DEAD CHICKENS IN FARMVILLE

As I wrote on my last post, my computer has never been this slow since I cluttered my farm with animations.

Even the animals take up some bytes as they are animated too.

But just for just a little bit of humor, I noticed some of my chickens dropping dead during the computer freeze so I took a shot of these "dying" chickens.

CHECK OUT THEM OUT!

DEAD GOLDEN CHICKENS




DYING OR SLEEPY BLACK CHICKEN?

SUFFER FOR BEAUTY

I guess true to my belief that you have to suffer for beauty, I've really filled my Farmville village with lots of animations. I really buy most of the things that are animated but to my dismay...my computer has never been this slow since I've expanded to 24 x 24 and put out all items from my storage!

The animations REALLY SLOWED DOWN MY COMPUTER.


Now, it takes about five minutes just to load my farm because of all these carousels, rotating lighted hedges, sugar spin ride, animals, etc. etc.

But do I have a choice??

They're soooo beautiful to look at. They also keep my village very much alive and groovy.

But it has now become a torture to open my farm. It takes too long to load my farm. Just imagine if I go to my neighbors to fertilize their farms. I come back to my farm and then I have to wait again.


Ouch.


So, I've come up with a remedy. But hell no. I'm not getting rid of some of these cool animations.

I've opted for the painful solution. And that is to store the gigantic animated objects when I first log in and then just not to forget to put them back before I log off.

How silly can this get huh?


OMG! Is this worth it all???????


FARMVILLE MANIA???


Or is this leading to a new MENTAL DISORDER???



CHECK OUT MY NEW EXPANDED FARM!!!!

A NEW COUNTRY CALLED FARMVILLE

Read my introduction and I've said it all since I started this blog! Farmville has already evolved for some players who do not see this only as a game of plowing, planting and harvesting.

I myself started with just a few plots, became hooked on the game, but more on the building side. I love decorations so I busted green bucks to snatch any new decor or building in the market.

Check out my previous posts and you will see that my farm in December became a Christmas Village.

In fact, I badly needed an expansion because there's no more space anymore to put in new stuff.

But now, Farmville has added new buildings in the market: Bed & Breakfast, General Store, Post Office and just yesterday the Library and Schoolhouse.

CHECK OUT THE COMMERCIAL SIDE IN MY VILLAGE WHERE YOU CAN FIND A WELLNESS AREA, BED & BREAKFAST, POST OFFICE, SCHOOL, LIBRARY!



Sooooooooo! What did I tell you????

These buildings are not for a farm anymore.....

Seeeee. It has really evolved.

We'd be seeing more and more villages and cities up in Farmville! In fact, with the millions of people all over the world playing this game, it may even end up on the map itself. A whole new country....called FARMVILLE.

BARN RAISING IS NOT FOR BIG SPENDERS!

For the wise and frugal, barn raising is an exciting way to increase the storage of the only one barn or maybe two... that other farmville players may possess.

But for big spenders like me, who has seven groovy barns, one pink cottage, one pink barn and three green tool sheds, it is TOTALLY USELESS.

In fact, since I have those MANY storage buildings, I was already irritated with Farmville because no matter the number of barns you buy, they have put a cap on storage capacity which is 100!

I even sold my red barn and two blue tool sheds because there's no space for them on my farm anymore as it has become a village now and also solely for the plain fact that they don't add to storage capacity anymore because I've reached the limit.

But just to test, I STILL hosted a barn raising and immediately, in a few hours, ten neighbors successfully helped so I got three stars on one groovy barn which said that I have increased the storage from 20 to 32.

Well, well. Check check.

When I clicked the storage button to do an inventory. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Too good to be true, but my capacity is still 100 instead of 112.

See!! I am really disappointed!!!

Check out these photos:

BARN RAISING SUCCESSFUL WITH ONE GROOVY BARN UPGRADED:

CHECK OUT THE TOTAL STORAGE CAPACITY WHICH DIDN'T CHANGE FROM 100!

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GOLDEN ROTTEN EGGS

Ouch. In my neighborhood, gold eggs are starting to rot. It used to provide that quick shot of adrenaline everytime I find a golden mystery egg in the Farmville newsfeed....but now now more.

It's because Zynga had changed the prizes inside. On Saturday morning, I was excited to find a golden mystery egg so I jumped out of my bed and prayed that I will get a donkey. OMG. I can't believe my eye when I hatched the egg and there was a Farmville flag inside. What the....???? I just had two Farmville flags 3 months ago and sold it as I didn't like it anymore and here's what I get from that very rare find???? Ouchhhhh.

And an hour later, as I was cooking lunch, a friend found another golden mystery egg. So I got excited again and kazaaammmmm!!!! OMG! OMG! OMG!
I got a small pond inside. A small pond? Not even a big pond??? I had two small ponds and decided to sell one. I'm about to sell the other one and here comes another small pond from the most coveted egg in the world???/ OUCH!!!!

So.....taaadannnnnn. I did a research and found that indeed Zynga had changed what's inside the eggs. So to warn you. Here's what you will be finding if you're lucky enough!!

WHITE EGG
White chicken
Brown chicken
Groovy scarecrow
Outhouse

BROWN EGG
Brown chicken
Black chicken
Zen garden

BLACK EGG
Black chicken
Golden chicken

GOLDEN EGG
Golden chicken
Small pond
Sheep Topiary
Red Farmville Flag
Gold Gnome
Animal Flota
30 Fuel Refills

Soooo, up to you. Are you still excited to stay glued on your screens to wait for postings of mystery eggs??????

Why do I have this rotten feeling?????

EXPENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IN FARMVILLE

Well, this week we've seen all the great and exciting improvements and features in Farmville.

Now, we can feed our neighbors' chickens with a possibility to find a mystery egg in the chicken coop and that is after of course fertilizing their plots.

And the good news is that we can now fertilize 50 neighbors farms so that's really increased our chances to collect XPs.

Then, there's this new mystery crate. Definitely bigger than the previous mystery boxes because it contains rare animals. However, the price of buying a mystery box has increased to 20 FV!!!!!!

I tried one today and I guess I hit the jackpot because I got a JACKAPOLE. A small creature that looks like a skinny rabbit or a mini, anorexic deer but gives 700 xp. Not bad, I thought. Plus it qualifies for the "They of Mystery" ribbon so I was okay.....until my daughter got a beautiful peacock which I must have.

So off I bought another box and voila...another JACKAPOLE...which made me all the more furious to hit one more surprise....and..............another JACKAPOLE........

I really wanted that peacock so I controlled myself and promised I'd try one more time but this will be the last......and I got a cute chubby buffalo!

Not bad. 4 rare animals for 80 FV cash! Whooopppsie.

Is it worth it????

Now, let's go to how playing Farmville is becoming expensive now. Did you see the new ribbons they've added??? As in my previous post, I will never probably get any ribbon for the Lord of the Plow because I don't have a tractor. I only have a couple of plots that can easily be handled by my cursor!!!! All tractors need fuel and fuel is sold for FV cash right???

No problem this week because it's free-fuel week....and who knows it may be extended to free fuel month!!! One just have to be patient to collect from neighbors' posts on the news feed on sharing their fuels.

I repeat, I got no problem with that too since I have more than 200 fuel refills, which I got from previous mystery boxes, that I may never use because I am not keen on buying a tractor!

But check out the new ribbon again!! Now it's for the Seeder!! It will need fuel again.

I guess for those of you who have the tractor, the harvester and the seeder and at the same time aiming to achieve all the ribbons, you may in the end shell out some real $$$$$ to buy your fuel refills.

Sooooo, Farmville is starting to become very expensive which is ironic because with the more than 75 million people playing it, they generate a lot of cash to ZYNGA. It started from just one exciting application in Facebook just like the Bowling Buddies but which evolved into the most popular game in town. But shouldn't Zynga think about rewarding the freaks, the addicts and the fans who have put Zynga on the map because of Farmville by offering a lot of beautiful and exciting features in Farmville for a minimal cost?

Even the limited-edition cow designed stuff like barn, dairy farm, etc did not entice me to buy at all as they really are costly.

I'm still in the Farmville mania. I'm still and addict, but I'm slowly....slowly feeling that I have to think twice.

Hope I will not have any withdrawal symptoms soon!

USE REAL CASH FOR ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS!

Duhh! Now that Farmville has added that "mystery" master ribbon called "THEY OF MYSTERY," it will mean that most of us will have to shell out a few $$$$$ if we want to get the achievement points.

Well, you have to because one mystery box costs 16 FV!!!!!

No problem with that because I still have some FVs. Not the same as my problem in how to get a "Lord of the Plow " ribbon. I don't think I will ever get any as I don't have a tractor and it's pretty obvious why. Right? Hmmmm. The irony of it is that I have 3, yes THREE, 50 FUELs in my gift box and two 10 FUELs which I am keeping for the moment. I got the 50 fuel, which by the way costs 65 FV, from one of the previous mystery boxes. I even got tons of 1 fuel which I sold for zero coins as my gift box was already getting full.

Maybe I'd redo my farm and put more plots and let the tractor knock off my villas and manors ey????

Now going back to the They of Mystery ribbons....

For the first ribbon, one needs to buy two mystery boxes.

Just to give you a sample of what's in the blue/pink mystery box

for the moment, here are what I got:

SNOWMAN FAMILY

This complete waste of money is a blue lighted snowman family which sells for 2,000 coins. The lighted gift set was even better and free from the Christmas tree presents. I wasn't happy with this surprise from the mystery box!

GIANT BELL
Well, at least this bell rings like the church bells of Notre Dame!!! But still, I am not fascinated with this surprise.

ALPACA

And the third one I got was one that I like, an ALPACA. A very cute animal!! You will also see in that picture the sneaky crow which I got from the previous mystery box. I was so disgusted, that's the only one I bought!!!!

Mind you, I didn't buy a mystery box yet since they added that ribbon!

I'm waiting for the next mystery boxes!!!

Will you be buying????

GOODBYE CHRISTMAS VILLAGE

LAST FULL SHOT OF MY 2009 CHRISTMAS VILLAGE

Yes, it's already 2010 and a lot of us have already been bombarded with presents, new Christmas decorations and fireworks. I'm saying goodbye to my Christmas Village. I spent a few hours yesterday to store some of the Christmas decorations and to sell most of them.

I'm still leaving the snow as it's still winter and God knows what we'll face in the coming months. It's freezing and snowing again here in The Netherlands!!!

Here's one last look at my Farmville Christmas Village:

The Manor Drive

VILLAGE CENTER

ANIMAL FARM

THE GROOVY ZEN AREA