When Farm Town was first released, fields had a green space along two sides. A field was 3x3 plus the green space = 4x4. Thus a 12x12 farm had room for only 12 fields along each edge. Then the devs gave us the "remove space between fields" preference. That allowed an extra 4 fields, or 16 fields along each edge, for a 12x12 farm. Even today, if you clear the "remove space" tickbox you can still only fit 12 fields. Scale up to 32x32 and with spaces removed, you can fit 42 fields along each edge. Actually it's 42.6667 (128/3) but you can't plow 2/3 of a field - all 9 pixels have to fit on the farm.
Few advanced players have spaces between their fields - but the terminology got embedded early on and has never been changed.
Last edited by Gregh; Oct 28 2012 at 08:48 PM.
Reason: Changed "farms" to "fields" in two, no, three places. Gah.
|