Updates 12-03-2010: The Shamrock Castle and Message Box!

FarmVilleDate 266 (Saturday, March 13, 2010) one comment

FINALLY we see the other 3 items in our pot of gold and we do not have to wonder anymore if we need 100, 200 or 1000 items…

	Today we saw a very neat addition to the core functionality within FarmVille. Maybe this is even one of the most important improvements in the community system since day 1. Visitors to your farm can now leave messages via the comment box AND you can see who visited your farm. I think this will lead to a better driver for improvement of farm layouts and it may also lead to more interaction between farmers. It more or less works like a bulletin board system. A major important part is the "email me new comments": you will get mailed when people make a comment so it will possibily bring back people more often to their farms. Furthermore you can now select directly send gifts or visit the farms of people who visited yours. A very nice touch to reward people who visited your farm. See also the FV Forums for more info on this.
	And… finally we have the remaining items which can be redeemed: - a spring pond for 50 gold (also 4x4) - a lucky fountain for 75 gold (makes me think of the fountain we got during Valentine) (its 4x4) - and… a shamrock castle for 100 gold ( which looks very cool) (I probably need to make myself some kind of hill) (its 7x7) Like before these items when redeeming one, you can share it with a friend.
We keep building :) Some of you have not even finished their horse stables yet but here is a new building to build: the Maison. (8x5). I will post about it in the next post. Hmmm… I think I will make a special category for "buildings you need to build"
	We have some new specific Shamrock ("green") storage buildings: - the Shamrock Barn - the Shamrock Shed If I would have more storage capacity than 100 I would buy them but for now… I leave them in the market :) We also have 2 other new buildings which are non storage during the St.Patrick celebration: - the Shamrock Inn (4x8) and - the Shamrock Cottage (7x6)
	And… welll, a nice thing: we have the 3 vehicles but now in the color "Shamrock". - a Lucky Tractor - a Lucky Harvester - a Lucky Seeder Only for a limited time available! p.s. we have now reached a total of 10 vehicles in FarmVille.
	The French theme has further extensions: - a Bread Cart - a Triple Light Post - and a Stone Wall (which seems to fit nice with the Shamrock Castle)
	New Gifts are: - the Shamrock Flag (exclusive on farmville.com) And… a random set of building materials for our maison (see our next post)
	A new "Shamrock" / Green bike has become permanently available in the marketplace for 500 coins.