans]

Taz,
I have not shared any info, all they see is the neighborhood top 10 part and how much I am separating myself from them I suppose. Anyways, I enjoy the new update! Just, wish I didn't lose my friends and neighbors.

Thanks.

[Taz D]

Taz,
I have not shared any info, all they see is the neighborhood top 10 part and how much I am separating myself from them I suppose. Anyways, I enjoy the new update! Just, wish I didn't lose my friends and neighbors.

Thanks.
Hi Texans,
They are obviously are not understanding the new way of calculating the points. Sorry you have lost neighbors.

[Farmer_Susan]

I LOVE the new NCC! I'm back to playing again and had a great time last week. My neighborhood came in 2nd - first time I've gotten any FC in forever - so I'm sure that contributed to my liking it so much. But it was GREAT to be able to make a difference in my own game! Much more motivating. Can hardly wait to see how things stack up this week. It's definitely renewed some of my interest in the game - which makes it a good thing for the developers, too. Win-win. Thanks. :)

[Farmer_Susan]

OMG! My neighborhood is in 1st place right now! Just by a NOSE, though. The two under us are within easy striking distance. But this quest is FUN again!!!! Thank you so, so much. :)

[cgsfarm]

NCC - at first I thought great, I came in 5th, I hadn't had that high a score in ages...usually I place 10th-8th. So I started playing hard, racked up a good score before the competing neighbourhoods were done...and guess what....back in 10th position again. Give me a break or some incentive to start playing hard again....never being #1 or #2 and getting that farm cash would be nice....but destroying a person's incentive to do so, by constantly putting them with competing neighbourhoods in which they have no hope of competing against, is mean.

[Aussie Rae]

NCC - at first I thought great, I came in 5th, I hadn't had that high a score in ages...usually I place 10th-8th. So I started playing hard, racked up a good score before the competing neighbourhoods were done...and guess what....back in 10th position again. Give me a break or some incentive to start playing hard again....never being #1 or #2 and getting that farm cash would be nice....but destroying a person's incentive to do so, by constantly putting them with competing neighbourhoods in which they have no hope of competing against, is mean.

I also am very dissapointed with the NCC scoring... also had a great total after filling my facs and have found that most of my neighbors just don't bother... and they only seem to have 1 or 2 facs... luckily this weeks chosen facilities are using up a lot of the excess products I have had in storage but I think I will disable the NCC once this current contest ends... just not worth it anymore...

[Taz D]

NCC - at first I thought great, I came in 5th, I hadn't had that high a score in ages...usually I place 10th-8th. So I started playing hard, racked up a good score before the competing neighbourhoods were done...and guess what....back in 10th position again. Give me a break or some incentive to start playing hard again....never being #1 or #2 and getting that farm cash would be nice....but destroying a person's incentive to do so, by constantly putting them with competing neighbourhoods in which they have no hope of competing against, is mean.

I also am very dissapointed with the NCC scoring... also had a great total after filling my facs and have found that most of my neighbors just don't bother... and they only seem to have 1 or 2 facs... luckily this weeks chosen facilities are using up a lot of the excess products I have had in storage but I think I will disable the NCC once this current contest ends... just not worth it anymore...
Hi cgsfarms and Aussie Rae,
The method of choosing the competing teams has not changed. It is still done by trying to select teams to compete by the number of facilities in your team and matching the closest number of facilities for all teams. The number of facilities in the teams may be a spread of totals, but you have to be able to pick 10 teams and if there are not 10 teams with the same number of facilities then you have to choose some that may be higher or lower than what you have for your team. What the teams do with those facilities is what is going to determine your position in the contest.



What the new scoring does is make the team leader who will win the prizes have to work to get there. It prevents the team leader from just sitting back and letting the team members do all the work and they do little or nothing to help get to the top positions.


If you have a better way to choose the teams you compete against then please suggest it in the Suggestions section.

[Grumpdad]

I also am very dissapointed with the NCC scoring... also had a great total after filling my facs and have found that most of my neighbors just don't bother... and they only seem to have 1 or 2 facs... luckily this weeks chosen facilities are using up a lot of the excess products I have had in storage but I think I will disable the NCC once this current contest ends... just not worth it anymore...

It does seem unfair, I have added 8.8 million this week so far and am 3.1 million behind the NCC above me, but hey ho, last week I scored more points than the team in second place????

[Aussie Rae]

It does seem unfair, I have added 8.8 million this week so far and am 3.1 million behind the NCC above me, but hey ho, last week I scored more points than the team in second place????

I think I must have a lot of dud neighbors, lol (just kidding) :) so far my total contribution is 7,639,460 points.. my 68 neighbors contributed 2,600,399. Now the leader in the competition has 35,110, 468 points... there is no hope for the rest of us... I am still in 7th position.. the same position I usually am if I only fill every couple of days instead of multiple times for this weeks comp. We live and learn.. :)

[Tiger]

It does seem unfair, I have added 8.8 million this week so far and am 3.1 million behind the NCC above me, but hey ho, last week I scored more points than the team in second place????

I think I must have a lot of dud neighbors, lol (just kidding) :) so far my total contribution is 7,639,460 points.. my 68 neighbors contributed 2,600,399. Now the leader in the competition has 35,110, 468 points... there is no hope for the rest of us... I am still in 7th position.. the same position I usually am if I only fill every couple of days instead of multiple times for this weeks comp. We live and learn.. :)

Hi Grumpdad and Aussie Rae,

Let me see if I can clear any of this up for you to help.

The NCC is a contest. The aim of the contest is for you and your neighbours to refill your facilities in the contest as often as you can in order to gain more points than who you compete against. No confusion there.

If another neighbourhood is beating you then they are simply able to do that more often than you and your neighbourhood can.

What you or the game has no control over is predicting what anyone else is going to be able to do towards the NCC during the week, whether its those in your own neighbourhood or those in the competing neighbourhoods. Nor do you have any control over who may or may not add another facility to the contest after the competing neighbourhoods are picked. Now having more facilities does not mean you are going to win one of the top places. A neighbouhood with far less facilities can win by millions of points simply because they are refilling what they do have, more often than the one with more facilities is able to do with theirs. When we were able to see how many facilities a competing neighbouhood had, I saw this myself many times.

Even if you were able to compete with the exact same neighborhoods every week, you all had the exact same amounts of each facility and no one was able to add more. One week you could to better because the competing neighborhoods are not refilling as much as usual. The next week they could refill more than your neighbourhood can, so could beat your neighbourhood.

What you do have control over is how often you refill your own facilities, with the time you have available to play. The more you can do it the more points you will score. However in order to be able to do this, you do need to have the products available to reload them and you need plenty of friends to work them to give you the ability to refill. The more neighbours you have in your neighbourhood, the more times your own points are multiplied for your own contest. For the rest you just have to hope that your neighbours helping you can do the same with their facilites, so their contribution towards your neighbourhood score is greater, and you have to hope that the competing neighbourhoods can not do better than yours can.


This next part is for Aussie Rae - about the amounts you are seeing in the My Neighbourhood Chains for you compared to your neighbours.

The amount you see for yourself is the points you earned for refilling your facilities multiplied by the amount of neighbours you have also in the NCC. This is what changed which is why your amounts are larger than they used to be. What you do with your own facilities now earns you more points than it used to. What your neighbours see for you is just the points you earned for their contest, not what you see.

The amount that you see for a neighbour is only what they contributed to your contest not what they see for themselves. What they will see for themselves is the points they earned multiplied by the neighbours they have that are also in the NCC.

[Aussie Rae]

thanks Tiger.. I think I will disable the NCC after this weeks contest ends... much easier to get fc from the quests each week and not have to constantly refill facilities and rely on neighbors to do the same... most of mine don't.. :)

[Tiger]

thanks Tiger.. I think I will disable the NCC after this weeks contest ends... much easier to get fc from the quests each week and not have to constantly refill facilities and rely on neighbors to do the same... most of mine don't.. :)

Hi Aussie Rae,

I am sorry to hear you are still considering quitting the NCC. It was only near the beginning of the month that you said you didn't care if you won FC and liked the free products. It concerns me that what I have said previously has added to your decision to quit.

I'm going to give you my personal reasons why I won't disable the NCC when I don't do well enough to get any FC or place very low, just in case it helps you reconsider your decision, because you can still play the game the way you want to. By continuing to participate you will be helping those that have you for a neighbour even if you do not do well in the contest yourself.

Before the changes: I rarely placed high, the neighborhoods I competed against, the majority of the time, always did better than mine did. The reasons I did not disable it then are:



The points I earned even without making any special effort with the NCC facilities were enough to be one of the top 10 contributors to a fair amount of my friends which helped them place in the top 3 and some of them won Farm Cash. So I am not going to take the chance of them earning that away from them by not participating. Those that may have felt I did not contribute enough were always free to remove me as being their neighbor.


On a rare occasion I did win FC, without doing anything more than what I do through week with all my facilites. If I had stopped participating I would not have got that. As the saying goes, you have to be in it to win it :D


When I don't place high the free goods just for participating are welcome. Even if you don't make any special effort with the NCC facs you still get rewarded. If I can't use them, they add to the coffers when I routinely sell excess goods. It might not amount to much but you still get something for basically doing nothing other than what you normally do anyway with your facilites.



Since the changes: At the moment I feel it is too early to make assumptions on how well I am going to be doing from now on. There has only been one result and personally I would like to see what happens over the coming weeks. I also want to wait until my friends and neighbours have had time to make their own decisions on how they want to play the NCC.

However, I still will not be disabling it even if I don't agree with their decisions or never win any Farm Cash because I know I am still helping those that have me as their neighbour, just by playing the game the way I want to, and this is why:


The new rule: "Each XP you earn, instead of contributing just 1 point, will contribute as many points as the number of neighbours you have participating in the contest"


This means even a low scoring neighbour adds to the number of times your own score is multiplied by, to help your own contest. So the more neighbors they have participating the more times their score is multiplied by. If you don't have many yourself, it still worth keeping a low scoring neighbour for that reason alone.


If I were to disable the NCC they will not only lose the points I earned towards their score but they would also be denied the additional points they gained for multiplying their score by another 1.


I will always help my friends and neighbours if I can do it playing the game the way I enjoy playing it.

[MOM GLENDA]

my neighbors that are number one every week in the NCC .own 3 or 4 of all facilitys and they post everyday and they keep them full.i am 5 or 6 now used to be 10.i keep doing it to help my neighbors

[Aussie Rae]

Hi Aussie Rae,

I am sorry to hear you are still considering quitting the NCC. It was only near the beginning of the month that you said you didn't care if you won FC and liked the free products. It concerns me that what I have said previously has added to your decision to quit.

I'm going to give you my personal reasons why I won't disable the NCC when I don't do well enough to get any FC or place very low, just in case it helps you reconsider your decision, because you can still play the game the way you want to. By continuing to participate you will be helping those that have you for a neighbour even if you do not do well in the contest yourself.

Before the changes: I rarely placed high, the neighborhoods I competed against, the majority of the time, always did better than mine did. The reasons I did not disable it then are:



The points I earned even without making any special effort with the NCC facilities were enough to be one of the top 10 contributors to a fair amount of my friends which helped them place in the top 3 and some of them won Farm Cash. So I am not going to take the chance of them earning that away from them by not participating. Those that may have felt I did not contribute enough were always free to remove me as being their neighbor.


On a rare occasion I did win FC, without doing anything more than what I do through week with all my facilites. If I had stopped participating I would not have got that. As the saying goes, you have to be in it to win it :D


When I don't place high the free goods just for participating are welcome. Even if you don't make any special effort with the NCC facs you still get rewarded. If I can't use them, they add to the coffers when I routinely sell excess goods. It might not amount to much but you still get something for basically doing nothing other than what you normally do anyway with your facilites.



Since the changes: At the moment I feel it is too early to make assumptions on how well I am going to be doing from now on. There has only been one result and personally I would like to see what happens over the coming weeks. I also want to wait until my friends and neighbours have had time to make their own decisions on how they want to play the NCC.

However, I still will not be disabling it even if I don't agree with their decisions or never win any Farm Cash because I know I am still helping those that have me as their neighbour, just by playing the game the way I want to, and this is why:


The new rule: "Each XP you earn, instead of contributing just 1 point, will contribute as many points as the number of neighbours you have participating in the contest"


This means even a low scoring neighbour adds to the number of times your own score is multiplied by, to help your own contest. So the more neighbors they have participating the more times their score is multiplied by. If you don't have many yourself, it still worth keeping a low scoring neighbour for that reason alone.


If I were to disable the NCC they will not only lose the points I earned towards their score but they would also be denied the additional points they gained for multiplying their score by another 1.


I will always help my friends and neighbours if I can do it playing the game the way I enjoy playing it.


I have reconsidered and won't disable the NCC but will just continue as I did before all the changes came into being... this week I have been filling those nominated facilities multiple times a day only due to the fact I have so much in storage that its not causing me to have any shortages... I will just fill my facilities as I normally do from next week on... thanks for all the info, it is appreciated.. cheers...

[Tiger]

I have reconsidered and won't disable the NCC but will just continue as I did before all the changes came into being... this week I have been filling those nominated facilities multiple times a day only due to the fact I have so much in storage that its not causing me to have any shortages... I will just fill my facilities as I normally do from next week on... thanks for all the info, it is appreciated.. cheers...

Hi Aussie Rae,

Very happy to hear that you will still be participating and that the additional info helped. Thank you very much for letting us know :)

[marymarcel]

Hi farmers :)

I am now closing this thread. Thank you so much to you all for your feedback and questions.

While we wait for the New Release please feel free to post any problems with the game in Help & Support (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=1), any feedback in General Feedback (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186) and your ideas for the game in our Suggestion section. (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2)