Sim Farm

Sim Farm is a business simulation company Maxis, which simulates the structure and management of a farm. It is part of the Sim series, which has become especially well known for the Sim City games. It was released in 1993 for MS- DOS and Windows and 1994 for Mac OS. The designers were Eric Albers and Michael Perry.

Gameplay and construction

Aim of the game

The aim of the game is to build your own farm, to expand and make money with it. You start with a farm, which was built on the 3 × 3 plots. In addition to the initial capital of $ 40,000, and the main building has nothing further.

Basic Procedure

There are two main variants in Sim farm to make money, you should initially focus on one of the two variants. Since it generates faster gains with agriculture, this is preferable to the livestock. So one begins as optimally as possible to till the existing space with fields, barns, trails and silos. In addition, it borrows still more tractors, combines, trucks and equipment, as well as seeds and fertilizer, etc. A combine harvester is not required for each crop, so you can omit it under certain circumstances. Is this created everything, it depends on the weather and soil conditions of the card, if you still creates a irrigation or drainage system or trees planted as wind erosion protection.

Country

Basis of all economic activity in Sim Farm is the land. Then all the buildings, fields and other facilities to be built. The country is divided into small square chunks (consisting of 3 × 3 small square fields ). At the beginning of budding farmer has an area of ​​4 × 4 plots available to do the first steps.

City

The farmer is on a Sim Farm card not alone, but he shares the space with a to a parcel growing from year to year, city. With each expansion of the city, the player can decide what is to be built in the new district. He has the choice between airport, residential area, amusement park, commercial and industrial area.

Of the buildings of the city has no practical use, except the airport. From this one can see with a purchased aircraft in a short time large areas with pesticides, herbicides or fungicides supply ( not only with fertilizer). This saves large farms awful lot of time and money, as a charge for the aircraft costs less than the corresponding number of barrels that would be required to spray the fields.

In addition, the city still act as a market for the agricultural products.

Building / fixed installation

• Hof / main building
• Barn ( large / small )
• Stable (large / small)
• Silo (large / small)
• Field & road ( paved trail, or possibly one or the other lane )
• Windmill & Pump
• Moat & valve
• Water trough & feed bales
• Fence & Gates

Machinery and vehicles

• Tractors

• Combine harvester

• Truck

• Plow

• Drill

• Syringe

• Aircraft

Agriculture

Agriculture is to earn at Sim Farm ' the most profitable way of money. These can be seen on the fields grow different crops and sell after the harvest. There are basically two types of plants. The one way you have only one plant and you can harvest them for years to come time and again, the other must be reseeded every year.

The first variant include oranges, apples and wine. The second variant includes, for example strawberries, wheat, corn and peanuts.

Cattle breeding

Livestock breeding is to achieve the second option money, but sometimes it takes here a very long time until you can record a profit for the first time, bred by selling animals. You can choose between horses, cows, pigs and sheep.