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!
Raid of a Lifetime
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.
$10,000 to Log In
Nice surprise!! It looks like a few people are seeing this, including me... Go log into FFS. Rather than the usual allowance, now you'll get $10,000!!
Questions for the FFS Developers?
Hey there, everybody!
Mager and I are going to interview the developers of Friends For Sale, and post the results here. We have lots of things we want to ask them, but hey... I'm sure you guys do, too!
What do you want to know? Post a comment with your question, and we'll collect some up for the interview!
Putting Pets On Sale
When you own a pet, there is an option to put the pet "On Sale". I have said before that this is a very bad idea. You simply lose money when you do it.
There is at least one reason why you would do this on purpose, and for strategic benefit. Recall my post about people competing for the top spot on networks. If you are playing that way, and you manage to purchase one of your opponents... hehe... guess what? Put them on sale. Over and over and over. Just smash that link as many times as you can.
If they have a friend catch it in time, they might get bought away from you and block your devaluation. But that's unlikely. The normal result is that you'll drive them down to a $500 price.
Mind you: if you bought them for $1 million, then you're going to lose all of that money. At the end of your link-smashing, the pet will sell for a pittance. But they're going to be out of the running for a while. Also note that you're out one million that could have been invested into your own value. Worthwhile? Your call.
If you're not playing for Top Network Position, then a devaluation is awesome. As your value drops, you lose nothing. But as people buy you back/forth up to your previous value, you will make a ton of cash.
