The folks at Zynga sure are coming up with plenty of reasons to keep their Farmville players entertained. In my opinion, they are unfolding way too many at once. They should probably space it out a little more. I mean, having mystery boxes was great (like Christmas all over again), but the new awards, the new crops, the new animals… just too much at once for me.
Then again, not everyone’s a farmville fanatic like me.
Collect items to complete a set and get rewarded!
The new addition that I’m excited about are the collectibles. There are five sets of seven collectible sets. The items range from common to rare. Some are gathered as you play. You may end up digging it up a gardening tool as you plow your plots, or find a butterfly as you harvest one of your trees. Some of the rarer items are collected by your farmville friends posting a collectible — similar to when you post a lost animal for adoption. And like adopting lost animals, only a few people manage to pick up the collectible.
The last way I’ve noticed you can pick up a collectible is when a farmville friend completes a collection and posts their accomplishment to the feed. It gives a few people the chance to pick up a collectible from that set.
The neat thing is that you can collect and keep more than one of each item, so when you trade in one completed set, you have the left overs to fill the next set so you don’t have to start from scratch. They key thing is to grab the uncommon and rare items from your friends’ feed when you see it. Obviously, those are the hardest to collect.
Your reward for completing a collectible set.
The reward for finishing a collectible? 250 XPs (experience points) 5000 coins, and a prize in your box (I’ll let it be a surprise too and not post it here)! It’s not easy finishing a set (you need to stay on top of the feed to do so), but when you do, it’s pretty satisfying, and helps you up your level that much faster.
Once you complete your set (a message will pop up telling you that you have one), to to your collectible list, find the set that was completed and click on the button to trade it in for XPs and coins.
Oh, and you get an award ribbons for completing collectible sets as well.
Have fun!
