Feedback Unity Open Beta Feedback/Discussion thread

I had my first serious issue using Unity today. When using Firefox, which is the browser I normally use, my computer crashed every time I opened the Stable Stories event window. I was eventually able to use Chrome to gain entrance and complete the event. However while in chrome every other part of the game had major graphics issues.

When opening inventory no picture matched the description of the item, this was true for every category as well as the store. When using the seeder or builder functions in harvester I had broken thumbnails of every item displayed across my screen. For example, when trying to plant instead of bringing up the first screen I would get every single type of plant available displayed across the screen in undeterminable thumbnails. After finishing my donations I abandoned Chrome and returned to Firefox. While it is still running a bit slow with the occasional freeze it is running very smoothly compared to my Chrome experience.

 

I have an issue that is annoying because it didn't work that way in flash.

When you click on the question mark/exclamation point along the top to get to the forum, when you click to get to the forum the question mark/exclamation point doesn't close like it used to in flash. An annoyance to do something to improve what is seen.

EDIT: I noticed that when I use the market or donate to FSQs using the arrow to give exactly what I want, I highlight the username and ID number at the bottom of the play screen. Luckily, it doesn't seem to interfere with what you want to do just irksome to see.

 

Hovering over items in the menagerie or manufactory you can't see what they are (no tooltip). Sometimes I can tell by the icon but I really want to be able to confirm what is in there. Doesn't seem to work in either the client or regular unity unless the item in the manufactory/menagerie has a potential upgrade.

 

Monday is going to be really interesting. To me, it looks like the developers will miss the "deadline" of having this game switched over without major issues.

 

I have gone back to Microsoft Edge on my laptop and I have had a good run lately with Unity standalone.
Yes, there has been the odd hiccup - I have found that it is not wise to delete stuff on the first page I am on or I get a freeze and have to log out/in. So, by modifying my approach, I can avoid problems. It is a while since I have tried firefox or chrome.
I do feel that some of the comments/problems in this thread are rather trivial and that we should be less critical.
Remembering how good flash was is like remembering the world without Covid!

 

ok so I dont usually post here but my issues with the new stuff:-

Lets start with the market - when selling items i sell an item then bang - it goes back to page 1, got to scroll through the whole list again to next item - not good if selling multiple items..

Loading times... OMG - I recently got a brand new gaming computer - 2 weeks old & a respectable internet connection by lan.. it can handle almost every modern game out there but farmerama now... lets put it this way I cant use a book because on the offchance it loads before I finish the page and i take a few seconds too long, its got to load all over again... ITS TERRIBLE honestly

graphics I do like but its not worth the extra time - I find myself using my 10 year old computer to login and play by flash because sometimes I only have a few minutes to get up, do my farm while decking a coffee and off to work to pay my bills... and... ahem... you too

download client better on older computers right? Ive tried it on both old and new but didnt notice any difference... If I was to download a client and play via that tho I would want it to not log me out periodically and every single time i have to log in again - if it must log out why cant you log in from a drop down menu button for accounts you have OR just click on reconnect? Its a pain...

I do understand the hard work you are doing and I sympathize with all the bugs n annoyances, I dont expect it to be something you can fix simply overnight - its a whole new platform and then some.. hence Im pointing out the issues annoying me atmo and I hope you get it all working smoothly soon

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2 days left to finish Flash ... what do we do ... how to play ... Unity ... It does not work in the field ... Find a remedy, please8 ... Once you find it, remove the Flash ... you madur us ... wonder

 

I cannot use the standalone client. I have tried very hard to use Unity. Every time I play the game,I start out with Unity. After many crashes and freezing of the game, I finally switch over to flash and finish my work on the game. I will not be able to do that soon. I have many of the same problems others have and am very annoyed with it. I have a limited amount of time I can be on a game...during that time I do not wish to be staring at a screen that says do you want to wait or exit the game. If I exit, I'll still have to wait at some point. I know that some of the problems that were present have been fixed but there are still a existing problems. I wonder if I will even be able to play after the 11th. The crashing and freezing is not getting better for me.

 

I have a specific issue with getting to the forum in Firefox. I always block pop-ups. It is blocked in all my browsers. In Firefox now, if I click to go to the forum I get that a pop-up is blocked, I have to allow it for this site to get to the forum. It never did that before. Not sure what it is, but it's just Firefox, not Opera or Chrome.

 

It's so frustrating that almost none of the key smooth-playing options that were not working correctly in Unity or the so called Client have been fixed even though they've been reported a zillion times in these threads, for months now.

* anytime you use market or you select a giver -for example- to be placed on a field, once done, it kicks you back to first page forcing you to scroll all the way back every single time; it's not only annoying, it's unbearable and extremely time-consuming (this has been reported since almost the first day of public testing: what's the explanation to not having this fixed yet, after months and months, who knows --> and how do they dare to propose events that force you to rebuild almost every day one or several fields when this is the state of the art, a true nightmare?;

* items ordering does not work; it's a total mess, no matter if you choose to rank them by Duration, EP Output, EP Amount. It doesn't work, at all, it doesn't rank, to say it simply (I've just tried to only partially rebuild a field and I had to give up after 40 minutes of lost time; I could only place only some of the items);

* everything takes more time; everything; especially, complex operations in a short time window defined by buffing: it's time to consider extending all buffing effects windows, particularly the shorter ones -30min or below- until it can be assured a performance similar to that we had with Flash.

* and the annoying flying things that get freezed and obstruct what's behind are still there! I've just harvested the Owl Trees and it's a mess....

I'm so furious that I think it's better that I don't go on. Incredibly for me, this situation is making me think of quitting the game for good.

Months and months of testing, lots of people reporting these things as not working properly and now in the condition of being forced to use a product that's still way below the standard of what it replaced.

 

okay I am so tired of planting the wrong crop!!! I hit one and something else comes up on field.

 

Tried to buy things in the market -- just clicked on item and nothing happened -- repeat process -- nothing happened -- repeat process nothing happened. Very frustrating.

Can't harvest entire field -- there seem to be some areas at the top of the screen that can be harvested or clicked on for some reason (reported this before).

Game slow.

Before I could choose between Flash online, Unity online or the Unity standalone (downloaded) version -- now I have to use the downloaded version. I know that Flash is no longer available but before you had 2 choices with Unity. Correction: After you sign in with your user name and password the note about changes and the Forum appears -- If you click on the "X" in the top right hand corner it will then let you play the game.

Can't refresh so closing out and logging back in -- very time consuming.

For some reason whenever I use Unity my Pumpkin Puppet Show attaches itself to my to another EP. https://ibb.co/hDhJ3f6

My biggest complaint is that when you manually harvest there is no longer any rapid clicking -- there is a delay. When you consider the number of 1x1s on a field this is very time consuming.

I think that you should give us access to all the harvester functions for free until these bugs are working out. I have used my 1 hr harvesters and with all the problems it has expired before I have been able to harvest and replant 1 farm.

 

Oh this is a brilliant idea. I am fully in support of this one. Maybe you should start a thread in suggestions area.

 

I have just spent 40 minutes just doing basic farming with two refreshes needed. I loaded all my areas of the farm before harvesting, activated pets but it still took nearly 10 minutes which meant my twenty owl pets had run out.
I am using Chrome with Unity. I am hopeful the maintenance later today will solve some more problems.
Only upside is that when buying seeds in the shop if you just click on as many as you want, eventually most of the 'do you really want to buy' notes come up so you can click on them and just check for those you missed.
Down side is that the 'Enter' button no longer works.

 

First day on Unity. Didn't do much farming. Nothing has changed since my last checks, all the bugs are still there. Game is bad. You can play if you have a lot of patience and a lot of time to waste. But fun? No, not at all.

I'm starting to feel the need for some input from coders. It's been a long time, and the game is still bad. No visible change in last couple weeks. Are they doing anything? What is such a big problem that they can't make Unity work? Enlighten us about what's going on.

 

Big problems with Unity. Can't play the game. The screen is freezing for hours.
I want to play the game in the old version. Unity is a really bad program....It is not possible to play the game.

I sent two messages to SUPPORT. No answer up to now.
SO what ??????????????????

I think we should go back to FLASH. The game is not a fun any more cause we can not play it.

 

I agree, especially when we cannot see how much time is left on a buff... hovering over a buff used to show a drop-down with remaining time... is this even on-the-list to be fixed?

 

We can't, Adobe has ended Flash. It no longer exists, at least not in a functional capacity. You may still have it on your device, but it won't work - not just for Farmerama, but for everything.

 

In fact, letting those players who want to do so to go on using Flash -at their own "risk"- until they can really assure they have fixed the mess we are instead forced to use with no other option could be a meantime acceptable solution.

Adobe ended support of Flash, makes it no longer available to download, but it should go on working. Adobe has no way to disable it from working if you currently have it installed. I don't know though if the browsers would allow it to run (I don't see why not, but, again, I don't know). It's the same as no longer supported OSs: they go on working.

However, even if they could, this means BP should go on developing new things (events, etc.) for both platforms, Flash and Unity, and most possibly they wouldn't do it.

In the meantime, what it wasn't working properly yesterday, stays the same today, meaning no further progress has been made. It says a lot to me.

 

There are some nice things about Unity and I feel it has potential, however, the bugs and kinks out-weigh those and are horrible. It is no longer fun and/or relaxing to play this game. Have been playing for almost 11 years, I believe, and have loved every minute until now. I have not seen any improvement on anything since the Beta test. In my opinion, some of the major agitations (just to name a few) need to be worked on first to keep players playing:

1) Fix the area where we open our crates and the fact the menu keeps going back to the beginning, soooooooo frustrating and time consuming. AND the sort option, it does not sort A-Z correctly.

2) Fix the blinking (not sure what to call it) of the mouse, when you click on say the harvester to harvest, the mouse (flower at that point) moves and you think you are clicking on the plant button and end up planting an incorrect crop, I have done that several times. The game lags.

3) The IGM function is horrible, you lose what the sender wrote, it just disappears, so communicating with your neighbors is a chore-especially if you have trouble with remembering things as I do.

4) At times have to click several times on a land to get into it.

5) Manual harvesting of anything takes too long and is not smooth like it was on Flash

6) Cannot tell if animals are ready to harvest or not.

These are just a few of the things that we need immediate help with. It would be nice if we would get daily updates on what has been fixed/improved instead of not hearing a word from anyone. If we knew what would be worked on next, this might keep a few ppl playing to stick around as they would know things are getting improved and being worked on.

I have no idea what it entails to run a game such as Farmerama but something needs to get done to correct these major issues, and soon or ppl will get tired of playing and quit, and I don't want that to happen.

I have complete faith that the team can get the game working better, the sooner the better.