Lets get this straight what does a 'FARMER' means?

[Jiggy82]

A farmer simply is a player who places a higher value on the efficient accumulation loot than on trophies.

Farmers now populate every league from sub 200 to champ.

TH inside/outside does not determine if somebody is a farmer, though since farmers will value loot more than trophies most will choose to take advantage of the cheap shield, but not all will play this way.

[MightyJang]

There are basically two purposes when you start a raid:

1. To gain as much loot as possible. This is called farming and you are a farmer. You don't really care if you win or lose as long as you get lots of loot.
2. To gain as much trophy as possible. This is called trophy hunting and you are a trophy hunter. Your main target is the enemy's TH and going up in trophy ranking. Getting loot in the process is a nice-to-have. TH snipers are example of this.

Sitting and waiting for collectors are not farming, that's called lazy. Also having a "farming" base does not make you a farmer; it just means you have a base type that prioritizes on resource protection.

[Jiggy82]

If you aren't farming, you don't have much resources. Why do you need a shield if you don't have any loot to protect?

In CoC, you are either Farming or Pushing.... or inactive.

If you are active, you are doing one of the two things above. If you have your TH exposed, you are not pushing as every trophy counts. Farmers may opt to keep their TH protected, but you do not expose your TH if you are pushing.

You hardly see exposed THs in higher leagues....

I have to disagree on the bolded point. My clan just finished a push and I made it up to just below 3400 trophies with my TH inside, I even won quite a few defenses, but I found that I was mostly attacked by people below me in trophy count, resulting in an average trophy loss for a failed defense of about 6 trophies.

Once the push ended I decided to stay and try to farm up here, as did some of my clanmates. Since then I have left my TH exposed and the result has been surprising for me. 9 out of 10 defenses are now a snipe from somebody up around 4k trophies, giving me a typical loss of 1 trophy on defense.

So assuming somebody in champ is not winning a significant number of defenses, one will typically loose fewer trophies overall by leaving your TH out for a cheap shield rather than trying to defend, not to mention you get to keep all your loot safe too.

Also, the reason you don't see many exposed TH's in higher leagues is because nobody will pass up a free loot bonus in the higher leagues, so any base with an exposed TH will always be hit by the first person who sees it, takes less than 60 seconds for me to get sniped in champs.

[Gama321]

An individual whose primaryjob function involves livestock and/or agriculture. A farmer takes all the necessary steps to ensure proper nourishment of the items that he/she raises and then sells the items to purchasers. Some farmers have been able to capitalize on the need for high-demand products that they produce, such as organic vegetables and livestock.

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Beat me to it

But seriously a farmer is someone who raids for resources. Having outside TH to protect resources is what farmers typically do, but the two are unrelated. Someone pushing who would rather be one starred instead of two starred and puts th outside cannot be described as a farmer for example.

[Ali7861]

Old McDonalds had a farm...
A farmer is a person who goes to a trophy range which is comfortable for them to get a lot of loot. A farmer uses cheap strategies like loonions, giant healer, or barch. They usually keep their TH outside to get a shield to not get attacked and lose their hard earned loot by another farmer.

[TheConfuzed1]

Farming can be done at any trophy range, with your town hall protected or not, with any troops.

Farming is simply, prioritizing loot over trophies. For example, if all you care about is DE, you may build a 300k army, and still be considered a farmer, if you use it to take 5k DE, with or without winning the battle.

Farming does not have to mean dropping trophies, preying on the weak, or only using cheap armies. Those are all different styles of play, but depending on the situation, they can all be part of a farming strategy. On the flip side, a farming strategy may also involve none of those techniques.

[victort]

Beat me to it

But seriously a farmer is someone who raids for resources. Having outside TH to protect resources is what farmers typically do, but the two are unrelated. Someone pushing who would rather be one starred instead of two starred and puts th outside cannot be described as a farmer for example.

could they be said to be farming their trophies .......... seed afew to the snipers, so you keep most of your harvest.......






/sorry

[Gama321]

Old McDonalds had a farm...
A farmer is a person who goes to a trophy range which is comfortable for them to get a lot of loot. A farmer uses cheap strategies like loonions, giant healer, or barch. They usually keep their TH outside to get a shield to not get attacked and lose their hard earned loot by another farmer.

Not really, a person who gems resources and tries to farm with gowipe in bronze league and is making a loss can still be described as a farmer in my opinion. Just not the best farmer out there

[TheConfuzed1]

Not really, a person who gems resources and tries to farm with gowipe in bronze league and is making a loss can still be described as a farmer in my opinion. Just not the best farmer out there

If they are gemming their resources, and losing resources battling, they are not farmers. They are gemmers.

[Gama321]

If they are gemming their resources, and losing resources battling, they are not farmers. They are gemmers.

I don't see the two as mutually exclusive. In my eyes anyone who raids for resources is a farmer even if they end up in a loss. Some people farm with loons and spells and use more elixir than they gain sometimes, are you saying that they aren't farmers either?