Your Friends now show their level, achievements earned (pretty cool) and the amount of neighbors they have:

Your neighbors now show the same information as above but with a BIG NEIGHBOR tag on it:

Your Pending Neighbors now show in blue with the same information:

1. There is no longer the "invite via e-mail box" on the bottom of the screen. I think that saves some loading time.

2. You can now no longer see the amount of XP and the amount of coins of friends. This is not entirely bad since it is not that useful information but uhm… for managing your hundreds or thousands of friends I think XP is handy for sorting purposes.

3. I really really think, in this AJAX powered times, that this list should be paged or tabbed. The more friends are in the list, the more time the page takes to load making it not workable at all. Then again, my OLD neighbors file was an 8 MB download … and the new one is ALSO an 8BM download… where are the times that a 360kb floppy was considered big? When you have a lot of friends this page is no longer useable, and the prime goal of this game is community, so I just hope that someone will come up with a bright new idea for this page.

4. The neighbor limit of 300 is still in place, so once you are there, you can still invite noone. (and as stated under #3 pressing the "Okay" button here freezes my system and I have to kill Firefox after some time). Totally unmanageable this screen. This is why I downloaded it to my C: drive, stripped some parts to make it at least load (note: not trying to hack into something but there is just no other way of accessing this necessary page).

5. Accepting neighbor requests works but… it seems to do nothing (not completely sure yet, see my investigation), so I think the preliminary result is that I should remove neighbors first. Then again… WHERE IS THE REMOVE NEIGHBOR BUTTON? I tried "switch neighbors" but that only shows you people you can e-mail who are not yet using FarmVille.

6. It seems that when you add neighbors and are "full", so someone is not your neighbor, they see do see YOU as neighbor. E.g. my own father has me as neighbor while I do not have him as neighbor:

7. With the word "Ribbon" it slightly moved away from the X-Box Achievements system but here it is in all its glory: achievements instead of Blue Ribbons :)

8. What the new GUII DOES to me however is…

that I need to work on that pretty well in reach Crop Whisperer button to get to 20 Achievements :) (and the the Flower Power after that). But still… hmmm… 19 achievement? I have 15 blue ribbons (16 if you take the Shutter Photo contest in account). What are those other 4 achievements????? Are there hidden achievements??? HUH ?