FarmVille Ribbons

One of the appealing aspects of Farmville is that there are so many different ways to keep track of your progress. You can advance by gaining more coins, creating the best looking farm, or even by earning ribbons. There are a huge variety of ribbons that you can earn, from the "Local Celebrity" ribbon that you get for being a great neighbour, to the "Flower Power" ribbon, which you can earn by growing flowers on your farm.

Each ribbon has its own rewards, typically they are either additional coins or more experience points (XP). While ribbons are a fun way to progress through the game and to showoff to your Farmville friends, they can actually be a great way to maximise your coins and XP so you can continue to level up in the game.

At the moment there are more than 25 different categories of ribbons you can earn, with each category having 4 different colored ribbons; yellow, white, red and blue. The yellow ribbons in each of the categories are the easiest to earn, while the blue ribbons are the most difficult. To give you an idea of the difference in difficulty, to earn the yellow ribbon in the "Cream of the Crop" category, you need to just harvest 30 crops, whereas the white ribbon requires 1000 crops to be harvested, and to earn the blue ribbon you will need to harvest a whopping 50,000 crops.

Now it's true that the ribbons are just there to give you something to aim for as you get better at the game, you can really use them to your strategic advantage. By earning ribbons early in the game, you can quickly have a significant amount of coins and XP up your sleeve, which will allow you to level up a lot faster than usual.

While any ribbon early on will be a great advantage, there are two ribbons that you really should target. The "Local Celebrity" and the "Good Samaritan" ribbons will earn you a lot of coins and XP, as well as other benefits. These ribbons can be earned by adding more neighbors, and helping your neighbors out on their farms when they ask you for help. To give you an idea of how this can benefit you to earn coins early on, if you add just 8-9 neighbors and then help them out a few times, you can easily earn the white "Local Celebrity" ribbon, and the yellow "Good Samaritan" ribbon. This will reward you with a nice 3500 coins and 55 experience points. These spare coins can then be reinvested into crops and other items that will earn you even more ribbons and then more coins.

There are a lot of ways for you to use ribbons to your advantage. A lot of it just depends on purchasing a certain number of buildings, harvesting a certain number of crops or adding a certain number of neighbors, which is all pretty easy enough. Once you are rewarded for your efforts, reinvest those coins into doing other things that will earn your more ribbons, with their additional rewards, and repeat the cycle. Soon enough you'll be on the top of the Farmville game.