Sickle to harvest only 1 type of crop

lets say i have a few types of crops planted next to each other, sometimes i dont want to harvest all of them rightaway, i only want to collect, say, the wheat. but when the sickle icon is activated, it harvests all the crops. why cant you make it like the berry/fruit basket? the basket only collects 1 type of fruit/berry. means if you're harvesting cocoa, you move the basket over the coffee bush and nothing happens. please do the same for the sickle. i plant lots of tomatoes and indigo for decorations and dont want to harvest them but i find myself always accidentally swiping them when i collect other crops.

Interesting idea. Since I have an iPad harvesting other crops isn't a big problem because I make my farm larger so the sickle is small and only yields the crop I want. But I can see how that would be a problem for a small screen.

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Originally Posted by BrightSunnyDay

Interesting idea. Since I have an iPad harvesting other crops isn't a big problem because I make my farm larger so the sickle is small and only yields the crop I want. But I can see how that would be a problem for a small screen.

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i play on ipad too, maybe my fingers are too fat lol

the indigo is only for decor but i always harvest it accidentally when i collect the wheat so i need to be really careful!

http://i.imgur.com/V7nfYS3.jpg

Tip: use 2 fingers (2 touches simultaneously).

Put two fingers down on wheat land and swipe. Or better, keep one finger in place (on a land), use the other to touch/swipe every lands you want to harvest.

using two fingers do not show the sickle but if your fingers touched the other crops, they will still be harvested. in fact i think two fingers on the screen is even clumsier than one. i want it to be like the fruit basket where you can only harvest 1 type at a time.

Maybe I did not explain well. Use a second finger help me to be more precise and choose the land I want to harvest. The moment you touch the sickle, any land "under the sickle" is harvested. And it never be the land on which you place your finger.

I love the way it works now, if I were to plan 10 types of crop and have to choose the sickle 10 times I would be mad :rolleyes:. Crop time is way shorter hence harvested more often than fruit.

yea the majority always wins i guess. im the minority who uses crops to decorate my farm. i know SC would probably not heed my suggestion but we/i can always hope. you have a point about 10 sickles being a hassle but i thought maybe a balance or something inbetween would be nice lol

DanielHan, it was great to see your farm!! Thanks for the peek!

One solution to the great sickle debate might be to have a tap/double tap option like there is in Word formatting. If you tap on a crop, the sickle would only harvest that crop. If you tap twice, it would keep mowing stuff down until you tapped the sickle to end the harvest.

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Originally Posted by DanielHan

i play on ipad too, maybe my fingers are too fat lol

the indigo is only for decor but i always harvest it accidentally when i collect the wheat so i need to be really careful!

http://i.imgur.com/V7nfYS3.jpg

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U could relocate ur farming fields away from the decorating fields

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Originally Posted by Tejkiran

U could relocate ur farming fields away from the decorating fields

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haha im lazy! my farm is so filled with things. maybe one day, when im in the mood for an overhaul lol

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

DanielHan, it was great to see your farm!! Thanks for the peek!

One solution to the great sickle debate might be to have a tap/double tap option like there is in Word formatting. If you tap on a crop, the sickle would only harvest that crop. If you tap twice, it would keep mowing stuff down until you tapped the sickle to end the harvest.

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would love to be neighbors, if you're ok with it :D

I have mentioned this before but I always use a stylus with my ipad and I can't imagine going back to using fingers. A stylus is so much more precise and I never accidentally spend diamonds as others report doing, neither do I need to enlarge my screen for the purpose of harvesting. My crops are all grown together in a block formation and its easy to single out any distinct type from the others.
That being said, I do think the op makes a good point. :)