I finally did it!!
If you've been following this blog, then you'll know that I advocate spending all of your cash. Just sitting on it does you no good. In that post, I noted that Mager had been able to spend all of his cash, but the best that I ever reached was a single dollar.
Well! I finally did it tonite! Down to zero dollars. Bwahahahaa!!
It is actually kind of funny... Mager mentioned once that trying to reach single digits in cash is a sort of "side game". It's true. I always feel a little thrill when I can get my cash that low.
Go forth! Spend cash!
Zero Dollars!
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Are you new to reading this blog? If so, then welcome! Andrew and I have a lot of fun writing about Friends For Sale. The game is incredibly fun and addictive, and we like to share our experiences with others.
You will want to read the posts in reverse order. I started posting with the basics, and then built up from there.
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Pets to Keep... or to Flip?
When I'm looking for pets, I always buy ones that I am happy with keeping. If they never sell, then I'm good with that. My goal is to collect beautiful pets... not to make money. This is one of the reasons that I don't buy guys :-) (so some of you can stop asking... hehe) Of course, just buying pets based on their profile picture can also subject me to "the Hamster Problem", but that's an acceptable risk.
But there are times when I will buy a pet in order to flip her. Let's say that I'm looking to spend my cash, and I find two pets that are beautiful and about the same price. Which one should I buy?
I look at when she last logged in, whether she has any pets (and has been buying them recently), and whether other people have been buying her lately. If a pet is very active, then it is a good bet they will sell pretty quickly. It means she is being seen by a lot of people, and interacting with people, and one of them will want to buy her.
In this scenario, I will buy the active one with the hope that she'll flip quickly (i.e. a few hours or maybe a day). With the proceeds from the sale, then I can buy the other pet I was looking at. Recall that since I don't keep cash around, then I won't be able to repurchase the active pet. But that's okay because I can buy the other beautiful pet.
Holy Smokes, People!?
So I go away on vacation for four days, and all hell breaks loose.
While on vacation, I did not bring a laptop. I did have my iPhone, so I attempted to log in when I could to get my allowance. Of course, it wasn't quite possible from the depths of the Gifford Pincho National Forest in Washington (talk about no signal!), but I did when I could.
And I saw my list of pets dwindle.
And shrink.
Day. By. Day.
So now I'm back and looking at my pet list. All TWO of them. I had over fifty pets last week! Give a man a break! Can't you leave me any?!
hehe... of course, with all my pets sold, and getting bought a few times (yay Robin, Jamerson, and Rhiannon!!), I am now sitting on a cool $5 million in cash. Can you say, "Shopping spree"? Yeah, I thought you could...
Recently active pets move faster
When I logged into FFS today, I noticed a new person atop my Pet Shop selections.
You may recognize him from this blog. Besides being the most enthusiastic stragey officer of Friends For Sale, Greg is always logging in and making purchases.
Besides the endless commentary in this blog, Greg and I have private IM conversations about FFS strategy, and one common theme is activity. More activity. Log in every hour to see if your pets have flipped. Never let money sit in your queue because it's just gathering dust. Stack your wishlist. Buy as many pets as possible.
Although this may not be a brand new feature, you can filter pets by recently active, instead of most expensive. This helps if you do not have that much money, but most of your friends are very expensive.
I am curious to hear your procedure for choosing a pet. Do you click on Pet Shop first, or do you search for a friend's name and raid their pet list? I do the second thing.
Raid of a Lifetime
Last week was really weird for me. Most of the week, it was pretty quiet on FFS. Not a whole lot of trades, but things started picking up Friday afternoon. I finally got rid of all my cash and went out for the evening.
I got home late and refreshed my FFS page.
$1.5 million in cash. WOAH!!
The run started on an inexpensive pet, Lisa, netting me a simple $1.7k. Then the big one hit... Alex bought my pet Nancy, dropping $905k into my account! Four more sales netted me a bit over $50k. Then Andrew comes stomping along and picks up my pets Carmen and Tifa, giving me $267k and $299k respectively.
Well, at this point, my mind is struggling. $1.5 million. I've never had that before. But... I was now down to just 14 pets. In my post on upscaling, I mentioned how I always try to buy the most expensive pet possible, given how much cash I have. But pets over a million move very slowly. I decided to follow my own advice and extend my list of pets, rather than buy one super-expensive pet.
I was going shopping! Fun, fun, fun!
I went and bought five of my favorite and most beautiful pets: Roxanne, Pari, Esther, Ana, and Faith. With the remaining money, I snapped up Jasmine and Denise. Then I danced a little jig and poured myself a glass of bourbon.
Never fear a raid!
Increases are Permanent
As many of you have figured out by now... the increased allowance (from $2,000 to $10,000) and the increased money for each invite (from $1,000 to $5,000) are now permanent. I confirmed this a couple days ago with one of the FFS developers.
Back in March, I provided details on the numbers behind pet values, purchases, and sharing of profits. These numbers were also changed -- value increases are now 10%, where 4% of that goes to the prior owner, and 5% to the pet (the other 1% is not paid out). The sales tax is now 1% of the new value (original value + increase).
For example, let us say that Jane is now valued at $1,000. The value increase is 10%, or $100, so that her new value will be $1,100. The sales tax is 1% of that, which is $11. Jane's purchase price is the new value plus tax, or $1,111.
These changes will certainly cause some inflation of pet values. However, one of the benefits are many more transactions, which means more interactions between a pet and their owner. With a single allowance, you can trade pets back and forth about 30 times, all the way up to $10,000 (and the increases are slower!). With the prior $2,000 allowance, the number of "easy" trades was greatly reduced (only about 10 trades).
Invites are more valuable
Whenever I find a pet that is just a few thousand dollars worth more than I have, I do not hesitate to send an invite to one of my Facebook friends that doesn't have Friends For Sale installed. In the past, you would earn $1,000 for every friend that you sent an invite to.
But now you earn $5,000 for each friend you invite. Don't be afraid to send an invite to your friends because if you enjoy playing the game, why wouldn't they?
Happy shopping!
Now you can chat
FFS has a new tab in the main navigation labeled, "Chat"
Login and talk with your pets! This new service is powered by Meebo.
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