So, all your Facebook friends have starting playing Farmville recently.

You’ve managed to avoid it as long as you could, because your Facebook time is about being efficient — hop on, update status, hop off.   But once you finally checked it out, you’re hooked! Now your Facebook time is about dominating the game.

In this post I’ll pass on some of the Farmville hints I wished I had known when I started.

There are several different ways you can approach the game, and chances are if you’re reading this then you’re serious about getting some quick Farmville tips.   Before you can figure out what help you need, it will be useful to determine your goal for the game.

There are 3 basic areas to focus on, and which one you choose will determine which strategies for Farmville you will use. You can go after a pile of coins, attempt to level up quickly, or shoot for farm expansion.

Pile up the Coins

If you want to amass quick “wealth”, you’ll want to treat your farm like a business, and go for the money crops. Plant and harvest, then reinvest your coin for more seed. At this point avoid adding animals, buildings and decorations if your goal is to rack up coins.

Advance to Higher Levels

The way to level up is by accumulating experience points, or “xp”, and almost everything you do will earn points. When just beginning, an easy way to get points and coins is to help your neighbors. Chances are you have friends on facebook who are also playing, so click on the “My Neighbors” tab and you’ll see “jobs” that some of your neighbors need, like chasing away foxes or crows, raking leaves or pulling weeds. Initially, performing these tasks earns you 20 coins and a few xp; as you advance the amounts you earn decrease.

Expand Your Farm

In order to enlarge the size and scope of your farm you will need neighbors, and lots of them. So make sure you ask all your friends to be your neighbors, and it might be helpful also to join a Farmville group to meet more “neighbors”.

Obviously all three areas work together: you need to advance in level and acquire coins in order to expand your farm, etc. But there is a definite difference to your strategy depending on your goals.

Be a Generous Neighbor

This is a quality that is useful no matter what Farmville strategy you use. Each time you help a neighbor, you are awarded coins and experience, as I’ve already mentioned, and your neighbors are likely to help you in return, which can add to your xp.

Another way to be generous is with gifts. At each level there are free gifts available for you to send to your neighbors. As you level up, the types of gifts will vary and the values will increase. If you give gifts to other farmers, they will send gifts back to you, some of which add to your xp, some can be sold for coins, and some will add to the value of your farm. Bottom line is, it pays to be generous.

So as you get started on your farm, decide what your goal is, determine the best strategies, and happy farming!

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