While I appreciate the option to eventually add a third farm, I too think the 30 neighbours requirement is a bit excessive, especially given that the highest neighbours trophy only needs twenty; and, yes, I too read the original third farm announcement as it is written as only requiring 30 for the initial purchase, thus allowing someone who bought the 12x12 third farm with Farm Cash to go ahead and upgrade it with coins without the need for 30 neighbours. So, no, the 30 neighbours requirement for the upgrades of the third farm wasn't clear or obvious at all.
I also feel that some posters here are dismissing legitimate concerns regarding adding strangers as neighbours. While I'm quite familiar with the process of setting up a limited-access list, I've searched Facebook's privacy settings thoroughly and can not find any setting to exclude a particular group of friends from seeing who else is on your overall friends list. I suspect many people on Facebook, especially those who have only recently joined and have still yet to find all their real-life friends' accounts, have postings, privacy information, etc. set up to "Friends of friends" to make it easier for actual friends to find them, under the belief that their friends won't have people who are essentially strangers on their respective friends lists. While some might say they should have known better, I don't think that's appropriate. Nor have I seen a means for a user to change the privacy settings of an existing wall posting (when they realize that people are reading it who they might not want to), other than removing and reposting it. And it can have trouble the other way too - what might be the result when actual friends see the game people on your friends list, or if those game people post something that thus shows up on your wall, that your friends might not find appropriate (even if you're fine with it)?
I'm not saying that people might decide these things are acceptable, or that people haven't in fact created new friendships from people they met as neighbours on Farm Town. I'm just saying that the methods for limiting aren't quite the panacea they've been made out to be, and still leave things that can be a significant enough concern to exclude them from consideration for certain users (not necessarily myself, but other reasonable people).
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