New Release -- March 19th, 2010

[rptrpeg]

I have a sugar refinery, a red flour mill and the diary refinery, but none of them are producing anything. I did get one unit of sugar. When I tell things to go to production it says they are going to production but nothing happens. It doesn't go to "What's cooking" and nothing is produced. What am I doing wrong? I have plenty of sugar cane, wheat and milk in my storage so that isn't the problem.

[Tony D]

Originally Posted by rptrpeg

I have a sugar refinery, a red flour mill and the diary refinery, but none of them are producing anything. I did get one unit of sugar. When I tell things to go to production it says they are going to production but nothing happens. It doesn't go to "What's cooking" and nothing is produced. What am I doing wrong? I have plenty of sugar cane, wheat and milk in my storage so that isn't the problem.

Hi what happens when you click on "What's cooking" ?

[Pickleonion]

Originally Posted by rptrpeg

I have a sugar refinery, a red flour mill and the diary refinery, but none of them are producing anything. I did get one unit of sugar. When I tell things to go to production it says they are going to production but nothing happens. It doesn't go to "What's cooking" and nothing is produced. What am I doing wrong? I have plenty of sugar cane, wheat and milk in my storage so that isn't the problem.

I have a similar problem but only with the Red Windmill

I have just harvested fields of wheat and gone to produce flour they were then sent to produce flour so they amount of wheat is no longer in my storage except the nine units I have left.
When I look a 'whats cooking' Nothing is being produced and I have therefore LOST CROPS.

[Zitchy]

The sugar refinery says it pays 2000 coins for each batch but when I go to sell it only pays 200 coins. Which is it supposed to be?

[Mr. H]

Originally Posted by Zitchy

The sugar refinery says it pays 2000 coins for each batch but when I go to sell it only pays 200 coins. Which is it supposed to be?

It's 200 per unit or 2000 for a batch of 10. The facility shows batches and the MP shows units.

[heyheyrayt]

I like the updates except I need at least one more milk cow and one more goat.... and my friends that I had all left farmtown so I cant get them to send me any goats or cows... so what's up with that... why cant I buy cows or goats?????? HEYHEY

[janisko]

Originally Posted by heyheyrayt

I like the updates except I need at least one more milk cow and one more goat.... and my friends that I had all left farmtown so I cant get them to send me any goats or cows... so what's up with that... why cant I buy cows or goats?????? HEYHEY

Go to the discussions where people offer to become neighbors on either Facebook or My Space. You can find as many "good" neighbors as you need. )

[Taterpeel]

I have still not been able to get either my dairy or sugar facilities to produce. I keep starting production (I have plenty of sugar cane, milk, etc. in my storage) but nothing ever happens.

[lulu836]

Put them into production. After a few hours go to "What's Cooking" and highlight the bar. It will say STORE which moves it to your storage from which you are able to sell it.

[capricorn1]

Originally Posted by Raul

Hi There,

We just released a new version of FarmTown which contains support for new facilities.

Enjoy!

Thanks,

--Raul

Hi there Raul;

The sugar production rate and the flour production rate are poorly balanced to the production capacity of the land.

A 1000 lot farm produces 1000 wheat units every 40 hours.

Just balancing the facility production to the land production means
that the windmill should process the 1000 wheat units in 40 hours, i.e. processing 25 wheat units per hour.

Likewise for Sugarcane :

A 1000 lot farm produces 1000 sugarcane units every 12 hours.

Just balancing the facility production to the land production means
that the sugar mill should process the 1000 sugarcane units in 12 hours, i.e. processing approximately 84 sugarcane units per hour.

Given than beets and grapes grow in 4 hours, it is reasonable to desire the sugarcane and wheat processing to complete in 4 hours for a batch of 1000 units, produced by a 1000 lot farm.

This requirement leads to the following processing capacities:

1000 units of crop be processed in 4 hours i.e.
a processing rate of 250 units/hour.

The current processing rate of 10 sugarcane units every 2 hours is simply preposterous, as it is
2% (yes two percent!!) of a reasonable processing rate; (5 units per hour versus reasonable rate of 250 units/hour).

So is the processing rate of wheat; at 10 wheat units every 30 minutes it is worse than snails pace at 8% (eight percent !) of the reasonable processing rate ( 20 units/hour versus reasonable rate of 250 units/hour).

I know that you guys want us to enjoy the game.

Please adjust the mills' processing rates to 250 crop units/hour.