IMHO, House Farming ruins the game in so many different ways.

dietermitplatten wrote:

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But there is also a way of having many houses without making it look like a "farm". I've seen a couple of cities that have multiple houses with much decorations, streets, etc. <snip>

I think I know what you're talking about here, dieter, but now the discussion boils to a question of definitions. I would agree with you that multiple houses do not not necessarily connote a farm. What I call a farm is a large group of houses shoved up against one another with nothing (or extremely little) in the way of decorations or streets.