I 'gave-up' and started farming...

I think both ways can work. I personally do not like the farming look of all the houses smashed together for miles on end, but to each their own, this said I do have duplicate buildings, as I was building I realized, wait, this is city, why would there only be ten houses. So I built some communities, but they all have their yards, no houses of the same type next to one another and so on, I also decided in so many cities you do not have just one fast food restaurant, but I space those out as if in a real city.

Again, it is a game you play. You have to do what you have to do to enjoy it

It would take me roughly a week to get one additional plot of land. I only earn like 10k a day currently.

Guess we lost you to the dark side

jarci1 wrote:
It would take me roughly a week to get one additional plot of land. I only earn like 10k a day currently.

You don't earn as much $$ as you potentially could from your set-up, jarci1, if you cannot send your characters on repeated 1-hour tasks or get to collect from your houses and buildings at least a few times per day. Tapped Out! tends to reward those who can tap away at the game for extended periods of time or at various times of the day, each day.

As mdfriend suggests, use your imagination of what you would like your city to look like. In the cities of my childhood, for instance, we had neighborhoods with brownstone homes and rowhouses. None had their front entrances blocked by a front row of houses (smashed together), but there wasn't much light on their sides as space was at a premium in those areas. We did have small front yards or backyards, but the houses were all the same.

Perhaps after you've earned enough from your duplicate homes for you to feel comfortable buying land for expansions, you will decide to get rid of the duplicates as sonny1618 has said he's done if you feel they have become irrelevant.

I dont understand people that swim in money without farming? I have around 60 blue houses + I assign 4hrs tasks non-stop +8hrs tasks when going to bed EVERY days since august and Im nowhere swimming in money,it takes a full day to have enough for a simple parcel of land and thats if I save every single dime I make in that day. Also you can have farms without having a springfield that looks like a mess those who do just dont play the game and could careless about the simpsons all they want is to unlock everything and farm as if their life depends on it

MoopsDude wrote:
Just ask yourself....... WWHD what would homer do?

Looks like it's time for a Duff beer!

Deadshot_DCU wrote:
Guess we lost you to the dark side

:lol:

MoopsDude wrote:
If you play this game and have ever planted a building and harvested the $ or XP you are by definition a "house farmer", it is just a matter of degree from that point. I have noticed that most people that get worked up about the issue will define a "house farmer" as anyone with more houses than themselves or follows a less strict landscaping policy than their own.

dromtsul wrote:
'Farming' is a common term relating to video games. It has nothing to do with planting houses in a grid like a field and everything to do with a simple, repetitive task to acquire something. In Devil May Cry you could play a level over again to farm for orbs. In Castlevania you could enter and exit an area to kill something over and over to farm for an item. It's a common tactic in any game with RPG elements. It can also be known as 'grinding.' I think the reason it is looked down upon around here because this is a game of patience. That sort of laziness is a way to bypass the system and get instant gratification.

I've always referred to that as grinding in other games. I thought farming in this game is different because of the crop-like rows the houses are placed. Grinding isn't looked down upon, not in other games or this game (ie, collecting from the quest-given buildings multiple times a day and assigning hour tasks). It seems people tend to look down on farming houses because of the laziness, the aesthetics, and also because, quoting someone else, "this ain't farmville".

dromtsul wrote:
'Farming' is a common term relating to video games. It has nothing to do with planting houses in a grid like a field and everything to do with a simple, repetitive task to acquire something. In Devil May Cry you could play a level over again to farm for orbs. In Castlevania you could enter and exit an area to kill something over and over to farm for an item. It's a common tactic in any game with RPG elements. It can also be known as 'grinding.' I think the reason it is looked down upon around here because this is a game of patience. That sort of laziness is a way to bypass the system and get instant gratification.

xrobotlove wrote:

I've always referred to that as grinding in other games. I thought farming in this game is different because of the crop-like rows the houses are placed. Grinding isn't looked down upon, not in other games or this game (ie, collecting from the quest-given buildings multiple times a day and assigning hour tasks). It seems people tend to look down on farming houses because of the laziness, the aesthetics, and also because, quoting someone else, "this ain't farmville".

I have seen hundreds of houses of one color; tapping that many houses every 3 hours or so is not lazy; using real cash to use donuts to convert to Simpsons play money is lazy, as is jailbreaking one's device. A game of Patience? Isn't that a card game? ;-)

Not all people that jailbreak thier devices do so to obtain infinite amounts of cash and donuts on this game. I have jailbroke every iphone that I have had. I dont jailbreak to steal things from developers in my eyes thats the same as going to the store and stealing a pack of gum. I jailbreak my devices for the tweaks/customizing. So not all people that jailbreak thier devices do so for this game. Jailbreaking was around long before TSTO was ever thought of. Also just a note about jailbreaking alot of the advances Apple has made in developement of the idevices has been from some of the jailbreaking tweaks and Apple has even hired a few of the developers of these jailbreaking tweaks