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

Like most things there is farming and mega farming.

If your aim is to buy all the land and really beautify your town it will take a month of Sundays to reach your goal if you stick with just one one house of each colour. I was finding I didn't always have the required amount of cash to buy the next building with just 1 of each house and it gets harder as the cost of the buildings increases.

However, if it wasn't meant to be the case that you couldn't buy more than one of something you wouldn't be able to!

I have 2 Springfields on the go and have a small farm on the go in one of them and I like many other players will incorporate the houses into the rest of the town once I've purchased all the land and laid out the town just how I want it!

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.

GZero604 wrote:
Everybody have to farm sometimes during their game

Sorry, but this is just wrong.

I officially demo'd my small (16 blue) house farm today.

Hopefully, with the whole visiting neighbor income going up, house farming should become a thing of the past? That & a little more cooperation with the servers, ugh. :wink:

*Cheers to Hope!*

Sometimes I'm just shocked at the size of the farm lol I have one guy and it has to be 95% of his Springfield.
To each their own I guess.
Farmers feed cities lol
My farm is 4 brown houses in a row, my little ghetto area.

sonny1618 wrote:

Jopa79 wrote:
demo'd

Demolished?

If so, good for you.

Yep, gone. And it felt good, too!

DoeMoe will live on forever.

There's a difference between farming and a neighbourhood I'm sorry. Springfield doesn't only have 6 houses so why should mine?

I don't understand why there are so many people here who are so concerned about the accuracy of other people's Springfield's. I get it, you are trying to make your Springfield 100% accurate to the "real" Springfield, I should be the one complaining about your futile attempt to make your Springfield 100% accurate to the "real" one which changes frequently (sometimes multiple times per episode). I recognize that your Springfield is yours to do with as you want. I honestly don't care if you have Moe's right next to the Simpson house for Homer's convenience, or if you have 17 Kwik-e marts so no resident has to walk more than 1 block to get a 3 day old roller hot dog. I'll make you a deal, instead of incessantly complaining about people who house farm, and posting here to try to berate them into conforming to your ideal Springfield layout, just quit going to their Springfield. Out of sight out of mind.


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