dangevin
10-27-13, 02:40 PM
What is your strategy to efficiently plant/harvest/plow your goodies?
When I first started, I'd just use my index finger. This worked well while I was just dabbling with a very small farm.
Now that I have the maximum size and I'm trying to master all of the 3-hour crops, I've found that my finger actually gets fatigued (!) and is just not as efficient at tapping 500 squares 3 times every 3 hours. I've tried switching hands, using my middle or ring fingers (ring finger actually works well since I can leave my hand flat instead of extending a single finger), etc.
Right now I've actually settled on using my thumbs. I zoom so that I can do about 12 squares of a row at a time (top half of an entire row), and alternate tapping one thumb and then the other, outside to inside. So, plot 1 and plot 12, plot 2 and plot 11, 3 and 10, etc.
I do one whole pass of this across the top half of my farm, 12x24, and then the bottom so that my entire 24x24 is done in two passes. I find that it takes only about 8 minutes to get the whole thing done with this technique. (About halfway through, I tap into Social to get the game caught up to me, since I get pretty far ahead of the queue)
This is much easier on my poor fingertips, esp since I have recovered from RSI in the past from being in a full-time typing job.
When I first started, I'd just use my index finger. This worked well while I was just dabbling with a very small farm.
Now that I have the maximum size and I'm trying to master all of the 3-hour crops, I've found that my finger actually gets fatigued (!) and is just not as efficient at tapping 500 squares 3 times every 3 hours. I've tried switching hands, using my middle or ring fingers (ring finger actually works well since I can leave my hand flat instead of extending a single finger), etc.
Right now I've actually settled on using my thumbs. I zoom so that I can do about 12 squares of a row at a time (top half of an entire row), and alternate tapping one thumb and then the other, outside to inside. So, plot 1 and plot 12, plot 2 and plot 11, 3 and 10, etc.
I do one whole pass of this across the top half of my farm, 12x24, and then the bottom so that my entire 24x24 is done in two passes. I find that it takes only about 8 minutes to get the whole thing done with this technique. (About halfway through, I tap into Social to get the game caught up to me, since I get pretty far ahead of the queue)
This is much easier on my poor fingertips, esp since I have recovered from RSI in the past from being in a full-time typing job.