Discussions About Cargo Ships

[Aussie Rae]

all smiles now, after starting by prep of one container on one ship each day, and dispatched, finally got the times down to the minimum for each container on each ship... just have to make sure to have one back and ready to unload so the number of dispatched ships does not drop below that magical 6,

[VickStix]

I made a list of every ship I sent out, with the names of the ports and how long it took them to send it. I was on ship #125 before I quit playing FT. I quit playing because I was so tired of waiting the 24 hours to prepare and send another ship. Just made me so mad that I wasted all those coins on 7 ships, when I was barely able to keep 4 going at a time. I heard they changed it, so I decided to give it a try. Well... Now it's even WORSE! I can finish filling my ship in 3 hours now ONLY to have to sit and wait for 20 hours to send the darn thing. No thank you FT. Guess I'm quitting AGAIN :-(

[StoneFace]

I like the new short-time enhancement.

I would not enjoy having to play all day to fill a container every hour or so. Now, they can be filled quickly, and I can spend the rest of the time either doing other FT stuff.... or .... other non-FT stuff.

Thanks Devs - you rock.


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[smittysun]

If I have ships dispatched before I leave on vacation, and have to disable ships due to vacation, will those ships still be going to other ports? Hope that makes sense. Thank you.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by smittysun

If I have ships dispatched before I leave on vacation, and have to disable ships due to vacation, will those ships still be going to other ports? Hope that makes sense. Thank you.

Hi smittysun,
If you disable your port then your ships stop. "When the "Ships" feature is disabled your seaport will not receive any more ships from other players and other players will not be able to load your ships."

[Ellsinore]

It seems the cargo ships are defeating the purpose of a "social" game. It's really causing a lot of animosity, and I'm not an exception to that.

I have several people I have to replace, or skip, because my ships will sit there for a day or more. I did a little experiment and left *their* ships in my port instead of moving them on. I wanted to see how long they would sit there before they skipped me. Days. It appears these people are dispatching their ships, but not returning to the game again, or ignoring their ports. And yet I have to continually replace them when I dispatch my ships and I'm running out of reliable replacements.

I didn't "do" ships myself for a long time. Now, I'm running out of animal products, so thought I'd go ahead and give it a try. Took me a long time to realize the "take" for those is almost negligible, and when you have to skip five or more ports to bring the ship home, it's almost nothing. But I *do* get a *lot* of stuff I don't need.

Fortunately, I haven't received "hate mail" from people about working ships. I did get a message from a friend asking if I would move her's on, but I posted on my wall to please do that in case I forget to check into FT.

I hope the devs rethink the ship thing. It's great that it doesn't take so long to dispatch the ships now, but the reward isn't worth the hassle.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by Ellsinore

It seems the cargo ships are defeating the purpose of a "social" game. It's really causing a lot of animosity, and I'm not an exception to that.

I have several people I have to replace, or skip, because my ships will sit there for a day or more. I did a little experiment and left *their* ships in my port instead of moving them on. I wanted to see how long they would sit there before they skipped me. Days. It appears these people are dispatching their ships, but not returning to the game again, or ignoring their ports. And yet I have to continually replace them when I dispatch my ships and I'm running out of reliable replacements.

I didn't "do" ships myself for a long time. Now, I'm running out of animal products, so thought I'd go ahead and give it a try. Took me a long time to realize the "take" for those is almost negligible, and when you have to skip five or more ports to bring the ship home, it's almost nothing. But I *do* get a *lot* of stuff I don't need.

Fortunately, I haven't received "hate mail" from people about working ships. I did get a message from a friend asking if I would move her's on, but I posted on my wall to please do that in case I forget to check into FT.

I hope the devs rethink the ship thing. It's great that it doesn't take so long to dispatch the ships now, but the reward isn't worth the hassle.

Hi Ellsinore,
I moved your post to the General Feedback discussion thread about cargo ships since you were not posting a question or a specific problem with your ships.

[Ellsinore]

Originally Posted by Taz D

Hi Ellsinore,
I moved your post to the General Feedback discussion thread about cargo ships since you were not posting a question or a specific problem with your ships.

Oh, thank you, Taz! I was not paying attention!

[ccheney]

Originally Posted by Ellsinore

It seems the cargo ships are defeating the purpose of a "social" game. It's really causing a lot of animosity, and I'm not an exception to that.

I have several people I have to replace, or skip, because my ships will sit there for a day or more. I did a little experiment and left *their* ships in my port instead of moving them on. I wanted to see how long they would sit there before they skipped me. Days. It appears these people are dispatching their ships, but not returning to the game again, or ignoring their ports. And yet I have to continually replace them when I dispatch my ships and I'm running out of reliable replacements.

I didn't "do" ships myself for a long time. Now, I'm running out of animal products, so thought I'd go ahead and give it a try. Took me a long time to realize the "take" for those is almost negligible, and when you have to skip five or more ports to bring the ship home, it's almost nothing. But I *do* get a *lot* of stuff I don't need.

Fortunately, I haven't received "hate mail" from people about working ships. I did get a message from a friend asking if I would move her's on, but I posted on my wall to please do that in case I forget to check into FT.

I hope the devs rethink the ship thing. It's great that it doesn't take so long to dispatch the ships now, but the reward isn't worth the hassle.

Even with the loading time changes it is still nearly impossible to fill a ship completelyunless you can come back to the game every hour on the hour for 10 hrs to fill the next container. Most of us especially those who have a real job do not have that kind of time.

[Taz D]

Originally Posted by ccheney

Even with the loading time changes it is still nearly impossible to fill a ship completelyunless you can come back to the game every hour on the hour for 10 hrs to fill the next container. Most of us especially those who have a real job do not have that kind of time.

Hi ccheney,
Try loading only 1 or 2 containers, then dispatch the ship. Do that for several days and you will get the times down to a few minutes and will be able to prepare a whole ship of containers in about an hour. As long as you keep it up doing a ship daily then you will not be spending hours to prepare a ship.