FishVille's Halloween Celebration Explodes With 14 New Items!

Earlier this month, we brought you the news that FishVille's waters have become a heck of a lot scarier, with the inclusion of Halloween themed decorations and backdrops. This week, Zynga has expanded on that theme exponentially, adding 14 new items to the Halloween celebration.

Unlike the first release of solely premium items, this release includes both premium items and those available to purchase with regular old coins. Here's the full selection of new items:

• Black Cat - 8 Sand Dollars
• Chained Coffin - 11 Sand Dollars
• Stone Coffin - 9 Sand Dollars
• Bats - 8 Sand Dollars
• Witch - 8 Sand Dollars
• Pumpkin Display - 6 Sand Dollars
• Classic Tombstone - 4 Sand Dollars
• Spooky Moon - 3 Sand Dollars
• Werewolf - 55,000 coins
• Cemetery Fence - 11,000 coins
• Handy - 60,000 coins
• Cemetery Gate - 18,000 coins

And there you have it - all of the decorations you need to give your fish a frightfully good time this Halloween.

FishVille Flash Sale offers discounts for today only

FishVille has launched a sale today that offers 20% of Sand Dollars, discounts on premium items in the FishVille store, and also a points system that allows you to unlock exclusive fish by purchasing Sand Dollar items. This sale only lasts for another 4 hours as of this writing, so you'll have to hop aboard quick if you want a chance to partake in the sale.

Here is how the sale works. When you log in to FishVille, there is a button for the Flash Sale on the left side of your screen. If you click this button, you will see a button to gain a 20% discount on Sand Dollars. There is also a Reward Earning Meter that shows your progress towards unlocking the special fish. These fish have been available exclusively in the past, so they are rare but not brand new to the game.

In the Store, the prices have been slashed on plants, decorations, and creatures that cost Sand Dollars. Almost all of these items have received discounts ranging from 10% - 20%. Even the new Bayou themed items are included in the sale!

New FishVille Fish: Saddleback Clown

If you pay close attention to the supply of fish in Zynga’s FishVille, you’ll notice a new limited edition option available on the first page of the game’s store.

The Saddleback Clown is a slow-growing fish, that takes a full four days to grow to maturity. When its an adult, you can sell the fish for 8,000 coins, making it a great investment, if you’d like to purchase one for 8 Sand Dollars.

As its a limited edition fish, the Saddleback Clown will be available for less than a week. If you’d like to get your hands on one, head over to the game’s page and start shopping.

FishVille fish live three days longer ... but there's a catch

It's hard to count how many times we've skipped playing FishVille for a few days -- only to come back to find our finned friends floating belly up. Dead fish is one of the main reasons we prefer Crowdstar's Happy Aquarium over FishVille because, well, dealing with deceased pets -- even fish -- is too high maintenance (and a little morbid, if you ask me).

FishVille has taken a few small steps to ward off fish expiration in the game, first by introducing hibernators, designed to keep your fish alive for a few extra days. Now, unfed fish will get sick for three days before they die, and can be healed using medicine. Medicine can be sent as a gift or purchased from the in-game store for 1 Sand Dollar (that pays for a pack of 8 doses). You can also acquire more medicine along with your daily bonus.

The medicine seems more readily available than the hibernators -- for the most part -- but this new update still seems like a band-aid approach to fixing a bigger quirk in the game. Please stop killing our fish!

Fishville Adds Oyster Beds

Fishville developer Zynga gave players another reason to check in on their tanks once a day, late last night. All players were given an oyster bed!

This is actually a cooler addition than it might initially appear to be, so stick with me. Placing oysters will allow players to come back later and harvest them for coins or XP. Occasionally, an oyster will contain a rare item – Zynga referred to these mystery gifts as “great surprises.” The color of the oyster determines the quality of the prize when opened. White oyster is common, Black uncommon, Blue rare, and most treasured of all is the Golden oyster.

Black, blue, and golden oysters can be purchases with SD$, but players can gift white oysters to one another. So, essentially, these oysters are a little mini-farm players can tend to on the bed of their aquarium.

The oysters are featured under a brand-new “creatures” tab of the Fishville shop, so it sounds like other big additions to Zynga’s aquarium game are on the way.

Superfoods go giftable in FishVille

Zynga decided to offer a huge surprise to their FishVille fans by introducing the Superfoods as giftables: now you can send an receive Caffeine Food and Supergrow Food from your neighbors, basically saving you for spending quite a few money to keep your fish happy.

If you're too lazy to check out the link I've given you, here's a reminder of what superfoods do:

The FishVille Caffeine helps your fish last longer without food, doubling the time remaining until a new feeding is needed. The FishVille Growth superfood helps your fish grow a little faster (a bit too slow for my taste, with just 10% growth for one pill).

FishVille celebrates Chinese New Year with new props

February 14 is not only Valentine's Day, but it's also Chinese New Year, which is also called 'Lunar New Year.' FishVile celebrates by releasing appropriately themed decor for your tank.

Those items include a Yellow Tiger Toy, Green Tiger Toy, Red Tiger Toy, Fish Weath Lantern, Lucky Tiger Boy, Lucky Tiger Girl, Golden Tiger, Dragin and a Tiger Gong. All of these are premiums items, meaning it'll cost Sand Dollars (which cost real-life cash) to buy them, except for the Yellow Tiger Toy (29K coins) and Dragon (34K coins).

Fishville Adds Two Special Fish

Two new special fish have been added to the Fishville store: the Dwarf Angelfish and the Prawn Goby. Both require players to jump through some (small) hoops to gain access, however.

To open up the Dwarf Angelfish, players must give Fishville permission to send you emails. While this might sound shady and potentially annoying, in truth this change is the result of a change being made to Facebook itself. Facebook is doing away with its notifications system (the notes that pop up on the bottom right). Since Facebook game makers like Zynga won’t be able to send notifications any more, communications must now be sent via email. Expect all your other Facebook games to begin offering incentives for handing over your email address, as well.

Unlocking the Prawn Goby is simpler – simply add some neighbors.

FishVille Treasure Chests Introduced!

Zynga decided to offer us all a great new gift in FishVille: the treasure chest, an item that will test our luck and reward us accordingly. If you want to find out all the details about the FishVille Treasure Chest, you know what you have to do: read on!

As soon as you will log in to play FishVille, a pop up like the one below will appear, announcing that you have a Treasure Chest in your gift box:In order to use it, you'll have to click the gift box and select the treasure chest, then place it anywhere in your first tank (you are not allowed to place the Treasure Chest anywhere but in the first tank!) Then click it and see how lucky you are. Here's what you can win from the Treasure Chest:

- experience points
- regular coins
- sand dollars
- rare fish

As you can see, I didn't strike lucky with my first try as I only received 17 XP points, but there's always tomorrow!

How to Get the Most Neighbors in FishVille

Neighbors in FishVille

Even if you’ve just started playing FishVille, you’re no doubt aware of how important it is to have a lot of neighbors. Your neighbors in FishVille can help you to succeed in quite a few different ways, and so any method that might have the potential to increase your neighbor total should not be overlooked. The more neighbors you have, the more gifts you’ll receive, and the more tanks you’ll be able to buy. You also shouldn’t overlook the importance of visiting your neighbors every day to help them out with their tanks. This is a great way to earn some coins on the side, and the more neighbors in FishVille you have, the more you’ll be able to earn this way.

Neighbor Sources

But where do you get all of these neighbors? Well, the best place to start is certainly your friend list. In fact, many of your friends may be playing the game already. To find out who these people might be, simply click on the Neighbors tab a the top of your screen and you’ll be able to immediately send a neighbor request to any of your friends who have already set up their own tanks. This may be a lot of people, or it may not. Either way, though, it’s a good place to start finding your neighbors in FishVille.

Recruitment

Of course, you probably have a lot of friends who aren’t already playing the game. Another easy way to swell the ranks of your neighbors quickly is to invite all of these people to play with you and be your neighbor. And, yes, you should invite everyone – even the people you think may be the least likely to play. You’ll often be surprised who the most enthusiastic players turn out to be, but you’ll never know if you don’t ask.

Forums

Once you’ve exhausted your friend list options for neighbors in FishVille, you don’t have to give up the search. There are actually a ton of forums and fan pages you can visit to hook up with other players looking for more neighbors to help them expand their aquatic empire. You can find these forums and fan pages by clicking on the Forums link at the bottom of your FishVille screen, or by simply searching for FishVille withing whatever social networking site you’re using to play the game. No matter how you find them though, these pages are a great resource to keep in mind – not only when you’re looking for neighbors, but whenever you have a question or concern about any aspect of game play.

Fishville Cheats - The Easy Road Ahead

The new sensation in the game zone now is fishville from Face book created by Zinga. It made its debut in November 2009. This game is modeled after the once popular Happy Aquarium. The concept behind it is to fill up an aquarium together with breeding and selling fish. This is a very simple but extremely interactive and addictive pastime.

There are some interesting fishville cheat tricks which are 100% legal and can be utilized as a secret guide to ace in the game. Such cheat tips help you to amass coins with very little effort. Let's see how to utilize cheats.

Show love and care to your fish, sell gifts given to you and thus earn a lot of money. One of the most useful fishville cheat tip is to buy fish which grows up in a very short span of time, so that you can sell them soon enough to earn money. Try and sell them as soon as they turn 4 years old. Easy ways to earn points include buying eggs. For example you can buy a shy hamlet for 35 coins and gain 15 XP; on the other hand the scooter blenny will cost you 88 coins but will bring in 29XP. Therefore the key lies in buying the more expensive fish if you have the requisite coins in hand.

You can of course decorate your tank with any loose cash you see lying around but not at the expense of buying fish though. This will earn you XP's and the bonus or points are proportionate to the amount you spend on the decorations. Try to invest in a bigger tank soon enough because this would mean lots more fish and this again will increase your XP. Visiting a friend to help clean up their tank or giving away gifts to them can also increase your points which will come in the form of coins or XP. But you can only help a friend once each day.

Make sure you raise fish which will fetch you more than your initial investment so each time you decide to unlock a fish you need to evaluate its profitability because a new option may not be the answer to more coins all the time.

Another fishVille cheat tip is to concentrate on sardines which grow to junior level in 3minutes and reach adult phase in 10 minutes, then proceed to sell them to earn experience bonus.

You can use cheat engine to get lots of fishville money coins. The process involves making a 'First Scan' in Cheat Engine with the value of the coins in your hand. Secondly you need to spend some money in fishville and then go back for a second scan for the value of coins in hand at present after spending. Repeat the process until there are only a few addresses left and one of these addresses represents your coins in game. You need to change the value of the addresses to any figure of your choice and then freeze it, lo and behold! That value now represents your coins in fishville.

FishVille Hibernator Introduced – What Is It?

The hibernator has been introduced to FishVille and it is a really handy item for those who will go on a short vacation without internet access. To find out everything about the FishVille Hibernator – what is it, how to use it and where to get it, read on this article and find out!

Upon logging in to FishVille, I was notified (as you can see in the image, click to enlarge) by Zynga that I had received a 2 Day Hibernator as a gift. Their short explanation was that hibernators freeze our fish while we’re away. Ouch!

However, that’s not as painful as it might sound at first – that’s what I found out after digging a bit to see what is the FishVille hibernator. It is an item that, once activated, slows all the fish in a tank so they can’t get hungry or die until the time is up. This means that if I activate my gift – the 2 day hibernator – none of my fish will get hungry for 48 hours! The good thing is that you can sell the hibernator to the market once you log back in and get money for the unused time, or simply pause it to keep playing while you’re in the tank.

If you wonder how to use the hibernator, it’s simple: simply click your gift box and then the Use button on the hibernator. Don’t forget that you can one use it in a specific tank and you can’t move it from one to another!

Are there more hibernators? Yes, they are and you can purchase them from the FishVille market. There are two hibernators available at the moment:

FishVille Fan Fish

You can unlock a new Fan Fish by becoming a fan of the FishVille fan page. Its a 20 hour fish that sells for 125 coins profit (6.25coins/hour).

Don’t Forget to Open Your Holiday Special Gift Boxes Today January 5th 2010

OPEN YOUR PRESENTS! Remember to check out all of the presents your friends sent you when they open TODAY for some awesome prizes! Don’t forget that we have some new fishes in the store: Blackside Razorfish, Flame Hawkfish and Catfish.

FishVille Hibernator promises fewer dead fish

FishVille has finally released an item that we can really appreciate - the FishVille Hibernator. The hibernator basically slows down your fish for three to six days, depending on which model you buy. This frees the you from having to feed your fish every day and also helps keep your fish alive while you're away.

The hibernators can only be purchased with the premium Sand Dollars, which means you'll have to spend some real-life cash to procure one of these new gizmos. Hibernators come in two types - the three-day hibernator and the luxury six-day hibernator and cost 15 ($3 value) and 25 ($5) Sand Dollars respectively.

Too bad the FishVille Hibernator didn't arrive before people took off for their holiday break -- you can bet many will return to a tank full of dead fish.



The Hibernators on the first two items. You'll need to use Sand Dollars to buy them so they will cost $3 and $5 for the three day or six day models.



Nice deal that you can get a refund for the unused time.