New Release -- August 30th, 2011

[Sandy Mae]

Thanks for all the improvements. My favorite is the red sprinkler. This will help with getting farther as with facilities timing. Am still adjusting to the new levels of production. I am very dyslexic and have a hard time with spelling. Math is the worst. So I appreciate you doing most of the work.

[suepatches]

Please give me the other sprinkler back.. I now find myself using the water can to water my flowers If I dont want to water the crop. I would like the option to use either sprinkler. Call me old or stupid but I really fell like I took a step backwards with this only red sprinkler option. I love how we can speed up the crops but I really like to water flowers when they need it and not speed up a crop that I do not plan on staying up all night to harvest. betweeen facebook taking away game stories and posting everything we are doing im getting lost confused and depressed over all this.

[driverdave]

Originally Posted by suepatches

Please give me the other sprinkler back.. I now find myself using the water can to water my flowers If I dont want to water the crop. I would like the option to use either sprinkler. Call me old or stupid but I really fell like I took a step backwards with this only red sprinkler option. I love how we can speed up the crops but I really like to water flowers when they need it and not speed up a crop that I do not plan on staying up all night to harvest. betweeen facebook taking away game stories and posting everything we are doing im getting lost confused and depressed over all this.

you still have the other sprinkler...if you look in storage under items and filter for tools you will see it there ...just take it out and use it and out it away again or leave it on a farm

[jcassemjr]

I would have to say that given the last sentence which reads "... if you plant new one and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them" is in direct contradiction with the sentence which reads "As before, you can irrigate only once per day." How can both be true?

Originally Posted by Raul

{B}6. Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops, double growing speed (do not revive crops):[/b] If you already own a Brown Mobile Sprinkler you can buy this Red Mobile Sprinkler to irrigate flowers and crops at the same time. Irrigated plants will grow twice as fast and will have a (W) when you mouse over them.

Notice you will not see an immediate change in growth, what will happen is that all crops and flowers in the farm that are still growing will be fully grown twice as fast from that point on.

You can irrigate a plant more than once, but it's growth speed will only double the first time. As before, you can irrigate only once per day. It's OK if someone irrigated your farm that same day.

When you use this tool on other people farms it behaves as if you were using the Brown Sprinkler, growing speed doesn't change.

This tool is an extension of the Brown Mobile Sprinkler, meaning, unlike the Manure Spreaders, you are irrigating the plants, not the farm, so if you plant new ones and you want them to grow twice as fast, you will have to irrigate them after you plant them.

Enjoy!

Thanks

--Raul

I think that this is where the frustration builds. Since we paid 50 FC for the sprinkler, many of us thought we were getting the ability to water each crop once it is planted, but that no plant can be watered more than once per day. Given that a new plant is planted, which clearly couldn't have been watered in the the past 24 hours (hence a new plant), and we are watering the plant and not the farm, it shouldn't matter if the farm was watered in the past 24 hours.

Given that this item was $8.00 USD, if you purchased the 250 FC for $39.99, it is only reasonable to expect that it would give you equal or more benefit than the 45 FC Combine and on the same par as the par as the Manure Spreader, which cost the same amount of FC and USD.

Even if it is working as intended, and not clearly stated, we are forced to either leave our farm plots un-planted for the time until the irrigation clock resets, thereby loosing productivity, or give up on the plant's time to harvest being truly cut in half, since we have to wait the rest of the 24 hour time period for the ability to irrigate to rest, and only reducing the time to harvest by half from that point the plants were irrigated, since Raul stated that it is "..from that point on."

For the sake of the game, the Dev's need to rework how this irrigation is working or refund the players their FC. There is not a store out there that will not take a product back that didn't live up to expectations. I'm not asking for my USD's back, just the ability to get my FC back.

[jcassemjr]

I just tested removing the brown sprinkler out of the storage, onto a farm that wasn't irrigated in the past 24 hours, to see if I could indeed use it as it was purchased. Well it failed. When I clicked to use it, it too turned read, and irrigated the plants and not just the flowers. So, you cannot just water flowers!

This is like making the 3x3, or 4x4 tools work 5x5 since we own the 5x5 tool.

They need to get it fixed, because now I sped up a crop that only had 1 hour left, that I didn't want to waste the speed up feature on!

Where are the Mods? Why are we not getting better information from them?!?!?

[StoneFace]

Originally Posted by jcassemjr

I just tested removing the brown sprinkler out of the storage, onto a farm that wasn't irrigated in the past 24 hours, to see if I could indeed use it as it was purchased. Well it failed. When I clicked to use it, it too turned read, and irrigated the plants and not just the flowers. So, you cannot just water flowers!

This is like making the 3x3, or 4x4 tools work 5x5 since we own the 5x5 tool.

They need to get it fixed, because now I sped up a crop that only had 1 hour left, that I didn't want to waste the speed up feature on!

Where are the Mods? Why are we not getting better information from them?!?!?

Mod = moderator, first. I would think that they are "moderating" the posts of the forum. And they have OFTEN advised posters to put the complaints and suggestions on the specific threads that the developers see and read.

IMHO, I don't give that much credit to a developer to be a jack-of-all-trades. They have produced a pretty good game - basically for free. They have added enhancements for $$ that players can choose to buy or not. They have displayed some funny shortcomings in the design of a number of buildings and animals (the scale, the appearance etc).

But over all, it seems like the biggest and loudest complaints are

1] Cost of optional equipment
2] Desire for more numerous, smaller, constant releases
3] The expectations that the volunteer mods "do more" when the "more" is never enough anyway

Now, on a personal note.... we have not had a release since LAST MONTH.... and my FT accounts each NEED a farm #12 !!!!

[driverdave]

maybe the mods are doing their farm 11 ...lol

[jcassemjr]

Originally Posted by driverdave

maybe the mods are doing their farm 11 ...lol

Diverdave, you're probably right about the Mod's.

We all sat the forums when we couldn't/didn't want to wait for the new update Well, we got it, and we have to have something to talk about.

The sprinkler was great when the new release came out, I needed some crops to bolster my inventory, since I knew I was going to move facilities to other farms, without them being completely empty, and would loose those items in the facilities. I was able to plant, and then irrigate all 10 farm early after the release came out, and now have every facility back up to 100%, and building my stock back up.

I only see this tool valuable if I have allowed items to get down to a dangerous level or if I know that with my work schedule, that I won't have time in the normal cycle to get to a crop.

In my opinion, for 50 FC, the manure spreader doubled our yield for every crop we plant when the farm is fertilized be it a 2 hour or 5 day crop, so for 50 FC, the red sprinkler should cut the growing time in half every crop I plant, not just one every 24 hours.

If it was just going to be an enhancement with a slight advantage, it should have been at a lower price of the brown sprinkler, just like the 5x5's tools were a lower price from the 4x4's tool prices.

[suepatches]

Ok I am now back to give me my old sprinkler back and you can take the red one away and I will eat the loss of farm cash. I just want to play the game and do my own thing without all the stupid rules on times and stuff like that. Call it a lesson learned. I do not need to plant like nuts to get ex points. I feel if you tell us to rewater new crops we should be able to do so. But what ever, just give me the old sprinkler and I will continue on as before. I have done rather well in life but I am not a rocket scientist which is what you need to be lately to play. I am not into spread sheets, or graphs, just want to play and not worry about the next thing I have to work around.

[Taz D]

I think what really needs to be done is separate the sprinklers apart. Leave the Brown one to do flowers only and make the red on e only do crops. This would satisfy those who want to do flowers without doing crops. Also need to change the time period for the Red one to 6 or 12 hours instead of 24 hours.