The 3rd Farm Beauty Contest in the form of a Hallowe'en Beauty Contest now has begun. The following are tips on how to meximise your potential to gain votes.
First of all, it is important to know which Decorations and Items are theme-related. You can access the list yourself by tapping on the Farm Beauty Contest icon in your menu and then tapping on the book icon. You will see the following list:
Pumpkin Fountain: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 1 Vote each day for this.
Hallowe'en Fence: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 1 Vote each day for this.
Pumpkin Light: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 2 Votes each day for this.
Flower Torch: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 1 Vote each day for this.
Ghost Broom, Reward of the 3rd Beauty Contest: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 2 Votes each day for this. This will be the Decoration that is awarded for a specific number of Votes like the Backpack and Whale Decorations from previous Contests. Every time you reach a specified total, you will receive rewards. Most of them consist of Farm Aids and Purple Mystrons but somewhere in the middle of the list is a Decoration and at the very end, there is a special Avatar with RC Rewards.
Scarecrow: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 1 Vote each day for this.
Strange Scarecrow: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 1 Vote each day for this.
Spooky Tree: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 2 Votes each day for this.
Bat House: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 1 Vote each day for this.
Pumpkin Tombstone: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 1 Vote each day for this.
Stereo Casket: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 2 Votes each day for this.
Straw Witch: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 2 Votes each day for this.
Running Mummy: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 4 Votes each day for this.
Witch Legs: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 2 Votes each day for this.
Jack O'Lantern Machine: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 3 Votes each day for this.
Pumpkin Tower, Reward for Month of October 2015: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 1 Vote each day for this.
Skeleton Rockstar Diva: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 5 Votes each day for this.
Halloween Stage: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 3 more Votes each day for this when it finally is completed
Skeleton Rockstar Frontman: Felicia, Darryl and Dad will give you 3 more votes each day for this.
Now, it is important to remember that 'theme-related Decorations only account for a quarter of the Votes given by Felicia, Darryl and Dad. I believe that once you achieve the total that is the maximum those Characters can give to you for theme, you will not be able to earn any more Votes from them for THAT, irrespective of the number of Theme Decorations that you purchase and place. Bear this in mind when you are tempted to go mad in the upcoming sales. I personally believe the total is 18 or 20 Votes, depending on the Character. Dad only has 72 Votes to offer. I therefore believe his Theme total might be two Votes lower...
Some of the Theme Decorations can be purchased using Yellow Mystrons. These are the Pumpkin Fountain, Hallowe'en Fence and Flower Torch. Each will cost 100 Yellow Mystrons. They cannot be cleaned, by the way.
The Scarecrow was the only Theme Decoration that can be purchased in the ordinary Market for Coins until more items were added temporarily. See the section on Theme Items below for a full list. The Spooky Tree costs 8 RC. Some of the Decorations, including the Running Mummy and Witch Legs were offered in a special Hallowe'en Sale last year and are being offered again in sale parcels that include RC and trees. These at present are the Running Mummy and the Witch Legs, for old items and three new items in the form of the Skeleton Rockstar Frontman, the Stereo Casket and the Skeleton Rockstar Diva.
Although there is a 'ceiling' to the number of Votes you can earn from the three Characters for Theme, there is no limit to the possible Charm Point total. How does this benefit you? For the Characters who value Charm, once again, you can achieve only a total of 18 or 20 Votes each day for that aspect of your Farm from those Characters... once you achieve that, additional Charm points will not be considered by the Characters. After that total is reached, additional Charm only benefits as far as your global rating is concerned. It does not affect your Votes from Neighbours or at least it did not do so in the previous contests. If anything changes in this respect, I will update this post. If this Contest follows the rules of the previous ones, you will find that each Farmer has 3 Votes per day to give to Neighbours.
Of course, I would be thrilled if farmers who used my site would be willing to send their Votes to Harvest Moon or Rosewood Farms. I would prefer Harvest Moon only because I have no hope of winning the Contest with Rosewood or even being placed in the top 50 globally. Thanks to my readers and neighbours, Harvest Moon did place in the top 50 in the last Contest. I would like to thank every one who voted for me again. As I wrote previously, I do not make any money with my site. I do not have any adverts on it and do not promote anything other than the game itself. I write the guide because I always find a good guide useful when playing a game and I believe other players feel the same, so if you wish to give me anything, please give your Votes! To do this, tap on the FINAL icon for 'My Neighbours' and then 'Visit' Harvest Moon or Rosewood. Once at the farm, you can choose to Vote once for it or use all three Votes in quick succession. That is how the Voting procedure works.
There evidently is another player who has given her farm the name of Harvest Moon. My farm always will have an avatar of a hawk on a tree against a blue sky. I took the photo myself long ago in my garden in the middle of an urban area. Freyashawk has been the name under which I have written guides for years Harvest Moon was the game for which I wrote most of my guides. I have changed my farm name a little to Harvest Moon FDC, adding my initials at the end.
Having promoted my farms shamelessly, I now would like to try to help low level Farmers who may feel the contests are pointless. THEY ARE NOT! Even if your Charm total is low and you have no hope of placing in the top 50, you can earn valuable Rewards from your Farm and from your Votes.
Whether you vote for my farms or not, please do take the time to vote EVERY Day as you will earn a Gold Treasure Chest that contains Farm Aids when you do. At least, that was the case in the previous Contests. If anything changes, I will update this information.
Now, how can you boost the Votes of the four Characters even if your Charm totals are low and you cannot afford to buy Theme Decorations with real Cash?
First of all, each of the four Characters bases his/her Votes on different aspects of your Farm. As shown in the list of Theme Decorations, there are three Characters who give Votes for the Theme. Votes are given by different Characters, however, for a wide variety of Crops, for Trees, for Animals and for Machines. Gallery Registration will give you Votes with two Characters. Expansions count as well...
So what I suggest to every Farmer is to make certain that you have registered as many items on your Farm as possible before the Contest begins and if you cannot complete this task prior to the start, keep registering your Items until they all have been added to the Gallery. This cannot give you more than a total of 18 or 20 Votes daily but if you do qualify for the maximum number of Votes for Gallery from the two Characters that value this aspect of Farming, you will be in a good position.
Expansions give Votes as well so make certain that you have completed as many Farm expansions as possible on your original Farm. I do not think that the Island counts for this, because the Farm Beauty Contest is only for the original Seaside Farm.
It is not mere ownership of items that gives Votes but PLACEMENT of them on your Farm. When the Contest begins, place a good balance of Animals and Machines on your Farm and plant a variety of Crops as well as making certain that you have as many different types of Trees as possible. Again, each of these aspects of farming will not give more than a total of 18 or 20 of the Votes of the Character or Characters who value them. Each Character has four different categories of farming upon which his or her Votes are based.
As previously indicated, Charm is valued by some of the Characters but piling Decorations on your Farm is pointless as there is a ceiling to the number of Votes given by the Characters for your Charm. I therefore would recommend that farmers who cannot place in the top 50 globally focus more on creating a balanced Farm with a good mixture of Crops, Trees, Animals and Machines than attempting to load your Farm with duplicate Decorations or indeed Decorations that are not cleanable once you have exhausted your normal stock of Theme Decorations and a certain number of Charm points. The members of my Group on Facebook, Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk and I experimented with this during the last Contest to see how Votes would be affected. it really did not require too many Decorations to achieve the maximum number of Votes from a Character who valued either Charm or Theme... beyond that, one was using space on the farm that would be better allocated to ANOTHER aspect of farming that would garner Votes from a Character.
Theme-related Decorations only add to 'Theme' Votes from a Character ONCE. I have confirmed this myself. Harvest Moon had the Witch Legs and Running Mummy from last year. In the current sale, therefore, only the purchase and placement of the Skeletn Rockstar Frontman added to the Characters' Vote total. I think this is why the placement of an additional Pumpkin Fountain failed to add to the Vote total for Harvest Moon.
Now, this is how low level Farmers can benefit from full participation in the Contest. There is a list of Rewards given for achieving specific Vote totals. Every couple hundred Votes or so, you will receive a specific Reward. Most of them consist of Farm Aids, Coins and Purple Mystrons but there is a Decoration Reward and at the very top of the list, two Rewards that consist of RC, the final one being paired with a special Avatar. Again, this was the case in previous Contests but if it is different for this one, I will update accordingly.
Your Votes from the four Characters DO make a difference, therefore, even if you cannot achieve huge totals of Votes or place globally. You can achieve a number of the Rewards on the list if you maintain a balanced Farm.
NONE of this will count, however, if you do not take photos of your Farm. The Votes of the four Characters are determined by your CURRENT PHOTO in the Contest. In other words, give your Farm the greatest advantages in terms of Crops, Trees, Animals and Machines as well as Decorations, take your photograph and THEN AND ONLY THEN store items or do whatever is necessary for REAL work on your Farm. A new time-restricted Mission should be released tomorrow if everything goes according to the regular schedule. You may need to store items in order to produce products and so on... so start your day by registering for the Farm Beauty Contest by taking a photo after you have made your Farm as profitable, vote-wise as possible. You then will be free to get on with the business of real farming.
I am not certain if there is any need to take a new photograph every day if nothing improves on your farm. It is only if you purchase or obtain a new item that will count towards a Character's Vote total that you need to take a new photograph... at least that is my instinct. Make certain, though, that you do not take your photographs unless everything is as balanced as possible. There is no point in attaining a good score with Dad but lowering your score with a different Character, for example, by having too many Machines and not enough Animals on your Farm.
The Contest now is live and appears to follow the same rules as previous contests. Good luck to all of us!
Voting for my farm
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I understand that every one involved in the Contest would like to have your votes but if you have found my site useful, I do ask that you think of me when casting your Votes in the Beauty Contest. I do not receive any pay for the work I do, but your votes would be a form of thanks that I greatly would appreciate. Sadly, there is another farm that goes now by the name of Harvest Moon but mine always will have the same avatar of a hawk in a tree in my old garden... and I have added my initials FDC now to my farm name of Harvest Moon. My level currently is 85. Thank you.
My second farm is Rosewood and if you are not a neighbour of Harvest Moon FDC, please consider voting for little Rosewood...
Gaining Votes from Multiple Farms
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You can have more than one farm if you have more than one Facebook account or if a friend allows you to use his/her account for Family Farm Seaside. Each Farm can vote three times per day, but there is a catch here and it probably was designed to prevent farmers from creating a large number of farms for the purpose solely of voting for the primary farm in any Beauty Contest.
The Farm Beauty Contest only unlocks at Level 16. In other words, you certainly can have more than one Farm and use the Votes from one to promote the other but it requires a fair amount of energy and time to bring the subsidiary farm to the level required! Just a note to advise players of the rules with respect to Voting privileges.
Gift Box Colours in Gallery
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Farm Aids always are vital in this game, and I spent hours in the past logging the results of cleaning Neighbours' Decorations to see which Decorations yielded the coveted Blue or Gold Box... Although you still can find this information on my site, you now can access it yourself very easily by looking in your Gallery. Every Decoration now is colour-coded. It is the background colour that determines the colour of the Gift Box. The Blue Box Decorations have a gold or yellow background, oddly enough.
Theme Items in Market
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The current Halloween Farm Beauty Contest overlaps somewhat with these Events and some of the old items from previous years and quests now have been added to the market. To wit:
Spooky Tree: 8 RC (I do believe this is available always)
Bat House: 18 RC (temporarily available, once the reward for a quest, steep price, but produces Bat Milk when Bats pollinate specific trees including the Sakura and Spooky Trees)
Pumpkin Tombstone: 10 RC, produces 6 Charm (temporarily available) Limit 1
Halloween Fence: 5000 Coins (temporarily available, Charm 1, no limit) Unlocked at Level 26 unfortunately for low level farmers, jolly unfair, that
Theme Items in Special Sale
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Running Mummy: 18 Charm Points and 4 Theme Votes
Gives Gold Cleaning Box
Witch Legs: 2 Charm Points and 2 Theme Votes
Gives Silver Cleaning Box, least valuable of all
Skeleton Rock Star Frontman: 6 Charm Points and 3 Theme Votes
Gives Purple Cleaning Box
Stereo Coffin, 7 Charm Points, 2 Theme Votes
Gives Gold Cleaning Box
Skeleton Rockstar Diva, 8 Charm Points, 5 Theme Votes
Gives 10 Yellow Mystrons for 7 Days, then Blue Gift Box
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