Farm RPG's Birthday, Records Broken and What's Next

It's almost Farm RPG's 1st Birthday!
First off, can you believe Farm RPG has been online for over a year?  The "Official" 1st birthday is coming up on May 12th and we'll be holding an event to celebrate!  At the same time, we are on track to break 150,000 registered players by then, so we've got that goin' for us, which is nice.

I started on this game last April and it took about 6 weeks to launch it.  The game has sure come a long ways since that time.  It was playable, but changed drastically every week as it came together.  A bunch of our regular players that played all the way back then can probably remember how rough certain things were.  Remember having to tap 1 by 1 to craft?

Since then we've blown up into an amazing community of players, with some really great things built by our community and it seems like there's still a lot of growth to come.  I'm really happy with the community we have and have enjoyed seeing it flourish.  So, thank you all for being a part of it.  I think the game has improved a lot too ;)

April Broke Tons of Records
April had a few ups and downs (mostly in the form of servers melting due to load), but also ended up being the best month in so many ways.  Here's a list of some of the records we saw broken during April:

• Egg Event had most participate ever: 12,000 to 13,000 played daily
• Most registrations ever in a day: 1,092 on 4/14
• Most online at once: 3,096

April was a very, very productive month for me also:

• Farm RPG was expanded to run on 2 servers to help with high load.  Lag has been a lot better ever since.
• The Tower made its way out of Beta.  It was an immense amount of work to build the system and is really just the foundation for a lot more as time goes on.
• Android IAPs were completed and launched.  Huge thanks to Tenfoo for the assistance here.
• The Quest team made some great Egg Event quests and the entire event was a success!
• Lots of "small" updates that improved the game all over. 

What's Next?
Here's an idea of things that are coming up:

• Birthday Event: As mentioned, this will take place in the middle of May.
• New Help Requests: There's a lot of these in work, some of which will be special or themed around certain things that happen in May
• Exchange Center: Currently in development. The Exchange Center allows you to convert XP over level 99 into Silver. It will also allow you to trade in certain Super Rares for items.
• New Fishing and Exploring Zones:  The new Fishing Zone is very far along.  The new Exploring Zone is further out.  Some items are still in work as well as requirements for unlocking each new zone.
• Finishing the 80, 90, 100 Tower Level Artifacts:  There are three Artifacts that are possible to get currently that will have their effects added to the game soon.
• Crops Ready Notifications:  These are in work and will be added to the iOS app first.  Basically, if you have crops ready you'll get a reminder notification on your phone (with the option to turn off)
• Cooking Skill:  This is the most anticipated thing at the moment and also the most complicated to plan, develop and test.  It's being worked on though and I'll have more details to share as it is closer to being ready.
• Tons of Small Updates, QoL, etc: As always, I'm working to constantly improve how the game plays and smooth out rough spots as things continue.

So that's it for now!