Feedback The Time Machine

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Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding "The Time Machine" Event in this Feedback thread. We are looking forward to capturing your initial reaction to the event, as well as the final opinion after participating in the event.

Please be sure to bring arguments for supporting your statements, simple comments saying you like it or hate it will not help the Team understand what goes great, and what needs to be looked into, when planning future events.

The FAQ of the Event can be found here. If you have any questions, please use the General Issues section or the Technical Issues section for technical problems - this thread is for feedback only. Thank you for understanding.

We are looking forward to your feedback!

Best regards,
Your Farmerama Team

 

There has been a lot of skill and thought that you developers have put into this event and it is a visual symphony! Well done! The amounts of crop are high, but seem to be in balance with the six days time available. Drops appear much better in balance than previous events, so well done on those two things.

My bug-bear is the mechanics. I go to see what is required for the next step. I go back to the mill to make said items, but I cannot return to donate without a total freeze. Every time. There are thirty-two steps. And the game just froze on me when I went back now to confirm how many steps! Sixteen of those steps require milling, and as I am making stuff as I go, mainly because I am always low on the crops required. That is too many freezes. Too many.

Without knowing what this event was about, I re-watched the movie, "Back to the Future" last week, so you will agree that I do put in the research!​

Edit: Clearing my 'History' didn't fix the problem.

 

My game do not freeze, it crashes every time I go back, I get long grey Unity error message. There is nothing else to do, than click OK in the end of report and close browser.

 

While it's not ideal, you don't have to close your browser, you can hit F5 and it'll reload the game. (I also clear the cache just to be on the safe side.) Once those two are done it'll let me play the event unbothered till I run out of crops and drops and the next time I return it's the same story. Get the error report - clear the cache & hit F5, play the event and rinse and repeat.

 

Hitting F5 doesn't work at times both with the browser and standalone. If there is a patch that was put out it won't load with F5, you have to close and restart. When I'm playing with the browser version, I usually use Firefox and when the game freezes/craches it is because Unity is not capable of dealing with all the bonuses from cloud rows and givers. You can literally see the memory of your device being used more and more as you harvest those... At some point even, it is Windows that becomes unstable (on my pc at least).

 

It doesn't always work for me to fix a game freeze, but with this particular error message it has yet to fail me. (I don't have anywhere as many cloudrows and bonuses as you do, of course. So that might be the main difference.)

I do enjoy this event, but it is rather heavy on the needed crops and drops again, considering the shorter time span. (I'm hopeful that I'll finish so I'm technically fine, but I do feel sorry for more casual and/or newer players.)

 

At the upper left of my browser window there is a back arrow, a forward arrow, a circle arrow and a home (house) icon. I use the circle arrow to refresh. Yes, it does reload the game from the top (one must go through the initial game banner) and then go to the page you wanted on the farm, but it does work.

No closing the browser.