Debate: Is farming cheating/stealing?

No. I don’t see how it could be.

My Conform-o-meter bonus is currently at 9366.74%, due to the mistakes of selling the Wailing Wall (2.25%) and the Burning Bush (0.5%) for cash during previous events. They corrected the mistakes fairly quickly but did not rollback or punish those who took advantage of the oversight (I am assuming this was not done on purpose).

Is this cheating or stealing? That definition is entirely up to EA and considering they did not rollback or punish those that took advantage, they must either A) not consider it such, or B) do not want to spend the time and resources to find everyone that did and perform a rollback or apply punitive actions to.

I am still playing my game with "the glitch" from several years ago. So, my game is severely limited. Those of you with hundreds of characters like me, just think how arduous it is to find a specific character, when your character finder does not work. I have to scroll through my 550+ character list in my Town Hall to find someone. And if I don't know their name? I have to look for their face. Not fun. My other option is to rollback years worth of time and effort to a pre-glitch version of my save file. Not gonna happen.

"Lobes06;c-2220222" wrote:
My Conform-o-meter bonus is currently at 9366.74%, due to the mistakes of selling the Wailing Wall (2.25%) and the Burning Bush (0.5%) for cash during previous events. They corrected the mistakes fairly quickly but did not rollback or punish those who took advantage of the oversight (I am assuming this was not done on purpose).

Is this cheating or stealing? That definition is entirely up to EA and considering they did not rollback or punish those that took advantage, they must either A) not consider it such, or B) do not want to spend the time and resources to find everyone that did and perform a rollback or apply punitive actions to.

I am still playing my game with "the glitch" from several years ago. So, my game is severely limited. Those of you with hundreds of characters like me, just think how arduous it is to find a specific character, when your character finder does not work. I have to scroll through my 550+ character list in my Town Hall to find someone. And if I don't know their name? I have to look for their face. Not fun. My other option is to rollback years worth of time and effort to a pre-glitch version of my save file. Not gonna happen.

I know exactly your pain, it's great fun trying to find Gil when he's wandering around your Springfield, oh and rolling back is no guarantee of a fix as I speak from experience, after 3 roll backs and losing multiple items i got glitched again each time, I got so annoyed with this I left the game for over 18 months but eventually came back.

First of all in the beginning the trait of building lots of blue houses was because EA introduced the trophy buildings. If I wanted to build popsicle skyscraper I needed lots of money and building lots of blue houses was the answer. Then they nerfed the blue building farming because of their own mistake.

IMHO EA's todays answer to donut farming is to give in each event the tray of 132 donut with unique gift that cannot be get anywhere else. If person is keen to get all the items in the game they will spend the money in every event. That's lots of money to EA.

On the other hand my games suffer a bug that prevents me to buy golden scratchers and certain trays of donuts as the game states that I already own the items. And EA is not even interrested to figure out that bug. So they clearly do not care about my ability to spend money on the game.

This bug came up when EA "fixed" the bug where one got the founding fathers, Sven Gully & Ned's RV for free if one tried to buy the Sven Gully offer. All my games exploited that bug and something now in the code think that certain amounts of donuts still carry those extra items and I can't buy them because I already own the items. Why this also affects the golden scratchers I don't know. I actually don't miss the golden scratchers I'm only little bit miffed on the "You would have won..." message on normal scratchers as it is now false because I can't buy golden scratchers. Hate it when a game gives false information.

Ending farming would take only a few key strokes by ending the 939 limit. They know this, so I I don't consider farming illegal.
It does however, exploit a weakness.

"lucienleon519;c-2220189" wrote:
Alternative thread: Is not farming ignorant/stupid?

I dont think so, no.
Not everyone is compulsively obsessed to obtain every feature offered in the game. I played for years just collecting what was available for free. I never had a house farm. I was delighted there was as much free content as there is. But it became more compelling over time. I did not expect to become a daily player for ten years running.

It was the lucky glitches of the wailing walls and burning bushes that allowed me to increase my bonus multiplier, and THAT is when I started focusing on efficient bonus increases using jetbikes and nuclear bombs from the Vault.