Macho Meter with Unity

My first thought, when trying this, which has always been my go to, was to agree with everyone else - this bites. BUT... on trying a few times, I have discovered the following: while the overall action is a bit jumpy, as compared to before, each individual swing from left to right and back to left, is uniform. I'm sure all of us for whom this was our game at Renzo's, perfected the method of holding the mouse and then releasing at the right time (for people who play solely with some form of touch screen, props, because I never could manage to make that work...). With this new "style", it's no more difficult - you just have to plan to release when it is working its way back from right to left, rather than being able to do it from left to right, ever. It took me only about ten tries to figure out how to consistently get my total score within 500 points of my average score from before. It helps that I can usually get pretty close to perfect score on the first one, because that is uniform all the way through. Anyway - for those who use this particular game - give it a try, because it's really no worse than it was before, it's just a slightly new learning curve.

 

And it's only the last try of the three that's an issue... And, if you have more than one farm, it's smoother on some farms than others. On my teenager farm, the action of the third try is super fast and sticks at the left bottom. I tried all the baby farms, and one of the baby farms has the same issue. None of my other farms have this "sticking"... so is that weird or what? The thing to figure out, as Matselleste notes, is when to poke the mouse button to get the pointer in the green.

 

Mine is particularly bad. The cursor just jumps from side to side and is not visible in between. I scored a 33 and that was a total on my one attempt. I'm glad it's working for someone though.

I had thought to try a different browser but just never found the time yesterday.

 

I closed every program I had open, started up the game in the standalone client, then went into the game settings and switched graphics quality to high. Now my Mach-o-Mater runs just as well as it did in Flash on all of my farms.

 

Is it your slow computer or their such a bad coding?

 

"Is it [my] slow computer or their such a bad coding" that allows Mach-o-Meter to work flawlessly in the standalone client on my machine?
I don't know how to answer your question because it doesn't make any sense to me...

For what it's worth, closing background applications to free up system resources and modifying game settings to increase framerate is standard advice in most games for smoother gameplay, while using the standalone client is general advice from Farmerama's game team to improve in-game performance.

 

Farmerama is very simple, primitive game. If you have to close everything down to run Farmerama smoothly it must be either slow computer, cluttered system, or very bad coding (bad coding either on Farmerama part or Unity itself if it can't play even simple game without eating tons of resources).

Mind you that original advice from coders was to switch graphic quality from "high" to "OK" to make the game work - guess example of the same poor coding. So, to amend the question to make it more simple for you:

Is it your slow computer or their very bad coding which forced you to close everything down and change frame rate to make the game run smoothly?

or even easier

Do you play on fast modern computer or old sluggish junk which stutters on the simplest applications anyway?

Thanks for your kind answers.

 

I was referring to games in general, not Farmerama specifically. Standard advice in other games is to lower graphics quality in order to increase the framerate (more frames per second --> smoother animation). In the Unity version of Farmerama, it's different because the graphics quality setting actually controls the framerate itself.

I use "old sluggish junk which stutters on the simplest applications anyway" that meets the minimum requirements for the game. Farmerama usually works fine for me in Firefox in most cases (annoying bugs aside) even when I have other things running but because the Mach-o-Meter mini-game was not as smooth as I needed it to be to get 20 chips per game, I took additional steps to ensure smoother gameplay. Does that answer your question?

 

Not fully but still gives me better understanding of what you're talking about. Thanks.

I used to play Farmerama on laptop from 2004 with 1MB RAM and single core CPU without any performance issues. It had Windows XP installed, and pretty messed up for that matter as I had it on without reinstalling for years, but still Farmerama played nice and smooth in all it's aspects. I assume you use much better than that. At that time I did have to sometimes close other apps (or browser tabs), but not to make Farmerama run smoothly, rather due to limited RAM as with too many bulky things opened my laptop got into swap frenzy trying to decide how to use actual RAM and swap file for all the data loaded into memory. Clearing the memory was the only solution to that. Now it seems that much more powerful computers can't handle the game properly. We should not need special settings or sole computer use for a simple game as this.

 

dont know why the issue for all of you....its all just a case of timing. my high score is 29400. i regularly get 20 chips per 3 swings, easiest game on the fun fair to earn chips for the prize stall. all the other games only give you a few chips for competing. best return per ratio for 1 ticket per game.
maybe a misspent youth playing arcade games has stood me in good stead for these type of games. either that or you are all playing on dinosaur of pc's.
have you tried adjusting the click rate and sensitivity settings for your mouse in the control panel?...that will help.

 

That's a little bit harsh, and since I started this thread to be helpful, and it has turned into something... not, I respectfully ask the mods to close.

 

~Closing as requested~