Jacky Yong

A lot of my Facebook friends are crazy about Farmville (FV) now. I don’t normally play games in Facebook. But I got myself caught in FV real bad. I find myself waking up in the middle of the night suddenly realizing that I forgot to harvest that crop! Urrgghhh!!! Farmville is ruining my life, and I’m loving it!

Farmville is  actually still in Beta mode as of the point of my writing. There’s still a lot of locked features that I’m sure will be revealed as time goes by. That said, there is already a lot that has been achieved since the first day I first played Farmville. Previously the maximum farm size was only 16×16, no matter how high a level you are. Just today I am now able to upgrade to 20×20. Then previously there was no tool to help you plow the land, you must do it one measly square by square. Now there is the tractor tool. Just today I bought a pink tractor. Haven’t really try that yet, wonder what’s the big deal with the pink tractor, other than its colour.

And to deal with the myriads of crops and trees and animals in FV, some people even go to the extend of creating a spreadsheet just to keep track! The spreadsheet list down all the possible items, its buy, harvest, sale value etc, so that you can judge for yourself which gives you the best “return of investment”. Pretty technical, but that is  the route that I find myself taking.

For those who might be interested, click on this:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rrFQP5AOGa4yUZCL-1VLUyg&gid=2

It is updated rather frequently, but I doubt they have the pink tractor yet.

Anyway, if you’re interested to know what the fuss is all about, head on down to Facebook and start farming! That reminds, my crops will die if I don’t harvest them soon! Adios!

Edit 28 Aug 2009: The pink tractor? Contrary to logic, it doesn’t add to your total fuel. Meaning if you can only plow 150 plots with one tractor, you can still ONLY plow 150 plots even if you have 2 or 3 tractors. PLUS, your refueling rate does not seem to increase as well, so that means the pink tractor is just as vain as Paris Hilton!