Current Farm Beauty Contest Rules

Note from Freyashawk:  I appreciate every neighbour who votes for my farm.  Unfietunately the rules have changed.  Please try to send your votes as soon after reset as you can.  There is a limit daily now of 100 neighbour votes, but if I miss the total even once even by 1 vote, there is no way to make up the difference.  I know it is frustrating to be told I reacjed the maximum, but if you do not try and I do not reach that total each day, I will be out of the running.

I wrote about this before but a neighbour asked that I do it again.

The ordinary Rewards are obtained with vote totals.  Significant rewards first are for  a total of 4000 for a Seaside decoration and second, 6000 for an Avatar.

In the Farm Beauty menu, there are more rewards in the form of farm aids and purple mystron.  Tap on the '1' icon to claim them.   It is interesting that there is no time limit for collecting any of them.

So there are two different types of 'wins'.  One is determined by vote totals.  The other is determined by rank.

For rank, these are the new rules in theory but the results either are very defective or dishonest.

First, the chances of being in the top 100 are not high.

To even try to reach the top, you need the following:

Maximum NPC votes from Day 1;

The maximum of 100 votes from neighbours every single day.

There will be a number of farmers world wide who achieve this.  They will be tied in terms of their vote totals with the total of 9856 votes at the end of the contest.

What then determines the rank?  It is the Landscape Point total shown on the first screenshot taken for the contest.

Do not confuse this requirement for rank with the requirement from the 4 characters who 'give votes for beautiful paths with high landscape points'.  That requirement is fairly low. 

It sounds simple but the reality is skewed.  The top three farms had actual lower landscape point totals than other farmers in the top 20.

How did they get the top three slots?  Well, when the final points were counted, their farms showed impossibly high landscape point totals initially.  Whatever AI was counting and deternining winners accepted these impossible totals but then their landscape point totals were almost immediately changed to the real ones that were not the highest by any means.  I asked Support to investigate.  I first  repeated the rules and was told that was correct.  For a week, they sent messages asking me to be patient.  A few hours before the new contest began, they told me I needed to show 'solid proof' and that they had found nothing wrong.

What kind of response is that?  Any farmer can see the 100 farms that rank in the top 100 and actually visit their farms at the point where the first contest screenshot was taken.  So what more solid proof is needed?  Every one could see the winners were not the top farms in terms of landscape point totals.  So why are they allowing these farms to win sgain and again?

To give farmers a clear example of what is needed for maximum votes from the 4 characters for landscape point totaks and expansions, I asked my cousin to share screenshots from her farm.  At Level 60, she has only 8 votes out of 18 for high level farm, but without ever expanding to the 32 x 32 farm, she has the maximum of 16/16 for 'big farms' and with only 2,355 Landscape Points, she has the maximum for 'beautiful paths with high landscape points'.

Thanks to my cousin for sharing this data.

Her global rank now is 74,779 by the way but she lost major interest in this game long ago and although she logs in daily and tries to help her Community a little, she is no longer a truly dedicated farmer.  She usually will earn the Decoration but not the avatar.