Millions of people around the world are fanatical, passionate and dedicated farmers – online, that is. These are the folks who spend hours each week (or day!) indulging in the fascinating game of Farmville where everyone begins with a small piece of land and the ability to grow crops. The game’s winners can earn themselves a farming empire with huge homes. But to accomplish all this requires a good deal of money, just like in the real world. So we must begin by planting crops … but which ones? There are so many choices.

If you want to make money as fast as you can, then know that peas are a great crop to plant because of their high financial returns. Your costs are 190 coins to plant your veggies, plus there is a harvesting cost of 15 coins. The good news is that you will receive a luscious 381 coins for selling the little green babies, yielding 176 coins in daily profit.

Farmville wants to keep its players involved so crops grow at supersonic speed – but they die in a short time, too, unless you, the farmer, pay attention. So when deciding what crops to grow it’s not just about money but it’s also about how involved you are in your game. If you are going to be off your computer or uninvolved in the game for a couple of days, it’s best to plant either nothing or a long-time growth plant like because your crops are certain to die and you will have wasted the money you invested in acquiring and planting them.

We’ve also mentioned that some crops aren’t available until you’ve reached some of the game’s higher levels. But it’s fairly easy to reach Level 5 and once you’re there a terrific crop to plant overnight is the pumpkin. Pumpkins take eight hours to come to harvest and then you have a further eight hours before they wilt. They cost 30 coins and will bring in 68 coins once harvested.

Some berries are a good crop to plant when you are at Level 1 – but be aware that many of the lower level plants require frequent attention. Super berries, for instance, mature in only two hours and offer a profit of 75 coins. Strawberries are ready in four hours but only profit 10 coins while Goji berries have a profit of 43 coins but give breathing room because they mature in 16 hours. If you will be absent from the game for some frivolous reason – like eating, sleeping or taking a shower – a long-maturity plant is a wise choice.

At higher levels you will have a multitude of choices. For instance, if you only play the game occasionally, a good choice might be Broccoli. You can plant it when you reach Level35 and it pays a handsome 258 coins each time you harvest it. If you’re more intense and determined, consider Clover which is available at Level70 and pays 28 coins. Why is that a good crop? Because Clover matures every four hours – meaning you can harvest approximately six crops per day or 336 points over the two days it would require to grow one crops of Broccoli. Clearly strategy and understanding your goal is critical for success as a farmer.

Just like in a real farm with soil, seeds and a multitude of reasons for possible failure, lack of organization will devastate your plan to quickly become a prosperous farmer. So it’s critical to be smart about your crops. You need to know which seeds to plant and the best way is to take notes on various crops so that you’re crystal clear about which ones are best for your situation. What you need to know is: your crop name, naturally; your cost which includes the cost of the seeds and the cost for planting or ploughing, as it’s called in this virtual world; the interval until your crop is ready for sale; your profits. In this way you can figure out what’s best for your situation.

One last way to make a horrible mistake is to forget how long you have to harvest your crop before it rots in the ground. You will lose your seed money and your planting money if you make this mistake and it’s a painful loss. If you plant White Roses and forget about them, it will cost you 15 coins for planting and 620 coins for the seed, for a loss of 635 hard-earned coins. The pain of losing that much money has driven gamers right out of Farmville. The worst part is that it didn’t have to happen because it’s an easily preventable mistake.

Farmville superstars aren’t ‘born under a lucky star’ – they have absolutely learned how to play Farmville by working experience and listening to advice from good players.

Farmville collectables are an interesting way to add to the richness of this virtual world. Collecting exposes the classic conflict in computer games: ”Should I buy cool stuff or should I save my coin to rise up through the levels?” collectables are just pure fun and many gamers are avid collectors who are cutthroat when they are in pursuit of a goodie that will complete an entire collection. But why would anyone bother with collecting?

1. Folks accumulate these virtual goodies for reasons that aren’t that different from the Real World. Why does anyone collect old records, toys, coins, stamps, old magazines or jewelry? Every collectible has something about it that appeals to the collector, something that causes the object to be special and interesting in some way.

2. This is a game – by definition a game has winners and losers. So owning a complete collection is a way to win because not everybody can be so fortunate. Available items change often, plus there is some luck involved since players receive random opportunities to buy.

Reason #3: Collectors are honored – but there are practical reasons to collect, too. How would you like five free tanks of fuel to run your tractors and other equipment? Or 5,000 coins to spend on your farm or to help you rise through the 999 levels? Or how about 250 Experience Points? Once you have a completed collection you can trade it in for all of these wonderful goodies.

Every gamer has to make choices in this virtual farming community – and every other game, of course. Collecting costs coin and can be a distraction if you’re determined to be a top player as soon as you can.

Finding Collectables Via Popups: Farmville is loaded with popups and you might be busily plowing your corn fields when a treasure that you’ve been waiting for pops up on your screen. If a sought-after goodie appears, though, don’t wait! Some collectables disappear in only seconds so you snooze, you lose.

Specific Tasks Bring Specific Collectables: you need to be carrying out a specific activity to get specific collectables. By way of example, you can acquire collectables for ploughing, applying fertilizer and bringing in a bountiful harvest. In the event that you don’t do any work to qualify for special collectables then you are going to receive absolutely nothing.

Gain Humongous Numbers Of Friends: friends and Neighbors constantly ‘gift’ each other in this virtual farming game. You might have a huge supply of an item while your friend has the exact piece you need so a trade is in order. The more friends you have, the more opportunities for trading. The most effective means of acquiring Neighbors is always to keep tabs on your feeds – both the live ones and the news ones – for “wall postings” from nearby Neighborhood friends.

Exactly like the Real World, many collectables will be easy to acquire while a handful are particularly hard to find. The game’s inventors classified all objects as Rare, Uncommon and Common. If you are a bug collector, a ladybug will be easy to acquire but a centipede is exceedingly Rare.

What Collectables Can I Acquire? There are sets to collect like the “Country Kitsch Collection” which contains 3 Common items, 2 Uncommon and a Rare one. The Common items are needlepoint, a spigot and a pocket watch. To finish the collection you need the Uncommon objects which are a salt shaker and a thimble, plus a cow bell, which is the Rare goodie. These categories seem a bit strange because in the Real World a thimble is a very common and easy-to-acquire object. But in this virtual gaming community, a thimble will be harder to find than a pocket watch so it is availability that determines a designation.

Do You Want To Be A Collector? “Random chance” perfectly describes the collecting business on Farmville. You may have dozens of collectables – even rare ones – and the one Common item you need eludes you. Just like in physical life there are no guarantees and gamers can make the decision to play … or not.

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If you want to play a really, REALLY popular game, follow in the footsteps of millions of gamers and check out Pet Society. It centers around creating your own virtual pet and then rising through many levels to succeed in a spectacular way. There are, of course, ways to ‘cheat’ in this virtual world and we will discuss two of these … but they’re 100% legal so there’s no danger of being banned from the game.

Before you can become a wealthy pet owner you first must create your pet and there are a huge variety of options in the games, options that often results in some really … strange … looking animals. But no matter what kind of avatar or pet you create, it’s all good because you truly need an emotional attachment to your little guy or gal so that your interest in the game will remain high.

Once you have your pet, don’t even think about retreating to your home and living a life of isolation. To ‘win’ in Pet Society you will need to accumulate points and money and you can’t do that without interacting with other pets and their owners. This IS a social interaction game after all and there are many rewards for being friendly.

You will have lots of opportunities to make friends and meet others when you and your pet wander through town and there is a LOT to do! Love projects and making things? Visit the DIY store. Want spiffy, expensive new duds? Go to the Clothing Store – and when you’re there check out the Furniture Store and come home with a grand new sofa or whatever tickles your fancy.

Like all games, there are “levels” and you will want to go up the ladder as quickly as you can. The action begins with no points at the “Getting Started” level and you can zoom through 47 levels. The top level currently is the “Ruby Super Pet” level but this is a real challenge because it requires a whopping 420,000 points! Obviously, acquiring points in critical to success in this virtual game.

Since scooping up points is so important, it’s smart to take shortcuts whenever you can. It’s always possible to learn the hard way – though experience – but that involves time and a heap of mistakes. Successful players who have played superbly have shared ‘cheats’ that are totally legal but will help you move up through the levels much faster.

Our first cool way to explode your points is to take your baby and drop by the Mystery Store. You’re after as many servings of ‘Effect Away’ as you can afford because you’ll receive 17 points for every drink your pet swallows. This elixir isn’t harmful and your pet is perfectly happy to drink as much of it as you wish. So invest in multiple doses and repeat as often as you want. It’s pure profit.

#2 You can earn extra money by cleaning other people’s pets. Take your pet for a walk and wander through the shops. You are looking for pets that need cleaning and you will easily recognize them because they will be surrounded by flies. You can clean your pet, of course, but you should always look for other dirty pets. Then all you need do is click on the Soap icon and you will be paid for cleaning off the flies and dirt. Now comes the trick … click “Refresh” and the newly-clean pets will be covered with flies again (poor babies)! You can simply repeat the cleaning until you get sick of washing little animals. You will be paid each time, of course.

These are just two of the legal cheats in this adorable game and you can take advantage of them to win large amounts of coin and buy luxury items, expensive clothing, incredible furniture and decorations for your home. Not only are there many cool things to buy, there are also ’special’ goodies that are only available for a week.

If you’re not interested in earning a great deal of Pet Society money, you should not play the game mainly because you will never be a Pet Society winner.

Magic is the impossible, the unexplainable; its something you simply can’t understand. It describes something that is more of a feeling than a hard actual fact. Its almost dependant on the observer to determine that something is magic, rather than the one performing the trick.

Most magic is about tricks. The magician attached a string to his wand, and since the string is so thin, it looks like the wand is floating. If you know the string is there its just, fact, its science, its reality. But when you don’t know the string is there its magic.

With more advanced tricks physics and chemistry may be employed. Magicians will use light, shadow, illumination, and tricks that the human mind plays on itself all to create the appearance of the impossible. However from behind the scenes, its just tricks, there is no real magic. Ironically enough, the only one who can’t see a magic show, is the magician performing the act.

This is the same concept as taking a flashlight back in time and showing it to people in the Middle Ages. They would be amazed at light with no fire. It would be magic, or worse, witchcraft. That is only because they don’t understand the electrical mechanisms behind that shining light.

However a regular person of our age probably doesn’t understand the electrical mechanisms behind a flashlight either. But it’s still not magic for them, because they know of those mechanisms, its not being hidden.

Some people can’t enjoy a magic show because they can’t get over the fact that everything being done is a trick, a lie. However if you can suspend your disbelief, and ignore that part of your perceptions, you can actually enjoy the show as being magical.

And then of course, there is the indefinable magic; the world around us, life itself, birth and creation and the newness of each day. Art and beauty, all of it is completely indefinable, and impossible to understand. And even though we know there are cogs turning to make it all happen, still we marvel at it, even more so because of the beautiful complexity of those cog works.

This article was written by Jim Slate. If you want a chance to stretch your imagination in new and exciting ways, consider popping over to http://www.RolePages.com – the world’s first fictional social network. There you can meet vampires, werewolves, dragons, demons, detectives, soldiers, doctors, monsters aliens, and anything else that you can imagine.

One of the best World of Warcraft guides available is Joana’s horde leveling guide and more than likely if you’ve spent any time playing WoW you’ve run across the guy that put it together. He is one of the best players out there and goes by the names Mancow and Joana. He plays on a variety of servers and knows what he’s doing.

He has developed his game playing skill to the point where he can reach level 60 in less than five days. He calls it his “speed runs” and undoubtedly gets a kick out of jumping on a server and proving to the world he’s the best there is in the land of WoW. Anyone with this kind of playing ability is worth listening to.

Joana’s horde leveling guide takes playing with the help of a guide to a whole new level. It includes videos that make you feel like you are peering over his shoulder as he plays. You can watch and learn from the best there is and take your own skills up a notch in the process. It is really an incredible experience.

This guide will teach you how to level up your horde character quickly and easily. Joana’s leveling guide not only includes videos, it includes screen shots with step by step instructions and maps to show you how to take your character in the right direction without wasting time. You won’t wander off on a wild goose chase like you often do when left to your own devices.

The author of this incredible guide also has included his complete list of add-ons. This is an invaluable resource and well worth the cost of the guide. Included as well are the starting zones and horde races. Updated regularly, Joana’s horde level guide features Blood Elves, Burning Crusade and an Outlands reference guide too.

The whole idea is to offer helpful instructions so that the player not only quickly increases their skill level, but also avoids time-consuming mistakes that have frustrated so many. It’s all about efficiency. The goal being to teach players how to level up to level 70 and become one of the truly dominant players with skills that are sure to impress.

Other horde leveling guides include a whole lot of extra stuff that you really don’t need or want. Joana’s horde leveling guide is not like that at all. It doesn’t waste a bit of your time but teaches you invaluable skills that Joana has learned in hours and hours of playing time. By following his directions you will gain valuable experience that you cannot acquire on your own. Following his guidance you will find your World of Warcraft play will take a leap in no time. I can’t imagine playing without this guide.