Alice The Farmer is BORED!
I get it, social games are fun, and if I had 200 friends signed up to Farmville, I'd spend hours visiting their farms and chasing their foxes. Unfortunately I can't tell who's already playing, and I can't be spamming friends with Free! Cows! or whatnot, and I just *won't* do a Wall update, so I'm stuck in my field, picking my nose.
There is nothing to do but watch my crops grow. Can't even water them or talk to them.
Although this bit is very very good: if you have earned your coins by sitting around for long enough, you can donate a few seeds to Haiti, Free Rice style. Games that do good!
(It would be even better if Zynga gave 100% of the proceeds of those particular seeds, seeing how rich they are right now...!)
If you hit the 'My Neighbours' tab on the top of the app window then you can see who on your friends list is already playing and then send them a neighbour request.
Posted by: Nick Richards | October 15, 2009 at 23:54
I am having exactly the same problem while checking out both Farmville and Cafe World.
At least Cafe World has items that are ready in 5 minutes.
Neighbours? http://www.facebook.com/lizbt
Posted by: Lizbt | October 16, 2009 at 05:19
Play Everything:
http://apps.facebook.com/everythinggame/
It's fun, doesn't require you to come back in the middle of the night to harvest strawberries, doesn't pimp you to post feed stories or invite people (though you might want to) and you can even learn something!
Posted by: Daniel James | October 16, 2009 at 05:29
I am also bored and feel guilty about not helping my friends - can't be bothered.
Posted by: plentyspace | October 16, 2009 at 19:47
Try Farm Town instead. They are essentially the same game but Farm Town has chat, a buddy feature, and you can hire people to harvest and plow for you.
Posted by: Roceal | October 18, 2009 at 07:49
Yeah, why not try farm town. I find it more nice to play it than farmville.
Posted by: kitchen table | October 19, 2009 at 03:18
Yeah I have been playing for a few days and I am already finding myself getting bored. Being me, I power leveled to level 23 or so only to find there is no raid content and no PVP. WTF???
Plus, my gear sucks.
Posted by: Doug | October 23, 2009 at 16:12
LOL doug :)
Posted by: Alice | January 18, 2010 at 19:20