I play all the games but these days I have been showing more interest in Farm, Bakery, and Pet Hotel Story. But I do check the other games like three times a week. =)
wow ... hundreds of sheds in inventory ?? are we playing the same game, i've been paying 10K and then begging for materials ... guess i have alot to learn ... any tutors out there ??
It depends what you prefer - I didn't really build sheds, got my way by planting every inch of my land and harvesting immediately when plants ready. Every now and then I decide to build one, but honestly by doing the work, you can get there too. Well of course, I have hardly any decorations up, so it's truly just a farm.
I do both... Plant the majority of the farm in crops(21x24 to be exact) and then have 3x23 of trees and 3 sheds being built... The Sheds just give me the ability to ask for 20 extra shed parts each day in addition to the 20 I get gifted from neighbors. By getting 40 shed parts most days I average 2 sheds per day to give me an extra 2200 XP per day. You are right that you could ignore sheds and plant/harvest an extra 2 fields of strawberries a day and end up with 2304XP for doing it. I just like working with other farmers to gift/receive the parts to help get the extra 2200 XP per day.(in addition to growing crops/strawberries on large portions of my farm).
I read about sheds but no one seems to plant corn. When I don't receive enough materials for tool sheds, I plant corn and sell it immediatly. I don't wait 22h.
I get 5 XP/plant: 4 for planting and 1 for plowing.
2 880 XP for a 24x24 farm in 5 min. It costs 25 920 coins. About the same ratio than a shed.
It's a lot of tapping, but easier than rasberries.
I can't stand the double tap required to plow up growing crops... On my tiny phone it takes much longer for me to plow. I would rather grow 2 fields of strawberries, then to plow up corn(plus there is a net coin gain with strawberries). When I am bored with nothing else to do, I'll grow strawberries.