Design this Farm Together
You can hire a farmer to help design a farm for a short time to do something like move some exisitng items on your farm using the
Design this Farm Together Feature.
This temporarily hires a farmer that you can see online in the game as long as you are also going to be on that farm while they design or you both design at the same farm.
For example, you might want to use this if you need some help connecting your working trains or can't quite achieve the look you are going for on one of your farms with general items that are on them. Someone else could assist.
- The farm you want help to design can NOT be Private. If you set it to Private you will need to remove that setting so that they can go to that farm.
- Both of you need to remain online AND active on the farm while any designing is done. If you go offline or are idle too long, the hire session will end and changes will not be saved. You would need to rehire them if it was still needed.
- Design this Farm Together will only allow them to move around most of the items that are on the farm you are both on.
You can allow them to also move Farm Cash Items or you can prevent them from moving Farm Cash Items.
They can NOT plow new fields or delete existing fields.
They can not buy items for you or put anything onto your farm that you have in Item storage.
They can not sell or delete your Items or work workable items on your farms unless they are a Super Neighbour with the appropriate permissions.
- You will need to meet up with the farmer that you want to hire to design on the specific farm that you want help with. If they are not on your farm you can try one of these methods to meet up:
- If it's a Neighbour or Buddy you can use your Farmers lists to send a message and ask them to meet you on a specific farm.
- If they are a Neighbour you also have the Ask XXX to Join You option in the Neighbours bar. When you find them there, click on their picture then click on Ask XXX to Join You. They must be online in the game to be able to send that request AND to be hired to design.
- If you already have a message from them you can go to the farm you want help with designing, open thier message, click reply and click on the Insert Farm Link option at the bottom of the message for them to use to go to a specfic farm. Current Farm would give them the link to the farm you are currently on. They can then click on that blue link in your message to go to that farm.
You do not have the Current Farm option in messages when not on your own farms. In this case you could send them a message and tell them which farm number to meet up on. When they open your message, they can click on the green man on your message to be taken to your farm then go from there to the correct farm if it's not the default farm.
When you can see the farmer you want to hire on your farm, click on their avatar to see their Avatar menu:
Click on Design this Farm together
You will see the hire confirmation popup message.
There is an extra option in the Message
No check mark means they CAN move any Items including those that cost Farm Cash.
If you need help with connecting working trains, make sure there is NO check mark in the box. Some Locommotives and ALL the Long Cars are Farm Cash Items.
If you do NOT want them to move any Farm Cash Items ADD the check mark by clicking in the box.
Click on the green check mark to continue with the hiring OR click on the "X" to cancel the hiring.
When you click on the green check mark to send the request, they will see a message like this:
When they have accepted the hire by clicking Sure, let's do it! you will see the following message. You can then click on "Great, thanks" to close the message:
If you have allowed them to move any item including Farm Cash Items they will see this:
If you have NOT allowed them to move Farm Cash Items they will see this:
When the farmer clicks on OK I'll get started they will be able to move Items that are on your farm.
They will also have access to the Yellow edit hand and also some of the other design tools like the Freestyle Farm Designers. IF you own them and have placed them into storage. If they can use them, they will be able to see them in the Toolbox.
ONLY use the yellow hand to reconnect working trains after alering or moving them! Using the freestyle designers can cause an overlap and then the hightlight to show them connected thinks they are correctly connected when they are not!!!
Any tool a hired farmer do not have access to use, will be greyed out in their Toolbox.
To cancel the request to design, you can either:
- Leave the farm
- OR click on their avatar and choose Cancel Design Farm Together
REMEMBER: When you hire someone to help design your farm, you MUST remain on that farm at all times AND be active.
If you leave your farm the hire will be cancelled no changes will be saved.
If you remain still for more than 10 minutes, this will also cancel the hire. To help prevent this you should do something on your farm every few minutes.
If the hire to design ends and wasn't intended, the farmer would have to be re-hired.
Longer Term Designing:
It is possible to set a Neighbour as a Super Neighbour and give them permission to design a specific farm on a longer term basis. If the decorating is likely to take a long time you may find making them a super neighbour and giving them design permission for that specific farm works better for you.
In this case, neither of you need to remain online or on the same farm.
This still only allows ONE specific farm to be designed at a time. To design a different farm you would need to change the permission to another farm.
Super Neighbours can also have permissions to delete existing fields and plow new fields depending on the permissions.
Before you decide to make a Neighbour a Super Neighbour please make sure that you have read all the information about Super Neighbours so you know exactly what they would be able to do before you give them those permissions. You can go to the post about Super Neighbours by clicking on this link:
https://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=662786
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