Hey famers, ever needed to know anything about your trees? Do you ever want to find out how many times you need to harvest a tree to master it? Then check out AberZombi&Flesh's guide over at the FarmVille forums
Now for some additional information that I came up with myself. I know some people like to know when they will finish masteries, I like to get an idea as then I know what trees I need to get a hold of. There are some simple sums that you can plug into Microsoft Excel to find this out.
The table in Excel will take up eight (A-H in Excel) columns and will go like this:
A) Tree name
B) Trees in orchard
C) Trees out of orchard
D) Mastery Per day
E) Total mastery
F) Mastery points already got
G) Days to master
H) Mastery date
Columns A, B, C, E and F do not need forumlas whereas the other columns do,
To find out A and B you'll have to count the amount of each type of tree you have on your farm. Remember to separate ones that are inside and outside orchards, unless they are two day trees in which case it doesn't matter. To find out the total harvests required for mastery use the guide I've linked you above, it will also tell you how many harvests are needed for each stage of tree mastery so this can help you work out how many mastery points you've already got for trees with one or two star mastery already achieved.
To work out the mastery per day enter: =B2/2+C2/N. The number N depends on how long a tree takes to become fully grown outside an orchard, if it takes three days then replace N with three and you will have the mastery points earned daily, don't worry if this doesn't turn out to be a whole number, that is quite usual and it doesn't matter at this stage.
To work out "Days to master" you must enter = (E2-F2)/D2 This will give you the amount of days until crop masteries are finished. You'll need to eliminate decimal points, to do so simply click the "decrease decimal" button.
To work out the date you will complete masteries on is a bit more complicated. Firstly enter =G2 + N. This will give you a number, to convert it into a date you have to expand the "number" tab and select "date" then which ever form of date display you wish. The N part is the complicated part as Excel reverts back to 1900, to change this you need to add in the amount of days between 1900 and the date you begin. There are 40593 days between 1900 and 2011, then add the amount of days that have already passed in 2011 and you should have the date that your tree mastery will finish on, as long as you don't add any more trees. But if you do you can always easily edit your chart by changing a few things.
Well I hope this helps people and if you need anything explained, just ask.
Saturday 19 February 2011
Thursday 17 February 2011
A Little Information about bots
1. Bots don’t take everything.
Due to limitations from facebook a bot can only refresh the feed every 30 seconds. Any faster and the bot user’s account can be suspended or permanently taken down. So this means that the majority of “rares” posted in that time will already have been taken by normal players.
2. Spotting bots.
A lot of people claim you can spot a bot user because they do not “like” any posts. Quite the opposite, on most bots there is the option to “like” all posts that are collected, this makes your method of spotting them ineffective.
They like the bot’s Facebook page, people sometimes download a bot or like the page and never actually use the bot. Always check before removing.
3. The effect of the limit
A lot of people think that now bots are seriously hurt. Are they? Not really, as in most of the big bots you can select what things you want to collect, so if you only want rainbow & Candy cane eggs you can deselect the rest. And because Zynga has shut out people who sit on the feed refreshing the links last longer and the bots end up with more rare items.
4. People levelling up fast.
When you see a neighbour level up from level 104 to level 114 in a day don’t jump to the conclusion that they must have used a bot or other programme to get there. There are perfectly legitimate ways to do that. For starts, if you have enough belted cows you can easily make 10 million coins in one day by breeding the dairy barn, over ten days this results in 100 million coins produced. If they spend 100 million coins on 100 more cows they will easily make that level jump in a matter of hours! Also if you believe ‘breeding’ is cheating then don't forget that they could easily have 100 million saved.
Due to limitations from facebook a bot can only refresh the feed every 30 seconds. Any faster and the bot user’s account can be suspended or permanently taken down. So this means that the majority of “rares” posted in that time will already have been taken by normal players.
2. Spotting bots.
A lot of people claim you can spot a bot user because they do not “like” any posts. Quite the opposite, on most bots there is the option to “like” all posts that are collected, this makes your method of spotting them ineffective.
They like the bot’s Facebook page, people sometimes download a bot or like the page and never actually use the bot. Always check before removing.
3. The effect of the limit
A lot of people think that now bots are seriously hurt. Are they? Not really, as in most of the big bots you can select what things you want to collect, so if you only want rainbow & Candy cane eggs you can deselect the rest. And because Zynga has shut out people who sit on the feed refreshing the links last longer and the bots end up with more rare items.
4. People levelling up fast.
When you see a neighbour level up from level 104 to level 114 in a day don’t jump to the conclusion that they must have used a bot or other programme to get there. There are perfectly legitimate ways to do that. For starts, if you have enough belted cows you can easily make 10 million coins in one day by breeding the dairy barn, over ten days this results in 100 million coins produced. If they spend 100 million coins on 100 more cows they will easily make that level jump in a matter of hours! Also if you believe ‘breeding’ is cheating then don't forget that they could easily have 100 million saved.
Welcome to the Farmer's blog
Hi guys, I started this blog in the hope of helping people to understand the real reasons behind why Zynga introduces certain things, for example, the limit on feed collecting. If you feel uncomfortable with me being anti-Zynga, then I suggest you don't continue to read this blog. As it is the "Intelligent" FarmVille blog. This will mean I will not always be completely anti/pro Zynga but be able to see through the stupidity into intelligence.
Thankyou and welcome!
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