Serj's Farming Guide

First off props to czeuch as his post inspired me to start this...

I pretty much farm every game I play, be it for some special item or for resources to buy those items.  I do it as if I'm some sort of resource hogging masochist.  If I had to tell someone how to farm this game these are some of the tips I would give..

• Learn the default prices of everything on the HQ, snap up hard to produce items that are at the defualt price or lower, coin popups in your city often pay very high prices for these.  It takes some storage room and investment capital but it's an additional income stream
• Search for similar items to the one you truly want, hoping that the item you really want will be for sale on the same Trade Depot.  It's much less maddening this way
• When visiting a city through the HQ, if there are multiple interesting items available don't tap the one you came for tap the others first as there are betters odds they won't be taken.
• Be prepared to purchase additional slots on your Trade Depot, they are helpful
• Sometimes it pays to log off while visiting another Mayors city.  When you sign back into the game they will occasionally have cheap goods for sale that haven't yet been advertised
• A common rookie mistake is to return to your city to use the HQ again.  Search the HQ directly from the mayors city you are visiting
• Target people with city names of "Rising Sun Valley" they generally are a little noobier and you can find steals sometimes
• When searching through the HQ, try to go after items on the initial screen, every swipe of your finger takes time that someone else is using to buy items
• Never sell storage bars or Dozer Blades they are too rare and valuable, if they ever lift the price cap on items these will skyrocket in value.
• Visit Daniel's city daily, he has items you can flip easily
• If you haven't unlocked VU do it ASAP, he is very easy to farm keys from, too easy IMO.  A case could be made for them to nerf him.  Depending on where you are in the game you should be farming him instead of upgrading residences.
• Sell seeds and veggies.  I don't know who is buying all these seeds but this is a gravy train I will ride until it dries up
• You can destroy residences and rebuild them for quick cash but this will cause you to level quickly which brings on it's own set of challenges.
• Some people have been taking the above tip to the extreme and are doing this..but this could be considered an exploit.  Considered yourself warned.
• USE YOUR RESOURCES.  One thing I've learned about these games, they will sometimes alter the prices of things(could see them raising key costs for example).  But they never take away buildings that are already placed.

Here is basically what I do when I have downtime in the game...

Go to the HQ and using the steps above search for exhaust, gears, locks and cameras at low prices.  Relist them at full price.  Do it over and over snapping up other cheap items until I have enough storage bars dozer blades to expand.  Then start hoarding the exhaust, gears, locks or cameras(instead of selilng them) to get me to that upgrade/expansion.  Do the upgrade.  rinse and repeat

The strategy is always shifting but this is just what I've found myself doing lately..

At some point they are going to fix the HQ and render many of these Tips useless.  At that point we will just find new ways to farm.  If there is enough interest I will update this thread at that point...😕mileyhappy: