What is a Super Neighbour?
The main purpose for having a Super Neighbour is to allow you to select one (or may be a few) Neighbours that will be permanently hired to work your farms when you go on vacation or have to be absent from the game for a while.
A Super Neighbour will be able to access any of your farms that are not set as Private, at any time, to work them without the need for you to be present.
As well as regular farm work there are additional permissions you can set for them, like planting, designing a specific farm for you, train management if needed. There are some limitations on tool usage when designing and when watering/irrigation farms.
You can also make use of the Super-Neighbour Manager to set some crops that you want planted on a per farm basis.
The Super Neighbors Limit is based on Neighbours ID's. Approximately 20 Super Neighbors should be fine. If you try to add a super neighbour and have run out of room to add any more you should see a popup informing you of that.
You will likely often see farmers refer to Super-Neighbours as SNs.
If you choose to make a neighbor a super Neighbor, please make sure that you communicate with them exactly what it is you want them to do, especially if you are allowing them to use your coins. We have seen many complaints that SN's are doing what they want with the farms and NOT what the farm owner wants done!
How do I make a neighbour a Super Neighbour?
Click on your Neighbours picture in the panel at the bottom of your game screen.
Then click on
Set as Super-Neighbour.
You can set various permissions which can allow your super-neighbour to do things like work your farms that are not Private, design a farm, manage trains.
It is entirely up to you what permissions you give to a super-neighbour.
in this example all options are checked.
When you have made your selections click the green check mark to save the change. Click the red x to cancel the change.
Super Neighbours can use their own tools or your tools if they are in storage.
Remember the bigger tools except for the tools that can ONLY plow, will require Fuel to use them.
They will see those tools in the Toolbox or in the game bar at the bottom of the game screen, if they have some placed as Shortcuts.
They will ONLY be able to use the tools related to the permissions you gave them.
Permanently hired for farming:
These permissions will allow your neighbour to harvest/plow/chop/shake trees/harvest flowers and fish using their own tools or yours. Add a check mark for "Permanently hired for farming" and then add a check mark for each of the jobs you would like your Super Neighbour to do.
The different options mean that you could set different super-neighbours to work on different items.
When you have made your selections remember to click the green check mark to save the change. Click the red x to cancel the change.
If you own the manure spreaders, they will be able to Fertilize your farms for you.
If you own the Mobile sprinklers for Watering Flowers or for Irrigating they will be able to do those jobs for you.
There are Exceptions when you set your farm with different farm level permissions, for watering of flowers:
ONLY set as a Quest Farm. - No-one can use the mobile sprinklers or the watering can on that farm except yourself.
- Super Neighbours and Hired workers can only harvest flowers that have not died.
- Remember that you have to harvest the animals on that farm manually as the Harvest All at the top of the Facility Manager will not harvest animals on farms set as Quest Farms.
ONLY set as Other farmers can not water flowers - You, your Super Neighbours with the harvest flowers permission and workers hired to harvest the flowers on that farm can water the flowers.
- You and Super Neighbours can Irrigate.
- Workers hired to harvest flowers on that farm can water and harvest the flowers.
ONLY set for Disable Super Neighbour Farming AND Other farmers can not water flowers
- Super Neighbours can NOT work that farm and can not harvest the flowers, but they CAN irrigate. If there are NO crops planted on the farm to irrigate they can not irrigate the flowers. If there are crops to irrigate on the farm when they irrigate they also shorten the flower growth time but it does not water the flowers.
- Workers hired to harvest flowers on that farm can water and harvest the flowers.
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The Allow Planting option will allow them to plant your fields with any crop that your game level allows using your coins.
If the Farm Owner has designated a specific crop or specific type of crop, to plant on a specific farm or farms a Super Neighbour can ONLY plant those crops. How to set farms to specific crops will be explained in the Super-Neighbour Manager post later in this Chapter.
When a Super Neighbour selects a crop to plant, the Tooltip with the amount stored will reflect the amounts for the farm owner NOT the Super Neighbour and the same applies for any the belts shown.
Once you have set a Neighbour as a Super Neighbour, they will have a coloured dot in their box in the neighbours bar.
Red dot is your Super Neighbour.
Purple dot. You are their Super Neighbour.
In this example Hetty is a Super Neighbour for a farmer and they are a super Neighbour for them. You do not need to be super neighbours for each other.
If you do a considerable amount of work regularly as a Super Neighbour, you may benefit by owning the Mobile Lookout Tower which help you see which farms have work on them when you visit a Neighbours farm.
Information on the Mobile Lookout Tower is in Chapter 21 Tools. Here's the link to that post:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...14#post6043214
To Remove the SN permissions:
Click on your Neighbours picture in the panel at the bottom of your game screen.
Then click on Edit Super-Neighbour.
Remove all the check marks for everything
Click the green check mark at the bottom to save the change.
Removing a current Neighbour will also remove their Super-Neighbour Permissions.
What you and your Super Neighbour earns when they work your farms, Fuel Usage, how to use the Super Neighbour Manager, Permanently hired for Designing and Permanently Hired for Train Management are explained in posts later in this Chapter.