Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25178962-20150615142220/@comment-24108228-20150615215516

Qoazi wrote: ...make a Good Point as to Compost on the ground being a handbuilt structure... Me first!

Ok, let's say I build a bread house. This is the process: Now for farms! There's little differance. Sure, the bread house was more expensive, but most custom structures are made of wood, which is argueably less expensive than compost, as compost has to be processed. Cost isn't a factor in custom structures. Catapults with an extended arm are extremely cheap, but they count.
 * 1) I collected 64 bread.
 * 2) I dragged them into place.
 * 3) I'm immune to foragers and people who drag apart buildings.
 * 1) I collected 64 composts (big farm).
 * 2) I dragged them into place.
 * 3) I'm not immune to people who just forage and drag apart structures.

You could also argue that the bread house required more effort and planning to actually build. However, building with what is almost literally bricks (which can even be resized) isn't hard. Give me the bread and I could build one without any form of plan at all. Same goes for compost. I'm just placing them in a grid, just because the bread is a vertical grid rather than horizontal and is composed of more than one of them doesn't make it much harder. The only bit that could be considered slightly more challenging is the roof, but that's both optional and simple with the slightest amount of forethought.

So to sum it all up, farms are just a different type of custom structure. Sure, they're cheap and simple, but by no means an extreme case of either compared to some of the others, and they're also a prominent piece of the game, practically required on most islands, so why they're made to be so easy to vandalise is beyond me. You don't have to be near, skilled, or even prepared to take out a farm. You just need to walk within the somewhat close vicinity and start dragging. This suggestion would be pretty much a permanent fix, but at least making it against the rules would be a big step in the right direction.