Mark Dalton

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).

So I am still working on my iPad blog post but due to a new found addiction it’s taking longer than planned. The problem is a game called “We Rule”; for those that don’t know this is a game for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad that is a like FarmVille on FaceBook but without the noisy social stream. I am not sure what is so addictive about games like these, but I know I am not alone in my addiction. Leo Laporte of TWiT TV doesn’t seem to be able to get through a show without “harvesting his cauliflower”.

So I thought I would have a little show and tell and post a screen shot of my “Kingdom”. I am currently sitting at level 24, but I have gone more for aesthetics than monetary gain. Hey, we have all seen what happens when money takes over If you wish to join me I go by the original name of MarkDalton.

What does your kingdom look like? What is your strategy? Can you have a strategy with games like these? Have you actually spent any money with them? Let me know via the comments and upload a picture of your Kingdom at the same time.

Be sure to play this full screen @ 720p

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