Question/Advice needed on farms

[beularnum8 0]

Hello all

Instead of attempting to build one huge city, i've recently turned my attention to creating a vast area of farmland and countryside. Starting with a reasonable sized town as my main employment centre, i started to spread out.

My aim was to have two or three small villages on each medium sized tile, hopefully with around 600-2,000 people on each tile. With around three or four farms surrounding them. 

Anyway, i thought that each farm would demand no more than six sims..so that from 600 people i'd get 550+ going to the main town via the avenue or highway...much to my surprise and annoyance farms need about 100 workers each! Obviously with some playing around i've noticed it all depends on the number of tiles the farm takes up...but i'm sad to say that if i wanted a farmland area i'd need a large city just to house all the workers! Surely 4 blokes on a damn tractor would do! How many times do you drive past a farm and see 200 people picking apple trees? 

I did try destroying the farm buildings and leaving the land as 'eye candy' and have it serve no purpose, but sims seem to just use any bit which is connected by road. I could howvere just make sure no bit touches the road, but i'd still like to have farms...just not to that extreme. 

Anyway, the point is...i've seen some farm multiplyers out there...but are their any mods..or any other way of having just 4-5 sims for each farm? or maybe disabling employment alltogether Thanks~

[Geronimo 4]

Have you considered plopping farm fields? Its kinda repetetive and cost a few bucks, but no employment at all!

Plopable Farm Field Pack by Uroncha.

Have fun.

[beularnum8 0]

Cheers

To be fair, i've managed to plop a field and its the most annoying thing i've ever done on sim city 4.

Seriously , there's no way of changing/disabling the field workers? The big farm i have has 248 workers going into it, thats about 244 off what it would be in reality. Damn field people!

[tungston 19]

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