Girl Geekette

For those of you who like social networking, Facebook (originally intended for College kids) is a much milder, stripped down Social Networking as compared to Yahoo 360 and MySpace. Although there are 3rd party Applications you can add… it has a much cleaner / less cluttered look you can add.

A few days ago, a 3rd party application called “Pets” was released for Facebook. To me, it reminds me of a cross between Tamagotchi and with a hint of World of Warcraft in it. The idea is to start out with a level 0 pet - a bunny (or a colorbit). You can pet it, feed it or poke it from your Facebook profile (as can others) to gain XP and health. (Poke seems to give higher XP than Pet from what I have seen).

You can check mine out at Erica’s Facebook Profile

Inside the game, you “fight monsters” to gain XP, health and Gold. You can then use the Gold to buy items of armor and clothing to increase you hit points, damage and health.  Pet me and Scavenging has been disabled from inside the game at this time. (Sorry! Scavenging (or petting) has been temporarily disabled due to high server load. We’re currently fixing this. Thanks for your patience!) The higher your XP, the tougher the monsters (Scorpion, Mantis, Spider, and an Ant) are to kill.

After you kill the monster, you loot the body for Gold and/or Equipment (weapons, armor, etc). You can sell the equipment for gold, carry it or equip it.

While playing it (mine has been alive for 10 hours - with a couple of hours of sleep being in the 10) I have noticed a few things.

• If you are up against an enemy and your health is running out faster than that one is.. instead of ‘run’ning at first , click on the My Pet button. You can go back, feed your pet, and go back to fighting with all of the health (hit points) on both you and the monster - but both of you with HP reset. It might not always save you, but there is a good chance it will the second or third time around.

  
  

• When you get around level 18 and level 22 monsters start appearing.. there is a level 22 Scorpion that barely damages you at all. Even at level 17 or 18, you can easily defeat this one and take little Hit Points (damage, loss of health) and gain a lot of XP and Gold (or even equipment). This has been fixed.
• I find myself cycling through (Evade) the monsters that are lower than me to fight monsters that are my level or above. In essence, it takes less mouse clicks to “evade” a lower level monster and get a higher level one to fight - taking less time to get more XP / Gold or Equipment.
• As of right now, the highest level to get new items is 16. The creator has said there will be some new equipment/items by the end of this week
• The levels where you can get new items right now are 2,7,10 and 16
• As far as items and colour goes.. what I have noticed are

• red items have more attack points
• gold things cost less
• green items have more hit points associated with them

• The yellowbit starts out with 400 more gold than the others. (at 500)
• The greenbit starts out with more base hit points than the others (at 150)
• The bloodbit starts out doing more damage than the others (at 18) but, it does not have any armor points and only has 20 base hit (health) points
• The bluebit starts out with the most armor points (at 3)

More tips to come as I notice them