County Fair and State Fair How To

Many of us take this for granted, but I do come across players who think that getting 24000 County Fair points a week have to be cheating. It's not. Nor is getting 200000 State Fair points a sign of cheating. In general it means that they are good, hard working, efficient farmers.

1. Play on Zynga. I can't stress this enough. This is where you get the most friends who play, the easiest access to posted items and so on.

2. Have hundreds of active friends who play FV2. You need a lot of people to ask for water and fertilizer from.

3. Go to the General Store and Sort By XP. Now you know what crops and trees will give the most XP. Then look at how long time it takes to grow them. You want as long time as possibly, but if you play at the same time once a day you don't want 1d crops and trees. I use crops that are ready within 15-16 hours most of the time. Unless I know I will level up or have instant speed grow from the co-op, then I use 1d crops.
The simple recipe is that: Time + High XP = More Prized Goods = Higher Fair Points.

4. Use fields and groves. Make sure to raise their levels as soon as you can afford it. Higher level fields and groves produce more prized goods.

5. Always use heirloom trees. Store elder trees if you have enough pruning sheers, sell them if you need them.

6. Always fertilize. No fertilizer, no prized goods. Use the nurseries to create animals that produce more fertilizer, and keep a good stock of animals with short feeding times. Gold-Laced Cochin Chicken is a clear favorite here, a chance of 3 fertilizer every 5 minutes + more fertilizer if it's nursery raised.

7. Buy a shovel. You don't have to buy the expensive ones, a 2X Shovel is enough. Remember that you are teamed up with players who Zynga see as "equals". This means that if you can afford to expensive shovels you'll be teamed up with others who can too. In the long run this means that you'll have to be able to buy them, every week, to keep up. (This is also where you'll find the most cheaters.) On the other hand, if you can afford it then the 10X Shovel will provide the most fair points.

8. Be prepared for the 2X Double Time. Once you've reached the State Fair goal you get 2X Double Time for a limited time (max 48hours). During this time your fair points (after the use of a shovel), will double. 100 points x 2(Shovel) = 200 x 2(Double Time) = 400. Think this through. Instead of 100 points you get 400. Multiply this with how many points you get when you harvest your farm. This is the time when you normally make the most fair points. Make sure you use it to the max.
Tips! This is where I use the co-op goal super grow (when the farm is instantly ready for harvest). This means that I have to avoid clicking on the Market Stand once the co-op goal is reached, but it's worth it.
This is also a good time to level up if possible. Craft high XP items to level up with. (I find the Crafting Kiln the most efficient for this task.)

9. Get water by asking your (hundreds) of friends for help and clicking the post feed, also visit neighbour farms to click on sprinklers. Send water as free gifts and hope that your friends will do the same.

10. Use visiting neighbors to speed grow the crops for the fair. Place the fields close to the entrance (by the Market Stand) since most visitors usually stay in that area. Also put a couple of single heirloom tress there. If a neighbor click on a tree, transfer it to a grove, water, fertilize and then let the neighbor go to work. The whole grove will be speed grown.
Remember to always visit those who visit you to keep them coming back. Click on high XP crops of groves to get the prized crops from the first ones you visit.

11. Always use your Farm Hands to speed grow. You know where you will put them. Make sure it's on your highest XP 1d crops to get the most out of them.

12. If you can't play all day, then log on regularly to use water and feed animals to get fertilizer.


How about the Cheaters then? They are out there and they do get all the good stuff as a reward for being bad. It's not fair in any form or way. One thing that can easily be spotted are the ones who cheat to get Double Time for more than the 48 hour limit. It's also fair to assume that those who get more than 1 million points cheat in one way or the other, even though it's possible to do it the legal way. (How to get 1.5 million points without cheating.)

Zynga have put up a page where we can report the cheaters, and I suggest you use it. As always with Zynga, there seems to be little action, but, the more reports they get the more obvious it will be to them that this is a huge problem. (Not only in the state fair).

Reporting a suspicious player