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[[Farmville]] is a [[Web Games|flash-based game]] by Zynga Inc., available through [[Facebook]]. You play a farmer, with a single farm (at first) consisting of [[Isometric Projection|isometric tiles]]. You plow land, plant crops and trees, buy animals, and harvest them at regular intervals. You may also buy buildings, decorations, vehicles, and various other items, many of which are cosmetic rather than functional. The primary currency is "coins", which are earned through harvesting, completing achievements ("ribbons"), and assisting your neighbors. There is also a secondary currency called "Farm Cash" which is primarily purchased with real money, and is necessary to [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|buy most of the really good stuff]]. Through working on your farm and buying items, you earn experience, which in turn unlocks better items as you gain levels.▼
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The game promotes socializing and sharing. Your ability to expand your farm is dependent on how many neighbors you have, so if you have Facebook friends who play FarmVille you will probably be getting a lot of neighbor requests from them. Other than that, there are many items that can only be obtained by having someone send them to you as a gift, and you can earn extra coins, experience, and items by visiting other farms and fertilizing their crops, feeding their chickens, and whatnot.
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Updates to FarmVille have added additional minigames, including "co-op" quests to farm large quantities of crops in a limited time with help from your neighbors, and the Farmer's Market, which allows trading of "bushels" that can be used for a variety of temporary buffs or combined to manufacture consumable goods. New functional buildings are constantly being introduced, including the chicken coop, dairy farm, horse stable, nursery barn, beehive, garage, pigpen, orchard, duck pond, and sheep pen, which generally let you save space and simplify harvesting while also conferring a special bonus<ref>Chicken coops allow for the collection of mystery eggs, dairy farms provide calves, horse stables provide foals and mass-harvesting consumables, nursery barns let your baby animals grow up, beehives sometimes provide you with self-fertilization consumables and pollinated seeds, garages let you upgrade vehicles from 2x2 to 4x4, pigpens let you gather special truffles that can be traded for unique items, orchards give you watering cans or mystery seedlings, duck ponds give you ducklings, and sheep pens let you breed rams and ewes together to produce lambs that resemble a mixture of the parents</ref>.
Farmville is basically the [[Trope Codifier]] and [[Genre Launch]] for games in a social-networking environment: action points that regenerate over time, insane customization and [[Gotta Catch Em All|collectability]], and progress requiring [[A Little Help From My Friends]]. ([[Stop Poking Me|Just a little]].) The formula works: Farmville has become so insanely popular that [[Blizzard Entertainment]] has [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109010902/http://www.massively.com/2010/03/04/activision-farmers-could-kill-wow/ begun to consider it a competitor] to ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. And [[Follow the Leader|various other competitors]], such as an announced [[The Sims]] Facebook game.
It is a sister game to ''[[
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* [[Anti-Poopsocking]]: You can sit there and obsessively farm berries all day for quick experience, but most crops ripen and most events occur in daily intervals.
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