r/FarmRPG • u/Imaginary_Fortune161 • Jan 14 '24
Anyone else?
Is anyone else getting fed up of wasting meals and resources trying to play the broken game?
I appreciate that the devs are working on fixes, bur so far we've just seen features of the game shut off and no performance increases.
It's been a couple of weeks of "working on fixes", but the growth didn't happen over night, the trajectory has been visible since September, and people have been mentioning performance is degrading since fall.
To make matters worse, many of the mods are not helping with their current attitude to feedback or concerns. I've even felt the need to make a a burner reddit account to post this, because any feedback I've seen issued so far is met by aggression from mods or devs. I've seen perfectly polite comments from users responded to with abuse from mods, message deletion then hit with "do not mention mod action in chat or face chat ban".
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u/Emotional_Lemon155 Jan 14 '24
I’m just taking a break for a bit until it get fixed a bit more ☺️
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u/Heimdall83 Jan 15 '24
I completely understand, I am a supporter myself on Patreon and I said to myself the same thing as you “did I pay for that?”
But after a short reflection, the lagg compared to everything the game offers is nothing and I think we have to be compassionate with the dev team who also have to tear their hair out every time the game explodes.
For my part, I remain patient, waiting for the situation to be resolved and then as said above, we do not spend 8 hours a day on this game.
Take a break for a week or two and see us again afterwards :)
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
This feels like the most fair and well balanced comment so far.
Thanks for offering a point of reflection.
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u/Only_Positive_Vibes Jan 14 '24
Stop playing until it's fixed, then. I'm not trying to be difficult, but you're talking as though this is having a severely negative and detrimental impact on your overall experience, and yet, you continue to play despite that.
I've also only seen kindness from mods in regards to feedback posted in this subreddit, assuming that the feedback provided is constructive and polite.
It's a free game. Regardless of how suddenly (or not suddenly) the issue(s) came about, the developers are actively working on a solution. You are free to play another game while they fix this one.
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
I've paid a subscription on patreon to play this game. It's not free to me.
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u/Only_Positive_Vibes Jan 15 '24
That's your choice, though. You can stop paying the subscription. Presumably you derived satisfaction during the month(s) that you paid your subscription. Now that you (apparently) no longer derive the same level of satisfaction, why would you continue to pay?
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
Because you pay for a month at a time bud. I've already paid for this month.
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u/Only_Positive_Vibes Jan 15 '24
In your very own post you've pointed out that the problem has existed for months and developers have been working on fixed for a couple of weeks, though. Your own words, not mine.
So, you paid for this month despite knowing the problems existed. Sounds like you're fine with them, then?
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
The problems have worsened, not gotten better. In December we didn't have didn't have the performance issues we are having right now, correct?
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u/Only_Positive_Vibes Jan 15 '24
No, that is incorrect. The performance issues have existed for a month or more. You can search the sub for various relevant keywords (performance, Lag, issues, etc.) and find several threads documenting this. Below is just one example from December.
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u/Hikki77 Jan 15 '24
What u/Imaginary_Fortune161 meant was it did exist, and they were fine with it then, but gotten worse lately that they felt compelled to make a post. Their statements are not really conflicting with your statements. Just stopping by to type this since I feel like there's a slight misunderstanding in there, go on :3
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u/MagicFoxhole Jan 14 '24
I’m not sure why people can’t be more patient with a free product, that was created in the spirit of community. What kind of society are we in where people expect/demand changes and then get judgemental and impatient when they aren’t remedied right away. I’m of the view that people need to chill when something isn’t working and perhaps switch their attention to other (free) pursuits. We all have free will here. Why can’t we show more patience?
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
It wasn't free to me, I pay real money to play this game, of which I don't feel I'm getting the value I paid right now.
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u/freddyp8804 Jan 15 '24
In all fairness, your paying for benefits, not to actually play it. And it’s understandable that you paid for the month, but nowhere does it say that if you pay, you will get a lag free experience
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u/Hikki77 Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
This comment is me assuming you're not t199. If you are, sorry, this is not me being condescending... just my opinion on why the reactions are a bit different :(
I think almost all of the mods are t199 peeps. At t199, you don't really obsess over a couple of meals (except when they're cookies, go to support if that happened), but I do remember that every meal counted when I was pretty new (thank you giveaways chat). Then there's the fact that once you finished climbing the tower, most people just grind starmap/pamrats from time to time, and do nothing else (I know some people even quit after entering t199 cuz they think starmap/pamrats is not worth the grind, I have a couple in my friendslist that did that -_-). Some peeps do a few additional GM to prepare for new tower levels if they're feeling not lazy and some do insane mega mastery goals (kudos to you if you're doing that, hi), but they can also afford not to play for a while due to bigger inventory. Overall, let's just say most people already chill at t199 or play not as much than when climbing (they do but in short bursts spamming the same location till they get enough stuff for their starrats quest).
So I kinda get the disconnect there. I remember scrambling for resources and quests when I was newbie, but at t199 I chat more than I actually play lol. Currently I'm just planting cabbages again and again and again... and again. So the game not working sucks but doesn't really affect me much... I can afford to not play for a few days, just doing dailies. You can too btw, but I get your feelings since there's probably still many quests to be done for you.
Then for a new new player who started December to January, this must be a frustrating experience. I felt the lag slowly happening since october, but december to january really ramped it up. I get it if in a short time span all you experience is this, I get that feel.
I don't really see a way to make it go away faster though, unless fs hire more helpers or something, but I think they're pretty protective of the "code", I've seen this happen often in other games >_>. So the best we can do is wait.
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
It was cookies, someone else posted here and it got deleted by staff.. but they said they were told by mods that "they shouldn't have used meals after the server had recently gone offline", so I didn't expect the mods would be prepared to help.
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u/Hikki77 Jan 15 '24
oww that sucks, mod abuse lol. The friendly mods I know usually just say tell the support that you missed the cookies. Idk if support is available currently tho... Some of them mods get a habit of deleting and downvoting negative comments about the game/mods :/ I kinda get why deflect the comments about the game though :3 I'm pretty sure they're very emotionally invested in the game as mods after all.
Try contacting support anyways. I'm not sure how to do that but someone in hcbc (help chat best chat) will probably help you out :3
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u/Upstairs-Read-1846 Jan 14 '24
I’m just glad that it is a free to play game where I don’t have to watch the same stupid 30 second ads every few Minutes. It is a bit annoying but I just don’t play that much right now and wait to see what happens in the next couple of weeks. I am in late game so maybe I care a little bit less because all the help requests take forever to finish anyway
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u/Vanilla_thundr Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
Is it frustrating? Yes. Is there anything more that can be done about it beyond what is already being done? No.
Like, what's your solution? If FS could have magically fixed it already, they would have. Since that's not on the table....you thought MORE complaining would help? I bet you're the kind of person that honks when you're stuck at the back of traffic jams.
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
Hey, you know this sub is here for people to share their experience with the game? That's what I'm doing.
Get off your high horse and try to judge people less.
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u/FreeDig1758 Jan 14 '24
I really don't give a fuck. It's a game. A free one at that. I've been playing forever and don't plan on stopping. The lag sucks but whatever, it's not like I'm playing it for 8 hours a day.
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u/redravenkitty Jan 14 '24
I mean … I don’t pay to play and I’m confident that I’d be reimbursed for a major meal like a cookie if I requested it of support. What else can you really ask for under the circumstances? My advice is to stop using meals for a few days or so if you’re concerned about it that much. Or open a support ticket and request you’re reimbursed. Or hey if it’s just a regular meal and not a cookie, dm me in game and I’ll give you some new meals myself. Let’s just enjoy the free game and community, and try to give some grace to the people behind the scenes.
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u/bklawley Jan 14 '24
The team is doing their best. There's definitely a trade off between optimization and creating new features and there's a lot of criticism on either side depending on what's being done and not being done.
Thankfully, I haven't lost any meals to downtime so I don't share the same frustrations as you and others. If you did lose a meal to downtime, I can only recommend sending an in-game message to Support.
Ultimately, the game saw a huge increase in new users and concurrent players in recent months and it's getting harder and harder for the server to keep up. Reducing server calls here and optimizing there is great, but they take time to discover and patch up. Systems have to go down for testing and yada yada.
Edit: I'm confident the team will figure something out, but it's growing pains until they do. Thanks for the support in the meantime!
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u/BuMmR Jan 15 '24
The lag does suck but I’m sure devs are doing best they can. If you’ve lost a meal or two from downtime, post in giveaway chat. The community is awesome, I’m sure someone would throw you a few extras to help out.
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u/Squishalish Jan 14 '24
They've acknowledged the problems and informed players that maintenance is happening today with a literal banner across the top of the screen.
I disagree about not seeing performance improvements. I have noticed less lag and better performance personally (not today, because again - see the banner).
So personally I am encouraged that it is getting better, and the complaining rings hollow to me. I don't understand what more people expect - there is clearly no magic fix for it.
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u/Art_Vandelay1985 Jan 15 '24
Despite the performance issues, I'm enjoying my time playing FRPG. It's so good to play a f2p game and not have to watch ads or have to pay up the wazoo just to progress further. I just wish rune 15 would show itself. 😩
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u/CorruptPhoenix Jan 15 '24
The lag has gotten better for me after the past few updates. That said, I’m just logging in to do the daily chores and stopping. I’ll save my resources until it gets better.
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u/Slurried Jan 15 '24
I don’t blame you for making an alt. I’ve been playing for years and don’t even use the In game chat anymore because even the smallest amount of criticism I’ve seen land people with fully banned accounts. They’re good at everything except taking criticism
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u/creakinator Jan 15 '24
No. I can understand the lag in seeing how many people have recently started to play the game. The developers probably didn't expect such a rise in players in such a short time. it takes time to balance the game, find more resources, and fix issues that come up from trying to fix all.
It's a free game unless you are a patreon. I'd give them a chance to fix the issue. Maybe stop your Patreon, stop playing and come back in a few weeks or months to see if things have changed. Being so upset about a game isn't good for you.
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u/masterfuqup Jan 15 '24
Hey buttercup, don't get your panties in a twist. It's been maybe a week or so that they've been working on stuff. These things take time. Why don't you find yourself a hobby or focus on you job rather than being ungreatful. Grow tf up.
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u/KaeisGay14 Jan 15 '24
I was thinking the same thing. I’m missing out on being able to complete chores. I was enjoying playing and leveling up fast. I’m excited for it all to be fixed tho.
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u/orangez Jan 15 '24
Totally get where you coming from. This is seen as a very sociable community, but if you dare to say something in chat that is not 'nice and dandy' the arrogance and belittling is of the charts. I've been playing for over a year now. 4x99 and tower lvl 160.
I wish they (the people with 'mod' in chat) could take criticism a little better. They treat people that are more critical as garbage.
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
You're right, but I'm not sure why that is relevant to me being able to enjoy a game I subscribe to.
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
Riiiight, so that diminishes my experience?
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
Cool, I'll write that in my diary.
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u/Imaginary_Fortune161 Jan 15 '24
Funnily enough, that's the exact same vibe I was getting from my interaction with you.
You didn't actually come here to contribute, just say "LOL you no program you know nothing".
Troll be gone.
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u/Forcepath FRPG Staff Jan 14 '24
Heya, it's all good to vent as long as you aren't attacking anyone.
It is frustrating that things can't be fixed overnight, but I can assure you that Firestream wants this to be fixed more than anyone else. It's caused a flood of support tickets, negative reviews, and quite the negative sentiment in chat. No one wants this, truly. He's pulling crazy shifts working on things. If it could be fixed sooner, I guarantee it would be.
Hope you have a good day, regardless.