New Release -- November 5th, 2013

[farmersuz77]

Hi There,

We just released a new version of the game with the following features and bug fixes:

1. Thanksgiving Items: Old items are now live. Later Today we will release about 20 more new items.

2. 36 x 36 Farm Expansions for farms 6 - 10: 40 FarmCash OR

Farm 6 Expansion: 30,000,000,000
Farm 7 Expansion: 30,000,000,000
Farm 8 Expansion: 30,000,000,000
Farm 9 Expansion: 30,000,000,000
Farm 10 Expansion: 30,000,000,000

3. Main Neighbour Bar Improvement: We are now showing the current user in this bar, so you can quickly see where your position is among your neighbours in the different dimensions, like level, help given, etc. This is also the only place you can see the Best Diversification and Help Given Ranks for all your neighbours and yourself.

4. Farm Stats tool Improvement: It now includes by default all the extra produce you will get due to fertilizer, bonus and fish baits. Notice the products from bonuses and baits are estimates but should be pretty close to the real numbers.

You can disable or enable this behavior by unchecking the box at the bottom of the window.

5. Long Tank Freight Car now delivers Crude Oil Barrels as well

6. 10 x 10 tools (coming next week): Harvester, Seeder, Plower, Harvest-Plow Combine and Harvest-Plant Combine are now available in 10x10 mode, this will allow you to perform farming operations over 100 fields at a time.

7. Dan 7 for Crops: You will have to be at level 200 or higher to have the option to reach Dan 7. Dans 1 to 6 are now accessible at level 100, instead of 150.

8. Less Timeouts: Users with lot of facilities and turbo tools were sometimes experiencing timeouts in the Start All operation and when opening the Facility Manager, this should happen much less frequent now.

9. Facebook Promo - 15 Farm Cash Free: Users that can't afford to spend real money in the game may have the chance to get 15 Farm Cash for free, Courtesy of Facebook. This is a promo offered by Facebook and we do not have any control on it.

We only ask Facebook if the user is eligible, and if it is, we display a Yellow Farm Cash offer bar in the same place where the blue recruiter bar is showing now. Facebook may request for you to have a valid credit card on your account for verification only.

10. Faster Avatar and Farming Operations: When you are farming in your farm (not hired) the avatar now tele-transport instead of walking to the next completed fields or plants, and as soon as there is assurance that the operation was saved successfully on our servers.

There will be much less progress bars in the farm at once and they will go away faster as well, this all contributes to a better experience while farming.

Notice that now if you see fields with Progress Bars it means the operations have not been saved yet, so if you refresh the game you will have to redo those fields.

11. Send Farm Cash gift restrictions: In order to send Farm Cash gifts to others you need to buy at least 50 farm cash since you first started playing (or earn it by completing offers).

This is to stop users creating fake facebook accounts and using bots or auto clickers to quickly get to level 25 or 27 in a day or 2 and then sending Farm Cash gifts to friends or themselves. This is not fair to the users that do not use these tricks and it also impact Farmtown revenue.

We know this is a delicate subject. We have already decided to soften the restriction a bit, to require a lifetime purchase (for the Sender) of only 25 Farm Cash, and also, to remove the restriction completely if the Sender has been playing for 6 months already, meaning, it's a legitimate Farmtown player and not a fake account just created to level up and never used again.

This last change will be released later today.

12. Hawaiian Restaurant (FC): Produces Hawaiian Food.

Macaroni Salad
Poke Salad
Beef Bulgoli
Plate Lunch
Loco Moco
Lomi-Lomi Salmon
Hawaiian Chicken
Haupia

New Products in other facilities: Corn Starch in the Water Mill.

13. Bank (Coins): Produces Financial Products. It just uses coins to produce them, that's why it's not workable by others.

Checking Account
Savings Account
Money Market Account
CD Account
Government Bonds
Municipal Bonds
Corporate Bonds
Capital Stocks

A new Medieval Building was released to replace the Bank at level 126.

14. Spa Supplies Factory (Coins): Produces Spa Supplies.

Palmassager
Massage Brush
Bucket and Ladle
Lip Balm
Body Powder
Cold Cream
Moisturizer
Day Cream

New Products in other facilities: Petroleum Jelly in the Oil Refinery.

15. Day Spa (FC): Provides Health, Beauty and Relaxation Services and can be stocked with all products from the Spa Supplies Factory.

Enjoy!

--Raul[/quote]

I am over-the top happy about the avatar change. Doing my farms was pure joy this morning. Thanks you so much!!!
Suzi

[KnightRider]

What I would like to know is how is Facebook doing the gift FC? I have a neighbor on the same server I am and they have the banner for the free FC (of course they are the one without a credit card, so they can't get the free FC), but the banner doesn't show up on my farm, it still shows the blue 30 FC banner. Has anyone received the banner from Facebook?

[JbarLFarms]

Originally Posted by KnightRider

What I would like to know is how is Facebook doing the gift FC? I have a neighbor on the same server I am and they have the banner for the free FC (of course they are the one without a credit card, so they can't get the free FC), but the banner doesn't show up on my farm, it still shows the blue 30 FC banner. Has anyone received the banner from Facebook?

I have no banner, blue or otherwise... there is no FC offer on my page.

[marymarcel]

Originally Posted by KnightRider

What I would like to know is how is Facebook doing the gift FC? I have a neighbor on the same server I am and they have the banner for the free FC (of course they are the one without a credit card, so they can't get the free FC), but the banner doesn't show up on my farm, it still shows the blue 30 FC banner. Has anyone received the banner from Facebook?

Hi KnightRider! here is the banner

[JbarLFarms]

Originally Posted by marymarcel

Hi KnightRider! here is the banner

Nope, don't have one of those. Or a blue banner either.

[Qivis]

Originally Posted by JbarLFarms

Nope, don't have one of those. Or a blue banner either.

If you already have PayPal OR a credit card registered with Facebook, you will not get the offer. It's basically the same offer Facebook has made in the past and not always via Farm Town. So if you've already done it once through another game or via the offers that have been made a year or so ago on Farm Town, you will not see it. Or if you have PayPal or a cc registered with Facebook without any offer for Facebook Credits at all you will also not be eligible for it. Bummer, is it not?

[KnightRider]

Originally Posted by marymarcel

Hi KnightRider! here is the banner

I know what the banner looks like as I stated before the only one I have is the blue 30 FC banner, that tells you right there that I know what a banner is. I have figured out that the Free Facebook FC is for those that have not purchased FC and a lot of them don't have credit cards like my neighbor. In my opinion if you have purchased FC you will not get that banner. What exactly is FB verifying? That you have a credit card, I didn't know having a credit card had to be required to get something that is free. Like that one TV commercial about the credit scores, if it is really free why do you have to put in a credit card?

[marymarcel]

Originally Posted by KnightRider

I know what the banner looks like as I stated before the only one I have is the blue 30 FC banner, that tells you right there that I know what a banner is. I have figured out that the Free Facebook FC is for those that have not purchased FC and a lot of them don't have credit cards like my neighbor. In my opinion if you have purchased FC you will not get that banner. Like that one commercial about the credit scores, if it is really free why do you have to put in a credit card?

Sorry about the misunderstanding, as you had asked if someone had received the facebook banner, and I had, then posted the pic. I know that you know what a banner is.

About your question on credit card, Im not sure that I want to give Facebook my credit card information including the secret code.

[TartanLady]

Have to say for all those saying they are leaving due to the fc update come on be realistic like all other fb games they all get to a stage where its all about using real money and then loads say they are leaving unleass they change it hmmm yet to see a game developer change their mind on that one yet do you think they care if you stay or go thousands of players out there a few leaving and it only is a few that havent spent any real cash anyway really doesnt bother them one little bit.

Dont jump down my throat on this I totally agree its a bummer and anyone that tells me they have never had to use real money and they have all the facs and tools I really dont believe them for a second unless you have had lots of Dummy/Helper accounts

[dave1949]

I like the latest updates, but it as just made the game slower than it was before. After planting a farm it took 3 mins 40 secs to load next farm. Come on devs its time you sorted this out please, This as been an ongoing issues for months. I dont need to be told to clear caches etc.