New Release -- October 20th, 2009

[the_blue_fruit_loop]

Originally Posted by Lady Loki

Harvester would be more appealing to me if it would harvest trees - seems no one really wants to harvest trees as much as they want to harvest pineapple. I have a tree farm more so than a crop farm and I have hired 6-8 from the marketplace at a time and all but 1 or 2 leave when they get there and see it is mostly trees. I have actually had to return to the marketplace 2 or 3 times to hire more. And I call out that I need tree harvesters, but only 1 or 2 show interest.

Funny to me since so many people who want to keep the fruit on their trees for the color seem to always get the people who will harvest the trees anyway and here I am looking for tree harvesters and struggling to find them!

I would just as soon have a tree harvester as opposed to a crop harvester so I could just harvest my own trees.

Lady Loki... I will harvest your trees for you. I don't mind and harvest whatever I'm ever hired for!! Come to my farm and send me a message and I'll have your farm to be able to come to. I'm online most of the day every day...

[LoreneC]

I have seen several complaints on these forums because FT does not provide the "wonderful" tools that Farmville does. The devs roll them out and people complain. I don't understand it. If you don't want it don't buy it. It is that simple!

Oh and by the way, I don't plan to buy them. I probably never will, but I certainly wouldn't buy them right away. These things work out better when you let other people work out the kinks!

[cbuist]

Originally Posted by Woody83

How come it appears the large machines are charging $3 to purchase yet this is not showed when you're buying?

I was deducted $3 for all three that I bought that I can see. It did not specify that when I bought them. Please fix

[JRM]

I love the new tools. I do not have enough neighbors to hire plowing or used the x4 plow, so this is just great. In my opinion, the tools are worth the cost just for decoration. I mean, one silo costs 30,000 coins and it is not even close to being in proportion. And what is a farm without a tractor? Thank you for moving us into the 21st century. BTW, if you don't want the tools, uh, don't buy them.

[Alabama Amy]

I may be the only one that feels this way, but I am GLAD that the new tools cannot be used at other people's farms.

I have an older computer and by the time I am hired to work at another farm and the page loads, half the crops are already harvested or plowed by other farmers and it leaves very few crops left for me to do. If the new tools were to be used at other's farms by the farmers that got there before me (as they always do), I would never get any work!

Plus, a good part of the enjoyment of this game has to do with the social activity. You can't visit and get to know other farmers if you're only worried about harvesting and plowing as much as you can while you're there. If that's what you're interested in, then the new tools will help you greatly at your own farm - alone.

I think the creators of these new tools knew exactly what they were doing when they created them. And they did it well!

[law5656]

I dont see the point in the harvester, if you make more to hire out the work. And the plower was a waste of 60,000 since i could already do 4 spots at a time, and again cheaper for your neighbors to plow. The seeder however was useful works great. Thanks for the update anyways. Some land would have been nice since im getting bored with the game, im starting to delete all my crops to build my farm for about the 10th time. I have over 10 million coins and getting close 500k exp. Help us out with levels and land please

[Lani Girl]

Originally Posted by trking

WHY would you even harvest your OWN ****? Why would you EVEN PLOW your own ****? I can understand PLANTING, but, come on!!!!!! What a stupid and rediculous upgrade ..... who's brains are behind this???? It's SILLY!!!!!!

I agree. I never harvest or plow my own. I can hardly stand planting my own.
Maybe I will wait until the upgrade where you can hire planters!!!

[LoreneC]

For someone trying to level up, the harvester may come in handy the days you plant tons of raspberries. People at the market want to plowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[buddyfarmer]

Farm Town Farmers - BEWARE ! ! ! ! !
Hey I bought the Big Harvester and it cut my avatar's right hand off!!!
There was blood everywhere and no Farm Town hospital where he could get it reconnected.

Problems with rodents? Use one of the seeders and crush up some sleeping pills along with the seeds. The gophers and other pests won't wake up!

I have 30 wind turbines on my farm and I asked in the forum for solar panels or a solar array to purchase. None yet, although they do have solar panels on the plow tractor. Maybe solar panels to put in our fields will be released one day. Maybe before I retire from this game.

Happy Halloween farmers!

[Maura Gahan]

I love all the upgrades lately... even though we can't use the new tools on other farms they are still fun to have... thank you to all who have created Farmtown