Less than a week ago, Zynga released the Royal Hops crop to FarmVille's English Countryside. The crop was, in theory, supposed to be locked to only being grown on the English Countryside, and only then after you've mastered at least the first star of the original Hops crop first (one crop that is officially locked to your second farm in England). Even looking at the crop in the game's store confirms this, as it has the English Countryside seal, indicating its "exclusivity."
Let's say, though, that you really want to grow some Royal Hops on your Home Farm. How would such a thing be possible? It's simple, really, as it seems that Zynga has overlooked the "locked" status of the crop on your Home Farm. We're not sure if this was intentional, is some kind of bug or glitch, or was just an oversight, but I can personally confirm from my own game [pictured above - note the "Home Farm" in the corner] that you can grow Royal Hops on your Home Farm, without a license, by simply going into the game and purchasing it as a normal crop.
To further confirm - this isn't an issue brought about by having specific bushels active, as I had a White Rose bushel activated on my Home Farm when I planted the Royal Hops, and I highly doubt the two are connected. If you'd like to grow both crops at once (say, growing Hops on your second farm and Royal Hops on your Home Farm) this is definitely your chance.
Looking for more FarmVille Tips & Tricks? Look right here.
Have you been able to grow other English Countryside-specific crops back on your Home Farm, while doing nothing to instigate this?
Thứ Sáu, 30 tháng 12, 2011
Redeem FrontierVille Game Card, receive free Easter Mystery Crate
Just as FarmVille is giving away free Spring Mystery Boxes to users who purchase Game Cards from now until April 24, so too is FrontierVille offering users a prize for doing the same (although you have less time to do so). From now until April 20, simply redeem a Zynga Game Card in FrontierVille, and you'll receive a free Easter Mystery Crate, which can contain one of the following items, or a large Easter Egg (the full contents are as-of-now unknown, but we'll make sure to update you):
Yellow Mallow Chick
Pink Mallow Chick
Green Mallow Chick
Bunny Ears Blonde
Bunny Ears Brown
To be clear, these "Mallow Chicks" are the game's representation of the "Peeps" Easter candy, although they of course couldn't use the name. The bunny ears, then, are avatar clothing items for your family to wear proudly around the Homestead. There's no word right now as to whether or not these crates will be available to purchase from the store, so if you've been saving up a Game Card for a good promotion, this is likely the best promotion you'll see for some time - (for now) exclusive items that you'll be proud to show off on your land.
Have you received an item that isn't on our list? Make sure to let us know which items you receive from this promotion! Are you happy with your prize(s)?
Yellow Mallow Chick
Pink Mallow Chick
Green Mallow Chick
Bunny Ears Blonde
Bunny Ears Brown
To be clear, these "Mallow Chicks" are the game's representation of the "Peeps" Easter candy, although they of course couldn't use the name. The bunny ears, then, are avatar clothing items for your family to wear proudly around the Homestead. There's no word right now as to whether or not these crates will be available to purchase from the store, so if you've been saving up a Game Card for a good promotion, this is likely the best promotion you'll see for some time - (for now) exclusive items that you'll be proud to show off on your land.
Have you received an item that isn't on our list? Make sure to let us know which items you receive from this promotion! Are you happy with your prize(s)?
FrontierVille Tips & Tricks: Quickly finish the Bear Collection for Animal Ready Boosts
Don't you just hate receiving quests in FrontierVille that ask you to sell 50 Sheep, or sell 25 Oxen, only to have just finished a quest that required you to sell them all already? Now you're stuck purchasing and growing animals all over again, in what is undeniably a time consuming process (or an expensive one, if you choose to buy Boosts). Your pain can be lessened a bit, however, by simply completing the Bear Collection.
The Bear Collection gives you a free Animal Ready Boost when you turn it in, causing all of the animals on your Homestead to instantly become "ready" to be fed. But I know what you're thinking - "The Bear Collection is way too hard to complete! I never have enough trees around, and Bears never come out on my land!" While I unfortunately can't help you bring out more Bears on your land (other than suggesting to let your trees grow to maturity before you ever chop them), I can help you complete that Bear Collection all the same.
Meet us behind the break for a set of tips on how to complete the Bear Collection (believe me, it's a trick you may not know about), and earn those free Animal Ready Boosts for your land!
Step 1: Complete the Mystery Animal Collection
The Mystery Animal Collection can be completed by either tending to your own Mystery Animals, or by tending to your friends' Mystery Animals when you visit. Turning this collection in will reward you with a Stuffed Bear. This isn't just a regular decorative item, however, as this is actually the key to this entire method!
Step 2: Place the Stuffed Bear on your land
Once you have the Stuffed Bear on your land, you'll want to keep it out in the open - somewhere that you can easily click on it everyday, and won't forget to do so. That is, if you're like me, you won't want to put it in the far corner of your land, or else you'll forget it exists and miss out on these free items!
Step 3: Collect the Bonus from the Stuffed Bear once every day
You can collect a bonus from the Stuffed Bear just as you can collect a bonus from all of your buildings. Simply click on the Bear and then click on "Collect Bonus." This bonus can only be collected once every 24 hours, but you'll receive a free collectible item from the Bear Collection when you do so. Sure, you may not be guaranteed to receive the elusive Bear Claw (the rarest item in the collection) each time you collect your bonus, but if you've gone days or weeks without seeing an actual Bear varmint on your land, you'll likely be happy with any item that you can get!
And there you have it! An easy way to earn Bear Collection items, that doesn't require you to fill your land with trees, and hope to luckily receive a Bear while wasting all of your energy chopping them down. If you need help finishing the Mystery Animal Collection to receive a Stuffed Bear in the first place, remember to ask your friends if they have any spare items, as they'll likely be much more willing to share those with you than actual Bear Collection items.
For more of our FrontierVille Tips and Tricks, click right here.
Did you know that the Stuffed Bear item gave away free Bear Collection items? Have you been using this method to receive free Animal Ready boosts on your land?
The Bear Collection gives you a free Animal Ready Boost when you turn it in, causing all of the animals on your Homestead to instantly become "ready" to be fed. But I know what you're thinking - "The Bear Collection is way too hard to complete! I never have enough trees around, and Bears never come out on my land!" While I unfortunately can't help you bring out more Bears on your land (other than suggesting to let your trees grow to maturity before you ever chop them), I can help you complete that Bear Collection all the same.
Meet us behind the break for a set of tips on how to complete the Bear Collection (believe me, it's a trick you may not know about), and earn those free Animal Ready Boosts for your land!
Step 1: Complete the Mystery Animal Collection
The Mystery Animal Collection can be completed by either tending to your own Mystery Animals, or by tending to your friends' Mystery Animals when you visit. Turning this collection in will reward you with a Stuffed Bear. This isn't just a regular decorative item, however, as this is actually the key to this entire method!
Step 2: Place the Stuffed Bear on your land
Once you have the Stuffed Bear on your land, you'll want to keep it out in the open - somewhere that you can easily click on it everyday, and won't forget to do so. That is, if you're like me, you won't want to put it in the far corner of your land, or else you'll forget it exists and miss out on these free items!
Step 3: Collect the Bonus from the Stuffed Bear once every day
You can collect a bonus from the Stuffed Bear just as you can collect a bonus from all of your buildings. Simply click on the Bear and then click on "Collect Bonus." This bonus can only be collected once every 24 hours, but you'll receive a free collectible item from the Bear Collection when you do so. Sure, you may not be guaranteed to receive the elusive Bear Claw (the rarest item in the collection) each time you collect your bonus, but if you've gone days or weeks without seeing an actual Bear varmint on your land, you'll likely be happy with any item that you can get!
And there you have it! An easy way to earn Bear Collection items, that doesn't require you to fill your land with trees, and hope to luckily receive a Bear while wasting all of your energy chopping them down. If you need help finishing the Mystery Animal Collection to receive a Stuffed Bear in the first place, remember to ask your friends if they have any spare items, as they'll likely be much more willing to share those with you than actual Bear Collection items.
For more of our FrontierVille Tips and Tricks, click right here.
Did you know that the Stuffed Bear item gave away free Bear Collection items? Have you been using this method to receive free Animal Ready boosts on your land?
iWin and Endemol to bring Deal or No Deal and 1 vs 100 to Facebook
After Microsoft removed 1 vs 100 from their Xbox Live service, I was more than a bit upset. I spent countless hours playing with friends and strangers alike from the comfort of my living room, all while trying to one-up my competitors with my pop culture know-how. That ship has sailed however, but the fun may soon be returning, as iWin and Endemol USA have announced a partnership (via company press release) that will bring not only 1 vs 100 back to life, but will bring Deal or No Deal with it, straight to Facebook.
Releasing later this Spring, the Facebook versions of both games will allow you to play with or against other Facebook members, whether they are your friends or strangers. In Deal or No Deal, you'll be playing against the Banker while opening cases and trying to keep the big numbers in play, but you'll also be able to add new "Sweeteners" to the deal, that add bigger valued cases to your particular episode, reveal low valued cases, or save the banker's offers for future use.
For 1 vs 100, you'll be able to invite your friends to join your own Mob and will compete against them in trivia questions across new gameplay modes designed specifically for Facebook. Should you make a mistake, you'll be able to invite your friends to "Right My Wrong," while you'll also be given the chance to climb to the top of the leaderboards by playing "Spin to Win."
We'll make sure to give you additional details about both of these games as we know more. Be on the lookout for both of these games on Facebook this Spring, and on PC this fall.
Will you play 1 vs 100 or Deal or No Deal on Facebook? What sorts of social features do you hope these games bring with them to the table?
Releasing later this Spring, the Facebook versions of both games will allow you to play with or against other Facebook members, whether they are your friends or strangers. In Deal or No Deal, you'll be playing against the Banker while opening cases and trying to keep the big numbers in play, but you'll also be able to add new "Sweeteners" to the deal, that add bigger valued cases to your particular episode, reveal low valued cases, or save the banker's offers for future use.
For 1 vs 100, you'll be able to invite your friends to join your own Mob and will compete against them in trivia questions across new gameplay modes designed specifically for Facebook. Should you make a mistake, you'll be able to invite your friends to "Right My Wrong," while you'll also be given the chance to climb to the top of the leaderboards by playing "Spin to Win."
We'll make sure to give you additional details about both of these games as we know more. Be on the lookout for both of these games on Facebook this Spring, and on PC this fall.
Will you play 1 vs 100 or Deal or No Deal on Facebook? What sorts of social features do you hope these games bring with them to the table?
Zynga (finally) drops FarmVille 'Beta' tag after nearly two years
After nearly two long years, Zynga has removed the "Beta" tag from the FarmVille logo. More specifically, it took one year and 10 months to raise the game up from beta status, but it begs the question: What pushed FarmVille over the edge? According to a production letter released by Zynga on the forums, all signs point to the release of English Countryside. After releasing an entire new farm, we think you're good on removing the Beta label.
The production letter contains a long list of changes and highlights from the past few months including the exciting removal of News Feed item throttling, or limiting players' ability to collect lots of items in a short amount of time. Now, there is a solid limit on the amount of items players can gather from News Feeds daily. Here's Zynga's official statement in full:
The sun is back out (here in San Francisco, anyway) and the FarmVille Team is reinvigorated with the energy of the warmer weather, the English Countryside expansion and the fact that we have the best player base on the planet in all of you! Speaking of all of you, we have, as always, been listening to a great deal of your feedback and suggestions. We hope you'll echo our sentiment when we say that the past three months or so have brought many improvements to FarmVille. Let's take this moment to reflect on a few of the things we've accomplished together over the last quarter of a year...
English Countryside: FarmVille players everywhere are discovering an all-new land with new adventures and benefits in FarmVille English Countryside! This has certainly been our largest feature effort since FarmVille first launched and it wouldn't have been possible without your ideas and imagination. We hope you're all enjoying it and are looking forward to the possibilities it brings as much as we are!
Farm Switching and Pausing: We want to thank you all for expressing your opinions on this matter so articulately and persistently. As a result, we're recently implemented the ability to choose whether or not you want the farm you are not active on to pause while you are away. You will be prompted with this option each time to switch from one farm to another. We think this is a great addition to FarmVille and we hope it leads to your further enjoyment of having multiple farms!
Bug Fix Output and Memory Issues: The development team has been extremely focused and dedicated to making FarmVille better. In addition to increasing our bug fix output significantly, we've also made a recent breakthrough on our memory usage and implemented changes that resulted in many players with heavily populated farms able to run FarmVille smoothly again. This isn't perfect yet, we're still diligently pursuing ways to keep up with your endlessly imaginative ways of beautifying and personalizing your farms, but we hope many of you are already seeing the benefits.
Feed Reward Throttling: After extensive research and experimentation, we have decided to repeal the throttling of rewards collected through feeds. We want to thank you all for being so vocal throughout the process as it really helped us to pinpoint problem areas and react accordingly. For now, the throttling has been removed and we are enforcing a cap on the amount of rewards each player can claim per day. We are continuing to explore alternative means of keeping the FarmVille playing field even for all.
Japan Relief: In yet another incredible example of humanitarianism and compassion, FarmVille players were one of the first groups worldwide to spring into action to help Japan in their hour of need. Words cannot express how fortunate the FarmVille Team feels to be involved with such a giving and helpful group of players. It adds an overwhelming sense of worth to the work we do here to know that the players who make our game great also strive at making the world a better place.
The Beta Tag: You may have noticed that we removed the "Beta" tag from our logo with the release of the English Countryside. We felt this was the right time to remove that tag but we also want to be sure that this is not taken as a claim to a "bug-free" game. The internet is alive with changes stemming from every direction and FarmVille introduces new content multiple times per week. No game can avoid all of the growing pains that are inevitable with new content – especially on such a large platform, with so many players interacting with each other, in so many different ways. Rest assured that we are dedicated, now more than ever, to continuing to create new ways to ensure your game experience is everything it can and should be.
We're thankful for the strides you've helped us make this past quarter and are eager to share whatever the future brings with all of you. We have all sorts of surprises up our sleeves and the fact that we get to bring them to all of you drives us onward. Thank you for always being willing to share your ideas and opinions with us and for being the best player base in the world!
-The FarmVille Team
These are all exciting developments, for sure. However, as Zynga said much needs to be done, like improving FarmVille for iOS. Sure, the game runs plenty faster than it ever did after the 2.0 update, but it still suffers from "Out of Sync" errors and could use some more functionality. We should be able to do more to our farms like interact with our buildings through mobile, but also take advantage of mobile's unique advantages like geolocation and Bluetooth.
Imagine booting up FarmVille mobile just before a movie starts and seeing that a few other movie goers are playing nearby. Request them using either Bluetooth or over 3G and WiFi and you can immediately start playing together ... just put it away when the movie starts. Everyone hates that.
[Source: FarmVille Freak]
Are you excited to see the improvements and changes Zynga has made to FarmVille in 2011 thus far? What else do you think needs improvement?
The production letter contains a long list of changes and highlights from the past few months including the exciting removal of News Feed item throttling, or limiting players' ability to collect lots of items in a short amount of time. Now, there is a solid limit on the amount of items players can gather from News Feeds daily. Here's Zynga's official statement in full:
The sun is back out (here in San Francisco, anyway) and the FarmVille Team is reinvigorated with the energy of the warmer weather, the English Countryside expansion and the fact that we have the best player base on the planet in all of you! Speaking of all of you, we have, as always, been listening to a great deal of your feedback and suggestions. We hope you'll echo our sentiment when we say that the past three months or so have brought many improvements to FarmVille. Let's take this moment to reflect on a few of the things we've accomplished together over the last quarter of a year...
English Countryside: FarmVille players everywhere are discovering an all-new land with new adventures and benefits in FarmVille English Countryside! This has certainly been our largest feature effort since FarmVille first launched and it wouldn't have been possible without your ideas and imagination. We hope you're all enjoying it and are looking forward to the possibilities it brings as much as we are!
Farm Switching and Pausing: We want to thank you all for expressing your opinions on this matter so articulately and persistently. As a result, we're recently implemented the ability to choose whether or not you want the farm you are not active on to pause while you are away. You will be prompted with this option each time to switch from one farm to another. We think this is a great addition to FarmVille and we hope it leads to your further enjoyment of having multiple farms!
Bug Fix Output and Memory Issues: The development team has been extremely focused and dedicated to making FarmVille better. In addition to increasing our bug fix output significantly, we've also made a recent breakthrough on our memory usage and implemented changes that resulted in many players with heavily populated farms able to run FarmVille smoothly again. This isn't perfect yet, we're still diligently pursuing ways to keep up with your endlessly imaginative ways of beautifying and personalizing your farms, but we hope many of you are already seeing the benefits.
Feed Reward Throttling: After extensive research and experimentation, we have decided to repeal the throttling of rewards collected through feeds. We want to thank you all for being so vocal throughout the process as it really helped us to pinpoint problem areas and react accordingly. For now, the throttling has been removed and we are enforcing a cap on the amount of rewards each player can claim per day. We are continuing to explore alternative means of keeping the FarmVille playing field even for all.
Japan Relief: In yet another incredible example of humanitarianism and compassion, FarmVille players were one of the first groups worldwide to spring into action to help Japan in their hour of need. Words cannot express how fortunate the FarmVille Team feels to be involved with such a giving and helpful group of players. It adds an overwhelming sense of worth to the work we do here to know that the players who make our game great also strive at making the world a better place.
The Beta Tag: You may have noticed that we removed the "Beta" tag from our logo with the release of the English Countryside. We felt this was the right time to remove that tag but we also want to be sure that this is not taken as a claim to a "bug-free" game. The internet is alive with changes stemming from every direction and FarmVille introduces new content multiple times per week. No game can avoid all of the growing pains that are inevitable with new content – especially on such a large platform, with so many players interacting with each other, in so many different ways. Rest assured that we are dedicated, now more than ever, to continuing to create new ways to ensure your game experience is everything it can and should be.
We're thankful for the strides you've helped us make this past quarter and are eager to share whatever the future brings with all of you. We have all sorts of surprises up our sleeves and the fact that we get to bring them to all of you drives us onward. Thank you for always being willing to share your ideas and opinions with us and for being the best player base in the world!
-The FarmVille Team
These are all exciting developments, for sure. However, as Zynga said much needs to be done, like improving FarmVille for iOS. Sure, the game runs plenty faster than it ever did after the 2.0 update, but it still suffers from "Out of Sync" errors and could use some more functionality. We should be able to do more to our farms like interact with our buildings through mobile, but also take advantage of mobile's unique advantages like geolocation and Bluetooth.
Imagine booting up FarmVille mobile just before a movie starts and seeing that a few other movie goers are playing nearby. Request them using either Bluetooth or over 3G and WiFi and you can immediately start playing together ... just put it away when the movie starts. Everyone hates that.
[Source: FarmVille Freak]
Are you excited to see the improvements and changes Zynga has made to FarmVille in 2011 thus far? What else do you think needs improvement?
Thứ Hai, 26 tháng 12, 2011
FrontierVille: Find Granny's Field Mice for three Tea Tables
As part of the Mother's Day celebration in FrontierVille, Zynga has launched a new activity in the game called "Find Field Mice for Granny's Kitty." You see, Granny would love to have a cat for Mother's Day, and you'll need to lure one onto the Homestead by finding Field Mice that can be...well... used to tame the cat (if you get my meaning). This activity is technically a sub-quest, released as part of Granny's Mother's Day goals, but it is its own feature, with its own rewards.
Similar to the Oregon Trail Medical Journal or Rango activities we've seen released in the past, you'll be able to find these field mice simply by completing normal tasks around your Homestead, like clearing debris or tending to fruit trees. You'll be able to collect nine Field Mice in all, with the Mice being split into three groups of three. Once you collect just three mice, you'll earn the Candlelit Tea Table. at 6 Mice you'll earn the Tea Set Tea Table, and when you've finished collecting all nine you'll earn the Floral Tea Table. What's interesting about these three items is that they are actually portions of a larger, completely round table, that should look quite impressive when placed appropriately on your Homestead. You'll likely only be able to collect Field Mice for a limited time, so start working on your Homestead now to earn them as fast as possible!
What do you think of the Field Mice activity in FrontierVille? Do you like these collection tasks in the game, or do you prefer more standard missions and goals?
Similar to the Oregon Trail Medical Journal or Rango activities we've seen released in the past, you'll be able to find these field mice simply by completing normal tasks around your Homestead, like clearing debris or tending to fruit trees. You'll be able to collect nine Field Mice in all, with the Mice being split into three groups of three. Once you collect just three mice, you'll earn the Candlelit Tea Table. at 6 Mice you'll earn the Tea Set Tea Table, and when you've finished collecting all nine you'll earn the Floral Tea Table. What's interesting about these three items is that they are actually portions of a larger, completely round table, that should look quite impressive when placed appropriately on your Homestead. You'll likely only be able to collect Field Mice for a limited time, so start working on your Homestead now to earn them as fast as possible!
What do you think of the Field Mice activity in FrontierVille? Do you like these collection tasks in the game, or do you prefer more standard missions and goals?
FarmVille Mother's Day Seeds & Trees: Magnolia Trees & Pink Carnation Crop
As part of tonight's FarmVille update, we see the launch of the limited time Mother's Day item theme, which starts with two trees and a limited edition crop. The two trees are the Magnolia trees we've spoken of earlier. The Magnolia Tree costs 5 Farm Cash, while the Purple Magnolia costs just 10 Farm Cash. Remember though, if you'd rather just purchase the original Magnolia Tree, you'll be able to complete your set by finding a Purple Magnolia as a Mystery Seedling, saving you all of that Farm Cash for something else!
As for the new crop, the Carnation will be available to grow for the next month. While we first saw the Pink Carnation released as a crop during last year's Mother's Day event, it wasn't "masterable" at the time, so even veteran players have something to be excited about here (or am I the only one that likes collecting those neat mastery signs?!). the flowers themselves can be grown for just 11 coins per square, and you'll gain three experience points per square planted. I don't think I need to tell you how great those stats are, but if I do - they are! You'll be able to harvest the carnations a full day later to receive 111 coins per square.
If the trees are more your thing, make sure to shop fast, as they'll only be available for a week. And remember, if you're looking for a gift for your gaming mama, you can send either tree via an in-game gift by simply spending Farm Cash in the store.
Will you purchase either of these trees for your mothers, or are you saving them for your farms instead? Will you work to make sure you master the Pink Carnation in the time available?
As for the new crop, the Carnation will be available to grow for the next month. While we first saw the Pink Carnation released as a crop during last year's Mother's Day event, it wasn't "masterable" at the time, so even veteran players have something to be excited about here (or am I the only one that likes collecting those neat mastery signs?!). the flowers themselves can be grown for just 11 coins per square, and you'll gain three experience points per square planted. I don't think I need to tell you how great those stats are, but if I do - they are! You'll be able to harvest the carnations a full day later to receive 111 coins per square.
If the trees are more your thing, make sure to shop fast, as they'll only be available for a week. And remember, if you're looking for a gift for your gaming mama, you can send either tree via an in-game gift by simply spending Farm Cash in the store.
Will you purchase either of these trees for your mothers, or are you saving them for your farms instead? Will you work to make sure you master the Pink Carnation in the time available?
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