Learning About Ribbons in Farmville
Want a fun and entertaining way to chart your progress in Farmville? Of course, watching your coins and XP/level progress is one way to mark your ac...
Want a fun and entertaining way to chart your progress in Farmville? Of course, watching your coins and XP/level progress is one way to mark your accomplishments, but the ribbons in Farmville are a exciting way to earn recognition for specific objectives in the game. Ribbons are available in a host of different categories. Everything from the “Flower Power” ribbon, where you earn money from growing flowers, to the “Lord of the Plow” ribbon where you get recognition for using a tractor to plow your fields. The ribbons range from the serious to the downright weird, but they’re all fun. And ribbons provide benefits beyond mere recognition. As you earn them, you’ll get additional experience points, coins and even special gifts.
Currently, there are over 25 different ribbon categories and each category allows you to earn four different colors of ribbons: yellow, white, red and blue. The colors get progressively harder to earn within each category. For instance, the Cream of the Crop Yellow ribbon, which you earn for harvesting crops, is won after harvesting just 30 crops in the game. But the white ribbon requires you to harvest 1,000 crops. And the blue ribbon for Cream of the Crop requires a whopping 50,000 harvested crops to earn.
Although some of the ribbons are really just intended to give you additional goals in the game to pursue, you can utilize some of them very strategically in the game to quickly earn significant XP and coins. Early on, ribbons can help you progress through your FarmVille levels very quickly.
Two ribbons to pursue relatively early on are the local celebrity and good samaritan ribbons, which reward you for adding neighbors and helping them on their farms. Used together, you can get a lot of coins and XP for these two ribbons. For example, by adding 8 neighbors and then helping them each out three times, you’ll end up with the white local celebrity ribbon and the yellow good samaritan ribbon. The combined rewards are 3,500 coins and 55 XP. Although the XP rewards for these ribbons are low, the coins can be very helpful early in the game, and of course adding neighbors opens up a lot more opportunities than just collecting ribbons.
Another great set of ribbons to get early in the game are the Architect Ribbons. These ribbons reward you for placing buildings on your farm–the yellow ribbon comes from owning just 2 buildings, while the blue ribbon can be earned once 30 buildings are placed on your farm. Most buildings in Farmville, such as the barns and the houses, are very expensive. But there’s an often neglected little building called the Rest Tent, which costs just 1,000 coins. So, as soon as you have 30,000 coins in FarmVille, you can purchase 30 rest tents and place them on your farm to quickly get all four Architect ribbons. Although the initial outlay is 30,000 coins, you’ll get 19,500 of those coins back via rewards for the ribbons and selling the rest tents once you’re finished. And you’ll wind up with 2,150 XP, which can be a lot in the early part of the game. For example, it would take you all the way from level 10 to 14 in just a few minutes.
There are a lot of other ribbons to pursue, and half the fun is trying to accumulate as many as you can. Ribbons can be a great way to add more fun to your Farmville game and help you earn levels and coins even faster.
Bob writes about on his gaming blog. He loves animals and farming in real life, too.