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Old Jun 05 2014, 11:45 PM
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Default Can I hire someone to work my Factories or Service Facilities?

You can post facility work requests for anyone who has you on their Neighbour List or on their Buddy List so they can work your Factories or Service Facilities.

  • Your facility posts will appear on the Facility Wall Requests page to those who have you as their Neighbour or as their Buddy. You will NOT see your own posts there.

  • UPDATE: Sept 29th 2023 - You can now post your facility work requests to Facebook.

  • For Neighbours and Buddies to work your Factories and/or Service Facilities you will need one post for Regular Facilities (these make products) and one post for Service Facilities (these stock finished products that you have made in regular facilities and stored).

    You only need to post one work request for Factories and one work request for Service Facilities.
    Not one for every facility that you own!


  • When posting your facility requests, you will see a brief notification that says Request Sent.


How to Post Facility Work Requests:


To post a work request for Regular Facilities and Service Facilities you need open the facility that you want to post from.


For Regular Facilities open one of them. In this example we are using the Winery.
  1. Click on the What's Pending section.
  2. Then click on Produce Faster.



For Service Facilities open one of them. In this example we are using the Supermarket.
  1. Click on the What's In Stock section.
  2. Then click on Get More Clients !




Confirmation: After you click on the buttons to send out work requests you will get a confirmation screen asking you if you want to continue. It will also tell you what you will receive for each friend that helps you.
When the check mark is removed in the box to the left of where it says "Post to Facebook?" you will only be posting to the Facility Wall Requests page, not to Facebook.
When you click on the green check mark and are NOT posting to Facebook you will see a brief notification saying "Request Sent".



That's it you have posted your facility work request to the Facility Wall Request page.



If you have FarmTown Neighbours/Buddies as Friends on Facebook you can post the requests to Facebook if you wish.

Please remember that not all farmers will have Facebook accounts and you may not be Facebook friends with every Neighbour/Buddy you have on your lists in Farm Town.

To post to Facebook, you must make sure that there is a green check mark showing up in the box to the left of where it says "Post to Facebook?"

Then when you click on the green check mark at the bottom you will see 2nd confirmation popup which you must also click the green check mark on.
(If at this point you change your mind about posting to Facebook you can click on the red X to cancel posting to Facebook. Your post will still have been posted to the Facility Wall Requests page.)

Clicking on that green check mark in the smaller "Post to Facebook?" popup is what will generate the Facebook posting box where you can add a description if you wish and change the privacy of the post to what you want.

Cookies and popups must be allowed in your browser to be able to see the Facebook posting box.

When you click on the green check mark and ARE posting to Facebook you will see a brief notification saying "Request Sent".

Your facility posts will still also be posted to the Facility Wall Requests page. You can not disable your facility posts from showing up on the Facility Wall Requests page. Remember that not every farmer will be able to see your posts on Facebook, they may not be your Facebook friends, they may not have a Facebook account.

Those that have you as a Neighbour or a Buddy will be able to work your facility posts.
  • Notes about the Facebook posting box:
  • You may or may not see a facility picture in the posting box when it shows.
  • This picture may show up once it is posted to Facebook.
  • The size and position of the Facebook posting box can vary in size and position on your screen depending on the browser you are using.

Example of Facebook posting box without a facility picture:



Example of Facebook posting box with a facility picture:




The facilites that you can not post from are:

The Funeral and Religious Facilities are :
  • Funeral Supplies Factory
  • Funeral Home
  • Buddhist Supplies Factory
  • Buddha Shop
  • Fortune Teller Supplies Factory
  • Fortune Teller Wagon

For the full list of Non-Workable Facilities go to Chapter 13: What are the Non-Workable Facilities?



What you earn for Working Neighbour and Buddy Facilities:


When you work a their facilities you complete 20% of what is showing as Pending at that time, which is also what the farm owner will get then...
  • For regular facilities both you and your friend will earn 3XP per product worked
  • For Service facilities both you your friend will earn 1XP per product your worked
  • As the Employee the mayor will give you 20% of those products that you worked as a way of saying thank you. Example: if there were 1000 products pending for any one item, you would work 20% of those which is 200 and of those you then get 20% of that figure so you get 40 products - These products do not come from your facilities or your storage so it's a free way of saying thanks!




Facility Wall Requests and Other Wall Requests
is where you can see different requests from those on your Neighbour List or Buddy List.

You will no longer see multiple facility posts from the same farmer in the Facility Wall Requests section of My Requests.
You will ONLY see the most recent Facility Requests by that farmer.


The older Facility Requests that they already posted earlier are automatically removed. This means you will see more Facility Requests from different farmers on that page and it still allows those that like to post them much more frequently than others do, to continue doing that.


To get to the Facility Wall Requests and Other Wall Requests pages, click on the tab at the top of the game named My Requests:


The My Requests tab has 3 sections but only 2 of them are currently being used.
  • My Requests This part of My Requests is no longer being used. All gifts are now sent/exchanged/accepted/returned within the Gift Manager

    When you click on My Requests this section is now default.
  • Show Facility Wall Requests is where your facility requests will be posted and also where will see any facility work posted by farmers that are on your Neighbours List and Buddy List. You will not be able to see your own facility requests there!
    Tip: It can be possible to work more than one facility request at a time, by right clicking on the Click here to help link and then opening it in a new tab, then repeating that with the next facility work request showing so that you can start facility work for Neighbours/Buddies in several browser tabs.

    We do not recommend that you do this with too many at once as it can cause problems with some facilities not being worked. It will be up to you to determine how many would work 100% of the time. Start with only 2 before you try that with more of them.

    However, remember that to see the pink background on facilities already worked, you must refresh the browser tab that has the Facility Wall Requests page open in it, to see who you have already sent to.
  • Show Other Wall Requests is where you will find the ingredients and bonuses that your neighbours and buddies have posted.
    Tip: With Ingredient and Bonuses you can also do the same with sending them in more than on browser tab to send Neighbours/Buddies ingredients and bonuses quicker.

    Right click on Get Bonus link or the Send Ingredients link and select open in a new tab.

    However, remember that you can only send one ingredient and one bonus each to a friend and that to see the pink background you must refresh the browser tab that has the Other Wall Requests page open in it, to see who you have already sent to.

    Requested gifts that can be sent using Send Gifts in the Gift manager (like Send cinnamon tree) will also show up there. With these all you do is click on the link to send it and the link will change to Gift Sent as long as you have not already sent one.

    When the link ONLY says Send a Gift for things like claiming a quest reward, buying land upgrades etc do not click on those. All that will happen is you will be taken to the old Send Gifts tab and shown a message that tells you gifting has moved to within the game and a brief description of how it works. The Gift Manager in the game, which gives you far more choice of what to send, how to filter to specific types of gifts, more filters of who to send to and is quicker to send gifts than the the Send Gifts tab method was.
    The section of My Requests that you are viewing at that time, will have black text and not have blue text underlined (indicating it is a link you can click on), the section you are not viewing will be blue text underlined and when clicked on will take you to that section of My Requests.

    Your friends can come to your farm to work in your facilities once a day. The exception to this rule is explained below:


Reworking Neighbors Facilities:

Explaining the time between working a friends facilities before you can rework that same friend's post again.

To simplify the answer it was originally stated that you had to wait a day. Meaning that if you spend at least 8 straight hours in a day without playing FarmTown (when you sleep, eat breakfast, etc, most people will fall in this category) you will be able to work your friends facilities at least once per day.

If you wanted to work them say twice per day.... when you have stopped working friends facilities, you must also have an 8 hour break from working ALL friends facilities, no matter whose they are!

Example:
IF at Noon/Midday you stop working ALL friends facilities and take a minimum 8 hour break where you do NOT work any facilities at all for any of your friends.
After 8pm you will be able to work ALL your friends facilities, including the ones you worked before Noon.
NOTE: If you are only one second too early this will not work!!!

There is a countdown timer that resets to 8 hours each time you work facilities. There is one for Regular Facilities and another one for Service Facilities.

To help you with this, there is a tool in your toolbox called Show Times (looks like a clock). Click on it and then Look in the Gamewide section. Toward the bottom are the timers for Facilities.

Always reload your game before you want to rework facilities and check the Show Times!



If you want to be 100% sure that you have had a long enough gap between working each type facilities make sure that before you work any at all for any friend, that you check that you have a green check mark for Rework Facilities and Rework Service Facilties. Then, and only then, can you rework the facilities.




If there are no green check marks showing you are too soon to start working them and need to wait longer. The time showing will help you know when that will be,, you can mouseover the times to see more informtaion, but always check for those green check marks.

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Last edited by Tiger; Sep 29 2023 at 09:56 AM.