Farm Tribe

I was looking for a game that captured the simple fun of Farmville without the "bug the crap out of your friends until they put you on ignore". It seemed like maybe I had found it, but now after 3 hours, I don't think so. The first thing that annoyed me is that the villagers are always doing something. You try to get their names and what jobs they are doing, time marches on. You open a status menu or have a dialogue box waiting for your input. They don't care they will wing it. You open the How to Play section and read it. TIME MARCHES ON. There is zero way to pause the little maniacs without logging out and cutting power from your UPS. (OK maybe not that last part) They game has a lot of time based side quests that you really don't know about if you aren't watching that corner of the screen. Everything was running at a really good clip, and then 2/3 of the way in, all the story stops. I could farm these same 6 items forever and no one would care. The bank suddenly no longer needed payments. Local villagers no longer required food to eat. The magic stone is stuck and so are you. I was grooving along to it and then hit a roadblock. To top it off, evidently no one else played it this far because I see bupkus about the point where I'm stuck. It is an alright game, but needs major work on pacing and sandbox style replayability to get my recommendation.