Farmer's Market Is Opened to Limited Number Of Players!

Wednesday May 26th - The highly anticipated Farmer's Market is being rolled out to a limited number of players as a test and will continue in waves until it is fully integrated into the game,Zynga Farmville forums has announced this tonight and you may read all about it at this address.

(From a wonderful moderator over at Gamers Unite.)

What do you guys think of it so far?
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My 2 Cents as of right now:

Alright, after skimming through the announcement post(it is a very lengthy one) from the Zynga forums, I think the rewards are alright if you are a low to moderate level. The description may look confusing and hard to understand at first but I'm sure once you actually get the hands on experience it will be easy. I'm still trying to take some of it in.

Basically you collect bushels of a specific crop you harvested and they go into a market stall that is designated just for that one crop. The more people that come by and take a bushel the more rewards you can get.Rewards totals can accumulate based on the number of unique people that come to visit your market stall and take a bushel. There is a limit to how many unique people count towards the reward totals which is set at 24.

Current Rewards:
* Coins=400 per person
* Fuel=15 Units per person (Unit=1 Notch on the Fuel gauge)
* XP=10 per person

So that means the maximum amount for each reward would be(if they don't make changes):
Coins:9600
Fuel:360 units which equals to 2 full cans and about 1/3 of can of fuel because there are 150 notches for 1 full can of fuel on the gauge.
Xp:240

I really hope these rewards are not permanent and they tweak it for higher levels because I really don't see any amazing benefits for all the hard crop mastery that were put in for some of the harder crops grown. Again they said it's a test phase, so that's good even though the entire game is already in Beta test stage =p

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