When you first start playing FarmVille, you’ll have no choice but to plant, harvest, and plow by hand. As your farm grows and you move up to new levels, however, you’ll have the opportunity to purchase some farm equipment to make it possible for you to get your farm chores done more efficiently. This certainly sounds like a sensible thing to do, but before you rush out and buy all of the available equipment (harvester, seeder, plow), it’s a good idea to sit down and figure out if all of these items are really worth the cost in the long run.
Basic Buy Price
The first thing to remember is that farm machinery doesn’t come cheap. Each of the pieces of farm equipment available to you will run you 30,000 coins. That’s a fair bit of coin, and you’ll want to make sure that purchasing a seeder, for example, won’t leave you with no cash left to purchase the seeds you want to plant with it.
Also, you’re probably not going to be able to buy all three machines at once (for reasons of cost and also because they’re unlocked at different levels). Because of this, though, it’s a good idea to take into account which machine you’ll actually use the most and get that one first. There’s nothing wrong with buying these vehicles as long as you’re going to get a good amount of use out of them.
Gas Costs
Something else you’ll need to think about when you’re considering buying some heavy farm equipment is that the purchase price isn’t necessarily the whole cost of the machine. Depending on how big your farm is, you’ll go through your fuel pretty fast with these heavy machines – especially if you have more than one.
If your farm is bigger than what your equipment can cover on one tank of fuel, then, you’ll have to consider the benefits of purchasing fuel refills. These refills come in several sizes, ranging from a single tank to 50 of them, but you can only buy them with Farm Cash. And because this particular type of currency can be pretty hard to come by, those refills get expensive awfully quickly.
Of course, you can always wait for your tank to fill up again on its own. That doesn’t cost you anything, and it doesn’t even really take that long. But if you’re trying to care for a large farm, you may quickly become frustrated waiting for your fuel to accumulate before you can use your farm equipment again.
Off-Set Plantings
One way around this is to sow a variety of crops that all grow at different speeds. That way, you’ll never have to plow, plant, and harvest your whole farm at once. As long as you give your machines enough time between usages to refuel naturally, you’ll never have to spend a dime on gas. The only trick to this system is making sure that you’re not missing out on using them when you’d like to just because you don’t have any fuel. And the best way to make sure that doesn’t happen is to plan your plantings well.
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