( Lesson 18 ) Cash & Coins

Cash

As you start to play FarmVille, you'll have a relatively easy time accumulating coins. The FarmVille dollars are a bit harder to come by though. There's no equivalency either – you can't convert your coins to cash. You can use coins to buy most of the items in the market, but there are some items that you'll need cash to get.

Coins

You earn coins every time you harvest crops, fruit from trees, or goods from farm animals. You'll need some of these coins to re-plow and re-plant your fields, but after each harvest you should have some left over. You can just let your coins accumulate in your account, or you can spend them on a variety of discretionary items in the market.

There are some other ways you'll get a bonus in the form of coins. You'll occasionally get a message when you log in that you won a random number of coins in the daily raffle. These messages are pretty arbitrary, as are the amounts you win, so you can't count on them for consistent income. They're certainly a nice bonus though.

You'll also earn a small bonus every time you help out one of your neighbors with their farm. If one of your neighbors hasn't been able to get to their farm for a while, you'll receive a message that they could use your help. Accepting this message will take you to their farm where they'll ask for your help with chores like pulling weeds, raking leaves, or chasing crows away.

You can also go and visit your neighbor's farms on your own to see if they need any help when you're short on cash, but you can only help out each neighbor once a day. After that, you can visit all you want, but there won’t be any more chores for you to do.

This is just one of the reasons it's good to have a lot of neighbors. The more neighbors you have, the more farms you can visit, and the more chores you can do for coins and experience. After all, the more access you have to coins, the more you'll be able to do on your own farm. Once you run out of money, you just have to wait for your crops to be ready to harvest, or you'll have to find a different way of refilling your coin stores.