Farms

[rodent1989 9]

I've often wondered about how many jobs a farm provides, so i was wondering if anyone could clear it up.  When I querey a farm, it has a very low number of jobs associated to it, like 2/2 or 5/5.  Are they providing that many jobs total, or that many jobs per tile of farm?

If they are providing 2 jobs total, can I demolish the fields, leave the little building, and just have hundreds of the little shacks that provide 2 jobs each?

[ledge69 0]

Yes in theory you could there are mods to multiply the number of jobs as I think it's very unrealistic, I don't know of farms that employ 2 people, some employ hundreds to pick crops.

[Linda 0]

The number of jobs you see by querying the farmhouse is not the number of people employed on the entire farm.

As far as I can tell, that's just the number of people employed in the main building itself. There also seem to be one or two people for every square of field, that don't turn up in the query. Or maybe the number given when you query the farmhouse is the number of people employed per square. I should do some experiments to get a more exact answer (but I don't have time to do so right now.)

I can't recall if the transportation query gives the corect number of workers or not, by telling how many people are commuting there, but I think it might.

Edit-- I used to do like you mentioned, and bulldoze/dezone the farms keeping only the farm house, but  then I realized that the farm squares DO have jobs as well, though the game makes this difficult to see.)

[tag_one 132]

what linda said..

If you take for excample the vineyard I uploaded a few days ago, the main building has 7 jobs. but all the squares in the fields around it hold 3 jobs each. this means that on a 5x5 farm (with a 2x3 building) 64 people work.

[rodent1989 9]

thank you tag-one, I'm really glad to know that I don't have to de-zone and re-zone severeal hundred times...