Here at FarmVille Post, we are true-blue FarmVille players with nearly a couple of years experience in virtual farming. You are used to our honest reviews and generally lighthearted nature, but sometimes we have to point out some flaws in FarmVille, and how we would correct them. We have seen some great features implemented into FarmVille, such as the Horse Stable and the Greenhouse, and some not-so-great ones thrown into the mix, like the Turkey Roost and the subject of this month’s What We Want, the Nursery Barn.
Now, do not get us wrong: The Nursery Barn is a fantastic idea for FarmVille. A place where you can store your many baby Animals is truly a remarkable feature, as baby Calves and Foals take up a ton of space on your farm with how often new Cows and Horses are released on the Market. But when the Nursery was created, there were not many Cows and Horses on the Market to begin with. While we are accustomed to several new Limited Edition Cows and Horses per month these days, we are talking about a time when only a handful existed, where Clydesdale and Miniature Horse model types were something new to behold.
As seen above: We attempt to cover up our visually-offensive Nursery Barn with Trees.
Let us go back almost one year ago to April of 2010, when the Nursery Barn was first introduced to FarmVille players around the world. We were in dire need of some new Animals, and we got what we wanted with the Nursery Barn. By placing some of our more common Calves and Foals, such as the regular Brown Foal, Gray Foal, or Brown Calf, into the Nursery Barn, there is a small chance that it will grow up into what was then a brand new Cow or Horse. These include the Holstein Cow, the Chocolate Cow, the Cream Craft Horse, the Blue Pony, the Black Horse, and the Mini Cream Horse. As of March 29, 2011, these are the only types of Cows and Horses that can be obtained from the Nursery Barn, regardless of which Calf or Foal you flop into the structure.
You see, there is a common misconception that the Nursery Barn churns out Limited Edition FV Cash Horses and Cows, when in reality it spits out only a very small handful of different Animals – none of which are Limited Edition. We would speak more about this, but we have previously written a beefy piece of this information in the past. If this is news to you, you may wish to take a gander at our write-up on the different types of Animals the Nursery Barn produces by clicking here.
With how fast the world of FarmVille moves, where many of our neighbors are already done with their Quests in the English Countryside, let alone collecting a small menagerie of Animals, this small spattering held the majority of folks over for around a couple of months, at most. Most folks are simply unaware of the Nursery Barn’s possible contents, and continue to put Asian Wild Foals into the building, thinking that adult Asian Wild Horses will come out of it at some point. Simply put, that just doesn’t happen. Ever.
The truth of the matter is this was a small-time fix to what is a non-existent problem in FarmVille these days; we have plenty of new Foals and Calves to collect. Some of our friends who quit the game seven months ago recently returned, and were completely shocked that absolutely nothing has happened with the Nursery Barn whatsoever. The last update to hit the Nursery Barn was in August of 2010, where the Mini Cream Horse was added as a result of that new Horse type hitting the Market.
Ever since early August of 2010, the Nursery Barn has been long forgotten — and most would speculate abandoned. It has lain dormant on farms for such a long time that many farmers have begun deleting the very large, non-rotatable, gaudy-looking building in favor of having more space for the very thing that it was originally designed to store. This is the biggest statement of the Nursery Barn’s failure in FarmVille: why on Earth should a building designed to store Calves and Foals be deleted to make room for Calves and Foals?
There are two reasons that no person educated on how the building works ever use the Nursery Barn for its intended purpose:
1) It will take any Calf or Foal within the building, regardless of their rarity or value, and transform them into common Cows or Horses that everybody already owns. It will do with without your permission, as it assumes you have granted the building access to do whatever it wishes with whatever you put inside of it. Everything from the rare Brown Pony Foal to the rare Kelly Green Calf will be transformed into Animals that can be obtained easily through other means; after all, why waste a rare baby Calf or Foal when you can put in the common Gray Foals or Brown Calves and get the same exact thing? It’s like paying hundreds of dollars for a new DVD or buying it for $5.99 at your local retailer.
2) You cannot see any of your Foals or Calves that you have collected inside of the Nursery Barn. Once you put them inside of the Nursery Barn, the only way to see what you have is by looking inside of it – something that only you yourself may do, as your neighbors cannot see inside of your Nursery Barn. This is a common problem that Zynga is actually correcting with its current Animal Storage Buildings, such as the Duck Pond, but we feel even then that they need to improve on it by allowing the player to look inside of their neighbors’ Animal Storage Buildings to see what is inside. If your neighbor has forty rare Ducks, but you can only view the five they have on display, what is the point of owning the other thirty-five rare Ducks?
Above: Try your best to avoid placing rare Foals and Calves in the Nursery Barn, lest you turn them into common Animals.
Now, how do you fix this, exactly? Truth be told, we feel all of the Animal Storage Buildings feel a bit outdated and ancient by today’s FarmVille standards, so what we would recommend is fully-built replacement Animal Storage Buildings for things such as the Dairy Farm, the Horse Stable, and a new, proper Nursery Barn. We no longer need the handful of different Horses and Cows that the current one provides, so we should take comfort in deleting it, knowing for certain that no new Animals will come from it, and replace it with this new idea in our noggins – all the while leaving the option readily available for newcomers to FarmVille so that they may receive the different Animals it can produce.
We’d recommend a Nursery Barn that no longer transforms your rare babies into common adults, complete with both a “spotlight” feature similar to the Duck Pond for five of your favorite Animals, as well as an option for your neighbors to “Look Inside” your Animal Storage Buildings without being able to remove the Animals within them.
This should be something universal to FarmVille in the first place, as we would love to see what types of Horses and Cows our neighbors have in their Stables and Dairy Farms. Who wants to pay 26 FV Cash for a spiffy new Horse, only to have it buried inside of a building where it never sees the light of day? Can we not have both the ability to produce cool new Foals for our neighbors AND to show off the Horses we paid for? After all, if we fork over the dough for a new FV Cash Horse and shove it into the Horse Stable, what are we, ourselves, actually getting out of the purchase? Our neighbors get our Foals, certainly, but if we are not to show off our purchases, what is the point for us, the purchaser?
These are some simple solutions that we could come up with while in a drugged-out stupor from those painkillers we were prescribed from the ER the other night, so clearly the clear-minded Posters out there can weigh in with their own, better suggestions for how to improve the Nursery Barn! Sound off with your best ideas on how to improve the Nursery Barn in the comments below!
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