Gold nuggets=cheating?

[Eurynoms]

I'm just curious as to what people think about finding all the gold nuggets. Is it considered cheating once you find them all.

[GIJoe597]

For my own game play, I have not gathered them all. I wanted to make enough to survive on my own before I got a 1 million dollar cash injection. But I do not consider it cheating. I do wish you had to find them all and not just ten then the rest show up on the map. At least make us work for it by searching/scouring the map.

[mattgo]

I've never even found 1, but GCV is a horrible map. I never found 1 coin in FS15 either. It's ridiculously difficult (aka Nintendo Hard.) I just helped the last farmer in the new map and still haven't gotten the achievement. I didn't buy ANY field before working it for another farmer. Something is Jank.

[UnableRogue]

I don't think it's cheating. I collect all the gold first before starting a map. I do it first because it gives me a great overview of the map plus it's a nice little leg-up to start the game.

[jules.stmp537]

Who are you cheating?

If you choose to play the game with the very limited game play goals, your main objective is to make money to replace or buy new equipment. How you do that is up to you. The game designers also provide you with missions and it is up to you if you want to use it.

If I download a mod map with good starting equipment that is not cheating.
If I edit an xml to change the start conditions that is not cheating.
If I download a mod to help steering with the keyboard that is not cheating.

Literally, you can not cheat in a sandbox unless you make up your own rule that says you cheat if you do <activity>.

[Kaeru Gaman]

yap, exactly.

the only one you can becheat is yourself, so you decide yourself what is cheating and what not.

btw if you want a savegame you can test equipment with, start a new game, save it, exit FS, open your documents folder and the savegame folder, look into careerSavegame.xml and enter any amount you want into the <money> tags.

is this cheating? if you told yourself "on this map, I want to make millionaire without any help", you becheated yourself. and only yourself.

[chefuk]

Originally posted by GIJoe597:

For my own game play, I have not gathered them all. I wanted to make enough to survive on my own before I got a 1 million dollar cash injection. But I do not consider it cheating. I do wish you had to find them all and not just ten then the rest show up on the map. At least make us work for it by searching/scouring the map.

I agree.

[chefuk]

Originally posted by mattgo:

I've never even found 1, but GCV is a horrible map. I never found 1 coin in FS15 either. It's ridiculously difficult (aka Nintendo Hard.) I just helped the last farmer in the new map and still haven't gotten the achievement. I didn't buy ANY field before working it for another farmer. Something is Jank.

Jank?

[Tankfriend]

It's purposefully built into the game for you to find them and cash in the money, so it's not a cheat.

[Kaeru Gaman]

Originally posted by chefuk:

Jank?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jank

[MachoCyclone]

Originally posted by Kaeru Gaman:

Originally posted by chefuk:

Jank?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jank

Hmmm, I have never heard that term til now.

[Eurynoms]

Originally posted by mattgo:

I've never even found 1, but GCV is a horrible map. I never found 1 coin in FS15 either. It's ridiculously difficult (aka Nintendo Hard.) I just helped the last farmer in the new map and still haven't gotten the achievement. I didn't buy ANY field before working it for another farmer. Something is Jank.

I have helped all the farmers on GCV Snoko and WBH (modded map) ANd have yet to get that achievment and i need that one and the cows which im working on.

[Aardhyn]

Personally I feel that collecting gold nuggets is pushing you through the game too quickly, you can buy I lot with $1,000,000. I only collected the gold nuggets once to get the achievement.

[mattgo]

It's so difficult it can't be cheating. I played that horrible map for over 140 hours and never once found 1 gold nugget. Never found 1 coin after a similar amount of time playing the Norwegian map in FS15. Wish they wouldn't include such things and instead would work on making an obstruction-free map with only square and rectangular fields - and relatively flat. Seriously, anyone who adds a fence to a map other than the animal areas is evil and deserves torture - modder or Giants dev. Does anyone really think getting stuck on a fence/between a fence and tree for 15+ minutes is anyone's idea of fun in a game?

[Eurynoms]

It sounds like most of the farms are to difficult for you. Maybe you should try mustang valley ranch or crossroads. Both are flat big farms. But if those are still to hard since they do have a tree or two. Then maybe try Farmville untill you can play a grown up game.

[MachoCyclone]

Originally posted by mattgo:

It's so difficult it can't be cheating. I played that horrible map for over 140 hours and never once found 1 gold nugget. Never found 1 coin after a similar amount of time playing the Norwegian map in FS15. Wish they wouldn't include such things and instead would work on making an obstruction-free map with only square and rectangular fields - and relatively flat. Seriously, anyone who adds a fence to a map other than the animal areas is evil and deserves torture - modder or Giants dev. Does anyone really think getting stuck on a fence/between a fence and tree for 15+ minutes is anyone's idea of fun in a game?

How could not find a single gold nugget? The first one is literally given to you at the very beginning.