Since yoville.com is really screwed up for the 2nd day in a row, and
I'm limited on what I can do there (besides mixing, but not throwing,
balloons), I figured I'd start my first in series of Yoville help
guides.
For those of you not familiar with YoVille, it is a game by Zynga
(of Mafia Wars fame.) You make a cute little avatar, and wander around
a virtual world. You can earn coins, and use them to buy things in the
stores. You start off with a barebones apartment with starter
furniture. As you get through the game, and level up with experience
points, you gain rooms for your apartment and items (as well as action
moves.) It's a great social game, and you can talk to not only your
existing friends, but any person walking around.
One thing all my newbie friends ask is "How do you get enough coins
to buy all your stuff?" Today's guide will help teach some of the
tricks to maximize the coins you can get. Since most of us don't really
want to spend real money buying YoCash and Coins (yes, you CAN do that
if you are impatient), this guide focuses on the FREE and legal ways of
doing this. (I will never promote cheats in these guides, as the
cheaters and hackers ruin things for the rest of us!)
1. Visit the factory.
Up until recently, visiting the factory and "clocking in" gave you 200
coins and 10 YP (YoPoints - AKA experience points). You get additional
coins for having crew members:
- Apprentice: 1 Crew Member (Just you!): No extra coins
- Apprentice: 2 Crew Members (including you): 20 extra coins
- Apprentice: 5 Crew Members (including you): 35 extra coins
- Apprentice: 10 Crew Members (including you): 50 extra coins
- Apprentice: 20 Crew Members (including you): 75 extra coins
- Apprentice: 35 Crew Members (including you): 100 extra coins
- Apprentice: 50 Crew Members (including you): 150 extra coins
(Meaning, the first "secret" is to invite all your friends to get
the most coins possible!) Now, they offer you a choice of jobs:
- Weave Fabric for Clothing: 200-230 Coins, 6 XP
- Assemble Fishing Rods: 150-175 Coins, 11-15 XP
- Manufacture Furniture: 125-150 Coins, 6 XP (Chance of rare item or furniture!)
- Build a Basic Widget: 200 Coins, 10 XP (Equivalent to old way)
You will still get the bonus coins, described above, for having crew
members. Which is best? It's really up to you. If you are trying to
gain YP faster, go for assembling the fishing rods. If you want more
furniture and rares, manufacture furniture. If you want coins, weave
the fabric. If you want a mixture of coins and YP, build the basic
widget. The secret to get the most out of this system, however, is
knowing you can clock in every 6 hours. If you keep track of this, and
log back onto YoVille (even if just to punch in!), then you will be
able to get more coins a day.
The total daily earning potential varies on a few factors: your
number of friends, which job you choose, and how often you punch in.
So, if you have 50+ friends, manage to clock in 4 times during the day,
and always do the weaving fabric (and assuming you are lucky and always
get the maximum for that job of 230 coins plus your 150 bonus), the
most possible per day is 1520 coins!!!
Also, related to this, make sure you post the little blurb to ask
your friends for help with a job. That can earn you more coins,
depending on how many help you out. And when friends post blurbs, make
sure you help them out, too, for even more coins.
*** Important Note: Since making this guide, the Widget Factory
has been replaced with the Sweets Factory. Please see my Volume 4: Sweets Factory guide for more info!!! ***
2. Visit your Friends.
Here is another reason reason why it is important to have friends in
your crew. You can visit up to 20 friends' apartments/houses each day.
You only get credit for the first 20 you visit, and you can only visit
a particular friend once and still get credit. The trick is, you MUST
do an action to get coins and YP. Yes, there are quite a few actions:
"dance", "fight", "kiss", "joke", "message", and "give gift". All will
give you the same YP amount: 10. But, you get more coins for sending a
message or giving a gift. So, maximize your coins by doing either of
those two for approx. 15-20 coins per friend! If you're looking to
acquire badges, too, gifting is the way to go. (The gifts are not the
free ones you can send when you connect to YoVille, but using the gift
button in a friend's room. For this, you are gifting something out of
your own inventory. But, if you're going to gift, why not get rid of
some of those free gifts others have sent you. *LOL*) Not only will you
get badges based on how many friends you visit, but also for how many
gifts you send.
The total maximum earning potential on this is 400 a day!
3. Play Games.
Currently, there are four games you can play in YoVille. But, they are paired together...let me explain.
The first two games are the Race Track and Fishing games. Each win
earns you 10 coins, and 25 YP. Both of these games, although it looks
like you are playing your friends, really you are playing the computer.
The other two games are Tic Tac Toe and Rock Paper Scissors. You
play against people walking around in YoVille. (The best place, I have
found, to find willing opponents is in front of the apartment
building.) You earn 10 coins for each game you win, and 5 for a tie
game in Tic Tac Toe. Each of these games also earn you 5 YP for winning
(you also get 5 YP for a tie game in Tic Tac Toe.) As with fishing and
racing, these two also work hand in hand, so if you win 200 coins in
one game, you are "maxxed" for the day, and won't be able to earn any
more in the other.
You can win at these, COMBINED, up to 20 times in a 24 hour period.
(So, if you win at Fishing 20 times, you will not be able to earn coins
at Racing, Tic-Tac-Toe, or Rock Paper Scissors.)
The total mamimum earning potential on this is 400 a day! (200 per game pair.)
4. Play Your Daily Scratch-off Card.
You see these pop up once a day. Each card has 5 circles to
scratch-off, one per day. Every card is a winner! There will always be
three matches of one of the items: "coins", "item", or "rare". If you
win a rare, you will get something not offered in any store. An item
will just be a common thing available in the stores. If you win coins,
you get 500!
5. Get Additional Coins on yoville.com!
This one is the least heard of way of getting coins, as it is not
directly on Facebook, and most people don't even know it exists.
However, as my mom has now learned *LOL*, faithfully checking this out
daily will get you even more coins! Start off by leaving Facebook's
site, and going to http://www.yoville.com. Once there, you can get coins by doing the following:
- Pop-up missions! There are three you will get: turning on lights,
grabbing pots of gold, and picking up presents. Each mission brings you
to a friend's profile page. The presents mission is pretty straight
foreward...you get whatever is in the package you click on the upper
right side of the page. Both the lights missions and the pot of gold
missions will earn you 5 points each time you click one, also in the
upper right side of the profile page. I estimate that you can earn
around 100 points a day following the missions.
- Separate Pot Of Gold Hunt! After all of the pop-ups are done (the
last will let you post on your Facebook account that YOUR lights are
out and you need someone to turn them back on) you can start finding
even more pots of gold. 10 of these are hidden, randomly, among your
friends' profiles. Your buddy list is in the upper right hand corner.
The easiest way is to go to each friend's page, in order. Wait a minute
for the page to fully load (sometimes the pot takes a lot longer than
the rest of the page.) If a pot of gold pops up, click it for 5 more
coins. If not, go on to the next page. 10 pots, at 5 coins each, is an
extra 50 coins a day! (Also note that you earn badges for finding pots,
so there is another plus!)
- Clean up splats! A new balloon feature was added a short while ago,
where you can throw balloons at your friends' profile pages. This makes
splats on their page! If you have soap, and click on a splat (on your
profile or your friends') you will be rewarded with 5 coins. Be VERY
careful with this, however. Some YoVillians LIKE the special (shaped)
splats and will be very angry if you clean them up. So, for me, I make
it a policy to only clean up the small or medium balloon "messy"
splats, and not the pretty ones. (More on the balloons in a future
volume.)
6. Get Profits From Items
This one is gonna be short and simple. Most of the "rich" YoVille
players got that way by investing wisely. In other words, get the coins
you have received from the above methods, save them up, and buy limited
edition items (costumes are big, as well as holiday items.) Then, when
those items are no longer available, they will be worth a LOT more. You
can then use the "events" feature to sell the item at a much higher
price to another member.
7. "FREE" YoCash
The last one is kind of a last resort fix for those who really want
YoCash (these are the special currency, not the coin), but have no REAL
money to buy it with. If you click the "Earn More YoCash" tab above the
game screen, you will be presented with offers. A lot of the offers are
pay ones, but there are some free ones. You can separate those by
clicking the "FREE" tab, and only those will show. Be very careful, as
quite a few will get you into trouble (trial offers that will charge
you eventually if you don't cancel.) But there ARE some that are free,
like signing up for a newsletter. These will have low amounts of
YoCash, but will give you a start on buying some of the special items
that are YoCash exclusive.
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