Improved silo best layout

[Daiboan]

Here is my sector 3 - packed pretty much as efficiently as you can build in that sector. Even though everything is crammed in, I have 11 farms 4 silos exactly feeding each of the 3 fields.

33 farms/12 silos total.

I have a question about bushes. I have a couple bushes on my island which are blocking my attempts at duplicating this enticing layout. I'm hoping beyond hope that there may be some fancy player trick for trimming hedges. Is there some way to trick the game into allowing me to drop a farm right on top of a bunch of petulant petunias?
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Brilliance! Thank you Troll-Phu

[Troll-Phu]

I have a question about bushes. I have a couple bushes on my island which are blocking my attempts at duplicating this enticing layout. I'm assuming of course that the home island has changed a bit in the past few years. Adjust I shall. I am however hoping beyond hope that there may be some fancy player trick for trimming hedges. Is there some way to trick the game into allowing me to drop a farm right on top of a bunch of petulant petunias?

you can remove a bunch of the bushes by placing a flower bed over it then removing, the bush/tree will go away until you log off or leave home island

[Ceruhe]

Not every bush can be removed with that trick though, as their position is off by a little bit. Likewise, in some few cases, a Latern may do the job (a flower bed has it's blueprint from "bottom to top" while the latern goes from "top to bottom").


Also, what is your peoples definition of efficient?
I have simply modified my 1:1 farm/silo layout a bit and still have retained all my buildspots (which vary from player to player and their style I guess). I have a slight overproduction (for less than 1 farm) but didn't go through the hassle of offsetting either farms or silos so the ratio fits. 3 of my worst farms got a 13min+ cycle and still do 270/12 as opposed to the rest, being between 275-285/12.

[BB_Endesmor]

you can remove a bunch of the bushes by placing a flower bed over it then removing, the bush/tree will go away until you log off or leave home island

I hate to interrupt, but I strongly advise against doing that.

[LordB]

.... slow down there, why on earth would you advise against doing that?
That has been an island design technique since before Beta was finished... What could go wrong?

[Ceruhe]

The chance of someone ever going to change anything around that and you losing a building because of that may not be 0, which then has tons of people whining again because they gambled building on top of that spot.
Obviously, mostly people from Zeus, who may or may not actually still play but frequently come to the forum to unload their tears, will tell you how they had a cannonforge or something expensive like that in exactly such a spot and will now quit, though you will see them the next day again regardless.

[Troll-Phu]

The chance of someone ever going to change anything around that and you losing a building because of that may not be 0, which then has tons of people whining again because they gambled building on top of that spot.
Obviously, mostly people from Zeus, who may or may not actually still play but frequently come to the forum to unload their tears, will tell you how they had a cannonforge or something expensive like that in exactly such a spot and will now quit, though you will see them the next day again regardless.

yep cause on zeus there is only 3 players left

[grafxfx]

yep cause on zeus there is only 3 players left

Really? who is the 3rd?

[Troll-Phu]

TH I think