Farmville Help for beginning Players
FarmVille is a computer game available on Facebook and
some other social networks.
I have made repeated good-faith attempts to contact Zynga re.
fair-usage permission to use their artwork in this fan website, but have not
received a response so far. All art in this FarmVille part of the website
© Zynga.
      
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This website is intended for beginning farmers. (up to
level 100) I started playing FarmVille November 12, 2011 and I quickly
became frustrated about the lack of organized basic instructions about the
game.
These pages may help beginning players who experience the same problems.
I have no intention of making this anything more than that.
More advanced players will probably not find anything new in these pages. |
We hope the FarmVille tips in this guide will help you have a better
FarmVille experience.
This beginners guide can show you how you can level up and max out on your
farms more quickly.
I went from level 1 to level 76 in one month; to level 90 and maxed out in 3
farms in 6 weeks, level 100 in less than 2 months; playing 100%
freebie, and not even making very much of an effort at it. All it takes is
time at the computer and a lot of clicking. I am sure it can be done even
quicker than that, but hey, it's a game ...The single most important
thing to do?
Add your FarmVille neighbors every day, and contact FarmVille players on
Facebook, so you can harvest the newsfeed rewards. A plentiful supply of
feeds make all the difference between struggling to find the items you need
and breezing along. See THIS PAGE
for instructions. |
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That's all folks.
My likes and dislikes about FarmVille.
The game has many millions of active players.
That shows that despite the many problems, this is basically a good game.
Unfortunately there are so many problems that many players give up after a
short while.
What I do like about the game:
 | It is a wonderful game idea. |
| It's a fun game that you can play at your own pace. |
| Cute and lovable cartoon characters and environment. |
| No violence. |
| (mostly) non-competitive. |
| The sharing system. Helping each other is always good, even if it's
only in a game. |
| The game has some very positive addictive qualities, because it
creates a sense of achievement.
 | It requires a longer-term commitment to continue playing |
| It is nice to see your farm grow as the result of your continued
efforts. |
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| It's always fun to receive loads of presents, even if it's only a
cartoon ducky! |
What I don't like about the game:
| Too many in-game problems.
| Trying to play this game is sometimes more of an exercise in
frustration than a fun pastime. |
| So many game crashes every few minutes that it is impossible to keep
track of. |
| Inventory items, including FV coins and cash, disappear all the
time. |
| Even many free-players are abandoning the game because of all the
long-standing game-play problems.
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| The game can cause health and other problems.
| excessive clicking required (danger for carpal tunnel syndrome and
other repetitive movement injuries) |
| real-cash payment required for one-click alternatives.
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| The game can become very damaging if virtual achievement becomes
more important than real-life activities.
See this page: FarmVille Addiction
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| Privacy violations:
| Zynga has access to your Facebook friends list as a condition to
play the game. |
| Zynga abuses this by listing these people in-game as request
recipients. |
| This causes (?illegal?) spamming with unsolicited messages to your
non-gaming friends in the hope that they'll start playing Zynga games as
well. After I stopped playing, I deleted the FarmVille app from my
computer, and set Facebook to NOT send me messages, yet I still get
FarmVille messages daily...
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| MONEY! 'Buy! Buy! Buy!' every step of the way.
| Zynga would do better to clean up the game, that it can be played
without constant frustrations and suspicion. |
| Towards end 2011, Zynga started cranking out so many new trees and
animals that a goal of complete mastery became impossible. |
| Happy customers would gladly pay a small subscription fee to
continue in an engaging game. |
| The unrelenting money-grabbing in a game that has been having so
many problems for so long is such a major irritant that for many people
it can become the drop that sinks the boat. It was for me.
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| Zynga steals from their
customers!
| Inventory items, including FV-cash disappear quite
frequently, and are not always returned when you write customer support.
Customer service often refuses to respond to emails on this subject. |
| Amounts disappeared from my account:
 | November + December 2011 - lost track of exact amounts, but
several times. |
| January 2012: 75 FV-cash disappeared, restored only after BBB
complaint. |
| February 2012: 61 FV-cash disappeared, not restored to date. |
| March 2012: 30 FV-cash to date (03/15/2012) |
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| It is obvious from the posts on many websites that this is a very
common occurrence and a widespread problem.
| Imagine that: 1 million players, $1 once a year would be
$1,000,000 one million dollars they steal from their players in a
single year. There are many more than one million players. Stuff
disappears from inventory not just once a year but at least weekly ...
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| I truly enjoyed playing FarmVille for several months, but after that,
the multitude of persistent problems and the repeated disappearance of
FV-cash pretty much did it for me. I pretty much stopped playing FarmVille
in April 2012.
I did return after a few months, with a new attitude: set FV-cash to zero
and keep it that way, so they can't steal it.
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| Expect that the game will crash and things will disappear.
If you can put up with that, you might enjoy the game better than I did.
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November 16, 2012
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