What is the best way to proceed in buying tasks. Should I buy by just going higher in points each time? Or get all the fishing first? I hate that phase where you have to eat mushrooms. Is there anyway around it?

Which game are you playing: VV1 or VV2? The two games are different.

I have my dam built, waiting for farm to pop up and dont have the algae yet. (vv2)

I'm playing VV2.

What I've been doing is

1. Farming 2 (coconuts)
2. Engineering 2 (to build a dam for the farm)
3. Science 2 (yeah, it takes 16000 tech points, but it speeds up the accumulation of points)
4. Farming 3 (to get rid of the algae and have unlimited food supply)

Still haven't decided on a "best order" after that.

I normally proceed as follows:

1. L2 Engineering - dam
2. L2 Exploration - stews and spears
3. L2 Science - faster tech points
4. L2 Medicine - villagers live longer and become elderly later
5. L2 & L3 Farming together - coconuts and unlimited fishing.

I do a mix of Seagull & Arnie :
1°:. L2 Farming 2 (coconuts)
2°:. L2 Engineering 2 (to build a dam for the farm)
3°: L2 Science (faster tech points)
4°: L2 Medicine (villagers live longer and become elderly later)
5°: L2 Exploration (stews and spears)
6°: L3 Farming (unlimited fishing)

That is exactly what I do.

Sharon

in general i get

L2 Engineering
L2 Science
L2 Exploration

after that it depends on what that particular village needs

but i always feel weird not getting Science really early on, if i can, i even hold off on Engineering

it makes it more of a challenge in the beginning, but i guess it makes more sense to me to get the science techs first so they actaully get more tech points faster

I do things a bit weird

1 L2 Engineering
2 l2 medicine
3 L2 exploration
4 L3 Engineering
5 L2 Culture
6 l3 Culture
7 L3 Medicine
8 L2 and L3 farming
9 l2 science
10 L3 science
11 L3 exploration