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Farmersi is a free multiplayer economic strategy game
Farmersi is not just another mindless multiplayer browser based game. It is an economic game in which players manage their virtual farms in the Wild West – they grow crops, raise cattle and make investments.
Create your own farm and manage it better than other players to win! Make continuous progress with your character while you challenge opponents in normal, league, scenario, and team play! Individual games are 1-9 players at a time and last for 6-17 turns, with turns calculated every 5/10 minutes, 12h, or 24h. While you are having fun you just might also learn helpful business skills and develop insight into how economies and markets function.
Historical background
The game Farmersi is based in 19th century in the United States of America. From overpopulated Europe to America flows a wave of refugees who beyond the Ocean look for the opportunity of a better life, gaining fortune and happiness. You are one of them!
In America pioneers are being awaited by innumerous mass of unimproved land, hundreds of small but dynamically developing towns and liberal economic system. It is here where for the first time in the world a social-economic system called capitalism was established. . Your success depends only on your entrepreneurship!
The first stage of the game begins in year 1832. USA for over 50 years have been an independent country. Not even 30 years ago it bought from France vast territories west of Mississippi almost doubling its area.
The second level takes place in year 1848 and the third in 1869. Each higher level gives you new opportunities resulting from development of the country – technological progress enables new investments, gunslingers appear, towns become bigger and game conditions more difficult.
Characteristics of the game
At the first stage of the game you have selection of 8 towns that you can play in. You can play as many times as you like however it’s not possible to take part in more than three games at the same time (premium account increases the limit to seven). Games in the Cup, Wild West scenario, team games and tasks are not bound to this limit.
Games last between 6 and 17 turns. Each turn consists of decisions that players make and calculation during which algorithms process player’s decisions and compute the results of the turn. Calculations take place every 24/12 hours or 10/5 minutes from the start of the game, depending on game settings. However it may occur earlier – right after the last player made their decisions.
Games are a bit different in every town – they can vary in e.g. number of players, length of the game, wages, available land or price of cattle and grain. However rules of the game remain the same.
In order to sign up to a game click the link ‘start a new game’ on the home page, select a town and join a pending game or if there is no game pending – set up a new one. The game begins only when the number of players reaches the needed amount. When that happens, the first calculation takes place and since that moment players can start making their first decisions.
After each game you play the amount of your experience points (EP) changes – depending on your score, amounts of your opponents EP and length of the game (exact way of calculation is presented in algorithms.xls file). Majority of towns requires a minimum amount of EP – at the beginning you can play only in Memphis and Cleveland but the more EP you gain the more towns you are allowed to play in. Occasionally players can gain additional EP (apart from the games) – e.g. as a prize in a contest. EP can also drop – in case of lack of player’s activity longer than 7 days, their EP amount decreases by 1% daily (it doesn’t concern players who have premium account).
Special type of games are ‘training games’ in Memphis, Wilmington and Los Angeles – their purpose is to enable fast learning of the game and testing different strategies. In these games player challenges automatic players and turns are calculated right after making decisions. No EP are accumulated after these games. Very similar are ‘tasks’ – these are training games created by other players. Solving tasks is a great way to learn the game and test various strategies.
El Paso is also a unique town, available in all levels. Here ‘duel games’ for 2 players are played. They allow coaching (experienced player may help understanding the game to a novice) and resolving disputes between players, when they want to challenge each other. In El Paso players’ bonuses are not taken into account and turns may be calculated when both players are ready. Results of El Paso games are not taken into account in statistics of victories and team statistics. Here and in ‘quick games’ (Memphis, Wilmington, Seattle, Farmersi Town) EP are accumulated only in half of normal amount.
Games in the Wild West Cup are also a bit different. All cup games are duel games in El Paso. They don’t count in the limit of simultaneous games, are not taken into account in game statistics and EP is not accumulated. In the first phase games are played in groups and later best players of each group struggle in the cup system for the Cup and a quarterly premium account in the game.
When the President of the United States warns schoolchildren to watch what they say and do on Facebook, you know that we’ve got a problem…and it’s not one limited to the U.S.’s borders, either. People everywhere are mindlessly over-sharing on the world’s largest social network, without a second thought as to who’s reading their posts or what effect it could have on them further down the road. For example, did you know that 30% of today’s employers are using Facebook to vet potential employees prior to hiring? In today’s tough economy, the question of whether to post those embarrassing party pics could now cost you a paycheck in addition to a reputation. (Keep that in mind when tagging your friends’ photos, too, won’t you?)
But what can be done? It’s not like you can just quit Facebook, right? No – and you don’t have to either. You just need to take a few precautions.
Unbeknownst to most mainstream Facebook users, the social network actually offers a slew of privacy controls and security features which can help you batten down the hatches, so to speak. If used properly, you’ll never have to worry about whether you should friend the boss and your mom. You can friend anyone you want while comfortable in the knowledge that not everyone gets to see everything you post.
The problem in implementing these privacy options is that they’re just too confusing for most non-tech savvy people to handle. And often, folks don’t want to bother to take the time to learn. To simplify the process, we’re offering five easy steps you can take today to help make your Facebook experience safer, more secure, and more private.
Step 1: Make Friend Lists
Yes, it will take some time, especially if you’re connected to a couple hundred friends already. But this step, while not the quickest, is fairly simple. And it will be one of the most useful things you can do on Facebook.
Friend lists, like they sound, are lists for categorizing your friends into various groups. The nice thing about this feature is that once you set these lists up, you won’t have to do it again. We suggest that you put your work colleagues and professional acquaintances into a friend list designated “work,” personal friends you’re not very close with into a list called “Acquaintances,” and people you’re related to into a list called “Family.” Those three main categories will separate out the groups of “friends” who you may want to hide some information from.
To create a friend list, click on “Friends” at the top of the Facebook homepage. In the left-hand column, click “Friends” again under the “Lists” section. Now you’ll see a button at the top that says “Create New List”. Click it. In the pop-up that appears, you can name your list and pick members. If you’ve ever shared an application with your friends, the process of doing this will be very familiar.
When you’ve finished making lists, you’ll be able to use them when selecting who can see what (or who can’t!) when configuring the security settings described below.
Step 2: Who Can See What on Your Profile
At the top right of Facebook, there’s a menu that many people probably ignore: “Settings.” But this menu is now going to become your best friend. To get started, hover you mouse over the Settings menu and click “Privacy Settings” from the list that appears. On the next page, click “Profile.” This takes you to a page where you can configure who gets to see certain information on your profile.
Before making changes, think carefully about the sorts of things you want public and the things you want private. Should “everyone” get to see photos you’re tagged in? Or would you like to limit this only to those you’ve specifically chosen as Facebook friends?
Underneath each section on this page (basic info, personal info, status, etc.), you can designate who gets to see that particular bit of information. For anyone not using custom lists (see step 1), the best thing to enter here is “Only Friends.” Anything else opens up your profile information to people you may or may not know. For example, choosing “Everyone” makes that info public, “Friends of Friends” lets your friends’ friends see it, “My Networks and Friends” opens up your info to anyone in your networks – that means anyone in your city, your high school, your college, a professional organization you listed, etc.
You can also block certain groups from seeing these sections, too. On any item that offers an “Edit Custom Settings” option, you can click that link to display a pop-up box where you can choose people or lists to block (see where it says “Except these people”). If you haven’t made custom lists as explained in step 1 above, you can enter individual names here instead. (Sorry, mom, dad, boss – this is where you get blocked.)
Step 3: Who Can See Your Address and Phone Number
Did you list your address and phone number on Facebook? While that’s a handy feature, you may not want everyone you friended to have this information. To access this configuration page, you follow the same steps as above in step 2 to display the Profile Privacy page. You’ll notice that the page has two tabs at the top – click on the one that reads “Contact information.”
As previously described above, you can again use the drop-down lists provided to designate who gets to see what and/or block certain people or lists from viewing this information. The sections on this page include “IM Screen Name,” “Mobile Phone,” “Other Phone,” “Current Address,” “Website,” and your email.
Step 4: Change Who Can Find You on Facebook via Search
Sick of getting friend requests from old high school pals? While for some the beauty of Facebook is that it lets you reconnect with everyone you ever knew throughout your life, others find this intrusive and annoying. You’re not friends with any of these people anymore for a reason, right?
As it turns out, you can still enjoy Facebook without some folks ever knowing or finding you thanks to the search privacy settings.
Click on the “Settings” menu on Facebook’s homepage and then click “Search” on the following page. You’ll be taken to a Search Privacy page where you can specify who gets to find you on Facebook. Want to be wide open? Change the “Search Visibility” drop-down box to “Everyone.” Want to keep it a little more limited? Select “My Networks and Friends,” “Friends of Friends,” or “My Networks and Friends of Friends” instead. Don’t want anyone finding you on Facebook? Change it to “Only Friends.” That means only the people who you’ve already friended can find you in a Facebook search.
On this page, you can also configure what information displays when your info is returned as a search result (e.g. your profile picture, your friend list, etc.). In addition, you can check and uncheck the boxes for network-based searches too. For example, if you don’t want anyone from high school to find you, uncheck the box next to “people in high school networks.”
Step 5: Stop Sharing Personal Info with Unknown Applications
Remember when we told you about what Facebook quizzes know about you? Using Facebook’s default settings, you’re unknowingly sharing a plethora of personal information (and your friends’ info too!) with various Facebook applications and the developers who created them. The problem is so bad that the ACLU recently created their own Facebook Quiz to demonstrate how much information an app has access to.
It’s time to take back control! From the Facebook homepage, hover your mouse over the “Settings” menu and choose “Privacy Settings” from the drop-down list. On the next page, click “Applications” then click the tab that reads “Settings” which is next to the “Overview” tab. (Oh, and if you want to really be freaked out, read that overview!)
On this page, you can check and uncheck boxes next to your personal information (picture, education history, wall, religious views, etc.). This controls what applications your friends are using can see about you. Yes, your friends’ apps can see your personal info if you don’t make this change! Believe it or not, you don’t have the same control over your own apps. The best you can do is head over to the Applications page and delete the apps you’re not using anymore. (Use the “X” to remove them.) You see, once you authorize an application, you’re telling it that it’s OK to access any information associated with your account that it requires to work. While some developers may only pull what’s actually required, many others just pull in everything they can. Scary, isn’t it?
Conclusion
While this is by no means a comprehensive guide to Facebook security and privacy, these five steps can help you get started in creating a safer, more secure, and more private environment on the social network.
However, if you choose not to take any precautions, then you’ll only have yourself to blame when an errant wall post or naughty photo makes its way online and straight into Grandma’s News Feed, or worse, your boss’s. These days, it’s better be safe than sorry, so go ahead and delve into those settings!
By RIO5
1. As early as possible, make a USD 30 payment with the method of 7-Day Autoship Program. You can get 7 Bronze Boxes (with keys) which is worth 105 Diamonds and a bonus gift set witch is worth 180 Diamonds, including 1 Relocation Order, 1 Construction Blueprint, 2 Pearls, 1 White Equipment Chest and1 Corvee Order at the same time. That’s 285 Diamonds in total and for free. Make a $ 30 payment means you get a $ 58.5 worthy of stuff in return. Save 49% then.
2. Buy 3 Basic Craftsman Tablet (150 Diamonds) and use Coveer Order (from bonus gift set). You can save 30% resources and build 5 buildings in 72 hours. Very attractive!
3. Build a Farm, a Sawmill, a Quarry and an Iron Mine first. And follow the growth quests to get rewards. Build Cottages as many as possible. I think 5-10 at least. Unlock 10 Bronze boxes, amd they may give you Acc. Items or Jewelry at random, with which and items from Newbie Set, u can upgrade your Gov. to lvl 4 hands down.
4. Join a league that already has many members. You can easily get Gold from Quest > Expand League
5. On the first night, buy a Census Order to instantly increase your pop. by 25% then u adjust Tax Rate to 50%-70%. The next day u’ll find a great sum of Gold!
6. Buy 100,000 Lumber from merchants with 10,000 Gold only and do Epic Quests > Contribute Lumber. U can get 1,500 Influence by this means easily, through which u can complete the Grow Quest > Great Renown in a fast pace and get much gold as reward in return!
7. Upgrade your Gov. to lvl 5 by one night when u’re sleeping. When u lack any resources, buy direactly from merchants which costs u only 5 vouchers/diamonds at a time.
8. Use the rest of Diamonds to buy 2 Jewelry Cassette, and it’s of great help to level up your rank to Livery without spending too much time on gathering! Once u reach Livery, u can build a brand-new city too!
9. In a new city, u should develop your resources production and the most important things is to recruit soldiers. U may buy resources with Gold in your first city and support your 2nd one, which ensures a continuous development.
On the third day, you have run out of diamonds, but you have even built a new city and reached the Livery, which is impossible for other lords to accomplish in less than 7 days, or even 15 days!
A couple of months ago, we covered Tales of Scroll, and made a preview of this browser Flash-based MMORPG. Not long ago, we also reported Legendary Scroll hosted by Hithere.com. Needless to say, both of titles are the same game.
Today, we noticed that legendary Scroll are replaced with Neverland Online again. Is it fun? or It is a strategy to promote this game? or are they trying to regale us with stories, jokes? Still no answer! Chances are the developer parlayed such press release into a big success.
That reminds us of another game–Code D replaced with Dragon’s Call. They tried to resort to such meaure in order to get what they were expecting.
Any comment about this move? Go to our forum to discuss this topic.
While browsing something on the internet, I found most of Chinese browser games were hitting North America and Europe. They all are seemingly like Evony.
It’s happened to Kingory, a really true Chinese Browser Game. Most of the time, I snapped the screenshots and upload them to Playbbg.com and let players know the game.
In the era of Browser Game, being the big project on browser game market no longer means being the success of the company, and to make a heavy marketing for a browser game is to make a big success. For most of the honest and traditional browser game developers or publishers, they still remain focused on game development and simulating the membership or subscription model to create their products, that is why they failed to make tons of money that is to be used for marketing or advertising.
In China, those developers and publishers are very smart and are able to discern what they should do right. Almost 100% browser games and MMORPG are created based on virtual items and free to play models. For instance, if you construct a building, it will take 2 minutes to complete constructing, but you can use a virtual item called Speedup or Booster to instantly complete such construction. There is out of the question you should pay for such virtual item. Chinese developers were developing tons of such virtual items by which they make money and inject part of such money into Google ADs.
Today, we collected some Chinese browser games that hit North America and Europe, if you are a developer, why not take a deep look at these games.
Evony
Evony is a Free online browser based title like any other in the genre and you don’t need to download any client, just open your browser to play Evony for free. The game requires you to become a powerful Lord, with an overarching quest of saving some princess, or something. The game itself is so disjointed from the primary quest that it is somewhat of a grail, but no matter, browser games, unlike normal games rarely have a clear beginning and an end. The end inevitably comes when your wife leaves you and your pets are starving because the game has you in its icy grasp.
1, Kingory
Kingory has endless quests for you to complete, including Growth Quests, Routine Quests, Delegate Quests and Epic Quests ect. All sorts of rewards can be gained from completion of quests. Kinory is a browser web-based real-time battle simulation system and PvP & PvE Arena.
2, Warrior Legends
Warrior Legends is a free real time strategy(RTS) browser game set in the Middle Ages. You are the lord of a city as you are born in a country and you will play with thousands of real players. You can select your birthplace in three countries—-Gallia, Lllyrium and Germania. In the world of WL online, your mission is to develop your nation and go in for expansion and finally rejuvenate the civilization of the Middle Ages. To complete your mission, you have to gather crop, lumber and iron which can be used to construct infrastructure, explore technology and recruit troops.
Warrior Legends is a free real time strategy(RTS) browser game set in the Middle Ages. You are the lord of a city as you are born in a country and you will play with thousands of real players. You can select your birthplace in three countries—-Gallia, Lllyrium and Germania. In the world of WL online, your mission is to develop your nation and go in for expansion and finally rejuvenate the civilization of the Middle Ages. To complete your mission, you have to gather crop, lumber and iron which can be used to construct infrastructure, explore technology and recruit troops.
3， Empire Craft
Empire Craft is a browser-based game (Web-game) with RPG and business strategy, players can start the game immediately without installing any client or plug-ins. And even there is no requirement for the operating platform. With a computer connecting to internet, players can start the game on browser easily.
Empire Craft has the outstanding game system, including creature killing, player competing, chatting, city managing, battling, campaign, task, instance zone, worldwide incident, equipment, skill, team playing, friend, union, property, goods, and market etc.
4, Kings of Nations
Kings of Nations is a browser based multi-player online game. In Kings of Nations, player selects one from two of the civilizations, either Eastern Civilization or Western Civilization and plays on a randomly created map. Players begin with one main city, Central Government and some necessary resources and fight against other kings or cultures until he/she finally remains in the world. In the Central Government player can build different constructions, and developing new technologies. Different constructions have different functions. Before you launch the war either against the real player or against the NPC city, make sure you city economy is healthy. You have to find a balance point between economic developments and enhance your military force. Once your reputation reached enough level, you can set up your own country and command your underlings to attack your enemies.
5, Rise of Empire
Rise of Empire is a big web strategic role-playing game. Players start with small villages and try to develop into great empires eventually. Territory is the fundamental and critical issue in the game. Every building needs a certain amount of land to allocate. Also, as an emperor, you need a large amount of land to produce food to feed your increasing army and population. Not only by destroying enemy’s army, players also need to conquer enemy’s territory in order to win the war. Just like the realistic, in Rise of Empire, land is the most important resource for an empire. Empires are mostly fighting for protect or expand their territory. Troops are the tools help an empire to defense from enemies’ invade or conquer enemies’ land. In Rise of Empire, the land territory is divided into 3 different types: Plain, Mountain and Forest. Besides, water territory is another issue players need to consider. Each type of territory will have its specific usage and limit, which will bring players more fun.
6,The Legacy of Holy Castle
The brand new massive multiplayer web-game, The Legacy of Holy Castle, is making its appearance. Differ from other common web-game, The Legacy of Holy Castle is based on fantasy warfare story background, and the game also processes a combination of RPG and SLG elements to bring the most astounding gaming experience to its players.
7,Lord of the Evil
Lord of the Evil (also known as Lords of Evil) is a web based MMORPG that was released in open beta as of October 4th 2008. There are many interesting promotions for new players during this release! This game is developed by Chinese company and run only based in the US, being one of the only of its kind currently, with most other browser based games being hosted internationally. Lords of Evil runs on flash, and is loaded with simple, yet generic features. For example, you may pick from Human, Orc, or Demon as your race. Lords of Evil also features a nifty guild system and an auto levelling system, which allows your character to continue training while you are away.
