Feedback Mill Redesign

I like that I can see/put to work both mills at both locations and can "stack" two orders.

What I don't like is that:
- the writing is to small
- I can not access the mill and see what I have , like before
- I have to pay BB to abort the current running milling process. What sense does it make to be able to have 2 orders and then have to pay for cancellations. Not only one or two BB, but all what is left from that order! So, I probably am just doing a current order in small amounts. I want to be able to cancel if an events needs the mill or my priorities have changed.

 

Dienstag, fortunately we don't have to pay to cancel The pay option is to finish the milling instantly, if you just want to cancel, click the red button, that is free of charge

 

You don't lose the order, only the current single item that is being milled at that time.

For example, let's say you were milling bogus feed that takes 10 corn. You set it to mill 100. You stop it when 3 are done and the fourth is in production. You already have your 3 bogus feed, so you won't get back the 30 for those, of course. You would lose the 10 that are currently being milled, but not the other 60. The other 60 would be returned, unless there is some additional glitch that has changed it recently.

EDIT: This has CHANGED.. you still don't lose products when you mill (though if you have a lot of water used, you won't get more than it takes to fill up your tank, even if you are not premium and have to buy your water), BUT you don't get to keep the partially milled items. Its 'all or nothing".

I have already voiced my extreme displeasure at this change elsewhere, but wanted to be sure and edit this post in case someone comes back to view it.

 

I like the new mill design but strongly agree with others here that the writing is too small to read easily. I do not have an eyesight problem but can no longer scan quickly over to select what I want - a clearer font, perhaps in bold, and larger please.
I think the queue idea is good, as it saves us missing out on mill time when one order finishes.
I do not see great benefit in opening both mills together - I think an option to open one or both should be given.
I understand that the new design has caused problems for some players - surely this could have been forseen ?
Thinking caps on again I think to smooth over the rough corners !!

 

Although I like the ability to queue up a second feed type, I do not like the fact that I can't see the ingredients for other feeds that I may not yet have, such as for a new animal pen, unless I have an open queue space.

 

The idea was great. The execution has some flaws.

As others have said, not being able to see ingredients for other feeds leads us to extra work to plan what we need to grow. That's precious time many of us don't have.

The new "categories" for feeds has absolutely no use to me. I look at what I have the lowest amount of, not "wonder stables" vs. the rest. Please do not default to showing me "wonder stable" types just because that was what I last queued up.

Small type is really bad for what I consider to be the demographics of the majority of your players.

The cloud row effect. Need I say more?

 

Having had my doubts at the beginning, I now love the new Mill (with a few reservations)
I like that I can do all feed from one place. I can stack feed as one finishes and like that it shows the total time for all feeds.

My small reservations are: the small font size and a Sweet_Cassiopeia says, why the split in feeds?
Also I would like the Power feed to always be the first in the chart - it used to be and was changed about a year ago.
It would also be nice to have the option to have the small amouts at the start of the chart.
However none of these is desperate.
Well done the developers.

 

Sorry... i know it's nothing to do with you and your Forum. This post doesn't even belong to this Thread. But...

in the German Forum the whole Mod-Crew was fired today.

http://de.bigpoint.com/farmerama/board/index.php?threads/gesprächsrunde-zur-teamauflösung.22230/

the german user are really shocked about what happened.

 

well, this is somewhat in line with all the other nonsense BP is dishing out lately: the grande new mill, no more stars, the rune-bug etc.

also: the forum is completely closed, apart from the help section.

thought you might wanna know, how BP is treating his staff and users in other countries

 

Dear DE Players,

It saddens me, but I have to direct you to this Official Announcement I am sorry. I understand your frustration and pain, but indeed, this is the wrong thread to bring up this matter.

If there is any game or technical assistance we can help you with these days, you are more than welcomed to use our Forum as well.

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Also, I am really sorry to bring this up now, but pretty please be careful with the size of your signatures, and limit them to 468 x 60 pixels.

Thank you very much for your understanding, and all the best wishes from me and the whole EN Mod Team.
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Best regards,
teddy.bear

 

Oh shucks! I don't think anyone saw that coming

 

Maybe a little late feedback, but in all those bugs and design shortcomings, I noticed at least one positive thing.
During this ongoing Easter event, for the 1st time I noticed that we can use Baha mill for producing event item. I know that it may not seams like a big thing, but my main-field mill is occupied nearly non-stop, while Baha's don't have too much job (I have enough of every feed for a month minimum). So, I welcome this addition.

And (knock on wood) I hope it is not another "glitch" that will be "fixed" in near future.

 

im saying again let us make pf in the baha mill too !!!! and again put a stop button on the farm machinery we pay for these hours .your making money on theses machines yet we have to bite the bullet of them running while we wait for crops to grow

 

I like the new mill. It will be nice to make PF in Baha too. Good job ^^

 

Take back all my previous positive comments about the mill.

Lengthening the mill time was bad enough, but not allowing us to get partial amounts when milled is going to make the game tedious. I want to play the game to relax, not have another chore to figure out. Set aside that my schedule is too fluid to allow me to plan for a game long term, I just don't want to have to think when I come to play.

 

I agree with Woody and take back my positive comment above. The latest change is not good.

 

Take it away and give me the old mill back, this is not an improvement at all. In fact with all of its glitches it's a farce and most glitches I tolerate because I respect that things go wrong when they go live.

 

Hi!

With the newest changes, I've gone from being on the fence about the mill to disliking it. The few positives I mentioned earlier in this thread do NOT outweigh the many disadvantages that have been introduced these last few weeks.

-cpeterson

 

I don't have the cloud row mill bonus but I was able to make powerfood every 4 hours with the rune + mill subscription.

I'm very unhappy about the powerfood going from 4 to 4.5 hours.
Dear BP stop taking things away from us. [The German Mods, Stars for events, The ability to see in the mill while we are milling, the ability to partially make an order and cancel it and get what we already milled, and now you took away 4 hours powerfood.]
If you want us to buy more powerfood [the ONLY possible explaination for taking away our 4 hour powerfood that could possibly make any sense whatsoever], do 2 things

1. Give us Baby Boom 3x a month instead of once a month
2. Give us sales on powerfood during all Baby boom events.

Then you will make everyone happy and make more money.
Also if you want to make more money ~edit~

 

I love the fact that I can set more than one feed to be made in advance; I get much more feed production done this way so I love the new mill.