Game Farmville

The basic gameplay of Farmville is extremely simple. It’s a farming simulator that allows you to grow crops, buy animals, and decorate your property as you see fit. You are given limited resources in two different forms of currency, so you must make choices about how you spend it.

Planting Crops

The most important part of Farmville is planting crops. This is the core gameplay element and it is what will make you the most amount of money in the shortest period of time. It’s also where you end up getting most of your experience points from.

Planting crops occurs in three stages: plowing, planting, and harvesting. Farmville includes a multi-tool that allows you to click on a plot of land and quickly harvest, plot, or plow the land.

When you are starting the game, you need to plow out plots of land before you can plant them. Over time, if you want you can cover your entire farm with plots.

Planting Trees

Planting trees is something that costs a lot of money, doesn’t make a lot of money, and is mostly there just for decoration. Trees are something that don’t require upkeep, which is cool, but they aren’t going to get you experience points either. Also, trees take somewhere between 15 and 30 real days to make their money back ususally, so it’s kind of a bad investment in that regard.

Farm Animals

Farm animals are like trees. They are there for decoration, not for profit. The only way to make any money on either is if they are given to you as a gift. That’s it. Otherwise, they are pretty pointless for anything other than looking cool.

Visit Your Friends’ Farms

Visiting your friends’ farms is a great way to get experience and gold early in the game. In fact, if you want to grow your farm fast, it’s probably the best way to get rolling on that in a hurry. Between picking the right early crops and visiting your friends’ farms, you can hit level 5 or 10 in no time.

One caveat, you are limited on how many times you can visit your friends’ farms in one day. If not many of your friends have farms, you can’t visit many farms and get the free xp and gold for “helping them out”. This is a mechanism Zynga designed to get you to invite your friends to play the game and well, it works. Invite your friends so you can get more free xp and coins. Seriously. It works.

Buying Buildings And Useless Junk

If you like decorating things, Farmville is the game for you. It’s a lot like The Sims in that you can spend your coins on barns, animals, trees, hay bales, and other things to make your farm look the way that you want it to.

Keep in mind that buying decorations has no real impact on the game other than it gives you less money to expand your farm quickly. That being said, if you like decorating things, you should do that and keep the game fun. After all, fun is the whole point of playing the game.

What Is Your Strategy?

Farmville is a time consuming game, so if you’re going to play it, it helps to have a goal or a strategy for getting what you want. For example, some in-game items can only be bought for real money, so if you want those, you’re going to have to shell out some cash. There’s no way around it.

A lot of things dont’ need to be bought with real money, so you can work your way up the hard way, by making your friends “neighebors” and getting lots of coins. That takes more work, but might be more rewarding. Before you know it you’ll have a huge, sprawling farm and you won’t know what to do with all the extra land.

Other things that are kind of fun to do in Farmville is to have a “competition” with your friends to see who can get to a certain level or have a certain amount of money first. A little bit of friendly competition never hurt anybody. Also, it makes the game a bit more interactive, so that’s pretty cool too.

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