New Release -- June 7th, 2010

[SueW170]

Kudos to the developers.
Though there's nothing that I'll probably acquire, for those seriously into facilities, it's really a great update. Oh, yes, I'll still be suggesting a plain ole regular small town restaurant (as a facility) and a general store (decorative or a facility to trade or sell crops and products to neighbors) of course
One point I'm questioning, though, is the addition of a winery. What is the minimum age for people to join FB and to participate in FT? Yes, I realize that this is just a "pretend" winery, but even so wonder if that's appropriate for games in which some who are not adults participate. . . . On second thought, though, it's the responsibility of parents to know what the games contain and control which games their children are permitted to take part in.

[Tony D]

Originally Posted by SueW170

Kudos to the developers.
Though there's nothing that I'll probably acquire, for those seriously into facilities, it's really a great update. Oh, yes, I'll still be suggesting a plain ole regular small town restaurant (as a facility) and a general store (decorative or a facility to trade or sell crops and products to neighbors) of course
One point I'm questioning, though, is the addition of a winery. What is the minimum age for people to join FB and to participate in FT? Yes, I realize that this is just a "pretend" winery, but even so wonder if that's appropriate for games in which some who are not adults participate. . . . On second thought, though, it's the responsibility of parents to know what the games contain and control which games their children are permitted to take part in.

Hi Sue, I am pretty sure it is 13. I would have to say though that if I did let a child of that age have access to facebook then the winery would be the least of my concerns.

[SueW170]

Originally Posted by Tony D

Hi Sue, I am pretty sure it is 13. I would have to say though that if I did let a child of that age have access to facebook then the winery would be the least of my concerns.

Isn't that the truth

[Lbishop1213]

Originally Posted by Tony D

Hi Sue, I am pretty sure it is 13. I would have to say though that if I did let a child of that age have access to facebook then the winery would be the least of my concerns.

I wanted to add my 2 cents about the winery. My 10 year old does have a farm town only facebook (I monitor it). She is an old soul, she doesn't like the underwear commercials, or when half dressed women are on magazine covers, she doesn't like me having a glass of wine, BUT she was very excited to see the winery was added. Not because it was wine but because she could make a decent amount of coins out of her grapes!

[Mrs Borgies]

Originally Posted by SueW170

Kudos to the developers.
Though there's nothing that I'll probably acquire, for those seriously into facilities, it's really a great update. Oh, yes, I'll still be suggesting a plain ole regular small town restaurant (as a facility) and a general store (decorative or a facility to trade or sell crops and products to neighbors) of course
One point I'm questioning, though, is the addition of a winery. What is the minimum age for people to join FB and to participate in FT? Yes, I realize that this is just a "pretend" winery, but even so wonder if that's appropriate for games in which some who are not adults participate. . . . On second thought, though, it's the responsibility of parents to know what the games contain and control which games their children are permitted to take part in.

Hi Sue, I don’t have a problem with the winery and young players.

Here is Australia, some schools do offer winemaking as part of the curriculum. Of course there is no tasting but they do learn everything else that goes into winemaking.

[TsunamiVince]

Which reminds me, how about:

if (we already displayed over production warning popup)
{
throw out all remaining clicks on the exact same thing clicked on
}

instead of

if (over production)
{
display warning popup
}

I constantly click on something to max it out, then have to wait through 25-30 "you have maxed out production" popups as it unwinds through every single extra click on the production button. I'm glad you finally have over-production popups instead of just simply throwing out over production with no indication of what is going on but as usual you fail at the actual implementation of this detail. One over production pop-up and then toss subsequent identical clicks on the same production. Since I have to spell this out in all gory detail:

click()
{
if (! over production)
{
last displayed popup = null;
produce
return
}

// over production here

if (last displayed popup == current clicked item)
{
return;
}

display popup;

last displayed popup = current clicked item;
}

This way 1) multiple clicks on one production item only displays ONE popup. 2) Clicking around all production items still displays ONE popup when you click on something different. This still allows you to make sure the server has actually queued up the maximum amount.

[SueW170]

Originally Posted by Mrs Borgies

Hi Sue, I don’t have a problem with the winery and young players.

Here is Australia, some schools do offer winemaking as part of the curriculum. Of course there is no tasting but they do learn everything else that goes into winemaking.

Interesting. A number of Australian wines are sold here in the US, quite excellent I've heard. Actually wine is a wholesome beverage. Though one glass and I'm sleepy, so I personally prefer the sparkling fruit juices. . . . Hey, maybe FT will add those as another product made from our grapes, apples, pears and cranberries

[justmecookin]

OMG Raul...you lot are awesome...already bought it all...hugs to you all...

[Lavenda]

Originally Posted by SueW170

Kudos to the developers.
Though there's nothing that I'll probably acquire, for those seriously into facilities, it's really a great update. Oh, yes, I'll still be suggesting a plain ole regular small town restaurant (as a facility) and a general store (decorative or a facility to trade or sell crops and products to neighbors) of course
One point I'm questioning, though, is the addition of a winery. What is the minimum age for people to join FB and to participate in FT? Yes, I realize that this is just a "pretend" winery, but even so wonder if that's appropriate for games in which some who are not adults participate. . . . On second thought, though, it's the responsibility of parents to know what the games contain and control which games their children are permitted to take part in.

FB legal age is 16. My daughter is dying to have her own account (especially when friends at school already have one) so she can farm and fight dragons with me. But she's got 6 years till she's legal! My Space, IIRC, is 14. Either way, I have no problem with alcohol in the game, it's not like the point of the wineries is to see how drunk you can get.

[damichcoop]

Originally Posted by SueW170

Kudos to the developers.
Though there's nothing that I'll probably acquire, for those seriously into facilities, it's really a great update. Oh, yes, I'll still be suggesting a plain ole regular small town restaurant (as a facility) and a general store (decorative or a facility to trade or sell crops and products to neighbors) of course
One point I'm questioning, though, is the addition of a winery. What is the minimum age for people to join FB and to participate in FT? Yes, I realize that this is just a "pretend" winery, but even so wonder if that's appropriate for games in which some who are not adults participate. . . . On second thought, though, it's the responsibility of parents to know what the games contain and control which games their children are permitted to take part in.

Originally Posted by Tony D

Hi Sue, I am pretty sure it is 13. I would have to say though that if I did let a child of that age have access to facebook then the winery would be the least of my concerns.

Originally Posted by Lavenda

FB legal age is 16. My daughter is dying to have her own account (especially when friends at school already have one) so she can farm and fight dragons with me. But she's got 6 years till she's legal! My Space, IIRC, is 14. Either way, I have no problem with alcohol in the game, it's not like the point of the wineries is to see how drunk you can get.

The legal age for Facebook is 13. You can sign up for your own account at that age, but I know a lot of kids that get one by just making up a fake birthday. I don't have a problem with younger kids having an account, as long as it's monitored by their parent.s