How to set up your farm

First and foremost when you're building your farm ALWAYS (that's capitalized for affect) select the bottom building which will set the countdown to 24 hours for that building to be fully mature. The reason you do this is because by allowing 24 hours for maturity it gives you FAR more resources when you collect than any other setting.

Now... and this is important. In order to decrease or basically wipe out the chances of being stolen from by enemies you should set the timing of the maturity of your farm to always be ready when you are ready to collect - barring unforeseen circumstances. For instance, if you know that 90% of the time you wake up @ 6am and go to the bathroom and brush your teeth and admire yourself in the mirror (if you're Carol or Princess Evo) and brush your hair and put on some eye-liner, then make yourself a nice breakfast and then log in at right around 6:15 (probably more like 9am for the women out there knowing how long it takes them to get ready) then all you need to do is make sure your farm is ALWAYS ready to be collected from @ that time.

How? Easy.... at 9am or 6am or 2pm or 9pm today (tomorrow whatever)..... just singularly click every farm building you have and that will reset the clock 24 hours so that every single day your farm will mature at the same time... the time that you know you'll be here ready to collect 90% of the time.

Yes that one time by collecting early you'll lose some resources.... but from that day on you'll get everything you've 'farmed' because you'll always be sitting online when it's ready to farm.

Simple and effective.

I still see a lot of people who are constantly having their farms 'stealable'.
Manly due to the fact that all buildings are not on the same timer.
As already explained by Admin, you really should have all your buildings synced and on a 24h timer (so nr 4 buildings)

Common allies, just a little effort to maximize your farms!

grtz