by _Gunnar » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:49 pm MagicManICT wrote:Myself, I enjoy farming. What frustrates me is making too much to eat and then not having anyone around to eat it. I also enjoy mining and hunting, too. I just can't stand doing the same thing all the time and too many villages want a dedicated farmer or hunter, etc. (As if it's that hard to make alts to do these things....) I would love to see a more interactive farming system, though. The current system is just too much like farmville: plant, wait, harvest, plow, repeat. Crappy systems only encourage botting more.
In my village some people just do one thing, others do several (e.g. at the moment i am hunting/foraging/cheesemaking/treefarming/wallbuilding (nearly done...), also ranging when i get a chance
). I think we have 4 people who do some farming right now, only one of whom is a pure farmer (and she is becoming a cook as well, thats a kindof natural synergy though). In a big enough village I think it becomes worthwhile to all do several things (redundancy/backups ftw, or whatever). By the way, we have never used a bot. Every job can be fun if you are chatting to your villagemates while you do it, everyone enjoys different parts of the game...You have excess food? what quality/price
.Yeah, [arable] farming and treefarming needs to be more complex, q sorting is in fact not hard at all, and does not require any real decisions... Hopefully it will be fleshed out in the future (if the devs return).
