Workers: a plea

[CesarMyChavez]

I made this account to make this one and only post. It is a desperate scream into the void; a defiant hope that if I stare into the Giants abyss, it will, someday, stare back.

I beg you to fix workers. All I wanted was a happy Sunday on my cute little farm, forcing a bowling alley in the middle of nowhere to buy 500 tonnes of strawberries, as is my God given right. Instead, after sending my worker on a nominally simple 'Go To' task, it ends up impossibly stuck. Several hours of hopeless ramming later and I lose the cargo and equipment. Enough is enough.

Oh you want to send Worker J back to the yard? No, that 'target is unreachable' so they'll go to Indonesia and start a nice little family instead. Task worker B on a field? Great, I hope you're a Jackson Pollock fan. Meanwhile you're paying Worker G to floor it into a tree until you notice.

Who are these workers? Are we roleplaying aliens delivering new technology to an exotic planet? Are we watching its primitive denizens and their underdeveloped smooth brains fumble around for a lark?

Or are they engaging in coordinated, mass civil disobedience? I may have ruined your local economy/ecology as a feudal agro lord and made a mockery of your traffic laws. But the strike worked. I cave. I'll pay hundreds of thousands for a new Worker Union contract. I'll pay them enough so their little worker children can go to university and choose a more suitable career path than their parents. Just please make it stop.

I'm not a fancy fangled programmer. I'm just a humble back country digital farmer. But it seems to me that if a Roomba can figure out the layout of my room, surely a worker - couple lines of code in a game - can regognize the dimensions of a field or go around an obstacle. I will die on this hill.

But alas. Giants is probably busy releasing the new Finnish Tyhmä small tractor DLC. Amazing. So if we're not getting better workers here are some alternatives:

• A kindergarten placable so workers can learn what shapes and lines are

• A stress relief feature that let's you strangle chickens or NPCs

• Building a rustic gallows and surrender to the sweet release of death

I will do anything. I will sunder my firstborn son to Giants. I will fly to Germany and 'shuck' your corn. I will never say anything bad about vinyards ever again. Just please fix workers.

The following is a translation of the post into German for maximum dev viewing convenience.

Sincerely,

A massive, and slightly disgruntled, fan

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Ich habe dieses Konto erstellt, um diesen einzigen Beitrag zu verfassen. Es ist ein verzweifelter Schrei ins Leere; eine trotzige Hoffnung, dass, wenn ich in den Abgrund der Riesen starre, er eines Tages zurückstarren wird.

Ich flehe Giants an, die Arbeiter zu reparieren. Alles, was ich mir wünschte, war ein schöner Sonntag auf meiner niedlichen kleinen Farm, und ich wollte eine Bowlingbahn mitten im Nirgendwo dazu zwingen, 500 Tonnen Erdbeeren zu kaufen, wie es mein gottgegebenes Recht ist. Stattdessen bleibt er, nachdem er meinen Mitarbeiter mit einer scheinbar einfachen „Gehe zu“-Aufgabe geschickt hat, unglaublich stecken. Nach mehreren Stunden hoffnungslosen Rammens verliere ich Ladung und Ausrüstung. Genug ist genug.

Oh, du willst Arbeiter J zurück auf den Hof schicken? Nein, dieses „Ziel ist unerreichbar“, also gehen sie nach Indonesien und gründen stattdessen eine nette kleine Familie. Aufgabe Arbeiter B auf einem Feld? Großartig, ich hoffe, Sie sind ein Fan von Jackson Pollock. In der Zwischenzeit bezahlen Sie Arbeiter G dafür, ihn in einen Baum zu rammen, bis Sie es bemerken.

Wer sind diese Arbeiter? Sind wir Rollenspiel-Aliens, die einem exotischen Planeten neue Technologie liefern? Beobachten wir seine primitiven Bewohner und ihre unterentwickelten glatten Gehirne, die aus Spaß herumfummeln?

Oder betreiben sie koordinierten, massenhaften zivilen Ungehorsam? Möglicherweise habe ich als feudaler Agrarherr Ihre lokale Wirtschaft/Ökologie ruiniert und Ihre Verkehrsregeln lächerlich gemacht. Aber der Streik hat funktioniert. Ich gebe nach. Ich werde Hunderttausende für einen neuen Gewerkschaftsvertrag bezahlen. Ich bezahle ihnen genug, damit ihre kleinen Arbeiterkinder zur Universität gehen und einen passenderen Berufsweg einschlagen können als ihre Eltern. Bitte lass es einfach aufhören.

Ich bin kein fantasievoller Programmierer. Ich bin nur ein bescheidener digitaler Landwirt im Hinterland. Aber es scheint mir, dass, wenn ein Roomba den Grundriss meines Zimmers herausfinden kann, sicherlich ein Arbeiter – ein paar Codezeilen in einem Spiel – die Abmessungen eines Feldes erkennen oder ein Hindernis umgehen kann. Ich werde auf diesem Hügel sterben.

Aber leider. Giants ist wahrscheinlich damit beschäftigt, den neuen finnischen Tyhmä-Kleintraktor-DLC zu veröffentlichen. Toll. Wenn wir also keine besseren Arbeitskräfte bekommen, sind hier einige Alternativen:

• Ein platzierbarer Kindergarten, damit die Arbeiter zumindest lernen können, was Formen und Linien sind

• Eine Funktion zum Stressabbau, mit der Sie Hühner oder NPCs erwürgen können

• Einen rustikalen Galgen bauen und sich der süßen Erlösung des Todes hingeben

Ich werde alles tun. Ich werde meinen erstgeborenen Sohn den Riesen übergeben. Ich fliege nach Deutschland und schäle deinen Mais. Ich werde nie wieder etwas Schlechtes über Weinberge sagen. Bitte reparieren Sie einfach die Arbeiter.

Aufrichtig,

Ein riesiger und leicht verärgerter Fan

[Urinal2001]

This is officially my favourite post I've seen on here!

All true too.

[mydixiewrecked]

This post is why we need like button

[Lexie]

Totally agree with this post. The new DLC with new crops is depending on workers as a lot of equipment does not have bunkers. But those workers are not able to do their job on a realistic way, so you have to drive trough the crop. In singleplayer there is still no way to use a forage harvester yourself, because no worker with foragetrailer can drive nearby. So it's really time to overhaul the workers completely, as it's now holding back the game and it's future.

[FSarndrone]

This post is why we need like button

liked

[Milkman85]

I’m dying. That was worth the read, well said!!

[El Narizon]

Seems to be accurate. and post #3 as well.

[Shooter65]

This is an absolute classic i don't play this game anymore so don't often check on here but so glad i did today

[sefilho]

Yes, you took the opinion out of our thoughts and put it out there.
We need more of this, Giants, attention to these people.

[CesarMyChavez]

Totally agree with this post. The new DLC with new crops is depending on workers as a lot of equipment does not have bunkers. But those workers are not able to do their job on a realistic way, so you have to drive trough the crop. In singleplayer there is still no way to use a forage harvester yourself, because no worker with foragetrailer can drive nearby. So it's really time to overhaul the workers completely, as it's now holding back the game and it's future.

A great point. But I'm not even asking for new base game features, only the functionality of existing ones. They shouldn't be that difficult to implement. Or maybe they are and I'm insane.

Take field work, for example. Everything is already there. Fields exist as a unique area that workers recognise. There's a coordinate system. There's even a handy map that tells you the field state (what bits are growing, weeds, harvested, etc). Is it so difficult to combine these elements so a worker can fully complete a field and not wind up at the bottom of a river?

[mydixiewrecked]

What's the profit margin on time spent fixing an existing feature?

[El Narizon]

The best profit is a massive and solid fanbase of happy players.

[mydixiewrecked]

I think there are more ppl who are content with how the game is than there are us that feel we got sold a bunch of goods on the workers. Besides, I personally know 5 ppl that play 22, nobody even takes the time to figure out the janky mechanics for sending workers to and from places. But they also don't complain about that aspect as much as I used to. I've given up on letting a half done gimmick ruin my farming.

[wheelmansteve]

Wish there was a "like" button. Worker performance in FS22 is pretty much inexcusable.

[FenlandFarmer]

I think there are more ppl who are content with how the game is than there are us that feel we got sold a bunch of goods on the workers. Besides, I personally know 5 ppl that play 22, nobody even takes the time to figure out the janky mechanics for sending workers to and from places. But they also don't complain about that aspect as much as I used to. I've given up on letting a half done gimmick ruin my farming.

i never us the workers just not worth the pain.

i dont remember seeing you complain before?