Moving stuff around - annoyances

Does it drive anyone else mad that it's so easy to accidentally move stuff around? Almost every time I zoom in or out, I send some tree or bit of hedge skittering off towards the cliff, and half the time when you scroll sideways you end up taking a piece of land or something with you.

It's not too bad if you've got a very full farm and you're unlikely to drop the stuff anywhere, but if you've got spaces then it's really irritating.

I also find it incredibly difficult to deliberately move items that are closely spaced, because the area you tap (I'm going to call it the hot area) doesn't seem as straightforward as the outline of the object. For instance I've got a tree that I can't shift because it's behind one of the original trees and tapping the top of it has no effect at all.

In addition, the 'hot area' for the farmhouse seems way wider than the house itself.

Technically this should probably go in Feature Requests, but I wanted to see if it annoyed other people as well (and General gets more traffic...)

Yup, annoys me too. So does the screen moving when you don't want it to. You get it all nicely centred so that everything is in view ready to plant (or milk, or whatever), then you start your business and the dratted screen zooms to default or shifts over just that bit too far so that you can't complete your task without stopping and moving the screen back. Similarly when moving things around, the item gets just to where you want it and just as you let go the bl**dy screen moves, the item goes red and you get the 'no space here' message. Worse is when you've trekked the item from one side of the farm to the other and it goes back to where it first was. Grrrrrrrr!

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Originally Posted by LadyDawnD

Yup, annoys me too. So does the screen moving when you don't want it to. You get it all nicely centred so that everything is in view ready to plant (or milk, or whatever), then you start your business and the dratted screen zooms to default or shifts over just that bit too far so that you can't complete your task without stopping and moving the screen back. Similarly when moving things around, the item gets just to where you want it and just as you let go the bl**dy screen moves, the item goes red and you get the 'no space here' message. Worse is when you've trekked the item from one side of the farm to the other and it goes back to where it first was. Grrrrrrrr!

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Yep! It needs to drift less, or maybe they need to narrow the margins where dragging activates screen movement. Both I suspect. I recently reorganised and I'm happy that I did it now, but it wasn't good for my blood pressure. Particularly the trees.

I'd love a 'move mode' - ideally one that takes the whole screen into outlines.

I'm still in the mooving around stage after removing Christmas stuff and getting two new machines so my blood pressure is still elevated.

I'd like a block/move facility for when you get an area just nice but would like to see what it's like elsewhere.

Also, maybe an undo button for when you put something in a place to see how it looks but preferred it where it was originally.

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Originally Posted by LadyDawnD

I'm still in the mooving around stage

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Is that meant as a pun? If it is it's a good one!

a preview button is a good idea, I for one get annoyed with the screen moving around or objects moving! sometimes the object gets stuck to my stylus pen!

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Originally Posted by MisterTEZ

Is that meant as a pun? If it is it's a good one!

a preview button is a good idea, I for one get annoyed with the screen moving around or objects moving! sometimes the object gets stuck to my stylus pen!

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Ta! Yes, it was a bit of a play on spelling. I've used that in my farm title quite often when shifting stuff about as I don't want people to think my farm is a haphazard mess by design. It's still not right yet but I'm working on it.

I use a stylus rather than my finger. This seems to decrease accidental movements. I use the kind with a mesh tip.

I usually when im out of saws and axes move my busheas and trees to lower corner but yea i usually need to move it in 2 steppes so if i loose my grip it dont go back all the way...

[QUOTE=Velcro;1282393]For instance I've got a tree that I can't shift because it's behind one of the original trees and tapping the top of it has no effect


I don't know how you play on anything smaller than an iPad,I get fat finger disease as it is. I find the 'hot area' (great name) is always at the bottom even if there is something else in front.

Totally agree that some of the visitors wait too close to the farmhouse.

Yes I agree. I believe we should have the option to select a certain area and move it to where we want so we don't have to move everything piece by piece. It's very time consuming & annoying!!!

I rarely move around stuff on my farm.

The one thing I don't like is having to move the crop plots one...by...one. Annoying. would love to see a feature (and I may post it lol) where you can bulk move things like the crop squares/plots.