Five reasons why you should play FarmVille

It teaches you Patience

Far­mVille is a game that requires you to be patient. Real world farm­ing is a patient job, once you sow your seeds there is noth­ing you can do till the crop is ready for har­vest­ing. Trans­lat­ing this ide­ol­ogy online, Far­mVille does not require you to hang around once you have sown your seeds. You can come back at a time when your crop is ready, har­vest it, plow the land, sow a new crop and be on your way. Came back at a later time, when you know your crop is ready. There is noth­ing you can do to accel­er­ate the growth of your crop; you have to be patient and reap it when its ready.

It teaches you Planning

You will need to plan your crops depend­ing on when, next, you are going to be online. In the real world, rota­tion crops are planned based on the weather pat­terns. In Far­mVille, you can sow seeds and let them grow while you are offline. But know­ing when you are next going to be online will help you chose which crop to sow so that they grow max­i­mum in the hours you were offline. When you reap this crop, again cal­cu­late when next you will be online and sow a crop that best fits that time frame. To best uti­lize the time, with min­i­mum wastage, you need to plan the rota­tion of your corps to suit your inter­net usage.

It teaches you Money Management

Like all farm­ers in the real world, in Far­mVille too, you will be start­ing small, with lit­tle money and lit­tle land. As you earn more money (and expe­ri­ence), you can plow a larger area. and you sow a larger quan­tity (and vari­ety) of seeds. But you have to be prac­ti­cal and not spend use­lessly on unnec­es­sary or uneco­nom­i­cal stuff. For exam­ple, buy­ing an ani­mal in the ini­tial lev­els of the game is use­less – they are very expen­sive and give too few coins per day. Your money is bet­ter invested in plow­ing the land and choos­ing crops that give a high yield. Dec­o­ra­tions like hay stacks and fences are use­less and do not buy them unless you have more money than required to plow and sow, any crop you wish, at least twice.

It teaches you Goal Achieving

Farm­ers have to be ambi­tious, they must want to try out new stuff and exper­i­ment with var­i­ous crops. But after a cer­tain level Far­mville might get a bit aim­less. That is when Rib­bons come in. Rib­bons are what you get for achiev­ing pre­set tar­gets and tasks. These tasks might make you do stuff that you would, oth­er­wise, not have tried. Like, planting/harvesting all the crops at least once, mak­ing neigh­bours, har­vest­ing x num­ber of trees etc. By the time you have won a major­ity of the rib­bons you get into a habit of set­ting your own goals and work­ing towards them.

It teaches you Respon­si­bil­ity and Goodness

You are respon­si­ble for your farm and its crop. If you fail to attend to it, it will wither and die, result­ing in loss of money and hard work. If you know you are going to be away for a few day it is bet­ter not to sow a new crop before you leave. Keep a plowed field so that you can plant when you return. Farm­ing is not a solo activ­ity, there­fore its always good to inter­act with fel­low farm­ers. Keep­ing up this tra­di­tion is Far­mVilles gift sec­tion which allows you to give free gifts to your friends. You can also help your friends on their farm. This keeps the good­ness of farm­ing alive and hav­ing the help­ing nature also gets you rewards in ways of coins and expe­ri­ences. Not to men­tion the free gifts you receive from friends which reduces your bur­den of buy­ing stuff from the market.