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

jarci1

Wrong. I don't farm and my Springfield is at 10x9.

mdfriend

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

sonny1618

I recently got rid of houses as they were becoming irrelevant. I get so much money from all the regular buildings and character tasks I have more than I need and it's so easy to get more. Farming is never necessary.

jarci1

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

Deadshot_DCU

Guess we lost you to the dark side

tappedoutdave

rs876 wrote:

Wrong. I don't farm and my Springfield is at 10x9.

It gets way mor expensive for land. 120k for some.

elsie_d

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.

QCOuTLaWz

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

I am proud to say I have used pure income properties from day one.

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.

I am a commercial farmer and Right now my indolence rating is only 3 after storing my pure income properties in anticipation of the new update.

Just ask yourself....... WWHD what would homer do?

XBL-Heretic

MoopsDude wrote:

Just ask yourself....... WWHD what would homer do?

Looks like it's time for a Duff beer!

arnoutVI

Deadshot_DCU wrote:

Guess we lost you to the dark side

rs876

tappedoutdave wrote:

rs876 wrote:

Wrong. I don't farm and my Springfield is at 10x9.

It gets way mor expensive for land. 120k for some.

Your point is?

dromtsul

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.

'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

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

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".

It depends on the game and what you're doing. In RPGs you grind for levels. In action RPGs you farm for items. Some people do look down upon grinding and farming in other games because it's not the natural way to play and isn't always necessary. Other people get enjoyment from doing so. There is no right or wrong and a lot of this is semantics.

elsie_d

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? ;-)

bahepton

There's so much debate about house farms on here.

Can we all just agree that they look **** awful, make the game crash and as the game progresses money is easily available anyway?

I started playing at the end of September, I've almost maxed out level 23 and am about 5,000 off of being able to afford Channel 6. All this without farming or using donuts to convert to in game cash.

I have one duplicated brown house, and one duplicated blue house.

I sometimes feel like people farm the forum too...so many duplicated topics

dromtsul

elsie_d wrote:

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? ;-)

It's lazy when compared to the alternative. It may take a little longer, but it is a lot easier to stare at a screen, zone out, and tap on floating dollar signs three to four times a day than it is to set 20+ characters on a one-hour task every hour up to eight times a day.

bahepton wrote:

Can we all just agree thatthe game progresses money is easily available anyway?

I agree that people over-value in-game money.

ur_wack452 wrote:

I jailbreak my devices for the tweaks/customizing.

I haven't got around to it yet, but I need to do so to remove the 20% battery warning. That has interrupted me too many times to count.

ur_wack452

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

xrobotlove

ur_wack452 wrote:

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

Yes absolutely, I've always been adamant on this subject. Jailbreaking is no longer illegal and has so many advantages other than hacking games. I hate the bad rap jailbreaking gets, there should be nothing wrong with wanting to customize your device beyond apple's heavy restrictions. When I updated to iOS 6 it reversed the jailbreak on my device, but I plan on jailbreaking again eventually. It feels impossible to do certain things without it, like typing, selecting text, copy & pasting etc is soooo much easier with applicable tweaks. Same with accessibility, SB Settings which gives you safe mode, task manager to clear ram, and toggles for wifi, power, location etc, widgets for weather, twitter, Facebook, and so much more... Not even gonna get into the amazing themes. The possibilities are nearly endless when it comes to what can be enhanced. Hacking games is a very small and incredibly stigmatized aspect of jailbreaking. Most jailbreak forums don't allow it to be discussed and will ridicule those that do discuss it.

I know people often are actually referring to game hacking specifically when they say jailbreaking, but they're two different things. To hack you must jailbreak, but not vice versa. That's like saying, people steal from walmart, therefore walmart was made for people to steal from it. Or something like that.

ur_wack452

Xrobot- exactly my point so thank you for backing up my statement. As for IOS updates I always wait for a jailbreak to be available before I update so hence I am still on 5.1. And like you said many jailbreak forums don't allow and even go as far as censor any mention of tweaks that allow stealing of apps/in app purchase hacks.