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[gd6noob]

I gotta say, at first play, this is fun and amusing game. It took some tinkering and I found a good way to make a profit. Here are a few tips that might help you as well.

I'm very OCD and I like aesthetically placed items, mostly a grid pattern

Tip 1

I use the 1 row tool(1x8) to lay down my field. Since I only use the 3 row machines (Plow, Planter, Harvester, etc) I have a 3x16 field and I have 6 of these(will tell you why further down). I like to keep a min 200+ of each crop in my storage, so its easier to sell on contracts. Whenever 1 type is low, I plant the entire 3x16 with this crop. This is totally up to you on how you want to do it. The contracts I tend to pick are 40,000+ complete them right away without delay.

Tip 2

This is a huge money saver.
Don;t waste money on nutrients. only water the crops if necessary. Whenever there is a tile in my 3x16 lot goes into the red calling for nutrients, this usually means other lots will soon have this problem and/or low on other nutrients. Instead of the cost of using the machine AND paying for nutrients of EACH [/u] tile (this adds up), I simply sell the entire 3x16 lot and replant it. Now it wont be at 100% for each nutrient, but I never seen is below 75%. Now if you have a tone of fields, this might not work, as selling process is 1 tile at a time, this can be really annoying, which is why I keep it to 6 lots of 3x16. I find this method a lot cheaper then spending money on the nutrients and the machines to spread it. Perhaps there might be an update on selling in bulk? I don't know.


Hope you all find my tip useful. If anyone else has some good tips, let me know.

[BinaryDigit09]

Interesting tip, thanks!

The intended way to resupply nutrients without breaking the bank is to plant coverage crops. You can find the four types of coverage crops at the bottom of the list of crops to plant. (That list can scroll, which wasn't obvious to me at first.) See the descriptions for each coverage crop to see which nutrient(s) they add and how much. I can't recall which, but there's one that adds a little bit of everything, so I just plant that and let it cook until it wilts.

Coverage crops grow a lot slower than the cash crops do, so maybe consider doing half your field at a time in a rotation or something like that.