Mini/secondary farms

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Originally Posted by GladeMaid

Interesting thread. I borrowed an iPad Air2 before Christmas to test it. I still have it. Naturally what I wanted to test most was whether it was too big to play HD comfortably. So, I started a new farm on the borrowed device. The new farm is now level 36, has everything except the town and, rather than feeding my main farm, I am finding the reverse happens - my main farm is supplementing the growth of my new farm. I am really enjoying growing the new farm, but it is soooo much harder than when I started my main farm 3 years ago. Even as an experienced farmer, I find it a struggle. If I wasn't constantly sending all my ems to the baby farm and filling it's boat orders for dairy and sugar products, it would be limping along, strangled by a too small barn and silo for the number of crops and products at that level, and I haven't even bought all the animals. My cubby mates have also been very generous.

So - since day one, my baby farm has actually been draining resources from my main farm, rather than feeding it. I hope one day soon it will be big enough to stand alone, but for now, I'm loving watching it grow.

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I guess not everyone has the same reasons for maintaining a second farm. Mine is a feeder farm, pure & simple. It supports my main farm, not the other way around. The exception is expansion parts. Land expansion of the feeder farm doesn't matter because it's not related to the goods produced. But, I used the main farm's expansion supplies to quickly open all the fishing spots on the feeder farm in order to get more fish.

As such, the boat dock and train platform have not been repaired. Trucks & visitors are ignored. The finished goods all go to the main farm where they're either used or sold for a profit.

Doing it this way (no town, boat, truck) means that leveling up is a slow process. But, the goods are my priority, not a high level feeder farm. It'll soon hit level 44, which means lobsters. :caticon:

I have bought diamonds on the feeder farm, but only use them for additional machine slots.

I just started a mini farm on my iPad that I got for Christmas so thanks for asking this! It is currently at level 32, waiting for 33 so I can start producing goat cheese! I have all the machines available to me at the moment and what I usually do is make dairy and sugars for my main farm and I also used Tom for the two free days to collect things like mining tools and produced goods. I let Tom linger a bit before I used him so I could level up and have more things available to ask him for, my goal was to wait until I could fetch diamond rings, but I couldn't resist any longer. :facepalm: I also collect SEMs and BEMs through wheating.

Edited to add- I have also done the derby on this baby farm and am now in the expert league, I have won 1st place each time, but it is rather time consuming and difficult to complete tasks with little resources, I have to sell back & forth to support it, but I have enjoyed the rewards, have gotten planks and other EMs. I also get movie tickets on this farm so that's fun, since my main farm never got that option. I am also expanding land and fishing areas just because LEMs are easy for me to find, and saving as many native trees and bushes since I nixed most of those on my main farm without knowing it would be a permanent thing. I am so jealous of those beautiful seasonal trees.

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Originally Posted by GraceLebo

I guess not everyone has the same reasons for maintaining a second farm. Mine is a feeder farm, pure & simple. It supports my main farm, not the other way around. The exception is expansion parts. Land expansion of the feeder farm doesn't matter because it's not related to the goods produced. But, I used the main farm's expansion supplies to quickly open all the fishing spots on the feeder farm in order to get more fish.

As such, the boat dock and train platform have not been repaired. Trucks & visitors are ignored. The finished goods all go to the main farm where they're either used or sold for a profit.

Doing it this way (no town, boat, truck) means that leveling up is a slow process. But, the goods are my priority, not a high level feeder farm. It'll soon hit level 44, which means lobsters. :caticon:

I have bought diamonds on the feeder farm, but only use them for additional machine slots.

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i don't want to work two farms, lol. Not enough hours in my day. If I can get high enough to make cream/sugar, that's cool. After purchasing slots, I like to keep my machines running. Very difficult to find enough sugar/dairy. It's nice on days we have no time or not inclined to play to have production continue.

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Originally Posted by Gertie777

Glade, do you wish to grow your new farm, abandoning your initial farm, at some point?

i will only go so far as dairy, purchase diamonds to get max sugar/dairy & I suppose synch Tom with my iPad/Tom!

i won't expand the barn or land.

later today, I'll go get my iPad from neighbor! Can't wait to see how far he is!

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Originally Posted by karliez

I just started a mini farm on my iPad that I got for Christmas so thanks for asking this! It is currently at level 32, waiting for 33 so I can start producing goat cheese! I have all the machines available to me at the moment and what I usually do is make dairy and sugars for my main farm and I also used Tom for the two free days to collect things like mining tools and produced goods. I let Tom linger a bit before I used him so I could level up and have more things available to ask him for, my goal was to wait until I could fetch diamond rings, but I couldn't resist any longer. :facepalm: I also collect SEMs and BEMs through wheating.

Edited to add- I have also done the derby on this baby farm and am now in the expert league, I have won 1st place each time, but it is rather time consuming and difficult to complete tasks with little resources, I have to sell back & forth to support it, but I have enjoyed the rewards, have gotten planks and other EMs. I also get movie tickets on this farm so that's fun, since my main farm never got that option. I am also expanding land and fishing areas just because LEMs are easy for me to find, and saving as many native trees and bushes since I nixed most of those on my main farm without knowing it would be a permanent thing. I am so jealous of those beautiful seasonal trees.

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No, Gertie. I originally thought the new farm was just a tester, and thought I would have to abandon it when I gave the Air 2 back, but now I have my own Air 2 (Thank you, Santa) so can now run two farms, as I can now run my memory hungry other game and my original farm on that and my new farm on my old Mini with a new Apple ID. Both are linked to GC, share my NH and some very good friends. It is now level 37 and can have a horse!

I love the farming experience, and the fun of having something to work towards, which my main farm no longer has at level 109. With the experience of my old farm to fall back on, I am avoiding past mistakes, and, by sending all axes and saws to the main farm as soon as I get them, have not cut down a single tree yet, though I will admit to blowing up a couple of impossible rocks. My goal is to see if I can bring my farm up to adulthood without losing a single native tree.

Like Karliez, this farm gets movie tickets, which my old farm never did. Like Karliez, it just participated in it's first derby, thanks to the glitch that opted farms in without their owner's knowledge. I didn't realize it was in the derby for a couple of days, but managed to do all 9 tasks AND 50 trucks for the event on both farms AND we won, so we are back in the Champion's League. It's just great to be absorbed by the challenge of moving through the levels again, as I was getting a bit bored on the main farm.

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Originally Posted by Gertie777

heres the problem one has after appx 150ish, truck orders are impossible, for most part, to fulfill. I have 2/23 cookie orders & a 40 something juice order on my truck board. Now, what's the chance I can buy 46 cookies? Lol. So, I mainly rack xp by helping boat crates.

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I was wondering: do you think it's the level that's the main issue or barn size? I can see my farm getting to 150 without having a barn that large and it seems to me that the game would sooner factor barn size in calculating order numbers, than mere level. What do you think?

...monster truck/boat orders or no, I would love to have a massive barn.

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Originally Posted by BostonGirl

I was wondering: do you think it's the level that's the main issue or barn size? I can see my farm getting to 150 without having a barn that large and it seems to me that the game would sooner factor barn size in calculating order numbers, than mere level. What do you think?

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I dont know, I will propose this to Stan, he's avidly enlarging his ran at record speed.
i'm inclined to think its the level.
Last order, 67 bacon, BF that 34 goat milk. Both easily found, thankfully!
focused more on my town today.

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Originally Posted by Tiggerr129

KG my new iPad used to tell me all the time I was out of space and only Hayday was on it. What I did was hook it up to my Mac and open iTunes. Near the bottom of the proper screen is a bar that tells you how much of your device is apps, music, movies etc. I had a huge amount of something called OTHER. I though that was the operating system but I was wrong. After doing some research, I found out the only way to get rid of the other was to back everything up and then restore the iPad to factory settings. It's scary but it was the only thing that got rid of over 8gb of garbage. Then you can sync your device to restore your stuff. I don't have any problems any more. So I would check that out. And then maybe do a search for "how to remove other files from ipad. I had never synced this iPad and that may have been why it developed so much garbage I don't know. But my new iPad only has 16 GB on it and it was over half filled with the mysterious other files. Good luck

Tigg

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Thanks for providing this info, Tigg, but first, I don't have a MAC, so I'm sure everything would be different when hooking it up to my computer.

Second, I don't have anything, anywhere, that indicates OTHER, as far as I can see. It's simply a matter of all the memory being used up by the apps currently on the device.

I was thinking this morning about starting a new farm on my old tablet and realized that if I did that, since I would need to create a new GC ID, I then wouldn't be able to reload the kids games and be able to unlock the items I had previously purchased for them. So, I guess I won't start a 2nd farm.

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Originally Posted by knitgal2

Thanks for providing this info, Tigg, but first, I don't have a MAC, so I'm sure everything would be different when hooking it up to my computer.

Second, I don't have anything, anywhere, that indicates OTHER, as far as I can see. It's simply a matter of all the memory being used up by the apps currently on the device.

I was thinking this morning about starting a new farm on my old tablet and realized that if I did that, since I would need to create a new GC ID, I then wouldn't be able to reload the kids games and be able to unlock the items I had previously purchased for them. So, I guess I won't start a 2nd farm.

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You goof. You don't need a Mac. You can sync with a PC too. But if you don't see the OTHER files, then that won't help. However you can have a farm with a different Game Center ID and still use your primary Apple ID for the other games. My primary Apple ID is the one linked to my funds so I can buy songs for instance on my new IPad. But the new ID doesn't have any funds linked to it so I couldn't buy diamonds on my new farm if I wanted to. I tried to link it to a gift card but it doesn't like it unless I do it from my computer and I just never got around to it. It's really weird.

Lol, I feel like everyone already has a good mini/feeder farm!
And, I've had an extra iPad stored away!
upgraded to iPad Air recently leaving me with two stored iPads! They could have been in production!