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Update - May 21st - Friend invite and foreshadowing events
CM Nafaru
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Hello Big Farmers,
here's all the information you'd want for our newest update! Have fun reading!

Invite your friends!Invite friends...
A new invite system will allow you to invite new players to the game. While we plan to add multiple options to add friends, we will start with a personal link URL you can send to your friends. With this link, your friends can sign up for Big Farm and set you as their friend while doing so. And the best thing: both of you will get cool rewards and benefits, as long as you share this bond!
- The invitation link only works for non-registered accounts. Players with an existing account can not use their old account to use the invitation link.
- Once a new player registers with your invitation link, you will become best friends.
- Best friends are bonded players that can work together for additional rewards.
- You can invite as many friends as you like, but only 10 friends will become best friends and share a bond with you to work for rewards.
- You and your invited friend will stay best friends until the new player unlocks the flower farm or reaches level 41. After that, the bond will be seperated again, making room for new best friends.
- If a bonded friend is not online for two weeks, the bond will be seperated as well. It will not be restored automatically if the friend returns after those two weeks.
...and gain benefits
But why would you want to become best friends with another player, you ask? Why, because you get a bunch of rewards, of course!
While your new friend is playing the game, leveling up and completing tasks and achievements, you will get friendship pennies! These can be awarded for your friend reaching specific milestones like levels, using game features for the first time, owning specific items and much more. You can spend them in the new Welcome Center to get your hands on various great rewards.
And if your new friend buys gold, you even get a percentage of this gold on your account as well!
Of course the new player can get some helpful in-game items for himself, too, depending on how long you are online each day. The longer you are online to help him out, answer questions and be available for problems, the more rewards he gets.
- As a mentor, you will get friendship pennies for various activities of your best friends, as a reward for them reaching some out of several milestones.
- You can spend friendship pennies in the new Welcome Center building for various rewards.
- The best friend you invited will get rewards depending on how long you are online per day, to tutor him and help him out.
- They will have an additional mentoring element under their username which will indicate when they can collect a new reward from their main building.
- Your friend can collect a maximum of 8 rewards a day, starting on day 2. The size of these rewards depends on how long you, the mentoring player, have been online on the previous day.
- Rewards for your best friends will not appear all at once but will be unlocked one after another as time progresses during their play session. If they have not collected all rewards yet, they can check back later that day in order to keep collecting them in a second session. Rewards that are not collected throughout the day will be lost once the next day starts.
- The time between collecting these rewards depend on your friend's level at the time. A lower level player can collect rewards faster, since usually his daily game time wouldn't be as long as on higher levels.
- When your friend buys gold, you will get a percentage of that gold as well. Your friend gets the complete amount of gold he paid for. The tutor gold can not exceed 10,000 gold per day.
- Theoretically, a player can be a new friend and a "mentor" for another player at the same time, if they so desire.
The airport of friendship
The moment you have at least one bonded friend, your airport will get a new building: The Welcome Center!
In the Welcome Center, you can check your current friend status and progress, and access the new shop for friendship pennies.
- The Welcome Center will be added to your airport if you have at least one friend.
- Starting features of the Welcome Center include friend status progress and shop.
- In the Welcome Center shop you can spend friendship pennies for various rewards, including exclusive new decoration:
- The Multicolored Teepee
- The Animal Chessboard
- Symbol of Friendship
- Other rewards include regular farm items.
Future friend features
Of course, this isn't everything we've been planning for the friend feature! More features are still to come, and we hope you'll like them.
- Friend List - We're to show all your friends in a friend list eventually.
- More invite options - More friends, more options!
We're planning to add a Facebook friend search (no, we're not planning to spam anyone's wall, just a quick way to find friends
), as well as including other Social Media options for you to add contacts later on, for example Twitter or Google Plus. And, of course, a simple e-mail option is in the works as well. - Airport reskin - Depending on your friend progress, the airport will be able to be modernized and improved, not only making it visually different, but also giving boosts to temporary farms.
New Event: The county fair is almost here!Are you as curious as we are about what the fairground employees are preparing for? Can you help Johnny find some candies and solve the flyer mystery?
Find flyers!
- Find flyers on your main farm.
- Flyers may appear for every production.
- If you manage to find all flyers, you will get another special decoration, the Classic Carousel.
- You may of course also purchase small flyer packages using gold.
- In case you missed some of the flyers, you will get a last chance option to obtain the decoration for gold.
Find candy!
- 10 pieces of candy are be hidden around your farm every day for the course of the event.
- If you cannot find one or more of the them, you may purchase a hint, using gold.
- Find candy to unlock rewards. If you manage to find all pieces of candy every day, you will get a new decoration, the Cotton Candy Machine.
- In case you can't find all hidden candy, the last chance option also applies for the Cotton Candy Machine.

Additional Changes and Bugfixes- Temporary farms - Island, Viking and Northern Lights farms now display a grid in construction mode, making it easier to place buildings.
- Tools - Toolboxes are no longer credited with a delay.
- Cooperative Chat - Chat notifications were not displayed while other cooperative menus were opened. They should now work again.
- Level-Up dialogue - New unlocked expansions are no longer displayed for reaching certain high levels in which all expansions have already been unlocked.
- Horse Ranch - Shop - Wrong descriptions are no longer displayed for the big fuel tank. This occured in all languages but German.
- Horse Ranch - Challenges - League bonuses are now applied to competition horseshoe reward previews.
- Horse Ranch - Training facilities - Training levels (stars) now display the right tooltip instead of "training points".
- Error messages - Several error messages that could occur after clicking elements twice have been fixed.
- Next harvest display - The next harvest display should now keep working after visiting other players' farms (even to gourmet and flower farms).

This update is expected to take place on May 21st, 2015 and you may discuss it here.
Regards,
your Big Farm Team
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Enjoy playing with your friends, have fun!
Regards,
your Big Farm team