(Farms) Should this be allowed?

[Winter Dragon 0]

A. Larger farm built around a smaller one. The game is calculating the area between the outer roads and completely ignores the already occupied land in the center. You can therefore build a farm half as big as the 'minimum size' using this method.

B. Placing roads beyond fertile ground (red zone) before building a farm allows you to build beyond, as shown above.

Please note I don't do this, but to demonstrate that it is possible if people try. Are they exploits and should the be fixed, or is there no cause for concern?

[DazzaDazza 29]

well i like the first idea, thanks for the second one, I think where you can build farms on a map will become redundant with CXL2011 e.g you Will be able to build them anywhere

[Andre090904 0]

Especially when using the sandbox-mode where every ressource is available everywhere in every map.

[morriswalters 16]

The first is caled farm stacking, and is considered an exploit in the PO(for what that's worth now).  The second is normal behavior.

[ThisIsSka 0]

You'll see that the farm buildings are inside the fertile area, that's where it counts.

[bluespottedhorse 49]

Whether it's rocky or swampy, a farm should be able to be placed anywhere like in real life. Topography and climate dictate what type of farm one can have.

[MadBrahms 0]

Voting exploit on the stacking - it's clearly cheating. The second example, though, just seems clever. I'll have to try it out, especially in those pesky areas around the edges where I end up juuuust short of the minimum necessary.

[MadBrahms 0]

Originally posted by: Kevin Ar18

Originally posted by: MadBrahms

Voting exploit on the stacking - it's clearly cheating. The second example, though, just seems clever. I'll have to try it out, especially in those pesky areas around the edges where I end up juuuust short of the minimum necessary.quote>

The second example relies on the building being in the green area -- the rest can be anywhere.quote>

This actually correlates well to an observation of mine about a particularly annoying aspect of farming: silo / fertilizer proximity. It seems that in order for a farm to get the benefit of silos (which have a practical radius MUCH smaller than it appears) is to have the actual building within the greenest zone of silo coverage. This is frustratingly tedious to zone for; mayble they'll fix this in CXL 2011.