DO THIS FIRST: ORIENTATION FOR GOLDEN FRIENDS /BOOT CAMP

DO THIS FIRST: ORIENTATION FOR GOLDEN FRIENDS /BOOT CAMP

▪  When your recruiter announces your arrival on the main group page & welcomes you by introducing you to your fellow group members, please feel free to comment below your recruiter by clicking “comment” directly under their comment…do NOT start a new post on the group wall.  We try to group all comments relative to the original post directly under that post.  In your comment, you may say how you found us or how we recruited you, what made you decide to join us.  Please give your Playdom ID name in your introduction so others will immediately recognize you.  After that, get busy working on your first assignment your recruiter gave you upon joining us.  General BetterNetter is serious about getting you thoroughly trained and graduated from Boot Camp & into our Golden Friends Group within 2 weeks!  (check back frequently to your commented post so you can see welcome comments that have been added by other group members, welcoming you.  This gives you a great feeling of “belonging”!!)

▪  EVERYTIME  you log onto play GoT, FIRST log in to Facebook and bring up Boot Camp or Golden Friends group page to check for current gold tournament info.  If there IS a current gold tourney, please come a.s.a.p. to play with the group.  If no gold that hour, bring up main group chat box , (Click on right side of your FB page our Group Name) Then click “chat with group”.  When finished viewing the regular group page, immediately click on GF Social Group Chat on the right side of your FB page.  Then also click “Chat with Group” to view our social chat box on the bottom of your FB page.  From there you can navigate wherever you want on FB while still staying connected to our group via the little chat boxes on the bottom of your FB page!

▪  Golden Friends Boot Camp has 2 group chat boxes as described above. The main Boot Camp group chat box is reserved for reporting guild checks at the top of every hour & for admin to set up the list of volunteers requesting to report for their guilds.  (as explained in detail in other document titled, “Gold And How We Find It”) The GF group chat room is also reserved for any questions you have for admin or problems that you need admin help with.  Please observe this courteous behavior & use the other social chat room for all other discussions.  Admins are always available for PM (Private messaging) if you ever have a problem with a particular person, personal computer problems OR issues with the game!  As part of your Boot Camp training, you will be required to participate in the hourly guild reporting so you are aware of it.  Please stop playing the game & report to the Boot Camp Main Group Chat box at 15 min before the hour for your guild assignments!  Once you graduate to our Golden Friends Group – guild reporting is optional but shows your team spirit & helps us stay united as a group.

▪   Our Social Chat box is just that!  It is a place where our members can get to know each other.  If chatting is your cup of tea, you will really enjoy our more colorful members of the group.  ANYONE is welcomed…there should be no “cliques” here.  Just like in real life, some people are more vocal chatting, and others more shy.  We have room for EVERYONE!  You are also free to PM (private message) those whom you really “hit it off” with, or want to discuss more delicate topics!

▪  Many of our members consider one of the 12 Zodiac guilds their “home” guild on Playdom.  Some consider Golden Friends their “home” guild.  No matter the case, here in this group we never vote which guild to visit to help win gold based on our personal “home” guilds.  We try to realistically look at the current scores in the gold tournament, watch guild feed chatter to see if an entire guild will jump to help one of the teams in a gold tourney & keep an eye on the forum posts for gold.  Once we have a good picture of the above, the admins will call for a group vote in the chat box.  We MUST stay united and jump as a group!  There have been rare cases of double gold tourneys, where admins have allowed a split jump, but that will be explained in another document.  Unity here creates our strength in numbers!!

▪  When playing the GoT game, try to always start your game playing by checking your messages on the game & send all your friends all the FREE gifts you can.  We hope that most of your friends either are fellow jumpers from our Golden Friends group or from your “home” guilds.  We really need to gift there the free gifts DAILY!  Most people are not doing this consistently & we can really support each other, strengthen our game playing, & help keep our energy up for tough gold tournament playing!  Try to get in the habit.  We recommend checking your friend’s list in the game frequently to maintain it.  If you need help doing this, please ask any admin.

▪  Please DO NOT asks for help from fellow Golden Friends or Boot Camp Members - when the tournament prize is NOT gold. We should not be affiliated with any one guild here, and asking other GF members to jump for a non-gold prize is not fair to them because if we have gold tourney right after they jump, they will be stuck in your guild & unable to jump for their gold. Many of our GF members only have one ID in GoT.  We must respect that.

▪  Please do not use the terms slaughter or slam-dunk. Let’s not glorify a loss or a win.

▪  There will be times when you face negativity, if you need to talk about this negativity don't name names…unless it's in a private conversation not on the group wall, group chat or social chat.
▪    We, as a group have a lot of power to change the direction a tournament takes. At least once a day as a team, we should help a guild, which is in 9th, 10th, 11th or 12th place on the leader board.  When this happens winning gold is not guaranteed, it just depends on how many of us are available at the time of the tourney to help sway the score our way.  If you don't win gold that round, we just take it all in stride & remember that we tried our best to do a good deed for a guild that rarely wins gold.  When we HAVE helped these teams win gold in the past, they are SO deeply thankful to us for our help that they voice their gratitude & welcome us back.  That feeling is just as good as earning gold!!!  :)

GOLD – HOW WE FIND IT and WHAT WE DO, ONCE IT’S FOUND

Please take the time to read this whole document.  It contains information such as secret phrases and explains what we do and WHY we do it.  IF you do not read carefully, you will only risk embarrassment - when you "aren't with the program.”

GOLD – HOW WE FIND IT and WHAT WE DO, ONCE IT’S FOUND

Admin On Duty (AOD) and a group of volunteers check every single guild at the top of each hour.  We try to cover a 24-hour shift, since Garden of Time (GoT) is played in every time zone on the planet.  Usually we will have finished our guild check by 5 minutes after a tourney has started.  (Sometimes faster!)  If you do not see a post on the group feed about a gold tournament by then, it usually means there is not a gold rush for that hour.  We may miss checking the guilds at the top of the hour due to issues in Playdom, but we will try to give you at least 15 minute warning so you can get to the guild and get your 30 points to win the gold prize.

At 10 min before every hour, our group members meet in our group chat box and guild reporters are assigned for each guild.  The reporters will then give report for that guild in the GF chat box.  If you have not been assigned as a guild reporter for that particular hour, then correct protocol is to remain silent and observe the guild checking procedure and await the results.  Then the assigned guild reporters post their guild report using the SAME FORMAT:  "guild name/guild name - no gold” OR “GOLD GUILD NAME/GUILD NAME,"   Notice: Gold tourneys are always announced in all caps.  This so the Admin On Duty (AOD) easily sees it during tabulation.  Once the results are finished then the AOD will post on the main group feed where the gold is for that hour.  There will usually be a vote on which guild we are jumping to, but this is not necessarily the case especially in a back-to-back (b2b) gold rush.  The guild that we are jumping to will be posted on the group feed. If there is NO gold that hour, there will still be a post to assure you that all guilds were definitely checked that hour.  We have many members that check these feeds on their cell phones every hour, so we try to keep the posts clear and concise.

If there is no admin on duty, at the top of the hour, whichever group members are online must work together as a team to figure out if any guilds have a gold tourney.  You should post your guild reports in the chat box, NOT on the page feed, because many of our members get email and text alerts.  Once those members present tabulate that there is no gold OR if there IS gold THEN only one person online should post those results on the group page.  BEFORE you post where there IS or IS NOT gold, please check the group wall. If someone has posted there is no need for you too. All comments regarding that same hour should be commented under that FIRST post, otherwise we get too many posts on the same topic. Avoid Redundancy!

Only AOD’s  (or other appointed stand-ins) are permitted to post gold tourney info on our group feed.  This is to maintain order and the same format in the posts so we do not get regular members telling the group to jump to different places.  Our Golden Friend group members are NOT allowed to post gold tourneys in the guild FB pages and certainly NEVER in the forums!  We, as members of this group are NOT ALLOWED to post general gold tourney in our home guilds either.  

Let us explain why it is mandatory that everyone follow the above rule - so no one is upset!  Some guild members might look at us "jumpers" as if we are traitors or that we care more about gold than winning with our guild.  IF gold tourney info were readily available and announced in every guild regularly, why would anyone want to be a member of our group??!?!  Posting gold tourney info in the guilds and forums HURTS our recruiting more jumpers into our group and compromises the power we have to sway the outcome of a gold tourney as a group.  When you post gold tourney in the forums and in the guild rooms you only hurt yourself and our group!  On rare occasions, we will appoint someone to go into the guilds to post for help in a very close gold tourney, mostly to help an underdog team.  Those appointed to do this have been trained on what the BEST way is to do it.  

Sometimes our members are SO eager to play the game they might forget to log into our group here on FB first!  If you are in a guild and know we have just discovered a gold tourney, it IS possible that our other group members will NOT know it is going on!  We have two "secret phrases" for announcing UNDER THE RADAR about gold tourneys:  "There's a tea party at my place!!!  Hurry everyone come over!"  (ALTERNATIVELY, ANY phrase using the code words, TEA PARTY).  The other secret phrase is addressing a particular member by their Playdom ID in that particular guild and telling them they are "wanted or needed in the library a.s.a.p.!"   This should automatically alert that person to immediately visit our group page for gold tourney info!  Always remember you CAN visit any person's personal profile on the guild and type them a message that will show up on their personal guild feed.   Nobody else in the guild will see what you typed on their profile, BUT if that person does not know you typed it on their profile, then they usually reply with a comment typed on the regular guild feed, then your identity is revealed and the secret is no longer secret!!!  Tread wisely please!  

IF any regular guild member asks about the ‘library’, what it means, or where the library is, either ignore the question or post a bogus address for some bogus library.  (That usually quells all other questions too!  LOL!)

IF it is a very close game, we try to put one of our people in each guild to see if the guilds ask for our help.  We also monitor all forum posts and Guild FB pages to determine if other guilds will jump to either team and have a huge affect on the scores.  We prefer to jump to a guild that welcomes us.  If one team is already showing a huge lead, whoever posts it will recommend which guild for you to go to.   Discussion as to which guild to jump to will be done in the chat box.  We do not post asking for help for gold tourneys in the different guilds UNLESS there is a super close battle and we do not have enough people from our group to actually win the gold.  Whoever is appointed to go to each guild should ask in question form IF anyone could possibly help another guild winning gold.  We never want to take them away from their own guild IF they are already in a close battle.  Check the scores in those guilds BEFORE you ask them to jump ship from their home guild.  If it is a close race, most will opt to stay with their guild anyhow.  It is a loyalty issue at that point! 

You will be "stuck" in whatever guild you jump to for a total of 2 hours, but we never want to comment in the guild that we're visiting that we're "stuck" there, because we never want to offend anyone in any guilds.  After the gold match is over, you can monitor the discussion and chatter in the guild and take note of the ID names that remark positively about our members and the help we provided them.  You can give these names to any admin person in our group and we can follow up and attempt to recruit them into our inner circle here.  This will make our group larger and stronger and even MORE fun!  Inviting people to join the group should be done only if you know that they are jumper friendly or jump themselves.  Talk to ___________________, __________________, and  _________________  , admin that specializes in recruiting for our group.  There IS a right way and a “BETTER” way to invite players.  Your next lesson will be on recruiting techniques.

Golden Friends Boot camp. PRIVACY POLICY

Golden Friends Boot camp. PRIVACY POLICY

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 The design and purpose of the GFB website is for game partnering and learning how to play Garden of Time by Playdom. You are required to provide all appropriate information as mentioned below under Personal Information.

 The Information We Collect

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 The personal information you provide to GFB is forwarded only to the person or department equipped to handle any requests by you and is used only to respond to your inquiry.

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 If you have any questions about our privacy policies or wish to update any of the personal information you have provided to us, contact the GFB team at generalbetter@facebook.com.

Playdom Code of Conduct

Playdom Code of Conduct

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▪  Make any threats or threatening remarks, including (but not limited to) threats directed at minors, threats against another individual or their family, and other such remarks which, in our opinion, are outside the scope or context of the game;

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▪  Promote, encourage, or otherwise advocate the use of illegal drugs;

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Garden of Time Tips on Playdom

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS - Click all Welcome, Help Them, and Claim in this feed. Scroll to bottom to click any you have missed, it contributes to personal and team points.

TEAM PLAY - Click all Welcome, Help Them, and Claim in this feed. Scroll to bottom to click any you have missed. The points contribute to team total.

SHARE BONUS - Does not cost you anything and helps the Guild with points. donate All points expand click claims welcomes and share- this will give u a chance to get 2 Gold Bars for getting MVP.

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS - Click on name in this list and then Add Friend. If person has 100 friends, Add Friend option will not be available.

WIN PRIZE - You need to contribute at least 30 points to the Guild to qualify for the prize in upper right corner.

MVP - Person with the most points in winning guild is MVP and wins Gold!

CLAIMING PRIZE - Only if the guild wins the tournament can you claim the prize.

WONDERS - Click on Lulu, Hire Friends. Jot down the time you just clicked, add 8 hours and extra 5 minutes (for good measure) that is the next time you can click on lulu to get free help.

UPGRADES - Free help does not work yet.  Please be patient. It will come eventually.  Save your gold.

REFRESH - Refresh or reload page to see new neighbors, new energy, or if you are having problems with the game.

 You may need to CLEAR FLASH AND BROWSER CACHES and refresh the game.

How to: http://www.playdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=271&sid=6f5a61861f7da643111e2fdaf9e858a5

GET ENERGIZED: Energy increases 1 unit every 3 min. If your energy goes below 30, click Get More, then Ask Friends for Energy (once an hour, the Guild Members can help free!). Visit neighbors.

MORE ENERGY: 1. Visit neighbors to earn 1 NRG, 15 coins, 50 XP (plus coins and 50XP). 2. Refresh - sometimes NRG is hiding. 3. Wait patiently. 4. Buy some.

GIFTS - Several ways to gift. 1. click on name in feed/post and choose from menu (costs coins). 2. Visit garden - look for visitor w gift icon - click icon and place gift. 3. Go to Friends tab and click Send Gift. 4. Go to Message tab and receive/send gifts.

GIFTS - HIDING: go to neighbor's garden and click on woman with the gift image, click and drag the box where you want to leave the gift, release the mouse to place it

GARDEN - Must leave path at entrance that is 2x2 bricks wide so visitors can enter. Expanding garden size gives 50 points to you and team.

OBJECTS: To move, flip, store or sell objects, click build (hammer/saw icon); click on object - menu opens. Select option.

Need SILVER? Ask guild to send mazes. then sell them for silver

Can't open SCENES? Click on Featured then click on Main Story

Need HINTS? Ask guild to send goggles.

Aqua page on FB: http://www.facebook.com/groups/GotAquaGuild?ap=1GotAquaGuild@groups.facebook.com

CHANGING GUILD: Click on Guilds tab above, click on All Guilds, click on the desired guild.

HOW TO SAVE SCREENSHOT of your garden - Use the key Print Screen (Prtsc) in the upper row of keys following the function keys. Open Paint in Windows suite or Microsoft Word paste it in there. Save.

GARDEN FULL?  http://www.playdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=1929&sid=ef49b211fba295b73a2e78b6c1c1edcb

QUESTIONS - Have questions or problems? Just ask. :) Tip - Read Latest Conversations Forum: Helpful Tips for New Players for more info. (below garden screen)