Farming games

[Delaney Andrew]

Hello! I've been looking around for farming games to play and came across quite a few. I want to know if you have any thoughts/opinions? DFS, Life2, G&S, Aura... 

[So Whimsy]

I'm actually interested, too. Though only so far checked out the DFS website. It sounded pretty nice RP wise...until I saw them offering lunchbox products with copyrighted images on them (smurfs for example). That's a huge NO from me and immediately made me stop looking further into it. As nice and thought out as their system seems I would never want to support copyright theft in any way.

I have to go offline for a bit, but after I'll be checking out those other three.

[Callum Meriman]

12 hours ago, Syn Anatine said:

.until I saw them offering lunchbox products with copyrighted images on them (smurfs for example). That's a huge NO from me and immediately made me stop looking further into it.

They even left the (C) on it.

[So Whimsy]

6 hours ago, Callum Meriman said:

They even left the (C) on it.

 

Quite honestly, I was surprised as hell to find that there. Until then all I had seen was a well though out system and original works, I wonder what on earth possessed them to go down that route. It seemed so out of place and quite frankly, I would have at least tried it out and spent a little L on it but not when they do this. 

[kira Alena]

Hey there,

check out http://needssl.net/

Its focused on farming, and uses those materials to cook your own items. Its pretty new.

[Callum Meriman]

I find this ironic

Yes, it's a tech pun.

 

However, joke aside, public scripted-daiper like games are not something everyone in SL enjoys. For their comfort I would estate ban someone using this system on my land. Especially if it spams green text with the pee particles.

Edited September 8, 2018 by Callum Meriman

[Magnek Fang]

I wanted to try Needs, but the HUD alone was 950 smackeroos. I was wondering if you can turn the bladder off like I did with Xeolife.

(Incidentially, that just got farming. Me, I got the systeem because it's free and you don't have to spend into it.)

[Whiteangel Falconvale]

WIth the lunch box thing, Only one set of the lunchboxes have actual characters on them, and also remember there is also CC (creative commons). The DFS team would Never look to break copyright infringement. And the great thing, is you dont have to use those lunch boxes (they have three different lunchbox gacha's so you dont have to get ones your uncomfortable with getting)

With that said, I have done [Life2] and I currently do DFS. I  was with [Life2] For over two years, and with DFS for a year and a half. Honestly, with [Life2] it can be a huge sinkhole. You have to constantly buy your seeds and they get really expensive. Reselling the goods will net you pennies compared to what you spend. And that is just on the cooking/farming. You will still need to tend to all your needs which require certain furniture and more L's spent. And not to mention the creative team is dead in the water (Their last release was in March and I can tell you from experience that the players are still waiting for things years late like medical, fishing and such) 

With DFS, you have your startup costs, getting fields, animals and such! You can buy a lot of what you want from players and once you find what you want to do within dfs, you can have a self-sufficient farm. And the only thing you have to worry about is EP (Energy points) which you cook the items you grow to refill that. The team is amazing to talk to and work with, and are constantly bringing new things to the system for us to play with. And we have a great community of people. If you would like to take a look at how to use DFS I have made some video tutorials. 

Or you can feel free to shoot me an im in world. 

[Callum Meriman]

13 hours ago, Whiteangel Falconvale said:

WIth the lunch box thing, Only one set of the lunchboxes have actual characters on them, and also remember there is also CC (creative commons). The DFS team would Never look to break copyright infringement. And the great thing, is you dont have to use those lunch boxes (they have three different lunchbox gacha's so you dont have to get ones your uncomfortable with getting)

No apologies, no "we made a mistake and cleaned it up", just a statement "if you don't like it buy our other ones instead"

Look, it has nothing to do with "comfort". It's about that creator clearly using someone else's Copyright without authorisation (and making money from it). That is quite simply not about making customers feel uncomfortable, that is IP violation and theft.

I actually wonder how the creators of that system would feel about copybotters stealing their items... because using the Smurfs like they did is 100% the same.

 

Edited October 15, 2018 by Callum Meriman

[Wili Clip]

Try farming worms. It is not just a farming game but a trading system in itself. After you grow worms you can ether use them to fish L$ with them or sell them to fishers.

http://www.goldtokens.net/games/farm-frenzy

[Kyrah Abattoir]

Is there any of those that doesn't have a shady/dubious marketing model? Buy once and own forever kind of deal, instead of "get stung forever with microtransactions".