Whithorn Fishing Tutorial

How to Fish in Whithorn
By Xenina Ramsay

1) It used to be the best paying gig in town. You will get a % for each try, so you may not get a fish on the first day. For example, if you click on one spot today and get 80%, that amount will be saved in your account. The next day that you fish, you will only have to get 20% in order to get 100% and receive a fish. Voila! So, the only day that you would not get a fish is the very first day, but believe me, fishing does pay off.

2) The fishing map: Take a look at this page every day and look for a post that was made after reset: http://fishing.melyadon.info/?village=whithorn
Look for a post by anyone that fished in Y=0 or Y=1. You can most likely only fish in the bottom row (Y=0), if you don't have a lot of strength yet.

3) Once you have selected a box, "Fishing" will be your day's activity! So be careful, there is no coming back possible!

4) The more strength you have (meat you've eaten), the further out you can fish from the shore - out to row 6 if you have no boat. The more intelligence (fish) you have the more chances you get to fish.

1 SP => 1 line (So, you need 2 strength points to fish in row 2).
IP => Intelligence Point (More chances to get a high yield. 5 points is good.)

• 0-4 IP => 2 boxes
• 5-9 IP => 3 boxes
• 10-14 IP => 4 boxes
• 15-19 IP => 5 boxes

5) You can see the positions (X, Y) in your web-browser's status bar by moving your mouse over the box. At the end of the day, you fish on the last box on which you clicked (even if you have some move's points left). In this image you see x=7 & y=5 (8th box over and 6 rows up):

6) Fishing map: use the fishing map to see what else has been found that day, then choose the most productive box for your last turn. (The fishing page tells you how many tries you have left, i.e. 4/5 means you have one try left.)

7) After reset, you will get your fish (1-2 fish). Yes, some days you can get two or even three. Sell any fish for what the TOWN HALL MESSAGE SAYS. Sell it the very next day. Don't build up a collection please. Just list them when you get them and the mayor will buy them when he/she gets a chance.

8) So, if you can fish out to row 5, what is the max yield you can get? The answer is 99%. This chart will give you all max yields:

y/(Y-Axis/Strength)	Min-Yield (%)	Max-Yield (%)
0	69	80
1	72	88
2	74	89
3	76	93
4	77	96
5	78	99
6	79	101
	THIS IS THE BOAT LINE
7	80	104
8	81	107
9	81	109
10	82	112
11	82	114
12	82	116
13	83	119
14	83	121
15	83	123
16	84	126
17	84	128
18	84	130
19	85	132

9) You must own a boat to fish beyond y=6 (row 7). Yield max is 132% at the 20th row (y=19). Boats are around 110 pounds in Whithorn. You cannot sell the boat once it is placed in your home (just like clothes). Remember you still need a lot of strength and intelligence to fish out away from shore, so don't buy a boat until it's worth your investment.

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POLICE EXAM

A man, seeking to join the police force is being interviewed.

The Inspector says: "Your qualifications are good, but there is an aptitude test that you must pass before you can join."

Sliding a pistol across the desk, he says: "Take this pistol - go out and shoot six illegal immigrants, six druggies and a rabbit."

"Why the rabbit?"

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The following radio transmission was recorded off the coast of Newfoundland 10-10-95

Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No. I say again, divert YOUR course.

Americans: Ok. This is the Aircraft Carrier US LINCOLN, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic Fleet. We are accompanied by three Destroyers, three Cruisers and numerous support vessels. I DEMAND that you change your course 15 degrees north. I say again, that's one-five degrees north, or counter-measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. It's your call.

Virtual Worlds

Many IM services offer buddy icons and animated smileys, but none of them are as eye friendly as IMVU messenger. IMVU allows you to customize your avatar from head to toe, kind of like you would in the Second Life or the Sims. You start out with 1500-9000 credits, based on your ability to chat every day for four days. This amount allows you to buy a very nice new wardrobe (aside from your free stuff), but you can also purchase a beach house, loft or condo in the system. You can also animate your avatar, which is always moving in this 3D world and have your avatar interact with other people from all over the world.

Click here to give me reference credit as you sign up: IMVU sign up!

How it works: It's ever evolving, but basically you click on a T shirt and that will show you all the clothing that you can wear. You can change anything really: clothes, hair, skin tones, makeup styles, heads, wings and ball gowns are just a few things that you can use to customize your avatar. I am constantly making items that go with the California Girl theme. However I also make men's jeans or anything that I get requests for.

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OUTFITS THAT YOU CAN WEAR AND SOME POSES YOU CAN USE IN IMVU BY PURCHASING COSTUMES IN PART OR IN BUNDLES:

You get a IMVU homepage for free and if you join IMVU, there are no ads on your page. Teens love IMVU, but you can search for people of all ages and believe me there is someone of every age on IMVU. I've seen men and women in their 60s. Yes, they know how to use a computer. :) As for all of you using the Mac OS, sorry - imvu is only available for Windows.
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IMVU Reaches 20 Million Users

Web-based virtual world IMVU has announced that it's passed the milestone of 20 million registered accounts, although that translates to 600,000 active monthly users. The company is also now earning $1 million a month in revenue, 90% of which comes from selling virtual currency, while 10% comes from embedded advertising. Around 1.7 million items have been created by users and uploaded to the IMVU community too.

According to GigaOM, around 100,000 IMVU users have registered to become content creators, although the actual number doing it - with tools like Maya and Blender - is in the tens of thousands. The world typically has 50,000-70,000 users online at once, of whom 60% are female, and 60% are US-based. However, the company isn’t yet profitable, although it has high hopes for selling prepaid currency cards in US retail chains like Target and Blockbuster - an initiative that kicks off in the next fortnight.
It has to be said though, IMVU has been going since 2004, and is still in beta. Shouldn’t it be ready for a proper commercial launch by now?

Nickelodeon Virtual Pets?

Nickelodeon's Kids and Family Group has released the latest comScore Media Metrix figures for the performance of its websites - judging by the scramble last time they did this, we expect Disney to hit back with its own press release imminently. Anyway, the Nick figures show good growth for its Neopets virtual world, which increased its unique visitors by 22% in June, while average time spent on site per user grew 19% to 173.6 minutes.

As I’ve said before, the latter ‘engagement’ stat is likely to become more and more important to the virtual worlds industry, with companies looking to shift away from pure number-of-users to metrics showing the stickiness of their worlds.
Nickelodeon says it’s now the top-ranked ‘kids and family online destination’ (this is the part Disney may disagree with), attracting 28.6 million unique visitors in June (5% up on May’s figures, and a 13% rise year-on-year).
The company is also benefitting from strong growth in its games sites, with AddictingGames attracting 10.7 million unique visitors in June who spent an average of 30.5 minutes on the site. Nickelodeon says it’s planning to add a massive 1,600 new games to its sites in the coming months, while also launching new virtual worlds Monkey World and World of Neopia (both working titles).

Wheat Tutorial

How to Farm Wheat

By Xenina Ramsay

Wheat Facts

• Ask the Mayor of your town if there’s a need for wheat growers to avoid overproduction.

• Wheat is not a basic food. It’s purchased by a miller to make flour. It is also purchased by your Mayor to be sold to the County to breed animals.

• You need a wheat bag in your property inventory to sow your field.

Farming Wheat

The cycle for growing wheat takes 10 days.

1) On the first day it is necessary to plough (work related to strength). 2) On the second day one needs to sow (work related to intelligence).

• Important: Don’t forget to place a wheat bag in your property to sow.

3) The wheat grows normally from the third day till the ninth day. 4) On the tenth day it is necessary to harvest (work related to strength).

Wheat Yield

The yields are related to the strength and the intelligence of the workers. (Points (P): Strength Points (SP) + Intelligence Points (IP) during the three operations on the field)

• Note: Second fields have a penalty of 25% compared to the yield of first fields.

First field: 0 Points >>>> 8 wheat bags Second field: 0 Points >>> 6 wheat bags

First field: 20 Points >>>> 8 wheat bags Second field: 20 Points >>> 6 wheat bags

First field: 40 Points >>>> 9 wheat bags Second field: 60 Points >>> 7 wheat bags

First field: 60 Points >>>> 10 wheat bags Second field: 60 Points >>> 7 wheat bags

• Conclusion: For your best value, it is best to hire 0 stat workers if you have a second field using wheat, as your minimum is 6 and your maximum is 7.

• All fields start with a quality of 50%.

• After the ploughing, you can raise the quality to 55% maximum, if the one who worked has at least 20 strength points.

• After the sowing, you can raise the quality to 60% maximum, if the one who worked has at least 20 intelligence points.

• After the harvest, you can raise the quality to 65% maximum, if the one who worked has at least 20 strength points.

• To end with a quality of 65%, you have to find 60 characteristics points, max. 40 SP and max. 20 IP

• The quality of the field is limited to 65%.

Price & Hiring

• Price: although free to choose, the price of wheat must respect a certain degree of honesty so consumer and producer can benefit both.

• Hiring: It is advised that producers who don’t have the right amount of strength and/or intelligence points, hire a more skilled worker on a first field. Moreover the employer will receive a reputation point every time he hires someone.

It is advised if you hire someone to work on your field (ploughing, sowing and harvest), that you ask for someone with 0, 10 or 20 points.

• Profits: Every 10 days you get, knowing that you need a wheat bag for the sowing, from 7 X 13 = 91 pounds to 9 X 13 = 117 pounds (or 65 pounds and 78 pounds for a second field)