Saturday, January 23, 2010

FarmVille Tips in Riches

Being a succesful farmer takes a lot of time, dedication and patience. You need to sow, patiently watch the crops grow, protect them from hungry crows and then finally get ready to harvest. It all does not happen overnight of course. Nowadays, however, more and more people are rediscovering the pleasure of reconnecting with nature and enjoying the gifts of the land. It all happens today thanks to 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 and patient. In other words, you must follow through or you may wake up to only find a dry, miserable field. This is therefore, a game for those that have sufficient time to spare and cater to their crops. You cannot plant strawberries and leave for a full day of work! If you work full time, your best choice is to choosesomething that matures slowly so upon your return, you will not have any unpleasant surprises.

How to Become a rich farmer on Farmville

-For quick profits the best choice are raspberries 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.

-The best piece of advice is perhaps simply nurturing your crops. Your strawberries, rasberries and blueberries need lots of tender loving care in order to mature and give you the well earned money you ultimately deserve. Setting up a reminder (like using a timer or your computer task reminder) may help you remember when your crops are about to die.

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.

FarmVille Tips

Farmville is a game played on Facebook. Once you get the application, you create a virtual farm. On the virtual farm you can have animals, paths, flowers, trees, houses, and mostly crops.

When you start off it is best to start planting a crop that will harvest in a few hours or just one day. To plant a crop first you must click on the plow button. Then select where you want to plow. Then you must go to the store and select what type of seeds you want to buy. Grapes are a good crop to use, because they can be harvested in four hours.

Add your friends to Farmville as neighbors - this helps your experience level go up. The more experience you have, the more things your avatar is able to do and the more items are available. To make extra money while you wait for your crops to be ready to harvest, you can get a job.

To get a job, go to the market place. Once there, type in the chat box "hire me" and wait until a message pops up asking you to accept the job. Once you accept it, you will be taken to someone's farm to work. There you can either harvest or plow their crops. When you harvest their fields, you make money. When you plow on their fields, you make money and also gain experience.

Once you have some money, go to the store and a buy a few trees. Trees are a good investment to make money because you pay for them only once, but continue to make money every time you harvest them. Then once your crops are ready to harvest on your farm, click the "harvest" button. Then click on the crop that you want to harvest. A menu will pop up for the crop; click on "harvest and store." This way you make more money than just selling the crops.

Once you have a crop in storage go to the market place and choose the option sell crops. Then a page with your stored crops pops up. Choose which one you would like to sell, then go back to your farm by clicking "go home." Now it is time to plant new crops. You should have made enough profit to plant even more crops than last time. Another way to make money is going to your neighbors farms and helping them out. You get paid for watering and raking or by using gloves on these farms. By repeating this process you will become a rich virtual farmer on Farmville using Facebook. Good luck!

How to be a rich farmer on Facebook Farmville

Another addictive game set out using Adobe Shockwave and Flash is Farmville with their latest installation that allows the player to be caught up in the game that the eventually become an insomniac due to the fact that the crops will die after a certain time should it not be harvested unlike Barn Buddy where one's crops stay there till all of it is lost due to theft by your friends. Becoming a rich farmer is actually easier than one think as the gifting and receiving bonuses adds up to the amount earned or saved up in the game. The definition of a rich farmer is more to one's own interpretation but having lots of friends helps a whole lot more that when you are just a handful of friends as like their successful game Mafia Wars, the more you have, the better it is.

Becoming a rich farmer basically means you got tons of money, and in this case assuming that you have a million coins, not FV Dollars which are earned through deals and such like in Mafia Wars' Godfather Points. And it is actually achievable in less than 30 days. True to many people's belief, Farmville is based on hard work and spending alot of time on the game, making the game developers richer. In the act of planting and harvesting a crop, the calculation on earnings will be Net Profit = Harvest - Cost - 15 coins (for plowing) and multiplied by the maximum amount of crops allowed. We assume that 30% of the crop space is allocated into the Trees and Animal Livestock plus any other stuff that makes your place look neater and nice, thus allowing the current allowable size of 20x20 plots. Technically, even a 20x20, you will waste about half crop square on the sizes due to either a bug or something like that , such that you still have a 20x20 and the animals and trees by the size of it. The full line of sight is needed to harvest or anything to the plantation as you cannot click on the item or plot or animal hidden behind a huge tree.

Like many experts in the Zynga Forums agree that a full day will be 23 hours give and take any human response to that effect as the game play requires some sort of margin of error in harvesting, plowing and seeding even with the machinery available. Such a case that a balance of quick cash crops like Strawberry, Blueberry and Blackberry yields a steady 3 experience and net profit of 10, 26 and 27 coins per harvest respectively for a 4 hour crop. Eventually, we will allow only 3 crops cycles a day and thus yield 30, 78 and 81 coins in a day and that is if someone did not sleep throughout game play. On the other hand, a nice balance of crops in 6, 8,12, 16 and 24 hour timing yields greater returns such as the Aloe Vera (6 hours), Pumpkin and Tomatoes for 8 hours, Rice and Carrots in 12 hours, Coffee for 16 hours and Soy Beans, Peppers (Chillies), Grapes and Sunflowers for a day as I'm just a level 30 right now. Anything over a day will yield 2 experience points for planting, to compensate the loss of experience in comparison to the quick 4 hour crops and Raspberries are harvested in 2 hours bearing no seeding experience points, with just a return of 11 coins per harvest (assuming 23 hours) and a net yield of 22 experience points with 121 coins per day. Compared to Sunflowers, your yield will be 165 coins with only 4 experience points, but lets you take a break.

One must plan what we will be doing after we plant the crops, as if we go shopping for 4 hours and came back late, we will see the raspberries wither and die after the 2 hour timer to harvest is up. The way Zynga programs the time frame to allow players not to plant and forget is about 4-8 hours before it dies, allowing people to get home, and do their stuff and harvest their crops at their home pc and then set a 12 hour crop for harvest the next day at the office.

The act of giving and receiving is a very cool thing to do. If you see your friends getting a bonus or special giveaways, you will get the coins too. By going to the Home Screen in Facebook and clicking More on the Feeds and onto Farmville (or you can book mark or go to this link Farmville Feed Tabs directly if you happen to loose it) , you will see the awards you friends received and you get 500 coins for a blue ribbon, 250 coins for a red ribbon, 125 coins for a while ribbon and 50 for a yellow one. Just right click and open a new tab where it says "collect a bonus from ......" and shut it down after 15 seconds as it will already credit your account. Don't forget to snap those wandering animals such as a chocolate milk bearing Brown Cow, White Cow, Ugly Duckling (looked really ugly and terrifying) and anything that comes up for adoption.

Thus why many experts advise you add as many friends as you can, as much as how many you got on Mafia Wars so you know their feeds and you can feast on their achievements. I personally do agree that in spending some great money into the game like a Log Cabin for 250,000 coins will get me a boost on the experience for it pays off 1 point per 100 coins spent on the market and getting red or blue ribbons gives you coins too. The reality sets in that even on level 30, in order to level up, it takes 6000 experience points compared to 5000 on level 29 and it gets more every time you level up.

Don't forget to harvest your trees and animals even though they won't expire but a return on investment is only between 30-60 days , so expect a gift or two to boost your income. What matters most is having fun. Do look at the other commentaries as different people have different views and the game play differs when you are in the lower levels and harder and more robust when you go to level 20 and up as your options have expanded.