Hi,
I feel for the newer players who are at the lower levels and it just looks like an uphill battle as they say Will we ever make it to the top?
But on a positive note, please know that we ALL were Level 1 once and Level 20 and Level 100, etc. As a matter of fact, when I started playing Farm Town we had NO tools and had to click ONE PLOT AT A TIME!!! I also made the mistake of wasting what little Farm Cash I had because I bought one of those topiary hedges. Ughhh! I didn't really understand what Farm Cash was and that I was supposed to save it for something I really needed.
I think when I started playing Level 30 or 40 was the highest level. I remember pineapple was the crop to buy as it yielded the most coinage in return.
All I can tell the newer player is to hang in there!! You will continue to level up and your Farm Cash will increase the more you play. Also, if you have a lot of COINS and want to level up a bit faster, you can buy the watermill for 100,000 coins and get 1,000 XP's. You can only have 1 at a time on a farm, but there's a way to buy multiples as well. You lose your coins (100,000) for each watermill but if you buy 12 of them or more, you level up and gain 1 whole buck in farm cash.
Also, there really are some great facilities that are for coins only and you can do really well leveling up by using them. Example: The Glass Factory. You need the Ink & Pigment facility (plant carrots to make the orange pigment), you need the Mineral Mine and the Open Pit Mine to make the clay blocks. You can figure this stuff out as you go. You don't have to store any of that stuff you make in a facility. You can go to the market and sell it outright for more coins, then buy more watermills with those coins, etc. etc.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this. You CAN play this game and get to higher levels without spending 1 dime on this game. I know people who are at very high levels and all they do is plant and sell, or plant and use coin facilities.
If you can get yourself to the level needed to buy a manure spreader, that's another way to help you get double for your fertilized crops.
The only thing that I wish the developers would consider changing is hens and cows. I wish they were available for us to buy with coins just like the sheep and llamas are. It would really help with the gifting issues especially now since so many people LOST THEIR GIFTS because face book decided to update whatever and cost us our gifts