FarmVille Tips

Facebook’s Best Online Game- FarmVille Tips and Tricks
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By Will Apse

Facebook’s FarmVille is one of those online games that can be played in lots of different ways. Some people are just happy to amble along with a small, neat farm. Most of us are pretty competitive, though, and like to accumulate XP (experience points) quickly to zoom through those levels.

There is no perfect way to do this but there are lots of ways of improving your game play and reaching those higher levels- and all the new crops that they unlock- faster.
FarmVille Tips
FarmVille Tips

Top Tips for FarmVille

Get yourself some Neighbors.

This is one of the most important things to do. The FarmVille makers deliberately designed this online game to reward social gamers.

Persuade friends or strangers to start up around you and you get a lot of benefits. You can expand your business more easily and own more land. Also you can help out on neighbor’s places and get more XP and coins.

Tractors and Fuel

I like my online games for free but anyone using a credit card gets definite advantages.

A tractor can be bought from the market just with coins. This will speed up the game but you get limilted free fuel every day. You can buy extra fuel with a credit card to get round this. If you buy an extra fuel tank it gives you 150 fuel but it won’t fill up free on a daily basis. Once you have used all 150, you will need to buy again.

Mixed Harvests or just one Crop at a time?

For a real FarmVille pro, achieving the right balance of crops, trees and animals is the essence of the game. This is a matter of experimenting with the crops available at each level. This is one reason FarmVille is fiendishly addictive- different levels need different fixes. You will have to study the tables like the ones down the page.

One approach that will work pretty well at every level is the quick turnover of harvests described below. Instead of mixing crops that give XP with crops that give coins, you just alternate between the two. One day you grow crops that give good coins, another day crops that give good XP. Of course, if you are topping up your FV-money with a credit card you can just go for the XP every time.

How to Keep the FarmVille-Money Coming

You need to buy the seeds, pay for plowing etc so remember to plant good coin producing crops as soon as funds run low. Always keep something for expenses!

The crops that deliver most coins per hour are listed in the table at the bottom of the page.

If you see “Super Berries” in the market these will harvest in 2 hours and you can sell for 100 coins. Super Berries are usually only around for a day or two though. The last time was when FarmVille reached 5 million visitors, Worth watching out for.

Also, visit your neighbors farms regularly. If you are lucky, a pop up will ask if you want to do some weeding or other job. Filling in surveys, as described below, is boring but gives a steady stream of FV-cash.

Hay bales and Ribbons

Rich and want to level quickly? Buy hay bales. They will give you 5 XP each. Buy as many as you have room for, delete and buy more.

Buying hay bales also gives you a Pack Rat Ribbon pretty quickly. You will be awarded more money than you spent buying the bails. Sell all those bails afterwards and you get even more. You can also get an Architect blue ribbon (with the same reward) by buying rest rooms.

Best Yielding Trees and Animals

Focus on the animals that yield a lot like Horses, Goats, Ducks and Rabbits (50 coins each). The best trees are Pomegranate, Banana and Passion fruit tree’s (100 coins each).

Ask for these as gifts and avoid all the low yielding animals and trees.

Gifts

The only real reason for asking for the whole range of gifts is to get a blue ribbon for unique gifts. You need 21 unique gifts in your box (not working on your farm) to qualify and get that game bonus.