Interesting start! I think every person I've watched do this started with at least mowing their plot and dealing with the grass in some way, and then somewhere in their farm they've kept up with grasswork as a form of consistent income at least in the first several months until productions can take over that role. For myself, I started with one of the really small plots along the side thinking I'd do a few rounds of hay bales small enough to lift by hand so I didn't need to spend the money on extra equipment, but I still wasn't able to expand into a second plot until year 3. Money went a *lot* faster than I initially expected it to, I think I tried to diversify too quickly and dug myself into a hole. I think it looks like you're going to be successful a lot earlier than I was haha! Most things were left to the player/creator's discretion as far as rules you want to bend or when you inevitably run into something not explicitly covered in the suggested rules - I think it was intentional, since everyone has different preferences in how they enjoy playing. Stuff like autoload and store deliveries, some folks are using them and some aren't. Some are picking up collectibles, some put a time restriction on themselves (one per episode, none in the first year, etc.) - I think initially Krustoo just wanted to give himself a reason to get better at using the smaller, weaker equipment without upgrading to big stuff as early as possible, and he thought it would be fun to see others joining in on the challenge. If you do get stuck on money and don't want to lease things (but also don't mind taking advantage of collectibles), there are 20 collectibles worth 50k each, for a total of $1mil just lying about on the map. They're little game cartridges so they can be hard to see even if you look up a guide to where they're at, and none of them are in places that will impede your equipment in any way. So if you *don't* want to use them, it's unlikely you'll even notice them and be tempted.
I thought to myself, chickens then maybe get some form of production later on and use Animals and Productions to create income. Plus starting with chickens was something definitely different 👍 we have plenty of land to make some grass bales Haswell after we make the Arable part work for us. Thanks for watching and I am going to try and steer clear of collectibles for the time being 😀
I've never done this challenge, but in my game I have a dairy farm on BallySpring, and my biggest tractors are only 2WD and 100hp. On such a hilly map, that is quite a challenge, especially because I'm also using the REA Wheels mod, so things do het stuck!
Bally is a great map, if I can't get my mods back for Fairhead I might well do some videos on that. But I'm trying my best to get everything back to how it should be to continue with Fairhead 👍
