New Release -- December 22nd, 2009 - UPDATE 2

[Ginny Skurs-Heptig]

Farm Town is now running like a dog. In my opinion, it's gone backwards with freezing up and super slow. It was bad last night BEFORE the Reverting to the "old way" and now it's worse. Avatar is way behind, and you can no longer get ahead of yourelf. Is this to slow down the server accepting the collection? I'm an a very unhappy farmer at this point.

Originally Posted by Raul

Hi There,

We closed the other threads related to the latest release to make it easier to collect feedback.

A new version was released an hour ago, it is very similar to the way it was before, and at some times it will be even faster as the avatar is still teletransported when is working on close fields, this may have the effect of the avatar been closer to where the people are working most of the time, which may also contribute to have less collisions.

This version still contains many other improvements targeted to minimize the amount of XP / coins lost, we don't expect it to be as efective as with the latest version, but we still expect improvments on that area, so may be this is a good balance at the end.

Please provide feedback on the new experience.

Thanks

--Raul

[Dreamangelmad]

Originally Posted by Ginny Skurs-Heptig

Farm Town is now running like a dog. In my opinion, it's gone backwards with freezing up and super slow. It was bad last night BEFORE the Reverting to the "old way" and now it's worse. Avatar is way behind, and you can no longer get ahead of yourelf. Is this to slow down the server accepting the collection? I'm an a very unhappy farmer at this point.

It is Sunday 2 days after Christmas I am having troubles now I can not see anyone sending me notes to work on their fields and when i see fields they are already done the people say can you help fix this problem i cleaned my cookies i just got a new computer so help me not on my end i know. Other people are having this problem i talked to today. Madellyn Urso dreamangelmad@yahoo.com

[BirdSalad]

On Monday morning, 9 am EST (approximately) I finally tried getting hired from the market. I worked alone on a farm, and my avatar zoomed like an energizer bunny, but the coins did not keep up. It took about 15 minutes after the fields looked harvested for the coins to catch up and the screen to flip from harvesting to plowing. I was the only worker on the farm. I could watch the coin notification move around the screen in the same pattern that I harvested in.

Plowing time was unknown. I clicked very rapidly, the fields cleared about half as fast as I could click, but the points were bumping up very slowly in comparison. Again, I was the only worker.

I left my house before my points caught up, so I have no idea how long it took. If I had been trying to find another job, I would have been very disappointed. Between harvesting and plowing, on a level 40 farm about half filled with fields, the entire process took about two hours, mostly with the owner and me chatting (she was very polite and didn't mind hanging with me while we waited for my slow processing speeds.)

Immediately before I went to the marketplace, I uninstalled flash, cleared my cache, restarted my computer, and installed flash again.

I have had this problem since the first November release. I did not notice which server I was on, sorry. The fast speed of the avatar doesn't do much to help me, and I will wait another month before trying to harvest from the market again. I love this game, but most of the pleasure has gone out of it since I can't compete with other workers who don't have these horrid delays. I hope you can figure out what's causing it - I know you are working hard to solve the problem!