a little confused about a word

David27576 wrote: »

hey i always read through the forums and the word "farm" is confusing me.....
what does it mean?

PS: im not that new to cf:D

Farm,basicly its when u have a bunch of players afk(probably ur own comps idling) and kill them repeatedly gaining free exp.

Killing your cows in your own farm.

Just to clear a couple of conceptions up while were on the subject.

Farming happens in ALL games with rewards. It's a fact and in extreme cases (ie having 2 computers) is almost impossible to actually stop fully.

There are measures that games can take against farmers. Some of them are subjective and some things can be built in to the game code to reduce or eliminate farming.


In our game we don't have the ability to fully police the farming of experience. We've made some small changes over time but it has not significantly reduced the farming.

As such we can't implement a full policy that bans users or takes negative action against them for those things.

But there are 2 resolutions to this that can help ease your mind. The first being, the only thing you can really farm in crossfire is your rank. (and clan points to a degree) If you don't let another players rank bother you much then it doesn't matter if some player is 15 levels above you. Does it give any indication of skill? No. Experience is a direct relation to the amount of time you play the game.

We all want higher ranks, but use ranks as a way to judge between friends, or clan mates and deal with yourself instead of worrying about random strangers you never see in game!

The second is that we are still working on the anti-farming front. We've already taken the preliminary steps to cap experience gains and work towards a game where farming doesn't matter as much. Hopefully with future clan developments we can work with a ranking system that shows skill as well as experience and clan points.

So hopefully that gives a bit of insight on the why's and hows and whats of farming.

Farming is to farm on a barn far far away.

you take your shovels and hoes and go out into the field and harvest your crops. farm.

[GM]Saidin wrote: »

Just to clear a couple of conceptions up while were on the subject.

Farming happens in ALL games with rewards. It's a fact and in extreme cases (ie having 2 computers) is almost impossible to actually stop fully.

There are measures that games can take against farmers. Some of them are subjective and some things can be built in to the game code to reduce or eliminate farming.


In our game we don't have the ability to fully police the farming of experience. We've made some small changes over time but it has not significantly reduced the farming.

As such we can't implement a full policy that bans users or takes negative action against them for those things.

But there are 2 resolutions to this that can help ease your mind. The first being, the only thing you can really farm in crossfire is your rank. (and clan points to a degree) If you don't let another players rank bother you much then it doesn't matter if some player is 15 levels above you. Does it give any indication of skill? No. Experience is a direct relation to the amount of time you play the game.

We all want higher ranks, but use ranks as a way to judge between friends, or clan mates and deal with yourself instead of worrying about random strangers you never see in game!

The second is that we are still working on the anti-farming front. We've already taken the preliminary steps to cap experience gains and work towards a game where farming doesn't matter as much. Hopefully with future clan developments we can work with a ranking system that shows skill as well as experience and clan points.

So hopefully that gives a bit of insight on the why's and hows and whats of farming.

Farming has made a complete joke of your ranking system. Well not your ranking system, but whoever developed it. Just get rid of it there's no point in having it really >.>

[GM]Saidin wrote: »

Just to clear a couple of conceptions up while were on the subject.

Farming happens in ALL games with rewards. It's a fact and in extreme cases (ie having 2 computers) is almost impossible to actually stop fully.

There are measures that games can take against farmers. Some of them are subjective and some things can be built in to the game code to reduce or eliminate farming.


In our game we don't have the ability to fully police the farming of experience. We've made some small changes over time but it has not significantly reduced the farming.

As such we can't implement a full policy that bans users or takes negative action against them for those things.

But there are 2 resolutions to this that can help ease your mind. The first being, the only thing you can really farm in crossfire is your rank. (and clan points to a degree) If you don't let another players rank bother you much then it doesn't matter if some player is 15 levels above you. Does it give any indication of skill? No. Experience is a direct relation to the amount of time you play the game.

We all want higher ranks, but use ranks as a way to judge between friends, or clan mates and deal with yourself instead of worrying about random strangers you never see in game!

The second is that we are still working on the anti-farming front. We've already taken the preliminary steps to cap experience gains and work towards a game where farming doesn't matter as much. Hopefully with future clan developments we can work with a ranking system that shows skill as well as experience and clan points.

So hopefully that gives a bit of insight on the why's and hows and whats of farming.

Nice speech, but me and my clan friends decided to see the maximum EXP you can get from TDMs and we found that the max is now 1.1k Is that true?