FarmVille Athletics Stadium 2018

 Starts Monday August 6th Following the recent ending of the Amazon Safari Crafting Basket, the FarmVille Studio has been hard at work creating a new feature, the FarmVille Athletics Stadium. This feature is a return to the dreaded Mystree type of feature with it's multiple stages and random, duplicate laden outcomes. Similar to the reviled Maharaja's Stable and the more pleasant Spooky Wolves. We will be training athletic animals in summer, winter and youth categories to  build your training team and get them ready for the competition at the stadium. Check out the details below and please do share.....

The FarmVille  Athletics Stadium feature is currently coded to begin on August 6th, 2018 and end on September 5th, 2018

THE NAMES OF THE FEATURE, AND ALL OTHER NAMES ON THE VARIOUS IMAGES ARE CURRENTLY PLACEHOLDERS. THEY WILL APPEAR CORRECTLY IN GAME (WE HOPE)

A look at the loading screen. 

A look at the icon that will appear on the right side of the screen to access the feature. 

A look at the Athletic's Stadium Building which you may or may not be prompted to place on your farm. 

It is a very large decoration, if you get the prompt and do not want to place it, you can click the arrow to send to your gift box and still be able to access the feature via the icon on the right side of your farm.

If you DO NOT get the prompt, and would like the Athletics Stadium to decorate your farm, you can purchase one for zero coins in the market.

A look at the tutorials for this feature. 

A look at the pop-up inviting us to play when the feature goes live

We will be led through the feature by Coach Deely

A look inside the feature.

As you can see, you can view your training stations and what tend level each is on.

We will be building up barbell stands to train the animals

Of Course, we will use dumbells to do that.

A look at the dumbell recipes, we will be able to craft them in increments of one, three and five

3 Dumbbell (b2yqd)	3 Golf Litchis Bushel	3 Green Wheat Bushel	3 Brussel Sprout Bushel	None	3 hrs
	14 hrs	9 hrs 30 mins	13 hrs 54 mins
5 Dumbbell (c2yqd)	3 Swiss Chard Bushel	4 Tennis Grapes Bushel	3 Caramel Popcorn Bushel	None	5 hrs
	14 hrs	15 hrs 54 mins	12 hrs
Dumbbell (a2yqd)	2 Basketball Melon Bushel	3 Exotic Forest Flower Bushel	2 Acorn Squash Bushel	None	1 hr
	12 hrs	9 hrs 30 mins	9 hrs 30 mins

You will also be able to obtain a few barbells via the usual limited post and collect, and of course you can always purchase them for farm cash.

As usual there will be ONE NEW CROP included in EACH RECIPE. Keep in mind when planning, that new crops mean no mastery and lower bushel return until you master the crop. (For more information on calculating bushel yields click here and here) The NEW crops for this feature will be GOLF LITCHIS, TENNIS GRAPES, and BASKETBALL MELON.

 A Look at the quantity of dumbells required and tend delays between levels. Important note, when you have fully tended a barbell stand and place it on your farm, do not click on it or anything else before it fully transforms. If  you do click on something, it will freeze and not transform.

Level	Dumbells To Tend To Next Level	Waiting Period
0	0	5 Hours
1	5	5 Hours
2	5	5 Hours
3	5	5 Hours
4	5	5 Hours
5	5	5 Hours
6	0	Complete

So you will need a total of 25 dumbbells and 30 hours to complete each trainee, even if you are not late for a single tend. Since most of us do sleep, it will take a bit longer in that case. 

There will be duplicates to get all prizes in each collection  You may require the full coded maximum number of attempts to get all prizes - whether or not you get all in less than that is up to pure random luck.

The  Farmville studio has coded a maximum number of attempts that you will have to make to get all prizes in a collection for each collection. If you wanted all the prizes from all 3 collections, you would need to raise   barbell stands .  As seen above, Each  barbell stands requires 6 tends with a 5  hour waiting period in between tends or 30 hours per  barbell stand.

Let's take a look at how long that would take 

There will be a total of 16 barbell stands in this feature. four will be unlocked for free and the rest  will cost farm cash. 

 Purchasing the extra stations for farm cash is simply a time saver. It does not unlock any additional animals and is completely optional. B

A look at the different categories Each contains six animal rewards plus a bonus prize for completion. While there are plenty of duplicates completing each collection, the animals and bonus prize in each collection are completely different. 

(There is no choice of collection  to play for in this feature and each attempt can give you a reward from a collection different than the one before. We experimented to make sure that a choice didn't appear after completing one) 

Our first attempt resulted in the Athletic Monkey from the Summer collection.

Our second attempt raised the Footballer Cria from the Youth Collection.

There will be duplicates to get all prizes in each collection  You may require the full coded maximum number of attempts to get all prizes - whether or not you get all in less than that is up to pure random luck.

The  Farmville studio has coded a maximum number of attempts that you will have to make to get all prizes in a collection for each collection. If you wanted all the prizes from all 3 collections, you would need to raise up to 63  barbell stands .  As seen above, Each  barbell stands requires 5 tends and a placement delay with a 5  hour waiting period in between tends or 30 hours per  barbell stand. The total would be 1,890 hours divided by however many stations are free/available. 4 are free so you could complete all collections in roughly 20 days, if you were spot on with each tend

Let's take a look at the number of duplicates  and the collections themselves 

Whenever you want to view your collections simply click on " My Trainees" at bottom left.

You can view each collection in this interface by clicking on view collection .

The interface will start out darkened, and then any animal that you have trained at least once will become visible.

Clicking on view collection will show you how many of each animal you have trained in that collection, and so you can tell how many more duplicates to expect.

The view screen starts out darkened as well.

Any animal that you have already trained will become visible with a quantity beside it.

Summer  Collection

Fencing Alsatian	Badminton Kangaroo	Basketball Elephant
Archer Chicken	Athlete Monkey	Rugby Gorilla

Collection Name - Summer Collection

Reward Name	Maximum Number of Attempts  That Will Result In This Reward Before You Complete the Collection	Maximum Time
Fencing Alsatian	2	60 hours
Badminton Kangaroo	4	120 hours
Basketball Elephant	3	90 Hours
Archer Chicken	4	120 hours
Athlete Monkey	4	120 hours
Rugby Gorilla	4	120 hours

Bonus Prize

Artistic Gymnast Horse

Winter Collection

Curler Duck	Snowboarder Meerkat	Alpine Skier Giraffe
Figure Skater Flamingo	Luger Bunny	Ice Hockey Bear

Collection Name - Winter Collection  

Reward Name	Maximum Number of Attempts That  Will Result In This Reward  Before You Complete the Collection	Maximum Time
Curler Duck	3	90 Hours
Snowboarder Meerkat	4	120 Hours
Alpine Skier Giraffe	2	60 Hours
Figure Skater Flamingo	4	120 Hours
Luger Bunny	4	120 Hours
Ice Hockey Bear	4	120 Hours

Bonus Prize

Speed Skater Unicorn

 Youth Collection 

Note: A cria is a baby llama or alpaca.. Footballer is not an error, as what is called Soccer in the U.S.A. is called Football in most other countries....

Weight Lifter Infant	Triathalon Piglet	Diver Tiger
Footballer Cria	Rhythmic Gymnast Duckling	Taekwondo Kitten

Collection Name - Youth Collection

Reward Name	Maximum Number of Attempts That Will Result In This Reward Before You Complete the Collection	Maximum Time
Weight Lifter Infant	4	120 Hours
Triathalon Piglet	2	60 Hours
Diver Tiger	4	120 Hours
Footballer Cria	3	90 Hours
Rhythmic Gymnast Duckling	4	120 Hours
Taekwondo Kitten	4	120 Hours

Bonus Prize

Golfer Pony