I don't have a problem with SF's that have a house farm somewhere to generate income. There are ways to do it where it doesn't ruin the look of your town, even if you choose not to do a design with it. I've got a farm, but it's all the way over to the far right, stretched out on an arm with unpurchased land in between it. The rest of my SF is designed as a real town. However, when I see towns that are pretty much nothing but messy house farms, I do wonder what the point of playing is? I've never deleted anyone for it, but I do wonder why they do it.

*yawn*This rant has been done before. Was done better, too. 3/10, but knocking it down to 2/10 due to the rampant spelling errors.

I've deleted a very few friends with serious house farms during wacking day and this Halloween. For wacking day it was because there was almost no space for the snakes, and I couldn't wait for them to show up in that tiny space, and for Halloween I've deleted two (sorry!) because it just took toooooooo long to load their towns -- half the time the app would just crash and shut down.I don't visit friends except during events like this, but it is nice to get decorating ideas and see other really nice layouts. I really need to do almost a complete re-design, but I've been putting it off.

This has been going on since day 1 of TO. House farming can be pulled of nicely, if some thought is put into it and decorate the houses with roads and gardens etc. not just plonked around like a kid has tipped out his toy box. Have some pride people. Otherwise IMO, defeats the purpose of playing.

My springfield is incredibly messy and haphazard. I'm not at max level yet, I haven't expanded completely land-wise, and the intent is to re-order everything once I'm situated. So I'm not one to talk but....I have a few friends on my list with just horrible house farms. No roads at all, just like a 20x20 block of houses. Some with businesses separate, but similarly jammed together with no roads at all. They'll often have a block of trees and random vanity decorations just to fill the stars. I must admit...I judge them...and I don't usually give them more than one gremlin.

LuciiTigger14 wrote:Some people do it just until they get all the land, which I can understand, it can take forever to save up enough money without spending donuts to get a high multiplier. But I don't judge my neighbors towns. I'm not going to delete a town because I don't like what they're doing with their town. I could not agree more. I had a small house farm up until I could afford all the land. Then I stored all the houses except those needed for a 5 star indolence rating. Though at the same time, I have seen some that are obscenely large. They can be done tastefully and within reason, where you can still have a nice looking main townBTW, your sig and avatar is really cool

House farming? Come on... Be serious...

mtpkp
12 years ago
I built brown houses to the point where it would take me five minutes to complete a round through the farm so that if I had some time to kill I could spend 20 minutes farming constantly and make some serious money and XP. I had 370 brown houses and just kept expanding, I don't own all the land yet, but have begun selling the farm incrementally over the past few weeks and am down to 240, I may end up adding a blue house farm after Halloween, but it would be relatively small.
grassytree25
12 years ago
My house farm isn't incredibly large but I get around 200,000 a day depending on if it's a day off from work. So I level up quickly and because of that I get more opportunities for bonus donuts...and donuts have always bought the finer things in this game...and I'm not spending my "real" money on the cool stuff in the game. And seriously I have fun even if I don't have a well organized town. Everyone has a good time in all sorts of different ways...so don't judge people and don't pick and choose your friends based on the style they choose. If anything choose your simpson friends based on their last login date...if you haven't logged in a month you probably won't be a worthwhile friend. Drop the house farm thing like your "holier than me" *!
Frimar21
New Spectator
12 years ago
stile99 wrote:
*yawn*

This rant has been done before. Was done better, too. 3/10, but knocking it down to 2/10 due to the rampant spelling errors.

Well, let me know when you will be able to write in Italian with no spelling errors, and I will apologize for mine ;-)
pinklittlebirdi
12 years ago
Frimar21 wrote:
stile99 wrote:
*yawn*

This rant has been done before. Was done better, too. 3/10, but knocking it down to 2/10 due to the rampant spelling errors.

Well, let me know when you will be able to write in Italian with no spelling errors, and I will apologize for mine ;-)

I only know sewing/geometry terms in Italian :-(
Frimar21
New Spectator
12 years ago
day2204 wrote:
It's super easy to delete house farmers versus making the 17393827th thread on the topic....and for those who hope therevgremlins go unnoticed, this is probably one of the best events to have people on your friend list with crazy, large, disorganized house farms, I doubt they'll go looking through all of the houses for gremlins making it more likely you get 4 goo

Despite the fact that i was not judging the farmers, but only wondering were the funny part is in this way of playing ( this is the answer to all the others, that told me not to judge...), I agree with you about the gremlins strategy.. When I see a >300 houses farm, I place all the gremlins I can ;-)
Jedihntr
New Spectator
12 years ago
Tawhid123 wrote:
No, but in all seriousness, I'm not a house farmer, I am a designer 8)

Love this :thumbup:
marikarii
12 years ago
I have a fairly large house farm, I'm working my way through buying up all the available land. My Springfield has been such a mess for so long as I was hanging off designing it properly untill I had all the land. Now I have the complete first 2 rows I have built that bit properly, and I'll likely carry on that way till I have all the land. Rebuilding a few rows at a time. I'll probably keep a smaller farm once it's done but it will look more like a housing estate lol
nicolknappen
12 years ago
I've been playing since December 2012, am at level 35, have all the land, all the buildings, a nice reserve of cash, and I haven't had to have a house farm to do it. I didn't understand what house farming was until I added friends for Whacking Day. Personally, I don't understand why anyone plays the game just to collect the stuff and not build a town that makes sense. I added more friends for this event, but deleted any with farms instantly, especially if they were at level 34 or 35.

I'd rather have friends at lower levels who can at least see what the potential of a SF can be when they visit me, instead of just seeing house farms and crazy crammed-up towns. One (former) friend had a huge town with only one square of pavement. So all the characters were in one pavement square. Convenient, huh? Also totally nuts. The other thing that drives me as crazy as house farms are massive flower beds that look like magic eye paintings...
Airion69
12 years ago
nicolknappen wrote:
I've been playing since December 2012, am at level 35, have all the land, all the buildings, a nice reserve of cash, and I haven't had to have a house farm to do it. I didn't understand what house farming was until I added friends for Whacking Day. Personally, I don't understand why anyone plays the game just to collect the stuff and not build a town that makes sense. I added more friends for this event, but deleted any with farms instantly, especially if they were at level 34 or 35.

I'd rather have friends at lower levels who can at least see what the potential of a SF can be when they visit me, instead of just seeing house farms and crazy crammed-up towns. One (former) friend had a huge town with only one square of pavement. So all the characters were in one pavement square. Convenient, huh? Also totally nuts. The other thing that drives me as crazy as house farms are massive flower beds that look like magic eye paintings...

I hope someone judges you for the way you choose to play too.
Jedihntr
New Spectator
12 years ago
nicolknappen wrote:
I've been playing since December 2012, am at level 35, have all the land, all the buildings, a nice reserve of cash, and I haven't had to have a house farm to do it. I didn't understand what house farming was until I added friends for Whacking Day. Personally, I don't understand why anyone plays the game just to collect the stuff and not build a town that makes sense. I added more friends for this event, but deleted any with farms instantly, especially if they were at level 34 or 35.

I'd rather have friends at lower levels who can at least see what the potential of a SF can be when they visit me, instead of just seeing house farms and crazy crammed-up towns. One (former) friend had a huge town with only one square of pavement. So all the characters were in one pavement square. Convenient, huh? Also totally nuts. The other thing that drives me as crazy as house farms are massive flower beds that look like magic eye paintings...

I have a friend like the one you describe and I can tell you it was amazing for Whacking Day when you didn't have to go looking for the snakes. I have a small blue house farm on the northern strip of my town, so unfortunately we can't be friends.