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
Showing posts with label Theme-related Decorations. Show all posts
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08 October 2015
21 September 2015
Boosting Votes in the Farm Beauty Contest
I suppose the first question is: why on earth should I participate in the Farm Beauty Contest if I am at a fairly low level and cannot hope to compete with the 'power farmers'? Well, if you have reached Level 16 to unlock the Farm Beauty Contest, you really ought to participate because in doing so, you will earn valuable Farm Aids and Farm Aids are useful to every one. You need to register in order to Vote and if you Vote daily, you can earn a Gold Treasure Chest filled with Farm Aids. There is a little logistic problem here in that, after voting, you need to return to the Vote screen to claim your Treasure Chest Reward. Do so, though, because it is worth the effort.
Vote for Harvest Moon or Rosewood Farm by all means if you feel inclined to do so, but the most important aspect of this, for YOU, is to Vote. Should you try to earn Votes as well? Again, you can earn Farm Aids another other Rewards with every 200 Votes you receive. A low level Farmer may not be able to obtain 200 Votes every day, but it is cumulative. It is here that the following information may help a farmer whose level is not very high.
About a week ago, I asked for volunteers for a project that would help us discover how we could increase our Vote totals in the Farm Beauty Contests. I would like to thank all the volunteers from my Facebook Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group who performed the tedious tasks of logging their changes and resulting votes day after day. Now finally, I think I have some idea of how this works.
First of all, the idea that every change will be worth 1 Point is misleading. Felicia and
Darryl have a total of 80 potential Votes and Dad and Grandma have a total of 72 potential Votes, and these are divided between four different categories as follows:
Felicia:
Charm Points
Theme Items
Animals
Expansions
Dad:
High Level
Expansions
Machines
Theme Items
Darryl:
Charm Points
Theme Items
Large variety of Crops (used to be Trees)
Gallery Registration
Grandma:
High Level
Charm Points
Trees
Gallery Registration
We wondered initially why one Farmer's Vote total with Felicia would improve when additional Animals were placed on the farm and why another Farmer's Votes from Felicia showed no change.
Although three of the Characters give Votes for 'Theme related Decoration' and the description in the Menu states for each that: 'Felicia, Dad and Darryl will give you 1 more votes every day', this is NOT the case at all. Whether or not you receive a Vote when you place another Theme-related Decoration is based on the number of Votes the Character has given for EXISTING Theme Decorations. With a total of 80 potential Votes, the maximum number for Theme-related Decorations from Felicia and Darryl would be 20 each. For Dad with only a total of 72, probably 18 maximum. Thus, once you have received the maximum for the existing Theme Decorations on your Farm, placement of additional Theme Decorations will not change the Vote. It is the same where Charm is concerned. A point was reached on Harvest Moon Farm where even another purchase and subsequent placement of a high Charm valued Theme-related Decoration changed NOTHING in terms of Character Votes. It raised total Charm Points on the Farm but that was all.
This is the only explanation that makes any sense frankly and would explain why a fairly high level Farm like Harvest Moon would show no change in Vote totals after placing three more Theme decorations but a low level farm's Votes would be boosted by the addition of even 1 more Theme Decoration.
The same would hold true for additional Trees placed or additional Machines. Grandma likes Trees but once you receive her maximum of 20 Votes for the Trees on your Farm, any additional Trees will not change her Vote total.
Note that the Farm Beauty Contest has a number of different components to it. The first is the Vote total that gives Rewards listed on a chart and include one Decoration and one Avatar Reward as well as RC for the two final Rewards. These are earned by raising your cumulative Vote total by 200 points. You really have to earn at least 200 Votes per day to be able to win all possible Rewards on the chart before the Contest expires. The Rewards grow better progressively. They all include Purple Mystrons, used to purchase, inter alia, Materials for the Salad Machine when the activity that initially gave the Material has expired.
The second component is related to your Charm Point total. Unlike the Votes and those Rewards, this part of the Contest deals with your Global rating, comparing you with all other farmers. It is here that low level Farms really do not stand a chance, nor do MOST Farms in fact. Harvest Moon, after loading the Farm with Charm Point Decorations, still ranks only 44th globally. There is no chance whatsoever that she could win a Trophy at the end of the Contest.
Why then do Farmers with Charm totals of less than 1800 load their farms with hundreds of ladders or fireworks? It is pointless... I did it myself to some extent, but now intend to curtail that quixotic activity, because my Charm Point totals NEVER will be good enough to rival those of the top ten or even top thirty.
Nearing the end of the 2nd Farm Beauty Contest, it is clear that BALANCE really is the key to obtaining Character Votes. In other words, cluttering every plot on your Farm with Firecrackers or even Balloon Doors (Theme-related in this one) is counterproductive after a point. You would do better to have a balance between Crops, Trees, Animals, Machines and Decorations as well as the greatest number of Expansions and Gallery Registrations. BALANCE.
It is here that Harvest Moon Farm never will reach the maximum of 80, 72, 80, 72 Votes with the four Characters because I am too attached sentimentally to the Iris Crop that no longer is available in the Market. As long as many plots on my Farm are occupied by the Iris flowers, I cannot raise my Votes with these Characters much. I could remove some Decorations and replace them with Animals or Machines and that might gain me a couple of Votes with Felicia and Dad respectively but at this point, I am too weary of it all. With all the Charm points I could cram onto Harvest Moon, I never reach a global rating that would give me any Trophy, even the lowest grade. Thanks, however, to the Votes of other Farmers, I hope to receive all the Rewards this time, including the Avatar of the Ferris Wheel. Even Rosewood, thanks to Farmer support, may obtain the Whale Decoration.
I embarked upon the research project mainly in order to try to help low level farmers. Having created a new farm on a friend's Kindle device recently in order to ascertain how the game had changed since I first wrote my Missions Guide and how difficult it would be to make progress without investing in substantial amounts of RC, I began to wonder how low level Farmers best could succeed in the monthly Farm Beauty Contests.
My suggestions now are as follows:
First of all, your Votes with the four Characters are based on your CURRENT Farm photo. Whenever you make any improvements, make certain that you take a NEW photo before evening when the Votes are counted, so that the Characters' Votes will reflect your Changes.
Second, remember that each aspect of farming that a Character likes has a maximum value of 20 Votes. Log your own changes to see when you have gained the maximum in each situation. In other words, add Animals for Felicia until her Vote no longer changes when you add one more Animal. Add Machines until Dad's Vote no longer changes when you add another Machine. Add Trees until Gransma's Vote remains unchanged and add a variety of Crops for Darryl until his Vote fails to change with the planting of a new Crop.
Other aspects of the game that will increase points are Expansions and Gallery Registration. Register as many Items as possible BEFORE you take your daily Photograph. Two Characters like Gallery Registration although it is possible that Grandma's rules for giving Points for this are different from Darryl's rules.
Three out of four Characters do give Votes for Charm Points but remember that in each case, the maximum number of Votes you can gain from any of these Characters for Charm is 20. This is quite separate from the global rating that has no limit, by the way, but know that, once the Votes of Felicia, Darryl and Grandma no longer increase with the placement of a new Decoration, it means that you have reached 20 with them.
Obviously, the goal is to rate 80/80 Votes for each Character, although I suspect that is difficult indeed. I certainly could not manage it myself. As previously stated though, you need only 200 Votes per day really to be able to collect all the Rewards before the current Contest ends.
The Votes of other Farmers can help you reach this goal. I certainly am extremely grateful to all the Farmers who have cast their Votes for Harvest Moon and Rosewood Farms. Thanks to them, I may have a chance this time round! Rosewood was unable to win the Backpack in the first Contest and both Rosewood and Harvest Moon failed to win the avatar and RC that were the final Rewards on the board.
For low level farms, then, your best option is to plant as many different Crops as possible, add as many Animals, Machines and Trees as possible, expand your Farm as many times as you can and register as many items as you can. Actually, for all of us, the main goal is to make certain that we receive at least 200 Votes per day.
MYSTERY SHOP AND FARM BEAUTY CONTEST
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This is really a note for low level farmers or fairly new farmers. Do not underestimate the value of the Mystery Shop and the effects of your daily Votes in the Farm Beauty Contest. Your Votes will give YOU a Treasure Chest filled with Farm Aids, including Purple Mystrons. The Purple Mystrons have a new department in the Mystery Shop where you can purchase Salad Machine materials when the activity that gave them has expired.
The Yellow Mystron Department is invaluable to farmers who have missed many of the time-restricted Quests of the past. Here you can purchase some of the special Decorations that were given as Rewards in these old Missions. Some of them actually are cleanable Decorations, but they ALL have Charm Point values.
Blue Mystrons are given only when a Farmer has completed the entire Reward Path on the Daily Order Board. Each Order then will yield a single Blue Mystron. The Blue Mystron Shop has the final Decorations for many of the time-restricted Missions from the past. It takes forever to earn sufficient to buy one Decoration but at least you have hope that one day you will have a special Decoration you missed initially.
Finally, the Coin Mystery Shop sells EVERYTHING, from Farm Aids, to Avatars, to Crops you may not have been able to unlock yet. It does not sell Machines or Animals or Trees but those can be found in the Green Mystron Shop.
FARM BEAUTY CONTEST TROPHIES
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Your total number of Charm Points is not really going to determine the number of Votes you receive from the Characters once you reach their ceiling of 20 each for Charm. All it does is place you 'globally' and it is so unlikely that most of us ever will make it into a place that will gain us a Trophy that it probably is a crying shame to ruin our Farms by cramming them full of unnecessary and sometimes unattractive duplicate Decorations. For example, with over 1600 Charm Points, Harvest Moon Farm is only 49th globally... what chance there???
What an ordinary Farmer should do with respect to the Farm Beauty Contest is to try to earn as many of the Rewards as possible without fretting over it too much. My second Farm, Rosewood, failed even to gain sufficient Votes for the Backpack in the first Contest but having created the Farm only a year ago, never will have 100% completion in terms of Gallery Registration so what difference can it make really?
If Development does not consider the suggestions of players to remove the various Trophies from the Gallery, even Harvest Moon will have lost the potential for 100% completion and, in practical terms, that is poor marketing on the part of FunPlus because one of the reasons many of us BUY every new Decoration released is to try to keep 100% completion a possibility. With no hope of gaining 1st Place ever in a Beauty Contest, or even 2nd or 3rd, might as well stop buying Decorations we don't particularly like or want! I hope they will remove those Trophies from the Gallery. After all, there are other items, such as the Special Sheep you are given when you have registered all four of the Sheep from the Daily Orders Board Rewards, that do not appear in the Gallery.
The main reason I began my little research project was for the low level or new farmers They will not receive that many points for Expansions, High Level or Decorations but if they know how much each Animal, Tree and Machine will count, they can raise their points each day with those. I started a new farm recently on a friend's Kindle to see how hard it would be, and it can be frustrating and difficult... time-restricted Missions only are unlocked at specific levels and it is hard to complete Activities. If they do not feel that the Farm Beauty Contest is hopeless, it will make the game more fun while they attempt to raise their Levels and unlock new options. By the way, the Contest is only unlocked at Level 16.
Actual Examples:
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One Farmer wrote:
1 test starting numbers: 66/80. 62/72, 66/80, 56/72 - day 2 numbers the same after adding 1 tree but not changing snapshot - day 3: 67/80(1 tree), 63/72(1 machine, 1 beehive), 55/80, 56/72. and I changed the snapshot. So I'm guessing beehives don't count but why oh why did I lose 11 points for my crops? Now that's a lot and I know they were all planted.
Interpretation: Day 1 and Day 2 are the same because she did not submit a new photo. On Day 3, she received 1 additional Vote from Felicia for the Beehive. She received an additional Vote from Dad for the new machine. She probably had the maximum of 20 Votes for Trees from Grandma before she added a new one, so that did not change. As for the Crops, it is a 'variety' that increased Darryl's Votes... Day 3 Crops may have had less types than Day 1, thus losing her some Votes with Darryl.
Harvest Moon added new Theme-related Decorations and other Decorations with better Charm Points, boosting her Charm point total by over 30 points but, even after taking a new photo, all four Characters gave the SAME Votes! She planted a greater variety of Crops as well. To me, this means that she has reached the 'ceiling' of 20 Votes for Charm and for Theme-related Decorations. The reason she does not have full 80 Points with Felicia is few Animals now on Farm and with Dad because of few Machines being placed. Grandma's Votes remain a mystery. HM has registered ALL possible Gallery items apart from Flamingo and new Trophies and has ALL Trees on Farm. But Votes remain low at 55/72. The only possible reason would be her Level which is neither high nor low at 83.
Low Level FArms who planted a wide variety of Crops substantially increased their Votes with Darryl and new Machines, Animals and Trees counted as well... because they had few on the Farm previously.
Preparing for the Next Farm Beauty Contest
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As the current Farm Beauty Contest is set to end in less than two days, it is rather pointless for Farmers who have not close to a significant Reward such as the Whale Spring Rider Decoration to scramble to attempt to achieve the impossible. A balance bctween Crops, Animals, Trees, Machines and Decorations is the key to obtaining Votes from the four Main Characters. Theme related Decorations as well as Charm Points count as well but you need to divide the potential total of Votes for each category that appeals to any Character by four, as previously stated. In other words, I doubt that Charm Points can give more than 20 Votes from a Character who likes them.
Instead of loading your Farm with duplicate inexpensive Decorations such as Laadders or relying now upon a few more Votes from fellow farmers, it would be a good idea to organise your farm for the next Contest. You can do this by achieving a balance between the different items that can be placed. Use the final day or two to see how substitution of one type of item by another affects the Votes of the four Characters.
Your Charm total determines your Global rating but frankly, it is almost impossible for an ordinary farmer to boost Charm to the point of winning a Trophy. Harvest Moon Farm at best has found itself on occasion at 35 globally. The reward for this, should it remain between 100 and 11, is one of the dull lowest Treasure Chests. One has to be at a rating better than 11 to receive a Silver Chest. At 35, what was the point of ruining the real Charm of my Farm?
Rosewood is at 7718 Rank globally. Quite hopeless! In other words, don't bother with this unless you are in the top ten!
It is the Votes you receive from the four Characters that are more valuable really than Global Rating.You can obtain various farm aids as well as Purple Mystrons both by achieving totals and by voting. in fact, it is the act of Voting that gives you the best rewards throughout the course of the contest, as I have explained earlier. Work on balancing the items on your Farm and simply try to improve totals by a few Votes for each Character if you can.
Vote for Harvest Moon or Rosewood Farm by all means if you feel inclined to do so, but the most important aspect of this, for YOU, is to Vote. Should you try to earn Votes as well? Again, you can earn Farm Aids another other Rewards with every 200 Votes you receive. A low level Farmer may not be able to obtain 200 Votes every day, but it is cumulative. It is here that the following information may help a farmer whose level is not very high.
About a week ago, I asked for volunteers for a project that would help us discover how we could increase our Vote totals in the Farm Beauty Contests. I would like to thank all the volunteers from my Facebook Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group who performed the tedious tasks of logging their changes and resulting votes day after day. Now finally, I think I have some idea of how this works.
First of all, the idea that every change will be worth 1 Point is misleading. Felicia and
Darryl have a total of 80 potential Votes and Dad and Grandma have a total of 72 potential Votes, and these are divided between four different categories as follows:
Felicia:
Charm Points
Theme Items
Animals
Expansions
Dad:
High Level
Expansions
Machines
Theme Items
Darryl:
Charm Points
Theme Items
Large variety of Crops (used to be Trees)
Gallery Registration
Grandma:
High Level
Charm Points
Trees
Gallery Registration
We wondered initially why one Farmer's Vote total with Felicia would improve when additional Animals were placed on the farm and why another Farmer's Votes from Felicia showed no change.
Although three of the Characters give Votes for 'Theme related Decoration' and the description in the Menu states for each that: 'Felicia, Dad and Darryl will give you 1 more votes every day', this is NOT the case at all. Whether or not you receive a Vote when you place another Theme-related Decoration is based on the number of Votes the Character has given for EXISTING Theme Decorations. With a total of 80 potential Votes, the maximum number for Theme-related Decorations from Felicia and Darryl would be 20 each. For Dad with only a total of 72, probably 18 maximum. Thus, once you have received the maximum for the existing Theme Decorations on your Farm, placement of additional Theme Decorations will not change the Vote. It is the same where Charm is concerned. A point was reached on Harvest Moon Farm where even another purchase and subsequent placement of a high Charm valued Theme-related Decoration changed NOTHING in terms of Character Votes. It raised total Charm Points on the Farm but that was all.
This is the only explanation that makes any sense frankly and would explain why a fairly high level Farm like Harvest Moon would show no change in Vote totals after placing three more Theme decorations but a low level farm's Votes would be boosted by the addition of even 1 more Theme Decoration.
The same would hold true for additional Trees placed or additional Machines. Grandma likes Trees but once you receive her maximum of 20 Votes for the Trees on your Farm, any additional Trees will not change her Vote total.
Note that the Farm Beauty Contest has a number of different components to it. The first is the Vote total that gives Rewards listed on a chart and include one Decoration and one Avatar Reward as well as RC for the two final Rewards. These are earned by raising your cumulative Vote total by 200 points. You really have to earn at least 200 Votes per day to be able to win all possible Rewards on the chart before the Contest expires. The Rewards grow better progressively. They all include Purple Mystrons, used to purchase, inter alia, Materials for the Salad Machine when the activity that initially gave the Material has expired.
The second component is related to your Charm Point total. Unlike the Votes and those Rewards, this part of the Contest deals with your Global rating, comparing you with all other farmers. It is here that low level Farms really do not stand a chance, nor do MOST Farms in fact. Harvest Moon, after loading the Farm with Charm Point Decorations, still ranks only 44th globally. There is no chance whatsoever that she could win a Trophy at the end of the Contest.
Why then do Farmers with Charm totals of less than 1800 load their farms with hundreds of ladders or fireworks? It is pointless... I did it myself to some extent, but now intend to curtail that quixotic activity, because my Charm Point totals NEVER will be good enough to rival those of the top ten or even top thirty.
Nearing the end of the 2nd Farm Beauty Contest, it is clear that BALANCE really is the key to obtaining Character Votes. In other words, cluttering every plot on your Farm with Firecrackers or even Balloon Doors (Theme-related in this one) is counterproductive after a point. You would do better to have a balance between Crops, Trees, Animals, Machines and Decorations as well as the greatest number of Expansions and Gallery Registrations. BALANCE.
It is here that Harvest Moon Farm never will reach the maximum of 80, 72, 80, 72 Votes with the four Characters because I am too attached sentimentally to the Iris Crop that no longer is available in the Market. As long as many plots on my Farm are occupied by the Iris flowers, I cannot raise my Votes with these Characters much. I could remove some Decorations and replace them with Animals or Machines and that might gain me a couple of Votes with Felicia and Dad respectively but at this point, I am too weary of it all. With all the Charm points I could cram onto Harvest Moon, I never reach a global rating that would give me any Trophy, even the lowest grade. Thanks, however, to the Votes of other Farmers, I hope to receive all the Rewards this time, including the Avatar of the Ferris Wheel. Even Rosewood, thanks to Farmer support, may obtain the Whale Decoration.
I embarked upon the research project mainly in order to try to help low level farmers. Having created a new farm on a friend's Kindle device recently in order to ascertain how the game had changed since I first wrote my Missions Guide and how difficult it would be to make progress without investing in substantial amounts of RC, I began to wonder how low level Farmers best could succeed in the monthly Farm Beauty Contests.
My suggestions now are as follows:
First of all, your Votes with the four Characters are based on your CURRENT Farm photo. Whenever you make any improvements, make certain that you take a NEW photo before evening when the Votes are counted, so that the Characters' Votes will reflect your Changes.
Second, remember that each aspect of farming that a Character likes has a maximum value of 20 Votes. Log your own changes to see when you have gained the maximum in each situation. In other words, add Animals for Felicia until her Vote no longer changes when you add one more Animal. Add Machines until Dad's Vote no longer changes when you add another Machine. Add Trees until Gransma's Vote remains unchanged and add a variety of Crops for Darryl until his Vote fails to change with the planting of a new Crop.
Other aspects of the game that will increase points are Expansions and Gallery Registration. Register as many Items as possible BEFORE you take your daily Photograph. Two Characters like Gallery Registration although it is possible that Grandma's rules for giving Points for this are different from Darryl's rules.
Three out of four Characters do give Votes for Charm Points but remember that in each case, the maximum number of Votes you can gain from any of these Characters for Charm is 20. This is quite separate from the global rating that has no limit, by the way, but know that, once the Votes of Felicia, Darryl and Grandma no longer increase with the placement of a new Decoration, it means that you have reached 20 with them.
Obviously, the goal is to rate 80/80 Votes for each Character, although I suspect that is difficult indeed. I certainly could not manage it myself. As previously stated though, you need only 200 Votes per day really to be able to collect all the Rewards before the current Contest ends.
The Votes of other Farmers can help you reach this goal. I certainly am extremely grateful to all the Farmers who have cast their Votes for Harvest Moon and Rosewood Farms. Thanks to them, I may have a chance this time round! Rosewood was unable to win the Backpack in the first Contest and both Rosewood and Harvest Moon failed to win the avatar and RC that were the final Rewards on the board.
For low level farms, then, your best option is to plant as many different Crops as possible, add as many Animals, Machines and Trees as possible, expand your Farm as many times as you can and register as many items as you can. Actually, for all of us, the main goal is to make certain that we receive at least 200 Votes per day.
MYSTERY SHOP AND FARM BEAUTY CONTEST
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This is really a note for low level farmers or fairly new farmers. Do not underestimate the value of the Mystery Shop and the effects of your daily Votes in the Farm Beauty Contest. Your Votes will give YOU a Treasure Chest filled with Farm Aids, including Purple Mystrons. The Purple Mystrons have a new department in the Mystery Shop where you can purchase Salad Machine materials when the activity that gave them has expired.
The Yellow Mystron Department is invaluable to farmers who have missed many of the time-restricted Quests of the past. Here you can purchase some of the special Decorations that were given as Rewards in these old Missions. Some of them actually are cleanable Decorations, but they ALL have Charm Point values.
Blue Mystrons are given only when a Farmer has completed the entire Reward Path on the Daily Order Board. Each Order then will yield a single Blue Mystron. The Blue Mystron Shop has the final Decorations for many of the time-restricted Missions from the past. It takes forever to earn sufficient to buy one Decoration but at least you have hope that one day you will have a special Decoration you missed initially.
Finally, the Coin Mystery Shop sells EVERYTHING, from Farm Aids, to Avatars, to Crops you may not have been able to unlock yet. It does not sell Machines or Animals or Trees but those can be found in the Green Mystron Shop.
FARM BEAUTY CONTEST TROPHIES
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Your total number of Charm Points is not really going to determine the number of Votes you receive from the Characters once you reach their ceiling of 20 each for Charm. All it does is place you 'globally' and it is so unlikely that most of us ever will make it into a place that will gain us a Trophy that it probably is a crying shame to ruin our Farms by cramming them full of unnecessary and sometimes unattractive duplicate Decorations. For example, with over 1600 Charm Points, Harvest Moon Farm is only 49th globally... what chance there???
What an ordinary Farmer should do with respect to the Farm Beauty Contest is to try to earn as many of the Rewards as possible without fretting over it too much. My second Farm, Rosewood, failed even to gain sufficient Votes for the Backpack in the first Contest but having created the Farm only a year ago, never will have 100% completion in terms of Gallery Registration so what difference can it make really?
If Development does not consider the suggestions of players to remove the various Trophies from the Gallery, even Harvest Moon will have lost the potential for 100% completion and, in practical terms, that is poor marketing on the part of FunPlus because one of the reasons many of us BUY every new Decoration released is to try to keep 100% completion a possibility. With no hope of gaining 1st Place ever in a Beauty Contest, or even 2nd or 3rd, might as well stop buying Decorations we don't particularly like or want! I hope they will remove those Trophies from the Gallery. After all, there are other items, such as the Special Sheep you are given when you have registered all four of the Sheep from the Daily Orders Board Rewards, that do not appear in the Gallery.
The main reason I began my little research project was for the low level or new farmers They will not receive that many points for Expansions, High Level or Decorations but if they know how much each Animal, Tree and Machine will count, they can raise their points each day with those. I started a new farm recently on a friend's Kindle to see how hard it would be, and it can be frustrating and difficult... time-restricted Missions only are unlocked at specific levels and it is hard to complete Activities. If they do not feel that the Farm Beauty Contest is hopeless, it will make the game more fun while they attempt to raise their Levels and unlock new options. By the way, the Contest is only unlocked at Level 16.
Actual Examples:
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One Farmer wrote:
1 test starting numbers: 66/80. 62/72, 66/80, 56/72 - day 2 numbers the same after adding 1 tree but not changing snapshot - day 3: 67/80(1 tree), 63/72(1 machine, 1 beehive), 55/80, 56/72. and I changed the snapshot. So I'm guessing beehives don't count but why oh why did I lose 11 points for my crops? Now that's a lot and I know they were all planted.
Interpretation: Day 1 and Day 2 are the same because she did not submit a new photo. On Day 3, she received 1 additional Vote from Felicia for the Beehive. She received an additional Vote from Dad for the new machine. She probably had the maximum of 20 Votes for Trees from Grandma before she added a new one, so that did not change. As for the Crops, it is a 'variety' that increased Darryl's Votes... Day 3 Crops may have had less types than Day 1, thus losing her some Votes with Darryl.
Harvest Moon added new Theme-related Decorations and other Decorations with better Charm Points, boosting her Charm point total by over 30 points but, even after taking a new photo, all four Characters gave the SAME Votes! She planted a greater variety of Crops as well. To me, this means that she has reached the 'ceiling' of 20 Votes for Charm and for Theme-related Decorations. The reason she does not have full 80 Points with Felicia is few Animals now on Farm and with Dad because of few Machines being placed. Grandma's Votes remain a mystery. HM has registered ALL possible Gallery items apart from Flamingo and new Trophies and has ALL Trees on Farm. But Votes remain low at 55/72. The only possible reason would be her Level which is neither high nor low at 83.
Low Level FArms who planted a wide variety of Crops substantially increased their Votes with Darryl and new Machines, Animals and Trees counted as well... because they had few on the Farm previously.
Preparing for the Next Farm Beauty Contest
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As the current Farm Beauty Contest is set to end in less than two days, it is rather pointless for Farmers who have not close to a significant Reward such as the Whale Spring Rider Decoration to scramble to attempt to achieve the impossible. A balance bctween Crops, Animals, Trees, Machines and Decorations is the key to obtaining Votes from the four Main Characters. Theme related Decorations as well as Charm Points count as well but you need to divide the potential total of Votes for each category that appeals to any Character by four, as previously stated. In other words, I doubt that Charm Points can give more than 20 Votes from a Character who likes them.
Instead of loading your Farm with duplicate inexpensive Decorations such as Laadders or relying now upon a few more Votes from fellow farmers, it would be a good idea to organise your farm for the next Contest. You can do this by achieving a balance between the different items that can be placed. Use the final day or two to see how substitution of one type of item by another affects the Votes of the four Characters.
Your Charm total determines your Global rating but frankly, it is almost impossible for an ordinary farmer to boost Charm to the point of winning a Trophy. Harvest Moon Farm at best has found itself on occasion at 35 globally. The reward for this, should it remain between 100 and 11, is one of the dull lowest Treasure Chests. One has to be at a rating better than 11 to receive a Silver Chest. At 35, what was the point of ruining the real Charm of my Farm?
Rosewood is at 7718 Rank globally. Quite hopeless! In other words, don't bother with this unless you are in the top ten!
It is the Votes you receive from the four Characters that are more valuable really than Global Rating.You can obtain various farm aids as well as Purple Mystrons both by achieving totals and by voting. in fact, it is the act of Voting that gives you the best rewards throughout the course of the contest, as I have explained earlier. Work on balancing the items on your Farm and simply try to improve totals by a few Votes for each Character if you can.
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