Money on Farming 17 on multiplayer

[Thomas]

Hello guys,
so i have a big issue making money with my friend... we dont earn much money, and we cant do missions... cus they dont allow that on multiplayer. am i the onlyone who wants that changed?
but yepp, back to my topic. do anyone have any tips how to make money ?
we spray and plow our fields and working hard. we have been playing for around 35-40 hours.
on farming 15 it was easy to earn money by selling sillage or stuff... but is there anything else than Mission you can earn good money on ?

[jfoytek]

Nope its hard to make money that is just the fact...

And yes it sucks there are no missions on MP but at the same time I am sorta glad because the missions are OUT OF BALANCE just like forestry was in 2015... The missions are far to rewarding and take away the sense of accomplishment you get in multiplayer game play...

[Willow Rivers]

Just grind away at harvesting crops. I am also playing on hard on a my dedicated server with a friend, it is slow startiing out.

There is no fast easy way to riches which is great, makes it all that more rewarding when you get a new feild and new equipment.

[Tagger]

We (3 people) just harvest our crops - plant new crops - speed time to 120x - Start over.
Just an hour or so ago, we got a few sheep added (25 or so, I think) as our first animals - but that's it - pretty much. When we get 'further in', we're probably gonna stop speeding up the time and just keep it at 15x or something (depending on how busy everything gets).

Been playing 5-8 hours each day, over the past 3 days or so. We're currently €600.000 in the positive (no loan anymore, and several 'higher-end' vehicles bought) and just getting to the part where we feel we can do as we please, without everything being that much of a hassle :)

We bought a loadingwagon pretty early on, and started collected 'the droppings' after harvesting wheat/barley and then sold it at our barn. Around €1500 per load (field 12, the top one at your farm on Goldcrest, gave quite a few round-trips with the loadingwagon, in just one harvest) - not much, but everything adds up in the end - and it was work for one of us, that would have otherwise just done nothing (seeing as we were 3 people).

I'm real glad the missions aren't in MP - at least on in their current state. They are way too lucrative. You kinda need to 'struggle' to get a footing in this game - I like that. But after that (as mentioned above), you hit a point where you're more 'loose with your money' and can kinda afford to be.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

It also depends on your difficulty. Personally, I prefer having it on hard and slow growth time on crops. It makes it very challenging but also very rewarding once you get everything going and start to buy better equipment.

[sketcherskt]

buy beehives if you can they dont require anything and make money on there own i believe but this could take some grinding first

[awarlock]

We went out and purchased (1) chain saw ($1000) which seemed to work for (2) players simultaneously and then we discovered you can cut down trees at the lumber mill, roll or carry the logs down the hill into the water where the ? is or roll the logs into the marked zone. We were getting around $200 to $300 per log that you can pick up and carry. Not a lot but if you have some time it is a different angle on the multiplayer game. Plus we were still farming, just waiting for the crops to grow for harvest. We also chopped down trees at the farm and loaded them into the pickup and the tractor and trailer that you haul grain in and then we would take both vehicles to the logging mill and turn the logs in for cash. Seems like we were making $3K to $4K per trip so maybe a couple of thousand per player, each trip. Just trying to make money. It is interesting/funny trying to load the logs on the vehicles though . . . You do have to try and pack as many logs onto each vehicle as possible.

Other than the cost of the (1) chainsaw, you don't have any leasing fees, etc. It is all just time and profit. If you put the time on Real Time you can cut down trees for hours.

Just to be clear . . . you cut down the trees, trim the branches off, and then cut the tree trunk down into sizes that you can carry or load on a vehicle/trailer by hand. We were just beginning Multiplayer so we didn't have a lot of money. Obviously later, when you get some cash you can purchase all kinds of logging equipment to make this process a whole lot easier.