Friday, August 13, 2010

Growing Crops in your EC

Absolutely the first thing you should do when you get an EC is grow crops!

Don't spend your money on boxes, bedding, pets, staff or anything else - use it to buy fields, seeds and manure. This may sound weird but there is method in this madness...

Crops = cash!

Spend the first few weeks that you own your EC growing and harvesting crops to build up your equus reserve. Then, once you have a good amount of money, you can start to buy the boxes and employ the staff that you'll need. And you'll be able to afford much better quality. Which means your EC will get off to a flying start.

The seasons that you can plant crops (and how long they take to grow are shown below):

Carrot seeds - spring - 9 days
Wheat seeds - summer - 9 days
Barley seeds - spring - 10 days
Oat seeds - spring - 11 days
Turnip seeds - summer - 7 days
Pass seeds - autumn - 30 days
Apple seeds - autumn - A harvest every Fall
Flax seeds - spring - 8 days

The best things to grow are Flax in the spring and Turnips in the summer - these will bring in the most money when you sell them back to the store.

We'll explain about the other crops that you'll need to grow in a future post.

So it is true - sometimes money does grow on trees (well on crops anyway!)

Lucy

A rare thing

There's a good chance you will have seen a Sand Horse in the 'Beach' auctions in the last couple of weeks. The price they are selling for is increasing as players get more sand piles. We've seen them sell for 12 and 13000 piles of sand. They occur pretty much every day.

However....

Seeing a Sand Horse in the private 'Beach' sales is really rare. It's even rarer to get a screenshot. But we managed just that as you'll see. As far as we can recall, Sand Horses sell for just 500 sand piles in the private sales. So whoever nabbed this one got a truly fantastic deal.

Just a shame it wasn't us!

Patsy