New Release -- December 22nd, 2009

[momgoose72]

THANK YOU DEVELOPERS!! I was more than thrilled to receive this message when I logged on this morning.

"Hello Farmers! In order to minimize lost XP/coins we did some changes to the way the game works when you are hired, but we are restoring the old version sometime today due to popular demand. Thanks. "

Let's hope it really does go back to the way that it was. To those that are loosing XP coins - the same thing has happened to me but the loss has been minimal. Just wait until they all add up and don't rush to leave. Remember - it is only a game!!

[olliver]

It sucks big time I was getting sick of the old way when it changed and sped everything up and truly made it a bit competitive and exciting, now it's back to pedantic slow and boring I wont be working anyone elses farm and dont want to sit there for half an hour for someone to do mine. So slow and repetetive it will put me to sleep. You clould always tell what you had done cause a little bar used to go across that fiels now it just click 3 times before it actually clears it and constant messages telling you Wait I'm busy. Way To Slow Way To Boring. Anyone that enjoys slowly clicking away in conformed lines is pedantic. And as for lost XP's you could get twice as many the other way so it wouldn't matter if you lost some now you can get every little point and it only takes an hour to do it forget going to another farm to work your brain dead by the time you finish one small farm.Time to find another game such a shame

[laurar133]

i think this is good because you can see what you are doing and people that have the cheat program cant hog the whole field. Dont change it back we will get use to it!!!!!!!!!

[CynthiaSue]

I don't mind others being faster, what I minded was when they would hog all the plots. Why not allow me to finish the row I am doing if I am neatly doing one small area and am not moving slowly, just not as fast as others. I may not be as fast a clicker as others, but there is rude behavior on farms. Some people do not choose one area to work on, but would click in any area where another was working even when there was an area they could work in that no one was working in. I always zoom way out and find an area no one is working in and go there and work, so I don't have to click on a plot just to have another click on it a hair ahead of me. I am sure that is what alot of people didn't like. You don't have to take plots you know full well the other person is goign to get in a second. No one said it had to be fair, but rude is still rude. Clicking on plots in an areas someone about to get to who is working in a logical pattern is hogging all the plots. Technically you won't have done anything wrong, you will just have been not so nice to someone else. Just because you can do it, does not mean you ought to do it.

[pde64]

the loss of a few coins here and there is not worth the loss of speed we now see. i appriciate what you tried to do, but this is not better.

[Sandman1967]

THANK YOU for listening to the people and changing it back!
Sure wish you guys ran the government!

[CynthiaSue]

I thought the message meant that the way it has now gone back to is the way people wanted it by popular demand becuase they were losing points and coins. Am I misunderstanding here? I would be very happy for it to go back to the fast way where you can click on the plots and wait for your avatar to catch up. I thought that was the way that some said they were losing points and coins. I am telling you now that I lose coins and points this way because plowing or harvesting, after I click on plots on farms where there are multiple workers, it says already done. I have already wasted lots of clicks doing plots that show undone when they are already done. When I see that happen, I now leave. Why should I have to keep guessing which plots are done and which aren't. I don't get coins or points for those, so I am wasting my time.

I had a harder time finding plowers today, both yesterday and today, I had to rehire for my fields as people either quit or were booted, I have no way of knowing which. I only hire one person at a time, as I want even slow workers to be able to get more work. They obviously need it more than the faster workers. And I also don't like to have people competing for plots. People like to work alone. However, I am not sure if they do anymore with this old way. I used to be ok with the old way, but have been spoiled with the new way, and really got weary of the old way by the end of yesterday. I just haven't gotten the hang of it.

[babybumblebee]

Well it looks like all the complainers are going to get their wish today. I just hope they also put a limit on the number of hires. Regardless, though - I won't stamp my feet and decide not to play, I love the game. I just leave farms where people can't be considerate of others - this IS a social game after all.

[mfisch2001]

The new harvesting method is terrible. It is slow enough to finish one field before moving to the next, and the messages slow it more and interfere with visibility as do the giant tools. While I dislike the spastic harvesters, a better solution would be to limit harvesters (may based on farm size - 4 max), or don't allow them to leave a farm until the points are collected. The game is no longer worth the effort.

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[wifiepooh2558]

I REALLY liked the changes made to harvesting/plowing when hired, I am one of the ones that would lose 1/2 a crop worth of coins when plowing or harvesting and that adds up to be quite a lot of lost coins and xp over time ... especially awful when I'm picking the higher and more expensive crops. with the new changes I was getting the crop done fast and not losing any xp and coins ... I really hope you reconsider and decide to keep the changes