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Raul Jun 14 2013 03:53 AM

New Release -- June 14th, 2013
 
See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at June 20th, 6:40PM EST.

Hi There,

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

1. Father's Day items (released a few weeks ago)

2. 25 new Levels: 60+ items all in coins.

3. Farm Selector Diamonds and Hiring Windows now have a 4 x 5 layout to fit more farms better.

4. Farm 19: Here are the prices in coins (FC prices remains the same):

12 x 12 Farm 19: 19000000
14 x 14 Upgrade: 16000000
16 x 16 Upgrade: 17000000
18 x 18 Upgrade: 18000000
20 x 20 Upgrade: 2300000000
22 x 22 Upgrade: 2400000000
24 x 24 Upgrade: 2500000000
26 x 26 Upgrade: 3000000000
28 x 28 Upgrade: 5000000000
30 x 30 Upgrade: 4000000000
32 x 32 Upgrade: 4000000000

5. When hired in the market we now remove the highlight of the recently worked farm in the farm selector so you don't go back to it by mistake: At the current time, we remove the highlight by just visiting the farm, no work is required to be performed.

6. Metal Sheets production increased in Metal Mill:

Copper Sheets: 33% Increase
Stainless Steel Sheets: 40% Increase
Aluminum Sheets: 40% Increase

7. Metal Sheets delivery increased in the Bulkhead Freight Car by 3 times (300%): Each Bulkhead Car now delivers a Load equivalent to the production of 3 Metal Mills fully loaded.

8. Animal Changes:

a) Animal Storage increased by almost 50%, from 125 to 180
b) Animals can now be hidden as long as you are not in your farm, this include visits to others, no need to be hired
c) When visiting others you will never see more than 300 animals in a farm to minimize slowness

9. Super Animal Buildings (FC): There are now 3 new Super Animal Buildings (green versions) with the following benefits:

a) Super Dairy Shed: Double animal capacity to 360 per animal type. Double Holstein Cows productivity to 40 x Milk.
b) Super Chicken Coop: Reduce harvest time to 12 hours. Double animal capacity to 360. Double Leghorn Hens productivity to 40 x Eggs.
c) Super Wool Shed: Reduce harvest time to 1 day. Double animal capacity to 360. Double Heavywool Llamas and Longwool Sheep productivity to 40 x Wool.

10. Tool Shortcuts: There is a new Shortcut icon (arrow) next to the Save icon (disk) in the top right buttons. This will allow you to place any tool icon from the extended tool bar in the main game panel shortcuts area (where the minigames and the buddies are now).

You can now have your 2 most frequently used tools from the extended tool box more accessible, 1 click away. The minigames and buddies icons are now on the extended tool box as well.

When you are visiting others or you are at the Inn or Marketplace you can still access the Buddie or Minigame icons from your regular toolbox.

11. Better Storage Management: The 'From Plants' filter in the storage and market windows has been replaced by 2 filters, 'Crops' and 'From Trees'. There is also a new filter 'Ingredients from Facilities' which will only show products made on regular facilities that have a use as an ingredient in any other regular facility (not including service facilities).

You can also now sort the results in those windows by these criteria:

- Alphabetically
- Stored Amount
- Ingredient Importance

The last sorting should be very useful, it will show products from the more important to the less important. For example, metal sheets, wheat and lumbers are very important while the couscous is not.

12. A new American Elm Tree and 7 existing Trees and Bushes now produce branches for the Plant Nursery facility: Birch Tree, Dogwood Tree, Holly Bush, Mugo Pine Bush, Smoke Bush, Snake Plant and Dieffenbachia Bush.

13. Plant Nursery (FC): Produces Decorative Plants.

American Elm Bonsai
Birch Bonsai
Dogwood Bonsai
Holly Bush Bonsai
Mugo Pine Bonsai
Smoke Bush Bonsai
Snake Plant Pot
Dieffenbachia Pot

14. Theater Supplies Factory (coins): Produces Theater Supplies.

Actress Dress
Flower Necklace
Hip Scarf
Twin Towers Decor
Puppet
Stick Mask
Ticket Booth
Theater Chair

15. Garden Center (FC): Provides Decorative Plants Retail Services and can be stocked with all products from the Plant Nursery.

16. Theater (coins): Provides Theatrical and Dance Performance Services and can be stocked with all products from the Theater Supplies Factory.


*** After doing a deeper research we concluded that we will not be able to convert the remaining farm cash decorations to coins. On the next release we will convert only the Topiaries to compensate for the disappointment.

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Updates - June 14th, 2:30PM EST

- X025 Error when opening the Facility Manager with Super Animal Buildings has been solved

Post Release Updates - June 14th, 6:00PM EST

- X025 Error in the Message System fixed
- You can now move again items from Item Storage into Farms

Post Release Updates - June 15th, 2:00AM EST

- Shortcuts should stay permanently after a few hours or a clear memcached command
- Issues related to purchasing and upgrading Farm 19 should be solved now, please report if you find any issues. The downside is that we don't have the proper information to credit those users who upgraded the wrong farm by mistake.

Post Release Updates - June 17th, 11:50PM EST

- Error in Facility Manager when harvesting Super Animal Buildings should now be fixed.

Post Release Updates - June 20th, 6:40PM EST

- New Levels are live

Known Issues and More Info related to this Release:

- The new trees are not chopped down completely because in this case only a few branches are needed and harvested to create the Bonsais, same for the bushes.

JW2009 Jun 14 2013 03:54 AM

WoW, Thank you very much Raul and the Dev. Team, this is an awesome update, very happy - Thank You & Happy Farming™

Tony D Jun 14 2013 03:56 AM

Thanks mate :)

al_bundy Jun 14 2013 03:58 AM

Fantastic Raul love the ability to change the minni games and buddy

changed mine to quests and facility Manager :)

karenbooysens Jun 14 2013 04:02 AM

Thanks Raul like always you have outdone yourself again. Great update. :D:D:D

HelenL Jun 14 2013 04:07 AM

Awesome release. Thank you so much!!

jackiew1961 Jun 14 2013 04:34 AM

i am having a problem when i go to an inn my buddy list icon disappears along with the tool menu causing me to have to go back to my farm if i want to use my buddy list also my message box will not load any of my messages new or old . is this being addressed?? please let me know

bluehair Jun 14 2013 04:34 AM

wohoo just bought my 19th farm :)

B.Keeper Jun 14 2013 04:49 AM

The new release is looking good but I can't seem to move the quest manager into the minigames location using the tool selector. Is this a glitch or am I doing something I shouldn't?

Alexandra_J Jun 14 2013 04:49 AM

Thanks for the upgrade :D

Electrox Jun 14 2013 04:49 AM

Thanks for the update, no crops lost this time.

this sets us up for up to 25 farms ... 6 more to come.

Watering farm can still trigger flowers to go from 12 hr growing time to READY. (at least before this release).

Increasing the amount of metal was a good thing. but that only half the problem. If you do not increase the ore to make the metal, you just cut the time before you run out of stock in half. so instead of running out in 3 days, i'm out in less than two. one day with heavy reloading and workers.

HelenJS22 Jun 14 2013 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by B.Keeper (Post 5579158)
The new release is looking good but I can't seem to move the quest manager into the minigames location using the tool selector. Is this a glitch or am I doing something I shouldn't?

Refresh your game and give it another try. It took me two shots before the new icon would settle in for me, but they are fine now.

HelenJS22 Jun 14 2013 04:55 AM

Thanks for the update. Love being able to swap what I use mostly into the front panel. I had been looking for some more 'turbo' tools to keep paring down the time for filling facilities, but I guess I'll keep my money stashed for another month :p

B.Keeper Jun 14 2013 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by B.Keeper (Post 5579158)
Is this a glitch or am I doing something I shouldn't?

My mistake...it isn't shown in the tool selector as having moved but when you go to the farm, it has :-)

agtisc Jun 14 2013 04:57 AM

When will we see new levels?

Tony D Jun 14 2013 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agtisc (Post 5579190)
When will we see new levels?

Hi from the announcement ..


Quote:

25 new Levels (coming next week): 70+ items all in coins.

JW2009 Jun 14 2013 05:23 AM

just reload FT and it worked for me, i was having the same problem. Thank you
Quote:

Originally Posted by B.Keeper (Post 5579158)
The new release is looking good but I can't seem to move the quest manager into the minigames location using the tool selector. Is this a glitch or am I doing something I shouldn't?


rjohn726 Jun 14 2013 05:28 AM

moving on with more, thanks for the reorganization of it all

peekachoo Jun 14 2013 05:40 AM

Great update Raul, thank you. Very pleased to see some new levels are coming !

NiMo1960 Jun 14 2013 05:49 AM

Just wondering.
Can we have both new (FC) animal shed and old (C) animal sheds on same farm and both producing?

bluehair Jun 14 2013 05:53 AM

now I cant sell any of my products

mac16129 Jun 14 2013 05:58 AM

Another awesome update!! Thanks to the developers for their great creative minds.

kataltay Jun 14 2013 06:00 AM

So, we get the ugliest farm cash things, and of course the least costly (the useless topiaries) for coins. And that compensates for our disappointment on your broken word how?? Why not compensate our disappointment by lowering the outrageous cost of decorative items??

Ellen Betty Nelson Jun 14 2013 06:12 AM

Thanks for the new play prettys

Now to game on

wenchhhie Jun 14 2013 06:15 AM

Yay! So happy the Buddy/Mini Game pop ups have been fixed. Thanks!!!

Happy dance Happy dance!!!

marymarcel Jun 14 2013 06:25 AM

Thank you so much Raul!

Nazza Jun 14 2013 06:28 AM

if i try and open the facility manager- it shows i have no products loaded - I had over 30 million loaded before the upgrade...also it crashes about 4 out of 5 times when i try to open the facility manager.

LoreneC Jun 14 2013 06:33 AM

All week I have been dreaming up new farm layouts using the cash decorative items. Hope you do more research the next time you make such an announcement so you do not have to back track.:rolleyes:

The rest of the release looks good!

Thanks for all your work.

artisanrox Jun 14 2013 06:34 AM

Yaaaaaaaaay!!! :)

FCM Jun 14 2013 06:37 AM

Facility manager and opening note envelope crashes FT. Where are the new Turbo loading tools???

Beth Perry Jun 14 2013 06:43 AM

Thanks so much!!! Love the new sorting (crops vs trees) and especially the better output for the metal mills. For those who gripe: buy more mineral mines and open pit mines. I have 5 metal mines and 4 open pit mines and have way more supplies than I need for 5 metal mills!!!!!!
Overall, a great update, thanks Raul and Dev's!!!

Tony D Jun 14 2013 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FCM (Post 5579366)
Facility manager and opening note envelope crashes FT. Where are the new Turbo loading tools???

Hi, what is happening with the Facility Manager , I just tested mine and it seems to be working ok .

As far as the Turbo Tools go, the developers , to the best of my knowledge , never said they would release new Turbo Tools with every release.

Molly Mew Jun 14 2013 06:49 AM

Thanks Raul :)

bluehair Jun 14 2013 06:51 AM

my crops and stuff keep dissapearing and when I try to click the red x it wont let me

Blk_chic Jun 14 2013 06:56 AM

Thank you for the new update that didn't include another increase in the levels! I'm having a hard time just keeping up and I've lost a lot of neighbors who just gave up trying to make it to the top level.

FarmerMcLashwood Jun 14 2013 06:59 AM

[quote=Tony D;5579378]Hi, what is happening with the Facility Manager , I just tested mine and it seems to be working ok .

Sorry Tony but the facility Manager DOES NOT WORK. It opens ok but you can't harvest the animal sheds (haven't tried loading facs yet) just get error X025
:(

1fritz Jun 14 2013 07:00 AM

Thank you Raul. The new up date looks great as always. Off to try it out and get farm 29.

Fritz

FCM Jun 14 2013 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tony D (Post 5579378)
Hi, what is happening with the Facility Manager , I just tested mine and it seems to be working ok .

As far as the Turbo Tools go, the developers , to the best of my knowledge , never said they would release new Turbo Tools with every release.

It gives this message "Error Saving Data. Error X025 Click the green tick to reload game"

If you wait and not click the green tick, it opens up totally empty. I had a lot of products in there and it appears I've lost billions of coins worth of ingredients, etc. :(

Tony D Jun 14 2013 07:23 AM

[quote=FarmerMcLashwood;5579402]
Quote:

Originally Posted by Tony D (Post 5579378)
Hi, what is happening with the Facility Manager , I just tested mine and it seems to be working ok .

Sorry Tony but the facility Manager DOES NOT WORK. It opens ok but you can't harvest the animal sheds (haven't tried loading facs yet) just get error X025
:(

Quote:

Originally Posted by FCM (Post 5579418)
It gives this message "Error Saving Data. Error X025 Click the green tick to reload game"

If you wait and not click the green tick, it opens up totally empty. I had a lot of products in there and it appears I've lost billions of coins worth of ingredients, etc. :(

Hi, which servers are you on ? I just harvested my animal buildings and loaded the facilities.

FCM Jun 14 2013 07:27 AM

I'm on WF7


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