Well balanced farming game

Ill start by saying that I do enjoy this game and heres my general pros and cons.
PROS:
1. Crops dont wither and theyre generally quick to grow. Most crops grow within an hour, but some fruits take quite awhile. Its pretty well balanced in my opinion.
2. Animals manage to mostly be cute. I dont know why most games in the genre make the animals super creepy. So far only the goats when ready to harvest creep me out slightly. Its weird to see them bouncing around like that.
3. Time to make stuff is really well balanced. Except for one item which takes over 12 hours to make, all the others I have are well balanced and reasonable.

CONS:
1. The scythe sensitivity. The is my main problem with the game and while it sounds odd, its really messed me up. When you try to harvest a crop, you end up harvesting anything else in a one mile radius too. The community farm is TERRIBLE with this because I cant move my plots. Every time I try to harvest one Apple tree, it instead harvests the Orange and is like "oops, out of space!" Thanks game! I needed 20 more oranges! Again this sounds like a silly complaint, but having played township where everything harvests perfectly, this is insanely irritating.
2. The community farm. While this is a pro for many, I started my own the day this came out because I was forced into a community with 7 other people who stopped playing 10 minutes in. I then started one so I could invite my own friends, but an hour later it filled it AGAIN with 7 more people who arent playing automatically. So on my third one and no one is playing and I cant kick them. So, Im on my own. Its a good idea and I like the area, but since I cant control whos in, it really doesnt make it feel like my own community farm.
3. The delivery board is way too unbalanced. I swear half the board is always containing items I cant make. As soon as I can make an item, it drops off in popularity. That alone isnt the problem though. The problem is you cant get rid of them!!! Yes, you can delete it, wait ten minutes and get another, but after testing this several dozen times, I recorded that out of 38 attempts to delete requests, 36 were replaced with the identical request I removed. What the heck is the point of allowing deletion if the replacement is pretty much guaranteed to be the same one? And I tested this without closing the app or allowing the device to go to sleep, so its not related to the data backtracking, which seems to be a common bug people see.

Overall its been one of my favorite farming games. I actually have a pet for once (the sheepdog doesnt cost gems) and the animations are very pretty and smooth. The makers and items are interesting and well designed, and a lot of the loading problems I had the first week seem to have mostly been solved. I also like the idea there are few events. I hate games that constantly have events because I have a life and I cant play a game 24/7, so this one doesnt make me feel bad for not checking it most of the day.

Im looking forward to all the places theyre taunting us with, mostly the mushroom area. Ill keep playing to see that at least. There is also a forest, honey, and shell area that says coming soon, so Im glad to see game loft might actually have plans to keep supporting this game which is unlike them.

In the end, if you enjoy farming games and have a bit of patience to find a community farm thats right for you I recommend this game. Im going to give the game four stars mostly for the harvesting problem. Again, its caused all my plans to go bad when I try to harvest one thing, and it decides to harvest another and then I run out of space. So be sure to space your trees way apart from each other because it uses the entire image of the tree as cutting area instead of just the trunk.

Im playing this on an iPad Air 2 with iOS 8.1.2 and besides the insane amount of loading problems it had at the start (and seem to be resolved) I havent personally seen any bugs. I have heard a common one however is data backtracking when you do something and the close the game and it doesnt save properly. I just count to 30 before closing the game and it seems to be fine for me.

LordSmapy about Country Friends