FarmVille Cranberries, Pattypan Squash, and Acorn Squash; Strategy

Three new crops were added to FarmVille tonight; Cranberries, Pattypan Squash, and Acorn Squash.


Cranberries:
Sell for 98 coins
Cost 55 coins
Gives 1 XP for planting
Harvest in 10 hours

Pattypan Squash:
Sell for 160 coins
Cost 65 coins
Gives 1 XP for planting
Harvest in 16 hours

Acorn Squash:
Cost 175 +15 plowing
Profit 258
Harvest 10 hours
Gives 1 XP for planting
6.8 Coins Per Hour

Thoughts:

Cranberries cost too much. They cost 55 to plant plus 15 to plow the field and only pay out 96 coins. This is equivalent to 2.6 coins per hour. Acorn Squash is okay as well, but blueberries & blackberries pay out more experience points, while peas and asparagus pay more coins per hour.


Other Updates:

Now you can ask your friends to fertilize your crops:


Prepare to be spammed!

FarmVille Update: UFO Invasion, BOVINE-09, Crop Circles, and more!

Late last night, a new update came out for the popular Facebook game, FarmVille. The theme of the new update is a "UFO-Invasion" and it will only last 5 days (Thanksgiving is coming up, so I am sure we will see a bigger update then).

Right now, the most curious item I have noticed is the BOVINE-09 (spelled B0V1NE with a zero and one in game). This is a space-cow that you can put on your farm for 2,400 coins.


You can harvest "milktonium" from these each day. I am not sure how much space milktonium is worth, but it appears that you can put BOVINE-09 in dairy farms, and there is no limit to the number you can buy.

If the milk from these space cows is worth anything, it might be a good idea to stock up on these cows.

In addition to cows, there are 9 new decorations you can grab for your farm. You can get a ROS-1947, which is a spaceship crashed into the dirt, and various types of crop circles:



Two free gifts were also added to the game as well, the Red Gazing Ball and a Bird Bath:



I doubt the red gazing ball will become a permanent free gift, so if you want one, grab one. The graphic is kind of lame though. It reminds me of the orbs in Final Fantasy. However, I bet someone could make it look nice in photoshop effects(check the halloween photoshopped farm).

With that said, how about some storage? With the rate these limited time decorations and items are turning out, my farm is full. And without storage, its only going to get worse; there will be a Thanksgiving Event, a Christmas event, a Valentine's day event, so on and so forth. It would be nice to have a storage bin that could fit whatever collectibles I was not using at the time.