Farms and how they work?
So first off, u/Captain_Marek I love this game! I can easily see this being another game that I put a few thousand hours into.
Which brings me to my current musing. I would love to see a change to how farms work. I dislike the visuals of the blocks of farms. It just doesn't feel right. It works. it just looks wrong.
What I would like to see the farms work more like forestry towers. I would love to see rolling fields of wheat, potatoes etc.
I can imagine replacing the tower with a farm house. This farm house can still work the same way in the UI/UX with the crop rotations, water input and fertiliser. However, I think it should then work more like forestry towers. set the area set the farming designations and then the dedicated vehicles will work within that area, planting and harvesting the crops required. It would probably need to be a bit bigger as a model, to include silos for water and fertiliser and a garage for vehicles. I don't think it should have storage.
The vehicles can be specific too!
The Tractor: With a plough and/or seed planter can plant the crops, the same way the tree planter does.
The Harvester: The harvester collects the crops, just like the tree harvester. This would be supported by trucks to take the crops away. a small difference for me would be that the harvester works more traditionally, in that rather go randomly plant to plant (tree to tree), it follows rows.
The Tanker: This is how water and fertiliser is spread. Similar to how mk1 farms rely on rain, the same mechanic can apply with the tanker improving spread. Maybe we can reuse trucks here? Similar to the fuel bowsers.
Another option is to reuse ore sorters and allow them to sort crops. this would add another use element for the sorters. Perhaps the green house can be maintained as a specific building and put to use for some items like poppies?
The other possibility would be to incorporate the chicken farms too, and maybe expand to other meats. how cool would it to be cows and chickens and sheep wandering around our fields?