Feedback Important Technical Test for 24 hours

I'm loving the new version at the moment ... it takes a little to load at 1st but after that all is sweet for me now .... but i have upgraded my graphics card between this verson and the past one so unsure if that has helped matters ,,,, i will save this verson is far better than none once flash dies ... so thank you to all the Dev team thats working on the unity based version so that we as players are not left with a game to not play at all! big hugs thanks from da frog

 

ID: 54142471 I didn't partake in the Bata testing. Using Chromebook, Windows 10 and Google. Was trying to play about 3 am German time.
Ok I was at this for a while...several tries.
**Clicked to open the game it took some time. Went to Magical Glen harvested my crops with the harvester and 'crash' blank screen.
**reopened the game after a bit of waiting, looking at the cute new wallpaper the unresponsive box opens without the option to wait but I wait and game loads. I went to the Lighthouse manually harvested the items I wanted and every time I clicked on a giver the user word in the frame highlighted which of course activated Grammarly. When I was finished all I wanted to do I went back to the Magical Glen to plant seeds with the harvester. When resting on the dirt icon I could see favorite seeds but when I clicked to open the seed menu 'crash' blank screen.
**reopened game after a bit of waiting, looking at new wallpaper the unresponsive box opens I wait and game loads. Went to Magical Glen to plant some seeds clicked to open the seed menu and 'crash' blank screen.
**Reloaded game again same loading story as each time before. This time I tried to manually plant seeds 'crash'.
** this time as soon as the game loaded I came right here to the form to make my report because if I am not logged in to the game I can not access the form. The game is open right now I will try and plant seeds again. I tried manually planting the sheep showed up but did not bounce around and the 'crash' blank screen. My gaming time is up so I can not try again. This is my report FrootloopGrove
**Decided to stay up and try again but try it a little different after reading some other post. So for me, Gift Giving, Wheel, and Market worked fine. Harvesting my givers on all the giving fields using the harvester on some and manually on others and the CloudRows worked fine. Was finally able to plant seeds on the Magical Glen choosing from the favorites menu. Then I moved to Two Ponds was able to reap my harvest with the harvester when trying to open the seed menu once again 'crash' but this time it was extra because the whole computer reset. I waited to see what was going one and then the screen came alive and asked me if I wanted to restore my pages. WOW.
** After the reset I went back to Two Ponds and choose seeds from the favorite menu. Now I am going to the Main Land/ Front Yard.
** Got to the Front Yard and tried to mill some food. Opened the mill and several time I clicked the + to start some feed and 'crash' not going to try that again right now. Still trying to choose seed from the big menu...and again 'crash'. Just going to choose from the favorite menu again so I can move on to the Island Fields.
** Ok so when on the Island I choose seeds from the favorites menu except when it can to the Plantation because I needed to plant event crops and can you guess what happened? 'crash yeap how did you guess hhah. I was allowed to use the event shortcut on the field.
So now that is my complete report step by step. Now for my first and fast opinion...
** I feel all the fonts have become small and it is hard to see.
** Not crazy about the new neighbor gifting screen but I'm sure it will grow on me.
** Seen a bit more WOW from some of the givers my skaters now have a pop or something and the XX trees seem to sparkle more and on the different screens things such as some kind of wind or ghost or something on the map floating around the mainland. On the wheel and other stuff like stables and or workshops and some things on the CR. Not necessary *Wish that energy was put toward revamping the menu for Jack's items Moonlight products. OR how about make the fences again. Yes, I really miss the fences.
** Noticed updates for the market I think they might be nice only the font could be different.
** Did not like the way when opening crates I was always sent back to the start of the list after seeing the rewards before our place was held, same thing happens when you are in the market. Not Good!
** Fonts need to be bigger
Sorry so long

Good morning just a fast update before I leave for work. I had to wait till this morning to see what people were talking about the trees and YES my trees show no maturity no signs of growth.
I was able to open and use the seed menu this morning.
All have a Great Day

 

In the Alchemy building after using 5 products to upgrade the trade the recipe list got overlay-ed by recipe levels from page 1 to 4 on top of each other, all text became illegible layered up, the progress bar of the current alchemist level became empty when in fact it was 3/4 full before. After exiting the alchemy building and re-entering the recipe list became fully blank and the progress bar did not return.

Sorting seeds by EP output does not produce correct results

Going to the pet playground does not work at all, neither does the park, nor the lighthouse. The picture shows it is loading, but when loading graphic goes away I am still on the map and not on the pet playground.

I tried to upload a link to screenshot of Alchemy text issue here but it did not work as expected.

 

The game is getting too late to load. It is troublesome to move from field to field and the crops and barns I sow do not appear, instead the flowers are turning around. I want to use the old old version again.

 

- Game loading is getting too late.
- You can't go from field to field.
- Crops, trees and barns are not visible.
- Everywhere the flowers keep turning.
Event time (Baharama) trying such a test is a huge mistake (My personal opinion)
The old version was much better than that. At least I had no trouble with the game.

 

I haven't read every single comment here so I may be repeating feedback.

During the recent Unity test, I tended to do the things I could do and then revert back to Flash when I encountered a problem. This time, obviously, this wasn't possible so I have tried to do my normal routine and found that most things are possible.

Problems encountered:

When filtering, (sorry, forgot which one, will try on other farms and work it out) sometimes it takes a while to get the filter you want as options disappear if you don't select it in a certain way.

Crates: I agree it is annoying that it reverts immediately back to the first page after each crate is opened BUT you can get round this by typing in "crate" in the filter box.

Giving gifts: Not easy to find neighbours unless you remember them all - I got round this by going to the tab at the right and gifting that way. Not possible if you are sending anything from your Pantry though.

Edit: Just attempted to send a longstanding neighbour a Pantry product and couldn't find them either through A to Z or actually typing in their name. This was on two of my farms.

Some things seem to go really fast - EP/TEP shoot across the screen, drops seem to fly incredibly fast and Suzi's plane is surely breaking the sound barrier. The Wheel also seems to have had a bit too much greasing. Very fast.

Edit: I also feel that there is a little too much "glitter" especially on trees.

Wheel: Once the Party spin wouldn't move at all, no arrow so I had to refresh. No biggy but still a problem not encountered on Flash.

I do appreciate the work that is going into this huge project ... I do want to carry on playing and the only way to iron out all these bugs is to keep on testing it out!

 

Insanity! Game wouldn't load on chrome or the new IE, had to install Firefox, took forever to load froze up four times after lengthy loading of fields (firefox said your website is slowing down my new browser). I started to play at 7pm and finally did a slowwww harvest by 10pm. I hope this isn't how it's going to be, Flash was 5000 times better than this 'Unity', I've been investing in this game for over TEN years, so if this how it stays then I'll have no choice but to quit.

 

Quite slow and laggy. Can't click fast - I don't pay for this game, I don't use the harvester function besides what I have coupons for, so the slow clicking is a game changer for me (in a bad way). I don't have the time to be slowly harvesting everything - I need to be able to click through quickly. Also not a fan of the animation when things are harvested (eg. EP). I liked the way the EP moved to the EP bar in Flash much better. Also, really not a fan of the super curved EP bar; the straight edge of the green bar (as in Flash) is much more easily interpreted.

I also can't do anything in the background - eg. have Netflix running whilst I quickly harvest. I have to pause anything else going on in other tabs in order for Unity to respond

That said, lots of the issues from the initial launch have been fixed. Given there's only a few days before December starts, hopefully these can be fixed ASAP.

 

I was unable to load anything this morning after letting it 'try' for 2 hours. The animation is on and I have it set to off...that could be why the game is a drag...literally and you may have to dump this feature. The buffs are displaying wrong (Winter Jam shows Zucchini Apple bread) what do I click on? Crop amount boxes cannot show 100k + amounts. deleting an item on the field is okay but it kicks you out and you have to click on the delete button lower left again and again. buffs lost due to load lag, spun it's wheels in baha, refreshed and got kicked out. now I'm looking at a black screen for 8 minutes.
Fuzzy resolution isn't very good especially for older eyes!!!, sloooooooooow, choppy, my crops look like they are not ready but it fact they are. Shows 0 log in days. Not a smooth transition is it? I tried to use the beta a few weeks back and tried a balloon game in Renzos...got 0 points and ditched it.
Runs like I have 128k junker with molasses, if this unity isn't ready to go, I don't know if I'll be here waiting 5-10 seconds after I click on something for it to respond. We didn't know how good we had it with Flash didn't we? I'll try and harvest what I have but my long term plans for this game? after 6 years and level 222...I don't know if I'll be able to put up with playing a game that plays like 'Pong' (1974) or space invaders (197 I watched the time when I began harvesting the whole farm 10:17 finished 11:14. Normally it takes 10-12 minutes.
Lose the nuclear glow on those crops. I have a headache from all this and logging off. but I think this platform needs some more work. But I think the animation feature is your thorn.

 

Unity doesn't work at Green Browser and very slow. Most of friend lost their Daily Present. I believe you are going to solve all these problems. But please give our rights back.

 

Thank you saturnia22 for tip taking animation off. That makes things little bit smoother, but not lot. Animal harvesting is easier now, I get them harvested, cleaned, fed and watered by eight clicks just like Flash. That wasn't possible with animations. But still I miss that I could confirm my choices with just clicking enter. That doesn't work in Unity. And almost every field there is one tree that is almost impossible to harvest because of that harvest info. And now I'm stuck to the map, any field doesn't open. Ok, that problem solved with refresh.
That's pity that everything is in english now. I have to translate it to finnish to know a bit what I'm doing. And now I found a decoration update and I have no clue where that decoration is or what it looks like.

 

Bonus Code doesn't work. I know where to enter it but nothing happens.

Friends list doesn't come up when I try to send gifts. In fact, I can't seem to gift friends at all, either individually or in the gifting screens.

 

Hi Team
Firstly I want to say that I can appreciate all the effort it must have taken to convert Farmerama to this new platform so well done. Please take the following feedback as constructive feedback, not negative feedback.

- I'm not a fan of the new gift giving process as all my farms have an extensive list of either old neighbors or players that have been added during Barter & Give event. Now it's quite hard to find my current neighbors as the only sort option is either by level or A-Z. I do like that it now shows what level player are at (even for non-neighbors) but would be better if it was beside the player's name rather than on a different line as it doubles the length of the list I'm trolling through and also makes it look too busy.
- Still on gifts, when selecting a gift if it was still visible under the player list I could click on it again and it would stay open to send all gifts out without having to click on the present again (hope that makes sense). Now I can't do that. Also, when I'd selected the player I wanted to send the gift to I could use the enter key but now I have the click on the tick which takes longer.
- When manually harvesting cloud row previously I could click on row and use enter key but it no longer works there or when opening crates either. This just requires a lot more movement of the mouse which takes a lot longer.
- The game is a little slow but I was expecting that
- Manually harvesting stables is a bit hit and miss for how smoothly it works. Sometimes it seems to get stuck but if I move my mouse it lets me continue with feed and water.
- The graphics on everything look a little fuzzy to me, nothing seems quite as crisp as it used to look.
- After playing for a bit the game seems to get stuck and I have to refresh. I have noticed this on all my farms at various points. But it's weird as the game seems to keep going underneath. On this farm I was using the Farm Wheel, tried to spin and nothing happened so tried again and still nothing, tried to leave the screen but I couldn't so refreshed. When I went back to the wheel the two spins had registered and I have to look in the reward history to see what I had won. On another farm I was manually harvesting cloud rows when it got stuck. Tried harvesting a couple more with no result so refreshed but when I went back to my cloud the rows were harvested. I have no idea if I got the EP from them but I presume I did.

I think that's everything I have found so far.

Kind regards
Middy63
User ID: 5542686

TommyBurns
User ID: 17192095

 

I have to say I am having a better experience with Unity than I did last time. Although the issue of fuzzy/blury crops is still an issue. Some of the texts also have that glary feel about them and I cannot look at them. I have to admit this morning I did a long crop plant and dash because I couldn't bear to be in my farm for long.

I haven't read back through everyone's comments, and this is what I have come up with so far.

Gifting.... Please bring back a page scroll format. Via post friends list - Scrolling by clicking on the down or up arrow results in the list moving by only 2 or 3 names instead of a whole page. This is inadequate and poorly designed. If you physically use the slider it wizzes by and it is of no use at all. The Friends list via the gift icon is even worse. The names blend into the wood background and are hard to read and you only have 5 listed on the tab and the scroll down arrow again only moves it 2 or 3 names, making it tedious. Some names appear to be missing but I cannot figure out who.

Tree/Animal/Decoration tabs. I have noticed that when trying to sort via "amount" or "Ep Amount" the order has been reversed from the flash version. Ie the lowest ep amounts are at the beginning and you have to scroll to the end to get to the highest. People will be wanting to put their highest reward givers out in their fields so having them sort from highest to lowest makes more sense.

I am pretty sure people have mentioned this already, the mill and placeable items tabs not holding their position is when you go back to them is tedious.

The cursor/pointer. There is the lovely neat little arrow that we know so well, however the hand grab icon it changes to is much bigger than the flash version, and blurred. It is clumsy looking. It also disappears while the game is loading an action. ie - Harvesting and feeding animals on flash - you can run a click through the farm droid one after the other and the game will catch up. In Unity, the cursor disappears and becomes a spinning flower to the top right hand part of the screen. During this time if you try to move the invisible cursor anywhere you are thrown into a different area. You cannot click on another action until the game has processed that step making it very drawn out. The image below is immediately after I clicked the manure button. The cursor has disappeared and become the spinning flower (circled)... If I move my mouse ( as has become habit to set the next task, that flower moves in the same direction.



Glow - There is unappealing glow around the crops listed for planting. It is fine in the shortcut section with a shadow as opposed to a glow..


however clicking on the sow button has all the items created with too much glow behind them. It is draining on eyesight and unnecessary. Perhaps you can reduce the opacity and the radium to similar to the glow in the flash version. A smaller radius highlights rather than blinds. As it is it is going to cause eyestrain very quickly. I feel that the almost indiscernible amount of glow behind all the planted crops and a lot of items is what is contributing to the sense of things being blurry or out of focus.



I don't have any trouble with animation once it has loaded because of the machine and hardware I am using, however there are laggy sections when trying to complete an action, like setting up the mills or maneuvering in the market. There are times when watching the drops/ep amounts etc from harvest floating around the screen in 100% opacity instead of fading out, make me feel like I am playing a game from a decade ago that has not been updated since.

It has definitely improved since the beta test and thank you for all the time and effort you are putting into it.

Asus Zenbook UX461UN, Win 10 Pro, Edge, Nvidia GeForce MX150 & Intel UHD Graphics 610

 

Yesterday I was unable to plant any crops on any maps, manually or via farm bot [yes I totally wasted my coupon ], I was able to harvest what was already planted prior to the Unity test. Today I was able to plant crops, very slowly.


Cons:
-Crops don't display properly, can't tell when something is ready for harvest (note: some of my crops did display properly)
-Some trees don't display properly, can't tell when something is ready for harvest
-game extremely slow and crashed multiples times yesterday when attempting to plant new crops, today it would only freeze then correct itself.
-When gifting friends their names do not display when hovering over the friends icon (makes it cumbersome to figure out who is next to gift)
- When minimizing the friend menu it leaves the screen, comes back again, then I have to re-click and it will leave.
-Extremely time consuming to do pretty much anything
-when crafting I do not see the amount of materials I have when hovering over the ingredients
-couldn't use the mill yesterday, however this morning I was able to (slowly).
-turning off animations doesn't seem to work properly
-after opening a crate, the consumable menu refreshes to the first page, requiring extra clicks

Pros:
-I like the new layout of the auction house

I can't imagine how much work it would be to develop the game on a new platform, but I hope come the end of December that I am still able to play.

Note: I play on a Chromebook that was purchased last November.

 

I use a fairly high-end desktop computer and have a fast (100 Mbs) internet connection. So the Unity game performance has not a big issue for me. Still, the loading time was noticeably slower than with Flash.

The biggest disappointment with Unity is the graphics. The game just isn't pleasant to look at. The visual appearance of Farmerama is one of its best features. That's gone in the current Unity version.

 

Visual glitches aside, the unity client feels more responsive and looks waaay better. I'm not sure whether it runs better or worse because flash has a locked single-digit framerate but unity does load a lot slower. Thankfully once everything is loaded, it runs fine even on my 2006 core2duo PC

 

My crops showed a plowed field, as if I just sowed seeds, even when the ready to harvest icon was showing. I hand harvested, as I was unwilling to waste a coupon. The bare fields then could not be sowed with a new crop. Every attempt to select seeds sent me back to the game opening page and eventually the main field. I could not leave the main field or send gifts.

 

I am hoping that much progress will be made before Flash Player is no longer supported. That being said, not supported doesn't mean that someone is going to come "uninstall" it from my computer. It just means that if it causes any problems, Adobe will not try to fix them. If you are not going to have a working game in Unity by then, please make it an option for us to still use Flash until you do. (Skip making "animations" and focus on the actual game play please. Also, stop with the never ending "events".)