Posted in Livestock, New Features | January 7th, 2010 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: chicken coop, chickens, mystery eggs
Earlier I posted an article about the new chicken feeding feature and how there’s a lack of incentive to do it.
Well there’s another component to this that I wasn’t aware of. If your friends feed your chickens, your eggs will be “especially good” and you can get a coin bonus. My chickens were fed twice and I got 2,000 extra coins. I’m guessing its 1,000 for every feeding.
Still though, I think mystery eggs are a big racket. If you do happen to get your hands on a mystery egg and inside is a nice golden chicken, you don’t get to keep the mystery eggs that that golden chicken produces. So there’s not really much incentive to try and get a golden chicken, or any chicken. Unless your goal is to help your fellow farmers.
Posted in New Features | January 6th, 2010 by farmersue | 1 Comment »
Tags: chickens
Zynga added a new feature to Farmville today where you can feed your friends chickens and gain a chance at winning mystery eggs. At first, I thought that this was awesome and a neat new way to interact with your friends on Farmville. I always look forward to the new features in Farmville, especially if it involves a way to interact with someone else’s farm.
However, after playing around with it, realized that…well, it sucks.
Basically what happens is you visit a friend’s farm, feed their chicken coop, and you might get mystery eggs. But what you may not know is that if you do get lucky enough to find mystery eggs after feeding the chickens, you don’t get to keep those eggs. You have to give them away to your friends. So what’s in it for me? Absolutely nothing.
You get nothing for feeding your friend’s chickens. I might as well just send a chicken gift to my friends rather than waste my time gambling with the chicken coop feeding.
Boo!
Posted in Gaining Coins, Livestock, Trees | September 4th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: apple tree, cherry tree, chickens, coins, cows, rip off, sheep, tree
Currently you can buy Cows, Chickens (level 4 required), and Sheep (level 7 required) in Farmville. But let me tell you why its a bad idea to spend your well earned coins on livestock.
A sheep costs 700 coins and harvests for 28 coins every three days. An apple tree also harvests for 28 coins every 3 days, but the purchase cost is only 325 coins. That’s less than half the cost! In addition, the apple tree takes up less square footage on your farm and you can start buying apple trees at level 1.
The story is similar for Cows and Chickens as well. Cows cost 300 coins and harvest every day for 6 coins. For only 225 coins, you can get a Cherry Tree and although it takes twice as long to harvest, it earns more than twice that of a cow at 18 coins. There is no value in purchasing livestock when compared to trees.
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