CAM farms

[ramseyazad]

Does anyone know a good recipe for growing cam farms?  I have been unable to grow farms beyond stage 2, despite a sprawling population of uneducated, unhealthy, fire-prone sims.  Is there a specific requirement, i.e. x-number of region/city $-sims or something?  I've got an entire large tile city that I've built for the express purpose of getting these farms, and I'm well into 50 in-game years of zoning and dezoning and waiting to see what grows.  I've got so far, a hundred or so stage 1 farms, and 10 stage 2 farms, about 20k irritatingly neglected sims with no parks or anything, and a headache from trying to figure out what the city needs to do differently to grow higher stage farms.  Anyone out there been more successful with the stage 3+ farms in cam, and if so, how?

[owlsinger]

Hi ramseyazad! The CAM manual gives you the requirements for CAM farms. Above level 3, they have water, fire and park caps, and will also require a significant regional capacity. I usually have a large tile city that has both industrial and commercial capacity, with a highly educated population, that I connect with rail to medium rural tiles. I also block all the Maxis farms with the BSC blocker, and have a bunch of JMyers, CSX and SG downloads.

I had a hard time getting them, too, and did quite a bit of experimenting with distributing rural and large cities within a region. It takes time, but getting the higher stage farms to grow is very rewarding!

Kendra