The FarmVille English Countryside has been live for a few days and available to almost everyone. Since we’re all having fun in England, enjoying the new features, and finally experiencing it for ourselves, FarmVille Freak is curious to know what you think! Where do you stand when in comes to English farming?
First, let’s recap a few key notes, both good and bad, about the FarmVille English Countryside.
Available to farmers Level 20 and above.
Brand new farm in the English Countryside acting as a second farm with a complete fresh start.
Exclusive new English Countryside crops with Crop Mastery.
Exclusive Sheep Breeding with endless offspring.
New Crafting Building, the Pub, offers new recipes and new Crafting Mastery.
You will need to re-build (or purchase) new buildings with purpose including storage, animal housing, and vehicles.
English Countryside is quest driven.
Quests are optional and offer rewards such as XP, Farm Coins, and even some Farm Cash! There’s also other rewards such as free animals and buildings with purpose like the Pub.
There is a Pause feature that means you can only work on one farm at a time. If you are active in the English Countryside, your original home farm will be paused and visa versa.
Storage is not transferrable from one farm to the other.
Items you buy in the FarmVille Market will only exist on the farm you place them on.
Gift Box offers a small loophole to get “existing items” already in your box on your English farm. Notice that some items from Gift Box are exclusive to home farm.
Collections are exclusive to your home farm and do not work in the EC.
Your monetary accumulation or bank including Farm Cash and Farm Coins is the same for both farms, meaning you have one bank account for both farms.
Fuel Supply is the same for both farms.
We have to give props to Zynga, from a technical perspective the transition to the English Countryside has been fairly smooth. Of course there are a some players experiencing issues, but that’s understandable considering the EC is such a huge feature.
Even though grass may be greener on the other side of the fence with lures of richer soil and more XP, many FarmVille Freaks reluctantly remain “on the fence” about the English Countryside because of a few issues. A handful of diehard players refuse to travel to England or have given up farming there because of the abandonment of their home farms caused by the pause feature.
Pause Feature
By far, the biggest complaint is the Pause feature. Why’s that? Because as dedicated farmers we want it all. We have a ravenous appetite for more land and now that Zynga has given us more land with a new farm, our precious original farms that we’ve labored and toiled over aren’t “working” and thriving as we’d like them to when we’re away in the English Countryside.
What are your thoughts, FarmVille Freaks? What do you love about the English Countryside? What do you hate? What would you change? Take our polls below to leave your feedback.
There is one thing we farmers may all agree on: always needing more land. With each new LE theme, new Building with Purpose, or feature, more and more precious land space is taken up. Zynga has done a great job at adding new and exciting layers to FarmVille beyond crop mastery such as, co-op farming, breeding animals, crafting and tree mastery. A large percentage of farmers participate in most if not all of these FarmVille activities. Between animal storage, crafting buildings and even lots of mastery signs, our growing space is impacted.
FarmVille English Countryside will premiere sometime this year as confirmed jokingly by FarmVille Community Manager Lexilicious when she was asked directly about it by an avid FarmVille player:
No. Our release is planned for 2012.
Just kidding.
Yes, It will be released this year.
Source: Official FarmVille Forums
Very early on in the FarmVille English Countryside advertising campaign we learned that it will serve as a second farm. Throughout the history of FarmVille players have always speculated about how a second farm would work or even how it could best serve us. Players seem pretty evenly divided, some wanting more space on their original farm and others wanting a second farm altogether.
FarmVille Freak wants to know:
Do you have any guesses on how FarmVille English Countryside will work?
Yet another wonderful letter from our FarmVille English Countryside friends!
This time from Lily, who has news of a new “craft!” Soon we will be able to make cheese from the FarmVille English Countryside dairy barn. As a thank you, Lily has provided us with another reward, a free Farmhands for you and to share with your friends and neighbors.
FarmVille Freak CabbagePatchKid's English Countryside Lily Postcard
As these new tidbits of information become available we will do our best to keep you up-to-date. Check back often for more information on the most popular social game on the internet. Don’t forget to share this with your FarmVille friends and neighbors!
What has you most interested in the FarmVille English Countryside?
FarmVille Freaks such as Marvin30 are reporting that their Mystery Seedlings’ saplings are growing up to reveal a new FarmVille Chinese Lantern Tree.
No doubt this special tree is in honor of FarmVille’s Lunar New Year celebrations. This means that perhaps we can expect the Chinese Lantern Tree to also hit the FarmVille Market sometime very soon since new trees are often first introduced via Mystery Seedlings.
As always, if your sapling becomes a fully grown Chinese Lantern Tree, you can also share this same tree with your FarmVille friends via the Facebook news feed.
FarmVille Freak marvin3O's Chinese Lantern Tree Notice
FarmVille Freak marvin30's Chinese Lantern Tree FaceBook Notice
FarmVille Freak marvin3O's Chinese Lantern Tree
What do you think of the FarmVille Chinese Lantern Tree? Will you reserve a spot for it on your farm? Do you have a Lunar New Year themed farm or section of your farm dedicated to Lunar New Year, then show us! Send pics of your farm to farmgoddess@farmvillefreak.com and we may feature them on FarmVille Freak.
The FarmVille Mystery Game has been updated with new Wild West themed prizes as of August 31st 2010.
You can purchase a chance at playing the Mystery Game in the FarmVille Market. The cost is 16 FV$ farm cash per dart. This current Mystery Game featuring this prize set will be available for one week.
:: Spoiler Alert ::
The following are confirmed prizes for the current Mystery Game (Released August 31, 2010):
Cowgirl Gnome – Decoration
Javelina (Pig) – Animal
Buffalo – Animal
Coyote Cub – Animal
Express Station – Building
Desert Pond – Decoration
FarmVille Freak Dark Farmer's Mystery Game Prizes: Cowgirl Gnome, Coyote Cubs, Javelina, Buffalo and Express Station
FarmVille Freaks love FarmVille and many celebrate their birthdays with a FarmVille themed birthday cake.
We like to feature these sweet creations from time to time on FarmVille Freak and share with all of you.
Here are some of the latest birthday cakes sent in by FarmVille Freak Julia Rogers, FarmVille Freak Rachael and FarmVille Freak Pragun Jain. Happy Birthday!
FarmVille Freak Julia's Birthday Cake I (Click to Enlarge)
FarmVille Freak Julia's Birthday Cake II (Click to Enlarge)
FarmVille Freak Rachael's Brownie Birthday Cake (Click to Enlarge)
FarmVille Freak Pragun's Birthday Cake I (Click to Enlarge)
FarmVille Freak Pragun's Birthday Cake II (Click to Enlarge)
If you would like to share your FarmVille themed birthday cake or other FarmVille inspired art, poetry, or creations send your submissions to farmgoddess@farmvillefreak.com and we may feature them on FarmVille Freak.
Bing is sponsoring a link for 2 Free FarmVille Cash. You can access the sponsored link offer through FarmVille. The offer is located underneath your FarmVille home page.
Bing sponsored a similar link back in March of this year. Before clicking on this sponsored link, double check that you do not currently have “like” on the Bing page.
FarmVille Sponsored Link: Bing 2 Free Farm Cash
Once you click the link under the farm, a pop up window will appear. Choose either Dining In or Dining Out, answer a question and watch the short video.
FarmVille Bing Decision Page
After watching the video, click on the Join us on Facebook button. You will be directed to the Bing page on Facebook. The pop up window will display the reward.
FarmVille Welcome to Bing
FarmVille Congrats on Farm Cash
Will you do this quick sponsored link for 2 Free FarmVille Cash?
FarmVille Freak would like to welcome the newest member of our FarmVille Freak community!
You may have noticed that FarmGoddess has not been posting as frequently or responding to many emails. Well, she had a very good reason – she is busy being a first time new Mom after giving birth to her son who made his debut into the world on on Monday, June 21st 2010.
Thank you to everyone for your patience and support during this momentous occasion.
The FarmVille Freak moderators surprised the “Littlest FarmVille Freak” and his parents FarmGoddess and myself Dr. GreenThumb by gifting them with some special one of a kind baby attire, designed by our very own FarmVille Freak in-house graphics guru Dave_NC.
As we previously mentioned in our new levels post, FarmVille cash can only be earned up to level 100. What happens after level 100? FarmVille Freak Julie S. shared her pop up below with us.
The pop-up states that no rewards of farm cash are given after Level 100, but it also hints at “rainbows after rain,” possibly meaning that in the future more levels will be added, with more incentives.
What do you think the reward should be for leveling up after 100?
The FarmVille Fan Sheep page now has well over 2 million fans as we previously reported. In exciting news the Fan Sheep will be in the FarmVille Market soon, as announced on its fan page today:
“Honorable friends of the Illustrious Flock, we are happy to announce that your persistence has paid off and we can now introduce you to our newest friend, the Fan Sheep. Quite soon, the Fan Sheep will be available to all in the FarmVille Marketplace play FarmVille now and get your farm ready!”
The Sheep will most likely cost $FV as it was announced by Zynga that 3 million fans would be needed for the Fan Animals to become available for coins. The Fan Cow was initially 12 $FV but changed to 50,000 coins after hitting 3 million fans.
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