Undutchable

How could it be? I have no farm at all! The answer to that is facebook games! I got to play FarmVille, thanks to a friend who has invited me to wait for my plants to be harvested that I sometime can’t sleep because of that! :P at first I didn’t get it and ran out coins (income) quickly, but as soon as I noticed that visiting and helping my neighbours’ farms increases my coins, I began to visit them daily. I can see that some of my neighbours have a lots of plants on their farms and their farms always seem to be taken care of as I found no crow to destroy, no wild leaf to rake, and no weed to clear, and none of the plants is withered; I can say that they visit their farms every day, every hour (I think!) ;-)

What interested me in this game is that this game makes me do a math, for the example I bought a strawberry seed for 10 coins, it will harvest in the next 4 hours and will be sold for 35 coins, I plant it in 10 plowed lands. In the next 4 hours I’ll have to check my farm and harvest my strawberry seeds, I will get 350 coins in total. Keep in mind that if I plant it in 10 plowed lands, I will lose 100 coins. The price of the seed depends on the seed itself and each of it has a different time to harvest:

Eggplant:
buy for 25 coins.
Harvest in 2 days.
Sell for 88 coins.
I want to plant it in 20 plowed lands, I’ll lose 500 coins (25×20) and I’ll sell for 1.760 coins (88×20).

That’s just one of the examples. I even made a list about what I’ve planted, when I have to visit my farm and how many coins I’ll get. This game is addicting, at least for me then :)

But I haven’t only been invited to FarmVille, I’ve also been invited to Farm Town. And yeah, you guess it, another farm game! It works similar like FarmVille, but for some reasons I like Farm Town better. It has different prices of seeds than FarmVille, but in Farm Town I can chat with my neighbours, can hire and get hired to plow and harvest their farms, and Farm Town also has a market to sell my harvests (in FarmVille, once I harvest my plants, I’ll get the coins directly, while in Farm Town I won’t get it till I sell my harvests. See the difference now and why I like Farm Town better? I collect my harvests first before selling them :-)

And no, I not only have 2 farms, I have 3!! The third one is Barn Buddy. It’s a small farm but once it’s ready to harvest, the sell price is much higher than in those 2 games. I noticed that people have stolen my fruits and vegetables so I started to steal theirs, too. These games are so addicting and make me want to check them every hour! My friends said I’m crazy when I told them I write down what I’ve planted and when it’s ready to harvest, but it’s because I don’t want to check my farms every hour and don’t want to worry about them being withered if I’m outside and not able to check as I’m not going to plant a seed that will harvest on that day. Making this list sounds crazy, but I have an obvious reason why I do it! :)