Which do you prefer: Organized or decorated?

I think there are main 2 kind of farms in this game. There are the "super deco beauty" ones, that have their machines, trees and animals all over the place, just to make it look good. Other kind of farms are the organized ones, where machines are close to each other, animals are close to each other, trees also.

So, what kind of farm you prefer to use? I personally prefer organized one, because it makes gameplay easier and more enjoyable. But still, I very often visit these "super deco beauty" farms and be like: " i would like to have a farm like that", but it will ruin my gameplay.

I'm in the "decorated" camp. I've set up my farm the way I'd like it to be in real life, with fruit trees and bushes used as decoration. I agree that organized rows of them would be easier to harvest, but symmetry isn't my middle name in any aspect of my life, so it translates over to my farm the same as it does in my RL landscape. :)

It does make it a bit more difficult to remember where to find the plants that need watering when it's time to put the signs up... :p

This is my farm
http://i.imgur.com/fGU0ONp.jpg

I'm definitely in the organized category, though I also try to make it nice. I like symmetry, and I definitely prefer an efficient farm.

I think I fall into the organised category and prefer to see my farm as if someone looking down on it would make sense of the layout and be able to move around it as in real life. I often see machines completely enclosed by hedges and I wonder if the farmer enjoys having to leap over the hedge to gain access! On that note, I would like to have some gates made available in the decor list.
I also sometimes see farms that are so cluttered you see machines barely peeping out of the undergrowth. How do they harvest and collect without problems? :D

I think I like a little of both. I'm mostly functional at the moment, but eventually would like to be both organized and decorated. :) I rearranged my farm this weekend (what a headache THAT was...never try doing that when you are sick and feeling icky, lol), but it's still mostly organized functional.

Agree with Donna, my brain can't process one without the other. For me decorating means it's pretty but also functional. With machines and animal pens all through out, you eventually get used to where everything is, so for me, it doesn't impede my game play. Also, I can never have too much space lol. With the next land expansion, which will probably be in 2018 lol, I'll add an orchard :).

I do wish we could store extra animal pens same way we store decorations. If I could have more space that way, I wouldn't mind losing the animals I paid for because I'm sure allowing us to sell them might get a little complicated.

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Originally Posted by Madge

I think I fall into the organised category and prefer to see my farm as if someone looking down on it would make sense of the layout and be able to move around it as in real life. I often see machines completely enclosed by hedges and I wonder if the farmer enjoys having to leap over the hedge to gain access! On that note, I would like to have some gates made available in the decor list.
I also sometimes see farms that are so cluttered you see machines barely peeping out of the undergrowth. How do they harvest and collect without problems? :D

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Madge, I'm exactly one of those who has a few machines completely covered by trees and shrubs. The hot pink candy machine, the sauce machine and the salad machine are three that would destroy the aesthetic of my farm if I allowed them to show. Oh, and that oversized blender called a smoothie machine too. I know where they are because I've left just a tiny bit of them showing, and their finished products sit on top of the greenery so I know when they're ready to harvest, but I just don't want that much machinery on my farm. At least not showing. ESPECIALLY that gaudy candy machine! :) I'm of the opposite camp that thinks farms with every single machine laid out with nothing surrounding them lack a certain kind of charm and are more for just production than..."living." But that's no big deal, to each his or her own, right? My favorites are the farms that look like homesteads with machines on them rather than professional production organizations. :)

And most of my machines ARE enclosed by hedges, too, or so it seems. It's just hard to see the tiny openings for getting in and out from the air. :D

Ella, your farm is LOVELY!!!

In a way I'm a bit of both. I'm organized in the sense that all my machines and animals are grouped together but that's just for convienience. I have very little decoration on my farm and instead I use the trees and bushes as decorations. They are all around my machines and animal pens and serve as a sort of wall all around my farm. I also have my crops all separate and that's for convienience and decoration. I don't like having one big plot because I harvest and plant things I don't want to and I just think it looks nicer that way. I designed my farm with aesthetics and convienience in mind.

I'm all for an organised farm! When I try and make things look decorative it doesn't look like everyone else's! To me an organised farm is more productive and easier to manage! Add me on GC and have a look if you wish!

I think I fall into both
i have a section of my farm that's organized and two separate areas that are for decorating only.

I'm organized, just a little ocd. Lol. I would live to have my farm decorated with trees every where but I can't.

Poorly organized and badly decorated. :p






hiding in shame...

I like a decorated organized farm. I like to see what people do with all the stuff they have accumulated. I don't like farms with everything scattered everywhere that make you hunt for where they need help.

Organized. I dont like it when it looks like you've just "thrown" a machine, bush or tree somewhere XD

Both! I tried to make my farm look realistic but also efficient to make my rounds. For example, I can wake up my pets by following an arc around the north side but they are placed to look nice with bushes & deco, not just a straight line.

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Originally Posted by Shealie54

Ella, your farm is LOVELY!!!

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Thank you:). Took all but shame and 68 levels later to finally make it look presentable lol. I don't like moving things too frequently so I wanted to wait until I couldn't wait anymore, and when the town was introduced, I knew there was no way I would have 2 busted looking areas lol, so it was time to fix up the farm.

I think im going to wait for the next update before I start decorating the town. That way, if we have new decorations, I could use those, plus it gives me more time to clear the parcels of land.

As I've been looking at other people's farms, I've realized that because we have fewer buildings, although most farms are very decorated, they equally look organized, so that's interesting to see.

I'm the same - I don't like moving things around and decorated my farm very slowly. I did do a nice setup with the waterfall and bridge in the town and it's going to be a huge pain to move because right now it's very nice a woodsy with lots of purchased trees and a few decorations. Oh well...I just couldn't stand all that yellow grass and had to inject some green into the scenery. :)

My farm is both but more decorated than organized. I love love LOVE decorating as you can see by how I decorated my farm. But I do have some organization in there. My animals are all together, my pets all together in one area, my plots in one area, my trees & bushes in (mostly) one area (I say mostly because I ran out of room to put them all together), as well as my machines, all in one (general) area. I would love to have everything organized better but limited room has my farm like it is now. But anyways I would say my farm is more decorated than organized even though i would prefer it be more of both than just more of one.

I think mine is both? I've gotta find the right placement for it to feel right to me. I admire the free flowing trees everywhere designs. So colorful and lively. But I can't seem to do it.

my machines match up by stone color/lack or stone. Animals close together. Same with crop plots and rows of trees/bushes. But I have a big backyard, a huge hedge maze, and other various spots all decked out.

Creator of the thread here.

After reading all these comments, I decided to go and mix both up, slowly. At the moment im only at level 36 (i have played at this account for about a month) and I dont care about it too much. Right now my farm is kind of organized with machines and animals close to each other, and I dont have much trees and bushes at the moment. I will buy deco/ trees and bushes Slooooowly to my farm while levelling up now. Still want to keep my animals and machines close. Good luck me :)!

Super efficient and organised..!! I can check what needs doing and where in about two minutes..!! Being a left hander makes a world difference, lol. It totally affects and dictates the layout.

John.

Definitely organized.

My farm is a huge pile of machines right in the middle of the log-in screen with dairy and sugar closest so I can check and top up all my machines within seconds. Ditto with Barn and Silo. Next closest are my Rubix Cube of farm animals and my geometrically unaesthetic farm patch.

After that, it's just wall to wall trees and bushes. I added in a frog statue, but I still don't like decorations too much.

We keep our farm organized so we can change up our fields to spell words, make images, or be part of a story. Having everything organized makes things easy to move when we need more room for our field arts. BUT -- we LOVE visiting the highly decorated farms like Shealie's -- we are not artistic enough to design farms like those, but we do greatly enjoy their beauty. :)

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Originally Posted by Wietse

This is my farm
http://i.imgur.com/fGU0ONp.jpg

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Oh my gosh I love your farm it's absolutely beautiful and everything has it's own little place. :) I am just starting to hoard the materials for the expansions for a much bigger area than from what I have now. But right now I have my farming fields as a game of Tetris because it's something different and I love Tetris, it's fun.

My farm is organized with everything in straight lines. On the other hand though my town is 100% decoration. I enjoy decorating the town but I'm incredibly OCD with my farm to the point that everything in the barn is even numbers or one goes in the rss.

I prefer organised. I like to be able to access all my machines without having to move to different parts of the farm. Same goes for trees and animals.

my farm is extremely efficient and organized for what i sell in the roadshop. granted i am only level 21.
i love organization so i can't decorate too much

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

We keep our farm organized so we can change up our fields to spell words, make images, or be part of a story. Having everything organized makes things easy to move when we need more room for our field arts. BUT -- we LOVE visiting the highly decorated farms like Shealie's -- we are not artistic enough to design farms like those, but we do greatly enjoy their beauty. :)

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Awwww...thank you!! My second farm will NOT be decorated like the first one - it's going to be a utility farm and I might even do a couple of straight rows here and there, though straight and I don't usually get along. Just ask my frizzy, curly hair. :p As it is, I just bought 3000 coins worth of apple trees and tucked them in here and there around all the trees and rocks that also will be left alone as much as possible. Can't wait 'til they all bloom at once. I'll surely be saving the saws and axes from here on out rather than selling them when I have more than 25 like I used to. :D

I'm definitely in the Organized camp.
Although I don't have a lot of stuff yet so I haven't hit my stride concerning how to organize it best. Feed mills next to pastures etc.
its not even in me to buy decor.

How do you guys use trees and bushes as a decoration? For those who say they do, how? Is your farm totally stuffed with them and you cant find and empty space, so you farm looks "full and productive" or do you have just some threes here and there to make it look nice?

Stuffed ones have bad/good sides, but i really like the farms with ALOT trees in their farms and almost no empty space, that makes them really look productive and somehow cool :D.