Who pays the coins for the goods? If the person sent to pays, seems like we shouldn't be able to send to who we want without permission? Sorry for the dumb question but not sure how beneficial this is to anyone.

Hi Marlene,
From Raul's explanation of the Export:
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.

He also said:
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.

The benefit of having product Exported to you by your neighbors is that you only pay the regular price for those products and when you put them in your service facility you earn 50 to 100% more than you would just selling them. So you increase your profit by using these products in your services.

so there was no new release last night, just a late notification, jez, i missed out on the festivities i could have enjoyed 9 days ago, such a shame i got notified late.

what are shea nuts and how long does it take to get them, if it is under 9 days, i could have had them for what i need them for, but because i was not notified of the update, i am now left to play catch up? does not seem fair, today is the first day i was told i needed them in my ingredient planner, so i feel i have been cheated in having some ready. 3 days tree? really, and it has been 9 days, could have had then harvested twice now, and the meadow crop? another thing i have been cheated out of, please, from now on if you release a new update, let the people know, not everyone hangs out in the forums, i play the game i don't hang out in the forum, so i have been cheated of trees and crops i could have had ready for my facilities, but now i have to wait 3 days....tsk, tsk on informing, some christmas present you guys gave us.

The new tree and crop were just released within the last 24 hours. You haven't been "cheated" out of anything. Also you don't have to "hang out" in the forum to know what is going on. You should know by now that there is a release once a month near the end of the month. I typically will monitor the form(meaning I pop in to look for a new release). If there isn't one there then I am gone. This is a game of leisure not of competition. Nobody is given any sort of an advantage. Nobody is looking to cheat anyone. I hope this helps you some. Have a great New Year and happy farming.

To many facitilies
 

Im wondering with new updates is there now a limit to how many factories and services per farm. getting message to move or lose production.

So if the tree was just released, why do I need ingredients for it, and I do play at my leisure, hence why I have never needed anything for a facility before having time to harvest it. I play at my leisure, but I do plan ahead

Hi cjbraswell,

The Pharmacy Supplies Factory was also released yesterday and there were two new products added to the Food Ingredients factory. The new crop is needed for the new facility the Shea Tree is needed to make Shea butter in the Food Ingredients factory. Shea butter and menthol crystals are needed for the Pharmacy Supplies Factory.

So when was the food ingredients factory released and when was the shea butter added to it

Hi cjbraswell,

You already own the Food ingredients Factory , it was released in July and this is what Raul said about it at that time >>

8. Food Ingredients Factory (Coins): Produces Food Preparation Ingredients. For now there is only one product produced in this facility but this may expand in the future.

The 2 new products in there Shea Butter and Menthol crystals were added yesterday.

i just guess it is smarter to release the item you need to build up ingrediants before you release the product it would be used for. just hate having to wait to fill my facilities to build up the product needed for 1 item,

guess it is time to take another long hiatus from the game.