Even though I am not into games, Farmville is keeping me busy. I try as much to not plow/harvest more than once a day (I plant peppers as they have a good ROI and need exactly 1 day to ripen), but the new super berries on Facebook’s Farmville were way too hard to resist. You buy them for 10 coins, and after 2 hours you sell them for 100 bucks. That’s a profit of 75 coins (taking the costs of plowing into consideration). Nice, eh? And: I extended my farm and bought a tractor… what a crap

 

Farmville changed a lot this week. Black sheep appeared everywhere and populate my farm now, but their wool seems as good as of the white sheep. So I would say they are good to adopt. Obviously I am not the only one who has gone crazy about that game as I noticed a significant increase in traffic on this blog. Some people even subscribed! All people seem to search for this game ))
As I a have no time for staying all the day on Facebook, I planted pepper which has a profit margin (ROI) of some 560 coins. They have to be harvested only once a day, and so they fit my target pretty well. Next target however, will be sunflowers, they are to be harvested once a day, too but will bring you up to 1,200 coins a week. That is money, isn’t it? Unfortunately I don’t have level 24, yet

Then I noticed the just recently introduced tractor. That is really a cool feature as it let you plow your farm much faster. It’s a pity that fuel is not enough for my farm and buying fuel is too expensive. On the other hand, once could divide the farm in two parts where plants ripe with some 12 hours delay. Harvest, plow, seed the first half of your farm, then wait, let the tractor recharge and go for the next part. Why pay for fuel?
Funny thing about the tractor: the horn function. Click on it and it will make some noise. Nothing useful, but maybe fancy for some people. Oh, and there is also a pink tractor available now, I guess it is for the girls. For all those who thought of buying two tractors: it seems like it will not increase your productivity, as you do not get another load of fuel with the second tractor

Pretty much the same was introduced for animals on Farmville. You may have noticed that they have a pet function now. Activate the sound, pet them and they will make some noise, too. The rabbits don’t. Prolly because the developers didn’t know how a rabbit sounds like, neither do I. Some say to pet the animals will make them more productive and increase their yield. I did not observe such a thing, yet.

I extended my farm twice, and I will do so again. If you need more neighbors on Farmville, there is a useful group on Facebook just dedicated to this very objective of finding Farmville neighbors (Farmville Neighbor Finder). Extending your farm is fine, but a lot of work. As I am lazy I try to keep things simple without moving all plants and animals all the time around. To it’s a good idea to keep plants at the upper margins of your farm, the animals likewise as the farm extends at the lower margins. It will make harvesting also a lot easier. But prolly you noticed already. I did actually somewhat late and the first moving was a pain in the ass.

And now the super berries: they are a really good way to make money, but they will give you no experience. Well, that’s the trade off. But if you would play Farmville all the day (and night) their weekly profit margin or ROI would be well above 6000 coins! That is 6 times more than sunflowers…

And last, but not least, the award for creative planting goes to Vlad, just take a look at the pictures. Cheers mate!

Well, gotta turn back to work now
Have a nice weekend.

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Comments ( 5 )

I am considering buying a tractor, but can you only get the fuel with Farm bucks or whatever, rather than the coins?

Randi added these pithy words on Sep 03 09 at 18:57

Hey Randi!
The tractor comes with one load of fuel, which is included. After you plowed the tractor will consume the fuel, but it will recharge after a couple of hours. However, if you have a big farm, one load of fuel will not be enough and you may consider buying fuel. That can be done only with the green bucks, not with the coins

Steffen added these pithy words on Sep 03 09 at 19:17

Thank Steffen!

Randi added these pithy words on Sep 08 09 at 18:30

But the fuel refils that you buy with the green bucks will recharge after a cuople of hours also?

Martin added these pithy words on Sep 14 09 at 03:01

You have only one tank, which recharges automatically. If you do not want to wait you can buy other loads of fuel with the green bucks, but after you used them you will remain with the single one. It’s a shame that all, the harvester, the seeder and the tractor rely on the same tank

Steffen added these pithy words on Sep 14 09 at 08:32

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