Game Migration Updates

[marymarcel]

Originally Posted by Farmer Dibble

In the Flash version, when you hired someone to work in their name went Orange and when it expired or timed-out that changed to Yellow showing that you could attempt to hire someone else.

In this version I have seen several times when the name bar changes to yellow and then quite a while later a message comes through from that person saying they will accept the work offer. This has often happened after I have already sent another person a work invite. I prefer to hire people to work solo so this has led to occasions where a second person I have invited has sent me a sharply worded message saying there is no work for them to do (because the first person has already hoovered it all up).

Can you do domething so when the invite changes from Orange to Yellow the work invite is automatically cancelled please.

I have posted this here as it is a change in behaviour between the old and new versions of the game and, as such, is not a new request or suggestion.

Hi Farmer Dibble

We just tried this at market.

I was hired but I let the 30 seconds past without accepting the request.
As soon as the time past, the request disappeared from my screen so I was not able to accept it.

The farmer trying to hire me, saw my avatar name turned yellow and then he received a message saying: No thanks, Im busy now. Maybe next time.

Did you receive that message from the farmer you have sent the hiring request? or did you only get the message saying they were accepting the job?

Edited to Add: We tried the hiring again. This time, I accepted the request in the very last second before the request disappeared.
The farmer hiring me saw my avatar name turned yellow and then he got the message I had accepted the job. The message was shown up almost inmediately.
That was the only way we were able to reproduce in part what you are reporting.

We think that maybe there is a delay for you between the farmer accepts the request at the very last second and you get the the message.

[pgold0541]

Originally Posted by marymarcel

Hi Farmer Dibble

We just tried this at market.

I was hired but I let the 30 seconds past without accepting the request.
As soon as the time past, the request disappeared from my screen so I was not able to accept it.

The farmer trying to hire me, saw my avatar name turned yellow and then he received a message saying: No thanks, Im busy now. Maybe next time.

Did you receive that message from the farmer you have sent the hiring request? or did you only get the message saying they were accepting the job?

Edited to Add: We tried the hiring again. This time, I accepted the request in the very last second before the request disappeared.
The farmer hiring me saw my avatar name turned yellow and then he got the message I had accepted the job. The message was shown up almost inmediately.
That was the only way we were able to reproduce in part what you are reporting.

We think that maybe there is a delay for you between the farmer accepts the request at the very last second and you get the the message.

I think what Farmer Dibble is saying is that the change from orange to yellow is immediately and sometimes you get a message the person doesn't want, etc. When we first were able to hire from the market, this happened a lot or you couldn't hire anyone. This was happening to numerous people. We were told to go the Trade Market or the Inn and then back to the market. Sometimes that worked but most times I went back to my farm and waited a few minutes, go back to the market, and was able to hire. Later I thought I read this "glitch" had been fixed.

[marymarcel]

Originally Posted by pgold0541

I think what Farmer Dibble is saying is that the change from orange to yellow is immediately and sometimes you get a message the person doesn't want, etc. When we first were able to hire from the market, this happened a lot or you couldn't hire anyone. This was happening to numerous people. We were told to go the Trade Market or the Inn and then back to the market. Sometimes that worked but most times I went back to my farm and waited a few minutes, go back to the market, and was able to hire. Later I thought I read this "glitch" had been fixed.

Hi pgold0541

If you reread their post, they say that in this version after the avatar change to yellow, which would allow them to go and hire another farmer, then they receive the message that the first farmer accepted the job.

[pgold0541]

I had that to happen several times but only in the early days after the market was opened. I think because everything is not totally back to full capacity, at certain times of the day, the market is very slow and often I will try to hire someone and it simply won't respond and nothing will happen or it will go to yellow. I have found if I get to the market and there are lots and lots of "people" there seldom can I get a hired person to respond. I go back home, find something else to do and go back later. I read almost every day things people report so I can keep up and it would seem a big part of the problem is people are still expecting the game to operate just as fast as it did before. Often there are more people logged on then there is capacity for them to work. Many are trying to do super large jobs. Most don't understand it can take hours and hours just to find a small glitch and then correct it. Farm Town has come a long, long way since the beginning when all we had was one farm. Mary, Taz, and Tiger are doing a fantastic job answering people questions, often explaining the same things over and over. The developers who are working behind the scene deserve a medal for all the work they have already accomplished. I bow to you all in gratitude.

[Farmer Dibble]

Originally Posted by marymarcel

Hi Farmer Dibble

We just tried this at market.

I was hired but I let the 30 seconds past without accepting the request.
As soon as the time past, the request disappeared from my screen so I was not able to accept it.

The farmer trying to hire me, saw my avatar name turned yellow and then he received a message saying: No thanks, Im busy now. Maybe next time.

Did you receive that message from the farmer you have sent the hiring request? or did you only get the message saying they were accepting the job?

Edited to Add: We tried the hiring again. This time, I accepted the request in the very last second before the request disappeared.
The farmer hiring me saw my avatar name turned yellow and then he got the message I had accepted the job. The message was shown up almost inmediately.
That was the only way we were able to reproduce in part what you are reporting.

We think that maybe there is a delay for you between the farmer accepts the request at the very last second and you get the the message.

Hi marymarcel. I always wait for the avatar name to turn yellow before moving on to try and hire a new player. On at least three occasions now I have had the yellowed avatar player accept the work, at least once after I had hired a second player to do the same work. This is what really brought it to my attention as I was harangued (in a nice way) by the original hiree because the work had already been done.

I will keep an eye out to see if this happens again. If it does I will get approximate times and report those with the event.

[marymarcel]

Originally Posted by Farmer Dibble

Hi marymarcel. I always wait for the avatar name to turn yellow before moving on to try and hire a new player. On at least three occasions now I have had the yellowed avatar player accept the work, at least once after I had hired a second player to do the same work. This is what really brought it to my attention as I was harangued (in a nice way) by the original hiree because the work had already been done.

I will keep an eye out to see if this happens again. If it does I will get approximate times and report those with the event.

Hi Farmer Dibble

I do understand you wait till the avatar name turns yellow, but when we tried the first time, I waited for the 30 seconds past, then the farmer trying to hire me received a sorry message and the request disappeared from my screen as soon as the time had past.

The second time, I clicked to accept the request in the last second, my avatar showed yellow for the farmer trying to hire me but he received the message I had accepted the work. That message appeared in his screen almost inmediately.

It seems in your case, there is a delay as you get the accepting message after you have already hired another farmer.

Please if you get this again, let us know what you found, thanks

[Farmer Dibble]

Originally Posted by Farmer Dibble

Hi marymarcel. I always wait for the avatar name to turn yellow before moving on to try and hire a new player. On at least three occasions now I have had the yellowed avatar player accept the work, at least once after I had hired a second player to do the same work. This is what really brought it to my attention as I was harangued (in a nice way) by the original hiree because the work had already been done.

I will keep an eye out to see if this happens again. If it does I will get approximate times and report those with the event.

This just happened again. The first hiree had been yellow at least 30 seconds before I rehired. The second hiree accepted almost immediately and I went with her to my first farm. I had been on the farm about 20 seconds when the first hiree accepted the outdated hire request.

[marymarcel]

Originally Posted by Farmer Dibble

This just happened again. The first hiree had been yellow at least 30 seconds before I rehired. The second hiree accepted almost immediately and I went with her to my first farm. I had been on the farm about 20 seconds when the first hiree accepted the outdated hire request.

Hi Farmer Dibble

Thank you for your report. Please contact Support about this problem. To contact them click on the link below, fill out the form and submit it. Be patient as it can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days for them to respond to you depending on how many tickets they have ahead of yours.

http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/settings2/support/

You will receive an automatic response email when you submit your ticket. That email will have your ticket number and a link for you to check the status of your ticket, so please do not delete that email. If you do not see the email then check your spam folder as sometimes those emails get classified as spam.

If you do not find the automatic response then read the following thread:
http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=644366