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Farm dollars guide
ninjahuman (AU1)
AU1 Posts: 2,526
Main farm
For the main farm, apple orchards are the best building to earn farm dollars from. Try to upgrade them as high as possible because they will help you collect extra apples which you can sell for good amounts of farm dollars. They are also quite useful for certain events so that is another good reason to have a lot of them. Try to make sure that you can also get a high level silo to help produce fertiliser for them if you struggle to produce enough. For stables, cowsheds can be quite good as you only need to come online at certain times to harvest them two or three times per day. Chicken coops have the potential to earn more farm dollars and produce more dung, but you will need to be much more active to collect them regularly and they are not as useful for many events, so that is why I would recommend cowsheds over chicken coops.
Sometimes you can grow sunflowers in your fields and get your friends to gift them with rakes and those will help earn some farm dollars as well.
Getting your cooperative to complete researches to increase the selling price of items is also a good idea as it will help you earn many more farm dollars from them.
Gourmet farm
This farm works similar to the ideas above except you have almond orchards instead of apple orchards and duck coops instead of cowsheds. However, a lot of players do not usually build a large number of almond orchards on their farm as it is often more useful for events to have duck coops and gardens in their place.
The bakery is an unique building that can also help you earn a good profit from it. Generally, the shorter the production time the recipe has, the higher the profit per hour is, while the longer the production time is, the lower the profit per hour is. So try to produce shorter recipes while you are online and longer recipes while you are offline.
Flower farm
The production buildings do not earn that much profit from the flower farm, but the shop earns a large amount of farm dollars. When you can get the shop to a high enough level, try to produce honey cream while you are offline and boxes of soap while you are online.
You can also produce sailor's fragrance if your cooperative has a well-developed cooperative village. It earns a better profit than any other recipe, but you will need to produce floral perfume occasionally to keep producing sailor's fragrance.
Renting a boat and sending Oleg to catch fish also gives a good amount of farm dollars. Making use of the amphibian farm machine and catching hogfish yourself also gives a lot of farm dollars.
The mermaid bay is a building that also produces a lot of profit. Try to produce Mahi-Mahi in lemon sauce if you can only get it to level 3 and some of the longer dishes like fisherman's delight or rare filet if you have the building at a high level.
Fishing region
Make sure to complete all of Oleg's fishing tasks to unlock this farm. Here is a link to a list of the tasks if you need help to complete them.
If you are below level 80, you can upgrade the dockyard to level 2 and build runabouts. These will help you catch a decent amount of fish. Then you can use the dollars that you get from the fish to upgrade your runabouts which will help you collect even more farm dollars.
If you are at level 80 to level 125, you can upgrade the dockyard to level 6 and build skipjacks, which will help you catch even more fish. You can build them in any free spots you have, but don't demolish any higher level runabouts to replace with skipjacks. You don't need to upgrade them to the highest level because it will take a bit of time for them to pay the dollars back and you will soon replace them with trawlers.
If you are level 125 or above, you can upgrade the dockyard to level 8 and build trawlers. You can upgrade these to the highest level as soon as possible because these are the best boats for catching fish.
It's a good idea to use this to experiment with the crew to see what is best for what situations, but otherwise you can just use this information to see what crew to use for which pools.
Make sure not to sell your fish directly through the farm management and use them in fishing market contracts instead. You can sell all of them regularly except for lobsters and they will earn you a lot more farm dollars.
Organic and fishing markets
The markets are very important for helping you collect large amounts of farm dollars. It is generally a good idea to decline all contracts that ask for 2 or more items. Fill the contracts that only ask for 1 item.
When you get the 1 item contracts to quality 99, you will receive a 25% bonus for filling those contracts.
For the organic market, try to get apple and milk contracts as frequently as possible if you have a lot of apple orchards and cowsheds. You can usually decline most field contracts and any others that are inconvenient and still keep the 99 value contracts as long as you can produce an excess of most items to use in the organic market. Using Lester's secret stash will also help reduce the amount of items needed to fill these contracts.
For the fishing market, only accept contracts that ask for low amounts of shrimp, clams and oysters. Try to get the contracts that only ask for about 1,000 - 1,300 clams or oysters and 2,000 - 2,500 shrimp when you reach quality 99. Otherwise, take the contracts unless they ask for a large amount of a fish you don't have much of. Then you can decline them to get the opportunity to get other contracts for fish that you have in your inventory.
Upgrading Lester's secret stash can also help a lot with filling the contracts, especially with the fishing market contracts. Because it will take less fish to fill those contracts and you can those fish for other contracts, you will earn even more farm dollars. It is good to upgrade Lester's secret stash to level 10 since it will not take too long to earn back the profits from the upgrade if you can get a lot of good boats like trawlers.
Thank you for reading this and I hope you have found it useful.
Comments
Thanks.
thank you ninja
A question: how often the single item contracts appear or similar how many do you have to reject other types of contracts? I am afraid of starting rejecting all other types of contracts, since I have them level up so much and I wonder which way one gets more cash: only filling type one or slowly filling all types.
And a comment: They are doing a deep sea rework in the second half of this year, so I would not suggest to invest much money in the deep sea area right now (at least not more than what you think you can get back), since we do not really know what will be useful back then or not.
For increasing level of contracts faster, collect fish for 6 days and do contracts on only one day in a week. This way, u can complete 10 to 15 contracts easily with declining 5 or 6 and therefore it goes up 10 to 15 every week
mia111 (GB1) said:
U get more dollars from single order type contracts.
The sell rate for all products is constant in market but when u do type 2/3/4/5/6, the lester stash helps you out in only product whereas the rest 5 needs to be filled by you completely whereas in type 1, there is only one thing to be filled and it can be done easily and lester stash can be fully utilised too. This factor becomes big when the contract offers more than 200/300 million dollars as lester helps you fill out a great amount by himself.
My type 1 is at 99 level always whereas all others are at 0 as i dont do them and decline directly.
You're welcome.
It is definitely best to fill one item contracts for the fishing market because you can use the Lester's secret stash like Rocky said and you can also get contracts to use all your fish except for lobsters because you can get contracts quicker than you use the fish in them. It doesn't make as much of a difference in the organic market but it generally works well because if you can manage the contracts frequently, you can create a lot of opportunities to get large apple and milk contracts if you have a lot of apple orchards and cowsheds and they give a lot of farm dollars without having other items in them to slow them down.
Each contract has a different value depending on the number of items requested in the contract. They can be split up into 1 item contracts, 2 item contracts, 3 item contracts, 4 item contracts, 5 item contracts and 6 item contracts. If you accept the 1 item contracts and decline the 2+ item contracts, the 1 item contracts will increase in value until they reach quality 99 and the other contracts will remain at value 0.