Thursday – Add a Little Rat-A-Tat-Tat to FarmVille

[ninanevermore]

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One of my personal secrets to happiness is setting really low standards in life that even a dullard like me can achieve. I am happy to say that I have surpassed my 11-year-old niece in Farmville. Since I have still not managed to have an exciting and fulfilling career or even a steady-but-unsatisfying job to pay the bills, I have to take my joy where I can find it. My niece had to start back to school this week. While she is away from her computer learning things in the 6th grade, I get to stay home and goof off on the internet between scouring the job boards.

FarmVille is not the only game on Facebook that lures people in and makes addicts of them, but it's the only one I play. I notice other people playing games created by the same company, Zynga. Games like Mafia Wars, World Café, Vampire Wars, and PetVille, just to name a few. But I don't partake in those games. The way I see it, FarmVille is like digital crack, and once one is hooked on crack, there is no need to get hooked on heroin as well. It will only add to your misery.

I was thinking the other day, though, that there should be a way to combine the Facebook games and play several at once. One of the ways to do this would be to expand the kind of crops you can grow in FarmVille.

"I can grow potatoes in FarmVille, why can't I grow pot?" I asked my husband. "I can grow tulips, why not poppies? Those plants are where the real money is. Then we could combine FarmVille with Mafia wars. Instead of buying cute little fences and chicken coops for decorations, I could use my Farm coins to buy machine guns and booby-traps to protect my investment."

"Yeah, but then you log in one day and discover that the DEA has raided your farm and all your crops are gone," he said. "After that you owe Big Sal a quarter million dollars and you've got no money to pay him."

"But I've still got my machine guns. I can take Sal out."

Of course, once you take down one mafia don, another one only rises to take his place. That's when I will have to use my Farm Coins to pay an army of vamps from the Vampire Wars game to assault the mobsters while they are dining in my World Café. While this is going down, I will hang out in PetVille and play with the animals there, or maybe visit Island Paradise, until the dust settles.

This would be way more fun. I'll have to contact the people at Zynga and pitch my idea to them.

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Comments

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

pack rat is the first I tried and the only one to have any attraction for me

[simplecity2htwn.livejournal.com]

You forgot the part where Big Sal puts you in a short skirt and puts you out on the corner to work off your "farming" debt. Potatoes are probably the safer crop.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I avoided them all until my niece begged me to play FV because she needed neighbors. I refuse to play any others. :P

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

did yoville for two weeks then deleted.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

But I've got machine guns! And vampires. He wouldn't dare.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I deleted almost all the aps at one time, and was much happier for it. I still get a small thrill every time I click "Ignore" on a request for an ap I don't want.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

That makes me all tingly in my dirty bits.

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

Hi. My name is Bren. I'm a farmville addict.

and you can't have more than one chicken coop (cause heaven forbid we not get carpel tunnel harvesting eggs from all those chickens!) And you think they're going to let you have pot and poppies and machine guns??? Keep dreaming missy!

[simplecity2htwn.livejournal.com]

:::chuckling at you doing the "it's freezing out here" shimmy while balancing in too tall heels:::::

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Oh give me some credit. That's so old school. I could just put an ad on CraigsList, take appointments over my pre-paid phone, and stay warm.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, considering how many chickens you acquire, you think they'd let you have more coops. And do the calves and lambs ever grow up? The baby turkeys do, but not the larger animals, it seems.

One mystery egg I hatched had a zen garden in it. I put it next to the cats I'd taken in so they could use it as a litter box.

What if I promise to grow my pot for medical purposes only, and sell it just in the states that allow it? Maybe they'd let me grow it then.

[simplecity2htwn.livejournal.com]

Ha ha....as much as you deny it, you think like a manager.

[basketcaselady.livejournal.com]

My flying monkeys and I are standing at the ready to perform an intervention.

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

Bejeweled sucks the life out of me when I want to be zombified. I do have a lil green house and lil green something-something-t fishy thing. But that's it. I've seen how y'all get sucked into the farmville, mafiawars, etc. I'm an addictive personality...I don't need it. :P

[rottzilla069.livejournal.com]

Farmville = crack

Bejeweled = crack + heroin + oxycontin

Also, everything you just described can be done. It's called Dope Wars. But I don't think it's caught on quite as well as some of the other games.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I don't need an intervention! I can stop any time I want! *sobs uncontrollably*

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Nobody needs it. Buy yet you find yourself wanting it regardless. x_x

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Really? I can get vampires to take out big Sal?

My other crack + heroin that I play on a different site is Mahjong 3d Dark Dimensions. As soon as I beat the game I should be able to get over that one, though. I've conquered levels one through six (out of nine).

I got the calendar and the card. Jeff thought the calendar was cool. Thanks! :)

[basketcaselady.livejournal.com]

But you just don't want to, right?

[rottzilla069.livejournal.com]

Haha...my boss plays mahjong everyday at lunch time.

You're welcome!! It was my pleasure. :)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

no, not yet...

[suspiria.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

They need 12-step programs for on line games, they really do. "Hello, My name is Nina and I'm a FarmVille Addict. It has been 10 hours, 47 minutes since I've checked on my crops."

[suspiria.livejournal.com]

Hahaha