No Farm from the beginning?

[RovertYU]

Just played for half hour due to work next day.
I cannot find the farm~~ Locked?
I really like to build the farm first, then change to small city, then large city.

 

[nhgrif]

At 700 population you unlock Districts (which you need before you can have specialized industry), and the specialized industries of Forestry and Agriculture.

 

[Aytumious]

Yeah. That is a little odd honestly.

 

[EvilTom]

Yeah. That is a little odd honestly.

Yes, but apparently the unlocks are one time only (they can be reset) for the entire game and not save. So once you've unlocked farming on one map you can have it from the start in a new map. It just meant to introduce a concept at a time to you, without overwhelming you.

When built my first town I built it straight on top of the agricultural land without knowing it was there as the infoview was not unlocked. A little annoying, but when you understand it's just like a tutorial it's not so bad. I have restartitis and will start again soon.

 

[Socca]

Yes, but apparently the unlocks are one time only (they can be reset) for the entire game and not save. So once you've unlocked farming on one map you can have it from the start in a new map. It just meant to introduce a concept at a time to you, without overwhelming you.

When built my first town I built it straight on top of the agricultural land without knowing it was there as the infoview was not unlocked. A little annoying, but when you understand it's just like a tutorial it's not so bad. I have restartitis and will start again soon.

That's not how it works, mate. What you mean just counts for the unique buildings!

 

[EvilTom]

That's not how it works, mate. What you mean just counts for the unique buildings!

Really? I retract my comment and apologise then. :S. I haven't tested it, so that's why I said apparently. I obviously just got the wrong end of a stick somewhere.

 

[Inge Jones]

I took Karoliina's advice to me to start off without sandbox mode, but the unlocking system is really interfering with the way I want to play, so I think I will use sandbox from now on. I think as long as the money is available you should be able to have whatever the facility is.

 

[EvilTom]

I took Karoliina's advice to me to start off without sandbox mode, but the unlocking system is really interfering with the way I want to play, so I think I will use sandbox from now on. I think as long as the money is available you should be able to have whatever the facility is.

I didn't look for sandbox mode. Does it allow for unlimited money? I still want the financial challenges, I just want to know what resource I'm zoning on top of so I can plan early on, rather than after a few people move in.

 

[Inge Jones]

There is a seperate mod for unlimited money, which is quite nice as you can play sandbox without actually cheating.

 

[TheSutekh]

Nevermind!

 

[Shiggs]

when you are on the districts tab, there will be buttons for farming, ore, oil, forestry, or no specialization, and the paint district, remove district buttons too.

Just click the farming button, then click on the district.

 

[JsonGold]

Does seem weird to lock farming when farming predates cities. I too have wanted to get some farms going and a nice little town without having to start with dirty industry.

 

[TheeLord]

yup, it's a shame we can't have proper farms in this game. This is how I like to build my cities always in SC4.

 

[AmpsterMan]

I'll agree here too; farms and lumber should be available from the start. They employ all of your uneducated people in the beginning.