New Release -- November 13th, 2015

[BobTheLazyFarmer]

Has anyone else noticed lately that Farm Town constantly uses your Internet bandwidth, even when doing nothing at all in your farms? It's a constant 40kbps usage, that just sucks up bandwidth apparently for no good reason. It didn't use to do this until recently. What's up with that?

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by BobTheLazyFarmer

Has anyone else noticed lately that Farm Town constantly uses your Internet bandwidth, even when doing nothing at all in your farms? It's a constant 40kbps usage, that just sucks up bandwidth apparently for no good reason. It didn't use to do this until recently. What's up with that?

Hi Bob,
I am not sure how you determined this as Farm Town does go through Facebook and Facebook is constantly updating too. I haven't seen any difference in the amount being used by Farm Town. It does however have to keep everything running as long as you have your farm connected even if you aren't doing anything on your farms and Farm Town has grown quite a bit over the years.

[marymarcel]

Hi all

From Raul's notes for the New Release

Post-Release Updates - December 2nd, 8:30PM

- 29 Holiday Decorations: 5 as gifts, 14 at top of the Holiday category in the store, 6 at the bottom and 4 Winter items close to the bottom in the Winter category (Woman Skiing, Kids on Snow Sled, Man with Snow Shovel and Wooden Sled).
- Removed the "Freeze/Unfreeze while Farming" avatar menu option, it's now defaulted to 'Freeze while Farming' to all players to increase performance.
- More speed optimizations for crop tools, transplanter and multiplanter.

[BobTheLazyFarmer]

Originally Posted by Taz D

Hi Bob,
I am not sure how you determined this as Farm Town does go through Facebook and Facebook is constantly updating too. I haven't seen any difference in the amount being used by Farm Town. It does however have to keep everything running as long as you have your farm connected even if you aren't doing anything on your farms and Farm Town has grown quite a bit over the years.

The bandwidth usage is only when I'm using Farm Town, not when I'm only using Facebook. It happens even when I use Farmtown in offline mode. Happens with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. I only noticed this usage recently, as it never did it before.

When I look at the TCP remote IP address, it is 31.13.80.8, which is a Facebook server in Ireland.

Is it possible that recent updates to Farmtown is now using some method that constantly monitors the connections?

[Ammazetta]

Data usage has increased for me too, can't play like I used to for last week or so because I will run out of data allowance for the month.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by BobTheLazyFarmer

The bandwidth usage is only when I'm using Farm Town, not when I'm only using Facebook. It happens even when I use Farmtown in offline mode. Happens with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. I only noticed this usage recently, as it never did it before.

When I look at the TCP remote IP address, it is 31.13.80.8, which is a Facebook server in Ireland.

Is it possible that recent updates to Farmtown is now using some method that constantly monitors the connections?

Hi Bob,
If you are monitoring the Facebook IP and open Farm Town then you have added 3 more servers adding to bandwidth usage. Has Farm Town increased the data flow between you and the servers? It is possible but I certainly haven't noticed any difference in what I can have open simultaneously nor any slowdown caused by it.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by Ammazetta

Data usage has increased for me too, can't play like I used to for last week or so because I will run out of data allowance for the month.

Hi Ammazetta,
The only thing I can suggest then is to not leave your farm open when you are not working.

[dean10m]

Been playing FT since 2009 and could play all day long. Not anymore. FT sucks up data usage like mad, and I'm lucky just to get my crops done. I play with everything off except for my trees, flowers and crops and play offline. Anything else can you suggest to get the data usage down?

[Tiger]

Hi everyone,

From Raul's notes >>>

Known Issues
- Some users have complained about a Data Usage increase while playing farmtown. We did some research on this and found out that the increase is due to the new facebook chat to the right of your screen that is now shown on all games, facebook is contacting their servers frequently to update the chat screen. However we have noticed that even when you have disabled the chat, the traffic remains. We have created another bug report with facebook suggesting that they remove the chat completely or at least to stop the traffic once you have disabled the chat.

[beverduster]

it hasnt been a problem to me as far as i can tell,