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Buy land and decorations. Two for one.

My farm is stuck. I can't do anything. I THOUGHT I would be able to buy more land when I finally moved up a level. Only once I'm there, it got pushed back again.
My people are unhappy and there is no way to add more decorations. I can't upgrade anything because I can't earn any money. No room to add anything even though I have prompts asking for another barn, another house, more decor, and more land. NO room to do any of it. I could raise the money, slowly, but for what? IT took forever to move up one level and still the option to buy land is grayed out till the NEXT level.

WHY is buying land so gosh darn hard? Seems it was about six levels ago when I was able to.

This bites.


Hey, how about something easy. Decorations that will fit in those dastardly one or two square odd spaces? I bet if I had a way to reorganize my farm I MIGHT be able to squeeze in another decoration. But.... I can't. Only new land lets me move enough stuff around. Can't get that.
Post edited by FlowerChild (INT1) on

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  • JimmyJamJimmyJam Posts: 7
    edited 13.07.2013
    Store decorations temporarily to rearrange your farm. There is thread that has a program to design it before hand. Low happiness isnt that bad, it just erodes profit margins. You can still make money. Don't worry about the mission prompts. Just think of them as bonuses for buying the upgrades that will help make more money for better upgrades. Once you can get the second farm put most of your resources there.
  • FlowerChild (INT1)FlowerChild (INT1) Posts: 127
    edited 13.07.2013
    I know about storing decorations. Problem is, bad design at one point thinking I'd get another plot of land in a level or two up. When you have to move big things, like fields, just storing the little 4x4 decorations doesn't not clear enough space. I have another farm on the USA server that is doing better. About the same level. And even that one it seems land is locked for six levels at a time.

    Again, WHY IS land rationed so many levels apart? SO many things I need to expand with and simply can't.


    How about ability to store big things? Pause the game, move stuff around?

    It's just too danged slow now. Really getting boring selling corn over and over.
  • JimmyJamJimmyJam Posts: 7
    edited 13.07.2013
    I cant find your farm but if you cant store enough decos to move anything and you are just farming corn you must be on a very low level. If you are willing to spend 30$ on gold you can really propel yourself up by buying land but honestly the gold is really only worth spending in maybe one or two pieces of land early on in the first farm and then it is best used on the second and third farm land expansions.
  • FlowerChild (INT1)FlowerChild (INT1) Posts: 127
    edited 13.07.2013
    Yea it is at a really low level. And I don't know why either. It was fine for a long time. Seems every time I upgrade a house the happiness goes down. Maybe they should just be homeless huh? lol.

    I would buy gold but there is something wrong with the game. I bought once. No problem. Now every time I try, nothing moves to the cart. I posted this in bugs with my other farm, started a ticket. They asked for a screen shot which I sent, and that's it. Nothing has been fixed. Which is probably good. I really shouldn't be spending money on games.

    If I absolutely have to, I'll tear down something. Perhaps a field. (I have six.) Stick some cheap decor there and see if I can start turning enough profit to get out of the hole.

    Don't know why you can't find my farm. For some reason this forum sticks a number in my name. Take out the number and try that. "FlowerChild." See if that helps.
  • choppychop (GB1)choppychop (GB1) Posts: 789
    edited 13.07.2013
    Use THIS to help you.
  • SystemSystem Posts: 106,969
    edited 13.07.2013
    JimmyJam wrote: »
    .... I can't find your farm.
    You have to be on the same server to visit another's farm. You are ont he us server but FlowerChild is on the WWW server
  • dragonpridedragonpride Posts: 574
    edited 13.07.2013
    building and upgrading houses always takes away about 30 or so happiness so do a little calculating before building them.also keep in mind that without the help of gold your farm wont really start to take off until around lvl30.
  • Gwendolen (US1)Gwendolen (US1) Posts: 1,268
    edited 13.07.2013
    hey FlowerChild, I think that 6 fields is way too much at a beginning farm. I had 4 fields for a véry long time and only kinda recently, when the gourmetfarm started to want more and more wheat, I decided to put in a 5th field. Consider demolishing 2 fields, get better happiness because you have lots more room to put decorations in.
    Having a good happiness makes you get a better profit sooner and thus be able to buy more land quicker. For the levels, yeah, you just have to wait on that... we all did.
  • choppychop (GB1)choppychop (GB1) Posts: 789
    edited 13.07.2013
    It's just too danged slow now. Really getting boring selling corn over and over.

    why are you selling corn? you have to USE it to make chicken feed and eggs. you are making no profit!
    If I absolutely have to, I'll tear down something. Perhaps a field. (I have six.) Stick some cheap decor there and see if I can start turning enough profit to get out of the hole.

    SIX fields? seriously? you can't have that much as a beginner. You need to drop to 3 or 4. you need space to GROW (expand) your farm!


    Post edited by Kat Nip: Merged posts, please use the edit button
  • EricaJ (US1)EricaJ (US1) Posts: 202
    edited 13.07.2013
    Gwendolen wrote: »
    hey FlowerChild, I think that 6 fields is way too much at a beginning farm. I had 4 fields for a véry long time and only kinda recently, when the gourmetfarm started to want more and more wheat, I decided to put in a 5th field. Consider demolishing 2 fields, get better happiness because you have lots more room to put decorations in.
    Having a good happiness makes you get a better profit sooner and thus be able to buy more land quicker. For the levels, yeah, you just have to wait on that... we all did.

    I agree.

    The other benefit of demolishing 2 fields is that it would free up (at least) 20 workers. Demolishing 20 workers' worth of housing would not only provide additional space for more decorations but also remove the happiness drain created by that housing.
  • choppychop (GB1)choppychop (GB1) Posts: 789
    edited 13.07.2013
    Can someone please do a screenshot of her farm? make sure you're on the same server! It would be a lot easier to give advice to and to see what the problem is visually
  • sharon992sharon992 Posts: 7
    edited 13.07.2013
    try upgrading your decorations; will give u more profitability. also, the only way to buy farm land early is with gold. thats just the way it is. join a co op; the older players will have suggestions for u too.
  • FlowerChild (INT1)FlowerChild (INT1) Posts: 127
    edited 13.07.2013
    HI all, spent the day at the beach.

    I somehow managed to get out of the hole with my farm. Squeeked enough money together to upgrade one of the little flower decorations to the fancy frog pond. (Love those cherries.)

    I got my six fields when I was attempting missions. And in fact, I landed first place a few times. But... most of the missions are SO far into the future, I rarely sign up anymore. I don't know what I'm doing 11 hours from now. Phoey.

    That software looks amazing. And I'm sure it is. But... I have a mac. And a very old one at that. That this game works at all is amazing.

    Still... I can't buy gold at all. Did once with no problem but it simply will not let me put anything into the cart. So oh well. I'll play this as long as it's playable. (or till I get bored.) THen that's it.


    I can get a screen shot but do I have to upload that somewhere to post it?
    Let me know.
  • Faye1953Faye1953 Posts: 9
    edited 13.07.2013
    Agree the prompts are there only as a suggestion. I've ignored more than I can say. The only prompts I do are the absolutely necessary ones like the Fairy Tale prompts (I want the Fairy Tower this time around), or any prompts that you get money for completing it, or prompts that give you something that you can plant and then sell to give you money in the end. I have probably about 10 prompts that will only give me reputation points and I'm slowly working on them but nothing that I feel that must be done now. I realized in the level 20s that if I did what the game was suggesting with the prompts for me to do I'd have no room, no money, and I'd be stuck. I've put so many decorations in inventory, demolished some, and replaced some so I could move things around to make more room. I've now started looking at the decorations that have only high happiness numbers and replacing a lot (not all) of the lower decorations that have smaller happiness numbers. I suggest that sometimes it's better to upgraded a building, coop, pig sty, etc. than to buy a new building. Example prompt says to build house so you do happiness is -35. You receive another prompt that says build a house so you do, now you have a happiness of -70. Instead if you had just upgraded your house your happiness would have been -62. Not much of a difference if you have only 1 or 2 houses but more houses more unhappiness. And your happiness scale would be even better if you used gold and get the fancy house. If you build the fancy house happiness is -25 to upgrade it would be -45 to make a new build would be -50. Not much of a difference for 1 or 2 houses but again many fancy houses much unhappiness.
  • FlowerChild (INT1)FlowerChild (INT1) Posts: 127
    edited 13.07.2013
    Yup, figured out I can leave the prompts alone. Just do the ones that are worth it. I'm getting there.

    Again, something is wrong with the buying gold. It simply will not let me put anything in the cart. Probably just as well.
  • Kat Nip (GB1)Kat Nip (GB1) GB1 Posts: 3,796
    edited 14.07.2013
    FlowerChild, please contact Support about the issue if you haven't already done so.

    Kat. Kittie_by_otomosc.gif
  • FlowerChild (INT1)FlowerChild (INT1) Posts: 127
    edited 14.07.2013
    I did contact support while logged into my other farm. They asked for a screen shot of the problem. I sent it, and that was that. I have not heard one word back. And it still doesn't work.

    Makes the game more challenging.
  • BoyTina22BoyTina22 Posts: 1
    edited 14.07.2013
    hi im new to this can u help me
  • Kat Nip (GB1)Kat Nip (GB1) GB1 Posts: 3,796
    edited 14.07.2013
    Boy Tina, welcome to Big Farm. I would like to help you, however I suggest you start your own thread where myself and others will be able to answer any questions you have and not take this thread off topic. :)

    FlowerChild, I apologise, I do now recall you mentioning that you've contacted them already. Please be a bit patient - Support had a really hectic week last week and the delay could just be due to that.

    Kat. Kittie_by_otomosc.gif
  • FlowerChild (INT1)FlowerChild (INT1) Posts: 127
    edited 14.07.2013
    Oh I'm patient. Again this is more challenging anyway. I'm slowly getting out of the hole. Working on replacing my cheap flower patch decor with better ones.

    BoyTina, when you do start up another thread, it would be a real good idea to post specific questions. Not just a can you help me post. Too vague.

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