Saturday, May 23, 2009

Facebook - Farmtown Tips and Tricks


Know from All Facebook that "Facebook Farmtown game has been on a tear recently and as of today, the game has overtaken Pet Society as the largest application on the Facebook platform based on daily active users.

Once you start building your farm in Farmtown game, you want to keep on growing it. That’s why you started the game in the first place, right?

Of the top ten applications on Facebook (based on daily active users), 6 are games, 3 are Facebook’s mobile applications (iPhone, Blackberry, and generic mobile site), and the other is Living Social. In other words, computer games rule when it comes to engagement on Facebook.

The end result is that the computer games are making more money as users keep coming back and typically stay for longer periods of time. For the time being those computer games are being monetized through offer-based networks, virtual currencies, and the sale of virtual goods. Farmtown game is currently monetizing its application through two channels: advertisements and the sale of virtual currency.

That virtual currency, or “coins” as they’re called in , can be used to purchase more items from the store. Store items range from seeds to grow Farmtown game more plants that you can eventually sell, animals, buildings, and many other items for your farm.

It will be interesting to see if Farmtown game can become one of the largest applications on Facebook in terms of monthly active users over the coming weeks.

Computer Games on Facebook have become the most engaging of all applications." :)

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I did some research on Facebook Farm town levels and gather some info and lets share with you for below farm town tips and tricks to help you keep increase your Farmtown levels.
MOST IMPORTANT NOTE:-
1. Try this steps to speed up your Internet DSL Broadband for the free online computer game in order to play the Facebook farm town smoothly:-
Boost to High Speed DSL Broadband

2. Next, you need to choose a fastest Internet web browser to play the free Internet online computer game. You will see the different! I am using the Google Chrome 2 and my partner using Safari 4 now.
The Best and Fastest Internet Web Browser comparison results

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Farmtown Experience Levels and points:-

Farm town Level 1 - Getting Started
Farm town Level 2 - 20 exp points - Just Moved In
Farm town Level 3 - 50 exp points - Learning the Ropes
Farm town Level 4 - 100 exp points - Apprentice - Buy Strawberry seeds / send gift pear trees
Farm town Level 5 - 250 exp points - Farmer - Buy Small House / Buy Cart / send gift Dogs
Farm town Level 6 - 500 exp points - Adept - Buy Cart with Barrels / Buy Wheat seeds / send gift Banana trees
Farm town Level 7 - 750 exp points - Promising Farmer - Buy Water Well / send gift Pigs
Farm town Level 8 - 1,000 exp points - Green Thumb - Buy Dirt Path / Buy Sunflower seeds / send gift Plum trees
Farm town Level 9 - 1,500 exp points - Popular Farmer - Buy Silo / send gift Cows
Farm town Level 10 - 2,000 exp points - Superb Farmer - Buy Stacked Crates / Buy Coffee seeds / send gift Peach trees
Farm town Level 11 - 2,500 exp points - Talented Farmer - Buy Windmill / send gift Horses
Farm town Level 12 - 3,000 exp points - Talk of the Town - Buy Table with Stools / Send gift Cherry trees
Farm town Level 13 - 3,500 exp points - Distinguished Farmer - Send gift Bunny
Farm town Level 14 - 4,000 exp points - Specialist - Buy Barb Wire Fence / Send gift Mango trees
Farm town Level 15 - 4,500 exp points - Inspiring Farmer - Buy Barn / upgrade to 14x14 * farm unlocks / Send gift Cat
Farm town Level 16 - 5,000 exp points - VIP - Send gift Coconut Tree
Farm town Level 17 - 6,000 exp points - High Achiever - Buy Small Pond / Upgrade to 16x16 * farm unlocks / Send gift Donkey
Farm town Level 18 - 7,000 exp points - Master Farmer - Buy Farm House / Send gift Palm trees
Farm town Level 19 - 8,000 exp points - Influential Farmer - Buy Squirrels / upgrade to 18x18 * farm unlocks
Farm town Level 20 - 9,000 exp points - Expert Farmer - Buy Hedge
Farm town Level 21 - 10,000 exp points - Eminent Farmer - Buy Wood Shed / Buy Brown Dog / upgrade to 20x20 * farm unlocks
Farm town Level 22 - 11,000 exp points - Mighty Farmer
Farm town Level 23 - 12,500 exp points - Gifted Farmer - Buy Fruit Stand / Buy Llamas / upgrade to 22x22 * farm unlocks
Farm town Level 24 - 15,000 exp points - Green Ace - Buy Stone Fence
Farm town Level 25 - 20,000 exp points - Acclaimed Farmer - Upgrade to 24x24 * farm unlocks
Farm town Level 26 - 25,000 exp points - Just Brilliant - Buy Tent
Farm town Level 27 - 35,000 exp points - Extraordinary Farmer
Farm town Level 28 - 45,000 exp points - Virtuoso - Buy Big Pond
Farm town Level 29 - 55,000 exp points - Green Prodigy
Farm town Level 30 - 70,000 exp points - Awe Inspiring - Buy Greenhouse
Farm town Level 31 - 85,000 exp points - Force of Nature
Farm town Level 32 - 100,000 exp points - Green Genius - Buy Stone Path
Farm town Level 33 - 120,000 exp points - Tycoon
Farm town Level 34 - 150,000 exp points - Green Wizard - Buy Mansion


Take note:-
Land Upgrades - Once you upgrade your farm land size, then you can buy more farm town buildings or pond, and has more space for you to plow / plant in your farm. Some people may feel bored after few weeks, because they need to CLICK many times for plow (even using the plow x 1, plow x 2, plow x 4) / plant / harvest if the farm size is too large. :) THIS IS A GAME.. may be you can try Facebook barn buddy, smaller size.

Facebook Farmtown Levels / Farm Size / Land upgrades cost in the flash game:-
start - 12x12
15 - 14x14 - 20k coins
17 - 16x16 - 25k coins
19 - 18x18 - 30k coins
21 - 20x20 - 35k coins
23 - 22x22 - 40k coins
25 - 24x24 - 80k coins

Other Facebook Farmtown tips and tricks:-

You can earn 3 different farm town levels of income for each crop or tree . . .
1. Harvest yourself (Harvest & Sell) - this option earns the least coins.
2. Harvest yourself (Harvest & Storage - then you sell at market)
3. Hire someone to harvest for you. Earns the most coins. 20% more than #2
(Using potatoes as an example, they could earn 89, 99, or 119 coins. When you hire someone to harvest for you they earn money too, and it doesn't cost you anything. The harvester you hire will earn 25 coins for each crop of potatoes.)

Few ways to get more the experience points to increase your Farmtown levels:-

1. Visits to your neighbor’s farms daily to rake or water their farm. Doing this task can earns 6 farm town experience points and between 10 to 20 coins.

2. If you have a lot of farm town coins, then you can get more farm town experience points when you bought some buildings or pond and to speed up your farm town levels.

1000 exp - Mansion house
1000 exp - Farm house
1000 exp - Big pond
800 exp - Green house
800 exp - Small pond
700 exp - Small House
600 exp – Barn
400 exp – Windmill
300 exp - Silo and Wood Shed
200 exp – Watermill
103 exp - Wind Pump
33 exp – Dog house
8 exp - Wheelbarrow

* I found one fastest way (secret on farm town bug) to get the farm town experience points and bring you to next farm town levels. You will find it later in my blog, and this is found by me (Jasswin). :) hope the bug always there!
Other Farmtown Experience Points in the flash game:-
6 exp - Tending 1 to 50 neighbors farms (resets daily)
1 exp - Tending neighbors farms 50 + (resets daily)
1 exp - Plowing (per plot)
1 exp - Flower
2 exp - Planting crop (per plot)
25 exp - Addict Visitors Trophy - sorry, didn't catch other trophies if they gave points
203 exp - upgrade land to 14x14

You do not get farm town experience points for harvesting, but you do get exp points for plowing, planting and watering.

* Please note a Farmtown day is only 20 hours, so 2 days = 40 hours, 3 days = 60 hours & 4 days = 80 hours.
Example:- Grapes are ready in 4 hours but go to waste within 2-3 hrs after they're ready.

* Fruit trees never go to waste and is the most profitable crops in Farm Town game as you not need to plow and re-seed the tree again after harvest. People keep them because they like color on their farms. :)




Farmtown plants profit list that help you to plan it then plow and harvest your specific crop from seed to gain more farmtown coins:-


How to remove spaces between fields in Farmtown game:-
Just click on the preferences button while playing Farm Town. The buttons section is located on the upper right hand of the Farm Town window

Farmtown game dirty trick that you need to be cautions:-
In the market place, and someone try to ask you 'Double-Click' on me or something, be cautions. If you are saving your farm for friends, this trick becomes dirty because it will not bring up the hiring option but will instead send the owner of the avatar you double-clicked to work on your farm.

Why you want to harvest the farm or water the flower in Farmtown game?
You will receive 25% of the farm town coins fetched by the crops you harvest OR gain 1 coin for water and 1 x flower using watering can . :)
Example:
Cabbage - 27 coins
Sunflower - 69 coins



How many gifts can I send per day in Farmtown game:-
The current limit is around 28 (this is determined by Facebook farm town and may change on a daily basis). You can send a gift to the same friend twice during the space of a day (AM & PM).
Example: you can send 14 gifts to 12 friends in the morning and then again to the same friends in the afternoon, or 28 gifts to different friends once a day. Gift requests reset at 12am PST, and if you send 3 neighbor requests then you will only be able to send 25 gifts for the day.

YOU CAN SEND BEAUTIFUL FARM TOWN FLOWERS TO YOUR FRIEND NOW ... :)
remember to water your flowers or hire worker to help you and they can gain extra coins too.

Crown of Thorns
Marigold
Lilies
Zinnia
Carnation
Tulips
Rose
Hyacinth



How to send / transfer the Farmtown coins to your friend:-
NOT at the moment. What i can think of you can buy and send more farm town animals or flowers gift to your friend, and then your friend can sale it to gain the coins. BUT, only twice a day as for now during the space of a day (AM & PM).

How to see my Farmtown animals if they are under the tree:-
You can right click the tree and 'hide' it first, then you can 'move' your animal out.


*Unlimited plow on the same place with Farmtown bug and fastest way to get the farm town experience points:-
I accidently found it when I play it on weekend, and look at my farm town screen capture below. After you plow in your farm for all the space, then you can start move your mouse around it and some time you may find a place where it allow you to double plow again and again. May be this is the farm town bug that you can plow many times as you want for the same place, and each time you can earn 1 experience points with 20 coins you spend. If you spend 10,000 coins, then you can get 500 experience points in farm town game, better deal than buy the Farmtown buildings or pond to gain the experience points. Good ah.. :)




How to max your times and earn more coins then get to next farm town levels?
You can find one of your best friend to play the farm town with you, and each time login together during same time and harvest the plants for each other. After that then discuss when is the next best time for both of you to play the farm town together. If is tomorrow night, then you can choose 1 day seeds, if not then other days seeds. The basic is to choose the most profit seeds based on how many days (refer to above Farmtown plants profit chart).

How to reduce too many clicks on plow activities?
This is the new features from Facebook farm town game that it start allow the game player to employ neighbors or other player to plow the farm for you. You still earn the farm town experience x 1, but you need to pay them 15 coins (other game player) or 10 coins (neighbors). This is win win game strategy for us when you play farm town game. If you don’t want to keep your coins, then use the plow x 4 is another faster way.

How to make yourself fun on farm town game?
As I mentioned before, you may feed bored after sometime, especially you need to click so many times. Lets try think another way, once you have play until certain farm town level, then you can employ other people to plow for you, and start beauty your farm, and buy more things or buildings to decorate it. One of my friend, she even make the farm like a horse farm, put the runway for her horse, then she take photo and share with us. She really make other friend start to deco his / her farm and make a competition on it and the winner can get a free drink or dinner or lunch. :)
You see, you can play the computer game in another way too. Social thru game.

Farm Town Store List:-



Cost
Sell
Harvest (days with 20 hours)
Seeds
Raspberry
15
47
0.1 (2 hours)
Seeds
Grapes
20
56
0.2 (4 hours)
Seeds
Strawberry
30
85
1
Seeds
Watermelon
35
92
1
Seeds
Potato
40
99
1
Seeds
Cabbage
45
107
1
Seeds
Tomato
50
140
2
Seeds
Wheat
80
180
2
Seeds
Rice
80
190
2
Seeds
Peas
90
202
2
Seeds
Sunflower
115
277
3
Seeds
Corn
130
285
3
Seeds
Coffee
150
298
3
Seeds
Cotton
180
360
4
Trees
Pine Tree
300


Trees
Lemon Tree
350
34
3
Trees
Apple Tree
400
38
3
Trees
Orange Tree
450
43
3
Flowers
White Rose
15


Flowers
Crown of Thorns
25


Flowers
White Carnation
25


Flowers
Purple Crocus
35


Flowers
Carnation
50


Flowers
Pink Tulips
50


Flowers
Marigold
75


Flowers
Tulips
100


Animals
Chicken
500


Animals
Sheep
800


Animals
Brown Dog
1,000


Animals
Squirrel
1,500


Buildings
Wind Pump
10,000


Buildings
Silo
30,000


Buildings
Wood Shed
30,000


Buildings
Windmill
40,000


Buildings
Barn
60,000


Buildings
Small House
70,000


Fences
Fence
250


Fences
Fence Closed Gate
750


Fences
Fence Open Gate
750


Fences
Barb Wire Fence
250


Fences
Barb Wire Fence Closed Gate
750


Fences
Barb Wire Fence Open Gate
750


Fences
Hedge
300


Fences
Hedge Closed Gate
900


Fences
Hedge Gate Open
900


Paths
Dirt Path
200


Paths
Dirt Path Corner
200


Paths
Dirt Path Crossing
200


Ponds
Small Pond
80,000


Others
Hay Bale
50


Others
Crate
100


Others
Barrel
100


Others
Wood Pile
100


Others
Stool
100


Others
Mailbox
150


Others
Scarecrow
200


Others
Bench
250


Others
Stacked Crates
300


Others
Grill
500


Others
Wheelbarrow
500


Others
Table with Stools
700


Others
Cart
1,000


Others
Cart with Barrels
1,500


Others
Lawn Mower
1,500


Others
Dog House
3,000


Others
Waterwell
20,000




Have you become a Facebook Farmtown game addict yet? ^_^ TIME MANAGEMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT.


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Facebook farm town cheat:-
I found that we can use the cheat engine to hack the Facebook Farmtown game as below video, but then it will not become fun anymore if you are using the crack for this cute and free online game. We can enjoy the game features, spend our free time, social with friends in game market place, share the game experience with friends, etc. Right? :)






* Apple iPhone 3G S still not able to support Farmtown flash game yet! Hope Abode release it asap.



Other Famous Facebook online computer games tips and tricks:-
Facebook Restaurant City game
Facebook Pet Society game
Facebook Barn Buddy game