More land! More land! We need more land!
One of the most common requests from FarmVille players is for more
land. More room on their farms to stretch out a little and enjoy the
fruits of farm life. If you are cramped for space and still hoping to
decorate your farm and display your favorite knick-knacks and
collections of animals and trees, your farm can easily turn into an
episode of Hoarders. Purchasing a FarmVille land expansion is an easy
solution, but just how much are you willing to pay? That is the question
this week as we take a look at FarmVille's new Sunflower Meadows farm
expansion.
Sunflower Meadows is a new way to expand your FarmVille Home Farm
unlike traditional land expansions. It is only available for your Home
Farm. So what exactly is Sunflower Meadows? Instead of the usual
expansion that can be purchased for any farm, think of Sunflower Meadows
as a new and separate "mini-farm" that packs a punch. It's a clean
slate, a new farm adjacent to your Home Farm. Sounds good right? The
days of free land for the curious willing to explore are long over.
Expanding your Home Farm to Sunflower Meadows costs 199 Farm Cash or a
whopping 200 million Farm Coins. No, that's not a typo – it's
200,000,000 Farm Coins.
Still reading? Then I'll tell you about what 199 Farm Cash or 200
million Farm Coins entails. First, a note on the price. It's nice to
have a Farm Coin option right from the start as we usually have to wait
for such things, but the price tag seems ridiculous and far-fetched for
many players, even the diehard FarmVille Freaks with the hefty Farm Coin
bank accounts. Zynga didn't bother presenting obtaining Sunflower
Meadows as a challenge for farmers to strive for, a goal to achieve,
rather than just another provided option. If you are feeling discouraged
by the expensive price tag, you are not alone. I know many of you find
it unfair to expect players to pay that much Farm Coins when sadly it's
often the "cheaters" who violate Zynga's terms of service that can
afford it. It may seem unattainable if you are refusing to purchase it
with Farm Cash. Remember, the Farm Coin option, as unsettling as it may
be, is never set in stone. FarmVille frequently discounts land
expansions, especially after the newness wears off. Cling to hope, start
clicking on your crops and stockpiling coins.
Sunflower Meadow is actually a 12 x 12 farm. Yes, it is connected
to your FarmVille Home Farm, but once you actually travel there you will
see that is a completely new space that can be further expanded with
its own land expansions. To expand Sunflower Meadows you will need to
purchase additional specific Sunflower Meadow land expansions.
Currently, the FarmVille Market has Sunflower Meadow expansions up to
the 36x36 size land expansion and some are available with Farm Cash or
Farm Coins
In addition to your new farming real estate, you will also receive a
free Sunflower Horse, Barn, and free Shared Storage with your Home
Farm.
Although not everyone is completely sold on the "new ways to expand
your farm" or its price tag, the concept itself is not a terrible idea.
I like the connectivity to Home Farm (visually and shared storage), but
its ability to maintain a separate space spatially. It can provide you
with an area to suit your own specific needs and wants. Perhaps a
Sunflower Meadows filled entirely with Orchards and trees that have been
easily transported from your Home Farm. Maybe a Sunflower Meadows
filled with an always-growing herd of FarmVille animals and their
offspring better suits you. There's never enough space or land in
FarmVille and Zynga is exploring other avenues of resolving this issue.
Three years of farming can create quite the clutter and that's just what
it becomes when there is no room to properly display your proud
collection of FarmVille Gnomes. More stuff continues to collect dust in
our Storage Cellars as we make room for more construction projects and
crop space. It's become common to shove all our animals into their
respective animal pens, but shouldn't some of them roam free or at least
in a more spacious corral? That's the way it was meant to be. I
remember the days when I visited my neighbors' farms just to check it
out and see how they decorated for the holidays. I could see what
animals they were raising and their assortment of foals and calves.
I can imagine a whole collection of these mini-farms sprawling off
other farms as an option for those willing to pay the price of precious
green space. In fact, it's already planned. At the release of Sunflower
Meadows, Zynga already teased us with the next new way to expand our
Home Farms-- Lavender Meadows (still unreleased). I'm sure Rose Meadows,
Carnation Meadows, and Poppy Meadows are not far behind.
Will you be expanding your FarmVille Home Farm to Sunflower Meadows?
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