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FarmVille Updates Bonus Acceptance
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Pay careful attention when claiming bonuses from your friends walls! If you open windows in a hurry, you might miss this new extra step and lose out on a good item.
With today’s update, players are now required to hit an additional accept button to direct the item to their giftbox. Here are examples of what to look for.
This change seems it will make more work for farmers, however it may deter those cheating using programs to auto-accept bonuses. What do you think of this change?
Tags: farmville, farmville bonuses, farmville freak, FarmVille News Feed, farmville.com, farmvillefreak.com
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 12:51 am
First.
Great idea!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Makes more work …… so we spend more time on FV !!
(( Baah dislike
Plus fuel will b cluttering the gift box will need frequent emptying …….. and with the way FV loads ……. god help us all !!!!! LOL !! Lots of frustrated farmers for sure !!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:00 am
Anti wall manager update
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:00 am
Stupid idea if it is to thwart auto-bonus software. That would require the coder to write like one whole new line of code to press the new button. They have to write one line of code, we have to click a button every time. Not logical.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:03 am
Talk about alot more work. I usually tab+click all things i can collect & then just x the windows.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Lol that will never fly… automationlabs will of course find a way around this all it will require is the program to make an additional click, not that hard, I love femGold, I have about 500 plots and I sometimes don’t have time with the little one running around, and it hurts my hand sometimes too
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:20 am
dont matter if i had to hit 100 ectra click in one day
MASTER STROKE by FV again
will ston scammers who claim and like POST in 1 second of publishing,being off line
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:21 am
biggest sh** ever.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:30 am
Its not that bad, hard to get used to at first but surely something I can live with. Could have been worst, they could have made it to where wecould only collect one bonus daily from a friend instead of all the bonuses we can. Will delay me a little, since the first thing I do is check out the feed and collect all I can when I log in but it definitely could have been worst.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Accidentally found this out, when accepting eggs, you can refresh the page and it’ll give you a different item. Repeat until you get the one you want and then accept.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:38 am
I like this if they give us a choice screen regarding lost animals, because I don’t want to automatically load farmville in another tab when I’m opening tabs like crazy.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Great might be able to get a few more things if it stops the cheating
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:42 am
Sucks totally!!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:51 am
@jason
adpting lonely animals is more easy now,you dont need to open ur farm to let adopt an animal
its the same way as other gifts
also now you can adopt/claim things even if tour gift box is full
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:52 am
sucks. wts the point? auto accept is easier for farmers.. :/
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:54 am
unconvenience
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:02 am
I have found that when i click on a ‘hatch golden egg’ link and i get a useless silo or unwanted cottage etc., i refresh the page and the gift changes untill i accept it. Managed to refresh a couple of times through silo and pink cottage till i got the golden chicken i was after!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:06 am
It is annoying but you can also refresh the collectable and see which one you want, I soo needed a zebra butterfly, kept on refreshing and I finally got one. Could you do this before? O.o
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:08 am
Argh… I will get used to it, but I do not like this. Auto Accept was Easier. I just dislike it wanting to take me to the farm. Auto Accept basically permitted me to back out faster. My farm can be a nightmare to load.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:09 am
Sounds a good idea if it stop’s the cheaters for bit, it will give us angry farmers a chance to get some thing from our friends and not after 1 second they r gone
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:17 am
@Bang
Claim things even if your gift box is full?
Or do you mean that, it’s not like before, where you’re immediately screwed when you open up that 51st item.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:28 am
If you click no you can go back to your news feed and click get collectible or open egg or whatever it is to pick a new reward.
For example i opened a white egg and rejected a white chicken, tired again and got offered a catepillar, tried again and was offered 20 XP and tried again and was offered a brown chicken.
Have other people had this experience?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:42 am
Pretty poor programming. Now when you accept anything,you click on yes, and that is fine. Then they send you directly to your farm, so your microprocessor starts to load your farm, and for players with large farms with a lot of items on it, that is a massive load. Oh wait, we didn’t want to reload our farm on every single thing we take from our wall-so click on the home icon to return to your wall. Do these idiots have any idea what they are doing to everyone’s processors. Prepare to have a LOT of computer problems for most players, I have no idea where FV is getting their programmers, but great game-with a massive disregard for it’s user’s equipment. A lot of the problems that people have with the game is that there is so many things that a large farm has, that the download of all of the items is HUGE. When you go to what I call “junk farmers”, the ones that collect EVERYTHING, (especially animals), you notice a longer delay in the load. Now we are going to couple that with even MORE work for our processors. If this is the only way they can stop the grabs-we were better off losing a few things.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:46 am
I don’t like it at all! Scammers will always find a way. More work for the “average Joe”. Please put this back the way it was along with the stupid “Similar Posts” thing!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:48 am
I don’t like this, my farm constantly saves whenever I use a vehicle to harvest, plow or plant. The only way around this is to do it by hand. I, like most players, run the farmville app and the news feed at the same time in two different tabs, now when I try to collect and am waiting for my plots to finish whatever process I am trying to do I get an out of sync error and have to start all over again. Is anyone else having this problem?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:55 am
I like that I can hit ‘no’ (don’t accept) and then hit my back button to try again. It will sometimes change the gift that was randomly generated. It took me a bunch of tries, but I got a red feather instead of a useless hen feather. Works on collections and eggs.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:56 am
@jason
i cant understand wat u r sayin
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:01 am
@Bang,
lol, just explain what you meant by claiming things even if gift box is full. That doesn’t make sense.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:12 am
Great idea – if someone takes a bonus from a collection, then they can refuse the item if they already have 10 of what they get, and someone else can get it, right? Or does it not work with collections? Anyway I’m all for it if I don’t need to load my farm to get calves.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:22 am
So if you decide not to accept as you have enough do others get the chance to get the items, if so I love the idea. And if it stops people using auto collects even better, even if it is for a short while until their codes get updated
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Jasmine’s right. Forgot to mention that perk earlier. Now, unless you’re greedy, you can potentially decline. Unfortunately, I’m sure most farmvillers are, lol.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:37 am
I think it’s a great thing for those farmers that play for fun! Now I can refuse all those chickens that keep adding up in my giftbox or the 57th pink cottage/grain silo …. it’s a second well spent and if it keeps those bloody snag bar users et al from taking everything …. well, that’s even better!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:55 am
it works great with collection, not only you can decline the 1 you dont need but if you click “get a collectible” a few seconds later if your lucky you might get a different collectible.
i just got one, clicked on it,it gave me dapple plume of which i already had 10, so i declined. a few seconds later the same collection post offered me a hen feather which i needed so i got it, yay.
also i dont have to clog my gift box with chicken now when i hatch eggs and keep the good stuff instead like cottages, fuels etc
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 4:10 am
OMFG clicking “Yes” to “Do you want to collect it” BRINGS YOU TO YOUR FARM….. how is this an improvement???? we todd did.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 4:17 am
I clicked yes and got screwed anyway.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 4:29 am
Bah, I can “wall” through this additional step as well!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 4:31 am
Don’t like it at all. I usually open bonuses in new browser tab, then close the tab. Now we have to load FV AGAIN for EVERY bonus. I don’t think so. I have been playing for a few weeks and this may be a deal breaker making it too hard to play. Time will tell.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 4:37 am
Good idea in theory, bad idea in practice. What I don’t like about it that everytime you click the OK button, you get redirected to the game, intead of back to the feed. Takes ages.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 4:37 am
I like it especially if someone is using an auto
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 4:40 am
I don’t like the update. Even if you select yes you want item you HAVE to go to your farm for it to be deposited it your gift box. I’ve accepted a few this morning but they are not there because I did not let my farm fully load.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 4:44 am
THAT’S ONE OF THE BEST THING FV HAS DONE LATELY.. haters should try before criticizing..
This additional step actually allows you to choose what collectible you want to get… as long as you don’t click “YES” you can still go back and click on “Get a collectible” and eventually get another collectible..
Thank you Farmville
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:08 am
Couldn’t have said it better than Sandy and I quote “I don’t like it at all! Scammers will always find a way. More work for the “average Joe”. Please put this back the way it was along with the stupid “Similar Posts” thing!”
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:12 am
I HATE it, so much more work!!! Guess I won’t be collecting as much as I used to if anything! Scammers will always find a way around these changes so why bother Zynga??? Why fix something that ain’t broke???
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:19 am
My computer is old and slow. This is going to be a nightmare having to wait for my farm to load for each item. It guarentees that I will miss out on items.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:19 am
This is really dumb. It’s enough work already and this make it too time consuming as you have to go to your farm for each item. Also the new one touch control panel stinks as it is so easy to accidentally hit the wrong button. I don’t know here they get their feedback from but it’s awful!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:35 am
I’m all for it. I’ve refused at least 12 things so far, from collectibles that I have plenty of to Pink cottages and Grain Silos and Chickens. Hopefully someone else who needs them can get them. Sure I could sell the Cottage and Silo for $4000 coins, but I don’t need them that bad and perhaps someone else does. I hope someone else was able to claim them…especially the collectibles!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:36 am
The one good thing that I’ve seen so far, is that if you click on an egg, and don’t like the gift, you can not accept it. Then, if the reward is still there, you can click it again and hopefully find a different gift. I clicked a friend’s golden egg and got a golden chicken. I hit “No” and then clicked the wall post again, and got a Black Cottage.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:46 am
AWESOME IDEA!!!!! I clicked and refused on a bonus screen from my neighbor’s completed collection until I got what I needed – a dapple plume! You can do the same with eggs for example – until you get the prize you want. I hope it will be for permanent!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:02 am
This is SO annoying!
Its useful when collecting Eggs and Collections, but for the rest its just stupid , like when you adopt an animal, you clicked on “adopt the whatever”, so yeah, you want to have the frikin animal, there is need to confim it AGAIN.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:04 am
I hate it. It takes so long now to accept things and get in and out of FV back to FB. Just another time waster for me. I also hate the extra page of gifts – it got messy enough when the menu on FB was moved to only the main page. They don’t update with the “requests” on FB and it makes an extra step. They should be making it easier for users to play, not harder. Luckily I got in early and am more than halfway through with the game. “Improvements” + “Extras” does not make it better or more fun!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:06 am
Teddybear – great idea! I was writing it off just as more hassle until I read your post.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:11 am
I actually didn’t notice the change until I had already hit the return key and it accepted my request. One thing I did notice when accepting collection bonuses: if you get offered say a blue butterfly and you already have 10 blue butterflies, you can select “NO”, exit out of the request, go back to the newsfeed, re-select the request and get a different butterfly. I was able to do this and [finally] get the swallowtail butterfly I needed to complete my collection. So not so bad.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:14 am
I love it! This will prevent any hack and batch scripts from running at least for now!!! Great approvement!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:24 am
This isn’t working. Clicked on gold egg, it said 20 fuel refills so I clicked yes but in my gift box there was a pink cottage. Earlier I clicked on collectible, asked if I wanted to collect blue feather, I clicked yes, but in my gift box there was a banded quill-WTH FV.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:27 am
It’s pretty sad that Zynga hasn’t even fixed the similar post issue on farmville.com. Now they want to go and do this junk. But I can’t wait for a golden egg to come up, I have been trying to get a golden gnome. Maybe now I’ll get one!!!! Maybe Zynga will do away with this as soon as they realize we can manipulate the game with it? Maybe the snag bar folks will just write that glitch in the code. Don’t like this one? Try again!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:35 am
Seems like we’re clicking more than we should have to when we shouldn’t…what was wrong with how it was before? And, less clicking where we probably needed more. Sometimes I move a tree or an animal ready for harvesting on Purpose….without intent to harvest at the moment. Soooooooo…no more moving things ready to harvest unless I first want to harvest them. sigh….sigh…..sad sigh.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Zynga only went half way on the improvement in my opinion. It’s great that you can now decline a collection item if you don’t need it…. but waiting for your farm to load just for a small can of fuel is annoying!
It wouldn’t of been that difficult to add a third option “Collect & return to your news feed”. Grrrr zynga!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:52 am
It’s a stupid and annoying idea! I hate that I have to click so much! It’s not fun to play if you have to click, click, click all the time..
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:03 am
I hate this new feature. I believe it’s just so you’ll add the FV toolbar which is something I don’t want clogging up my browser.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:13 am
bad, bad, bad… zynga.. why are you making our life more hectic?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:14 am
If you hit no, you can hit your friend’s link again and get something different (if it’s not all claimed by then)! I originally would have got a spigot but I got a cow bell instead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:15 am
Oh and you don’t need to wait for it to load. Let it go for about 2 seconds and then close it off. Your item will be in your gift box!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:23 am
@Monika
Not every time I’ve lost stuff that way. Not that it matters what I say yes to isn’t always in the box, sometimes it’s something else.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:31 am
@ Monika–I see the benefit to that; I wasn’t sure if you wouldn’t be able to accept again after saying “no.” So, in that regard, I kind of like this option. Otherwise, I find it rather annoying. Why would I click on a gift if I didn’t want it?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:40 am
Bad idea. If you are using an older computer (translate as “very slow”), continual loading of the FV screen is VERY annoying…lots of wasted time. Makes you want to quit playing out of frustration…bad enough the farm can take a long time to load when you actually want to go there, now you have to wait each time you accept a gift too…
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:56 am
you can just refresh (presh f5) if you dont want the collectible that you got and you will get something else, iff nobody else has taken it. Same with eggs
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:57 am
its a pain, slows up the game, takes a long time to load at times. If I did not want the item I would not have clicked on it. If I accidently clicked on it which is rare I would sell the item back. Too much clicking and if they make fuel too expensive or difficult to get we will not be able to use our equipment and have to click on every plot to harvest, plow and plant. UGH!!!! my hands hurt already and that is the one thing that will make me leave Farmville, not being able to get enough fuel to run equipment. Once we purchase equipment we should not have to worry about gas. We should earn gas for ourselves on how often we use our equipment.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:01 am
WORST idea every, I am never going to be able to get collectables htey go so fast, and it will only letme collect 1 fuel bonus. When I first saw it I thougt it might be usefull but I guess I just had not had enough coffee, because let me repeat WORST idea ever!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Ooh it is a good idea being able to refresh the collectibles. thanks! It is a pain double clicking otherwise.
Automatic collection … heck that is why I had collectibles taken from right under my nose in 2 secs. It just is not humanly possible to click that fast. That is just so wrong.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:11 am
Stupid idea. The farm has to load every time i accept a bonus… it takes ages to load anyway and then i get out of synch messages…. what a drag… i don’t think i’ll be accepting many bonuses… another dud to follow up on the no return gifting situation… poo poo poo… if it isn’t broken don’t fix it… there is anyway so much left to fix they won’t be bored!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:12 am
This is a horrible change!! It is not at all User freindly because the way we all work the Newsfeed is to go through and get everything we can THEN go to our farm to process our Gifts. I have lost gifts this moring too by not letting my farm load until it says DONE in the lower left of the browser window. I do anything to keep from loading my farm – it takes too long,to laod – that is if it actually loads without multiple tries! For those of you who have “friends” with bots stealing all the goodies, you need to start dumping these people – you know who they are but if you don’t then you are not paying attention. Most are people that you probably don’t really know anyway and have added along the way. Click, click, click, click – the game was bad enough before but now it is even a worse game design. I can’t even get my gift box open the last couple of days without trying 5-6 times- either nothing happens or I bring up the co-op screen until maybe the 6th click actually brings up the Gifts. Frustrated this morning – I feel better for venting!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:18 am
Sandy #13, the “Similar Posts” thing is not Zynga or FarmVille, but FaceBook. I like the idea of the yes or no, it gets rid of that stupid rumor that hitting ok stopped other people from getting bonuses. It would be the same amount of steps if you hit ok, no extra steps in this.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:31 am
It would not be bad if when you click on “yes I want to collect” it would put it in your gift box and take you back to the home page without having to load your farm every time. The way it works now SUCKS!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:38 am
I don’t like it .. I never refuse things (they can be sold for coins) and my farm takes a long time to load, I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t take us to the farm automatically. A choice would be good … I’m sick of loading the farm page for everything, accepting gifts, collecting from feed etc.
Would be nice if they took us to a “pre-load” page that let us accept etc and decide if we wanted to a) go back to the page we were on or b) go to the farm
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Let them cheat if they want! I just want to do my farm and not spend too much time on here! Bad idea! I hate it! HATE IT! My finger is getting sore from having to click so much.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:52 am
Since the “similar posts” thing I always open a new window when I click on a link and I’ve noticed long ago that when it is something that takes you to your farm, like an adopted animal… YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO YOUR FARM TO ACCEPT IT! I always close the window right away and not go to my farm and the adoptable animal is always in my gift box anyway. I thought everybody knew that.
I think this was created because of the link snag cheat that everybody has been in an uproar about lately and I think it is a good idea but if you have a choice, why would anybody accept a common spigot when they can keep clicking until they get shears?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:56 am
Michael and Lavona – just open a new window when accepting (right click) and you don’t have to go to your farm to accept. Just close the window after accepting and you are right back at the link you clicked on. This works great for the “similar post” thing too!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:03 am
Hate it, get rid of it please!!!!
Who really cares if anyone cheats? I don’t, just want to play and have fun!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:04 am
hmmmm…. I just clicked on a gold egg and got a gold chicken. When asked if I wanted it I clicked on NO but didn’t get a choice of anything else… just went straight to my farm so I closed the window. I thought people were saying that if you click on NO you get to choose something else. Or is that only for collectibles? I do like the idea off the link snag cheat being disabled by this.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:06 am
This is horrible. On my notebook it takes a minute and a half to load my large farm. With this change now I have to wait a minute and a half every single time to place an item into my farm. REALLY???
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:22 am
Why can’t the programmers figure out code to solve problems rather than burden the Users with more jury-rigged design that slows down the game, requires more clicking, and worst of all, make the game less enjoyable. Zynga needs to clean house and get better design control over their team and programming managers.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Wow, I love this. It is only one more click to accept and if you open a new window each time and then close it you don’t have to go to your farm. I went back to the gold egg that I clicked on before and didn’t accept the gold chicken and I was able to use it again. I got a gold chicken 2 more times and then a black cottage and didn’t click on yes or no but just kept closing the window and trying again and finally I got SHEARS! I accepted that.
Then I tried it on a bunch of collectibles that were listed and on each I just closed the window and clicked again until I got what I wanted. I wonder if this part of it is a glitch? If you don’t click on yes or no but just keep trying you get to choose. This will certainly help with completing collections like crazy. Wow!!! Wow!!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Big mistake because before you tick YES you can refresh the page to collect the item you would like rather than have somethink you dont………LMFAO nice move ZYNGA……….Now change whats in the chicken eggs.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Awful, worst even is that the farm loads after accepting. This kills the whole ability to work with multiple tabs or even accepting gifts while on your farm as you’ll get out of sync. I don’t mind that they try to block cheaters, but this punishes non-cheaters so back to the drawing board Zynga.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:55 am
I’m happy I was able to click no to a grain silo then go back to the egg and get a gold chicken. Don’t know how long that will last.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Fantastic, after Similar Stories yet another thing to make it harder to get stuff.
Keep up the good work, Zynga / Facebook
>.<
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 10:16 am
SuzieO, you actually have to go back and rehatch the egg. (Click on the original link again.) I have mixed feelings about this one. Much more work, but I was able to finish off two collections this morning by saying no to a bunch of chickens and silos…I rehatched eggs until I got a copper butterfly and a pruning saw…I guess it was worth it?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 10:36 am
Great idea, HOWEVER it should NOT redirect to the farm after clicking “yes” button…
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 10:58 am
it’s already fixed
coders : zynga
435514165465: 0
xD
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:15 am
There is a glitch – answered the questions, but the gifts never appeared in my gift box – bah!!!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:18 am
this sucks
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Sucks totally…because… u have to click 2 times… we lose rare items…
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Well this sucks. I think this will now make it almost necessary to cheat. This, coupled with the lightning speed of Facebook lately… well, I could build an actual farm between clicks. That crappy toolbar never seems to work, either. No more money to Zynga for me. I was only playing for enjoyment. This is no longer enjoyable.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:24 am
And how come they had time to put that change in and not enough to fix the farmville.com game feed? Ok… done.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:34 am
I’m about done playing all the Zinga games. This is crazy that we have to go all the way into our farms to accept gaming tools. The game alone has to meny loading problems!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Sometimes I wonder WHY Zynga does some things. First thing I asked: “Why would I NOT accept something if I clicked to accept it?” Then I begin to wonder other things.
Did they do it to provide an option to the reward? Sounds like there are a lot of people who could actually reject the item and reaccept for another one.
Did they do it to deter cheaters/auto reward programs? If they really wanted to do this, they would try a lot harder. Automated programs can always include another option to click the Yes button. If this is true, Zynga really did yet another lousy job in their coding.
Did they do it to test out an option temporarily before implementing something further? Usually companies try test programs to small step their way into something bigger. It also helps with any problems that may arise, as well as see if it is actually worthwhile.
There is a lot more, but the majority of people will ask the same thing I asked in my first sentence.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Hey, if you have rare horses etc please add me, i also have rare horses. please add me facebook.com/smundy
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Stupid idea !!!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Very disappointed, I live remotely, and my only internet access is through Hughes Network – and while I pay a hefty fee each month I have LIMITED data download. To load my farm everytime I want to add a bonus or egg is NOT going to work for users like me!!!! This may be the end of farmville for me if this continues. I need to limit my computer use with regards to data downloads but am fine with light surfing – please reconsider!!!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Horrible, you used to beable to just go to someones page, right click, open in new tab all thier bonuses down their news feed – then close the browser. Now you have to click each one, let it tottally load all of farmville, then close that tab and move on to next bonus – HUGE increase of time for people with slow loading farmvilles
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Two steps forward with 1 click harvesting and roll over menus and 1 freakin’ giant leap backwards with this lol.
What a total annoyance.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
this is gonna be baddddd having to do all the bonuses like this~!! I have only tried to do a barn raising and then I tried to claim a mushroom bonus from fishville so i am not sure about cafe world yet BUT thats crazy if we have to load every single zynga game now just to collect a bonues … or get to your farm and find out you didnt get it ~!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
bad idea!!! …besides FB is messed up..is not showing anything on the news feed and is very very very slower than ever!!!!…it takes ages to get these bonus..FB is killing the fun right now
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
man I love farmville but this is really turning me off. I can’t see how they would think that this is an improvement to their game.
They really need to hire usability experts/testers.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
you know its not impossible to think that this new bonus system is putting a huge load on the FB servers that are causing FB to come to its knees right now. I wonder.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
This is very sad. The guys who make the game are not thinking about how people in the real world use it. My work doesn’t mind if I surf facebook but they don’t like me using all network bandwidth downloading my farm. My system administrator already yelled at me twice today!!!
If this is really because of cheaters….who cares? Let them cheat. I won’t be neighbors with them so it doesn’t bother me. My sister uses a bot, but it only gets bonuses once every two minutes. Is that really cheating? I can click with my mouse faster than that.
She uses it because she works nights when all her neighbors are asleep. Why is that cheating? How is that different from sitting clicking on your facebook page? Zinga should not punish us because of them. Maybe Zinga should limit them but let them cheat!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Love it! Nuff said!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
FV is really starting to annoy me – it goes back to the bad neighbors jumping on board on a job (which I guess they’re not going to fix) – so I tried to post a message on his farm (which has tons of gold job items, which I doubt he grew anything for) – and they CENSORED the word “CHEAT.” it comes out as ***** when you click to view the message. this game is getting ridiculous. The least they should be worried about is people getting too many feathers and spigots (there’s a cap on that anyway). And there’s already a fuel cap – I haven’t been able to get fuel in days and I’ve used fuel, it’s just that I only use 1-2 tanks at a time, the game claims that I haven’t used any so I can’t get any. Utterly lame.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
I don’t like it..too much work.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
GRRRRRRRRRRRR, Facebook bites, Farmville bites even harder, this is getting worse by the day. They need to fix the know issues first before doing anymore changes. On a positive note I just opened a feather collection and got a green, I closed the page, did it again and got a blue the second time.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Time to quit playing! I can’t even get anything to work right and I don’t have the time that it is taking! I already know 5 people that have quit playing as of today. This game is getting annoying and with the stess in everyday life, I sure don’t need this new hassle!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
I actually like this .. I’ve managed to get 40+ fuels today by using the “refresh” trick in order to get certain collectibles to finish collections. So i’m def. not complaining…
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
What a waste of time on Zynga’s part. Not only has the snag bar already figured a way around it, but now we can refresh the page for mystery eggs & collectibles and choose which reward we want. It just strikes me as funny that the things they were trying to prevent have already found a way around it and a new and bigger cheat has come out of it.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Linda and others – YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO YOUR FARM TO ACCEPT GIFTS!!! Just right click and open a new window and after you click on YES just close the window. You will still get your gift! And when you close the window you are right back on the feed at the link you clicked on. Again, there is no reason to have to go to your farm!!
Once you open the “similar posts” you should always open a new window when you click on a link and then close that window. This is the easy way to deal with the condensing of the posts.
Thanks for the tip about just having to refresh to get the collection item wanted. I didn’t know that and I’ve been closing the window and reclicking on the link each time.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
HATE IT..
JUST HATE IT..
Time to say bye bye to this game and get a life
Thanks Zynga for making it easier …
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
The changes you made today are totally sucking, please fix I got plenty of gifts even if people are stealing them there are pleanty for everyone
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
I guess I can live with this… ONLY if they fix the loading time issues!!!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Stephie – how do you know the snag bar has already found a way around it? I’m wondering how they did it.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
thumbs down…
….. it’s sooooooo slow…. i can’t get anything. i keep getting the white screen of death.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
im clicking yes but the stuff is not going into my gift box very annoying i wish farmville would fix all their problems
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I don’t like it. I don’t use (and never have) any bots but I DID often open each in a separate tab and then quickly delete them after they all loaded. This makes it a lot more time consuming and tedious.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
At first I was annoyed, but then I found out that when you’re at the acceptance page, if you don’t like the gift you got for opening a mystery egg, or getting an item from a completed collection, etc – just hit refresh repeatedly until the gift you want shows up, and then click yes to receive the gift. Helps with completing collections.
This might just be a temporary glitch, but until then, I’m embracing it, If they fix it, then I’ll go back to not liking it hahaha.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK!!!!!!!! This does not help at all! It takes way too long to collect items from my wall and I can’t beleive that Zynga would even consider programming this into Farmville. Not cool Zynga!!!!! Your supposed to make it easier not the other way around.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
This change sucks! I lost a cow bell because I didn’t understand it. It should definitely be changed back.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Now I have to wait for an update on my Auto collector!
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Really not happy with this new upgrade. Have to load the FV EVERYTIME is time consuming, redundant and generally a pain in the posterior. Seriously considering no longer playing FV because of this. I have a very new laptop and this really taxes my computer, I can’t imagine a older slower pc. This needs to be revised or changed to make it more user friendly. As it currently stands FV is not longer user friendly.
As much as I enjoyed FV, i think I would rather play a flashplayer game. thats saying alot
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
You’d think with all the loading issues zynga wouldn’t want everyone loading up on every link they click.
Posted on April 30th, 2010 at 12:02 am
silly! it takes ago now and you if you have loading issue problems you waste your life in front of your computer – they should change it again!!!
Posted on April 30th, 2010 at 12:31 am
Refresh doesn’t change the item anymore…
Posted on April 30th, 2010 at 1:12 am
ok..they fixed the refreshing thing but i just noticed another thing. the way they have the mystery eggs right now when you open them. they each count towards the “they of mystery” ribbons.
Posted on April 30th, 2010 at 3:38 am
Bot user already have workaround for this problem. May be zynga want us to use bot , so we can spent our productive time doing something useful
Posted on April 30th, 2010 at 4:31 am
ZYNGA, you stupid fish of thrash! your updates are getting worse. Co op, puppies, email notifications, 10x longer loading, missing neighbors. What more crap? Im not enjoying this game anymore. Honestly.
Posted on April 30th, 2010 at 4:34 am
Your just making this game more complicated. Hope youu don’t lose players and farmvill cash purchasers fo that
Posted on April 30th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
why do I have to tell them everything twice, like I’m talking to a very very slow child?
when I click on “adopt the cow” that means I want it, what’s the point of asking me again?
If I click on a gift, just open the thing, don’t ask again!
I feel like I’m dealing with an idiot computer.
I have a list of gifts, and then I’m told they are expired a minute after I got them.
Might be time to find another game.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Other thing I noticed is that the collectibles you can get now is just gloves, emperor, ladybug, needlepoint and green plume!! (unless you friends shares a rare collectible). This sucks! I have played this game for 6 months and I am now thinking of quitting it. They are messing it up
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 10:53 am
@kami
You are right.. they have screwed up big time.. you never get anything other than emperor/painted lady.. ladybug/dragon fly..
Farmville stop being so stingy!!!!
Posted on May 4th, 2010 at 1:10 am
sadly, according to Gamers Unite, the snag bar is already 90% effective against this new measure. it was a good try, but more needs to be done. also a bit of trivia from the zynga forums. a mod there stated that the extra step is a new requirement from Facebook and not a zynga original idea
Posted on May 8th, 2010 at 8:19 am
FV takes up too much of time as it is. I do NOT like this change.
Posted on May 17th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
I HATETHIS ! PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK TO THE OLD WAY ! THIS IS TOO MUCH EXTRA WORK AND IT CAUSES ME TO LOSE WHATEVER I TRIED TO CLAIM !!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on May 21st, 2010 at 3:58 pm
This new way of accepting bonuses sucks! Do you people sit around and try to make things up to make playing more difficult instead of easier? I don’t send gifts anymore because of this. I don’t accept gifts anymore unless I absolutely need it. I’m playing less because of this. I don’t use a gift rewards cheater…so you are hurting genuine players with this crap. Why isn’t farmville focused on making the game better? Like fixing some of the glitches in the program before you start sending out more stuff?
I noticed you fixed the glitch that made your harvestor stop on the 4th harvest square. I DO APPRECIATE THAT! It was SOOOOOOO aggrevating. Now can you please work on some of the other glitches? And IMPROVE THE GAME instead of making it harder and putting out more junk that we aren’t going to buy?
Thanks!! Hope you listen to real players. I play approx 3-4 hours a day.
Posted on May 25th, 2010 at 1:07 am
I think it is great for those that have nothing to do all day long but go from accepting gifts to the game and back again!! I never lost gifts before this change and now…I am losing gifts left and right!!! It is seriously frustrating to have to be punished like this because others cheat!!! I don’t cheat and don’t see a need for it!! I am seriously reconsidering the whole Farmville and Cafeworld…These are the only two games I play, but not for long if Zynga doesn’t improve things instead of making them worse!!! I do generally play quite a bit!! Zynga puts out things that disappear and cost a bunch of money and the only way to raise the money if you can’t afford to purchase it is to level up!! That takes forever and by the time you get to the desired amount of FV cash, the item you wanted is gone!!!
I love both of these games and without them, I have no need to be on FB at all…I don’t want to have to leave what I thoroughly enjoy!!
Posted on June 7th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Why is anyone able to join a co-op when it’s already fully planted? They get credit and do nothing…….
Posted on December 1st, 2010 at 7:12 am
I have used the bonus collector, I still have to click on all the items i need and accept them as everyone does in the feed. I had given it to a friend and one of her neighbors complained it was cheating. The woman stated it steals other peoples gifts. The neighbor I sent the link to said the collector gave her a virus. How is it possible that farmville has an official bonus collector, you use it and everyone thinks its cheating. After I gave my neighbor the collector she posted a tree in the feed and said this is for you no one else can see it… So really whos cheating?
Posted on December 20th, 2011 at 10:25 am
love it, should do away with it, period. It’s CHEATING!
Posted on December 11th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
not again, they tried this before and it didnt work and had to reverse it. Come on Zynga