Comments on: Farmville Economics: Flowers & Updated Tables

By: Anonymous...ish

Anonymous...ish — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:38:42 +0000

23 hour day?
And here I thought that a full lunar cycle was 24 hours…

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By: tanya

tanya — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:43:29 +0000

how can make the flowers into four which is planted in one plot.

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:51:03 +0000

As I explain in my posts several times, I disagree with mapping 1 XP to 10 coins for several reasons.

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By: Naeem

Naeem — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:51:11 +0000

Sir Plz update Table about Cranberries,Pattypan Squash

By: Farmer Boy

Farmer Boy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:39:34 +0000

I don’t know if this has been mentioned in any of your previous posts, but for your XP->money conversions the “correct” rate should be 1 XP = 10 coins. The reasoning for this is that if you plow a plot of land and then plant soybeans on it before digging it up (or just letting it grow) you will get 1 XP for the plowing and 2 XP for the soybeans for a total of 3 XP at a 30 coin cost making each experience point worth 10 coins.

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:11:07 +0000

You are absolutely correct, there are a far more complicated ways to evaluate risk here. Another assumption is that I made all the risk hourly (1/24). You could as easily have done it over any time period (15-minute blocks, different weights for different days/times, etc). The question is, really, whether they will be extremely different from these results.

Adam

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:21:18 +0000

I don’t know about your risk calculations. It implies that there’s nothing you can do to control the risk, when in fact you can probably reduce it to near zero.

For example, raspberries are the most profitable crop for me at the moment (level 11), but I only plant them when I know I’ll be at or near a computer in the two-to-four-hour window for harvesting. (Near-) zero risk.

What might be interesting is a program (JavaScript? PHP?) that lets you input the importance to you of cash vs. experience. A simple slider: All the way left = experience matters not; all the way right if cash isn’t important. Then weight the results based on that.

Heck, go further and allow input of the number of hours in a playing day (e.g., 15 hours if you sleep for 8 out of the 23-hour day). I suspect that will affect things as well.

By: Aanchal

Aanchal — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:09:29 +0000

Hi.

I went through your blogs.

And it was all quite interesting. The calculations were something I was longing to do since long.

You have been very real in all ur assumptions except 1 – 1XP per 15 coins. coz even though I know this way of earning exp, but its neither interseting, nor do I have the patience/time to delete my plowed land when I need 1000 XP. I prefer to buy a windmill/house etc which gives 1 XP per 100 coins. I don’t even prefer haybales for that matter.

Would like to know your views on it. And if you like my idea, would like to see such a table

Have a great day.

Happy Farming

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