New Release -- August 30th, 2011 - Page 79

driverdave · #**781** Sep 14 2011, 12:46 AM

This is what I think is happening here. When the red sprinkler was released the extended waste time was not part of the plan. If you planted a one day crop and speed up the growth it would be ready in 10 hours and go to waste 20 hours + the extra hours they seem to have built in for one day crops. Then people complained about speeding up crops without wanting to because they can't use the brown sprinkler to water flowers, so the devs went in and lengthened the waste time to match the time it would be if you didn't water you flowers. I think either something went wrong here or they didn't change all the code when they did this change. While you still have the full time to harvest the crop the picture of a watered crop shows wasted when the time should be up without being extended. There seems to be some bugs in the red sprinkler and I am sure the developers are working to get them fixed asap.[/quote]

i agree that the devs will be working on this.......but essentially what i have found thru planting a lot of crops is this

plant potatoes.......1 day crop 20hrs ......irrigate them reduces crop ripening to 10 hrs
now (and this is what people dont seem to grasp) the potatoes will not go to waste until at least 40 hrs from when they were planted (which is the normal 20 hrs growth period plus the normal 20hrs go to waste waiting time

i planted a 4 day crop (80hrs) and irrigated it thus meaning it was ready in 2 days (40hrs) when i rolled up 40 hrs later to harvest it it was saying 6 days to waste .....

Kath-H · #**782** Sep 14 2011, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by caligirl62

in one of the newer facilities hon...for the guitar i think...any one else?

You harvest the cork trees with the chopping tools, then use cork in the fishing accessories facility.

driverdave · #**783** Sep 14 2011, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Taz D

I don't have either sprinkler as I don't do flowers. But one side effect I see of the red sprinkler that is effecting all crops, is that the wasted time is showing incorrectly for crops that have not had the time shortened by irrigation. I have a sugarcane crop that just became read to harvest. This is a 12 hour crop. Now it says wasted in 16.6 hours when it should say wasted in 12 hours. There are definately still some problems between the red sprinkler and the time changes they made in this release. The biggest problem is not knowing whether the time listed is correct or if the crop will be wasted when it should be.

ok i planted that plot of raspberry it is now ready to harvest and says 2.7 hrs to waste so thats 162 minutes so we shall observe and see as i let this plot go to waste in the name of science lolol

you will note that the waste time is .7 of an hr longer than the growth time

driverdave · #**784** Sep 14 2011, 01:25 AM

its only a single plot and the purpose of the exercise is to test the accuracy of the waste timer now 12 minutes later it is reading 2.5 hrs to waste so so far the timer is accurate

down to 1.7 hrs appearance still normal and time accurate

HelenJS22 · #**785** Sep 14 2011, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by driverdave

its only a single plot and the purpose of the exercise is to test the accuracy of the waste timer now 12 minutes later it is reading 2.5 hrs to waste so so far the timer is accurate

down to 1.7 hrs appearance still normal and time accurate

LOL - love this and waiting on the results dave. I've found that I have tons of time to harvest crops that I have irrigated, without too much problem. I'm thinking that as with lots of little issues, they may be a bit random, and therefore more difficult to 'fix'.

driverdave · #**786** Sep 14 2011, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by HelenJS22

LOL - love this and waiting on the results dave. I've found that I have tons of time to harvest crops that I have irrigated, without too much problem. I'm thinking that as with lots of little issues, they may be a bit random, and therefore more difficult to 'fix'.

well we are down to 72 minutes and not looking wasted yet timer continues to be accurate as far as real time to waste timer ..it is just an empirical exercise to prove or disprove that the waste timer works and its accuracy

if the picture of the crop is going to change i am sort of expecting that to happen at 42 minutes to go

HelenJS22 · #**787** Sep 14 2011, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by driverdave

well we are down to 72 minutes and not looking wasted yet timer continues to be accurate as far as real time to waste timer ..it is just an empirical exercise to prove or disprove that the waste timer works and its accuracy

if the picture of the crop is going to change i am sort of expecting that to happen at 42 minutes to go

Soooo - we could do with a science lab in Farm Town ??

driverdave · #**788** Sep 14 2011, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by HelenJS22

Soooo - we could do with a science lab in Farm Town ??

lol...no just
to change that which we can
to abide with that which we cannot
and the wisdom to know the difference.....

the study continues 60 minutes to go and all normal

never know if there is a difference and i can isolate it ...it might help the devs to fix it

driverdave · #**789** Sep 14 2011, 03:00 AM

the reason i say i expect a change at 42 minutes is that 42 minutes is the ''extra '' time over and above the normal time to waste for that crop so we shall see what we shall see

ok at 40 minutes to go and still looking like a healthy raspberry field should
not disappointed that there was no change in appearance as the devs did say they were fixing that but we can conclude from this so far that the time to waste timer is accurate

Ok the plot just went to waste ....right on zero minutes and it was healthy looking right to the end ...the time to waste timer is accurate it said at the astart 2.7 hrs and 162 minutes later it went to waste no i know thereas mathematicians out there that can do the numbers
sugar cane said 16.6 hrs for taz
raspberry plot said 2.7 hrs for me

is there a mathematical link proportionate formaula in this ??????

driverdave · #**790** Sep 14 2011, 04:22 AM

Ok to recap on the time to waste timer

i have over the last 5 hrs run a test on the time to waste clock and it is indeed accurate my methodology was as follow

plowed a single field on a non irrigated farm
planted 1 single plot of raspberry
it took 120 minutes (2hrs) to ripen
when it was ripe the time to waste started at 2.7 hrs(162 minutes)
i monitored it over the next 162 minutes (2.7 hrs)
there was no change in appearance untill the time to waste timer ran out
the field was unharvestable by any means
(and i have all the harvesters and the combine)

this was a true test carried out in a methodical fashion and the findings speak for themselves

1 . the time to waste timer is accurate
2. at least for raspberry there is no appearance change until the time to waste has run out
3. when it was showing wilted wasted plot it was not harvestable