By tilling plots of land, planting crops and harvesting them, experience points are accumulated leading to higher levels of play, and by befriending other Farmville fans, coins, Farmville cash and experience points increase.
Other sources of FarmVille income include picking the fruit from trees, snatching bonuses from ribbons won by your neighbors, fertilizing other’s crops, collecting bugs and such and gathering farm products from animals. As a player gathers experience points, they move up levels rewarding them with more plant options, animals, buildings, machinery and decorations to design their ultimate farm. Why? Once a farm is decorated with estate homes, barns, orchards and colorful fields, a snapshot of the property can be shared on Facebook.
Improving Social Networking
The game encourages flipping back and forth between Facebook and FarmVille. By trolling Facebook, rewards for neighbor’s accomplishments or animals put up for adoption or a collectible item can crop up. Better to nab that loot first.
If the grass looks greener on the other side of the FarmVille fence, don’t let jealousy interfere with acquiring another FarmVille neighbor. FarmVille neighbors can send gifts of hay bales in various colors, a cow, or even a needed nail for a new barn. But most importantly, those Facebook friends turned farmers are needed for expansion. An upgrade to a farm requires coins and a minimum number of neighbors. More land means more crops for coins and experience points leading to faster promotion to the next level. Those earnings can be turned into a fancier villa, better farming equipment, topiaries, stone mailboxes, flags, and special seasonal decorations to display.
For tips on playing, check out Farmville Hints, Tips and Tricks or Farmville on Facebook Hints and Game Tips.
How to Manage the FarmVille Addiction
As a feel-good game, players are rewarded for paying attention and active participation. Unlike a real farm, the animals don't need to be fed, but crops will wilt in the field if they are not harvested in the same amount of time it took them to grow. But every time a Farmville square is tilled, it costs 15 coins. The crops with the quickest turnover may not be worth all the clicking to till, plant and harvest. But , there are plenty of seeds to choose from and harvest times vary, so FarmVille activities can be scheduled around daily living.
How to Build the Perfect FarmVille Farm
Farmville cash can also be used to build the picture perfect farm. It accumulates slower than coins and experience points, so obvious there’s a game to playing this game. But, if bad choices are ever made on FarmVille or that nearly priceless decoration or gas for your tractor or seeder dictates you blow your budget, FarmVille cash and coins are available using real American currency. Payment can be made via credit card and Paypal. But like life, friends can't be bought and FarmVille neighbors can't be purchased.
Better to Strike Up a Friendship Online
Keeping up with the FarmVille Joneses requires social networking, so it may be worth checking into the whereabouts of that long lost friend from high school and see what they're doing. Maybe farming online is in their future, too, and once hooked, they may be that one neighbor that provides expansion to a 400 plot plantation.
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