Farming at Facebook's Farm Town

I must admit I'm one of those who got easily hooked to Facebook's Farm Town. I never thought the game could bring me to my seat for hours when a friend of mine told me about it. Yes, I've been maintaining a Facebook profile for nearly a year now but no other application has caught my attention than Farm Town.

Prior to my addiction to Farm Town, Sim City has also captured most of my time so it's no surprise that Farm Town has done it to me too. The theme is simple. Just like Sim City, only in Farm Town you get to build a farm and not a city. And it's online and interactive.

You start with a blank farm and a few coins. Then you plow some fields to prepare for the planting. Plowing a field is free. If you want to start planting, you go to the store and buy seeds. Seeds have corresponding number of days to grow and be available for harvesting. Some seeds take only one day to be ready for harvest so you have to get back to Farm Town in the next day to harvest your crops, otherwise, they will wither and die.

Here's an open secret. To make more money with your crops, go to the marketplace and hire another player to harvest the crops for you. This way, you are able to help the player with additional coins and the price of your crops get higher. I don't know why this is so but maybe the developers of the game want more interaction between players. So the more that you hire other farmer to harvest your crops, the more coins you will get.

Of course, the games needs you to have a Facebook account. And if your friends are already on Facebook's Farm Town, you can send gifts of trees or animals to them. In return, they will give you trees or animals too, I can assure you. That again is the spirit of interaction.

I'm now on level 8, a green thumbed farmer, with 1326 points. Some of my crops will be available for harvest tomorrow yet and I'm getting excited at restructing my farm to make it look beautiful, with trees and animals that were given to me by friends.

Try the game. I promise you you'll be hooked to it.