What IS farming?

[Lord Apollo]

I logged in this morning, and for the 4th day in a row found a message in my inbox saying "please stop farming my officer". I went to see who it was and found they were in the top 10.

I thought to myself "fair enough, i must've hit his officer a few times i'd better set peace". He had about 10 officers so i searched each of them through my logs.

ONE hit on a single officer. This has happened the last 3 days as well, i get a message from somebody (usually somebody you would expect to know WHAT *farming* is) and its been 1 hit. And they always seem to have at least 10 officers.

Because i don't really agree with farming people (active ones anyway) i go through them all and find who i've hit and set peace, but its really starting to annoy me when people complain for 1 hit.

That's why i've made this poll, to see what people actually think *farming* is, and also what you think the course of action should be if you think your officer (or yourself) is being farmed.

[Juliette]

There's a difference between a general farming run (f.x. attacking everyone under rank 400 with more than 300mil naq out) and regular farming.

In essence, both qualify as 'farming', since you steal the income of others. Naturally while one need not worry about being a regular farm if you got attacked only once, it can be argued that even these farming runs are a violation of the officer's property. In essence, it all depends on how whiney the officer is.

Some commanders just send that message to everyone, no matter how many times they actually struck, who shows up in the attack logs of their officers. It's a funny world we live in, Lord Apollo.

[Nigatsu_Aka]

I say mass the crap out of the commander. =)

[Juliette]

LA did mention the commander is top 10...

[Nigatsu_Aka]

LA did mention the commander is top 10...

So what?... you need arround 150bil strike... big deal

[Shamzi]

The way you're describing it, I call it Naq-Hit.

Sorry, but if there is someone who has 1+ bil in the open. Then the decision is really easy. Take it (if my strike can counter his defense ofc )

If you want to leave billions of Naq in the open. Then invest in your defense, so that will noone will try to take it.

My 2 cents

[Lord Apollo]

im glad to see people agree with me

[vinny d]

3 naq hits in one week, I have always considered that farming.

[RepliMagni]

I'd call two of your poll choices as farming:
3 hits in a few days
several his in one day

Generally if you turn up in my officers' logs several times (within the 5 days it keeps them) then you're considered to be farming them

Sometimes though, I'll send a warning message after only 1 hit - just simply asking to make sure my officer doesn't become a regular hit

[J.S.]

I logged in this morning, and for the 4th day in a row found a message in my inbox saying "please stop farming my officer". I went to see who it was and found they were in the top 10.

I thought to myself "fair enough, i must've hit his officer a few times i'd better set peace". He had about 10 officers so i searched each of them through my logs.

ONE hit on a single officer. This has happened the last 3 days as well, i get a message from somebody (usually somebody you would expect to know WHAT *farming* is) and its been 1 hit. And they always seem to have at least 10 officers.

Because i don't really agree with farming people (active ones anyway) i go through them all and find who i've hit and set peace, but its really starting to annoy me when people complain for 1 hit.

That's why i've made this poll, to see what people actually think *farming* is, and also what you think the course of action should be if you think your officer (or yourself) is being farmed.

More then 3 hits in a period of time..

For him being such a n00b I would mass him and all of his officers

Oh and point of note I personal log EVERYONE who farms my officers so I will eventually get around to massing them when it is least convient to them.. Like when say they build a 300 billion defence

[Bad Wolf]

7 + per week in my eyes

BWG

[*Crowley]

at least 3 times a week is farming for me

[Firecracker048]

farming is up to 3-4 attacks a day. There are several turns, and if someone makes alot of naq, your gonna want it all the time.

[Teal'auc of the Void]

Farming = hit 3 or more times in week for me.



Teal'auc

[EliteAceMan]

Farming = Planting seeds and growing stuff like corn!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl ... n&ct=title

Definitions of farming on the Web:

the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
agrarian: relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). The practice of agriculture is also known as farming, while scientists, inventors and others devoted to improving farming methods and implements are also said to be engaged in agriculture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farming

"Farming" means engaging in farming in all its branches and the cultivation and tillage of the soil as a livelihood and includes dairying; raising livestock, freshwater fish, fur-bearing animals or poultry; producing, cultivating, growing and harvesting fruit, produce or floricultural or horticultural commodities; or any practices on a farm that are incident to or in conjunction with these farming operations. ...
janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec101.html

Farming means the cultivation of land for the production of agricultural crops, the raising of poultry, the production of eggs, the production of milk, the production of fruit or other horticultural crops, grazing or the production of livestock. Farming does not include the production of timber, forest products, nursery products or sod, and farming does not include a contract to provide spraying, harvesting or other farm services.
http://www.ksrevenue.org/taxcredits-swinedefs2.htm

cultivating or producing a crop, fish, or livestock.
http://www.futureharvest.org/about/glossary.shtml