Zynga launched several new crops this week in the form of cut flowers, so I thought I’d update my tables for active players out there. So yes, this is Yet Another Farmville Post (YAFP).
For quick reference, here are the links to my first six Farmville posts:
- The Personal Economics of Farmville
- The Personal Economics of Farmville, Part 2
- More Farmville Economics
- Farmville Economics: What Price Experience?
- Farmville Economics: Risk Adjusted Crop Profitability
- Farmville Economics: Sweet Seeds are Almost Genius
I’ve updated my tables to include both Sweet Seeds and the new cut flowers. You’ll notice that, as per my last post, Sweets Seeds really aren’t as good as they should be. At least, it’s not clear to me why Super Berries were so much better.
Please remember, all tables normalize the values for one square per day (24 hour day), and include the cost and experience involved with plowing the square per cycle.
Here are the crops, ranked by Profit / Day:
| Crop | Profit / Day |
| Super Berries | 900.00 |
| Asparagus | 183.00 |
| Sugar Cane | 177.00 |
| Peas | 176.00 |
| Tomatoes | 174.00 |
| Green Tea | 170.40 |
| Grapes | 170.00 |
| Onions | 166.00 |
| Sunflowers | 165.00 |
| Ghost Chili | 164.00 |
| Coffee | 162.00 |
| Blackberries | 162.00 |
| Lillies | 159.00 |
| Blueberries | 156.00 |
| Carrots | 150.00 |
| Raspberries | 132.00 |
| Broccoli | 129.00 |
| Cabbage | 116.50 |
| Sugar Cane | 104.50 |
| Sweet Seeds | 100.00 |
| Red Wheat | 84.67 |
| Aloe Vera | 80.00 |
| Peppers | 77.00 |
| Yellow Mellon | 77.00 |
| Rice | 72.00 |
| Corn | 71.67 |
| Red Tulips | 69.00 |
| Pumpkin | 69.00 |
| Pineapple | 66.00 |
| Potatoes | 65.00 |
| Strawberries | 60.00 |
| Pink Roses | 59.50 |
| Yellow Bell | 54.00 |
| Watermelon | 50.75 |
| Cotton | 39.00 |
| Squash | 33.00 |
| Soybeans | 33.00 |
| Daffodils | 30.00 |
| Artichoke | 29.75 |
| Eggplant | 24.00 |
| Wheat | 21.67 |
Here are the crops ranked by Experience per Day:
| Crop | XP / Day | Cycle (Hours) |
| Super Berries | 24.00 | 2.00 |
| Blueberries | 12.00 | 4.00 |
| Raspberries | 12.00 | 2.00 |
| Strawberries | 12.00 | 4.00 |
| Blackberries | 12.00 | 4.00 |
| Aloe Vera | 8.00 | 6.00 |
| Ghost Chili | 8.00 | 6.00 |
| Tomatoes | 6.00 | 8.00 |
| Pumpkin | 6.00 | 8.00 |
| Sugar Cane | 6.00 | 8.00 |
| Green Tea | 4.80 | 10.00 |
| Asparagus | 4.50 | 16.00 |
| Rice | 4.00 | 12.00 |
| Sweet Seeds | 4.00 | 24.00 |
| Carrots | 4.00 | 12.00 |
| Peas | 4.00 | 24.00 |
| Onions | 4.00 | 12.00 |
| Grapes | 3.00 | 24.00 |
| Red Tulips | 3.00 | 24.00 |
| Peppers | 3.00 | 24.00 |
| Soybeans | 3.00 | 24.00 |
| Sunflowers | 3.00 | 24.00 |
| Coffee | 3.00 | 16.00 |
| Lillies | 3.00 | 24.00 |
| Broccoli | 2.50 | 48.00 |
| Pink Roses | 1.50 | 48.00 |
| Pineapple | 1.50 | 48.00 |
| Yellow Bell | 1.50 | 48.00 |
| Daffodils | 1.50 | 48.00 |
| Squash | 1.50 | 48.00 |
| Eggplant | 1.50 | 48.00 |
| Sugar Cane | 1.50 | 48.00 |
| Cabbage | 1.50 | 48.00 |
| Cotton | 1.00 | 72.00 |
| Wheat | 1.00 | 72.00 |
| Red Wheat | 1.00 | 72.00 |
| Corn | 1.00 | 72.00 |
| Potatoes | 1.00 | 72.00 |
| Watermelon | 0.75 | 96.00 |
| Artichoke | 0.75 | 96.00 |
| Yellow Mellon | 0.75 | 96.00 |
Here are the crops ranked by a sum of profit and experience per day (see previous posts for why I ascribe 15 coins to the value of one point of experience):
| Crop | Profit + XP / Day |
| Super Berries | 1260.00 |
| Blackberries | 342.00 |
| Blueberries | 336.00 |
| Raspberries | 312.00 |
| Ghost Chili | 284.00 |
| Sugar Cane | 267.00 |
| Tomatoes | 264.00 |
| Asparagus | 250.50 |
| Green Tea | 242.40 |
| Strawberries | 240.00 |
| Peas | 236.00 |
| Onions | 226.00 |
| Grapes | 215.00 |
| Carrots | 210.00 |
| Sunflowers | 210.00 |
| Coffee | 207.00 |
| Lillies | 204.00 |
| Aloe Vera | 200.00 |
| Broccoli | 166.50 |
| Sweet Seeds | 160.00 |
| Pumpkin | 159.00 |
| Cabbage | 139.00 |
| Rice | 132.00 |
| Sugar Cane | 127.00 |
| Peppers | 122.00 |
| Red Tulips | 114.00 |
| Red Wheat | 99.67 |
| Pineapple | 88.50 |
| Yellow Mellon | 88.25 |
| Corn | 86.67 |
| Pink Roses | 82.00 |
| Potatoes | 80.00 |
| Soybeans | 78.00 |
| Yellow Bell | 76.50 |
| Watermelon | 62.00 |
| Squash | 55.50 |
| Cotton | 54.00 |
| Daffodils | 52.50 |
| Eggplant | 46.50 |
| Artichoke | 41.00 |
| Wheat | 36.67 |
And finally, the most important table: Risk Adjusted Profitability. This takes into account the risk of spoilage and the time it takes for each crop to harvest. I’ve found this to be the best table to answer the question of “what should you plant”:
| Crop | Risk-Adjusted Profit / Day | Risk of Complete Default |
| Peas | 226.53 | 12.97% |
| Broccoli | 217.37 | 1.68% |
| Grapes | 206.37 | 12.97% |
| Sunflowers | 201.57 | 12.97% |
| Lillies | 195.82 | 12.97% |
| Asparagus | 185.57 | 25.62% |
| Cabbage | 181.47 | 1.68% |
| Sugar Cane | 165.80 | 1.68% |
| Super Berries | 154.22 | 84.35% |
| Sweet Seeds | 153.58 | 12.97% |
| Coffee | 153.35 | 25.62% |
| Red Wheat | 142.52 | 0.22% |
| Onions | 135.58 | 36.01% |
| Yellow Mellon | 130.15 | 0.03% |
| Green Tea | 126.03 | 42.69% |
| Carrots | 125.98 | 36.01% |
| Corn | 123.93 | 0.22% |
| Peppers | 117.11 | 12.97% |
| Sugar Cane | 115.57 | 50.61% |
| Pineapple | 115.54 | 1.68% |
| Potatoes | 114.40 | 0.22% |
| Tomatoes | 114.27 | 50.61% |
| Red Tulips | 109.43 | 12.97% |
| Pink Roses | 107.05 | 1.68% |
| Yellow Bell | 99.87 | 1.68% |
| Ghost Chili | 96.00 | 60.01% |
| Watermelon | 91.44 | 0.03% |
| Blackberries | 80.30 | 71.14% |
| Rice | 79.19 | 36.01% |
| Blueberries | 78.89 | 71.14% |
| Cotton | 77.22 | 0.22% |
| Soybeans | 74.87 | 12.97% |
| Squash | 72.46 | 1.68% |
| Pumpkin | 68.82 | 50.61% |
| Daffodils | 68.54 | 1.68% |
| Aloe Vera | 67.61 | 60.01% |
| Eggplant | 60.71 | 1.68% |
| Artichoke | 60.47 | 0.03% |
| Strawberries | 56.35 | 71.14% |
| Wheat | 52.43 | 0.22% |
| Raspberries | 38.19 | 84.35% |
Stay tuned for my next post, my very first on Café World, my new Zynga addiction. Very different simulation & economics, and should be good for a few interesting analytical posts.
Updates: I’ve now posted follow-on posts about Farmville Economics:
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Hi.
I went through your blogs.
And it was all quite interesting. The calculations were something I was longing to do since long.
You have been very real in all ur assumptions except 1 – 1XP per 15 coins. coz even though I know this way of earning exp, but its neither interseting, nor do I have the patience/time to delete my plowed land when I need 1000 XP. I prefer to buy a windmill/house etc which gives 1 XP per 100 coins. I don’t even prefer haybales for that matter.
Would like to know your views on it. And if you like my idea, would like to see such a table 🙂
Have a great day.
Happy Farming 🙂
I don’t know about your risk calculations. It implies that there’s nothing you can do to control the risk, when in fact you can probably reduce it to near zero.
For example, raspberries are the most profitable crop for me at the moment (level 11), but I only plant them when I know I’ll be at or near a computer in the two-to-four-hour window for harvesting. (Near-) zero risk.
What might be interesting is a program (JavaScript? PHP?) that lets you input the importance to you of cash vs. experience. A simple slider: All the way left = experience matters not; all the way right if cash isn’t important. Then weight the results based on that.
Heck, go further and allow input of the number of hours in a playing day (e.g., 15 hours if you sleep for 8 out of the 23-hour day). I suspect that will affect things as well.
You are absolutely correct, there are a far more complicated ways to evaluate risk here. Another assumption is that I made all the risk hourly (1/24). You could as easily have done it over any time period (15-minute blocks, different weights for different days/times, etc). The question is, really, whether they will be extremely different from these results.
Adam
23 hour day?
And here I thought that a full lunar cycle was 24 hours…
I don’t know if this has been mentioned in any of your previous posts, but for your XP->money conversions the “correct” rate should be 1 XP = 10 coins. The reasoning for this is that if you plow a plot of land and then plant soybeans on it before digging it up (or just letting it grow) you will get 1 XP for the plowing and 2 XP for the soybeans for a total of 3 XP at a 30 coin cost making each experience point worth 10 coins.
As I explain in my posts several times, I disagree with mapping 1 XP to 10 coins for several reasons.
Sir Plz update Table about Cranberries,Pattypan Squash
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how can make the flowers into four which is planted in one plot.
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