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connor9988
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Probably too new and tech savvy for most of the folks on this forum. haha.
I like to play on my spare (winter) time.
I like to play on my spare (winter) time.
47fivewindow
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Do the tires go flat and computers lose a sensor and die and other fun things? Oh oh--no oil pressure! Can you get the biggest one stuck?
connor9988
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Tractors consume fuel, experience depreciation/increased maintenance costs with age. They do not get ?stuck? but have to match the horsepower requirements of the implements used other wise when you put the implement in the ground she goes nowhere!
connor9988
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- Central Iowa
There is a smaller selection of tractors for the console version as opposed to the computer version.
Mnethercutt
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I downloaded the Deere tractors through what's called a "Mod". Basically the people that made the game have programs where users can make new tractors, and on the computer version you can download and install new ones. There's hundreds of Deere's out there, but I was impressed with the realism of that 60. I've got all the 2 cylinders from 630-830 with pony motor and electric start options installed, plus a bunch of ones from the late 60's/early 70's (4320, etc). Startup sounds are right and the pitch even changes with the machine is under load with the 60.
I'm also in college so I have more "free time" than most for this sort of thing, and it's nice to be able to kinda get out of the city through a video game when I'm having a busy month and can't get home to my real ones.
Straw Boss
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Your 5488 has the Western interior and dash in one pic and a Magnum (Case) dash in the next. What's up with that?
connor9988
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- Central Iowa
I also have an exp. 5488 Magnum. Notice the exhaust is no longer on the hood?
No one has mentioned the name of it?
I play a silly farm game on my iPad, Farm Story 2. It is actually a management game, you have to juggle products, cash, barn and silo space for inventory, and make finished food and products from the farm stuff you grow. They have the math set very well, to keep the game balanced and interesting. They happened to set it on a farm, but it's all management.
The silly bits are they use a plane to ship most goods off the farm, and so on. Still I get to grow some corn and wheat and pigs and chickens over winter.
Paul
I play a silly farm game on my iPad, Farm Story 2. It is actually a management game, you have to juggle products, cash, barn and silo space for inventory, and make finished food and products from the farm stuff you grow. They have the math set very well, to keep the game balanced and interesting. They happened to set it on a farm, but it's all management.
The silly bits are they use a plane to ship most goods off the farm, and so on. Still I get to grow some corn and wheat and pigs and chickens over winter.
Paul
connor9988
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- Central Iowa
Farming Simulator 17. The next iteration of it FS19 comes out soon.
Traditional Farmer
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Is this why farmers are buying all this new fancy expensive tractors and equipment so they'll have time to do important things like play video games?(LOL)Think I'd rather be raking hay.
Well, at least it's not that warcraft game but.... I still scratch my head about kids (and adults) sitting inside on a computer playing games that simulate real life. Whether it's bowling, golf, tennis, skiing or whatever. I've done those activities listed and NONE of the games comes close to duplicating the feeling of actually doing them. Now farming.
I spend quite a few hours on my tractors most days and enjoy the sound, smell, vibration, wind, sun and all else that goes with it. Playing a game just doesn't compare. Oh, btw, I'm NOT anti-computer. I have a Computer Science degree and spent my 40+ year career in computer technology. I have played my share of games on computers starting with battling Klingons on a Teletype in the early 70's. :lol: But they've always been a rare diversion, mostly while waiting for a program to compile, not a task to schedule time for. My wife is hooked on Candy Crush saga. She spends HOURS each day playing it. Can't think of a bigger waste of time.
I spend quite a few hours on my tractors most days and enjoy the sound, smell, vibration, wind, sun and all else that goes with it. Playing a game just doesn't compare. Oh, btw, I'm NOT anti-computer. I have a Computer Science degree and spent my 40+ year career in computer technology. I have played my share of games on computers starting with battling Klingons on a Teletype in the early 70's. :lol: But they've always been a rare diversion, mostly while waiting for a program to compile, not a task to schedule time for. My wife is hooked on Candy Crush saga. She spends HOURS each day playing it. Can't think of a bigger waste of time.
BarnyardEngineering
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Video games are generally under $50. The activities you list require hundreds if not thousands of dollars in equipment, and not everyone has the physical capacity to engage in those activities.
Plus, you can't let your kids out of the house these days because of the dangerous world outside, and they need something to do.
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
I'm glad I didn't learn to drive or run
equipment on a simulator. I don't know how
guys can run a skidloader effectively by
remote control, not being able to feel what
the machine is doing.
equipment on a simulator. I don't know how
guys can run a skidloader effectively by
remote control, not being able to feel what
the machine is doing.
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