I’m level 14 on Facebook’s Farmville. Why do I play? Because my 4yr old likes it. Of course, I want to maximize my profit.
I only run it about once a day, so crops that wither before I can harvest them are out, but what next? It costs 15 coins to plow the field each time.
It turns out that longer growing crops aren’t worth much more. I did a spreadsheet to work things out.
cost sell harvest profit profit/day wheat 35 115 3.0 65 21.7 eggplant 25 88 2.0 48 24.0 artichokes 70 204 4.0 119 29.8 daffodils 60 135 2.0 60 30.0 squash 40 121 2.0 66 33.0 soybeans 15 63 1.0 33 33.0 cotton 75 207 3.0 117 39.0 bell-peppers 75 198 2.0 108 54.0 aloe vera 56 85 0.2 14 56.0 strawberries 10 35 0.2 10 60.0 cranberries 55 98 0.4 28 67.2 pumpkin 30 68 0.3 23 69.0 rice 45 96 0.5 36 72.0 peppers 70 162 1.0 77 77.0 raspberries 20 46 0.1 11 132.0
Raspberries take 2 hours. Sometimes worth it, but the profit margin is very low unless you do it all day long.
Ruling out the things that take less than a day, leaves me with peppers, bell-peppers, and cotton as the highest grossing.
Too bad that the market price didn’t depend upon other factors, like how many other people were growing it… or if you grew some things properly, you could keep the seed.
Or maybe you have to rotate your crops. Or grow eggplants next to pumpkin will keep away the racoons, or the blight.