What Kind Of Farmer Are You? Rating Options

[Yume]

When you start a Harvest Moon game, do you prefer to focus on the bachelors/bachelorettes, raising animals or growing crops?
I like to balance my flirting and animal tending to be honest. :3
What do you guys do? :D

[Sammy Ryou]

When I first start a new file in a game, I'm mostly clearing out my land of weeds, stones, and lumber and planting a few Spring crops for money. I might scavenge, but I usually wait until I've caught up with the random debris.

I meet all or most of the villagers for the first few days, too. I also start trying to pick up cheap or easy-to-find gifts for the bachelor or bachelorette I intend to marry (provided they're available right from the get-go--if not, I'd either work on unlocking them and/or semi-court another available bachelor/bachelorette to keep me occupied until I do). I don't really bother to try to get all the marriageable peoples' hearts up, but I'll still talk to them, maybe give them an odd gift for the heck of it, and see their heart events when their heart is the appropriate color.

For the first year I'm mostly planting crops for my income. By either Fall or Winter I'll buy a chicken (chickens are always the first animal I get). During Winter my income is mostly gained via mining, selling the chicken eggs, and the odd scavenging. I also do most of my friendship-building during this season, since my time isn't spent tending to plants. By this time the bachelor or bachelorette I have my eye on is probably either at an orange or red heart (if I didn't have to unlock them, that is) and I tend to have at least a level 2 house, close to getting a level 3. Thus, by Summer or Fall of my second year I'm married; the only exceptions to this are DS and DS Cute, 'cause of those stupid sprites. >.<

So far, the only games that I've gotten past Year 2 in have been MM and ANWL. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)