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Hey Everyone,

We wanted to take a moment to review some of the changes in game that have been made recently. It’s important that we address some of your concerns and feedback about these changes. Please take a chance to thoroughly read the through this post.

Buddy List

We are going to break down the major concerns voiced from the YoVille Community and let you all know how we are working to make changes to address them.

Deleting Friends off of your Buddy List

Currently the only way to delete a buddy who is also your friend from your Social Network is to delete that player from your Social Network’s Friends List. We are aware that many of you do not always want Social Network Friends to appear on your Buddy List. We are working on a better way to be able to delete Social Network Friends from your Buddy List or allow you not to show certain friends. This is a big change and may take awhile to add. We appreciate your patience while we work on improvements for this feature.

Online/Offline Feature

We understand that sometimes you may want to go in game without all of your buddies knowing that you are there. We are working on an option that will allow you to not show up as online. This should be similar to an “invisible” feature that many chat or instant messengers have. Your privacy is important to us and we hope to have this available soon.

In addition we are also looking into including an enable or disable feature that would allow you to turn on and off the pop-up that appears when a buddy logs on and off. We understand that this can be distracting, especially when you are trying to decorate. We may also change this feature so that it does not notify you every time a buddy logs on or off.

Visiting Friends Directly Through their Home

We have heard many players feedback in wanting this option back on the Buddy List. We are looking into a few options for this, we will update you as soon as we have more info on what will be done.

Stalking or Harassment Issues

Through the previous Buddy List there were issues with players blocking a player in order to stalk them through the buddy list. The new buddy list fixes this issue. If anyone has blocked you with the intentions of adding you to their buddy list without your permission, they will no longer be able to follow you. Blocking a player no longer adds them to your buddy list.

Friends not being added onto Buddy List

We have seen many players saying that they do not have their friends on their buddy list. There are a few things that you must confirm here.

If you are missing a friend from your Friends Ladder you will most likely encounter issues with your buddy list showing the same friend.  We are looking into the loss of friends from your Friends Ladder. When this is fixed it should also fix the buddy list issue.

Tagged Accounts having issues not being able to add friends from other networks or buddies from other networks not on buddy lists anymore. We are currently investigating this issue and working on tackling this as well.

Friend’s Names on Buddy List

We are looking into different options for your friends names on your Buddy List. We have seen some very important points made from some of you that you are confused as to which buddy just came online or which one to join because you have many friends on your Social Network with the same name. We want to make this distinction between your friends easier for you by either including their avatar name or adding more of their name to the list. We will keep you updated on this so you know what name to look for when trying to join a certain player.

We are listening to your concerns and making adjustments to this feature. We want to make this a feature that you will enjoy using. Expect more updates on our progress soon. We appreciate everyone’s feedback so please continue to keep us informed with your thoughts on this feature as these changes are implemented.

Events

Here is a breakdown of the event issues we have seen reported and what our team is working on addressing:

Events not showing up

We are aware of issues with some players not seeing a full list or events, or seeing events in a different language. This may be due to being switched onto a different server or edits being made to the events themselves. Before we did not give you the option to edit and change the category your event was in. We are still looking into this issue to see if there is any problems due to the actual event creation or the clean up process of events.

Can’t Join Events

If you are having issues joining events and getting stuck at 100% we are investigating the cause behind this  and working to resolve it as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused and appreciate your patience. We’ll keep you updated as we get more info about this problem.

Appearing on the Wrong Server

The issue here is with the wrong events showing for players. Players have not actually be switched to different servers. We are working on resolving the Events issue in order to fix this problem.

Provided Email did not Receive Special Item?

We wanted to take the chance to update you all that if you previously submitted your email address to us before this item became available we will be rewarding you with this item. We hope to have this done later this week. We will be crediting the item to all players that fall into this category.

We have not forgotten about you ;) We are still working hard to compile all accounts that have previously given us their emails and will reward them all at once very soon!

Loading Issues

We are looking multiple loading issues pertaining to players inventories either not being able to load up their inventories and/or not being able to save rooms and getting stuck saving a room with too many items in it. We are also investigating issues loading into game that players are experiencing as well.

Well those are the major issues that we are working on tackling as quickly as possible! Thanks so much for taking the time to read our team’s responses to your issues and concerns!

Thanks!

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YoVille Buzz Home of the Week

Ok buzzers our home of the week this week is our very own member…Nana!!!! She has shown that even though it is Winter time…you can still chillax at the Beach House!!

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How to make the most out of Selling your Yo-items

OK SO MOST OF US HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE WITH SELLING. I KNOW I DO, LOL. ITS MY LIFE BLOOD IN YOVILLE, HOW I EARN EVERY CENT OF WHAT I HAVE. WE HAVE RECENTLY HAD SOME QUESTIONS AS TO TIPS ON SELLING ITEMS IN YOVILLE, I WILL BE OUTLINING SOME DOS AND DONTS TO HELP THOSE LOOKING TO SELL ITEMS IN YOVILLE,

FIRST REMEMBER ITS A SELLERS MARKET RIGHT NOW. THE PRICES ARE PERFECT FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SELL ITEMS TO GET RID OF THOSE UN-WANTED OR UN-NEEDED ITEMS. THE PRICES ARE RIGHT TO MAKE GREAT PROFIT.

THE BEST ADVICE I CAN GIVE YOU ABOUT SELLING ITEMS IS TO LOOK AROUND, CHECK EVENTS, SEE WHAT ITEMS ARE SELLING FOR. PRICE COMPETITIVELY. I USUALLY SEE WHAT THE ITEMS IM SELLING ARE GOING FOR AT OTHER EVENTS AND TRY TO PRICE MINE JUST A LIL BELOW MARKET VALUE. SO AS TO ENTICE BUYERS TO PICK MY ITEM OVER THE “COMPETITION”. AFTER ALL IF FIVE PEOPLE ARE SELLING THE SAME ITEM AND YOU CAN SAVE 500 COINS FROM ONE SELLER, WHICH SELLER ARE YOU GOING TO BUY FROM? ALSO ALLOW THE BUYERS TO NEGOTIATE PRICE, HAVE A LITTLE LEWAY TO COME DOWN ON YOUR PRICE A LITTLE WHICH ISNT ALWAYS EASY CONSIDERING THAT YOU ARE PRICING ITEMS COMPETITIVELY IN THE FIRST PLACE. IF SOMEONE IS INTERESTED IN BUYING MORE THAN ONE ITEM OFFER A DEAL, AFTER ALL THEY ARE SPENDING THEIR MONEY WITH YOU AND MORE LIKELY TO COME BACK FOR REPEAT BUSINESS IF YOU ARE FAIR AND HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY IN YOUR PRICES. THIS HELPS TO BUILD REPEAT BUSINESS, AND BELIEVE ME BUYERS WHO LIKE YOU AND YOU ARE FLEXIBLE WITH WILL BRING YOU MORE BUSINESS BY WORD OF MOUTH. ALWAYS BE CONGENIAL AND TALK TO YOUR CUSTOMERS, IF THEY FEEL WELCOMED THEY ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO BUY FROM YOU. WE HAVE ALL SEEN THOSE SELLERS WHO ARE RUDE AND COULD CARE LESS ABOUT MAKING YOU FEEL WELCOMED. NO ONE WINS IN THAT SITUATION. ALWAYS MAKE THE BUYERS FEEL WELCOMED, AFTER ALL THEY ARE GIVING YOU THEIR HARD EARNED YOCOINS.

Tips Breakdown
1. Look around to see whats selling and for how much
2. Price Competitively
3. Make your buyers feel welcome

A GOOD SALES LISTING CAN MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SALE AND NO SALE. WHEN LISTING ITEMS, DOING A PREMIUM EVENT IS ALWAYS BEST, BE PRECISE IN WHAT YOU ARE LISTING, AND GIVE A GOOD DESCRIPTION IN THE DESCRIPTION FIELD. I ALL TO OFTEN SEE SALES WITH THE NAME “SALE” AND NO DESCRIPTION, THIS AGGRAVATES ME SO MUCH. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE SELLING. ALSO DONT LIST HUGE SALE IF YOU ARE SELLING TWO ITEMS. THIS WILL MAKE PEOPLE THAT COME NOT WANNA BUY EVEN IF ITS THE ITEM THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR.
THESE ARE JUST A FEW TIPS I USE WHEN IM SELLING MY ITEMS, I HOPE IT HELPS YOU TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL IN SELLING YOUR ITEMS. IF ANYONE HAS ANYMORE TIPS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST. YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH HELP MAKING MONEY!!! GOOD LUCK AND HOPE YOU ALL GET RICH!!!

OHH AND WHEN YOU DO GET RICH, REMEMBER THIS POST AND DONT FORGET TO SHARE. LOL Wink

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How to get the best deal while Buying

DUE TO THE RECENT QUEATIONS ABOUT BUYING AND SELLING ITEMS WE AT BUZZ ARE DOING A SERIES ON BUYING AND SELLING ITEMS IN YOVILLE. THIS ARTICLE WILL BE ON BUYING ITEMS IN YOVILLE…..

UNFORTUNATLY FOR THE BUYER, THIS IS A SELLERS MARKET AT THE MOMENT. WEVE ALL SEEN THE HIGH PRICES, THEY ARE INSANE. SO SELLERS CAN ASK ABOUT ANYTHING THEY WANT FOR ITEMS. THIS ISNT CONVENIENT FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR DEALS. NOT THE BEST TIME TO BUY, BUT THIS WILL CHANGE!!

THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO AS A BUYER IS TALK TO THE SELLERS AND DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM. THEY WILL BE MORE WILLING TO WORK WITH YOU AND OFFER YOU THE BEST PRICE. A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRUST WORTHY SELLER IS YOUR BEST WEAPON AS A BUYER, ITLL GET YOU THE BEST DEALS AND THE LEAST CHANCE OF BEING SCAMMED.

WHEN YOU GO TO A SELL, FIRST BE PATIENT THERE IS ONE SELLER AND GOD KNOWS HOW MANY BUYERS. SO WAIT YOUR TURN. I AS A SELLER HATE IT WHEN SOMEONE CONSTANTLY SPAMS WITH “I WANT ******” IM LEAST LIKELY TO TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM AND VERY LIKELY TO KICK THEM OUT. JUST BEING HONEST. ITS RUDE AND AGGERVATING!!

SECOND TALK TO THEM, BUT DO NOT PESTER THEM. NEGOTIATE, TRY TO GET A “FAIR” PRICE, BUT IF THE PRICE IS ALREADY A GOOD PRICE TAKE IT WITHOUT HAGGLING. ALSO DONT ASK THE SELLER TO TAKE 5K FOR AN ITEM HES ASKING 10K FOR, BE REALISTIC. NEGOTIATING IS YOUR BEST FRIEND.

TRY AND BUDDY A SELLER LET THEM KNOW YOU WILL BE A REPEAT CUSTOMER IF THEY ARE FAIR PRICED AND ARE NICE. DEVELOPING A RELATIONSHIP WITH A SELLER WILL TAKE YOU A LONG LONG WAY TOWARDS SAVING COINS IN THE LONG RUN. ONCE THEY GET TO KNOW YOU THEY ARE LIKELY TO GIVE YOU THE BEST DEALS AND SERVE YOU BEFORE OTHERS. I HAVE A GROUP OF BUYERS THAT ID BEND OVER BACKWARDS FOR. JUST BECAUSE WEVE DEVELOPED A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP.

BUYING IN BULK, (MEANING BUYING 5 OR MORE ITEMS AT A TIME) ALWAYS HELPS WITH GETTING A DISCOUNT. IF YOUR BUYING 10, 10K ITEMS ALOT OF TIMES INSTEAD OF PAYING 100K FOR THEM YOUR LIKELY TO GET ALOT BETTER DEAL. ALSO YOUR SELLER IS LIKELY TO COME FIND YOU WHEN NEW ITEMS COME OUT AND SEE IF YOUR INTERESTED IN BUYING THE ITEMS OR ASK YOU WHAT OF THE NEW ITEMS YOU NEED BEFORE THEY SPEND THEIR YOCASH STOCKING UP FOR A SALE. THIS COMES IN EXTREMELY HANDY.

IF YOU FIND A REALLY GOOD SELLER, MAKE SURE YOU THANK THEM AND TELL THEM THAT THEY HAVE GREAT PRICES AND THAT YOUD LIKE TO DEAL WITH THEM AGAIN AND AS TO BUDDY THEM. TELL THE SELLER YOU WILL RECOMMEND THEM TO THEIR FRIENDS. THEN DO AS YOU SAY LOL.

RASONABLE SELLERS WILL NEGOTIATE WITH YOU AND MAKE YOU A BETTER DEAL IF THEY ARE ABLE.

OK REMEMBER THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO TOWARDS ACCOMPLISHING GREAT DEALS IS TO DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP WITH A REPUTABLE SELLER. NEGOTIATE REASONABLY AND ALWAYS BE PATIENT AND RESPECTFUL….. AND NO SPAMMING!!

I HOPE THIS HELPS YOU WITH ANY BUYING YOU COME ACROSS. PLZ POST ANY GREAT DEALS YOU GET USING THESE TIPS AND AS ALWAYS IF YOU HAVE MORE PLEASE ADD TO THIS THREAD. WE ALL CAN USE A GREAT DEAL. ON BEHALF OF THE BUZZ TEAM, HAPPY HUNTING!!!

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Mid-Week Ninja Update, 2/5

by platinum ninja on February 5th, 2010

Hey All,

Time to fill you in on what has been going on so far this week and what to expect to come!!

Lovers vs Heartbreakers

There is a new theme in Yoville that will celebrate Valentine’s Day! Don’t worry though, if Valentine’s Day is not your thing, we’ve got you covered too. The themes just started, so be on the look out for lots of new items coming your way. We heard your feedback on wanting a house a little earlier in the line of items so we made sure to make that happen for everyone. Check out the Heart House it is at the Realtor’s Office now! Expect to see some new clothing items coming very soon to the Fashion Store as well! Hint Hint: many of them are things that some of you have asked for on the forums

* Also keep an eye out for other clothing items that you can wear for the big game coming up!!! *

Fixes

Here are some recent fixes we have just added and some others that we are working on putting into the game very soon! We appreciate all of your patience and understanding while we worked to resolve some of these issues.

Yoville.com

Clothing Section on Yoville.com – you should be able to click on the Clothing Section and load these items ….We are still working on tracking down the issues causing loading problems for the rest of the items page using Internet Explorer.

In – Game

Blue BeachFlower Wallpaper – We had to temporarily remove this item but it has now been fixed and has been added back to the store. So go ahead and purchase this in game at the YoDepot!

Editing/Loading Issues – We have isolated some of the issues causing this and have added a fix that will hopefully resolve this issue for many of you. We have already seen many of you now able to edit, change clothes, view inventory again!! But if you are still having issues please post in the Bugs and Bugs Reporting Section of the Forums. We are monitoring and collecting info that you guys post. Your details help us find and fix issues faster.

Yo Mugs – For those of you getting bombarded by Yo Mugs this will be resolved very soon as well! Expect to also see fixed this week

Changes in Game

Sign Up Email Address – to get a Unique Collectible only available by registering your email. If you have not registered your email on Facebook you will receive a pop-up in game to give you the ability to provide your email. If you are not receiving a pop-up there are two scenarios that could be going on.

1) If you have already registered previously you will not receive the pop-up. You will be getting the special item very soon. We will be rewarding these items all at once to those accounts by the end of the week if all goes well.

2) If you are on Myspace this pop-up is not currently available. We are looking into this option to provide your email address and gain a reward on this network but at this moment it is not available.

Survey – We have just begun running a survey in game to gather all of our players feedback. We have reached many of you on Yoville.com and are also wanting to reach those who do not visit the site as well. This will help give us an idea of your experience as a Yovillian and gain your feedback. This will be up for a week so tell your friends and make sure to fill it out today! The link to the survey will be posted below your Friends Ladder. This is just one of many steps we are taking to improve YoVille for you.

Guestbook – We have re-vamped messages, gifts and actions that happened while you were gone. We wanted to make it as easy as possible for everyone to have a Guestbook that will let them know about all of these things that happened while they were not on. You may also see your neighboors stop by your room and let them know what they have done while you were gone too To find your guestbook you are going to click on your envelope in the upper right hand corner as you did before to see your messages. As a heads up this is being tested among different players so some of you may see just messages while others will see all three – Messages, Gifts and Visits. Please note all abilities to visit your friend from message, report messages, delete messages all remain the same but you may also see some additions to make playing easier!

Well that’s about all for now folks!! Stay tuned and thanks for staying in the loop

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New Valentine’s Items and Costumes

FOR SOME REASON THE ITEMS ARE ALL MIXED UP IN THE CATEGORY. SO YOULL SEE SOME NEW AND SOME OLD ITEMS IN THE PICS.












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And more free gifts:

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Intriguing Interview With Cupid

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H- Hello Cupid and thank you soo much for agreeing to do this interview…I know you must be very busy this time of year. (chuckles)
C- Your very welcome Heather, even the embodiment of love must take a break every now and then….
H- I bet haha…How long have you been in our lil town of Yoville Cupid?
C- Well, I recently moved into this town because of the upcoming Holiday “Valentines Day” and I want to spread as much Yolove as I can for this miraculous event..
H- WOW, ya that would be a great reason to come to town….how do you plan to spread the “love” in Yoville??
C- *grins* by being myself of course and by matching up whom I know will make good couples….
H- Ok I have to ask….how do you know that two people would make a good couple??
C- Because…..I’m Cupid of course
H- He he I should have guessed…
C- When two yovillians are close to me I can “sense” if they would make a good pairing…then I work my magic and wala….you have yolove!
C- I make it sound simple…but then again it is for me…

H- Ya I believe I should leave the yolove stuff to you, I am just a simple yovillian trying to make her way in the yoworld..hehe
C- Ohh, I know there is a lot of love in you…I can sense these things..
H- I just bet you can….so, can you describe for me what it is exactly that you do?
C- Of course, while standing in the courtyard outside of the towers I feel the hidden connections between those that are in love and just don’t know it yet…that is where I step in…I send “messages” to each person about the other and get them talking…and the rest is history!
H- (jaw drops) You actually go out and do that?
C- Yes, of course, I am Cupid after all….
H- You are defiantly a Special yovillian..

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Start Shopping for your Valentine

VALENTINES IS HERE, NOT MUCH OF IT BUT ITS JERE LOL. THERE ARE NEW ITEMS AT THE FURNITURE STORE AS WELL AS A 24 YOCASH HEART HOUSE. SO WE CAN CONTINUE ON THE TEENIE TINY HOUSE KICK THAT YOVILLE IS ONE.






New Free Valentine’s Gifts:

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YOVILLEBUZZ SCAVENGER HUNT

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OK EVERYONE….THE FIRST YOVILLEBUZZ SCAVENGER HUNT IS HERE!!! WITH THIS CONTEST YOU WILL BE LOOKING AROUND YOVILLE TRYING TO ANSWER ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS… THE FIRST THREE PEOPLE TO GET ALL OF THE CORRECT ANSWERS…WINS!!!

OK FOR THE RULES:
-YOU CAN ONLY SUBMIT ONE ENTRY PER HUNT
-YOU CANNOT EDIT YOUR ENTRY AFTER SUBMISSION
-AND YOU MUST BE REGISTERED WITH YOVILLEBUZZ FORUM TO PARTICIPATE
-CONTEST ONLY OPEN FOR YOVILLEBUZZ MEMBERS…NOT STAFF(SORRY GUYS LOL)

EVERYONE HAVE FUN AND HAPPY HUNTING!!
P.S. PRIZES WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

OK HERE IS YOUR QUESTIONS:
1. How many clothes racks are in the clothes store?
2. How many pictures are in the furniture store?
3. How many headphones are in the music store?
4. Alton towers has how many levels?
5. How many green stripes are on the top of the conveyor belt in the factory?
6. How much are waterbowls at the petstore?
7. How many manhole covers are in yoville/where are they?
8. How many casino flags are in yoville?
9. How many fishing poles can be found at the beach?
10. How many chalk boards can be found in the coffee shop?

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