Here’s a really quick guide on the facebook browser game farmville.
Note: This Guide was created by Farmer Ringa of Zynga Forums.
Which is the most profitable crop?
Strawberries grow fast and bring 35 coins per harvest. But it costs 15 coins to plow your land. And strawberries are 20 coins to seed. This nets you a 11 coin profit per square per harvest every 4 hours. Sounds pretty good.
In 24 hours that would give a 6 plant/harvest cycles. (PHC from now on.) 10 coins x 6PHC = 60 coins per day. But I’m not getting up two times each night for a PHC. So that leaves 4 useful PHC per day for a profit of 40 coins per day. (CPD from now on.)
Pumpkins have an 8 hour PHC with a profit of 28 coins per PHC. (15 coins to plow, 30 coins to seed, 68 coins at harvest, net profit of 23 coins.) With 3 PHC per day that nets 69 CPD. I’m up before 6am every day and to bed by 10 pm. That works out perfect for pumpkins. 6 am PHC, 2 pm PHC, and 10 pm PHC, giving me 69 CPD per square. You can plow 144 squares per farm, for a 9,936 CPD profit.
If you can’t tend your farm that often other crops have 1, 2, 3, 4 day cycles yielding different CPD profits. Eggplant 24 CPD, Wheat 21.6 CPD, Soybeans 33 CPD, Squash 33 CPD, Artichokes 38.75 CPD, Cotton 45.6 CPD.
Trees are a different type of investment. High cost, low CPD. Cherry trees yield 9 CPD. That would take 25 days to recoup your cost. After that they are pure profit. No plowing and seeding after harvest. Apple trees would take 35 days to recoup your cost, 9.33 CPD. Orange trees take 43 days to recoup your cost, 10 CPD. You can fit 16 trees per square. If you planted your entire farm with orange trees, (16 trees x 144 squares = 2,304 trees) your net profit would be 23,040 CPD.
Now your farm would not be very pretty (my farm is not very pretty, except at harvest time) but you would make a large profit. So save your coins and when we can have multiple farms, you can make a pretty farm and have high CPD farms.
By the way, I can’t select each tree when there are 16 per square. So I plant only 8 per square. Maybe future updates to the game will allow more precise tree selection.
Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 6:16 amand is filed under Facebook Games. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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