Some things you people fail to understand.
The effects of this bug are far more minimal then you may realize. It has NO effect, ZERO effect untell after a point in time that a farm would have totaly ran out of food. As this does not occur for most people tell late bronze or more likely iron, every game that was decided before then can be ruled out as effected byt the bug. At the point that the farm would have ran out, and every future point that a farm would have ran out, it essentialy generates 75 free wood. This is a big deal, and we would hope that it would get patched, but its not even close to being on the scale of the wood bug, we are talking about 75 wood per farm per ever 10 minutes(how long it takes a 250 farm to run down), lets say 20 farms, or 1500 free wood every 10 minutes. an economy using 20 farms generates about 20,000+ wood every 10 minutes, or this bug essentialy generates about 6% increase in wood production for free. And this is still only after farms would have start running out. This also assumes you dont get any farm upgrades normaly. without the bug, using that many farms you would get farm upgrades and this decreases how helpfull the farm bug is to about 4% increase. Of one resource(wood not food btw) counting all resources, its about a 2% improvement in economy. Considering most people economy, considering idle peons, long walks from pits etc, run at around 70% effeciency, this is not a big deal, to compare it to the wood bug, which was an infinite amount of wood(and stone) per any time frame is laughable. Go ahead and try winning a bunch of rated games using the bug, you will be disapointed in how little it will really help you.
Dont get me wrong, I would love to see this bug patched, along with the TC bug, but its not a game killing bug like the wood bug is, its effect is so minimal that if everyone agrees to use it, thus leveling the playing field, it wont change game play much at all, even if some people use it, and others dont, id estimate only about 1 out of a 100 games would have their out come changed by this bug, ie, 1 person using it, 1 not, only 1 in a hundred games would be different if neither or both had used it.
If you dont believe me, play me, hill country, I wont use it, you can, and see if you can beat me, Ill be on as __giggles, 6pm eastern, zm me, Im willing to put my money where my mouth is, lets see you do the same.
You can also zm me as __bane from 8 am to 5 pm eastern as I will be at work, unable to play but we can set up a game, note both names are preceeded by a double underscore.
Here is hoping ES patches the bug, and hoping that people will stop whining about all the games they assume they lost because of this bug, I doubt one person who complained lost a single game because of this bug. With the massive number of people who know now, that will change, but not much