FarmVILLE on Facebook

[moburg]

Is there a specific discussion board ya'll are using? I see so many and not sure which one to use. Can ya'll help me out?

I found several HORSE STABLE discussions with these posts.

I'm still not sure I have the right number.

When I click on my name, the URL that loads is http:// www.facebook.com / username ? ref=mf

?? No ID.

 

[Realgrumpy]

I just need 3 more neighbors to expand my farm...help a gal out.

 

[S. C.]

I just need 3 more neighbors to expand my farm...help a gal out.

Send me a PM with your info. Everytime I send someone my info for some reason they cannot see my profile. I do have my settings for everyone to see my profile pic.

Anyone else need neighbors send me a PM.

 

[bicker]

Does anyone use the Game Feed on FarmVille.com? If so, did you notice that, starting today, it seems much flakier? I'm getting an empty Game Feed a lot more often than before.

 

[sorcerormickey]

No offense y'all, but why do you worry about publishing stuff only to certain people on your feed? If someone else doesn't want to see it, all they have to do is choose to HIDE that stream.

I have several lists, and when I post something as my Status, I choose who to show that to. But, for game feed stuff, if you don't want to see it, HIDE it!

 

[PaulaSB12]

I just need 3 more neighbors to expand my farm...help a gal out.

Send me a pm I can give you several neighbours.

 

[bicker]

BTW, because I've found myself running out of time to farm, since I've expanded my farm, I've come up with a plan that I feel is the best way to enjoy all the good bits of FarmVille, while minimizing the time I spend doing the stuff I don't like as much. This is what I do: Log into Facebook. Accept Requests (gifts from neighbors). At the last gift acceptance, instead of clicking Yes or No, click either the "Go To FarmVille.com" button or the FarmVille.com link below the Yes and No buttons (which you'll have will depend on whether your neighbor sent you the gift from FarmVille in Facebook, or from FarmVille.com).

Next: I use FireFox, and have Flashblock installed. This means that when FarmVille comes up, I have to click on it to activate the game. Otherwise, it just sits there with a Flash icon. That's good, because I lock the FarmVille tab (I think that comes from the Tab Mix Plus Add-on) and then use the Game Feed to click on all the bonuses and animal adoptions and collection pieces etc. They each open in a new tab so within a minute I could have 30 tabs open. (I click the graphics... click click click click space-to-page-down click click click click space-to-page-down...) You do not actually have to see the page to get a bonus, or an adoption, or a collection piece. So far, as far as I can tell, the only thing in your Game Feed that you need to actually do separately are the "Five Extra Bags of Fertilizer". I skip them, and then come back and click on them, if there are any, after the 30 or so tabs for bonuses and such have all loaded.

Now that I'm done with the Game Feed, I click on the Flash icon at the top of the FarmVille.com page and the FarmVille game itself actually loads. THEN: I "use" all my gifts, harvest my crops, etc., i.e., all the fun stuff.

Of course, this all relied on the fact that the Game Feed was the single best place to find the postings about FarmVille posted by your neighbors. When it is reliable, it is the best. You don't have to sort through it mixed in with Facebook stuff like status updates, and mixed in with other games.

With the Game Feed flaky, my fun is in danger.

 

[bicker]

No offense y'all, but why do you worry about publishing stuff only to certain people on your feed? If someone else doesn't want to see it, all they have to do is choose to HIDE that stream.

A lot of my Facebook friends are folks who are barely tolerant of technology, as it is. "Polluting" their news feed with my FarmVille "crap" is as likely as not to prompt them to dump Facebook as a means of connecting with me, or at best, hit the Hide button and mistakenly Hide all my postings, instead of hiding FarmVille postings.

I have several lists, and when I post something as my Status, I choose who to show that to. But, for game feed stuff, if you don't want to see it, HIDE it!

If I could hide it for them, I would. And indeed, restricting my FarmVille postings is doing exactly that.

 

[Piecey]

I do the same thing- I don't post everything that pops up.

I stopped posting when I got a ribbon, mastered a crop, perfect bunch of flowers, etc.

I only post when animals wander on my farm or I find a batch of collectables.

At one point, I "hid" the Farmville postings on my Newsfeed. This was way before I started playing and now I can't figure out how to unhide it.

 

[sorcerormickey]

A lot of my Facebook friends are folks who are barely tolerant of technology, as it is. "Polluting" their news feed with my FarmVille "crap" is as likely as not to prompt them to dump Facebook as a means of connecting with me, or at best, hit the Hide button and mistakenly Hide all my postings, instead of hiding FarmVille postings.

If I could hide it for them, I would. And indeed, restricting my FarmVille postings is doing exactly that.

But teaching them how to Hide something would be to their benefit - I'm sure they have more friends than just you who post "crap" as you put it.

I do the same thing- I don't post everything that pops up.

Me too. I only post red and blue ribbons, collectables, adoptables, eggs, and Stage 3 Masteries. All the other stuff is just not worth clicking on IMHO.

 

[bicker]

But teaching them how to Hide something would be to their benefit - I'm sure they have more friends than just you who post "crap" as you put it.

You missed the part where I said, "A lot of my Facebook friends are folks who are barely tolerant of technology." I know these people. Take my word for it: What you're suggesting is not practical.

 

[bicker]

Is anyone else finding that FarmVille will not publish anything tonight?

 

[S. C.]

I've been having trouble with it for the last 10 minutes. Everytime I click on anything to get a bonus I get a white screen. UGH

 

[TheZue]

No offense y'all, but why do you worry about publishing stuff only to certain people on your feed? If someone else doesn't want to see it, all they have to do is choose to HIDE that stream.

I have several lists, and when I post something as my Status, I choose who to show that to. But, for game feed stuff, if you don't want to see it, HIDE it!

I'm with Bicker on this. The vast majority of the people on my list don't play farmville. It is really just spam to them. It takes me two seconds not to pollute the stream with farmville updates.

Also you get some people who post every little useless thing they do (one person had "fertalize their crops" literally every five minutes) which is sooooooo annoying, but I'm not going to block farmville because of that, so yes even I have blocked people because of farmville spam. I just don't want to be that person LOL

 

[S. C.]

Anyone else have the new page setup? I hate it.

I don't have it yet. What do you hate about it?

On the old page top left side was a column with choices to click on for relatives, status updates, farmville etc. I don't have that anymore and used it all the time. I always clicked on farmville when I only wanted to see FV stuff. It made surfing for FV bonuses, collections etc so much quicker. Now I have to wade thru everyones accomplishments for all their games cafe world, fishville, yoville, bejeeweled and all the rest. And the stuff that is posted on their walls to find the FV stuff. Was so much easier before just to click on FV and only see that, or to click on status updates to see anything new posted to the walls, and there use to be a place to click on relatives it would show anything new they posted.

 

[bicker]

FarmVille is going down in a couple of hours.

 

[TheZue]

It's going down right when my blueberries will be ready

 

[bicker]

It is back this morning, but messages aren't publishing again.

 

[JESW]

Thanks for the pm's from some DISers who are now neighbors! If anyone else would like to be a neighbor just send off a pm with your e-mail.

Jill

 

[bicker]

Still no indication when or if bonuses will ever publish again. This aspect of the game is really critical, IMHO. Without this capability, it's basically like playing solitaire. What's broken is precisely what makes FarmVille a collaborative effort.