FarmVille Game Updates for 9 Jan 2010!

image100 FarmVille Game Updates for 9 Jan 2010!

During the Free Fuel Week and theme and the Cows Theme some REALLY cool updates. STORAGE! MORE STORAGE and via a very inventive system, lets walk through the updates:

1. More Fuel Promotion During this fuel week I had another cool fuel promotion! But uhm… I have already SO much fuel…
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2. New decoration: Tall Grass We can now gift the tall grass
image104 FarmVille Game Updates for 9 Jan 2010! The Tall Grass is a new gift (space 1x1) which sells for 75 coins and can be gifted from level 7.
3. New decoration: Large WoodPile We can now gift a Large Woodpile
image105 FarmVille Game Updates for 9 Jan 2010! The Large WoodPile is giftable and measure 1x5 (!) So a very large woodpile indeed :)

You can gift it from level 10 and it sells for 75 coins.

4. Lime Tree no longer Giftable The Lime Tree is no longer giftable but can be bought ofcourse.
5. A NEW animal (!) Animal #42: the Lop-Eared Bunny
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How do these guys think of these kind of animals???

The Lop-Eared Bunny costs 9FV and can be harvested in 2 days for 90 coins.

It gives you 30 XP when you buy it and you could resell it for 150 coins.

It lasts until 2010-01-21, so you have some time to consider this one.

Look at my 2 nice bunnies:

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6. Shorter Feed Publishing

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Ok…. these is someone else in the dev team who read Jacob Nielsen ;)

We can now directly publish our stuff to our feed – ONE CLICK action…

I don't know what the thought is behind this but this is something to think about in a later post.

7. STORAGE MANIA Ok.. I need some more time updating the Almanac for this, but this one is really great.

We can now keep upgrading all our storage facilities to multiple levels (stars) and each time increase the storage.

You simply open your storage space and then can post a message on the wall asking your friends to help.

When they click it and not yet 10 people have helped there is a bonus of 100 coins else you get a message that people already helped out.

A real cool way to increase storage, absolutely handy with all that holiday stuff.

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So.. here I go…. First request my friends to upgrade the white barn to level 2:
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And as you can see I now have 2 SILO's next to my barn and 25 Storage Capacity WOHOO!

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Let's see If i can get to 3 stars (32 Storage for my white barn):

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YES!! I have fully upgraded my barn:

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  And.. storage expansion for the chicken coop, dairy farm and garden shed is also coming, this is REALLY welcome. Thanks FarmVille DEVS!
image139 FarmVille Game Updates for 9 Jan 2010! Ah… well since it is just so addictive… let's get a CowPrint Barn while we are at it :)

… click … 1 second later:

image140 FarmVille Game Updates for 9 Jan 2010! Ok… now I'm REALLY going to time it:

image141 FarmVille Game Updates for 9 Jan 2010! it really takes only 1 refresh :) I wonder how many people are clicking like mad all day :)
image142 FarmVille Game Updates for 9 Jan 2010! HEY … :( :( :(
It is no use increasing the Capacity, I'm at the maximum: 100. Hmmm… let's hope they increase this soon.

Storing things is addictive :)

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EXTRA NOTICE 1

Once notice: if you click "GIVE UP" (to repost your message) then you will need to start over.

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You can copy and paste the link for storage expansion and spread it around so people can click it.

E..g. post it in a popular feed……….

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Stephan writes that the market menu now remembers that last position you were at ! WOW… that is usability improvement 2!!

9. The Fenced In Achievement now also takes in account your existing fences Because this message got my wife directly after starting the game:

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10. Multiple chicken coops I've read several postings on people getting multiple chicken coops
11. MORE? If these is anything I missed, please post it in the comments!

Free Fuel Week day 5

image99 Free Fuel Week day 5 

I'm such a loyal customer! I got 5 days in a row! Let's hope I finish the complete week.

Does Tree Fruit count for the Foremost Fruit Farmer Achievement?

I KNOW that the description of the Foremost Fruit Farmer Achievement reads "fruit crops", but then again… fruit from a Tree is also crop isn't it? Let's try a Fruit Tree !

image95 Does Tree Fruit count for the Foremost Fruit Farmer Achievement? I have 6894 more fruit to go, let's try a Tree!
image96 Does Tree Fruit count for the Foremost Fruit Farmer Achievement? CLICK!

Let's Harvest my Acai Tree for those nice fruits.

image97 Does Tree Fruit count for the Foremost Fruit Farmer Achievement? Too bad…

Morning Glory : FarmVille Seed #47: a complete rundown

Tuesday seed #47 was introduced in FarmVille: Morning Glory. It is also the 8th flower in Farmville. And it is absolutely worthwhile to put this one to the front of your Mastership Wish List.

Let's do a little rundown on the new seed.

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image84 Morning Glory : FarmVille Seed #47: a complete rundown

First of all… what is it? Let's do a bit of education from wikipedia:

Morning glory is a common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, whose current taxonomy and systematics is in flux. Morning glory species belong to many genera 

The flower usually lasts for a single morning and dies in the afternoon. On a cloudy day, the flower may last until night. New flowers bloom each day. The flowers usually start to fade a couple of hours before the petals start showing visible curling. They prefer full sun throughout the day and mesic soils. Some morning glories, such as Ipomoea muricata, are night blooming flowers.

In some places such as Australian bushland, morning glories develop thick roots and tend to grow in dense thickets. They can quickly spread by way of long creeping stems. By crowding out, blanketing and smothering other plants, morning glory has turned into a serious invasive weed problem.

image85 Morning Glory : FarmVille Seed #47: a complete rundown Within FarmVille the Flower lasts for something longer: after 12 hours (thanks) the Morning Glory is ready for harvesting.

Looking purely at Revenue the Morning Glory takes a 34th spot between the Sweet Potato and the Squash, so revenue wise it is not so interesting.

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When we take the revenue per hour of the Morning Glory the same goes, it takes a spot a place #21.

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Maybe the pure profit of the Morning Glory would bring change to it. But as you can see it is at the bottom of the list at spot  #37.

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And the profit per hours is of course also not the best:

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Even within the domain of the flowers themselves it falls in the middle, by far not so good as the sunflowers but better than the daffodils.

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When we look at the mastership chances we finally find a … number 1 position! (that is always cool for new things). The morning glory, when Mastered, delivers an extra XP of 6 (!) with a chance of 0.2 of getting that extra XP while harvesting your crops. So by multiplying the chance with the Mastership XP we get an extra 1.2 XP on average for this new crop the Morning Glory.

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And how does the mastership table looks like for the Morning Glory? Actually… Pretty Good! It is in the bottom of the list of amount of time it costs to master a seed. With a field of 400 Squares you can get the Morning Glory Mastery Sign within 3.91 days.

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By harvesting a total of 3000 plots / squares of Morning Glory you get the third Mastery Progress Star and thus the Mastery Sign. And of course this will count against your Flower Power Ribbon (10000 for the blue ribbon, so 1/3 of the amount you need for the blue ribbon)

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Finally, the chances of getting a Perfect Bunch to give to your friends is also uh the other chance.

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Free Fuel Week Tank #4!

image82 Free Fuel Week Tank #4!

This proves I am a loyal FarmVille player doesn't it?

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