Farm Town - That little blue save button!

"Does the save button in Farm Town actually do anything?"

I know a lot of people are confused by the save button in Farm Town and wonder if it's actually necessary to use it at all, if you click it you're often told their are no pending changes to be save or that pending saves have been made, so does it actually do anything and should you use it? - the answer is yes it does do something and yes should use it - when necessary.

So that begs the question : when is it necessary to use the save button?

Simply put: if you're about to leave/log off from Farm Town and the button is blue, press it bef

ore you go. It's as simple as that!

Everything you do in Farm Town is saved to a number of databases on the Farm Town servers, but it's only saved every so often, I have no idea how often (though It seems to very regularly - every 30 seconds perhaps?) but if you leave before it's automatically saved you could lose recent changes, or "pending changes" as Farm Town calls them. I tested this myself recently after a number of people asked me what the saved button did. I sowed a number of fields, logged out (while the button was blue - indicating I was inbetween autosaves) then logged back on to see that fields were back to their ploughed state.

So yes the save button does work but the reason it seems rather redundant is that the Farm Town autosave occurs very frequently.