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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.

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Farm Town Weekly Season III Episode 3

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Farm Town Weekly III Episode 3We discussed the new features released last week as we chatted along with a rather large crew of farm town fans in the live chat. Enjoy episode 3 and come join us as we record next Monday evening at 7:30 Central on TalkShoe.com

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GIFTS

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Since we can now harvest certain animals, and I know some people are starting animal farms on their second farms (since we can’t move animals between farms), please post what you would like in the way of gifts for your farmer friends to send you.

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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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In Game Gift Prompting

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

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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.

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Farm Town Weekly Fans and Facebook Connect

Monday, December 14th, 2009

This week we added Facebook Connect to our website and quite literally our website is undergoing a transformation from WordPress powered blog to Facebook powered application. While the technical details may not interest you, there are some basics that we need to share with you here now and we’ll do our best to keep you updated on more changes to come.

Become A Fan – Again

Our fan page on facebook has become a great way for us to connect with listeners and for our listeners to connect with others in our community. First, let me share here what you NEED TO KNOW on this topic, then I want to share more insight on things that might be of interest to you as a member and/or fan.

What You Need To Know

We are moving from our current fan page to a new page at Facebook and are asking our friends and fans to “Become A Fan” again if you fanned the old page or if you are new, we hope you will Become A Fan of our new page as well.

We do regret having to trouble current fans to make the switch and want to thank you in advance for migrating to our new page at your earliest convenience. The current or Old Fan Page will be deleted soon and we don’t wish to loose you in the move.

There is a “Become A Fan” button located in the sidebar of our website visible only to those that are not already fans of our new page. You can also just go directly to our New Fan Page on Facebook.

Why The New Fan Page?

We had to add an application (our website) to Facebook in order to add Facebook Connect to FarmTownWeekly.com. Applications on Facebook have what is called a “Profile Page” which is the exact same thing as a “Fan Page” with all the same features. Therefore, our new Application Profile Page replaces our old fan page. To be clear, our website is now a facebook application and our application profile page on facebook is now our new fan page.

It would make no sense to maintain both pages as they have nearly the exact same features in terms of communicating with fans, but the new page does have a couple additional features. For instance, clicking the “Go To Application” button on the new page brings you straight to our website. Using Facebook Connect, you can easily return to your profile on Facebook by clicking your profile pic on our website.

Now mind you, not every feature will work for every user and we are still in the process of converting our website to use the Facebook Connect features that handle member registration and authentication. So far however, it seems to be working well for everyone that has created a Facebook Connect account on FarmTownWeekly.com

Add Farm Town Weekly to Bookmarks Another handy feature is you can add Farm Town Weekly to your bookmarks on Facebook to make it extra convenient to check our website for updates or listen to the latest episode. I keep mine right next to the Farm Town bookmark.

We will cover more about Facebook Connect in future posts and talk about it on the next show but feel free to reply here with any feedback, comments, or questions. One brief note to current registered members, to log into our website using Facebook Connect you no longer enter your username or password on our login form. Just click on the Facebook Connect button and if asked, enter your Facebook login information.

Background Information – May be of Interest

In November we noticed a slight decrease in our website traffic. There could be any number of reasons for the decrease and traffic on any active website will fluctuate from month to month. However, we considered this may be due to our making a fan page available on facebook, giving you the ability to connect with us there more conveniently and without having to leave the facebook environment.

What else we found interesting was that immediately after starting our fan page we seen an increase in the number of live participants at TalkShoe on Monday evenings. If you don’t know, Talkshoe.com is where we record the show during which a chatroom is made available where our neighbors chat with us and each other while listening to the live audio stream. Listeners can also call in and talk with us like traditional talk radio.

The point is that while seeing a slight decrease in website traffic, live participation in the show has increased. In fact, our show has made it on the TalkShoe Top 100 List for Live Participants for the fourth consecutive week. There is no real way for us to know, but it stands to reason that the addition of a fan page is somehow responsible for the decrease in site traffic and increase in live participation. Of course there are multiple other variables, but figuring out a way to make it even more convenient for farmers to connect with our content and share it with others has always been the task at hand and adding a fan page to facebook certainly had some impact.

In review, we believe that adding Facebook Connect to our website and inserting our website into Facebook as an application will have even greater impact. At the end of the day, it is just plain fun for us to be able to use familiar Facebook features on FarmTownWeekly.com

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Facebook Connect and Farm Town Weekly

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

As you browse our website you may notice the Facebook Connect button appear on posts and pages below the comments form and in the sidebar. This feature is currently being added whereas you will soon be able to login to our website using your facebook account and connect your comments here with those on your facebook wall.

Currently, we are running into some setup issues with facebook connect and as this work continues you may see facebook features here that either don’t work properly, as intended, or as expected.  No worries, we will fix those issues but this work must continue while the site is live and online. Sorry in advance for any confusion this may cause.

While we have been marginally successful at integrating the facebook connect application with our wordpress powered website, there are still some glitches to work out and bugs to squash. You are welcome to try facebook connect to create a new account here, but understand that if we fail to fully implement this system over the next week or so that we will revert back to using our own member registration which will remain available.

The choice is yours on how you choose to connect with us provided that this application works for you. All we are asking is that you please keep in touch in case we need to have you re-register through the old system.

If you were already a registered member of our website prior to seeing the Facebook Connect button then your account will remain active for the time being. If you use the Facebook Connect button, this will create a NEW or second account for you here. This is perfectly okay with us but understand that we may need to contact you sometime in the future to assist you in fully migrating your account to the new system or by chance we decide to remove Facebook connect, attribute any new posts you make to your old account.

However it works out we will do our best to keep you posted. Our goal is simple and that is to create greater opportunity for our community to connect with us AND with each other. As always, we greatly appreciate your support.

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Farm Town Weekly Season II Episode 9

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Farm Town Weekly welcomes Sandra Lopes as the newest member of our honorary Board of Directors. We talked about changes coming to our website and the new holiday items while Farm Town Farmers enjoyed a chat in the Farmers Community chatroom at talkshoe.com

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New Holiday Items Storm Into Farm Town

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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It Snowed! That’s right, you can now gift and even buy patches of snow for your Farm Town farm. You can also buy a snow covered tree and lots of Christmas Holiday items. Just check the gift page to see all the new Christmas items that are now available to decorate your farm and send to your friends and neighbors over the weekend.

There are plenty of other winter wonderland and holiday items for sell in the Farm Store for both coin and Farm Cash. A couple interesting items to note is they added an ice skating ring along with the patches of snow, both of which were suggested in the Farm Town Weekly fan page discussion area. Hmmm, maybe they ARE listening to us afterall.

Happy Farming and be sure and join us Monday to share the fun you have over the weekend with your new seasonal items and Christmas decor.

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New Version of Farm Town Supports Second Farms

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Slashkey announced today that they have released a new version of Farm Town. The main feature included in this update is the ability for farmers to purchase a second farm.

To maintain stability across their servers, the developers have released this update to only about half the Farm Town farmers and will be monitoring server load while steadily releasing it to the rest of the Farm Town population. According to the official forum at Slashkey, all farmers should have the ability to buy a second farm within the next couple days.

Christmas Holiday Items Coming Next Week!

The new holiday items are on their way and should be available sometime next week according to the official announcement in the Farm Town “Slashkey” Forum. Between the addition of second farms and new holiday items, we should have a lot to chat and talk about on the next few episodes of Farm Town Weekly.

Note: New members will be seated on our Honorary Board of Directors on Monday so please come and help us celebrate these special friends of Farm Town Weekly.

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