New Release -- December 23rd, 2010

[Deanna J. Lloyd]

So here's my take on the cost of Farm #8:
12x12 - 8 million
14x14 - 5 million
16x16 - 6 million
18x18 - 7 million [Up to here, this follows the devs pattern on the last 4 farms

So 26 million will get you up to 18x18. I think 18x18 is 576 fields, and maybe that should be enough! Now comes the fun part, guesstimating what the rest will cost!!!

If the devs hold to the pattern for Farms 6 & 7, we could be looking at 1.2 billion coins to buy the last three up-grades: 200 million, 300 million, and 400 million.

Or maybe they'll take pity on us, and the last three up-grades will be the same as for #7 The up-grades for #3 were the same as #2, but then everyone was complaining about the 30 neighbor rule instead. It would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen!!!

Just for fun, here's what you've paid so far for your other farms:

#1 - 230,000 for all up-grades [12x12 was "free" to get you in the game]
#2 - 5.1 million [a few of us gagged at the 3 million price for 12x12!!!]
#3 - 3.1 million [12x12 dropped back to 1 million, but there was that "neighbor issue" instead]
#4 - 75 million [This may be when some people balked at the "cost" of playing]
#5 - 134 million [not quite double]
#6 - 618 million [more than 4 times the cost of #5 -- OUCH!!!]
#7 - 922 million [just about 50% more than #6]

All of which adds up to a grand total of 1,757,430 coins for your entire agricultural empire!! [I know, it's only funny money, but that's still a lot of wheat, sugar, and tomatoes -- not to mention raspberries!!!]

Which raises another very interesting question: Is Farm 8 equal in value to 70% of the total cost of your agricultural empire to date? Well, I don't know about you, but I'm hoping to make as many trips to the Real Estate office as it takes this Friday [Hope! Hope! Hope!] to get Farm 8 and take it to the max!!! I'll probably end up with 100 million coins to plow and plant it, maybe!! Like I said before, it's only funny money!!! Now I'm off to fill my facilities so hopefully I'll have 200 million to plow and plant #8!!!

See you in the Real Estate office bright and early Friday morning!!! [Well, some Friday morning soon]