Another YoVille Idea for ZYGNA

Sent off another idea too ZYGNA today…thought I would share it here and see what everyone thinks. 

The last addition to the game was the hair salon…the women seem to enjoy it, but over all felt and feel it has limited appeal for a couple reasons.  First, the haircuts are very pricey, and do not last long enough.  I would thin the salon would have more appeal if we could go in and BUY CUTS that get plugged into our choices when we alter our Avatars.

So, my new idea, and idea that I think could bring more players to the game, and give men and sports minded people something to do…A Sports Pro Shop!  Imagine being able to buy sports equipment and gear, a set of clubs for the corner of your apartment, or a basketball for the hallway.  Sports posters and art for the walls. Could it be that Zygna could gain access to Pro Sports team logos?  Be cool to walk around Yo Ville in your Yankee shirt after they win the World Series?

So folks, is this a winner of and idea?  What’s my cut if it is?  Say a Billion Yo  Coins

 

Seeking Charity From Retired YoVille Players

Like most games, Yo Ville has players that have retired, moved on to other things, other games, and with their retirement from the game, a lot of rare items have gone into retirement with them, some of them never to be resurrected again…this post hopes to find some of these players, convince them to bring these rare items back into the game through gifting them…well, gifting them to me actually.  I love the game,  love collecting and trading  furniture with the other players/citizens of Yo Ville.

Many items on Yo Ville have a limited run time in the stores and shops in town.  Last years Halloween costumes retired, replaced with new ones this year.  Certain furniture lines once common are now gone, catching a glimpse of them a rare treat, especially for many of us who are new to the game.  Perhaps the best known example is the entire Mafia line that is now gone…I paid 20,000 coins for my own Mafia Bar, and have only spotted the matching Mafia Bar Stools once, and they were not for sale…how many of these bars are lanquishing in obscurity, buried in some YoVille apartment that has been collecting dust and cobwebs for six or more months now?  I have not seen it, but friends have told me there is a beautiful line of emerald green furniture, and of course there is the Zen line with its beautiful wall art now gone.  Egyptian line…gone also, and so far I have only been able to purchase one small room screen from that collection.

My goal…bring some of these items back into the game by getting retired players to gift their entire inventories to me so that I can feed them back into the game through my extensive list of YoVille buddies and friends.  The concept is a simple one…getting retired players to sign into Yo Ville, empty their apartments and homes, find me, and spend a few minutes gifting your inventory of items to me.  If you are never going to play the game again, why not?  If I am online, you can even make a trade with me and give me what ever excess coins you still have.  Yo Ville wins, as the entire community gets too see some of these items brought back into circulation.  Yes, I win because I would in some ways become YoVille’s first antique dealer, and the players win as they get a chance to get their hands on items they right now can only dream of owning.

So, please pass this article along, share it with your friends, and lets bring some of those items out of retirement and back into the community.  If you have left the game, take a few minutes to gift your inventory back into the game.

So that you can send me an invite, easily find me my Facebook email is smartinellighs@aol.com and my name on YoVille is “The Dudester”.  Even if only one percent of the players have retired from the game, that means 40.000 plus player inventories and coin stash are laying dormant, likely gone forever…lets change that equation.  Send me an invite so that I am on your Buddy List, and the rest is quick, easy, and good for the game.

Visit Yo Ville Dirt, another Yo Villian Creation I found on the web.

A Cheap Night Out In YoVille

It was not that long ago that I was a struggling NOOBIE on YoVille struggling to save up funds for the simple necessities of life, such as a toilet and a tub…how proud have all of us been when we bought our first $1200 tub, had a fully amenitied bathroom in our apartment?  How many of us would visit friends,  drool with envy at their beautiful living rooms, a den fully outfitted with a Bling Hot Tub, and even music?  Remember meeting and making new friends, entertaining them in your almost empty apartments?  This memories of early days got me too think…how can a NOOBIE have a really nice night out on the town in YoVille without spending their hard earned coins?  Could you go out with friends and enjoy the finer things on a very meager budget…in a word, yes.

First, Vinny’s is a great place to go for a date, or to start off a night on the town.  The table for four and the booth are almost always empty, the warm inviting atmosphere all but begging you and your friends to sit and chat for awhile, and there is no minimum that you have to purchase from the menu, though I have found the deserts the best bargain if you are in need of a boost of energy.  After some good conversation, and having topped off your energy level, why not head over to YoVille’s night club?  The music is free, and the dance floor almost always empty, so plenty of room to move around.

Is the hour growing late, is your girlfriend or boyfriend looking for a little bit of romance, perhaps some one on one time in the hot tub you don’t have?  NOT TO WORRY…YoVille’s Hair Salon has a beautiful hot tub that sits three, and it is almost ALWAYS empty now that the novelty of the place has worn off…why waste this beautiful night spot?  Grab your friends and head over their to host your own little late night party?

Cost in Yo Coins zero, but the memories  priceless,and you do not need your American Express Card.

The Distraction From Reality Social Media Provides

Lets face it…life in these times at best is precarious, at worst a down right tsunami of despair. Here in America, and around the world people cannot find work, are losing their homes, in some cases having trouble putting food on the table. It is easy to find some doom and gloom around every corner, and all of us are looking for something to cheer us up. Could this reality, this need for a distraction explain the runaway success of Social Games such as ZYGNA’s YoVille?

YoVille in many ways is what we had all thought the American Dream was about…work hard, save your money, and over time own the nicer things that make life rich and vibrant, worth livng. Sure, we have to work at the Sweet Factory, spend valuable time picking up gifts and pots of gold on profiles, and let us not forget playing games to MAX ourselves up for the day, but when it is over and done, there is a sense of satisfaction missing in our real lives in these troubling times. This reality, my own addiction to these simple games got me to thinking, has me asking questions.

Are these games a distraction, or are they more than that, are they a means by which we can maintain our sanity as the entire world seems to be falling apart. Have these games become a way and a means to feeling successful even when we know we are not?

I have two mansions, a trailer, a haunted and tree house, and of course the basic apartment. On the secondary market I have scored a mafia hat, bar and hot tub. I live in a posh pad, and my Yo Friends stop in to say hello and enjoy the amenties! MY GOD, I am doing good…meanwhile, in the real world at the age of 53 I am out of work, in an upside down mortgage, and meeting with a bankruptcy attorney Monday morning. For this person, YoVille is a distraction, but it is more than that…it gives me some place to go where I can find a friendly hello, and a sense that all is not doom and gloom. Not sure that is good thing, or a bad thing, but for right now, YoVille is a distraction I am happy to have. As for the bigger picture…

What if games like YoVille could break us of our need to consume vast quanities of the world’s limited natural resources? Millions of Green YoVillains living simpler lives in sparse surroundings happy to sign onto to Yo Ville to shop for their latest addition to their on line homes.

Earning Your Yo Coins in YoVille

As in real life, your success to a great degree in YoVille is dependent upon your ability to create revenue with which to purchase the finer things that life in YoVille has to offer from eating at Vinny’s to buying the lastest releases from the furniture store or even a new house or mansion.  For the NOOBIE, this can get very confusing and it is easy for a player to get discouraged.  Let us remove some of the mystery by explaining some of the basic ways in which you can generate your cash flow and build your own personal bank.

There are four primary ways in which you can earn YoCoins, one of the two means of exhange in the game.   (We’ll deal with Yo Cash later.)  These three means of earning a living are actually quite easy.

1.  The Sweets Factory-in short, this is the town bakery where you can get a job baking cookies and other goodies for the sweet tooth in all of us.  Bring up your map, click on the Sweet Factory and you will be brought to the front of this building.  Once you walk yourself through the door you will find sixteen ovens.  You sponge/wash off the ovens, prepare them for baking, then choose what you want to bake in the ovens and load them up.  Then the hard part begins…WAITING, AND WAITING.

The bake time varies from four hours for cookies up to three days for the fancier goods.  In short, plan your baking so that you can return and take your bakery goods out of the oven before they burn.  This is very important, as it cost you money at every step of the process to get your goodies into the ovens.  Sponging costs ten coins an oven, there is a preparation fee, and then the cost of the ingredients for your recipe…burn your cookies, and you lost all that coin and have to start over.

I tend to like two batches of cookies early in the day followed by say Cinnamon Buns in late afternoon, and then cakes (they take 12 hours) just before bedtime.

2.  Game Play with Tic Tac Toe and Rock, Paper Scissors…forget about winning or even playing these games, and lets get right to MAXing.  You can earn 200 coins each day playing games, but game play can get time intensive…meet MAXing.   In MAXing, one person does the MAXing of another player so that they can reach their 200 coin daily limits.  Its is real simple…challenge someone to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, make your first selection, an as soon as the game begins, exit out…your opponent collects ten coins.  Repeat this process till they are MAXed, then switch places.  Yes, it is that simple.

3.  Profile visiting-On the top of the YoVille screen click on Help and a drop down menu appears.  Click on FAQ and a new screen pops up where you will be asked to sign in again with your FACEBOOK (or other service provider) information.  Once you have done this, you will be offered chances to accomplish small tasks on other members profiles, such as turning on their lights, or retrieving lost presents and pots of gold, many of these giving you a small gift, or 5 coins. 

4.  Visiting your Yo Buddies-as soon as you sign into YoVille you are taken to your apartment or other default home.  There you are given a chance to go visit your Buddies home and leave them messages or other simple tasks.  You can earn up to 400 coins each day in this simple task.

These are your our base units to earn Yo Coin.  Once you master these, secondary money streams can be developed.  You can sign in every day, and scratch off your lottery ticket.  You win once every five days, and most times collect 250 coins, though you do occassionally win a RARE item.  As example, the other night I got lucky and won a Disco Ball off my lottery ticket…I want to keep this item, but it has a resale value of around 1500 coins.  As you gain more experience in YoVille, there are other opportuniteis to earn cash.  You can visit the forum area and look for member or ZYGNA generated contests.  There is a daily fashion contest for the best outfit…unfortunately, men rarely win this event, and to have a chance you have to have your Buddies running over to VOTE YOU UP…it is well worth the effort when you realize the daily prize is 5,000 coin, and the weekly grand prize is 10,000 coins.

If you look at the bottom of your screen you will see some icons…the third one in shows a group of people.  If you click on this, you will see privately hosted events all over YoVille, with most of them targeted at selling other members something they want.  If you are a shrewd shopper, there is a great profit to be made attending these sales, buying low, then hosting your own events and selling the iteams at a profit.  As example, I purchased my MAFIA Bar at $10,000 coins…a great buy.  Today I turned down $16,000 coins for that bar.  That one item in my inventory is a significant profit waiting to be reaped.

My dad always said there are two ways in which to make money.  How you earn it, and how you spend it. With this in mind, watch out for the scammers out to separate you from your hard earned coins.  You have the Double Your Money (DYM) thieves who will invite you to their house and then try to convince you they can double your coins…you give them 500, they will give you back 1000.  It’s a SCAM people, and too often men are easy taken in by a beautiful female cartoon character early on in the game.  Beware of this confidence scheme.

Another big scheme is to sell newbies common items as RARES for far more than they are worth.  Take some time to visit the various shops and see what is in stock…if they are selling it in the store, chances are it is NOT RATE. (Yo Cash items excluded.)  A variation of this scam is too offer you something, get you to put your money into a trade window an click on agree before they have put anything in too trade…they accept the trade, take your money then VANISH!  Do not click AGREE until what you are buying is in the window/box where you can see it.

We could talk about beggars, but that is a two edged sword…nothing wrong with begging for gifts, and at times you get lucky…just watch out for the seriel beggars, or the players that seem to be having a birthday on YoVille EVERY OTHER DAY.

Another scam to watch out for…people offering you a commission job for selling memberships in their GANG or GROUP.  The basic scheme is simple…you pay them 200 coins for the priviledge of being a recruiter for them.  They have your money, and you now have to go out and recruit more suckers who will pay them 200 coins, of which you will get 100 coins…not a bad racket, but this is YoVille not Mafia Wars.

This gives you the basics to move down the road towards be a successful and prosperous YoVille citizen.  As you progress in the game, you can master other money making skills such as racing at the race track, or fishing for coins.   If you are feeling lucky there is even a gambling allowed at the track, or you can play the slots at the cassino.  As you move up in the game, when these tasks become rote you can look at some other means of generating cash, such as creating additional characters as cash cows, and then funneling those funds into your primary account.  I met one member who has 20 different characters in the game that are used as nothing more than worker bees.

If you have questions on YoVille and earning coins, please leave them in the comments section and we’ll do our best to get you the answers you need.

Video of Double Money Scam

ZYGNA-Eat or Get Eaten…The Gaming Take Over Wars

Early yesterday I heard that ZYGNA has supposedly inked a deal with J P Morgan…one can assume this is for some more capital as they grow in leaps and bounds as the number one online Social gaming company in the world.  Meanwhile (read article) rumor has it that ZYGNA could be the target of a takeover…so, take over or public stock offering early next year?  Being a betting man, would bet on the later…at this point, they as a company are worth FAR MORE than the whispered one billion they would get if bought up…go for the public stock offering early next year.

Wondering if I can get a job now with stock options…no pay, just stock options.  I’ll take my Google chances and hope for the pot of YoVille Gold at the end of the rainbow. 

Meanwhile, for those that have moved on from YoVille to some of ZYGNA’s other games (yes, there are some who have) how about donating (GIFTING) me everything in your inventory.  Be more than happy to give you my facebook email so you can make it happen.  If your not playing, let me take advantage of all that inventory…you might even have some RARES at this point, and if ZYGNA goes public, only a matter of time before they figure out a way for some of us to run our own little small business within the gaming structure of their larger business.  I’d like DIBBS on the YoVille Fine Arts and Crafts gallery please.

John Wayne Gacy-YoVille Pedophile?

Being 53, I often times cannot sleep at night, stay up till the wee hours of the morning playing games such as YoVille…to keep myself amused, have characters for my various email accounts like many others in the online community.  Tonight is no different, and I was on YoVille at around 2:30 in the AM interacting with others still out and about…don’t you just love standing outside the apartments asking, “can someone MAX me please”?

I was on as Cosmic Rabbit, a new character I created and there were just a few others online, one of them a character by the name of John Wayne Gacy.  I knew he was a perv when he asked how old I was, then suggested I bend over and take one for the team.  Now I am no prude, but certain behavior belongs behind the closed and locked doors of our apartments.  After all, we do have children who are playing the game.  As the next few minutes unraveled, I was too  witness far more disturbing comments from this character, some examples shared here:

Walking up to a female character he said, “You smell like fish”

Then walking back to me, “You smell good.” and “I like the smell of a**”.

He then informed any one who would listen that he was looking for a teenager, then told us he would BTK us…being naive I asked what BTK was where upon he said, “Bind torture kill” and went on to tell us he would bury us in the crawl space with the rest of the kids.

Yes, I reported this activity, as did others in the room.  I share this story as an example of why it is so important for parents to MONITOR their children when they are online.  There are predators out there, and they are looking for victims.  YoVille is a very fun game, and their employees take these kinds of events seriously, but as members of the gaming community, as parents we all have a responsibility to keep each other safe, even if it means reporting (snitching) on behavior that crosses the line.  Have fun, but lets be safe out there.

UPDATE:

Not sure why, but decided I would do a GOOGLE search on John Wayne Gacy…now, lets put this search into some perspective before sharing what I found.

The online John Wayne Cacy tonight was dressed in a CLOWN SUIT, and was looking for young men.  He made it very clear he had no interest in girls.  He was rude, vulgar, nasty, and very disturbing in everything he did from his words, to his gestures.  He has to be an advanced character based on the moves he could do, and the cost of the Clown Costume that he was wearing.  Now, here is what I just found online:

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/gacy/gacy_1.html

 

By Rachael Bell and Marilyn Bardsley

John Wayne Gacy

It is no surprise that John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was admired and liked by most who had known him. He was a sharp businessman who had spent his time, when not building up his contracting company, hosting elaborate street parties for friends and neighbors, dressing as a clown and entertaining children at local hospitals and immersing himself in organizations such as the Jaycees, working to make his community a better place to live. People who knew Gacy thought of him as a generous, friendly and hard-working man, devoted to his family and community. However, there was another side to Gacy that few had ever witnessed…

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Yet, he was fortunate to be alive. Ringall was one of the few victims of John Wayne Gacy, Jr. to have survived. During a three-year-period, Gacy went on to viciously torture, rape and murder more than thirty other young men, who would later be discovered under the floorboards of his home and in the local river.

 

Gacy as a clown in 1976 at local hospitals

The Dudester Launches “Yo World News Blog”

Tag along with "The Dudester" and his Yo Ville Buddies as we bring you news and gossip from the land of Yo Ville based on or own virtual world experiences.

Welcome to Yo World News, one YoVille player’s news and views blog. Looking for gaming tips, the latest rumors, and even news on cheats?  Stay informed as one player shares his experiences in the virtual world we all know and love as YoVille.  Have YoVille gossip or news you want to share with the world? Care to share pictures of your rooms or outfits from the game?  Drop  “The Dudester” a note at yo_world_news@yahoo.com.