Jimmy Polston's Farmtown Virtual Farmin' Almanac

Tip, suggestions, prose and art pertaining to Slashkey's ground-breaking Flash-based Farmtown virtual farming game. This game, elegant yet complex, has the capability of being more than just a crop game, but a creative social hobby all its own. This blog hopes to share that enhanced experience. Farm Fearless! Thanks for visiting. ~Jimmy Polston

Welcome!

Dedicated to FarmTown hobbyists, Jimmy's Farmtown Virtual Farmin' Almanac has really cool tips and tricks to help with your farmtown farm, as well as handy reference charts and other useful stuff in help take your virtual farmin' experience to the next level, and possibly into a enriching creative social hobby. This blog is independent of the fine SlashKey makers of Farm Town. Though every attempt is made to keep the information up-to-date, as with any exciting Beta release, we players are honored to be integral in the game's ongoing development--while changes and challenges in the game are ongoing. Patience, courtesy, curiosity, keeping our brains switched "on", and sharing helps us all to move forward and have more fun.

What I aim to do here is to help organize fun information in a clear and entertaining format, while assuming that readers have already read and understand the Player's Guide. However, sometimes the Forum is a bit challenging to navigate, hence this blog. The latest bits of information are regularly being added by the wonderful people at Farmtown Friends on Facebook, as well as in-depth Technical Information, such as How to Clean Out your Browser Cache.

For those wishing to chat, email me or visit Facebook's Farmtown Friends Farmtown Discussion Group--the friendliest and most knowledgeable Farmtown Player Group on the Web. It's a troll-free zone! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=317700405142&ref=ts

For those who wish to drill deeper into a subject or make suggestions on improving the game for all, please visit Slashkey's official Farm Town Forum and Support pages at http://slashkey.com/

As a special bonus to Subscribers, I'm offering a free set of my FarmTown Crop Charts and the new updated Tree Charts featuring the fresh 2-Day harvestable trees as well as Decorative Trees. The Subscriber versions are in a letter-size printable PDF format for your own use. Thanks for visiting, and as always, your comments and suggestions are appreciated. ~Jimmy

Friday, January 8, 2010

FANCY SPEED PLOW

FANCY SPEED PLOW

This trick alters the Plow Tool for your hired plowers.

WHAT IT DOES: Removes the Plow “thingie” field selector so the plowing player can use the mouse cursor arrow or (hand pointer is using Chrome) to select which field to plow—which can make plowing very fast.

ADVANTAGE: Plowing player does not have to wait for the plow thingie to line up with a field to plow it.

This trick is especially helpful on slow farms (farms with lots of hedges and animals. No offense, just the facts.) And it’s useful on farms with tight Item/Crop placements. It absolutely smokes when using Google Chrome.

DISADVANTAGE: Does not always work with Firefox. Speed Plowing can overwhelm Firefox—and dramatically so on slower user systems. (Don’t know about Internet Explorer; I don’t use it and the game developers recommend not using it either.)

  1. Ask if your hired plower would like to use a speed plow. If so, tell them to sit still and accept two plow hires.
  2. Hire to plow as usual.
  3. Hire them again.
  4. Tell them to plow away.
~Jimmy

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