Farm Town Coins - Making more money

Everyone knows that you can pay to have more coins in Farm Town, though I've not met many Farmers who have done so. But are there any other ways of making money on Farm Town? Recently one of my Farm Town neighbors asked me if they should complete one of the surveys you can find in the application, I told her to let me try it with a spare email address first... and crikey do I wish I hadn't!

First of all the survey took a good 25mins at times I was convinced I was caught in some never ending loop and it quickly became apparent that this wasn't a genuine survey but simply a way of collecting email and snail mail addresses to send you junk mail, also while some of the surveys I took offered free gift certificates for Tescos or Asda/Walmart I very much doubt that they are surveys organised by those companies.

Did I get my Farm Town coins? Yes. But to be frank it would be much easier just to buy them or just harvest for a friend.

Finally and most alarmingly: Spam, the day after finishing those surveys the email address I used was filled with spam and a lot of it was of an adult nature "Farm Town S1uts" is the only message title only I can re-publish here

My advice? If you want to get rich quick in Farm Town, harvest for wealthy friends (return the favour) or just buy the Farm Town coins!

Farm Town Glitch

We've all encountered a few bugs and glitches in Farm Town on facebook. Glitches occur in every game - visual glitches (related to graphics etc) most don't affect most gameplay. Yet Farm Town's most famous glitch (The field overlapping glitch) became so exploited that the Farm Town developers actually incorporated elements of it into standard game play.

Anyhow I thought i'd share this odd graphical glitch that I encountered the other day.

Every Farm Town gift suddenly becomes a puppy! My guess at what is happening here is that my Farm Town gift list is so stupidly long that the system can't handle all of the "calls" to load in the images and has gotten "stuck" on the puppy. I really do need to sort out my gifts. If any of my Farm Town neighbors are reading this feel free to skip me when it comes to gifts for a week or two!

Farm Town Blog

Welcome to my new Farm Town blog... returning visitors will know that I had hosted this blog on my personal site martinpaling.com However I was a victim of my own success and attracted 30,000 visitors in just one week at the start of June. Unfortunately the expense of hosting such a successful blog was too much and it soon became apparent by the end of the month visitor numbers were going to skyrocket.

So I have now moved my blog here. All the same Farm Town content just a different address!

Farm Town - Looking after flowers

So flowers have arrived in Farm Town - to see what else is new check out the post I made yesterday (literally seconds after they were added!)

So how do you look after Farm Town Flowers? Well it seems they might be very similar to the trees, I'm told that they never die, but i might test that out for myself... they can however wither, so to liven them up you need to water them. doing so will cost you one credit. However if a friend does it for you they will earn one credit! Check out the images below for more details.

A number of people say they can't see flowers in Farm Town. This is more than likely because you have the turned off in preferences. To sort this out go to Preferences (The spanner icon) and makes sure "Show Flowers" is ticked.

Ok so lets have a look at planting and watering, When you first plant a flower you'll see this sign:



Planting is really easy, you just select them in the store and stick them down, no need to plough! Here's what my first Tulips look like:



As you can see they take up much less space then vegetables. The raindrop sign above them tells you how much water the Farm Town flowers need - these ones having only just been planted don't need any watering, but let's have a look at what that looks like anyway:



The watering can is now in a yellow handyman type box icon along with the Farm Town bulldozer. To use you hover over the area you want to water and press your mouse button... and there's a nice animation to show you are watering. Remember this will cost you one credit in your own farm or earn you one credit in a friends farm!

While we're looking at the image take note - if they ever do add the ability to plough and sow large areas in Farm Town this is how it may well look: a large "cursor area" rather than the "drag selection" that some have suggested.

Happy farming!

Farm Town - Flowers are here... and much more besides

So we've all been waiting for Farm Town flowers - and now in the latest update to Farm Town they are here... and lots more besides!

First of all lets look at the flowers:

As you can see some of them are locked until higher ranks, but don't worry as you can send some of them as Farm Town gifts! Lilies, Roses, Zinnias and Hyacinths may all be sent as gifts - so ask your friends to send them today!

New flowers include: Crown of Thorns, Carnations, Marigolds, Tulips, Lillies, Roses, Zinnias and Hyacinths. You'll need to water your flowers regularly. You can either get your friends to do this or do it your self with the new watering can feature:

Here's a list of the new gifts you can send :

• Lilies


• Rose


• Rooster


• Zinnia


• Turkey


• Hyacinth


• Goat

But the goodies don't stop there, also new are a whole range of buildings, objects and landscaping features.

First of all the new Farm Town buildings:




They include a wind pump,watermill (two versions), gazebo, playground, water tank and wind tower. Unfortunately a lot of these are not unlocked until later ranks!

Next lets have a quick look at some of the new Landscaping features in Farm Town, first of all water features:




Let's face it the ponds were a bit miserley, but now you can build your own river complete with bridge - I have the feeling we'll be seeing some Farm Town "Moats" very soon!

Next let's take a look at the new hedge/fence features :



Gates are now available for the hedge, stone wall, white fence and barb wire fence.

Ok now let's have a look at some of the new objects :




Plenty of new Farm Town stuff here: a Grill (BBQ), US style mailbox, lawnmower, wheelbarrow, two variations of a bench, a doghouse (dog kennel) for you puppies and a patio table - perfect for holding a Farm Town party!

New animals include a Bull and a Goose, plus some new animals in the Farm Town "Gifts" page, these include: a Rooster a Turkey and a Goat.

Also new in this Farmtown update are some new hairstyles including a cornrow!

I expect a lot of farms will be getting make-overs in the next few days!

Farm Town - Variable harvest prices

For some time now Farm Town has featured warnings that prices at the market might change. I know some of my Farm Town neighbors are not looking forward to this, they have their favourite crops - and they plan to stick with them. At the moment I must admit i'm sticking to planting onions in Farm Town, not just because of the

economics of them. Primarily it's because my farm is so big and I just don't have the time to get online often enough so a three day crop is ideal.

But I have to admit I'm looking forward to variable pricing in Farm Town, it will add just a bit more depth to the game. Though I do wonder how they will implement it. The clever thing to do would be to adjust the prices according to "supply" i.e.; if on the day you go to market everyone is selling Onions then the price offered to them is significantly lower... a great bonus to those Farmtown players who like to plant some of the crops that traditionally sell for less... and of course it would mean that your "storage" actually came in to its own. You could store your Farm Town crops for a day when the prices suit you.

The easiest way to implement the variable pricing would be to generate the prices randomly - that could work but only if the prices were set the same for all players. Personally I prefer the model set by "Supply" but I guess we'll have to see. Afterall we still don't have our Farm Town flowers!