Rasping rabbit wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 9:16 pmI would say yes there are. There are lots of players who will play using equipment they know, have used or remember dad/grandad etc using. Or even ‘that’s the type of equipment I see getting used on local farms’
Unlike me who uses the ‘it’s the biggest I can use on my tractor and it’s red’ logic. Or other colours/makes depending on my mood at the time. Each to their own play style I suppose, that’s one of the good things about Farming Simulator.
Oh boy what a topic. Soil management is such a big and diverse subject, people spend years in school (and on the land) studying it. I doubt you'll find many farmers today that don't have an agronomist on the payroll. The game itself doesn't really touch soil management, and Precision Farming barely scratches the surface. I'm guessing this is partly by design so as not to overwhelm the player, but I also doubt that anyone at Giant's have more than a rudimentary understanding of soil management.
We had 3 farms (well 1 farm, 3 areas) two were fairly close together and the third was about 2 miles away and had a different soil type. As such they way you dealt with it was very different than the other two farms. Even after it was tile drained, the ground would stay "too wet" for about 2-3 weeks longer than the main farm area. Which for example meant that we couldn't use the same seed on it due to the shorter growing season. In short it was farmed differently. Overall the one thing we were lucky with was that stones were not a problem and rarely surfaced.
As for people using equipment because it's what they're used too, or have seen in videos, I totally agree. If it weren't for that fact, Giant's could get away with 100-200 pieces of equipment in the game instead of the vast array that there is now.