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Farm Town Feature Update

Friday, February 26th, 2010

David Cooper sent me this information on the recent updates just prior to our last show so we could share it on the program. I decided to go ahead and post it here for you in case you have additional questions. For very detailed information about every aspect of Farm Town, please check out Davids “Farm Town Data Sheet.”

Chicken Coop: Allows you to harvest the eggs of the hens and geese and sell the eggs at the marketplace. The Hen is a new animal that your friends can send you as a gift. You can harvest them once every day.

Wool Shed: This is a new building that allows you to harvest the wool of the sheep and llamas and sell the wool at the marketplace. You can harvest them once every 2 days…. See More

Dairy Shed: Allows you to harvest the milk of the cows and goats and sell the milk at the marketplace. You can harvest them once every 3 days.

You just need to click on the animal building and select the harvest option. All the animals on your farm related to that building will be harvested at once. Note that depending on your computer power and other factors, having an exesive amount of animals on your farm can make the game slower.

The Dairy Shed has been moved from level 49 to level 27. A new Stone Cabin has been added on the level 49.

  • Cow’s Milk, 3 days, 100 coins
  • Goat’s Milk, 3 days, 90 coins
  • Sheep’s wool, 2 days, 55 coins
  • Llama’s wool, 2 days, 65 coins
  • Hen’s eggs, 1 day, 25 coins
  • Goose eggs, 1 day, 30 coins.

Also, your item storage capacity has been increased. Now you can storage 5 additional items for each neighbor you have.

Farm Town Weekly Season III Episode 2

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Farm Town Weekly Season III Episode 2We are so sorry for not having posted episode 2 until now. The file was not ready directly after the show and I simply forgot to go back and get the link needed to add it to our website and iTunes. Please enjoy listening and stay tuned for episode 3 to be released no later than noon on Tuesday.

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Farm Town Weekly Season Three Kickoff

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Season Three KickoffI want to thank our community here for encouraging us to go forward into a third season of Farm Town Weekly. I also want to welcome David Cooper to his seat here on the Farm Town Weekly Board of Directors.

David takes care of the Farm Town Data Sheet which you can checkout by finding it in our links menu or access it from the official Slashkey Farm Town Forum. See you all next Monday evening at 7:30 central at TalkShoe.com to record episode 3.2

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Farm Town Weekly Season II Episode 14

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Farm Town Weekly Season II - Episode 14Tonight, Mountain Mamma, Ms. Kelly and I enjoyed having our friend David (Farm Town Data Sheet) on the show with us once again along with our Ol Friend Colby. The five of us talked at length about a range of Farm Town topics.

For those interested in following us for another season, we have yet to make a final decision but promise to make that announcement on the next episode. Thank you for your patience!

Following an hour of Farm Town discussion, we talked for a while about the website, People of Walmart. The commentary about this popular website was partly just for fun and partly for thought.

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If you have any comments regarding that or any other portion of this episode, please share those in a reply to this post. Facebook users do not need to register on our website. Simply press the FConnect button to login with your facebook account.

We hope you enjoy this episode and will consider joining us live next Monday evening for episode 15. Happy Farming!

Farm Town Weekly Season II Episode 13

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Farm Town Weekly Season II No. 13This episode includes more general conversation about everyday life topics than about Farm Town. One issue that was discussed it that there is no final decision regarding a Season III of Farm Town Weekly. We will do our best to inform you on next weeks episode or not later than episode 15.

Thanks again to everyone that joined us live – you make our Monday every week. Happy Farming!

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Farm Town Weekly Season II Episode 12

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Farm Town Weekly Season II Episode 12This is the last episode of 2009 and Oh Boy did we have technical issues at TalkShoe. Thanks to all of you that stuck with us and seen the show to the end. I do want to mention that on this episode we welcomed April Hinkle, Bill Hamilton, and Roger Haffner to a chair on our honorary Farm Town Weekly Board of Directors and congratulate them each here once again.

We also talked about the “Farm Town Classifieds – Help Wanted Ad” post that can be made from our website and asked folks to give it a try this week. A brief discussion about the current poll on our website and if there is still a need for a “Fire” button. In addition, an array of Facebook topics was discussed from privacy changes to pending changes to profile layouts. Fan pages versus application profile pages and how to disconnect from a group. In spite of the technical troubles with TalkShoe, it was certainly a great evening thanks to having neighbors on with us to share in the conversation.

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Farm Town Weekly Season II Episode 11

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Season Two Episode 11Thanks once again to our loyal friends that came and visited with us in the chat room during the show. We covered a lot of ground from facebook addition and privacy to tree harvesting and site news.

Hope you enjoy this episode and will join us live next Monday.

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In Game Gift Prompting

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

mayor-prompted-gift-giving

It’s been some time since I seen this Farm Town character. I was just doing a little farming with my friend Bill and after replanting my field I started tinkering around moving trees. Out of nowhere pops this dude asking me if I wanted to take a break and send some gifts. This is the same character you find when you click the “?” Help icon in the tool menu on Farm Town.

I had already sent my limit of gifts for the day, so I just told him not right now. I posted earlier about the extra holiday gifts and how you can buy a Small House with Lights for your friends who request one or request one from your friends. That is a great feature I hope they add to other items. Anyway, these were just some additions I noticed early this morning. Just a few minutes ago this guy popped up asking me to send gifts. I don’t know if I need extra reminders about gift giving, particularly when I have already sent my limit. I don’t know how often he will popup or if we can expect more in-game prompting in the coming days, but lets hope they don’t overload us with these because as it is, I can’t keep up with the chore windows I get every few seconds or couple minutes. That is a feature I would like to be able to either turn off or control in some way.

If you have any thoughts or comments, please reply below.

Farm Town Adds Extra Holiday Items

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Late additions to the Farm Town Gift page

Late additions to the Farm Town Gift page

You have probably noticed the 4 new holiday gift items available to give as gifts to your neighbors. There is the Holiday Pig and Dog and 2 tress with lights which are the Pine and Palm tree.

Something else I noticed this early morning is that when you visit the Christmas tab in the Farm Town Store there is a gift icon beside three of the items. Clicking on that icon highlighted in the illustration below will prompt the “Request as Gift” feature allowing you to post the item to your wall on Facebook as a wish list of sorts.

Notice the Small House with Lights

Notice the Small House with Lights

Do you see what I see? There is a “Small House with Lights” which one can buy for only 30,000 regular Farm Town coins, but it also has the gift box icon allowing you to request it as a gift. I don’t see this house on the regular Farm Town gift page so I wonder if it was an error that they placed it there along with the new items.

I will say, if I notice someone post this house in a Request as Gift post today I will buy it for them because I want to see if this is an error or a sign of things to come as there have been times when I wanted to send Store Items as gifts but that is not a feature I have seen before today.

I think it would be great if we could buy things from the Farm Store for our neighbors and would also like to be able to transfer Farm Cash to them as well. I have had occasion when a neighbor was just a couple farm dollars away from buying an item she wanted and I would have been happy to transfer a couple of mine to her because I didn’t really have enough to buy anything I wanted anyway so why not. Anyway, looks like Slashkey is still tinkering in their holiday workshop.

One more note, please remember to “Become a Fan” of Farm Town Weekly as we are moving from the old fan page to a new one and also, if you have not done so yet, click the Facebook Connect button to create your facebook connected account and allow our application. This will turn on features such as “The Bull Award” discussed on episode 10 and will also allow you to post the comments you make in the “Leave a Reply” comment box below to your wall on Facebook.

Thanks in advance and Happy Farming!

Chat History from Episode 10 with Comments

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Just for fun, we thought you might enjoy reviewing the chat history from Episode 10. If you have never been to a live recording of Farm Town Weekly, our friends and neighbors can join us while we record at Talkshoe.com. A chat room is available where you can join other Farm Town farmers in a chat while listening to the live audio feed stream over the net. (more…)