This is a refined version of a tip I saw somewhere….

If you are playing too much Farmville (like me) and get tired of waiting for your slow-poke farmer to walk around the screen to get things done, here’s a tip: immobilise him to speed up the whole game.

First, buy or scrounge 12 hay bales, and leave them somewhere on your farm. We’ll come back to them.

Now visit someone else’s farm, then return to your own.

Your farmer will be standing on a square in the center of your farm.

Click on the delete tool (red spade) and dig up the square he is standing on.

Grab the hay bales you collected earlier, and build a little hay-bale prison around him.

See image below showing how it’s done -

Now you can plow, plant, and collect much faster than if your farmer was allowed to walk around on the farm.

The game seems to understand that he is trapped and still allows you to play without him needing to be on the square you are working on.

And by choosing the center square, he will always land back in the trap after visiting other farms and returning.

Yes, spending time optimising my Farmville gameplay is a little sad, but you can’t say I don’t try optimise and improve everything I tackle

And I’m researching Social Gaming for my work with the 24.com Games team.

I’ll think up some more excuses later.

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