Tuesday, November 10, 2009

How to Get the Most Neighbors in FishVille

Neighbors in FishVille

Even if you've just started playing FishVille, you're no doubt aware of how important it is to have a lot of neighbors. Your neighbors in FishVille can help you to succeed in quite a few different ways, and so any method that might have the potential to increase your neighbor total should not be overlooked. The more neighbors you have, the more gifts you'll receive, and the more tanks you'll be able to buy. You also shouldn't overlook the importance of visiting your neighbors every day to help them out with their tanks. This is a great way to earn some coins on the side, and the more neighbors in FishVille you have, the more you'll be able to earn this way.

Neighbor Sources

But where do you get all of these neighbors? Well, the best place to start is certainly your friend list. In fact, many of your friends may be playing the game already. To find out who these people might be, simply click on the Neighbors tab a the top of your screen and you'll be able to immediately send a neighbor request to any of your friends who have already set up their own tanks. This may be a lot of people, or it may not. Either way, though, it's a good place to start finding your neighbors in FishVille.

Recruitment

Of course, you probably have a lot of friends who aren't already playing the game. Another easy way to swell the ranks of your neighbors quickly is to invite all of these people to play with you and be your neighbor. And, yes, you should invite everyone – even the people you think may be the least likely to play. You'll often be surprised who the most enthusiastic players turn out to be, but you'll never know if you don't ask.

Forums

Once you've exhausted your friend list options for neighbors in FishVille, you don't have to give up the search. There are actually a ton of forums and fan pages you can visit to hook up with other players looking for more neighbors to help them expand their aquatic empire. You can find these forums and fan pages by clicking on the Forums link at the bottom of your FishVille screen, or by simply searching for FishVille withing whatever social networking site you're using to play the game. No matter how you find them though, these pages are a great resource to keep in mind – not only when you're looking for neighbors, but whenever you have a question or concern about any aspect of game play.


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Why Your FishVille Neighbors Are the Key to Your Success

FishVille Neighbors

Since you're playing FishVille on a social networking site like Facebook, it seems only natural to have neighbors. You may even have wound up playing the game to begin with as the result of an invitation from one of your friends. And it can be a lot of fun to have this new way to interact with your friends and acquaintances in your own virtual aquatic world. But FishVille neighbors are not just a fun addition to the game. They can contribute greatly to your success, and the more you have, the more options for game play will be open to you. And as more updates are made to the game, the benefits that neighbors provide are only likely to increase.

Gifts

For one thing, more FishVille neighbors means more FishVille gifts – both to be given and received. There are quite a few items that you can only get if you're given them as gifts, so give them to your friends and ask your friends to send them back to you. Most of these gifts are free, so there's really no reason not to send as many as you can. Just remember though, that the more neighbors you have, the more gifts you'll be likely to get.

Side Jobs

Another reason having more FishVille neighbors will help you to succeed in the game is that when you visit your neighbors, you're able to earn some extra coins for helping them out with their tanks. You can only do this once a day, though, so the more neighbors you have, the more you can earn this way. You'll also get coins for cleaning the green goo off of the sides of their tanks, so make sure you don't pass up this opportunity to earn extra coins every day.

Affordable Expansion

And perhaps the most important reason it's helpful to have a lot of FishVille neighbors is that the number of neighbors you have will determine how many additional tanks you can buy with coins. If you don't have enough neighbors, you'll only be able to buy extra tanks and expand your aquatic empire if you have enough sand dollars to do so. Sand dollars are so much harder to come by than coins, though, that it'll be much easier for you to accomplish all of these things if you just bulk up the ranks of your neighbors a little. It'll wind up saving you a lot in the end.


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The Best Ways to Earn FishVille Experience Points Quickly

FishVille Experience Points

When you're playing FishVille, you of course are trying to increase your coin stores quickly. But in order to unlock new options for game play and new items to buy, you have to rack up some serious FishVille experience points too. You will, of course, naturally do this as you go about your business in the game. But there are a few things you can do that will help you to build up these experience points more quickly when you're trying to focus on that.

Experienced Fish

Any time that you raise and sell a fish, it will give you some benefit in the form of FishVille experience points. The timing of your sale will have an impact on how many you get, though, so you should take this into account before you decide it's time to sell. Your fish will all go through several stages of growth, and as they reach each milestone, their value in terms of both coins and experience will increase. Simply waiting until your fish have fully matured will make it possible for you to get the most experience points possible for each sale.

Experience Over Time

When you're trying to max out your total FishVille experience points, it's also a good idea to take a look at the ratio for each particular fish in terms of experience points earned per hour. It's easy to be fooled when you see some of the big experience point totals you can get by selling a particular fish, but these fish with the big lump payouts are often not the best bets if you're trying to earn experience points quickly.

This is because they are often the fish that take the longest to grow as well. If that's the case, you can often get a lot more FishVille experience points in the same amount of time it would take you to raise one of these big-point fish by raising a bunch of shorter-cycle fish instead. These types of fish often don't pay out the big chunks of experience points at once, but since you can rotate them through your tanks so quickly, you wind up making more experience points more quickly than you would if you had just raised one set of the fish with the longer growth cycle.

Experience points might not seem as exciting or important as coins when you're first setting up your tanks in FishVille. After all, you can't buy anything interesting with them. They do, however, make it possible for you to explore a lot more options in the game, so it's a good idea to maximize your earnings potential for them whenever you can.


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3 Quick FishVille Leveling Tips

FishVille Leveling Tips

Once you start playing FishVille by Zynga, you can see why there are so many reasons to want to level up quickly. The advanced opportunities for game play that you can unlock by reaching higher levels are quite exciting. But of course, as with any good thing, it gets harder to advance in the game the higher up you get. That's because the number of experience points you need to move up to the next level increases as you advance in the game. So, if you want to get to the next levels quickly, you'll have to employ some of these FishVille leveling tips in order to maximize your ability to earn experience points.

Experience Per Hour

One of the first FishVille leveling tips you should try and put to use is focusing on the amount of experience points each type of fish earns you per hour. The fish that are best for this are not always the same ones that make you the most coins per hour, so you may not have been making much use of them. Raising these fish may not get you the huge coins bonuses right away, but they will get you enough coins to keep your account growing. And they'll deliver the big chunks of experience you need to be able to move up in the game.

Purchasing Power

Another of these helpful FishVille leveling tips is to spend the extra cash you don't need for more eggs on decorations for your aquariums. Each decoration you purchase gives you an experience bonus as well as the benefit of just looking pretty. The size of the bonus is relative to the cost of the item, meaning that the higher priced items are worth more experience points as well. Of course, you should never buy decorations at the expense of buying fish. But if you have the extra cash, go ahead and put it to good use.

Expand Early

The last of our quick FishVille leveling tips involves the timing of your moves to expand your fish empire and buy new tanks. This should be done as soon as possible, simply because the more fish you're able to raise, the more experience points you'll be able to earn. Even if you can't afford to keep all of your tanks stocked with the best experience per hour fish, more total fish will wind up giving you a better bonus in the end.


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The Best Cash Fish in FishVille

Fish in FishVille

There are so many options when you're trying to decide which fish to raise in your tanks in FishVille that it can be hard to even begin to figure out what the differences are and how they might be important. Of course, the level you're at will have a significant impact on the types of fish in FishVille that you'll be able to choose from, but there are a few factors you'll have to take into account when you're making your decision no matter what your options actually are. When the process is initially outlined, it can seem rather complicated. But once you understand why you're looking for what you're looking for, you'll begin to see that most of the time, your decisions will actually be pretty straight forward.

Investment Return

One of the easiest things to see about a fish in FishVille when you're trying to decide whether or not to buy it is what kind of a return on your investment it will give you. This can vary significantly from one type of fish to another in the game, but mostly it increases with the fish you unlock as you reach higher and higher levels of game play. There are exceptions to this rule, though, so don't get sucked into thinking that a new fish you've unlocked is automatically better than any of the other options you had in front of you before. Be sure to check each time so that you can be sure you're getting the biggest possible benefit out of your fish in FishVille.

Earnings Per Hour

While a straight analysis of the return you're getting on your investment is helpful, it's not the only way to evaluate the benefits of your options when you're trying to determine which one or another of the types of fish in FishVille you should be raising at any given point in time. It's also very helpful to look at the differences in the fish's rates of earnings per hour to see how quickly you'll be able to increase your coins and experience point totals.

Of course, going hand in hand with this type of analysis is the fact that you're going to have to get back to feed your fish before they die. That means that you can't pick a fish with a growth cycle that doesn't fit your schedule. All of these factors need to be taken into account, and it can get frustrating. But once you get the hang of it, you'll be making great fish decisions in no time.


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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Ah, It’s YoVille – Time to Grab the Survival Kit

YoVille sure seems to be adept at eating the hours in my day. Whenever I get online each day, I tell myself that I will avoid it at all costs – spending my time doing something productive like watching YouTube videos or staring out the window (joking of course). But, soon enough I’m in there baking new sweets, visiting friend and pretending to fish. I’ll admit it – I’m an addict.

So, when I saw that there was a new guide out there for the game called YoVille Secrets, I couldn’t hold back any longer. This is a game that deserves to be researched and enjoyed as much as possible and if I could cut down the time I spend wasting around in the game (or more realistically, get more done with the time I do spend there), all the better.

Turns out, I could do both. Not only does YoVille Secrets help you get the most out of every minute you spend in the game, it creates a highly streamlined strategy that will allow you to play less and get further each day. It shows you how to make the maximum allotment of coins each day, how to setup a schedule and find friends to help you top out your profits. It helps you create a streamlined approach to everything you do in the game, including the dreaded leveling curve.
In short, it makes my life so much easier and I still get to play the game that I love so much. Which is a nice plus, especially when I don’t end up spending four or five hours logged into Facebook at a time. The funny looks and questions I get from my friends and family when they see me on there all day are quite enough to make you want to crawl into a hole. Now, however, things are a lot easier. So, if you’re like me at all (and if so, I’m sorry), then check out YoVille Secrets.


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Everything You Need to Know About the Big YoVille Guide

Two weeks ago, I heard that a new YoVille guide was going to be released by Tony Sanders, the guy who has written all of the other Facebook game guides that I’ve seen floating around. A lot of my friends who play FarmVille and CafĂ© World swear by these guides, and while I don’t play those games all that much (certainly not enough for a guide), I love YoVille, so I picked up YoVille Secrets as soon as it became available and started to read. What exactly was this thing going to do for me that I couldn’t have figured out on my own?

Turns out, there were a lot of things I hadn’t figured out on my own, and probably most of them I never would have. I don’t think so competitively. I don’t try to be the “best” innately. Don’t get me wrong, I love rising to the top at something I’m doing, I just don’t go out of my way to do it.

But, with YoVille Secrets, I didn’t need to. The guide was written in a way that I didn’t even need to think about the game any differently, I just needed to change a few very small things about how I played the game and start developing some actual strategies such as a good schedule for playing the game and an effective method to pinpoint my strengths and put aside my weaknesses in the game.

I started to level up much faster and was making over 2,000 coins a day in profit, just by doing a few things differently.
In a matter of days (this was 12 days ago now), I was at level 42 and should now reach Level 50 in another week, tops. It’s amazing how much better you play when you know what you’re doing and why. With YoVille Secrets, it became so much easier.


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