Saturday, 30 January 2010

Speed Up The Leveling Process In Farmville





Speed Up The Leveling Process

The basic thing about leveling up fast is to accumulate experience points. These points can be earned through ploughing your land and sowing crops. For ploughing a plot of your land, you will earn 1 experience point.

At the initial stages of starting your farm, leveling can be fairly quick just by plowing and harvesting. As your levels increases, you will need to accumulate more experience points to progress upwards.

To get more experience points in Farmville, proceed to building structures such as barns etc. Basically, building anything on your farm will gain you more points and this will help you level up fast. Figure out which structures provide you the most experience and start planning to build them.

This is theory also applies to selecting which seeds or plants to grow. Some crops will take 2-3 days to grow and earn you 2 points, where as others only take 4 hours before you must harvest them and will only give you one point. Crops that only take one day to grow may only earn you one point, but crops like strawberries that take only 4 hours to grow, can be harvested up to 6 times a day.

Remember, if you do not harvest your crops on time, they will die and you will sacrifice all valuable points you could have earned. The ideal way to increase your experience points is still through putting up buildings on your farm. So, start saving up your cash for purchasing buildings. With these Farmville secrets, not only you can speed up your leveling process, you can also gain access to all benefits of Farmville.

Friday, 29 January 2010

Farmville Prices For Animals And Buildings


How Much Can I Sell This For in Farm Ville?


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Farmville Profit Margins



FarmVille Crop Harvest Profit Margins




Farmville Tree Harvest Profit Margins



Monday, 25 January 2010

How To Get The Most Ribbons On Farmville





It's pretty easy to earn a few ribbons in FarmVille. As you just go about your daily tasks, you'll wind up accomplishing at least some of the early ribbon-worthy tasks. You may notice when you do win one though, that the bonuses they pay out are pretty hefty. You can actually earn a lot of money and experience points quickly if you collect as many ribbons as you can. This is relatively easy to do, but you do have to put some effort into it if you want to get as much as you can out of your FarmVille experience.

Know What You Need

You won't be able to focus your energies on earning ribbons unless you know what you need to get them. You can find this information easily enough by clicking on the ribbon icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen. This will bring up a list of all of the possible ribbons and show you how you're progressing in each category.

Pick One

You do have limited resources, particularly when you're just starting out in FarmVille. Because of this, it's a good idea to focus on one type of ribbon at a time. Of course, it's likely that whatever you do to earn those ribbons will help you to earn some other ones as well, but you can focus on those when you get to them.

Which to Pick

Before you decide which set of ribbons to go after first, you should take a few moments to learn what each ribbon category is about. This way, you'll be able to get a good sense of which ribbons to go for first. For example, the Tree Hugger ribbons require that you harvest fruit from a particular number of unique trees, meaning that to get these, you'll have to have a variety of different types of trees on your farm.

The Knock on Wood ribbons can be earned by simply harvesting any type of tree a certain number of times. This means that if you focus on earning the Tree Hugger ribbons, you'll automatically be making progress towards the Knock on Wood ribbons as well. The converse is not necessarily true because you could get the Knock on Wood ribbon for harvesting from only one kind of tree.

Get Some Neighbors

Neighbors help you get ribbons both directly and indirectly. There are ribbons for just having a certain number of neighbors, how many times you help your neighbors out, and how many different types of gifts you receive. All of these categories are easier to progress in the more neighbors you have, so don't hesitate to hit up your friends and earn some ribbons that way too.

Sunday, 24 January 2010

How To Make The Most Money In Farmville



In Farmville, you need money for just about everything you do. You have to buy the seeds to plant, and you will even have to pay some money for each plot of land you plough.




The costs are easily managed because you are harvesting and selling crops for more than it costs to plant them. There are lots of other items you can buy in the Farmville market to build up your farm, and you won't be able to get these without large sums of cash. Buying these items will also get you some much needed experience points which will help you advance to the next level, so you will have to find a way to make sure you have enough money for all the discretionary items that you want to buy.




Your Earnings Per Hour




You need your coins for so much in Farmville, so maximize the earning potential of your farm. The best way I find is to work out which crops pay out the most coins in one hour. An example of this, strawberries sell for 35 coins per plot harvested and take 4 hours to grow. But pumpkins take 8 hours to grow and sell for 68 coins per plot harvested.


This means, for the same amount planted, you will earn 8.75 coins an hour by planting strawberries, and the pumpkins will only get you 8.5 coins an hour. This does seem a very small diffrence, but these small amounts add up very fast. Remember, you won't be getting your money's worth unless you can harvest the crops as soon as they are ready and immediately replant on that ground.


Get A Quick Turnaround


If you're not going to be able to get back to your farm for 8 hours, you are much better off planting the pumpkins. The longer you leave a crop after its done maturing, the less you'll be getting per hour once you harvest it. You can only make fast money on crops that mature quickly if you're going to be able to harvest and replant as soon as they are ready for sale. Please take these details into consideration when selecting your seeds at the market, and you will see your bank account going up in no time.








Saturday, 23 January 2010

Getting started in Farmville

If you are new to the world of Farmville, it wont take you very long at all to see why this game has grabbed so many people. There are loads of options when it comes to what kind of seeds to grow, what decorations and what buildings you can place on your farm, many types of livestock you choose to raise. You have so many options, it can be a little difficult at first to work out where to start in order to build your farm right.

Expand Your Farm Slowly

You need to get the most out of your land when playing in Farmville. This means you want to clear a large amount of land so you can grow as many crops as possible. Be careful about how much land you clear at once. It costs 15 coins to clear one plot of land, so if you clear to many at once, you wont have any coins left to buy the seeds you need to plant.

It is best to slowly expand your plots of land so you're always able to take full advantage of planting potential. After each harvest, its a great idea to replant on all your current plots first. Once this is done, it will be easier to work out how much more land you can afford to clear. Following this pattern will allow you to quickly expand your farm and you will always have enough coins to plant on all your cleared plots.


Plan Your Harvests

Another aspect of Farmville is that it can be tricky to get the timing right when harvests are ready. Each crop that you plant in the game will take a particular amount of time to mature. Once a crop is mature, you can harvest it. But dont wait too long. If you dont get back in time, your crops will wither and you'll just have to start again. It's very important to plan your plantings so that you can get back to check on your farm before this happens.

One of the best things about Farmville is that you can take it as seriously as you want to take it. If you only want to play once a week, that's fine. Just make sure you plant crops that will last that long. When you start playing though, you will not want to stay away for very long.

Friday, 22 January 2010

Do You Really Need a Guide For FarmVille?



I would like to think of myself to be a relatively well educated person in the latest generation of social networking site games like vampire wars, mafia wars etc. This is why when i started to see all these Farmville guides popping up all over the place i was kind of surprised. I can see why some people might need hints and tips in other games, but Farmville?






Even though i hadn't played the game, I really didn't think it would be all that complicated. I figured I should give it a go, only so I could say I knew what I was talking about. I was out of money and had no crops to plant at all. I must admit, there was more to this game Farmville than I had anticipated.



I did manage to dig myself out of my original hole that i was stuck in and out of the red, but i still wasn't making all that much progress, and my wife was beating me at Farmville all the time. I started to think that maybe I needed to see what these guides were all about. I wasn't really expecting all that much, but since I hadn't done very well on my own either, I figured it was worth a go.



So i picked up a guide called Farmville Secrets, and was pleasantly surprised by the tips that I found in it. You wouldn't think there were so many ways you could screw up a virtual farm, but believe me, you can. I was still stumbling along at level 7 when I got the guide after 3 weeks of playing all the time. Now I'm the proud owner of a plantation and at level 26 Sultan of Soil. My wife does not know how I did it. LOL. And I still look back at my guide from time to time. If you're having trouble getting into the swing of things in Farmville, this guide is not a bad investment.