Antony Steele has developed a New York Properties Economy Calculator to help Mafia Wars players choose which New York property to upgrade next. The spreadsheet is available in three formats (Microsoft Excel, Open Office, and Google Docs).

If you want to make sure you get the most bang for your buck, check out Antony's spreadsheet.

Currently, your Farmville neighbors are able to gift you a 1/5 tank of fuel. A normal fuel tank holds 150 units and replenishes at 1 unit every 2.5 minutes. To get the most benefit from the 1/5 fuel tank gifts, you should redeem one gift every time your tank is full. Since you can have additional tanks of fuel stored up, this will push you over the limit and into a new tank. You can then let that tank fill up over time and end up with an additional full tank.

This information is verified to be accurate as of World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.x.

Before going too far into this, it's worth pointing out that you shouldn't make a decision regarding which race to play in World of Warcraft simply on the traits that differentiate the races. Although these differences may have a large impact on your game experience in certain situations, picking the "wrong" race is not going to ruin your character. If you are a casual player, you will have much more fun choosing a player based on looks or an interesting back-story you've created. That being said...

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There are currently four different kinds of cows in Farmville. You can harvest milk from each kind of cow and receive a different number of coins depending on the color of the cow (and thus, the flavor of the milk).

The key to making cows profitable is using the Dairy Farm. Cows by themselves take up a lot of real estate. Dairy farms are slightly bigger than one and a half plots, but can hold twenty cows. Additionally, the Dairy Farm lets you harvest all twenty cows at once. This is a huge time saver. With the maximum of five Dairy Farms and a fully loaded Chicken Coop, you can achieve the Zoologist blue ribbon in just six weeks with minimal effort.

So, you want to put as many Alien and Pink Cows in your Dairy Farms as possible.

Zynga has added two new ribbons to Farmville:

• Lord of the Plow: This ribbon is given in recognition of tractor users. The only way to power through this ribbon is to purchase gas with your Farmville dollars.
• Vegetable Virtuoso: Similar to the Flower Power ribbon, this ribbon is given for harvesting vegetable crops.