How to be a Rich Farmer on the Facebook Game Farmville
92The Recipe For Success on this Much Loved Game
Being a farmer takes a lot of time, dedication and patience. You need to sow, watch the crops grow and then finally harvest. It does not happen overnight of course. Nowadays, however, more people are rediscovering the pleasure of reconnecting with nature and enjoying the gifts of the land. It all happens today on Farmville, the new video game that is attracting millions of players across the globe courtesy of Facebook.
On the virtual farm in Farmville, crops get to grow quite quickly. You get to cultivate strawberries, raspberries, rice, eggplants, wheat, soy beans, pumpkins and much more. However, as any well respected farmer, you must be pretty consistent. In other words, you must follow through or you will find a dry, miserable field. This is therefore, a game for those that have sufficient time to spare. You cannot plant strawberries and leave for a full day of work. If you work full time, your best choice is choosing something that matures slowly so you will not have any unpleasant surprises.
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How to Become a rich farmer on Facebook's Game Farmville
- For quick profits the best choice are rasberries which mature in as little as two hours gaining you some good 46 coins. Blueberries may take a little longer but the wait is surely worth it as they will ultimately make you gain 91 coins. Other good choices are strawberries which mature in four hours allowing you to gain 35 coins.
- Raising farm animals such as chickens, cows and sheep, may be fun, but ultimately, will not make you much rich. However, the advantage is that unlike crops they do not go bad and will not need much care.
- Growing trees as well will not make you rich but they will be there for you without wilting. For instance, growing cherry trees takes two days for a mere gain of 18 coins, apple trees take three days for 28 coins and lime trees take 5 days for 75 coins.
- If you are looking for making some cash, you may visit a neighbor and lend a hand by cleaning up the weeds, raking up leaves or scaring crows away. You gain some extra coins and hands on experience this way.
- Bigger fields of course, will allow you to plant more, therefore will be much more profitable. However, in order to accomplish this you need to have several friends (called neighbors). For instance you need to have at least eight neighbors to expand the farm to a 14x14 lot, or better, 10 neighbors will give you a 16x16 lot. Of course, the more neighbors, the bigger land you may own, therefore the higher the profits.
- Purchasing buildings allows you to get faster to the next level and therefore, progress in the game. However, ultimately, they will just sit there and not bring any profits.
- Another way to gain some coins is by visiting your Facebook homepage and checking if any of your friends have recently won any ribbons. Here you will have the option of getting a bonus from them. The better the ribbon the more coins you will get.
As seen, just as in real life, farming can be a passionate hobby but it requires lots of time and dedication. However, just as the real farming profession, you must use astute strategies in order the gain the most out of your crop.
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Yes, Farmville is fun. I think I started within the first 48 hours that the game was started back earlier in the summer. I'm now level 36 and still going!
My strategy in the beginning was to plant short producing crops like blueberries and build coins and experience points. You need exp points to be able to buy new things and expand your farm. And you want to make sure you gift out to people everyday so they will gift back. Then as you run out of room you want to keep your higher producing items. Now I only keep date trees and goats as my room is limited and I want to have every plot of land possible to produce more coins and experience points. Check out the Facebook Farmville ADD Neighbors Fast Group if you need more neighbors! Lots of hints there to grow your farms. Enjoy!!
Haha! My friends love this game! They talk about it all the time :) I see that you have had quite a bit of experience in this game as well :D Great tips!
Sounds like a bunch of fun , I have only played texas poker hold 'em on facebook, and I really like , cant play well ,but its fun!! ,so cant wait to check out Farmville now too! Thankyou for a fun hub.
The drawback to planting/harvesting raspberries is you get 0 (zero) experience points, so you may get a little gain, but moving up levels is where it's at as far as advancing and getting zero points for any produce won't advance you.
true, but by getting more raspberries you will get to harvest every 2 hours which will make you plow more often which will ultimately make you gain the same experience plus more money :)
Let's calculate this together:
strawberries will make you gain 1 experience point for plowing, 1 experience point for planting them and then 35 coins every four hours. This gives you a total of 2 experience points and 35 coins over four hours.
Raspberries will make you gain 1 experience point for plowing, 0 experience point for planting them and then 46 coins every two hours. Now double this. With a total of 2 experience points and 92 coins over the course of four hours.
With more money you will be able to buy more equipment which in the long run will also make you gain more experience points.
So in the time frame of four hours, you do the math, raspberries ultimately is the way to go.
But, you have to figure in the cost of seeds too, and that each time a plot is plowed it costs 15 coins, right. I'm finding it complicated to determine which crops produce the most income.
Well.. purchasing seeds and plowing is part of farming, not sure how to get away with that! The plowing costs remain the same regardless of the veggie being harvested, as for the costs of the seeds the raspberries still allow to make more profit in a shorter amount of time (of course you must have lots of time on hand to take advantage of this).
I use the formula [(profit)/(time)]. (I will explain in depth below.)
Pretty obvious, but I hope it helped someone.
Also take into account how often you'll be on facebook. If a crop takes 8 hours to harvest, you have 8 hours afterwards to harvest your crop. If it takes 4 hours to harvest, you only get a 4 hour window to harvest your crop. [NOTE: This part is what I heard from my sister. I have only been playing the game for 1 day, so I have not tried it. Could I get clarification on this?]
example: Strawberries
Buy: 10
Cost of planting: 15
Sell: 35
Profit: (35-15-10)= 10
Time to harvest: 4 hours
Formula: (Profit/Time) = 10/4 = 2.5
The higher the number, the better the crop.
I'm wondering what other ways there are to make FarmBucks (whatever they're called) besides paying real money. Leveling up, sending gifts, planting new crops, are all ways, I believe. Helping friends sometimes gets a Buck too. Anyone know anything more on these Bucks?
great tips. also keep in mind that planting a variety of crops also gains extra points and now you can earn ribbons for different tasks. im on farmville all day everday!
I love video games and intested in playing this video. I would like thank you for finding this video games.
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I too prefer facebook than any other social network... Thank you.
My Grandson loves watching me play Farmville, especially the animal noises. Pretty harmless pastime!
You made some good points, and this is a solid explanation of the game. I was hoping for some secret inside info I didn't already have, but I can definitely refer friends who don't play to your article so they can learn how to progress.
Your hubs are amazing! Your one about Farkle I already knew everything, since there is really not that much to know, but I knew nothing about Farmville and now I have a good background in it. Thanks!
Ive been getting about 4000 Exp points everyday lol i plant grapes which are 2 xp everyday and you make pretty good cash.
I take the cash i get everyday and spend it all on Bales of hay then i delete all the hay and then the next day i do it again. I make a crazy amount of xp ive only been playing for a month now and im lev 28. Plus i only play about an hour day. Im leveling like crazy flying past all my friends or catching up really fast.
Cheers
Haha. I read about this game in newspaper that some people set alarm to sell food in right time.
All of my children and their friends talk about Farmville in their Facebook. I guess I should check into it.
My Brother always look up with farmville in his facebook, I guess I would check into it
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Thanks for al the tips. Hopfully I will be a rich farmer.
Alexadry, Great helpful tips! Farmville really teaches a deeper discipline principle. You must daily take a few moments to take care.... Thank You! Blessings!
Poor Ram, you're missing out on a very interesting game that emphasizes profit/loss, time management, crop planning, AND it's very relaxing.
Thanks, Alexandry.
Thanks for sharing tips for one of best game on facebook. I just Love this game. you help me a lot.
My favorite way to get XP points is planting soybeans, then deleting them and planting more, etcetera. They only cost 15 coins and get you 2 XP. Plowing one square also costs 15 coins and gets you 1 XP, so 30 coins for 3 pts, 10 coins per XP, which is a lot cheaper than buying decorations (hay bales, for example, are 20 coins per XP). Plus sometimes when plowing you uncover coins!
Lock her in a field but using a gate or hedge. When you lock her in the computer will harvest or plant faster instead of waiting for her or him to talk across the field.
I agree with MK - planting soybeans then deleting is the best way to build XP once you have the coins to do so. The problem is the time it takes to do this vs. letting time do the work... oh and the carpal tunnel syndrome I'm now XPriencing.
Me and my whole family loves this games... But once i reach level 25... Now level 40, i felt i just concentrate on decorating rather than i need more Xp point... there was a lot of New Item added with Limited Time, so i only took that items for decorating, but i keep on helping the Newbie. Check this on Facebook, " CAFE' WORLD " .This was another good virtual game and fast growing on Facebook. Here Some Tips
Valerie says:
3 months ago
Thanks for the help! I am absolutely addicted to Farmville on facebook and this really helped me a lot.