New Release -- December 4th, 2013

[KnightRider]

Originally Posted by Jean's Farm

I'm only going to address two of your statements from your post. The trains....why did you spend so much money on buying something that was a "glitch" when in the back of your mind you would be thinking...."What if they fix it??" No way I would spend that much money on engines for my train. If you need more supplies for your facs.....don't load them for a few weeks (except the supply ones) and let your supplies build up. That's what I did. And if I see something getting low now I uncheck that item in my fac until the supply builds up again. You get no prize for having more than anyone else.

Which release did they say they "intended to change the price of every FC item in the shop to coin" ?? The only thing I can find is in the May 16 release and it states,"*** In the near future all remaining farm cash decorations (items with no functionality other than decorative) will be converted to coins ***". They never said EVERY.....they said decorations. And you think there is a stink about the trains......what if everybody wanted their money back for everything they bought that was changed to coins??

This is a business....no one is forcing you to spend your money on this game. And it is a game. JMHO

And I want to add a big THANK YOU to the devs of this game. ALL the other games I play on FB have so many glitches it is almost impossible to play. I have stopped them all but this one. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!

Very well said.

[KnightRider]

Originally Posted by psycho_mommi

exactly how a lot of players feel, and at 170 for the 5 engines, 4 of which are now useless, why in the world should i spend 35 fc each for 40 more cars to make complete trains? i'll be dead before SK releases that much fc for people to use. TALK ABOUT GREEDY

Why would you need 40 more cars, how much stuff do you need? The engines are not useless, there is nothing keeping you from using the boxcars you have a splitting them between the engines that you have. You knew it was a glitch and not going to be used according to the way the rules states the trains are suppose to be used, but you purchased those engines anyway. How can you call it greedy, it is a business and this glitch was making them lose money, it is greedy on the players part I agree, not on the business.

[TexasStar]

Originally Posted by KnightRider

Due to the glitch they have lost money not made profit from it. The calculations are for those that purchase the trains for working facilities only and would only purchase the 1 coin and 4 FC engines plus two boxcars to make up the 10 boxcars (2 cars X 5 engines) would cost 240 FC instead of purchasing all 10 boxcars for a single coin engine, the FC engine would cost more, but with the coin engine it would cost 350 FC (35 FC X 10 cars), which is a difference of 110 FC that the dev's isn't getting, that doesn't sound like a lot, but if you have just 1,000 people (that is only apx 1% of the people that play Farm Town, so the amount of people that used that glitch could be higher) that makes the FC 110,000 which if purchasing 250 FC at $39.99 (you can purchase 440 bundles) that makes apx $17,596.00 (440 X $39.99). So do you think the company you work for would like to lose $17,596.00? This amount could be higher or lower depending on how many people used this glitch.

Interesting, I appreciate the math, thank you! For what it is worth everyone I get train boosts from who have added multiple engines have at least 10 cars... just added the faster engines as they came out. This is the first I heard of using 2 cars with 5 engines to get 100% work from mayor, but I guess it depends on how early people started their trains. Most I talked to would not be willing to buy extra cars to set up 5 trains. I got the Standard and 10 cars. I added the Ultimate and Turbo when the glitch was left open so long, thinking it was like some other glitches that are not encouraged but not prohibited either... so Turbo is running and other two are on the siding.

[TexasStar]

Originally Posted by Taz D

The pop up you are getting is because of the new harvest all tools. When you use those you get a pop up telling you how much of each item you got.

Thanks for confirming what is happening!! Do you know if they plan to fix this for those of us who choose to spend our farm cash on something other than that tool? It is affecting 11 of 12 chicken coops now, which is bad enough, but if it happens on all my barns, stables, hutches, and sties, it will be awful. New tools are nice for those who want them but should not penalize those of us who do not buy them so I hope this fix will happen.

I have the other tools and except for the one that includes the facilities that are filled with coins I like them. I would prefer to fill coin facilities separate from the regular facilities, but to do this I have to uncheck and recheck all the products inside them and that is a lot of extra work. I would buy the harvest all tool if I could choose the type of barn I wanted to harvest...similar to choosing farms when fertilizing. Something similar for choosing regular facilities and/or coin facilities would be helpful too.

[knolan]

Is there an easier way to move the animals from my storage directly to the buildings? Right now, I have to take the animals from my storage, move them to my farm, and then, add the animal to the building. Am I the only one who does this? Is there another way to transfer the animals from the storage direct to the buildings, without having to put them on the farm lot first?? Please advise...

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by TexasStar

Thanks for confirming what is happening!! Do you know if they plan to fix this for those of us who choose to spend our farm cash on something other than that tool? It is affecting 11 of 12 chicken coops now, which is bad enough, but if it happens on all my barns, stables, hutches, and sties, it will be awful. New tools are nice for those who want them but should not penalize those of us who do not buy them so I hope this fix will happen.

I have the other tools and except for the one that includes the facilities that are filled with coins I like them. I would prefer to fill coin facilities separate from the regular facilities, but to do this I have to uncheck and recheck all the products inside them and that is a lot of extra work. I would buy the harvest all tool if I could choose the type of barn I wanted to harvest...similar to choosing farms when fertilizing. Something similar for choosing regular facilities and/or coin facilities would be helpful too.

I don't know if they will fix that or not. The only time I get that pop up is when I use the harvest all.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by knolan

Is there an easier way to move the animals from my storage directly to the buildings? Right now, I have to take the animals from my storage, move them to my farm, and then, add the animal to the building. Am I the only one who does this? Is there another way to transfer the animals from the storage direct to the buildings, without having to put them on the farm lot first?? Please advise...

That was changed this release. Now you have a Move button for animals in storage just like the one in the gift box that moves the animals directly into the buildings.

8. Animal and Item Storage Improvements:

a) Move animals in bulk from Animal Buildings to Item Storage and back using the new 'Move' button.

[KnightRider]

Originally Posted by TexasStar

Interesting, I appreciate the math, thank you! For what it is worth everyone I get train boosts from who have added multiple engines have at least 10 cars... just added the faster engines as they came out. This is the first I heard of using 2 cars with 10 engines to get 100% work from mayor, but I guess it depends on how early people started their trains. Most I talked to would not be willing to buy extra cars to set up 5 trains. I got the Standard and 10 cars. I added the Ultimate and Turbo when the glitch was left open so long, thinking it was like some other glitches that are not encouraged but not prohibited either... so Turbo is running and other two are on the siding.

One slight correction it is 2 cars with 5 engines, not 10 engines to make the 10 boxcars, they would put the 2 cars on the farm and then connect all 5 engines to those 2 boxcars. Like you I have one engine with 10 cars, I wasn't going to spend the FC since I figured that once they either know about the glitch or can fix it they will since it is costing them money to keep it open

You said you had 10 cars and 2 FC engines, what I would do is put 9 cars on the turbo (use this train for the boost) and put 1 car on the ultimate (just to make it a useful engine). Now if you have enough neighbors that you can send boosts out for both trains, maybe put 5 cars each on both trains, this way both of your FC engines are being used.

[KnightRider]

Originally Posted by TexasStar

Thanks for confirming what is happening!! Do you know if they plan to fix this for those of us who choose to spend our farm cash on something other than that tool? It is affecting 11 of 12 chicken coops now, which is bad enough, but if it happens on all my barns, stables, hutches, and sties, it will be awful. New tools are nice for those who want them but should not penalize those of us who do not buy them so I hope this fix will happen.

I have the other tools and except for the one that includes the facilities that are filled with coins I like them. I would prefer to fill coin facilities separate from the regular facilities, but to do this I have to uncheck and recheck all the products inside them and that is a lot of extra work. I would buy the harvest all tool if I could choose the type of barn I wanted to harvest...similar to choosing farms when fertilizing. Something similar for choosing regular facilities and/or coin facilities would be helpful too.

I am getting the idea by reading your posts that you don't own the animal harvest tools, since you stated "those of us who do not buy them" is this correct? If you own the animal harvest tools, sorry for misreading your posts and ignore the rest of this post. If you don't own them and you are getting those popups something else is wrong, cause I don't have those tools and I don't receive any popups except the ones that float at the top of the screen as it always has been. So if you are getting popups that you have to click to get rid of and don't own the animal harvest tools then there is another problem, maybe you should send a ticket to support and see if they can find out why you are getting the popup and others isn't getting it, cause you shouldn't get it unless you own the tools.

[TexasStar]

Originally Posted by KnightRider

I am getting the idea by reading your posts that you don't own the animal harvest tools, since you stated "those of us who do not buy them" is this correct? If you own the animal harvest tools, sorry for misreading your posts and ignore the rest of this post. If you don't own them and you are getting those popups something else is wrong, cause I don't have those tools and I don't receive any popups except the ones that float at the top of the screen as it always has been. So if you are getting popups that you have to click to get rid of and don't own the animal harvest tools then there is another problem, maybe you should send a ticket to support and see if they can find out why you are getting the popup and others isn't getting it, cause you shouldn't get it unless you own the tools.

Thank you, that is correct I do not have the tool to harvest the animal buildings, but still get the pop up, but so far only the chicken coops are affected I will check on sending note for fixing Had gotten quite used to just the two as that was going on for months.