FarmVille – Leveling Costs

So, I’ve been looking over the numbers in terms of leveling. To this end I considered several scenarios. I won’t go though the full numbers of each since that would make this post probably 3 pages long. But the scenarios and their results are posted below. In each situation I assumed that you started with 144 of the chosen crop ready for harvest and $0.

Scenario 1 (Peppers and Soybeans)

Strategy – Plant Peppers and power level using soybeans

Result - 1,540 xp gained and $18 left over

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Scenario 2 (Strawberries and Soybeans)

Strategy – Plant and harvest strawberries all day, at the end of the day before the final strawberry planting, power level using soybeans.

Result – 2,592 xp gained and $0 left over

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Scenario 3 (Cherry Trees and Peppers and Soybeans)

Strategy - Maximize tree placement excluding edges and 12 plots, which are preserved for peppers. After harvesting everything, power level using soybeans and then replant the peppers.

Result – 1,389 xp gained and $24 left over

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Scenario 3b (Orange Trees and Peppers and Soybeans)

Strategy – Same as scenario 3, but replace cherry trees with orange trees

Result - 1,436 xp gained and $24 left over

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Scenario 3c (Orange Trees and Strawberries and Soybeans)

Strategy - same as scenario 3b, but replace peppers with strawberries, harvesting them at every opportunity.

Result - 1,505 xp gained and $0 left over.

Now, you may be asking yourself. Why bother with trees or peppers then? If strawberries are so much better? Well, the other situations actually result in more money. The Profit each day if it had not been spent power leveling would of been.

Scenario 1 - $11,088
Scenario 2 - $8,640
Scenario 3 – $12,534
Scenario 3b – $13,824
Scenario 3c – $13,620

So, now you might be looking at this as I did and wondering. Why does it look like the less money I make the faster I’ll level?

This one I’ll admit had me stumped for awhile. Basically, what happens is that while you do make more money, the amount you have to spend on each xp increases. So, even though you might have more money you can’t actually purchase as much xp. This is represented by how much it costs you to replant all of your seeds, thus leaving you with not as much money to power level with.

Below, I’ve broken the values down per as they are for a single field. Looking at how much xp you can gain per day, if you were to spend all of your profits power leveling. Peppers still do better then any other crop that takes a day or longer. But it lags behind the sub day crops simply because it is so expensive to plant.

Plant	Total Cost Per day	Xp Gained	Cost per Xp	Profit Per day	Xp via PL	Total Cost per Xp	Total Xp Per day
Strawberries	150	12	12.5	60	6	11.67	18
Eggplant	20	1.5	13.33	24	2.4	11.28	3.9
Wheat	16.67	1	16.67	21.67	2.17	12.1	3.17
Soybeans	30	3	10	33	3.3	10	6.3
Squash	27.5	1.5	18.3	33	3.3	12.6	4.8
Pumpkin	135	6	22.5	69	6.9	15.81	12.9
Artichokes	21.25	0.75	28.33	29.75	2.98	13.69	3.73
Rice	120	4	30	72	7.2	17.14	11.2
Cotton	30	1	30	39	3.9	14.08	4.9
Peppers	85	3	29.33	77	7.7	15.14	10.7
Pineapple	55	1.5	36.67	66	6.6	14.94	8.1
Watermelon	36.5	0.75	48.33	50.75	5.08	14.94	5.8
Potatoes	50	1	50	65	6.5	15.33	7.5

Since I’m sure some people are wondering. I’ll explain the whole tree thing in greater detail. My process was much the same for all the other scenarios which is why I have not provided the details for them.

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Scenario 3
Trees and soybeans

Last we assume that we have a cherry tree farm as has been proposed by Eric

The most effective use of space is a double row followed by a space. Breaking this down into 4×4 squares we get 4 basic shapes. The triple row, the double row, the triple row endcap and the double row end cap.

The triple endcaps can each hold 16-7 = 9 trees
The triple rows can eacn hold = 16-4 = 12 trees
The double rows can each hold = 16-8 = 8 trees
the double row endcap can each hold = 16-10 = 6 trees

Now, if we were to only fill the same space as the fields (to be a fair comparison, but you could fill more) that gives us space for 12 of each end cap and 60 of each row type. So that we can still level, we will replace one set of end caps with fields This way we can still reach all of the trees and we can still earn xp.

This arrangement would allow for 9×6 + 12×60 + 8×60 + 6×6 = 1290 trees

While I will admit this may seem horribly impractical, keep in mind that you can que up your trees. Even if you are an incredibly slow clicker and it takes you 2 sec per click per tree it would only take you 43 minutes to click though all the trees. 2 seconds per click is desperately slow btw. Most people should be able to click 6 to 8 times every 2 seconds. So you’re not spending much time clicking on the trees. However, you might want to find something else to do for awhile after you’re done clicking and your avatar runs around harvesting everything.

Anyway, 1290 cherry trees would yield $23220

however, to be fair because this can only done once every 2 days, we will assume you only see half that much each day. Now, we take that money and can invest all of it into soybeans which will yield 1161 xp and will leave us with $0. Assuming we leave our fields completely fallow between harvests. If we plant peppers we would get an extra 36 xp and $1,944. Reinvesting this much while still having enough to plant peppers would leave us at the end of it all with 1,389 xp and $24

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Conclusions

So, in the end, basically if you just plant and harvest strawberries as much as possible you’ll level relatively quickly. When coupled with power leveling you can level very fast.

However, if money is what you are after. the more you can fill your farm with trees the more money you will make. Ideally, you would want to fill it with the higher level gifted trees. But because you can only get one of these each day it would take a far too long to replace a substantial portion of your farm with trees strictly by gifting. Buying trees of course will help you fill your farm with trees faster. but you should replace them with the gifted trees/animals as you get them since you will get even more money from them.

The only downside is that the more trees/animals your effectiveness at leveling via strawberries decreases. course even if you only have 12 fields left it’s only cut by half.

Part 1: FarmVille – By Zynga

Part 2: FarmVille – Harvest Profit Margins

Part 3: FarmVille – Power Leveling

Part 4: Farmville – Tree and Animal Profit Values

Part 5: FarmVille – Leveling Costs

Part 6: FarmVille – Speed Working and Machines

Part 7: FarmVille – Cow Barn Profits

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