Finally verified tonight why the moonshiner role has SO many glitches and fails...exactly as I suspected, there's limited, if not just 1 shack in each area and unlike camps, multiple players on the server use the same shack at the same time.
Fast traveled to my shack earlier just in time to watch a delivery wagon pull away. Batch wasn't quite ready so I went back outside to feed my horse and watched 2 other players minutes apart go in the shack...almost had one's horse squash me when it dropped in. With that many players doing that many things in the exact same space, yet being totally separate, it makes sense that there's constant glitches. Also lost a full batch of shine when I got the black screen of death trying to start a delivery.
So disappointed in the whole bar thing as well. Was really excited to see that we could add all these upgrades, but for solo players such as myself, it's all just a waste of time. We don't make any money from it as we upgrade and more and more NPC's patronize the bar(although the guy puking on the wall every night is quite amusing), and the tend bar option is solely for serving other players, which I just don't get the point of at all. I really don't see much chance of other random players accepting an invite to come drink in my bar, rather than accomplishing something for their own benefit. The whole bar thing is nothing more than a way for posse's to have a clubhouse...which is fine, but just say that then instead of making it seem like it's an integrated part of the moonshine trade.
Saddest part of it all is that they completely nerfed both trader and collector while adding a flawed additional occupation. At the moment, my options for killing time in between batches of shine seem to be petting my new Husky, watching Cripps walk back and forth whining about the dog and telling the Phil the Crab story for the millionth time, or watching canoes and boats going nowhere.
I also think I figured out what happened to all the animals. Whatever programmer was in charge of fixing that was distracted that day...he got the amounts correct, but somehow instead of animals, he entered revenue collector lol