Final thougt on this game: After well over 350 hours and 40 days.
This game is quite fun until around level 25ish as the game have a good mix of diffrent stuff to keep track of.
However after level 25 this game begins to really, REALLY slow down to a crawl, perhaps the slowest I have ever seen in a game.
Level 35 have taken me days and I still havent passed it.
And I have spent a fair amount of time in the game during these days...
And the "Daisy event" where it was impossible to get the top tier reward for steam users without having to spend and I kid you not 100s upon 100s of Euros/Dollars ( I did a small calculationon the actual cost.
1 farm slot = 4 more slots for farmin = say 100 farm slots = 25 plots that from the 8th costs diamonds.
8th = 10 Diamonds 9th 20 Diamonds...= 25th plot will cost somwhere around 160/170 gems
=atleast 1500diamonds = right now 99 Euros for 1300.
and thats not all:
There is also a diamond cost for the expansions of the farm that you also need to have the space for the farm slots...that needs atleast 25farm slot /4 = 7 extra (thats atleast at the minimum an extra 250-300 more diamonds...)
= one needs atleast the 249Euro pack...

Other then the above:
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What to do and avoid.

Basic thing NUMBER ONE to think when begining the farm.
DO NOT HURRY!!!

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Follow the steps given to you (in game) untill they stop.
(A given; I know: but I state it for clarity)

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Pre level 15:
Do not get anything that isnt required by a "Quest" aka a "Task".
(Tasks are more or less an extended tutorial during these levels)
(If something is going to cost Diamonds ignore them (except for farm expansions) (send them away; this includes helping animals; yeep let them "die" as you wont be able to help them anyway as the tasks are built to fail on a later day (4,5 6 or 7th)

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Important:
Only expand the farm single file along the river toward the pond (in the forrest to the "left") at this stage; will help you later (lvl 25-30ish) in the game to reach the woodshack.
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Important:
Resist the erge to get 5 of each tree at this stage:
Get at most 3 of each sort of tree:
But DO NOT USE them
UNLESS it is for a WHOLESALE delivery:
Do NOT use them on regular deliveries:

Why not?
Cause the trees will become depleated (after 10 crops) and is a PURE pain to get removed early game.

I still suffrer from overtreeing (I still got no space on my farm and have spent days) trying to get rid of all the depleated trees (at one time; almost 1/4 of my farm was depleated trees)
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Again pre level 15 and onward also:
Do ONLY expand your farm alongside the river untill one reach the pond.
(This will save TONS of time and diamonds later on in the game)

I did not do this and I am still "suffering" from it.
Do it basicly like this MS PAINT pic shows...

Do not hesitate to get rid of all deliveries at once that either:
would take up to much inventory space
or
are just impossible to full fill within either an hour
and/or
doenst make sense to spend resourses on,

(Like apples/pears & piesand drinks made by apple/pears)

as it will cost way to much (time/tools/gold) early game to clean up afterwards early game to spend these resourses.
AVOID THIS AT ALL COST:

During level 15-20;
Try begin find it possible to get:
Decorations:
Decorations:
Decorations:
Why?
They give the much needed tools for expansions (buildings) and extentions for the farm.
The most economic way to treat decorations as I have felt is:
With thier CoolDown becoming longer and longer for each time:
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That one can sell and replace a decoration with a new decoration if the CD is longer then 16 hours:
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(unless you only play for a short amount of time each day and isnt bothered with the CD being superlong)

The Marketplace is PRIO number one:
And make sure you have as many active ingame friends as possible: That have market places:
Super critical at times when times are short or an event is ongoing and you miss a certain item that you just cant get any other way:

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Prio number two.
If done correctly this is when you should be able to reach the shack out in the woods if done correctly:
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Prio Number three:
Get the 3rd upgrade on the "Feed Mixer".
This will help resolve alot of issues with the animal production section of the game:
And the cost of the 5 diamonds are easily worth it in this case.

The Diner costs 40 diamonds.


Judgement so far about the diner:
It is wise to stock up on night ingridients like Mushroms before getting the Diner as mushrooms are one of the key ingredients in one of the 2 possible servings at lv 30:
The numbers below are with a 5% tip.
1; Meatpie + Peardrink. 37G income 30Star.
2: Egg+Mushroom+Onionbread. 101G income 82 Star.

The Lumbermill: Is not worth the costs to get until atleast level 40ish (maybe not even level 50)

Here is why:


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The Lighthouse costs 30 Diamonds and makes it possible to switch to night crops each 12h hour for free. (duration 15min)

The lighthouse is easily worth the cost of 30 Diamonds to get at once as it makes it much, much easier to handle both wholesale orders; (ordinary orders) and Diner orders/servings..

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Here are my results after 30 days and 300 hours.

I finally got the trees and them becoming obstacles under control after hitting level 34.
As I from then on had a balance in Tree´s Vs (good enough) Decorations to warrant a usage of tree products in "normal" deliveries.


For each farm expansion the cost (excluding tool and gold costs) is raised with 5 diamonds per expansion.
= 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35...etc.etc.
= at my 9th expansion it costs 35 diamonds and my 10th most likly will cost 40 diamonds (excluding other costs)