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Another week and another Mystery Game. This one is mostly old Limited Edition items that you may or may not already have.
New Mystery Game Contents!
Questions: Did you play this weeks Mystery Game? What is your favorite item this week?
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You may have noticed an increase in your gifting limit recently. Due to Facebook making a new change (hopefully for the better) with an increase to 50 gift sends in a 24 hour period. Go try it out and send your neighbors some goodies from our GIFTING PAGE! 
NOTE: The increase applies to almost all Facebook games, including FrontierVille, PetVille, etc…
New gifting limit for Facebook (Neighbor names removed)
Question: Do you feel the increase to 50 is enough, or should Facebook raise it even further?
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ABC News recently posted an article about FarmVille and some of the people who play it. Make sure to watch the video clip and vote in the Poll!
When farming met Facebook, the result was FarmVille, the wildly popular social networking game that’s being played by a whopping 80 million people each month.
What’s more, the majority of the game’s players are 40-something women. That flies in the face of convention, which says so-called gamers tend to be younger men. In fact, since its launch in June, FarmVille has turned those norms on its ear.
It started out as a game for teenagers, but today it’s played by moms, dads, grandparents, younger children, retirees, professionals, and others of diverse ages and backgrounds.
From Allure to Obsession
The game revolves around the tending of a virtual farm — complete with crops, animals and farming equipment. For 49-year-old Maria Graziano, it is becoming an obsession.
“My husband just walks past me and says ‘you have got to be kidding. You are on FarmVille again?’” the mother of two told “Good Morning America.”
Her love affair with the game started innocently enough. Her son wanted a Facebook account, but Graziano told him he wasn’t old enough. So he asked her if he could use her account to play FarmVille.
“He lost interest pretty quickly, and I took over,” she said.
Graziano, a part-time fashion buyer from Huntington, N.Y., says she checks her farm twice a day. But her daughter, Katelyn, disputed that claim.
“Definitely more than three times a day,” Graziano’s daughter said. “I would say, like, five. I know she will go on it first when I get home. Then she will be like, ‘Katelyn, wait, can you get off for a second so I can go on?’”
Graziano represents a growing demographic. The average social gamer is not the stereotyped young male, huddled in the basement, absorbed in a role-playing game. Instead, the average social gamer is now a 43-year-old woman, according to PopCap Games, a online gaming company.
For some, the love of gaming has gone past obsession and verged upon addiction.
Make sure to read the full article from ABC News
Questions: How often do you play FarmVille? Are you surprised by the variety of ages that play FarmVille?
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Hey Fanatics! Tonight FarmVille has released some more cool Limited Edition Wild West Items! On top of this Truffle Hunting for the Pigpens has begun its release. The full release of Pigpens will be monitored and could take anywhere from a few hours to days or weeks. We will be making a second post specifically detailing Truffle Hunting soon, the link will be here once its up.
Mystery Game (OLD), Buckskin Horse, Wild Turkey, Wild West Bank, Wild West Tower, Saguaro Cactus, Barrel Cactus and Pinto Beans
Sheriff Station, Wild West Wagon and Hot Pink Pig (re-released)
Pinto Beans available till September 30th and Masterable!
Truffle Hunting!
Double Mastery Weekend! Saturday through Monday Only!
Questions: Do you have the new Truffle Hunting Feature yet? What is your favorite Wild West item this update?
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It looks like the new Neighbor Visiting feature is live for everyone. Here is the quick guide and overview from Official Community Manager Lexilicious:
Your neighbors can now help you plow fallow plots, collect from animals and harvest trees when visiting your Farm.
When a Neighbor helps you on your Farm, you will see their avatar the next time you log-in or refresh your game. You will only see a maximum of 4 avatars on your farm at one time, so there is no need to worry about seeing too many. However, this also means that only the last 4 of your Neighbors who helped on your Farm will count.
If a Neighbor helps you on your Farm, you can hover your cursor over their avatar to see what they have done.
If you do not want your Neighbors help, you can click on the avatar and select “Dismiss”. Doing so will ensure that none of their actions will affect your farm. Alternatively, if you would like their assistance, simply click “Accept Help” and their actions will take effect.
If a Neighbor helps on your farm, you will still receive the same amount of coins and XP as you would if you had done those applicable actions yourself. The coins and XP gained from your Neighbors assistance will automatically be added to your account. If you are assisting your Neighbors, you will receive the appropriate amount of Coins/XP when doing actions on their farm, regardless if they choose to accept your help or not. (If your Neighbor chooses to dismiss your help, their farm will not be affected and you will retain any coins/xp gained from assisting them.)
Each time you visit a Neighbor’s farm, you can do a total of 5 actions every 24 hours. Below is a list of all the actions you can now do on a Neighbors Farm.
- Plow fallow crops
- Collect from animals
- Harvest trees
- Fertilize crops
- Unwither Crops
Each one of these will deduct 1 action from your available 5. As stated earlier, only the last 4 of your Neighbors who helped on your Farm will appear for you to interact with. However, if any of your friends fertilize your crops, these will appear on your farm regardless if the Neighbor is part of the final 4 or not. For example: If 10 Neighbors come help you on your farm and the first 6 all fertilize crops, your crops will still be fertilized even if the following 4 Neighbors decide to help with other things on your farm.
Additional Information:
- Your Neighbors cannot harvest your crops.
- Since Fertilizing is now a part of the 5 Neighbor actions, you can no longer get bonus (extra) bags to fertilize farms with.
Source: Official Forum Post
Questions: What do you think about the new Neighbor Visiting system? Love it or Hate it?
