Gagaville Promotion is Over

With the last of the quests over for a couple of days, all that is left is a few market items as well as the LE crafts and crops. It's doubtful that people will forget this 10-day long promotion, the theme was new and exciting bringing Gaga lovers and Gaga haters together in the quirky theme. I thoroughly enjoyed it as I adored the trees that were released (they're definitely my favourite trees) and the prizes for the quests were just phenomenal (well most).

Yet for some, the promotion just trailed off. I would have loved to have seen some grand finale on the last day, such as a big prize for the quest rather than the 'pond', which looked more like a puddle.

But alas, no sooner than is this promotion over than the next theme has begun, this time it's Ireland.

Zynga Glitch is good for us

Quickly! While it lasts!

There is currently a horse in the free gifts page called the 'Irish Hunter Horse'. It was meant to be in the market and cost 26 fc but someone at Zynga messed up so it's in the gifts page, but only for a short while.

 So go buy it, some people reporting that it works better if you use the 'make a wish' button in your giftbox! Others reporting that not all the horses that they accepted are in their giftbox.

Ability to store trees and animals on Super slow roll-out

I first heard reports of this two days ago and it seems to be rolling out very slowly as I still have not got it. I suspect it may be as slow as the Zynga Messaging Centre which took months from when my first friend got the ZMC until I finally got it (she was one of the first and I was one of the last). I think this is a great thing as it means that people don't have to sell their precious farmcash animals that currently don't have a barn or coop etc. already.

The only problem is most farmcash buyers have already maxed out the storage on their home farm and so this isn't useful until they increase storage capability. A far more sensible maximum would be 1000 as this allows Zynga's most valuable users to store their items, but at least they're moving in the right direction.

Gagaville, so far a Success!

This is the fourth day of Gagaville and so far most people seem to be pleased as this forum poll shows. Yet the vote is still quite split 29% of people currently rate Gagaville 1-3, 52% rate it 8-10 and 19% are in-between.

People’s favourite parts of the theme are the ‘amazing’ decorations, the quest prizes (especially the horse and 5 FC) and, for Gaga fans, free listens to songs from her latest album.

The parts that people dislike the most are the 7 FC trees and for some people the free unicorn with a game card costs 25 of your currency which means some people pay more, it costs $25 in the US but to a euro user it costs $35.68 and to a British person it costs $40.44. And since a lot of farmers come from this area a lot of people are annoyed.

So the majority of people think that Gagaville is great but there are some downsides. Yet this is only day four and the promotion lasts for another week so there’s plenty of time for Zynga to either mess up or do fantastically!

Farmville Goes Gaga!

In the biggest promotion in Farmville to date, Zynga has teamed up with pop sensation Lady Gaga to promote her new album "Born This Way", we've been getting teasers of this for a few weeks and now it's finally arrived in full Gaga force! Upon entering Farmville today you will get the following pop-up:

"Welcome to a special Lady Gaga experience in Farmville! Play EVERY DAY through May 26^th to unlock exclusive prizes & UNRELEASED MUSIC from Lady Gaga’s upcoming album. Born this way.”

So that means nine days of prizes and songs for free! Not bad if you like Lady Gaga.

Today they released the first, of what is probably many, Lady Gaga quests. The quest today is super easy [details at fvnation] and the rewards are a VIP ticket, free listens of “Marry the Night”, an odd looking fountain and 2,500 coins. You will notice  a timer on your quest option so hurry up and complete it before it runs out! Upon visiting the Gagaville farm you get a Chrome Daisy Bed.

In case you can't find the music player: 

More proof of this being the biggest promotion in Farmville’s almost two years of existence is the extent of Lady Gaga exclusive releases. Along with the quests, free songs and a special farm other releases include an update to the free gifts page which includes four old items and three completely new ones. The mystery game seems distinctly Lady Gaga, there are three LE crops and LE crafts for every building, two new sheep, three horses (one in the mystery game, one free when you purchase a $25 gift car and one is in the market for 26 farmcash) along with dozens of other decorations and buildings.

From the looks of the Gagaville farm not everything has been released and I suspect that some of the cool items may be released in the coming week or be a prize for quests, I’ve heard from a reliable fan site that a horse may be the award of a quest!

This is what the Gagaville farm currently looks like:

Use all Feature released

Zynga has finally hit the pulse of their farmers recently and in their wave of success they have released the 'Use All' feature. This can seriously speed up players that have lots of neighbours when accepting holiday items. If you had any flowers left in your gift box you would have been asked did you want to use them all upon entering your giftbox. I said yes and all 128 flowers went straight to my basket with just one click, instead of 128! Which I think is just fantastic as it saves me a lot of time in clearing out my gift box!

Upon entering your farm you should have got the following pop-up.

Farmcash for After Level 100

In a kind gesture Zynga has extended how long you can receive farmcash when you level up for. The limit has now been increased to level 250 and if you are about level 100 you get the message below to give you the cash you would have received had they introduced this earlier!

Well enjoy this random, unexpected gift from Zynga... Well it only gives you a maximum of 150 more farmcash over a looooong period of time to get!

Organisation of Storage is HERE!

FINALLY! My friends and I have been asking for this for as long as there's been serious storage capabilities. Previously the storage was a complete mess and impossible to look through, effectively meaning that once something went into storage it would never come out.

Now it's super easy to find and use stuff, the search button is definitely the best improvement as it allows you to search for a specific item that you know the name of! There are also five different tabs, "All", "Trees", "Animals", "Buildings" and "Decorations" within the "Buildings" and "Decoration" tabs there are sub-categories, for "Buildings" there's "Decorative" and "Home" and within "Decorations" there's "Nature", "Landscaping", "Ornaments" and for some reason "Buildings"... odd. Note "trees" and "animals", neither of which can be stored*, when you click on those tabs it says 'coming soon', I'm not holding out any hope for it actually coming soon as with Zynga's track record we'll be lucky to see if before 2012! I'd imagine that when they do make this available the trees and animals won't be harvestable in storage. I think it is a good idea to make them storable but I do feel for this to be a viable alternative to selling, they need to increase the maximum storage on each farm, say double it to 1,000 on each farm as people are already having problems with a lack of storage.

I think the idea of storing animals and trees a good idea, I have would probably use it as I hate selling animals that are no longer available.

Unfortunately you still cannot transfer between farms or storages, which is something I'd love to see. As you can see from the picture it simply comes up as "locked". Also, the expand storage button is nicely placed at the bottom which includes all other buildings that are expandable by requesting for help from friends.

*Apparently farmgineers (the reward for the crossover project with CityVille a while ago) are showing in the "Animals" tab but any attempt to use them throws your farm out of sync and they go back to storage.