Mark Dalton

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So a few years ago I commissioned the guy’s at Iconize Me to design an avatar for me.

Well, you might of noticed I have recently had it redone. Paul Sahner did the original design, so this time around I asked José Ramos to do the honours. I plan on having a few more done. What do you think?

So i’m not quite sure how but I managed to pull a muscle in my lower back last weekend. Now I hurt my back years ago, but its never really done much more than ache, and then only when I had over done it. This time however I have been in total agony, and laid up most of the week. Coughing or sneezing brought tears to my eyes, and going up and down the stairs was a major excursion.

Thankfully by Thursday it was starting to ease up and by Friday morning it was back to just aching. So today I arranged to meet Katrina and take William and Eleanor to the park to feed the ducks. It was a beautiful day and the walk around the ponds really loosened up my back, and allowed me to get some fresh air for the first time in a week.

Near the end of our walk I remembered that I hadn’t tried recording any video on the iPhone 4, so I grabbed a few seconds of Eleanor singing a unique version of “Old MacDonald had a farm”. Far too cute not to post!

So feeding my addiction to “We Rule” I have decided to carry out a little bit of analysis and thought I would share my findings with you, starting out with looking at the returns gained from the varying crops. Those already playing ”We Rule“ will know that in order to get started you really need to start planting, growing, and harvesting crops. This is how you start to establish a revenue stream and grow your Kingdom. As you progress through the levels more crops start to become available to you, offering varying levels of reward. Now on the face of it, it would appear that the more valuable crops will help you progress through the levels quicker, but is that the case? I decided to take a look.

As you can see all is not necessarily as it might first appear. Take for example the legendary “Magic Cauliflower”. It offers a whopping 2000 coins and 350 experience points, but it takes 12 hours for them to grow. Now if we were to grow the lowest level crop (“Corn”) over the same period, we would earn 3600 coins and 720 experience points!

Okay it’s not quite that simple as the “Corn” matures every 45 seconds and even I am not that addicted. So what is the best crop? Well, it depends on what you are going to be doing. If you are going to be sat glued to the game you might want to be growing Wheat, over a 24 hour period you can see this is the highest grossing “Crop” from the table above. However this does mean that you have to be harvesting and replanting every 5 minutes. If you are only checking your Kingdom once a day you might be better off picking a crop that takes a little longer to mature, but remember if crops aren’t harvested within a short period of time they will spoil and be worth nothing.

As and when time permits I will be looking into the other aspects of the game, and will update the spreadsheet accordingly. You can download the latest version of the SpreadSheet here (Numbers Format), (Excel Format).