IMHO, House Farming ruins the game in so many different ways.
Stop the house farming! Make you Springfield a better place!
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IMO, if a house has a driveway, the driveway should open onto a street.
That's my main rule.
After playing the game for a few weeks (with all the premium content), I started a second Springfield to see how I could do with no premium content.
My second city was done as a joke. So to thumb my nose at all the house farmers who don't realize how ridiculous their cities look, I threw up a ton of houses around the sides of a blank field. I then used the small hedges to write out "TAPPED OUT STORAGE YARD".
While I was doing this, I realized I needed some quick money in my "real" game in order to buy decorations to make things pretty.
Since I'd spend lots of time designing my main town (about two hours a night), I eventually decided to build 72 brown houses, and to arrange them like a prison camp (as I thought they looked like barracks).
I eventually bought 12 property squares (3 x 4) and could arrange the 72 brown houses in 8 x 9 rows.
There was also enough space around the perimeter to put pavement and a chain link fence (which I switched to barbed wire after the Halloween update offered those instead).
I also had enough space to put a green area inside the camp and write out "STALAG 13" with hedges. :P
The 72 houses gave me $504 every five minutes, which was good when I was buying the 200 or so trees for the forest I was working on.
Anyway, I thought the prison camp idea was clever in that it gave me some ready cash to help me do other things, but it didn't look like a typical house farm. (It was also far away from my city's "downtown" area, so I didn't need to look at it much.)
Unfortunately, EA lost my main city three weeks ago, so I needed to disband the "storage yard" and I turned it into a proper town, with streets. (I also put its 100 or so brown houses into storage, with just one in the city for jobs that require it.)
But, I'm not doing much beautifying anymore as I feel EA will lose what I've got now and don't want to waste more time.
That's my main rule.
After playing the game for a few weeks (with all the premium content), I started a second Springfield to see how I could do with no premium content.
My second city was done as a joke. So to thumb my nose at all the house farmers who don't realize how ridiculous their cities look, I threw up a ton of houses around the sides of a blank field. I then used the small hedges to write out "TAPPED OUT STORAGE YARD".
While I was doing this, I realized I needed some quick money in my "real" game in order to buy decorations to make things pretty.
Since I'd spend lots of time designing my main town (about two hours a night), I eventually decided to build 72 brown houses, and to arrange them like a prison camp (as I thought they looked like barracks).
I eventually bought 12 property squares (3 x 4) and could arrange the 72 brown houses in 8 x 9 rows.
There was also enough space around the perimeter to put pavement and a chain link fence (which I switched to barbed wire after the Halloween update offered those instead).
I also had enough space to put a green area inside the camp and write out "STALAG 13" with hedges. :P
The 72 houses gave me $504 every five minutes, which was good when I was buying the 200 or so trees for the forest I was working on.
Anyway, I thought the prison camp idea was clever in that it gave me some ready cash to help me do other things, but it didn't look like a typical house farm. (It was also far away from my city's "downtown" area, so I didn't need to look at it much.)
Unfortunately, EA lost my main city three weeks ago, so I needed to disband the "storage yard" and I turned it into a proper town, with streets. (I also put its 100 or so brown houses into storage, with just one in the city for jobs that require it.)
But, I'm not doing much beautifying anymore as I feel EA will lose what I've got now and don't want to waste more time.
