Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Keep FrontierVille Moving With Timed Missions


There are many different things to do in FrontierVille including missions. These are a list of tasks that Zynga provides to keep players interested in the game. Months after FrontierVille first premiered, thousands of fans had run out of missions to complete on their homesteads.

Time Missions

In October 2010, fans logged on to see a new timed mission called “It's Canning Time” on their game screens. These missions are different because you have to play them in a certain amount of time. When someone clicks on the icon, they are told about the new timed mission and the time they have to complete it.

The missions will not start until you choose to click the start button and once you do, you will have a specific amount of time, such as a few days or a full week or more, to complete the mission. However, if you do not start the mission, it will disappear on a specific date. These special missions do not hang around forever, like regular missions.

Plan Timed Missions

Each timed mission is because you will be asked to multiple tasks for each one. Since you only have a limited time to complete these timed goals, you may not have time to waste if you need to sell ten of a specific adult animal, and you don't have any on your homestead. You will have to go through hours and days of regular feeding to grow these animals, and higher paid ones such as an ox, can take close to a week to grow.

Completing a timed mission is easy if you learn how to plan ahead. Before you click start on the newest goal, check a popular FrontierVille forum, such as Zynga's to see what other players have posted. Gamers love to be the first to say that they saw something new in the game, so hours or even days before the mission shows up on your homestead, someone else may have created a forum post about it and what you have to do to complete it.

Once you know what is needed in the timed goal, log into your game to prepare for the mission. For instance, if the forum poster says the game wants you to see 10 adult sheep, buy 10 sheep if you don't have any. Start feeding them, to get them closer to adulthood.

If you need to harvest 20 sunflowers, plant 20 sunflower seeds. However, unlike the animals, do not have the sunflowers before you get the mission because it will not count towards the goal. Also if a neighbor waters your plants during a mission, it counts as a harvest.

So if you need animals or crops to complete a mission, place these items in a good location, to draw attention to them. You will have an easier time with the mission if neighbors water your plants and groom your livestock so that you can shave off some feeding times. If time is growing short for an animal mission, use an “Animal Ready Boost” from the bear collection. Once this boost is used, it will be time to feed your animals again, and you will be able to grow them much faster.

Singular boosts are also available in the upgraded general store from Hank. The prices differ depending on the crop or animal you would like to grow, but these boosts are good for a timed mission. However, most of the new boosts only shaves off a couple hours, they do not work instantly like boosts received from collections.

Timed Mission Rewards

There have been a total of 12 timed goals in Frontier, but very few of them have given experience points as a reward. For the goal “Mutton Bustin”, players received 1000 experience points along with a hitching post and one dinner. The missions always give players a decorative item that they can place on their homestead such as a rabbit rotisserie, a sundial or stuffed groundhog.

These timed missions give players something to do when they have no other missions available. Plus if a player does not like the reward or want to complete the mission, they know that it will disappear in a few days or weeks.

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