Multiplayer is a broken mess unless everyone is on the same farm.

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Love the game but trying to play with 6 people on 3 separate farms just does not work in this game. A mod to freeze other peoples farms and finances is the only solution but I cant find one.

If only one farm is online you cant skip time without screwing over the other farms. They will be charged interest from loans and leases, they will miss out on the second fertilizer treatment, weeds will grow in their fields, their animals will run out of food and water.... ect ect

The only solution our group has been able to come up with is to turn off seasons, withering and now weeds. Then we have to constantly cheat money in to make up for the money someone loses when they arent online. Their animals will still starve and a host of other issues still remain.

Having to do all this you might as well be playing in creative mode.



Maybe someone here has a better solution where you dont have to disable half of the game and cheat money in.

[ja pizgam]

You are playing in one world so it's normal, it's like someone on another farm is sleeping while you are farming, either play on one farm only everyone needs to be online or schedule a certain time so everyone can manage their farm. How would you like to solve it if you had already done the harvest, winter sowing and your winter is starting, and the other farm was not online during this time and unnich is about to start harvest.

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Originally posted by ja pizgam:

You are playing in one world so it's normal, it's like someone on another farm is sleeping while you are farming, either play on one farm only everyone needs to be online or schedule a certain time so everyone can manage their farm. How would you like to solve it if you had already done the harvest, winter sowing and your winter is starting, and the other farm was not online during this time and unnich is about to start harvest.

yeah, im aware of the problem. Its either you sit around and watch grass grow in real time waiting on the other farms to get online or you skip time and they get screwed over. Both are terrible options if you dont all want to share a farm.

"A mod to freeze other peoples farms and finances is the only solution"

[maccas]

yeah, our gaming group tried Farm Sim and kind of bounced off after two split off to focus on smaller things like strawberries etc, but they played an evening without others online, and the main farm guys returned to find a load of withered fields, so all our work went to waste.

I turned off crop withering, but we just moved onto other games.

Multiplayer is a disaster if you approach it casually. And if you take it super seriously it stops being fun.

[magicISO Sweden]

this why multiplayer is fun stuff takes time when you have more then one farm.

then play solo then you can do what ever you like.

and multiplayer is not broken is just that ppl dont understand how it works and why it takes time.

[maccas]

yeah I don't think you understand... it's not about stuff taking time, it's about all our hard work going to waste. Ploughing a field, cultivating, seeding, weeding, fertilising, we did all this, group of half dozen of us doing it all, trucks, tractors all great fun.

Then a couple of them make their own farm just to do smaller greenhouses and chickens/bees etc, time advances and all the fields withered and were wasted when we came back on later.

I can't believe this actually got playtested at all or they'd have found this problem and thought of a workaround. It's totally broken.

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Originally posted by magicISO Sweden:

this why multiplayer is fun stuff takes time when you have more then one farm.

then play solo then you can do what ever you like.

and multiplayer is not broken is just that ppl dont understand how it works and why it takes time.

lol I understand exactly how it works. You have to watch grass grow in real time when others arent on or their fields arent ready yet.

It turns into you logging on once a day to get your fields ready, then just go play something else until everyone else is ready. It is in fact a terribly broken system for multiplayer unless you play on the same farm.

[magicISO Sweden]

Originally posted by MajorMaccas:

yeah I don't think you understand... it's not about stuff taking time, it's about all our hard work going to waste. Ploughing a field, cultivating, seeding, weeding, fertilising, we did all this, group of half dozen of us doing it all, trucks, tractors all great fun.

Then a couple of them make their own farm just to do smaller greenhouses and chickens/bees etc, time advances and all the fields withered and were wasted when we came back on later.

I can't believe this actually got playtested at all or they'd have found this problem and thought of a workaround. It's totally broken.

so its the games fault that you dident take care of the crops and harvest is before it got withered ?

[maccas]

How are you this thick?

Some people prepare a field, sew it fertilise it etc, and then log off.

Some other people make a separate farm and do their own thing with greenhouses or whatever.

While they're playing on their own farm, the first farm crops grow, become harvestable, then wither.

Even with withering disabled, time advancing on the farm means you now missed the planting season for a different crop and other stuff, or the harvesting season for something else.

Do you follow?

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Originally posted by magicISO Sweden:

Originally posted by MajorMaccas:

yeah I don't think you understand... it's not about stuff taking time, it's about all our hard work going to waste. Ploughing a field, cultivating, seeding, weeding, fertilising, we did all this, group of half dozen of us doing it all, trucks, tractors all great fun.

Then a couple of them make their own farm just to do smaller greenhouses and chickens/bees etc, time advances and all the fields withered and were wasted when we came back on later.

I can't believe this actually got playtested at all or they'd have found this problem and thought of a workaround. It's totally broken.

so its the games fault that you dident take care of the crops and harvest is before it got withered ?

Yes it is the games fault, its a terrible system and is broken with multiple farms. I cant skip ahead without screwing other players over. Not everyone is on the same schedule and even if they log off with all their fields planted and I skip ahead they still miss out on spraying with herbicide and their second dose of fertilizer.

Your solution is to just not skip ahead and wait? Maybe the others cant get on every single day? So I guess none of us play until they get back?

This is a post about multiplayer and having multiple farms.... why would you suggest I go play single player? lol Obviously I could go play single player. Stop trying to just defend it blindly, cause thats what you are doing.

[magicISO Sweden]

Originally posted by D.B. Cooper:

Originally posted by magicISO Sweden:

then i should have the same problem with withered crops and animals that dont get food hmmmm oh wait i dont have that problem on my server becouse we take care of all the farms and we dont speed up the time and sleep. and calling ppl dumb becouse you dont understand thats just sad.

Sorry but you have really missed the point here...

and to say its not a problem "FOR YOU" because you dont speed up time or sleep? So its not a problem for YOU, doesnt mean its not a problem for many others. The world doesnt revolve around you like you think it does and HONESTLY....

Someone who plays on real time and doesnt sleep? EVER? Either you are now lying to blindly defend a game you like or it takes you at a MINIMUM of 96 hours for one year to pass.... LMFAO stop lying or just admit you dont actually play the game.

It takes two years for animals to properly get up and running.... So you're cool with having to play 196 hours before your first animals start producing at max?

That must be the slowest progressing game on the planet.. and let me guess you just spam $1500 contracts for hours on end and call it fine? LMAO GTFOH

i play the game and i running in real time on the server and if you dont trust me about that you can join my server and i can show you ?

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Originally posted by magicISO Sweden:

Originally posted by D.B. Cooper:

Sorry but you have really missed the point here...

and to say its not a problem "FOR YOU" because you dont speed up time or sleep? So its not a problem for YOU, doesnt mean its not a problem for many others. The world doesnt revolve around you like you think it does and HONESTLY....

Someone who plays on real time and doesnt sleep? EVER? Either you are now lying to blindly defend a game you like or it takes you at a MINIMUM of 96 hours for one year to pass.... LMFAO stop lying or just admit you dont actually play the game.

It takes two years for animals to properly get up and running.... So you're cool with having to play 196 hours before your first animals start producing at max?

That must be the slowest progressing game on the planet.. and let me guess you just spam $1500 contracts for hours on end and call it fine? LMAO GTFOH

i play the game and i running in real time on the server and if you dont trust me about that you can join my server and i can show you ?

Originally posted by magicISO Sweden:

Originally posted by D.B. Cooper:

Sorry but you have really missed the point here...

and to say its not a problem "FOR YOU" because you dont speed up time or sleep? So its not a problem for YOU, doesnt mean its not a problem for many others. The world doesnt revolve around you like you think it does and HONESTLY....

Someone who plays on real time and doesnt sleep? EVER? Either you are now lying to blindly defend a game you like or it takes you at a MINIMUM of 96 hours for one year to pass.... LMFAO stop lying or just admit you dont actually play the game.

It takes two years for animals to properly get up and running.... So you're cool with having to play 196 hours before your first animals start producing at max?

That must be the slowest progressing game on the planet.. and let me guess you just spam $1500 contracts for hours on end and call it fine? LMAO GTFOH

i play the game and i running in real time on the server and if you dont trust me about that you can join my server and i can show you ?

No thanks, I like progression in a game.

[magicISO Sweden]

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here is how i run the server and this is on the first farm :) open the second farm later stuff takes time and one day is one month thats how we sett the server up and it works just fine.

you play how you want this is why i love this game so much.

[Jackson]

I haven't played MP since FS19, but when I was playing with a friend, we just agreed to log in at a certain time every day. The game paused when we weren't playing

[Canuck]

Originally posted by MajorMaccas:

yeah, our gaming group tried Farm Sim and kind of bounced off after two split off to focus on smaller things like strawberries etc, but they played an evening without others online, and the main farm guys returned to find a load of withered fields, so all our work went to waste.

I turned off crop withering, but we just moved onto other games.

Multiplayer is a disaster if you approach it casually. And if you take it super seriously it stops being fun.

Gotta love people that text for no reason but to take up space. " Recent activity ...last played feb 12 2022 farming sim 23." Must be the new games the kiddie group moved on to ?