Posts Tagged ‘Gifts’

Farm Town Gift Requests – Why Post Them?

Friday, May 21st, 2010

We have added a “Request Gift” posting feature here to our website which creates a post to your wall with a link to the gift selection page where you are preselected as the recipient.

To use this feature, just login to our site using the FConnect (Facebook Connect) button located on top of the right sidebar.

When you are fully logged into our site, scroll to the bottom of the right sidebar to find and click on the new [Request Gift] button to open the post dialog box. Add a note to your post about what item(s) you would like to receive and send the post to your wall. Please give it a try while you are here. (more…)

Farm Town Weekly Season III Episode 12

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Farm Town Weekly Season III Episode 12On this episode we discuss fishing, facilities, and making a “Help Wanted” post to your wall asking neighbors to come and harvest/plow at your farm. We also talked about desired upgrades to current features and a few new ideas. Was a lot of fun and a great crowd in our live chat.

Another topic we discussed is a fun thread in the official Farm Town discussion forum called Sniff, Sniff, Boo, Hoo. This thread is a multi-contributor saga started by Ms Penny about the goings-on at her “seedy” little Trailer Park (Farm 2) and Bubba’s Prison (Farm 3). We featured screen shots of these farms on our Facebook Fan Page and the story line now includes Jets Cousin, Cletus Hill who is currently sitting on Death Row at Bubba’s Prison. There is really only one way to get up to speed on the Trailer Park Players and that’s to start at the beginning and read to the current post. It is a lot of reading but what else do you  have to do while you’re waiting for wheat?

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GIFTS

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Since we can now harvest certain animals, and I know some people are starting animal farms on their second farms (since we can’t move animals between farms), please post what you would like in the way of gifts for your farmer friends to send you.

In Game Gift Prompting

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

mayor-prompted-gift-giving

It’s been some time since I seen this Farm Town character. I was just doing a little farming with my friend Bill and after replanting my field I started tinkering around moving trees. Out of nowhere pops this dude asking me if I wanted to take a break and send some gifts. This is the same character you find when you click the “?” Help icon in the tool menu on Farm Town.

I had already sent my limit of gifts for the day, so I just told him not right now. I posted earlier about the extra holiday gifts and how you can buy a Small House with Lights for your friends who request one or request one from your friends. That is a great feature I hope they add to other items. Anyway, these were just some additions I noticed early this morning. Just a few minutes ago this guy popped up asking me to send gifts. I don’t know if I need extra reminders about gift giving, particularly when I have already sent my limit. I don’t know how often he will popup or if we can expect more in-game prompting in the coming days, but lets hope they don’t overload us with these because as it is, I can’t keep up with the chore windows I get every few seconds or couple minutes. That is a feature I would like to be able to either turn off or control in some way.

If you have any thoughts or comments, please reply below.

Farm Town Adds Extra Holiday Items

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Late additions to the Farm Town Gift page

Late additions to the Farm Town Gift page

You have probably noticed the 4 new holiday gift items available to give as gifts to your neighbors. There is the Holiday Pig and Dog and 2 tress with lights which are the Pine and Palm tree.

Something else I noticed this early morning is that when you visit the Christmas tab in the Farm Town Store there is a gift icon beside three of the items. Clicking on that icon highlighted in the illustration below will prompt the “Request as Gift” feature allowing you to post the item to your wall on Facebook as a wish list of sorts.

Notice the Small House with Lights

Notice the Small House with Lights

Do you see what I see? There is a “Small House with Lights” which one can buy for only 30,000 regular Farm Town coins, but it also has the gift box icon allowing you to request it as a gift. I don’t see this house on the regular Farm Town gift page so I wonder if it was an error that they placed it there along with the new items.

I will say, if I notice someone post this house in a Request as Gift post today I will buy it for them because I want to see if this is an error or a sign of things to come as there have been times when I wanted to send Store Items as gifts but that is not a feature I have seen before today.

I think it would be great if we could buy things from the Farm Store for our neighbors and would also like to be able to transfer Farm Cash to them as well. I have had occasion when a neighbor was just a couple farm dollars away from buying an item she wanted and I would have been happy to transfer a couple of mine to her because I didn’t really have enough to buy anything I wanted anyway so why not. Anyway, looks like Slashkey is still tinkering in their holiday workshop.

One more note, please remember to “Become a Fan” of Farm Town Weekly as we are moving from the old fan page to a new one and also, if you have not done so yet, click the Facebook Connect button to create your facebook connected account and allow our application. This will turn on features such as “The Bull Award” discussed on episode 10 and will also allow you to post the comments you make in the “Leave a Reply” comment box below to your wall on Facebook.

Thanks in advance and Happy Farming!

New Features – Item Storage and Request

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

You now have an “Item Storage” where you can store away some of your Farm Town items for later use! Just click on an item and select Add to Storage. Stored items are placed in the “Items” tab in your storage area which is the same place as your harvested crops are stored.

We also have a new “Request as Gift” Feature – Click on gift items on your farm, then select “Request as Gift” from the context menu. This will generate a wall post for you showing your neighbors a picture of the item you would like them to send to you. You can include a note with the post as well.

Please Reply here or visit our Fan Page on facebook to discuss these new features with offer listeners of Farm Town Weekly. Happy Storing, Gift Requesting, and Farming!

New Farm Town Gift Item for Your Neighbors

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

I am so pleased with SlashKey for adding new Gift items to Farm Town. Some of my favorite Farm Town items are those that can only be received as gifts rather than be purchased at the Farm Store.

Jethro Hill not included :-)

Jethro Hill not included (^_^)

The instant I noticed the new items in the gift list, I had to wonder if the Red Crocus flower had been unlocked or released. I scrolled down to the bottom of the list to find that it was still locked and unavailable to give as a gift. I guess this is good news because it might infer that there is still more to unlock which typically would require reaching a new level or achievement.

September has been a great month in Farm Town with the variety of new items that were made available. My only disappointment is that there is still no Milk Can. It would seem to me that this would have been added by now but I will just keep on farming and hoping one will eventually become available in the Farm Store.

Have fun sending and receiving the new items and until next time, Happy Farming!!!