I appreciate this game...it's like Farmville for "alternative" lifestyles. lol.
I have to say tho that there are some MAJOR flaws to this game.
First of all - paying for NEEDED items to advance in the game w/ RL money? Not a good idea. It's kind of a lame way of being exclusive.
Energy bar? A TOTAL frustration - not an addad "strategy." Almost makes me not want to play. Without feeding some money-hungry monster all of the money I DON'T have - it's like I can plan water and harvest 10 plants and then I have to sit back for 3 hours while my energy bar recoups.
Not a person that wants strangers on their FB page simply to provide seeds/fertilizer? Don't want to inundate your friends with spam-like requests for a game they don't want to play? Forcing the need for friends to acquire NEEDED items to advance is another poor decision. I, like many others, want to keep my Facebook friends list restricted to people I actually know (family, real life friends, co-workers etc) and I can guarantee you that NONE of them have any interest whatsoever in this game...and I am in a sense being penalized for it. How does that make the game fun?
To me - this game is fun, it's cute and it's silly...but it's just Farmville with a different crop being grown. It's like AS took EVERY LAME aspect of Farmville and just applied it to Hemp Tycoon. Some people don't want their Facebook pages to end up like Myspace from years past - crammed up with a bunch of people you don't know spamming you with a bunch of crap...nor do they want to constantly bother people who probably already gave them grief a few years ago when they were assaulted with requests/gifts from Farmville.
There are other ways this game could've been made "challenging" w/o making it #### near impossible to advance after a certain point WITHOUT using the normal "HEY GUY! MAKE YOUR FRIENDS PLAY THIS GAME OR ELSE MAKE THEM DELTE YOU FROM FB FOR SPAMMING THEM WITH GAME REQUESTS!!!" or "GIVE FACEBOOK ALL OF YOUR EXTRA POCKET MONEY...IT'S ONLY GUNNA COST YOU $40.00USD TO BUY 5 SEEDS OR +1 ENERGY TO YOUR BAR! THAT'S NOT TOO BAD, IS IT?!"
Be creative, not greedy. sheesh.
"Man, this is more intense than the time I forgot how to sit down..." -Peter Griffin