Farmville Secrets

The Benefits of Becoming a Fan of FarmVille

2010-03-01T13:05:00.003+11:00

Farmville Fans

If you play FarmVille, you’ve probably seen the little reminders and encouragements all over your game screen encouraging you to become a Fan of the application. It’s pretty common for people to dismiss this as a silly undertaking, but more and more, there are some distinct advantages of becoming a Fan of FarmVille.

What it Means to Be a Fan

In order to become a Fan of FarmVille, all you have to do is go to the official FarmVille page and click on the Become a Fan link. This will automatically add FarmVille to your list of Pages on your Profile, and will allow posts from the FarmVille page to show up in your Live Feed. This may sound like a hassle, but the posts that FarmVille puts up are no more inconvenient than the dozens of other FarmVille posts that your friends put up every day. And they’re at least as helpful.

Tips and Info

These FarmVille posts mainly consist of updates about new features that will be added to the game soon. There will also occasionally be links to other sources of information, like the weekly Podcasts, that can help to keep you updated on the numerous new developments in the game and how to properly take advantage of them. Also, if you’re a Fan of FarmVille, you’ll know that any offers that you see for free specialty items or Farm Cash giveaways on other sites are not officially sanctioned.

For Fans Only

There have also recently been some special benefits available for Fans of FarmVille only. These benefits often consist of an opportunity to try out a new crop or other feature before it is released to the FarmVille population as a whole. Recent early access items include Super Pumpkins and the 24 x 24 land expansion. Not only are these special release items cool just to have access to, they are also usually more beneficial in a variety of ways than the items available to the general FarmVille population.

For example, Super Pumpkins, which FarmVille released to celebrate the fact that they had topped 15 million fans on their Facebook page, had a greater overall earnings and experience point profile than most other crops available in the game. This means that the Fans who had access to the Super Pumpkins for longer gained a much greater bonus than those players who weren’t fans and had a shorter window for planting this crop.

Special Items

Being a Fan of FarmVille also gives you the opportunity to send special gifts and to receive other updates and information that players who aren’t Fans are not privy to. You can even have FarmVille send you email updates to let you know when your crops are ready for harvesting so that you don’t have to worry about keeping track of this yourself. As you can see, there really is no reason not to become a Fan of FarmVille – you’ll be able to get ahead in the game without expending any extra effort. What could be better than that?

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Everything You Need to Know About Horse Stables in FarmVille

2010-02-28T12:59:00.002+11:00

Farmville Horse Stables

Many ardent FarmVille players have been begging for the addition of Horse Stables for quite some time. Horses just take up so much space on your farm, so having a lot of them can really limit your ability to undertake some more profitable endeavors or put up some larger buildings. No matter how large a farm you get, you’re still going to run out of space eventually, so having a Horse Stable is a huge plus for players at every level.

Conserving Space, Saving Time

Just like Chicken Coops and Dairy Farms, Horse Stables can hold 20 horses. While they are pretty large buildings themselves, the stables still take up much less space than 20 horses do. Plus, the stables have the added bonus of allowing you to harvest from all of these horses at once. That can save a ton of time, especially if you still have a bunch of goats, pigs, sheep and other animals that have to be harvested from individually.

Getting Started

Your Horse Stable is actually free to get started – that is, you’ll find the frame in your gift box when you log into the game. Before you set it up, though, you may have to clear some space. The stable takes up about as much space as 6 plowed plots of land, so make sure you have at least that much room free before you take it out of your gift box.

Just placing the frame of the Horse Stable on your land isn’t enough, however. In order to complete the construction, you’re going to have to gather a significant number of materials. You do start out with one brick, but you’ll need 10 each of bricks, wooden boards, harnesses, horseshoes and nails to complete your stable, and there are a couple of ways that you can get your hands on these.

Gifts

The preferable method for obtaining your building materials is as gifts from your FarmVille neighbors. Each day, a couple of these building materials will be available as free gifts that you can send to your neighbors and that they can send to you. The specific items listed here will change from time to time, so it’ll be important to get what you need when it’s available.

If you really want to give yourself the best chance of getting all of your building materials as gifts, you may want to post an announcement on your wall asking your friends for specific items. As long as you have a significant number of neighbors, though, you shouldn’t have too much trouble gathering up the items you need. Also, whatever items you don’t manage to collect as gifts, you can purchase from the market for 1 Farm Cash each.

Announcing Your Construction

When you set up your stable, you’ll have the opportunity to post an announcement on your wall letting your friends know what you’re up to and giving them the option of lending a hand. If they take you up on your offer, they’ll receive 100 coins, but there’s really no benefit to you. It’s certainly the neighborly thing to do, though, and your neighbors will appreciate the opportunity to pick up the bonus.

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The Ins and Outs of FarmVille Collections

2010-02-28T12:42:00.002+11:00

Farmville Collections Guide

Collections are a relatively new addition to the intricacies of life in FarmVille. While completing Collections is not vital to your ability to succeed at the game, it does allow you to pick up some nice bonuses. There are 5 Collections available at the moment, and it’s likely new ones will be added in the future.

Your Options

Right now, you have to opportunity to complete the Gardening Tools Collection, the Country Kitsch Collection, the Bugs Collection, the Butterfly Collection and the Feather Collection. Each Collection is made up of 6 separate items, and you’ll need at least one of each before you can trade in a collection and receive your bonus.

The items in each Collection also fall into 3 separate categories – Common, Uncommon and Rare. As their name implies, the Rare items will be the most difficult to find, the Common ones the easiest and so forth. Also, by allowing your cursor to hover over each item, you can pick up a hint on where to find each type of collectible.

Gathering Items

Most of the items in these Collections can be found as you go about your daily farm tasks. Some are hidden on your farm, while you’ll only be able to uncover some others when you’re helping out on your friends’ farms. You can also send and receive collectibles as gifts, so be sure to let your friends know if there are some specific items you’re looking for. They just may be able to send one your way.

Once you complete a collection, you’ll have the option of posting an announcement of your accomplishment on your wall. Far from simply an exercise in vanity, this announcement will also be an opportunity for your friends to pick up a random item from the same collection that you’ve just completed.

And just as you should be sure to post these announcements at every opportunity to help your friends complete their collections, you should also be sure not to forget to keep your eyes open for them yourself. These posts are an invaluable resource when you’re trying to complete collections, so be sure to pick up your free random collectible every time one of your friends completes a collection.

Multiple Collections

Of course, as you gather collectibles from various sources, you’ll often wind up with duplicate items. There’s nothing wrong with this, however. You can actually hold up to 10 of each item, and you can complete each Collection many times over. So hold onto your doubles and try to direct your energies towards finding more of the items you have less of.

Bonus Options

Of course, there wouldn’t be much point in expending a bunch of energy to complete these Collections if you didn’t get something out of it. So you’ll be happy to know that completing a Collection actually gives you the opportunity to pick up either 250 experience points, 5,000 coins or 5 tanks of fuel. There really is no right reward to pick – your priorities at the moment will determine which one is more beneficial to you.

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How To Get The Farmville Hot Rod Tractor

2010-02-17T15:12:00.003+11:00

Farmville Secrets

A Hot Rod Tractor is a great asset to have when you’re working the fields in FarmVille. It allows you to plow 9 plots at a time instead of a measly four that the regular tractor can handle, saving you a bunch of time and energy. This is an especially useful asset when you have a large farm with seemingly endless fields to plant.

How to Get Your Tractor

As with many of the specialty items in FarmVille, you can purchase the Hot Rod tractor in one of two ways. Once you reach level 12, you’ll have the option to purchase this item for 55 Farm Cash. However, if you’d like to be able to purchase your tractor with coins, there’s a bit of a new twist involved. Rather than requiring a minimum number of neighbors to unlock the coin purchase option, the Hot Rod Tractor can only be purchased with coins if you have a Mafia Wars account that’s at least level 10.

To be honest, this is a pretty ingenious cross-marketing strategy on Zynga’s part. Getting all of their FarmVille players hooked on Mafia Wars too could be a huge benefit for them. However, even if you don’t want to play Mafia Wars on a regular basis, it’s worth it to log in and work your way up to level 10. This won’t take you much time, and even if it’s not your thing, the game is pretty engaging on its own.

Quick Leveling in Mafia Wars

It can be a bit confusing logging into Mafia Wars for the first time, though. There’s a lot going on, and unlike other Zynga games like FishVille and Café World, Mafia Wars doesn’t quite follow the same layout as FarmVille. Nevertheless, you’ll be able to get the hang of it pretty quickly, especially if your goal is to merely reach level 10.

The key to leveling up quickly in Mafia Wars is making good use of your Energy. Just like in FarmVille, you have to earn Experience Points to level up, but in order to get those Experience Points, you have to do Jobs. You’ll have a few Jobs to choose from at the outset, and the number of those options will increase as you move up to new levels. What is constant about all of the Jobs, though, is that they all require Energy to complete.

Skill Points

Each time you reach a new level or master a Job (achieved by doing that job over and over again), you’ll be awarded some Skill Points. You’ll then be able to apply these Skill Points to different aspects of your character. If you were actually playing Mafia Wars long term, you might want to spread your Skill Points around by putting a few into each category.

When you’re just trying to level up quickly, however, all you want to do is dump all of your Skill Points into increasing your maximum Energy. With more energy, you can do more Jobs, level up quickly and unlock that Hot Rod Tractor. And who knows? You may wind up liking Mafia Wars a whole lot more than you expected.

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Chicken Feedings and Mystery Eggs

2010-02-16T09:23:00.006+11:00

Farmville Secrets

One fun new addition to FarmVille, the social networking game put out by Zynga, is the ability of players to feed their friends chickens and to collect Mystery Eggs as they do so. Ever since the Chicken Coops were introduced into FarmVille, players have occasionally been lucky enough to find Mystery Eggs when they were harvesting their coops. However, making Mystery Eggs discoverable in all of your friends’ coops makes these treasured items exponentially more available.

The Basics

Chicken Coops hold up to 20 chickens at once, and they can be harvested once every 24 hours. It’s during these harvestings that Mystery Eggs began to be discovered, and while they don’t actually provide any direct benefit to the discoverer, they can be hatched by the friends and neighbors of the person who found them.

Better Chickens, Better Eggs

The kind of chickens that can be found in the coops has a direct effect on the types of Mystery Eggs that are discovered. For example, a chicken coop with only normal white chickens in it can only produce white Mystery Eggs. If there is a Black or a Brown chicken introduced into the mix, though, the possibility will exist that a Black or Brown Mystery Egg could be found.

And of course, adding a Golden Chicken to a coop means that there will be a possibility of discovering a highly coveted Golden Mystery Egg. All Mystery Eggs contain a prize, of course, but the better the egg, the better the prize to be “hatched.”

Sharing the Discovery

As we touched on earlier, you won’t actually receive any benefit for finding a Mystery Egg. You will, however, be able to post an announcement of the find on your wall so that your friends can each hatch an egg to collect a prize. Of course, every time one of your friends finds a Mystery Egg, you’ll be able to try your hand at hatching it.

Feeding Chickens

For a while now, it’s been possible to fertilize some of your neighbors’ crops when you make your daily visit to their farms. This gives you the benefit of an extra opportunity to pick up Experience Points and also makes their harvesting more profitable in the Experience Point category as well. Now there’s an extra task waiting for you when you stop by your neighbors’ farms, though, and that’s feeding the chickens.

Like fertilizing crops, feeding your neighbors’ chickens earns you a coin and Experience Point Bonus. However, it also provides you with the opportunity to discover Mystery Eggs with each feeding. And the more often the chickens in a given coop are fed, the more likely they are to produce Mystery Eggs. Of course, this means that your friends will be more likely to find Mystery Eggs as well, giving you more chances to hatch one. And even if you don’t find a Mystery Egg when you’re harvesting your coop after your friends have fed your chickens, you’re likely to come away with a hefty coin bonus.

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Planning Your FarmVille Layout to Optimize Your Earnings

2010-01-14T12:58:00.000+11:00

One of the main things that makes FarmVille so much fun to play is that there are really an endless number of possible ways you can arrange your farm. You can also rearrange things whenever you'd like, so you never have to be bored by coming back to the same old farm over and over again. (If only redecorating your own house was so easy.)

What appeals to your aesthetic taste isn't the only thing you should keep in mind when you're setting up your farm, however. How you arrange your buildings, decorations, animals, trees, and plowed plots of land can have a significant impact on how successful you ultimately will be in FarmVille. You should certainly choose a layout that makes you want to visit your farm often, but you need to take some more practical matters into consideration as well.

Space for Crops

By far, you'll be making most of your money off of the crops you plant and harvest. Because of this, you'll need to make sure you have plenty of space set aside for this purpose. Depending on the size of your farm, the actual percentage of land this entails will vary, but you should be careful not to cut your crop space down too much. Also, it's a good idea to group all of your plowed plots together to make it easier to harvest, plant, and plow with your farm equipment.

Building for Success

Getting some buildings up on your farm is a good way to make it feel like home. It's also a good way to earn a bunch of experience points at once and level up quickly – particularly at the higher levels. You'll only have so much space for buildings, however, so be sure and choose carefully when you go to buy them. Of course, buying the buildings just for the experience points and then turning around and selling them is always an option. You'll lose quite a bit of money this way, though, so it's not something you'll be able to do on a regular basis.

Trees

Trees are also a good source of supplemental income. Depending on how much time you're willing to spend harvesting them, you can pack quite a few trees into a pretty small space. You just want to make sure that your trees aren't obscuring any of the other items, plowed plots, or animals on your farm. It's easy to lose space to the shadow of a tree. That's why it's best to plant them mainly on the far edges of your farm. That way, you can enjoy their attractive appearance and coin earning potential while still being able to take advantage of all of the available land on your farm.

Animals

Animals are always nice to have around, but they can take up a lot of space too. If you want to make some money off of your farm animals while conserving space, you should focus on keeping chickens in a chicken coop and cows in dairy farms. These particular types of animals don't bring in a great deal of revenue individually, but keeping them in these structures allows you to harvest them all at once and saves you a ton of space that you can then devote to other things.

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Helpful FarmVille Leveling Tips for the Higher Levels

2010-01-13T12:57:00.000+11:00

When you first start playing FarmVille, it's pretty easy to accumulate enough experience points to move up to the next level. The number of experience points needed to advance at this stage of the game is not that high, and pretty much everything you do in the game earns you a few experience points. Plus, because you're trying to build your farm up quickly, you'll be earning extra experience points without even trying.

Once you get up to the higher levels, though, the experience point gaps between levels get bigger and the small bonuses you get for helping your neighbors and planting and plowing your fields are no longer enough to allow you to advance quickly. There are things you can do, however, to make it easier for yourself to move up.

Build, Build, Build

Since you probably have a pretty substantial farm, and thus a substantial and stable stream of income, you should have plenty of coins on hand. If this is the case, you will actually be able to “buy” your way to the higher levels buy purchasing buildings and other items. All of the items you buy give you experience points, but buildings provide the most by far.

Of course, you can only fit so many buildings on your farm at once. But as long as you have enough coins on hand, you can keep buying buildings and other items and then selling them at a reduced rate. You'll certainly lose quite a bit of money on the deal, but you'll gain a ton of experience points. Once money's no longer an issue for you, this is a good way to build up your experience points quickly.

Reevaluate Your Crops

Early in the game, you'll most likely be choosing crops that help you earn coins quickly. When you're trying to advance in the higher levels of game play, though, it's a good idea to reevaluate your crop selection. Shifting your emphasis from cash crops to crops that yield the most experience points per planting and per hour will have a significant impact on your ability to advance quickly.

Often this means going with the crops that take 1 day to grow. That's because these crops yield 2 experience points per planting, but take the minimum amount of time to grow for that level of experience earning potential. There are certainly other crops that offer the same experience bonuses, but they take longer to grow and so don't allow you to accumulate experience points as quickly.

Another option for seeds that may help you level up quickly are strawberries and blueberries. They only take 4 hours to grow, meaning that they only yield 1 experience point per growing cycle. But since the short growing time allows you to harvest and replant quickly, you have the potential to earn 2 experience points per plot of land every 4 hours – as long as you can get back to harvest them on time, that is. And of course, work with your neighbors to get as many of your crops fertilized as you can on a regular basis.

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Getting the Most out of Your FarmVille Neighbors

2010-01-12T12:55:00.000+11:00

Even if you haven't been playing FarmVille for very long, you're probably aware that having neighbors can bring you some substantial benefits. Many of these benefits are obvious, such as allowing you to expand your farm inexpensively, but some others are more easily overlooked. If you really want to be successful in FarmVille, though, you'll need to make sure that you're getting absolutely everything you can out of your neighbors. Sometimes this will require a little bit of effort, but it will be well worth the extra work in the end.

Crop and Plot Fertilization

Of course, it's beneficial to both you and your neighbors if they can fertilize your crops and you can fertilize theirs. You get extra experience points when harvesting fertilized crops, and your neighbors get to earn a few extra coins for each plot of yours they fertilize. However, when you're not going to be able to get back to your farm for an extended period of time, you might think there's no point in plowing your fields since you can't plant on them.

If you go this route, though, you'll miss out on the opportunity to have your entire farm fertilized when you come back. Your neighbors can't fertilize fallow land, but they can fertilize plowed plots even if they haven't been planted yet. And when you do return to plant on them, your crops will be instantly fertilized. Also, it's important to pass this information along too. If your friends have to spend some time away from their farm, you want to be able to earn your coins fertilizing their plots as well.

Gifts

Because the game no longer directs you to the free gift page every day when you log into FarmVille for the first time, it's easy to forget to send these special items to your friends. And, of course, it's easy for your friends to forget to send gifts to you. Even if you don't necessarily need any of the items that you receive as gifts, you can always sell them for some extra coins, so you'll want to remind your neighbors to keep sending them if they've been neglecting this aspect of the game. And the best way to remind them to send gifts your way is to remember to send gifts to them.

Bonuses

Every time your neighbors earn a ribbon, you'll have the opportunity to receive a bonus from them. Some of these bonuses are as small as 50 coins, and it may seem like more trouble than it's worth to peruse your news feed to find them all. But these small bonuses add up fast. You'll be missing out on a lot of you don't take advantage of as many as you can find.

It's never a bad thing to have some extra coins lying around – you can even use them to buy some extra items to earn experience points and level up more quickly. In order to be successful in FarmVille, you need to be able to take advantage of every opportunity that's presented to you, no matter how insignificant it seems at the time.

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Getting the Most Out of FarmVille Ribbons

2010-01-11T12:53:00.000+11:00

The various ribbons you can earn while playing FarmVille can be pretty easy to overlook and take for granted. After all, you earn most of them simply by doing the things you would be doing in the game anyway. Ribbons for plowing and harvesting different kinds of crops are easy enough to earn – as are ribbons for simply spending money at the market. The bonuses you get when you win these ribbons are not small, however, and so you can help yourself a lot by making earning ribbons a priority. This is much easier than it sounds, and is well worth the small amount of effort it requires.

Targeting Your Accomplishments

Of course, if you're going to be working on earning ribbons, you'll need to know what you have to do to get them. You can find this out easily enough by simply clicking on the ribbon icon at the bottom of your screen. This will bring up a window that will allow you to peruse the many different types of ribbons that are available and see what you have to do to earn each one.

Complimentary Sets

Some of the accomplishments rewarded by ribbons are complimentary, but some others are not. For example, you can earn ribbons by harvesting a certain number of vegetable crops, and another by harvesting a certain number of fruit crops. Because you only have a limited amount of space to devote to your crops, it's best if you focus on one of these achievements first, and then shift to the other. Trying to split your resources between the two will only make it harder for you to accomplish both of them.

Some separate ribbons are complimentary, however. For example, you can earn ribbons by spending money in the market, and you can also earn ribbons by owning a certain number of decorations. Since you have to spend money in the store to accumulate these decorations, you can work towards both of these ribbons simultaneously.

A Winning Layout

You can also change the layout of your farm in order to earn ribbons more quickly. For instance, if you know you're going after some ribbons that have to do with harvesting or planting crops, you should maximize the amount of space you devote to plowed land. Once you've taken care of these accomplishments, however, you can adjust your layout to reflect your new goals. You don't want to get rid of all of your plowed plots, however – just make sure you have enough space set aside to pursue your new goals.

Sharing in the Wealth

Since you can share the wealth with your friends every time you earn a ribbon, you should be sure to take advantage of all of the bonuses you can earn when your friends collect ribbons as well. Checking your news feed frequently for your friends' announcements and clicking on the link to collect the bonus they're offering is a great way to earn some extra coins and get ahead in FarmVille fast. Just make sure you're offering the bonuses to them as well so that they share with you every time they can.

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A Quick Guide to Animals in FarmVille

2010-01-10T12:56:00.000+11:00

There are an ever-growing number of animals that you can choose to keep on your farm in FarmVille. It can be a lot of fun to collect as many as you can of the ones you like, and animals add a lot to your farm. They also provide some revenue, although the amount varies a great deal with the type of animal you're collecting from. There are certainly plenty of reasons to keep all of these animals, but they do take up space. In order to make sure that you're not sacrificing too many of your resources for the animals you're supporting, you should consider a few things when you're deciding which animals to keep.

Space Savers

On your farm, space is always at a premium. That's why it's a good idea to focus on raising the animals that will take up the least amount of space. This list include the obvious smaller animals, like ducks and bunnies, but also a couple of others you might not expect. As long as you have enough neighbors (or enough farm cash) you can purchase dairy farms to keep your cows in. These hold up to 20 cows (or 19 cows and 1 bull) each, and you can buy as many as you want.

Not only do dairy farms take up much less space than 20 individual cows would, they're also much easier to collect from. With one click, you can harvest the milk from all 20 cows within your dairy farm. And cows aren't the only one's who get this type of special accommodations. Building yourself a chicken coop will save you time and space in the same way by giving you a place to house up to 20 chickens. Unfortunately, there is a limit of 1 chicken coop per farm, so you're best off keeping your total chicken population to 20 so they'll all fit in the coop.

Where to Get 'Em

All of these animals also don't come from the same place. In fact, the only animals you can buy with coins as this point are sheep and pigs. These animals are fine to have around, but they're not particularly space efficient, nor do they bring in a ton of revenue. There are a few other specialty animals that you can buy only with farm cash – several special varieties of chickens and an orange tabby, at the moment. And there are usually a few seasonal specials too that are only available for a limited time.

All About Gifts

You shouldn't need to buy any animals at all though if you're patient and have managed to accumulate a few good neighbors. There are quite a few different kinds of animals available as gifts, and if you get them this way, they're free. That means that you don't have to wait until you've made back the purchase price to start making money off of these animals. You can also get many more types of animals this way, so just tell your friends what you'd like to receive.

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The Many Advantages of FarmVille Flowers

2010-01-09T17:12:00.000+11:00

Flowers are an exciting new addition to the selection of seeds available for you to plant on your farm in FarmVille. These new planting options are not only aesthetically attractive, but they're generally financially beneficial as well. And they also offer you a whole new way to interact with your neighbors and pretty up your farm. Growing flowers on a farm may seem like a silly choice to make, but if you look at the big picture, it's actually a very sensible decision. FarmVille flowers have a few important characteristics that make them a very attractive crop to raise, making them definitely worth a closer look.

Quick Cash

The most immediate benefit to growing flowers on your farm is that most of them deliver a handsome profit in a relatively short period of time. They generally only take a day (or sometimes two) to grow, and deliver an average return on your investment of over two times. The seasonal poinsettias will actually get you even more – almost 3 times your initial investment back within one day. That's a great profit to be raking in on a regular basis, and an excellent turnaround time as well.

Sharing the Beauty

But the financial incentives aren't the only important reason you'll want to grow some flowers on your farm. Flowers also just look really pretty – you're in for a real treat when your field of flowers matures. Also, you can share your bunches of flowers with your neighbors, and you can collect bunches from them.

These bunches will stay looking pretty for two whole weeks, and as long as you have a lot of friends to collect them from, you can put them all over your farm to add a special touch of beauty. They're totally maintenance free too – no watering or any other upkeep required. Just position your perfect bunches and enjoy the view. You have to be quick, though. The perfect bunches your friends have available at any given time will be limited in number. If you want to get as many as possible, you'll have to be pretty vigilant so that you know when there may be new ones to collect.

Give to Receive

And of course, the best way to encourage your friends to grow flowers so that you can collect them is by growing and distributing some of your own perfect bunches. Once your friends start to see how great the flowers can look, they'll be happy to help you out by growing some for you to collect. You may even want to shoot off a quick message explaining to your friends how profitable of an investment the flower seeds are as well. That way, they'll be doubly as inclined to grow their own and set out some bunches for you to collect.

There's really no downside to growing flowers in FarmVille. They only need the same care as any other crop, and they have some good extra features that make them even more desirable to grow than some of the more traditional alternatives.

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To Post, or Not to Post? The Eternal FarmVille Question

2010-01-06T14:51:00.000+11:00

Anyone who spends any period of time on FarmVille knows how many chances there are to post announcements to your profile. Any small accomplishment in the game will prompt you to announce your progress to all of your friends. It's easy to see how this can fast become annoying, both to friends who play the game and to those that do not.

However, there are times when it's important to post announcements to your wall in order to help out fellow players. Only posting the helpful messages also will make it easier for your friends who are playing to find the bonuses you're trying to share with them. But which messages should you post? It's actually easier to figure out than you may think.

Sharing the Wealth

There are several times when you'll be asked if you'd like to Share the Wealth. You'll typically get this type of message when you earn a ribbon, although there are some other occasions as well. Any time you get this message though, you'll want to post to your wall and your friends' profiles. That's because your friends will only be able to get the bonus celebrating your ribbon if they can see it and click on the link on their profile. Also, it doesn't actually cost you anything to do this, so it's a good idea to always give all your friends the opportunity to share in your success.

Help a Stray

Another time it's good to post an announcement on your wall is when you receive the message that a stray animal has wandered onto your farm. You should always choose to help the animal find a home, but the only way to do this is to tell all of your friends that this animal is available for adoption. Most of them will be happy to have the opportunity to adopt the animals too, because they essentially get a money-maker for free. Most of the animals available this way are rare too, so these adoption messages may be the only way for your friends to get one.

Perfect Bunches

As you start to pick flowers, you'll start to collect perfect bunches that you can then give to your friends. Of course, you only have a limited number each time, so you'll have to post this type of announcement as well in order to enable your friends to collect your perfect bunches. Along these same lines, when you harvest eggs from your chicken coop, you'll occasionally find some mystery eggs to share with friends. The only way to share them, though, is to post the announcement, so this is one you should post also.

Posts to Avoid

Now that you have some idea of which announcements it's good to post, you can probably guess which types of posts are not particularly wise or welcome. Posting status updates whenever you reach a new level, for example, is not really a good idea. It does not benefit anyone, but merely takes up space on your friends' profiles. And essentially, that's the best rule to follow – if your friends get something out of it, post it. If they don't, keep it to yourself.

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Making the Best Use of Your Storage Space in FarmVille

2010-01-05T09:31:00.000+11:00

Whether you're a FarmVille noobie or a seasoned veteran, you probably know how fast you can run out of room on your farm. You get so many gifts that you want to show off, but you also need to have room for your animals and crops so that you can continue to earn a decent living. And no matter how much you're able to grow your farm, it just never seems to be large enough to allow you to store and display all of the items you want.

Lucky for all of us though, FarmVille has added storage buildings so that you have somewhere to put some of those special items that you don't want to lose, but don't have room to display presently either. This is especially handy because purchasing decorations and other items doesn't just make your farm look better – it gives you experience points too.

Beneficial Balance

What all of this means is that you want to be able to purchase as many items as possible so that you can stack up those experience points fast. And of course, while taking in the number of experience points an item will earn you is important, it's also important to purchase the items that you think will add the most aesthetically to your farm.

You'll find out fast, however, that no matter how good the items you buy look individually, it's hard to make them all look good when they're crammed together because you simply had no space left to show them off properly. And that's when you can make use of your storage buildings.

Building Space

Of course, the amount of space you have available for storage will depend on the number of storage buildings you have. And that will depend on how much space you have to put up those buildings. With a little foresight, though, you can make this arrangement work out thoroughly to your advantage.

Really, all you have to do is to make some room on your farm for your storage buildings to be. And don't worry – they look like they belong on a farm anyway. For example, you can use a barn or a shed as a storage building, so don't worry that the buildings themselves will be an eyesore. Also, you can pick the type of building you want based on what will look best on your farm. Erecting the buildings will get you a good deal of experience too, so they actually benefit you in a couple of ways.

What to Store

You can certainly put up extra buildings to store more stuff as you accumulate it. But at a certain point, you'll have to start deciding what to store and what to sell off. After all, the whole point of having storage buildings is to create some extra space on your farm. You don't want to just turn around and fill up that space you worked so hard to create. You'll be able to purchase most items again if you want them later on, so the best ones to store are generally things that are seasonal in nature and won't be available to purchase the next time you want to be able to display them.

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FarmVille Secrets - It's Not Just About the Farm

2009-12-28T12:44:00.000+11:00

When you are just starting out in FarmVille, you really have to concentrate on sowing as many crops as possible and picking them the minute they're ready. You want to prepare as much land as possible in order to earn coins and experience points fast. After all, that's the only way to advance and leverage your options for game play.

Once you've reached some of the higher levels, however, there are a lot of things you can do with your farm besides farming it. In fact, you may find that your prepared plots are becoming less and less of the focus of the farm as a whole. There's nothing wrong with this, and in fact there are some clear benefits that come from shifting your attention away from straight farming as you level up.

Okay, but where do you focus this energy then? In fact, you have a few choices, and each of those options has its own pros and cons. A lot of what you choose to do will have to do with your own personal preferences and priorities, but there are a few areas of endeavour that are worth keeping in mind.

Animals

Animals take up space and they can be fairly tedious to collect from. Dairy farms and chicken coops take away a lot of these complications when it comes to cows and chickens though. Other animals may still be awkward to keep, but the cows and the chickens can help you create a regualar income stream in no time as long as you have these structures to put them in. They make collecting easier and they take up much less space than the animals themselves would if they were left to their own devices.

Buildings

Setting some space aside to erect buildings on is also a great way to develop your farm as you level up. Not only will buildings add to the visual appearance of your property, but putting them up gets you a considerable amount of experience. Some buildings are also useful for either keeping animals (as discussed above), or for storage of excess stock. Either way, though, making your farm develpoment a priority will help you level up more quickly, as well as improving the overall aesthetic quality of your property.

Decorations

The higher the level you reach, the more choices you'll have for the decorations you can put up. You'll also notice that new decorations will become available depending on the season or approaching holiday. Because of this, you can really change the look of your farm with decorations depending on what mood strikes you at the time.

Also, by taking advantage of the new storage buildings available, you can switch up your farm's look by taking some items out of storage and putting others away for a later time. Plus, selling off old decorations and buying new ones is a good way to rack up some easy experience points without having to wait for the next harvesting and planting cycle.

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Is FarmVille Farm Equipment Worth the Money?

2009-12-26T11:45:00.000+11:00

When you first get started in FarmVille, you won't have any choice but to plant, harvest, and plow by hand. As your farm expands and you advance to new levels, however, you'll have the chance to buy some farm machinery to be able to get your farm chores done faster. This certainly sounds like a sensible thing to do, but before you head off and purchase all of the possible equipment (harvester, seeder, plow), it's better to sit down and work out if all of these items are really worth the expense in the long run.

Basic Buy Price

The first thing to keep in mind is that farm equipment doesn't come cheap. Each of the pieces of machinery available to you will run you 30,000 coins. That's a fair bit of cash, and you'll need to make sure that purchasing a seeder, for example, won't leave you without cash to purchase the seeds you want to plant with it.

Also, you probably won't be able to purchase all three pieces of equipment at once (for reasons of price and also because they're available at different levels). Because of this, though, it's important to consider which machine you'll actually use the most and buy that one first. There's nothing wrong with purchasing these vehicles as long as you're going to make good use of them.

Fuel Costs

Something else you'll need to consider when you're contemplating the purchase of some heavy farm machinery is that the cost price isn't necessarily the whole cost of the machine. Depending on the size of your farm, you'll burn your fuel pretty fast with these heavy machines – especially if you have more than one piece of equipmemt.

If your farm is larger than what your machinery can cover on one tank of fuel, then, you'll have to consider the benefits of buying more fuel. These refills come in several sizes, ranging from a single tank to fifty of them, but you can only buy them with Farm Cash. And because Farmville Cash can be pretty hard to come by, those refills get expensive awfully fast.

If your patient, you can always wait for your tank to fill up again on its own. That doesn't cost you anything, and it doesn't even really take that much time. But if you're tending to a large farm, you may quickly become annoyed waiting for your fuel to fill up before you can use your farm machinery again.

Staggered Plantings

One way to overcome this is to sow a variety of crops that all grow at different speeds. That way, you won't have to plow, plant, and harvest your whole farm at once. As long as you give your equipment enough time between operations to refuel by themselves, you'll never have to spend a cent on fuel. The only trick to this system is making sure that you're not missing out on using them when you'd like to just because you don't have any fuel. And the best way to make sure that doesn't happen is to plan your plantings well.

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Picking the Right Crops in FarmVille

2009-11-29T08:55:00.000+11:00

When you're playing FarmVille, it's fun to experiment with different crops and planting patterns. And since you'll always be selling crops for more than you paid for the seeds, you'll always be making money. You won't always be making a lot, though. The crops that sell for a lot can often cost a lot as well. If you're not careful about what you plant, you won't be able to save up for those other decorations and buildings you've been looking forward to buying. There are several different factors that contribute to the profitability and desirability of a particular crop, and it's a good idea to keep these in mind when you're making your planting decisions.

Investment Return

One important element to take into consideration when deciding what type of crops to plant is how much of a difference there is between the seed price and the price your harvest will fetch at the market. Some crops, like soybeans, will get you back more than 4 times your initial investment, while others will return less than 2. It's obviously more advantageous to get the most back when you can, but there are other factors to consider as well.

Earnings Per Hour

Since different types of crops take different amounts of time to grow, they'll be earning you different amounts of coins per hour. If you wan to get the most out of your plowed land, you'll want to make sure you're planting the crops that will earn you the most each hour.

It's nice to harvest a crop like artichokes, which sell for over 200 coins per plot of cultivated land. But it takes 4 days for these plants to mature, so your earnings per hour is not very high. Raspberries, on the other hand, will get you over 40 coins every 2 hours. This will give you a handsome benefit with a quick turnaround time, and the opportunity to replant and make more money quickly.

Timing

Of course, planting a crop like raspberries won't make you much money if you can't get back to your farm in time to harvest them. Since these plants mature so quickly, they also wither quickly, and you'll only lose money if you plant them and then don't check on your farm for a day. While the earning potential and investment return of crops is always important, it's also important to make sure your farm's planting and harvesting needs are adaptable to your schedule.

Crops in FarmVille wither at the same rate that they mature. This means that a crop like raspberries that matures in 2 hours will wither 2 hours after that. Something like artichokes, on the other hand, will not wither for 8 days from the time you plant them.

Deciding which crops to plant doesn't have to be an overly complicated decision. It's good to put some thought into it, though, if you want your farm to prosper and grow. You'll have a much more enjoyable farming experience if you make informed and reasonable decisions about which crops to plant when.

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How to Rack Up the Ribbons in FarmVille

2009-11-22T11:32:00.000+11:00

When you first start developing your farm in FarmVille, it's easy to overlook the ribbons. You'll earn a few incidentally as you plant and harvest your crops, and they give some nice bonuses, but most people don't focus too much on these achievements. You'll be doing yourself a big favor, though, if you do take a closer look at the various ribbons available and what you need to do to earn them. Often it won't take much of an adjustment to your game plan to get some ribbons under your belt and they give you a great advantage as you advance through the game.

Why You Want Ribbons

You won't be able to focus on earning ribbons if you don't know what the criteria are for doing so. You can easily locate this information, though, by clicking on the ribbon icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen. Once you take a quick look at the different types of ribbons available and what you have to do to get them, you'll see why it's easy and worthwhile to focus on earning ribbons.

Basically, any of the tasks you complete in the game will eventually earn you a ribbon. You can accelerate the process, though, if you know what to focus on. For example, say you're unsure about whether to buy another cow or branch out into shepherding.

Knowing that you can earn a ribbon for collecting goods from different types of animals might make your decision a little easier. It costs you a few hundred coins more to buy the sheep initially, but you'll likely wind up with a bonus in the thousands once you achieve the ribbon. That's a pretty good return on your investment.

Getting the Most

Acquiring as many neighbors as you can is the best thing to focus on first when you're trying to earn ribbons. On top of the fact that you can earn the Local Celebrity ribbon just by having a certain number of neighbors, they can help you earn quite a few other ribbons too.

You can earn the Good Samaritan ribbon by helping out on your neighbors' farms. Because you can only help each neighbor once a day, though, you'll earn this ribbon faster the more neighbors you have. Having a lot of neighbors will also make it much easier to master categories like the Not Spoiled, Gifted! Ribbon. You earn these ribbons by receiving a certain number of unique gifts, and the more neighbors you have, the more gifts you'll get.

It's Worth Your Time

It really isn't hard to rack up some ribbons quickly, but it can do you a lot of good in FarmVille. All it takes is a little bit of time and focus, and you'll be well on your way towards earning some great bonuses in the form of both coins and experience points. This will give you a great boost when it comes to advancing to higher levels, as well as the cash to buy the new items you unlock when you do. The crops as the higher levels will also allow you to earn more coins more quickly, giving you even more cash to invest back into your farm.

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How to Get the Most Neighbors in FarmVille

2009-11-21T16:11:00.000+11:00

If you're just getting started in FarmVille, you might not think it's all that important to have a lot of neighbors. After all, you're not fighting other players like you would in Mafia Wars. You don't have to defend your farm from attack. You just have to keep plowing, planting, and harvesting, and watch the coins collect in the bank.

While this is certainly a perfectly acceptable way to play the game, it's not the easiest or the most productive. Adding neighbors can give you all kinds of benefits that will allow you to advance to the next levels more quickly and accumulate more animals, trees, and decorations for your farm. Having a lot of neighbors will also make it much easier and cheaper for you to expand your farm when you're ready to do that. But how do you get all these neighbors?

Hit Up Your Friends

The first place to go looking for neighbors is your friend list. It's actually quite likely that some of the people you know have already started farming themselves, and the game makes it easy for you to find them. If you click on the My Neighbors tab, you'll bring up a list of the people on your friend list who are already playing FarmVille. All you have to do is click on the box to add them as your neighbor.

While this is a good place to start, there's no reason to be satisfied with this number of neighbors. Clicking on the next tab over, Invite Friends, you can quickly send invitations to everyone on your friend list to come and play FarmVille with you. Of course, not all of the people you invite will take you up on it, but you should get at least a few more neighbors out of this. Be sure to invite everyone though. There's nothing to lose, and you never know which of your friends is secretly a farmer at heart.

Beyond Your Friend List

Depending on how large your friend list is and how many positive responses you get, you may not need to look elsewhere for more neighbors. If you do want to try and find more, though, a great place to find some new neighbors (and friends) are the FarmVille Forums. Here you'll be able to chat with and add a bunch of people as neighbors who enjoy playing the game and are looking for new ways to expand their opportunities.

You do have to be careful when adding players from these forums though. Most of them are legitimate profiles of regular FarmVille players like you, but there are some fraudulent profiles out there. You'll know you added a fake profile if you start getting nonsensical messages in your inbox, so be careful not to add too many people you don't know at once. That way, you'll be able to tell which profile to delete if you encounter a problem.

Adding neighbors and expanding your farm is just one of the many enjoyable aspects of FarmVille. And it doesn't just give you more options for game play. It also gives you new ways to interact with old friends and a good venue to add new ones, and that may be the most rewarding bonus of all.

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Fateful FarmVille Pitfalls to Avoid

2009-11-17T19:31:00.000+11:00

Getting the hang of life in FarmVille isn't all that complicated. You harvest crops, plant new ones, and buy various items and buildings at the market to pretty up your patch of land. Making progress in FarmVille isn't all that hard, but there are some definite pitfalls you should try to avoid as you move forward. Who knew there was so much strategy involved in farming?

Plowing to Plant

Of course, to make as much money as you can off of your farm, you want to clear a significant amount of land for crops. This is definitely the way to go, but you do have to be smart about it. It costs money to plow land as well as to buy the seeds to plant on it. If you use up all your money plowing extra land, you won't be able to plant on it. If you can't plant crops, you won't be able to make more money.

That's why it's important to make sure you can make use of all your available land before you start clearing more. If you plant on all of the plowed plots of land you already have first, you'll have a much better idea of how many more you'll be able to afford to clear and plant on this time around. That way, you'll get the most out of all of your available plots of land and be able to clear even more when it comes time for your next harvest.

Time Your Harvests

It can be very tempting to plant a particular type of crop that offers a good return on your investment. You won't get that return, though, if you can't get back in time to harvest your crops before they wither. When you're deciding what and when to plant, you have to take your own schedule into consideration so that you can be sure you'll be able to get back to your farm in an appropriate amount of time.

Crops mature at different rates, and they also wither at different rates. For example, a crop that takes 4 hours to mature will wither after 8 hours. A crop that takes 2 days to mature, however, will not wither for 4 days. If you think you won't be able to get back to your farm before a certain kind of crop withers, you shouldn't plant it. This can be hard because the benefits of some short-term crops can be tempting. But just remember, if your crops wither before you can harvest them, you don't get anything out of that harvest at all.

It's natural to want to advance quickly and make more money, but you have to be realistic about how much time you have to devote to your farm. Getting overambitious will usually backfire on you. If you plan you harvesting cycles right and make sure to only clear as much land as you can make use of at any given time, though, you'll be well on your way to success in FarmVille.

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3 Keys to FarmVille Success

2009-11-13T17:39:00.000+11:00

FarmVille is not an overly complicated game, but there is definitely more to it than you might initially expect. Especially if you've just started working on your farm, you may not be aware of some of the strategies involved in moving up quickly and building up your coin reserves. Of course, you can have fun just planting and harvesting on your own. Once you get the hang of the basic stuff though, you'll likely want to expand your horizons a bit. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when you're trying to move up quickly and establish yourself as an experienced farmer in FarmVille.

Get a Lot of Neighbors

There are quite a few reasons that having a bunch of neighbors can be beneficial to you when you're playing FarmVille. Probably the most obvious one is that you'll need to have a certain number of neighbors to expand your farm when you're ready to do that. But you can also get a lot of other bonuses from your neighbors and from having certain numbers of them.

Helping out on your neighbors' farms is a great way to build up experience points and earn some extra cash. For the first 20 neighbors you help out every day, you earn 20 coins and 5 experience points, but you can only help each neighbor once a day. The more neighbors you have, then, the more you'll be able to take advantage of these types of bonuses. You'll also earn ribbons for helping your neighbors and for having a lot of them, which bring in some nice bonuses of their own.

Go For the Ribbons

As you complete your cycles of planting and harvesting, you'll naturally wind up winning some ribbons without even thinking about it. You may notice, though, that winning these ribbons brings you some hefty bonuses in terms of experience points and coins. That's why it's a good idea to put some effort into winning as many ribbons as you can. This doesn't really take much work, and you'll have a much easier time moving up in the game and building up your coin stores.

Build, Build, Build

There are a lot of options in terms of the discretionary items you can buy from the market to pretty up your farm. Not all of them are created equal, though. Particularly when you get to some of the higher levels, it becomes harder and harder to advance because of the large amounts of experience points needed to do this. You can get big chunks of experience points, though, by putting up buildings on your property. This is the best way to get your experience boosted in a hurry.

Really, the point of FarmVille is to have fun. It can get frustrating, though, if you don't take a little bit of strategy into consideration when you're making decisions about your farm. If you run out of coins, there's not much you can do in the game. It's best, then, to take a little time to focus on a few key areas of the game so that your overall experience is enhanced in the long run.

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Are You Lost in FarmVille?

2009-11-12T19:27:00.000+11:00

If you're having trouble getting a hang of the way of things in FarmVille, you're not alone. I know of quite a few people who got into the game expecting it to be easy as pie and were quickly frustrated. In fact, I was one of them. So I went looking for a guide to help me master the farming life.

I actually tried quite a few of these guides, but not many of them had much helpful information to give. They were either designed for people who'd gotten all the way to the upper levels already, or they were severely outdated because of additions made to the game since they were released. FarmVille is a relatively new game and is still in the Beta stage, so a lot of improvements have been made to it in a short time and many of the guides on the market have not been updated to account for these changes.

So I finally broke down and bought FarmVille Secrets. This guide has been released pretty recently, so it's up to date on all of the latest advances in the game. I found it to be immensely helpful to me, and I was quickly raking in the coins and moving up in levels like you wouldn't believe.

In addition to the helpful tips, FarmVille Secrets also includes some handy charts and other resources that help you to compare items available in the Market and also helps you to plan out your spending and improvement strategies. I think you'll be as pleasantly surprised as I was when you read this guide and put the tips in it to use on your farm. I started to see results overnight almost. It's definitely a guide worth checking out if you're having trouble getting the hang of FarmVille, or if you just want to give your game an extra boost. Either way, you'll be happy you tried it.

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Is Buying a FarmVille Guide Worth It?

2009-11-06T18:59:00.000+11:00

I have to admit, I was pretty skeptical when I first started seeing FarmVille guides popping up. I mean, I'd never really played the game, but from the name I assumed there couldn't be all that much to it. After all, how much strategy could possibly go into building a virtual farm? But once I started seeing these guides, I figured it'd be worth taking a shot at the game to see what all the hubbub could possibly be about.

And I was actually rather surprised. Building my own virtual farm was much more enjoyable than I'd imagined it would be. Part of that was because there really were a lot of options and a lot of decisions to make. The more I played the game, the more I realized that there probably could be a lot of helpful information in a guide because there were just too many ways you could play.

I was doing alright on my own, but I was getting more and more curious about what I might be missing out on. After I reached level 13 and was having a hard time getting farther, I decided to give one of the guides a shot. I bought FarmVille Secrets, a relatively new guide and pretty up to date on the latest additions to the game. I really wasn't expecting too much, but this guide just blew me away.

In no time, I was the Cream of the Crop, a level 24 farmer with a Big Family Farm and tons of neighbors to visit. Using the tips in this guide helped me way more than I thought they would – even when I read them. There's a lot more to this farming stuff than meets the eye. I'd recommend picking up a copy of FarmVille Secrets if you're interested in getting the most out of your FarmVille experience.

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Do You Really Need a Guide For FarmVille?

2009-11-03T13:32:00.000+11:00

I consider myself to be relatively well educated in the latest generation of social networking site games like Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, and such. That's why when I started to see these FarmVille guides popping up all over the place I was kind of surprised. I mean, I can see why people might need some tips to get going in games like Mafia Wars, but FarmVille?

At this point though I hadn't actually played the game, but I didn't really think it could be all that complicated. I figured I should give it a shot though, just so that I could say I knew what I was talking about. And I was in for a rather big surprise. In no time, I was out of money and had no crops to plant. I have to admit, there way more to this game than I had anticipated.

I eventually managed to dig myself out of my original hole and out of the red, but I still wasn't making all that much progress. I started to think that maybe I needed to see what these guides were all about. I wasn't really expecting much, but since I hadn't done so well on my own either, I figured it was worth a shot.

So I picked up a guide called FarmVille secrets, and was pleasantly surprised by the tips 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 6 when I got the guide after 2 weeks of playing regularly. Now I'm the proud owner of a plantation and a level 26 Sultan of Soil. 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.

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How to Get the Most Ribbons in FarmVille

2009-11-01T16:25:00.000+11:00

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.

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Getting Started in FarmVille

2009-10-30T20:06:00.000+11:00

If you're new to the world of FarmVille, it won't likely take long for you to figure out why this game has captured the imagination of so many people. There are a ton of options when it comes to what seeds you can grow, what buildings and decorations you can put on your farm, and which types of livestock you choose to raise. Because you do have so many options though, it can be a little difficult at first to figure out where to start in order to develop your farm right.

Expand Slowly

You want to get the most out of your land when you're working in FarmVille. This means that you'll want to clear a substantial amount of land so that you can plant as many crops as possible. You do have to be careful about how much land you clear at once though. It costs 15 coins to clear one plot of land, so if you clear too many at once, you won't have any coins left to buy the seeds you want to plant.

It's best to slowly expand your plowed plots of land so that you're always able to take full advantage of their planting potential. After each harvest, it's a good idea to replant on all of your current plots first. Once you've done this it will be much easier to figure out how much more land you can afford to clear this time around. Following this pattern will quickly allow you to expand your farm while ensuring that you always have enough money to plant on all of your cleared plots.

Plan Your Harvests

Another aspect of FarmVille that it can be tough to get the hang of at first is timing your harvests right. Each crop you plant in the game will take a particular amount of time to mature. Once a crop is mature, you can harvest it. But don't wait too long. If you don't get back in time, your crops will wither and you'll just have to plow the land again and start over. It's important to plan your plantings so that you'll be able to get back to check on your farm before this happens.

One of the great things about FarmVille is that you can take it as seriously as you want to take it. If you only want to log in once a week, that's fine. Just make sure you plant crops that will last that long. Once you start playing though, it's not likely you'll be able to stay away for very long.

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How to Make the Most Money in FarmVille

2009-10-28T21:55:00.000+11:00

FarmVille is a great place to go to escape the rigors of everyday life. You can get back to nature and enjoy the peace and tranquility that comes from working on the land. However, not everything in FarmVille is an escape from the ordinary. You still need money for just about everything you do. You have to buy the seeds to plant, and you'll even have to pay a small sum for each plot of land you plow.

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

Earnings Per Hour

Because you'll be needing your coins for so much in FarmVille, you need to maximize the earning potential of your farm. The best way to do this is to figure out which crops pay out the most coins per hour. For example, strawberries sell for 35 coins per plot of land harvested and they take 4 hours to grow. Pumpkins, on the other hand, take 8 hours to grow and sell for 68 coins per plot of land harvested.

That means, for the same acreage planted, you'll earn 8.75 coins per hour by planting strawberries, while the pumpkins will only get you 8.5 coins per hour. This may seem like a small difference, but these small amounts can add up fast. Of course, you won't be getting your money's worth unless you can harvest the crops as soon as they're ready and immediately replant on that land.

A Quick Turnaround

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

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How to Level Up Quickly in Farmville

2009-10-25T12:42:00.000+11:00

There are more and more people joining the ranks of FarmVille every day. No one can get enough of this game and there are plenty of reasons why. In FarmVille, you can get away from the noise and stress of everyday life. Just relax, plant some seeds, harvest some crops - not a bad way to spend an evening. And as you do this, you'll naturally advance in levels over time.

There may come a time, though, when you want to get a little more out of the game. Every time you move up a level, you unlock new seeds, decorations, and other discretionary items. This means that in order to get the most out of your FarmVille experience, you'll have to level up quickly to unlock as many items and bonuses as you can.

The Basics

But how do you do this? There are several things to keep in mind if you want to level up quickly in FarmVille. You probably already know that in order to level up, you need to accumulate experience points. For example, each plot of land you plow gets you one experience point. In the early stages of game play, the number of experience points you get by plowing land and planting crops is plenty to allow you to advance at a reasonable pace. Once you get through the initial stages though, you start to need more and moreexperience points to level up.

Focus on Experience

When you want to build up experience points quickly in FarmVille, you have to supplement what you gain from your normal harvests with other activities. Making improvements to your farm is a good way to gain some quick chunks of experience points. Buildings yield the most, but you can get experience from putting up just about any decoration or structure. You just have to pay close attention to the amounts of experience points each item will deliver.

You should also take experience points into consideration when deciding which crops to plant. Crops that take less than a day to grow only yield 1 experience point, while crops that take longer yield 2. That doesn't mean you only want to plant crops that offer 2 experience points however. If you can get back and harvest them as soon as they're ready, crops like strawberries will get you more than 2experience points a day because you can harvest them every 4 hours.

You have to be on top of your harvesting and planting cycles in order to make progress this way though. Putting up buildings on your farm remains the best way to get big boosts in yourexperience quickly. Save up your cash for those, and you'll be well on your way to unlocking all of the available items in FarmVille.

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