Why, hello Facefolks! It's Mr. Cheats here with the down-low on the things you shouldn't know.
By now I'm sure you've heard about FrontierVille, a Wild West themed game, where you play a pioneer and turn a humble plot of land into a bustling town. Oh yeah, in this game you can get married and have pioneer babies, too! Before you start a family, however, you have to create a place for everyone to live -- a staple of pioneer living -- a cabin. And to build that cabin you're going to need friends to give you supplies.
In an attempt to make things easier, you can sent building materials to your friend using this list of quick links. IMPORTANT: There's a catch, you can only send materials that are available in your free gifts section (each person can send two different types of materials at a time, these rotate week to week).
Long gone are the days when you could send any type of supply to friends when you want. Sigh. But you will have access to all these materials at some point or other, and these are the links required to get them going. So find out which items you can send, and then click on those items below and start delving out building materials like you're some kind of old timey Home Depot.
frontierville building supplies- bricks frontierville building materials -- hammer frontierville building materials -- nails
frontierville building materials - paint bucket frontierville building supplies -- hand drill
BONUS TIP: If you're on the hunt for supplies, you can send a link like this to your friends. http://apps.facebook.com/frontierville/gifts.php?giftRecipient=YOUR FACEBOOK ID NUMBER. All you need to do is add your 15-digit Facebook ID number at the end of the URL and copy and paste it on your friends' Facebook walls/email/in the comments below to let them know that you are on the hunt for supplies.
Check out the rest of our FrontierVille Cheats & Tips right here.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
The Pool Party House Has Arrived To YoVille
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It's Summer time!! The New Pool Party House has been released in YoVille (36 YoCash). A perfect home for entertaining in the warm summer months. Head on over to the YoVille Realtor's Office to take a tour of this special home! Goodbye Hollywood, Hello Malibu!!! Time for fun under the sun!
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This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge.
It's Summer time!! The New Pool Party House has been released in YoVille (36 YoCash). A perfect home for entertaining in the warm summer months. Head on over to the YoVille Realtor's Office to take a tour of this special home! Goodbye Hollywood, Hello Malibu!!! Time for fun under the sun!
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Social game currency increasingly popular for crowdsourcing payments
Social game players are used to doing virtual work (i.e. harvesting fake crops) for virtual money (i.e. Farmville cash). But that concept has taken a strange twist recently: players exchanging real work for virtual cash.
The fake-money-for-real-work idea is becoming increasingly popular, according to a recent San Francisco Chronicle profile on crowdsourcing company Crowdflower. The company offers its proprietary Swag Bucks as payment for a variety of menial, hard-to-automate tasks such as verifying and categorizing search results or evaluating tweets as "positive" or "negative."
Those Swag Bucks can then be exchanged for everything from cash and gift cards to, increasingly, virtual currency for use in social games. In fact, CrowdFlower CEO Lukas Biewald says he expects virtual currency payments to reach $1 million this year -- up from a mere $50,000 last year.
That's a bit surprising, since the company's virtual currency offers aren't nearly the best deals on offer. For the same "Swag Buck" price as a $10 Farmville gift card, you could get almost $15 in PayPal cash or over $20 in Amazon gift cards. The fact that more people are taking the social gaming currency instead says something about the addictive appeal of these games, I think.
The fake-money-for-real-work idea is becoming increasingly popular, according to a recent San Francisco Chronicle profile on crowdsourcing company Crowdflower. The company offers its proprietary Swag Bucks as payment for a variety of menial, hard-to-automate tasks such as verifying and categorizing search results or evaluating tweets as "positive" or "negative."
Those Swag Bucks can then be exchanged for everything from cash and gift cards to, increasingly, virtual currency for use in social games. In fact, CrowdFlower CEO Lukas Biewald says he expects virtual currency payments to reach $1 million this year -- up from a mere $50,000 last year.
That's a bit surprising, since the company's virtual currency offers aren't nearly the best deals on offer. For the same "Swag Buck" price as a $10 Farmville gift card, you could get almost $15 in PayPal cash or over $20 in Amazon gift cards. The fact that more people are taking the social gaming currency instead says something about the addictive appeal of these games, I think.
New Facebook game seeks to manage real-world diabetes risks
Using virtual Facebook games to improve your real life is getting dangerously close to becoming a trend. First it was The Life Game, which linked in-game success to user-defined real-world goals. Now it's HealthSeeker, a just-announced game focused on healthier eating and lifestyle choices.
While HealthSeeker is focused on helping and educating people with Diabetes (it's sponsored by the Diabetes Hands Foundation) the introductory video stresses that anyone can benefit from the healthy changes encouraged by the game. As in The Life Game, gaining experience points in Healthseeker involves accepting and performing "missions" that involve simple changes in your everyday life -- such as using vegetable oil instead of butter in cooking, for instance.
The social element comes in via "kudos" that you can send to friends to encourage them on their missions or "challenges" that you can issue to urge friends to become healthier. Ideally, the social pressure will make you more likely to stick with the changes than if you were just "playing" alone. Of course, there's always the risk you'll just lie about your success online instead of admitting your failure to your friends. Stay strong, health warrior. Stay strong!
While HealthSeeker is focused on helping and educating people with Diabetes (it's sponsored by the Diabetes Hands Foundation) the introductory video stresses that anyone can benefit from the healthy changes encouraged by the game. As in The Life Game, gaining experience points in Healthseeker involves accepting and performing "missions" that involve simple changes in your everyday life -- such as using vegetable oil instead of butter in cooking, for instance.
The social element comes in via "kudos" that you can send to friends to encourage them on their missions or "challenges" that you can issue to urge friends to become healthier. Ideally, the social pressure will make you more likely to stick with the changes than if you were just "playing" alone. Of course, there's always the risk you'll just lie about your success online instead of admitting your failure to your friends. Stay strong, health warrior. Stay strong!
Quote of the Moment: WoW without the "WOW!"
"Using Farmville as an example, I only needed to play it for a couple of hours to realise how closely it's modelled on an MMO framework. Everything from the grinding 'quests' and achievements system, through to peer competitiveness and in-world currency. The trouble is, Farmville doesn't quite have the thrill factor of a hard core MMO. It's not a fair comparison, but the point is that it's hard for Farmville to keep innovating so that the endless tasks don't seem frustrating or even pointless.
I've spent many an hour doing pointless / frustrating things in World of Warcraft for example – but it didn't seem that way as there was always an enticing goal at the end of it. Sure, Farmville offers bigger an better houses / sheds / farming equipment but it wears thin pretty quickly. The challenge for social virtual worlds, like gaming more broadly, is keeping it interesting, and it seems there's still some work to do. There's also the issue these social worlds aren't truly socially interactive: when my avatar can chat and farm with my neighbour, then I'm starting to get interested again."
- The Metaverse Journal Blogger Lowell Cremorne discusses one of three reasons social games don't interest him as much as traditional massively-multiplayer games
I've spent many an hour doing pointless / frustrating things in World of Warcraft for example – but it didn't seem that way as there was always an enticing goal at the end of it. Sure, Farmville offers bigger an better houses / sheds / farming equipment but it wears thin pretty quickly. The challenge for social virtual worlds, like gaming more broadly, is keeping it interesting, and it seems there's still some work to do. There's also the issue these social worlds aren't truly socially interactive: when my avatar can chat and farm with my neighbour, then I'm starting to get interested again."
- The Metaverse Journal Blogger Lowell Cremorne discusses one of three reasons social games don't interest him as much as traditional massively-multiplayer games
Friday, February 10, 2012
This inspired Sushi to try on the Cleopatra wig himself. (Note to new readers: Sushi is a boy, but he cross-dresses and acts like a girl sometimes.) He wasn't sure if the glossy black wig suited him, but he had fun trying on some other wigs as well.
Which one do you think suits him best?
YoVille newly released Moroccan Bathroom furniture
New Moroccan Bathroom Items have been added to the YoVille Furniture Store. Items include Moroccan Bath Tub (9 YoCash), Sconces (2 YoCash), Bathmats (300 Coins), Tissue Boxes (200 Coins), Toilet Paper Holder (200 Coins), Bath Cabinets (850 Coins), Standing Sinks (4 YoCash), and much much more! Head on down to the Furniture Store and create yourself a Wellness Bathroom Suite Moroccan style!
Take a look at the complete selection after the jump.
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This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge.
Take a look at the complete selection after the jump.
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This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge.
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