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Pick Up Your Free Farmville Bonus Care Package!

FarmVilleDate 301 (Saturday, April 17, 2010) no comments

If you have not logged on to FarmVille recently, this is the time to do it since you can get a super bonus stimilus package for doing so including 3 Farm Cash, Fuel and 1 unwither!!

The FarmVille team has been working hard with our platform partners to resolve some of the technical issues you may have been experiencing. We have made some great improvements to FarmVille and we will continue working hard to enhance your farming experience.

As a thank you to our users for their dedication to FarmVille, we are giving out Bonus Packages to our users!

These bonus packs include some nifty items that will allow you to catch up on your farming and play with your friends.

Certain users who have provided us with a valid email address will receive an email which will allow you to claim a Bonus Pack and send one to your friends as well.

If you have not received an email or a request from your friends, never fear! Click the link below to claim a free Bonus Pack of you own!

http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/stimulus.php
Please Note: Currently, you can only use one Bonus Pack. If you try to claim multiple, you will be redirected straight into FarmVille.

Superhandy FarmVille Farm Cash to Dollar Translation Table!

FarmVilleDate 168 (Saturday, December 5, 2009) 3 comments

Especially now with all these temptations of the new set of Winter Holiday goodies I thought it was handy to present you a handy table to lookup how much 1 FV is actually worth if you would buy it in the shop (using the best rate).

4 Rows with Farm Cash values from 1 to 100 and directly to the right of it the amount of dollars it represents e.g. Santa's Workshop for 38 FV is actually $6.33. Well… let's start counting all the FV objects on your farm and see how much dollars it represents ok? (and deduct the 70 FV = $11.67 you get for free for leveling).

It's time to make a monthly FarmVille budget *grin*.

Farm Cash	Dollars	Farm Cash	Dollars	Farm Cash	Dollars	Farm Cash	Dollars
1	0.17	26	4.33	51	8.5	76	12.67
2	0.33	27	4.5	52	8.67	77	12.83
3	0.5	28	4.67	53	8.83	78	13
4	0.67	29	4.83	54	9	79	13.17
5	0.83	30	5	55	9.17	80	13.33
6	1	31	5.17	56	9.33	81	13.5
7	1.17	32	5.33	57	9.5	82	13.67
8	1.33	33	5.5	58	9.67	83	13.83
9	1.5	34	5.67	59	9.83	84	14
10	1.67	35	5.83	60	10	85	14.17
11	1.83	36	6	61	10.17	86	14.33
12	2	37	6.17	62	10.33	87	14.5
13	2.17	38	6.33	63	10.5	88	14.67
14	2.33	39	6.5	64	10.67	89	14.83
15	2.5	40	6.67	65	10.83	90	15
16	2.67	41	6.83	66	11	91	15.17
17	2.83	42	7	67	11.17	92	15.33
18	3	43	7.17	68	11.33	93	15.5
19	3.17	44	7.33	69	11.5	94	15.67
20	3.33	45	7.5	70	11.67	95	15.83
21	3.5	46	7.67	71	11.83	96	16
22	3.67	47	7.83	72	12	97	16.17
23	3.83	48	8	73	12.17	98	16.33
24	4	49	8.17	74	12.33	99	16.5
25	4.17	50	8.33	75	12.5	100	16.67

XP, Coins and their relation

FarmVilleDate 137 (Wednesday, November 4, 2009) 2 comments

In the marketplace some items in FarmVille can be bought for Farm Coins and some for Farm Cash. What would be a good exchange rate or let´s say a method to compare the both?

Farm Coins: can be earned in numerous ways. By harvesting, doings side tasks, collecting and so on.
Farm Cash: can only be earned when leveling up. For each level a player gets 1 Farm Cash. So within the game 70 Farm Cash are to be earned for free at this moment.

Maybe the most basic comparison we can make is by using "real dollars" as exchange rate. In the "Add Farm Coins & Cash" section we find:

image38 XP, Coins and their relation

In other words, in the optimal exchange rate:

Real Dollars	Farm Cash	Farm Coins
$ 40,00	240	70600	as in shop
1	6	1765	dollar based
$ 0,17	1	294,17	farm cash based
$0,00056657	0,00339943	1	farm coins based

What it says here is that 295 Farm Coins is worth1 Farm Cash but dollar based.

The limitation of this simplistic line of thinking is that Farm Cash is a limited good in the game. You really have to purchase it. Besides that, at a certain moment in the game, players will have so much Farm Coins that they probably don't know what to do with it anymore except stashing it. So not a single player will trade his 1 Farm Cash for a teeny weeny 295 Farm Coins.

Which means that the only way we are able to find out what the exchange rate is of the Farm Cash to the Farm Coin is when a trade system is setup in the game. After some time we will find out what items are really wanted by players. So players who bought items for Farm Cash will trade with (limited) items available for Farm Coins. Or even people will start trading Farm Cash for Farm Coins. In that "marketplace" where "emotion" and "feelings" will play a large role we will probably see the true exchange rate of the two.

Zynga will probably benefit highly from such an internal economy as with all multiplayer kind of internal economies. Maybe it will result in a new sort of paying standard that will represent the two monetary systems.

My first guess is that 1 Farm Cash will probably turn out to be at least 250.000 Farm Coins. What do you think?