New Release -- November 5th, 2013
 

See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Nov 26th, 1:00 AM EST.

Hi There,

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

1. Thanksgiving Items: Old items plus 20 more new items.

2. 36 x 36 Farm Expansions for farms 6 - 10: 40 FarmCash OR

Farm 6 Expansion: 30,000,000,000
Farm 7 Expansion: 30,000,000,000
Farm 8 Expansion: 30,000,000,000
Farm 9 Expansion: 30,000,000,000
Farm 10 Expansion: 30,000,000,000

3. Main Neighbour Bar Improvement: We are now showing the current user in this bar, so you can quickly see where your position is among your neighbours in the different dimensions, like level, help given, etc. This is also the only place you can see the Best Diversification and Help Given Ranks for all your neighbours and yourself.

4. Farm Stats tool Improvement: It now includes by default all the extra produce you will get due to fertilizer, bonus and fish baits. Notice the products from bonuses and baits are estimates but should be pretty close to the real numbers.

You can disable or enable this behavior by unchecking the box at the bottom of the window.

5. Long Tank Freight Car now delivers Crude Oil Barrels as well

6. 10 x 10 tools: Harvester, Seeder, Plower, Harvest-Plow Combine and Harvest-Plant Combine are now available in 10x10 mode, this will allow you to perform farming operations over 100 fields at a time.

7. Dan 7 for Crops: You will have to be at level 200 or higher to have the option to reach Dan 7. Dans 1 to 6 are now accessible at level 100, instead of 150.

8. Less Timeouts: Users with lot of facilities and turbo tools were sometimes experiencing timeouts in the Start All operation and when opening the Facility Manager, this should happen much less frequent now.

9. Facebook Promo - 15 Farm Cash Free: Users that can't afford to spend real money in the game may have the chance to get 15 Farm Cash for free, Courtesy of Facebook. This is a promo offered by Facebook and we do not have any control on it.

We only ask Facebook if the user is eligible, and if it is, we display a Yellow Farm Cash offer bar in the same place where the blue recruiter bar is showing now, right above your farm name on the top.

Facebook may request for you to have a valid credit card on your account for verification only.

10. Faster Avatar and Farming Operations: When you are farming in your farm (not hired) the avatar now tele-transport instead of walking to the next completed fields or plants, and as soon as there is assurance that the operation was saved successfully on our servers.

There will be much less progress bars in the farm at once and they will go away faster as well, this all contributes to a better experience while farming.

Notice that now if you see fields with Progress Bars it means the operations have not been saved yet, so if you refresh the game you will have to redo those fields.

11. Send Farm Cash gift restrictions: In order to send Farm Cash gifts to others you need to buy at least 50 farm cash since you first started playing (or earn it by completing offers).

This is to stop users creating fake facebook accounts and using bots or auto clickers to quickly get to level 25 or 27 in a day or 2 and then sending Farm Cash gifts to friends or themselves. This is not fair to the users that do not use these tricks and it also impact Farmtown revenue.

We know this is a delicate subject. We have already decided to soften the restriction a bit, to require a lifetime purchase (for the Sender) of only 25 Farm Cash, and also, to remove the restriction completely if the Sender has been playing for 6 months already, meaning, it's a legitimate Farmtown player and not a fake account just created to level up and never used again.

This last change was released Nov 6th, 11:30 PM EST.

12. Hawaiian Restaurant (FC): Produces Hawaiian Food.

Macaroni Salad
Poke Salad
Beef Bulgoli
Plate Lunch
Loco Moco
Lomi-Lomi Salmon
Hawaiian Chicken
Haupia

New Products in other facilities: Corn Starch in the Water Mill.

13. Bank (Coins): Produces Financial Products. It just uses coins to produce them, that's why it's not workable by others.

Checking Account
Savings Account
Money Market Account
CD Account
Government Bonds
Municipal Bonds
Corporate Bonds
Capital Stocks

A new Medieval Building was released to replace the Bank at level 126.

14. Spa Supplies Factory (Coins): Produces Spa Supplies.

Palmassager
Massage Brush
Bucket and Ladle
Lip Balm
Body Powder
Cold Cream
Moisturizer
Day Cream

New Products in other facilities: Petroleum Jelly in the Oil Refinery.

15. Day Spa (FC): Provides Health, Beauty and Relaxation Services and can be stocked with all products from the Spa Supplies Factory.

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Updates - Nov 6th, 11:30 PM EST

- The Bank does not consume fuel anymore
- 20 new Thanksgiving items, 3 as gifts, 13 in the top section in the store and 4 in the bottom section
- The Avatar picture of yourself in the Neighbour Bar now shows accurately
- Send Farm Cash Restrictions updated: If the sender FarmTown account is more than 6 month old, no restriction applies. If it's newer, you need to buy or earn at least 25 farmcash (not 50) to send farm cash gifts to others.

Post Release Updates - Nov 7th, 4:00 PM EST

- Cotton Dan issue fixed, users that were downgraded are back to where they were before this release
- The send gift restriction fix we launched yesterday had a bug, it should be OK now, behaving as mentioned in the above update. Please refresh the game and try again.

Post Release Updates - Nov 11th, 7:20 PM EST

- Navigation to other farms after being farming for a while (with all operations except plow in plain grass) was very slow for a subset of users. In some cases the delay was much longer than on other cases, but in general the navigation time was improved significantly when done after farming, it should take the same time as navigating between farms without doing any farming.

Some users will also experience that farming operations on crops are faster with the bigger tools and on bigger farms with many items.

If you notice any weird behavior after this fix please report it on this thread.

Post Release Updates - Nov 21st, 1:50 PM EST

- Due to other important farmtown matters that required our attention we haven't been able to complete and release the 10 x 10 farming tools, we estimate it's going to take a few days more.

Post Release Updates - Nov 25th, 11:40 PM EST

- 10 x 10 tools now available

Post Release Updates - Nov 26th, 1:00 AM EST

- 10 x 10 tools can now be added as shortcuts

Known Issues:

- None

. . . Great news!! Thanks, Raul!!

Oops, maybe NOT so great. My kids can't send me FarmCash anymore!! That's the only reason they play the game, so I guess I'll have to put them to work on another game. Anybody got any favorites good for tweenagers???

Thanks. Can't wait for the 10X10s to become ready. :)

Looking forward to it.

Wow, I have seen some of the Facilities, I think I will go see what I can find. Thanks for the update. I can't believe I am the first to post. :)

Omg - tyvm

Ok so some others sneaked in on me as I was posting.

Hmmm, other than the facilities and services, and the Thanksgiving items (same as last year's), I don't see anything else. I hope more shows up lol

Best game on FB, by far , thanks for all your hard work everyone to make it this way !!! Off to play whhoohoooo

Thank you Raul ,for the update . I would like to see you add a market where farmers can buy unlimited goods from each other without a limit, and add a feature were we can trade storage items with our neighbours thank you.

ooh I see the 10 by 10 tools

OMG! I was just getting ready to go to bed. How in the world can I sleep NOW! LOL

Hmm, this business with the bank looks intriguing. Can't wait to see what that's all about!

i haven't looked at all the added goodies, but i have one 'nit' to pick at so far... knowing how many of my neighbors have more XP than i do isn't that important to me, so why put my information in the row of neighbors across the bottom of my screen? the neighbors are so jammed together anyway, it's hard to tell where one figure ends and the one beside it begins... on the 'awesome' side, planting my farms (even with a 3x3 seeder) is now faster than it ever has been, so i have to give you kudos for that...

Looks like we go some new tools coming doing 100 squares at a time. Unfortunately I bet they are going to cost a pretty penny.

Anyone know why to load the Bank consumes Fuel??...lol...kinda odd..well unless the bank is a moving wells fargo..didnt think of that-my bad..

No longer able to gift friends FC items or Farm Cash gift cards, unless we BUY 50 FC at least, or complete an offer to "earn" it. That's a nail in the game's coffin.

Is the New Bank a Service facility or a regular production facility. It is listed in the Store as a Service facility but it shows up in the Facility Manager as a production facility. It starts with the Start All button and stores finished products. It requires coins and fuel to make, but nothing else like paper and ink. Thanks for the help!

and maybe ive been sleeping but what happened to the deal where We could Duplicate farm cash facilities we already owned??...use to say duplicate if u owned 1 but now it doesnt, they bringin that back or what??

Thank you. Always love the updates. This is our first mystery update. How fun is that.

I hope when the details come out, we know why the Bank isn't a "workable" facility

I have to say I am so glad my avatar is keeping up with me when I just harvested.. big kudos on that.. she is not going around screaming "wait - I'm busy" anymore… THANKS guys… bought the facilities already, 3 of them since I had the bank I just put on storage and got out so no problem with it.. more, more… you guys rock….

Well I can see one major improvement, Planting fields has improved even on layered fields the avatar keeps up and I don't have to reload the field to water. Now that is an improvement. Thank you.

It works for me. I had the Bank already as a deco from very long ago, when I brought it up I can load. Not sure if a new one is working or not.

what do you mean by that? I still have the option to send FC gift cards or FC items. Where did you see that?? :confused:

OK Never Mind.... I see it now. UGH...

ok whats up...i seen on my homepage someone had a bonus for a 7TH dan degree.....um is this a typo??..cuz i kinda got a little exited...lol

like here it is:)

Thanks for clicking!
Alfalfa 7th Dan Degree! ½ of 1,908

no longer have the option to send a neighbor a "join me " or to "join them " anymore ... I use that a lot ...or other options we had when cliking on their name on the neighbor bar ... this sucks !!

nope-- no typo! 7th dans here :)

Ooooh yeah. That'd get my whistles blowing, too! : )


So the bank . . . this is a fun guessing game. Looks like we don't have people work it for us - it just sits there and makes money for us. I like that! LOL But does that mean that we didn't get 2 new services this time? Guess I'll have to wait and see!

I totally agree... my little avatar is just screaming along, keeping right up and I can water as soon as I am done planting the last square. Love this. :p

It's like the semi or the bee farm... takes coins to load, and you get stocks, bonds, (corporate, municipal or government) CDs, savings, checking, and money market accounts.

Not a typo, I just posted 2 7 dans

This is the error message a friend got when she tried to send me a FC gift. Apparently she did not yet purchase enough FC out of her money yet.

I rely on these gifts now, with no job and the economy in the toilet. The grand I spent is now wasted, because if this is the case, I am DELETING the game.

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/...28764784_n.jpg

try and actually send it to someone... if you paid real money for at least 50 farm cash, you will be able to send. If not...you will get a pop up error message

One thing I have noticed and am NOT happy about, the crude oil has not changed along with other ingredients we need so much more of. When are they going to take notice?????????:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad:

thanks....just sold a checking account i had ...lol...good riddance, and i saw someone say 10x10's??havent seen that...

Give it time
 

update has only been out for an hour, you KNOW there are always glitches at first, give it time. Can't send them a message either? Not sure why they would get rid of that, doesn't make sense, unless they are giving us another route and a different message system. Hang in there, wait and see. :)

I just went and looked and the options for each neighbor are still all there, same as they ever were. :)

New Dan degrees, farmer icon no longer walks around aimlessly on-screen...

Thank you once again for making this the best game ever! I hope the cash gift issue can be worked out! :eek: