New Release -- December 20th, 2017
 

See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Updates at the end of this post. Last updates released on January 10th, 4:00PM.

Hi there,

We just released a new version of the game with the following new features: En Español AQUI

(this is an early release due to vacation schedules in our team)

1. Farm 35: See prices below.

New Farm (12x12) --- 22000000000 or 50 FarmCash
Upgrade Farm 14x14 - 22500000000 or 20 FarmCash
Upgrade Farm 16x16 - 23000000000 or 20 FarmCash
Upgrade Farm 18x18 - 23500000000 or 20 FarmCash
Upgrade Farm 20x20 - 24000000000 or 20 FarmCash
Upgrade Farm 22x22 - 24500000000 or 25 FarmCash

2. Enabled Export / Import for Facility Chains: This feature is still not 100% completed but we decided to do an early release now instead of waiting another 3-4 weeks. Right now the main operations like Export and Import should be working fine however if in the next 2 days we find any major issues with this feature we will have to disable it and enable it again in 3-4 weeks. What is missing now is mostly providing more information to the user about which exact products are about to be exported or imported.

To summarize the feature:

a) If you own a regular facility chain you are now able to export the (Export) products produced on that chain to any neighbour with a service facility chain that can stock those products. This way you will double your revenue compared to just selling those (Export) products in the market. The extra revenue comes as a bonus from the Mayor, your neighbour just pay regular price.

b) The 'Export Products To' button for a regular chain will turn green whenever you have (Export) products available in your storage *and* at least one of your neighbours owns a service chain that can stock those products. There is another factor that can still restrict you from exporting products which is the free space available in the staging areas of your neighbours, more on this below.

c) When you export products they are temporarily stored in the staging areas of your neighbours. Each product type on each service facility chain have a staging area holding up to 30 days’ worth of stock.

For example, the Hospital consumes 100 Stethoscopes every 6 hours, 400 in a day and 12000 in 30 days. This means that the staging area capacity for the Stethoscopes in the Hospital is 12000, therefore your neighbours will be able to export to you 12000 Stethoscopes before you need to empty your Stethoscopes staging area by importing them all to your main storage. If your staging areas become full players will not be able to continue exporting products to you.

So when you are exporting products to a particular neighbour you will see 2 lines:

1) Products ready to export
2) This neighbour can import

The first line will tell you how many of your (Export) products can be exported to that particular neighbour *without considering* the limitation of that neighbour staging areas.

The second line will tell you how many of your (Export) products can be exported to that particular neighbour *considering* the limitation of the staging areas.

So if you see 1000 in the first line but 200 on the second line, it means that this neighbour have it's staging areas almost full and needs to be emptied soon.

d) If you own a service facility chain you are now able to import products from your neighbours consumed in that service chain, although you pay regular price in coins for those products, they will be much more profitable to you when you stock them in your service chain and then cash out, specially because service facility chains are from 50% to 100% more profitable than service facilities that are not part of a chain.

e) The 'Import Products From' button for a service chain will turn green whenever there are products available in your staging areas that can be stocked on that service chain. When you click the Import button those products will be moved to your main storage. From there you can use them to stock your service facility chain as usual.

f) Right now you can decide when and to whom to export your products. However you have no control over when or which players can export products to you, we may introduce some level of control for this in the future.

3. New Shea Tree and Meadowsweet Crop: These are used in the Pharmacy Supplies Factory.

4. Lawn Games Shop (Coins): Provides Lawn Games Retail Services and can be stocked with products from the Lawn Games Supplies Factory.

5. Golf Pro Store (FC): Provides Golf Merchandise Retail Services and can be stocked with products from the Golf Supplies Factory.

6. Colombian Restaurant (Coins): Produces Colombian Food.

Egg Arepas
Patacones with Hogao
Changua
Ajiaco
Lechona
Pork Sancocho
Veal a la LLanera
Guava Bocadillo

7. Pharmacy Supplies Factory (FC): Produces Pharmacy Supplies.

Glycerin Suppositories
Aspirin
Constipation Relief
Mouthwash
Foot Repair Cream
Cough Drops
Anti-aging Soap
Sunblock

New products produced in other facilities: Menthol Crystals and Shea Butter in the Food Ingredients Factory.

8. Taste of Germany (FC): Provides Germany Cultural Exchange and Food Tasting Services and can be stocked with products from the German Restaurant.

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

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post-Release Updates - December 21st, 3:30PM

- Added a header to the Export screen showing the total amount of (Export) products available to export.
- Added a header to the Import screen showing the total amount of products available to import.
- When you close the Export or Import screens to go back to the Facility Chains Manager main screens, the scroll position is remembered.
- When your neighbours export products to you, that action will now appear at the bottom of the game along with the rest of your helpers.

Post-Release Updates - December 28th, 4:30PM

- Released the Pharmacy Supplies Factory.

Post-Release Updates - January 8th, 2:30PM

- Released Farm 35.

Post-Release Updates - January 10th, 4:00PM

- Fixed bugs that caused product amounts to be incorrect after an Export operation in a facility chain.

Ty for the early christmas gift

Thanks Raul!

Thanks a lot Raul :)

Thanks! I have exported received lots of coins. No one to available to import to just yet. Merry Christmas!!

Hi Judy,
We need to wait until Raul explains how this works as I too have been able to export, but not import.

Merry Christmas and thanks to Raul, all the developers and to all the ones that support us every day.

Merry Christmas!

Thanks Raul and team for the early Christmas present :)

Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for the goodies

thanks santa clause

Thanks, looks like fun :)

I love the new facilities and looking forward for the pharmacy!
Thanks Raul
Merry Christmas!

Oh Thank You Raul :D I was able to do 1 export and 1 import. YAY !!!

Awesome! Been so excited to get to the Import/Export part and it came on my birthday! Thanks!

Question - on this:

<< d) If you own a service facility chain you are now able to import products from your neighbours consumed in that service chain, although you pay regular price in coins for those products, they will be much more profitable to you when you stock them in your service chain and then cash out.

How is it that they're more profitable to us? We get more money for them when we cash out? Is that what that means?

Yep! I was able to both import and export! Very fun! :)

So to clear out our Staging Area so neighbors can export to us, do we use the Store All or the Cash Out or both buttons from our Facility Manager? I'm thinking both since they might be exporting to any type of facility.

It won't help to go the Market and sell non-ingredient stuff, though, right? We can keep doing that on our regular schedule because it won't affect the import/export chains?

Hi Susan,

Raul has edited since then , that section now reads as follows >>

d) If you own a service facility chain you are now able to import products from your neighbours consumed in that service chain, although you pay regular price in coins for those products, they will be much more profitable to you when you stock them in your service chain and then cash out, specially because service facility chains are from 50% to 100% more profitable than service facilities that are not part of a chain.

In the chains manager just click on the blue button and it will show you who all sent, how much, and give you the ability to receive.

Hi Susan,

We're not 100% certain on this and have asked for more details, we will have to see what other information is released. There is "Check Stats" and the "Check Products" yet to be released as well.

Non-ingredients can't be used in facilites so sell them as normal.

Thank you guys, nice Christmas presents.. may y'all have a very Merry Christmas and Joyful New Year... thanks for all you do for us, keep on rocking..

thanks for explaining the new facility chain feature..love this game, keep up the good work..you devs rock..

Thank you Raul - Christmas has come early :D

Thank you Raul for the release. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and your team.

On the export last night it was doing good.This morning it says coming soon.

When exporting and importing from the Facility Chain do we need to have that farmers permission?

Hi Momma Woods,
This is what Raul said on that:
Right now you can decide when and to whom to export your products. However you have no control over when or which players can export products to you, we may introduce some level of control for this in the future.

I re-checked and there are several farmers we have to choose from to export and import already chosen by Facility Manager.

I see that one of the new facilities will be using a new tree as well as a new crop. It would be lovely if you would release them so we could plant them

I have nothing to import either. I presume we have to check the "staging area" i.e. see if there are any products available to import in the Facility Chains Manager before we fill our services? Or will there be a menu item in the ordinary Facility Manager to show us products are waiting to import?

Hi Maggiel,
As the whole thing has not been released yet then we do not have any additional information at this time.
I was able later to be able to import some from my neighbors as they began to export to me. You can tell if you have anything to import by the Import button turning green.

I am pretty foggy on the export and import, do our retail sell more because I pretty much have enough factories to supply my retail stores, so I am really not understanding how this will help unless we can sell more?

Hi jkmyer,
The facility chains products are over and above the normal amounts you get from a facility or service. So yes you will be selling more.

Hi all :)

From Raul notes for the New Release


Post-Release Updates - December 21st, 3:30PM


- Added a header to the Export screen showing the total amount of (Export) products available to export.
- Added a header to the Import screen showing the total amount of products available to import.
- When you close the Export or Import screens to go back to the Facility Chains Manager main screens, the scroll position is remembered.
- When your neighbours export products to you, that action will now appear at the bottom of the game along with the rest of your helpers.

Still Happy Happy Happy with the new stuff (and promise of another farm in a few weeks) so....... Blessed Yule Y'All. I figure as the export/import feature goes on, we'll have more information. Just remember when we didn't even have water features nor fish. Be Grateful. Now off to figure out how to reorganize my farms because yep I'm out of room yet again :::sigh:::: My own fault.

Happy Yule to everyone, and a big thank you to the FarmTown development team for all of their hard work this year and past years, too! You ROCK!!

have been Exporting, have no idea what I am doing but its FUN, LOL

once we inport do we have to do anything with the import?

Hi jkmyer,
When you do the import then what you have imported goes from the staging area (where your neighbor exported them) into your regular storage and then you use those to fill the service.

Yeah I'm clueless as well but what a hoot :D I currently only have one friend I can import/export to/with but still fun.

I agree! This is funny - none of us are totally sure what we're doing but we LIKE it! ROTFLOL!!!!

One question I have about strategy: I've been bumping up my chain facs several times a day since I get more from them. But now I'm wondering if I keep them full all the time, does that mean people can't import to me? Is my staging area related in any way to how full my facilities are? What the heck IS our staging area and what's the best strategy for having the most room for imports and exports?

But yeah - loving this new toy. :)