Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[tlsweetness]

I just harvested on someone else's farm for the 1st time and I have a question. Why is it that those of us, who have coin tools in our storage, can't use them while working on other people's farms? This makes no sense to me. Just because I don't have the $ for the fc tools, I have to do one plot at a time? Don't get me wrong, I love this game to death, but this is so not right. I will never work another's farm again until this is fixed. I have the tools that let me do 9 at a time, and feel that I should be able to use them when helping another on their farm. Sorry, I am a little upset.

[astradriver]

What i would like is some kind of tool that when we go to a friends farm to work there factories / clients that allows us to work all facs / clients from one farm rather than having to load all 14 farms to work them

[lollipopthebunny]

I agree with you, we definitely need the ability to work ALL farms at ONE time as some people have gone crazy with having a lot an it takes a long time to do ONE persons facilities!

[lollipopthebunny]

I am real upset with the comments that are insinuating that ALL people with tools HOG the work!!! I am NOT like that! I also try to SHARE with both types of farmers myself. The reason I ask for SOLO work is because when a person does have tools it is not easy to only do half a farm when someone else comes on after I have started the work already. I also have been run over by people who have NO tools and I was on a job first!!! SO it GOES BOTH WAYS!!! I feel if you have a farm an want to hire someone without any type of tools fine, then don't hire someone with tools also!

I have left several times when hired an someone is already there working but I have also gotten hired solo an all of a sudden I am in the middle of working an someone else shows up an just takes over what I am doing! So it is NOT just the ones without tools that get 'burned' in the mrkt!

I am trying to make it easier for someone by saying SOLO not make it more difficult or to single myself out!!!

One last thing, When a person does HIRE, They need to go back to the Farm an wait a couple min to see if who they hired does show up! I think people are hiring multiple people for a job an Not EVEN CHECKING SO when someone gets to their farms the work is done already or other issues....People are Not EVEN looking first at their farms to see exactly what they need to have done an hire over 'piddly' stuff, like a couple flowers or trees on a farm! I mean give me a break! Do some work yourselves people PLEASE!!

[HelenJS22]

Originally Posted by lollipopthebunny

I agree with you, we definitely need the ability to work ALL farms at ONE time as some people have gone crazy with having a lot an it takes a long time to do ONE persons facilities!

Motion seconded, thirded and what ever it will take to beg Raul to help us out with this.

So many neighbours have left the game, partly because of this aspect, and those who still play at a high level are some of the 'gone crazy' ones who have multiples of almost every facility and service facility in Farm Town. It actually takes almost an hour to do the 14 farms of one of my neighbours, and I have a very fast computer. She has been my neighbour since the inception of the game, and I'd hate to lose her, but doing her facilities for her is a NIGHTMARE

[snow_angel]

I have a couple neighbors that I will not work their facilities anymore. They have 45-65 facilities on each of their fourteen farms. On one of them I had gotten to the 7th farm and had already counted 400 facilities I had worked on. I finally said forget it.

[Dutch85]

Originally Posted by snow_angel

I have a couple neighbors that I will not work their facilities anymore. They have 45-65 facilities on each of their fourteen farms. On one of them I had gotten to the 7th farm and had already counted 400 facilities I had worked on. I finally said forget it.

WOW! That's a bit much to work for sure! I don't blame you for stopping. I try to keep my facilities to a minimum to make it easier for people to work them. I do have all of them, but I only have duplicates of a few. I also have them on only 3 farms hopefully to make it go faster without having to load so many farms.

[Angel7]

The fact is that in order to have 2 of some facilities kept full all the time, you have to have 10 or more of some of the others to support it. I keep only 2 of most all facilities except a few, but it takes 10 dairies, 5 sawmills, 12 textile mills, 8 paper mills, 8 sugar mills, etc. etc. to support them. I can only assume that the freight trains are going to help with this, yet some people have goals to reach the top diversification ranks which will mean lots and lots of facilities on their farms. I have a ridiculous number of facilities and I'm only at a 30,000 diversification level - no way on earth am I going to get to the next level. If they would lower the requirement to reach the top diversification rank, alot of people would probably quit putting more and more facilities on their farms.

[lollipopthebunny]

Originally Posted by Angel7

The fact is that in order to have 2 of some facilities kept full all the time, you have to have 10 or more of some of the others to support it. I keep only 2 of most all facilities except a few, but it takes 10 dairies, 5 sawmills, 12 textile mills, 8 paper mills, 8 sugar mills, etc. etc. to support them. I can only assume that the freight trains are going to help with this, yet some people have goals to reach the top diversification ranks which will mean lots and lots of facilities on their farms. I have a ridiculous number of facilities and I'm only at a 30,000 diversification level - no way on earth am I going to get to the next level. If they would lower the requirement to reach the top diversification rank, alot of people would probably quit putting more and more facilities on their farms.

I never pay any attention to the diversificatiion rank an don't quite understand how it works or what it does. I have enough trouble filling my factories an getting neighbors to work them, Also have trouble getting people to TRADE the work...in other words work for me an then let me work for them! Seems the Tools have Ruined the FT INTENT of the game a long time ago!!! I do hire others but trying to get reciprocated is very very difficult unless I struggle in the market!

[Vivienne57]

I am so fed up of the market. When I click to hire someone, then someone else clicks on that same person after you, you lose that worker. Be good if FT could do something to stop that. If I click on someone to hire because they have said they are willing to work, nobody else should be able to click on them which overrides the original hire request. It is so frustrating!!!!!!! Please do something about this in future updates if you can FT )