Is it? No, not at all. It's just that people play it with these retarded settings. Far too close, and too short a game. When I set it in the SMASH server, which I used to do all the time, with a distance of closer to 200, and a turnframe of 20, with I think no dojo, it was in no way a farm mode. It took normal game length. With the common, IMO stupid, settings it is a farm mode. I find those settings pretty stupid anyway. No fun at all. "Oh wow look at me, I can move my knife faster than you and therefor I win." Wow, lot of skill there. With a much larger distance, it turns into something that actually requires at least a bit of skill.