FarmVille: Difference between revisions

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* [[Arcadia]]: Considering the only places you see in the entire game are farms, pastures and orchards, and everyone is an adorable little farmer in overalls...

* [[Bow Chicka Wow Wow]]: When sheep breeding was introduced; the sheep and the ram being bred are placed in a separate private part of the pen, and replaced with signs that say Baa Chicka Baa Baa.

* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: The game may be played entirely for free and is fully functional, but there are a whole host of cool items, shortcuts, and time savers available for those who shell out real money for Farm Cash, as opposed to the standard currency of Farm Coins. Farm Cash normally trickles in at the rate of one per level earned<ref>although special promotions are regularly held, allowing players to subject themselves to extra-aggressive advertising in exchange for a pittance</ref>.

* [[Canine Companion]]

* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: None of the animals in the game are kept for slaughter. Somewhat understandable for some animals (cows are kept for milk, chickens are kept for eggs), but downright strange in other places. There is apparently no pork in this universe, as all pigs are used to gather truffles. Horses are not meant to be ridden: they are only there for collecting horsehair. Cats don't catch mice: they're only good at generating yarn, somehow.

* [[Cosmetic Award]]: Nearly every building and decoration, save a handful of functional ones, is there simply to make your farm look pretty.

* [[Cute Kitten]]: Cats and kittens can be obtained. They are absurdly cute.

* [[Dueling Games]]: With ''Farm Town'', which ''FarmVille'' won. Both of these also bear strong similarities to the ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' series.

* [[Experience Points]]: Earned by doing just about everything<ref>plowing, planting most seeds (usually one or two points per plot), harvesting fertilized crops, finishing collections, fertilizing neighbors' crops, crafting goods, and even buying most decorations (generally 1 exp. per 100 coins spent, or 5-30 exp. per 1 cash spent)</ref>, each level you gain unlocks new crops and items, and gives you 1 farm cash.

* [[Everything's Better with Llamas]]: Oh, it is.

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* [[Follow the Leader]]: the modern "casual" / [[Facebook]] game started here: pop-up collectibles as both currency and crafting reagents; refilling [[Anti-Poopsocking|Action points]] that lead you to [[Play Every Day]]; projects that go faster with (or even require) the help of your Facebook friends... (There are allegations that somebody else came up with this formula, and Zynga is simply the company that was able to capitalize on it.)

* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]]: [[Drinking Game|Take a shot]] whenever you log on and see that your on-farm Winery has started selling "Sweet Energy Drink" instead of Sake.

** [[Averted]] (for now) by the co-op missions you can start. They refer to the goods as, for example, "Bloody Mary Mix" rather than "Spicy Tomato Juice".

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The 2010 Christmas specials include a [[Stealth Pun|donkey with a mistletoe hat.]]

* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: All the different types of trees, animals, buildings that you can construct and expand, miscellaneous decorations, collectibles, mastery signs for crops and goods and trees, and the 160 (and counting) ribbons...

* [[Holiday Mode]]: Many of the decorations (as well as some animals and crops) are limited edition, meaning they can only be bought for a few weeks after they're introduced, and then they become virtually impossible to get your hands on. Limited edition content is usually based around themes, with holidays being especially popular.

* [[In Universe Game Clock]]: The game uses real world time. Make sure you harvest your crops on schedule, because they'll wither if you leave them alone twice as long as you're supposed to. Some daily activities (like buying goods and bushels) reset at midnight, while most daily activities (like harvesting your chicken coop) use a 23-hour timer that starts counting from the last time you used it.

* [[In-Universe Game Clock]]: The game uses real world time. Make sure you harvest your crops on schedule, because they'll wither if you leave them alone twice as long as you're supposed to. Some daily activities (like buying goods and bushels) reset at midnight, while most daily activities (like harvesting your chicken coop) use a 23-hour timer that starts counting from the last time you used it.

* [[Isometric Projection]]

* [[It's Always Spring]]: Unless you buy the winter theme, which has no effect on gameplay.