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***UPDATE: The glitch described below that caused Crop Mastery to change has now been fixed and reset by Zynga.****

In an update made tonight on 03.04.10, FarmVille changed the requirements for some Crop Mastery! Some crops are have lowered and others have increased.This change should have all the FarmVille Crop Profit Spreadsheet analysts busy for awhile.

Since some of the Crop Mastery levels have lowered, it has caused some farmers to now go over the requirements needed to complete Crop Mastery for that specific crop. For example, Blueberries and Strawberries Crop Masteries have both lowered and now Blueberries require only 3,000 points to master.

If this happened to you don’t freak out yet . . . it is still possible to gain your Crop Mastery Sign and XP. Try planting the crop in which you should now have Mastery for and it should re-align everything to be accurate. Remember, you may have to wait for the crop to harvest in order for this to happen. In the past, when Crop Mastery changed, replanting the crop you should now have Crop Mastery for and then harvesting it triggered the ability to get the Crop Mastery Sign and XP rewards.

FarmVille Blueberries Mastery Error

FarmVille Green Tea Mastery Error

Everyone likes free gifts, but tonight in FarmVille free gifts are not possible because the Gifting Page is down! Additionally, you presently cannot send neighbor requests or FarmVille invitations to your friends.

By using the Gifting Page you can send free gifts to your FarmVille neighbors.

The announcement on Facebook also mentions that in the coming months gifts  and neighbor requests will be sent via email addresses. In order to have access to features sent by email, you will need to sign up and allow FarmVillle access to your email address.

It is uknown what is causing the technical error or when it will be completely fixed by Zynga.

FarmVille Gifts Through Email (Click to Enlarge)

What do you think about this and the future gift function via email?

Today’s recent updates in FarmVille are triggering various technical issues including out of sync errors and new Chicken Coop glitches that are allowing mutliple coops. Zynga is aware of these issues and currently working on a solution to them.

FarmVille Freak Jason's Chicken Coop Glitch

Here is the official statement from Zynga spokeswoman Lexilicious:

“Hey Farmers,

We are currently aware of the various technical issues related to the 2/19 release.

The FarmVille Team is working as hard as they can to get these problems resolved in a timely manner.

We will update the community accordingly as more information becomes available to us.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this time. We would like to sincerely apologize for any inconvenience these issues may have caused you.

Update:
Two of the major issues being cause by this release involve the new Chicken Coop Expansion. Here’s what to do if you are experiencing one of the following:

• Recieving A Extra Chicken Coop – After expanding your initial Chicken Coop, you may receive an extra Coop from a Mystery Egg. DO NOT attempt to place this coop, as it will result in an Out of Sync error. Simply sell it from your Giftbox.
• Getting the 100 Capacity Maximum Message When Expanding Chicken Coop – Your storage building maximum does not count toward your Chicken Coop expansion. You can expand your Chicken Coop as normal.

As more information becomes available to us, we’ll update the community accordingly. ”
(Source: Zynga’s Official FarmVille Forum )

With Friday’s, 02.19.10 updates,  even more Chicken Coop glitches have been happening in FarmVille!

As you already know, lately Zynga has been cracking down on Multiple Chicken Coop farmers by confiscating their multiple coops that violate FarmVille’s one Chicken Coop per farmer rule. Those who own multiple coops can yield more coins and increase the chances of producing Mystery Eggs, which according to Zynga “threatens FarmVille’s economy”.

There have been numerous reports from FarmVille Freaks stating that they’ve attained another excess coop by various glitches. One being Mystery Eggs are hatching Chicken Coops and others are finding extra Chicken Coops appear in their Gift Box.  These farmers did not “hack” or “cheat” to get these multiple coops which happens to be a direct result of an in-game glitch.

Zynga will most likely address these various glitches that are allowing multiple coops in the coming days, so farmers who’ve experienced this new glitch should not get too cozy with their extra Chicken Coops!

UPDATE: Zynga is working on these current technical issues including the triggering of multiple coops. Read official statement on this most recent post:

http://farmvillefreak.com/farmville-techie/zynga-on-farmvilles-02-19-10-updates-including-chicken-coop-glitch

Did this new multiple Chicken Coop glitch happen to you?

There was a glitch in FarmVille starting yesterday regarding the Unwither Ring.

Upon visiting your farm, you may have gotten a pop-up message that said something similar to “You can now open your Unwither Ring!”.

FarmVille Freak Lara's Unwither Ring Glitch Announcement

This is a glitch that occurred in FarmVille for many users regardless if you were gifted the Unwither Ring. It seems like its intention was to be used as a notification that Unwither Rings could be opened as you had to wait until February 14th to open them. Although this pop-up may have been misleading, if you did not receive an Unwither Ring you cannot open one.

If you were gifted an Unwither Ring you would have also received a notification from the FarmVille neighbor that sent the ring.

Official Word from Zynga spokesman Channel Zero:

“Some of you might have noticed a popup this morning for the Unwither Ring that stated you had been gifted with a ring, and upon clicking it you were taken to the market. Please be aware that this was unintentional. This was an unfortunate glitch that was the result of the our regular daily messages being tied to the messaging for those who were actually gifted with an Unwither Ring.

We sincerely and profusely apologize for the confusion and inconvenience, and did not intend on misleading any of you. Once again, this was an unfortunate glitch that our developers are working on remedying at this very moment.

Once again, we apologize for this error and are working to make sure that similar ones are minimized or do not occur in the future.”

Since Tuesday night Zynga started removing multiple Chicken Coops in FarmVille. For those farmers in violation of the “One Chicken Coop” rule, you can expect your multiple coops to be deleted and your excess Chickens sent to your Gift Box. It does not matter how you obtained the multiple Chicken Coops whether by in game glitch or if you purposely used tricks to gain extra coops.

FarmVille Zoning Laws

Some farmers that didn’t see this earlier post on FarmVille Freak were surprised to see their Gift Box filled with some  100 plus Chickens and their extra Chicken Coops missing. Although your Gift Box limit is only 30, it will accommodate any excess Chickens.

The removal is without notice and may happen at anytime. If Zynga has invaded your farm while you were away, you will receive this pop-up notice upon visiting your farm.

With Tuesday night’s updates Zynga has put a stop to FarmVille link sharing.

I assume that this link disabling was enforced because of all the “unlimited links” illegally bombarding FarmVille. By the way, these unlimited links are no longer working. Please stop asking for the unlimited links and please stop posting them in our comments section, fan page, and chat areas immediately as they will be deleted.

You will notice that you can no longer share Egg links, Collectable links, etc with people that are NOT your FarmVille neighbors. If you click on a shared link that is given by someone that you are not neighbors with, it will take you to your farm’s loading page.

This update has not affected normal link sharing that you would post to your Facebook newsfeed. You will still be able to share links with your FarmVille neighbors through this method.

The FarmVille 24 x 24 Mighty Plantation land expansion is acting very glitchy since Tuesday night’s updates.

Could these recent glitches be  a hint at what’s to come soon, as in this week? In the latest FarmVille podcast,  Expansion was mentioned and is reportedly in the near future.

Some FarmVille Freaks have reported that they can access the expansion in the Market. The previous “Coming Soon” red notice has been replaced with 40 FV$, yet they cannot purchase it.

FarmVille 24x24 Early Expansion in Market

Did you experience similar 24 x 24 Expansion Market availability?

 Zynga is aware that a glitch is occurring that reproduces various FarmVille buildings such as the Chicken Coop, Garden Shed and Tool Shed.

If this happened to you, you do NOT have to delete your excess buildings and will not be banned from FarmVille. Zynga is asking that anyone who experienced this glitch contact them with additional details as they work on a solution.

In a message posted 01-08-2010, 09:06 PM  on the official Zynga forums, Zynga Forum moderator “Channel Zero” says:

“For Everyone That Has Had A Duplicate Building Appear on Their Farm – PLEASE READ

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Our developers are currently looking into this issue and trying to figure out what’s causing it, and any information that anyone who’s currently experiencing this issue at this time would be invaluable to us. If you could, please PM me the following info:

• Your UID
• Precisely what you were doing prior to the duplicate building appearing (Ex. Were you attempting to store something?)
• Anything you purchased or placed prior to the building appearing
• What building duplicated on your farm (so far we’re hearing reports of Chicken Coops, Garden Sheds and Tool Sheds)

Once again, in order to find your UID, in Facebook right click on the Profile link and copy the link location. Paste it into a text document and the number that appears at the end after the equal sign is your UID. Copy that number and send it to me.

If you’ve personalized your Facebook account’s address, you can find this number by right-clicking and copying the link in your profile picture as well.

Thank you for working with us during these technical issues, your cooperation and patience is always appreciated and we hope to have everything sorted out as soon as possible.”

Zynga responds to the latest FarmVille Chicken Coop glitch via official Zynga Forum.

Discussion of glitches such as the Chicken Coop is prohibited on Zynga forums and your posts will be removed.

Says Zynga Forum moderator,

“Due to the recent game glitch which is causing many duplicates, *please do not send us information regarding those who have multiple coops* (as suggested below). Thanks for your understanding and our apologies for any confusion/frustration this may cause.The Zynga Rules Of Conduct prohibit discussion of cheats/hacks/glitches.

Before you post your comments please read the following:

FarmVille’s current regulations allows the placement of ONE Chicken Coop per farm.

Please do not make any references to any neighbors or players who’s farms, for one reason or another, do not comply with that stated regulation.

Please do not ask other forum members how deviate from the stated regulation.

Please do not provide pictures, links to outside websites or sources, blogs, instructions, etc… that show other forum members how to circumvent the stated regulation.

Discussing an exploit of any game glitch/bug is the same as discussing a cheat. Do not post this information on Zynga’s forums.

If you have evidence of someone cheating, The forum moderators will be happy to forward the user’s information to the developers for you. The person’s Facebook User ID and Facebook first and last names are needed. To find the Facebook User ID, go to his Facebook profile page and run your mouse pointer over his profile picture. The address at the bottom of your screen will end in id=xxxxxxxxx. It may also be on the top bar of your screen. This information must not be posted in the forums and information reported will be considered as if it were reported anonymously. It should be sent to a moderator via Private Message.

Thank you for your assistance”

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Not sure how a glitch is considered “cheating”. So for those who have acquired additional coops because of this glitch are they expected to delete them?

What do you think?