Farmtown

So, Farmtown is a little flash game on Facebook. You believe it or not have a farm, and need to plant crops, and harvest them. If you get someone else to harvest them, you make more money, if you harvest someone elses crops, you get cash.



As far as games go, it's hardly brilliant, but it's a nice simple little thing and I'm having an ok time playing it, although there are certain things that annoy me.



The crops take a set amount of real life time to grow, in most cases this falls into 1 day, 2 days or 3 days. There is 1 crop that takes 2 hours, and another that takes 4 hours. You get experience by plowing, and by planting crops, this means it's in your best interests to plant and grow as much as possible as quickly as possible. To give an example, if you plant something that takes 1 day to grow, you'll get 1 xp for plowing that square, and 2 xp for growing something in that square, meaning that square has given you 3 xp for a days. If you were available every 2 hours for that 24 hour period, you'd plow 12 times, and plant 12 times, so you'd get 36 xp instead.



Last night before I went to bed, I planeted something that takes 4 hours. I slept for longer than 4 hours, and therefore the stuff was wasted. In half an hour i'm going out, and won't be back for another 6 hours or so, will the crops be wasted in that time? Probably... But there isn't something I can grow for 6 hours, it's either 4 hours or a day.



If I leave something for 1 day, it'll mean I can't get any more experience today... which I don't really want to miss out on.



The game could really do with a 6 hour, 8 hour, 10 hour and 12 hour option for growing, so it's easier to fit around my normal time. The game could also do with an option to set up someone perminantly as a "worker" on your farm, so they can harvest your crops whenever they come on, so in this case I could get say my girlfriend to come on in 4 hours and harvest my stuff so it's not wasted.



Anyway, it's a nice little game which can kill a bit of time each day, and as such I'd recommend giving it a go.