1 - Why aren't all my purchase orders done? The number of purchases per day is limited by a farmer's means of transportation. If this limit is reached, the purchase orders will have no effect.
2 - I sold an item for 2 Gold, but it does not appear on the market. Yet it is in the section "my outstanding." Is this normal? The price for selling an item on the market is an average of each seller's price. At a purchase, the cheapest products go first.
3 - When is the Item Store replenished? Is it normal that there are few items left before closing? The Item Store is replenished before reopening. Stocks (as well as the number of employees) are limited. It's normal for items to run out before closing.
4 - I do not understand, from time to time items mysteriously appear in my shed!!! After a certain period of time, items that do not sell are returned to your shed.
5 - I just started and I have no hens or roosters ... only chicks? This is normal. In the beginning you have chicks who later become 3 hens and 1 rooster (if well fed and cared for).
6 - How can I tell the difference between hens, chicks, and roosters? Until they are adults, you can't distinguish between male and female chicks, except at the Item Store at the time of purchase.
7 - How can I tell the difference between adult hens and roosters? It's very easy for a professional, RanchStars!! The rooster has a shimmering plumage: a large tail and blue wings. Hens have duller plumage.
8 - Is there a maximum weight for animals? If yes, what will happen if they exceed it? There is a maximum weight for each species, but don't worry... they won't explode!!!
9 - How many times a day do hens lay eggs? Hens lay only once a day.
10 - Can you keep new eggs until the next day? For reasons of freshness, eggs must be sold the day of laying. Otherwise, they are lost.
11 - Can my hens have baby chicks at Level 1 (i.e. without buying them at the Item Store)? At Level 1, hens lay eggs but don't produce chicks. This happens at Level 2.
12 - Can I sell my hens and my rooster at Level 1? No, you can not sell chickens at Level 1. We must achieve the Level 2 for that.
13 - Is it normal not to have adult rabbits at of Level 1? Quite normal!!! Each farmer starts with 8 baby rabbits that must develop through the stages of small and large rabbits before becoming adults. Only as adults can they give birth to babies rabbits.
14 - How many females can a male rabbit mate with? A male rabbit mates with one female.
15 - Is it better to have more female rabbits than male rabbits for more babies? No, as the number of births is based on the number of male / female couples, the number of future babies will be limited by the number of males.
16 - Why don't all the male / female couples have babies? Each day, a certain number of couples give birth to baby rabbits. The better you take care of your rabbits, the more they will reproduce.
17 - What is the rabbit's gestation period? There is none. The reproduction and birth are immediate.
18 - What is the maximum number of rabbits I can have?? The number of rabbits is limited by the number of hutches. Each hutch can contain 50 rabbits. Thus, a Level 1 farmer may not have more than 100 rabbits maximum (babies and adults). When the hutch is full of adults, new babies will be lost.
19 - I sold a rabbit but I only earned 25 Gold. They sell for 100 Gold at the Item Store. Where's the other Gold? Careful, the rabbits are sold for 100 Gold each, but they are bought for 25 Gold!
20 - My cow died of disease. Where can I get another? You can have a new cow simply by going to the page "Pastures", but it will be a new born calf.
21 - Can we have more cows at Level 1? No, at Level 1 each farmer can only have one cow.
22 - My cow doesn't give milk. Is this normal? A cow won't give milk until it reaches a certain age and weight (10 days and 80 kilograms). Remember that a sick cow can't give milk.
23 - Can I sell my cow to the butcher to get Gold for its meat? Your cow is a dairy cow. You can't sell it for meat. This will be possible only at the third level, when you have a herd of several heads.
24 - Why are there negative points for the Black Market? Speculation and the purchase of banned products on the Black Market is illegal, it is natural that these actions have a negative affect on points.
25 - Why do some farmers have a medal next to their names? The medal is a bug hunter's reward and is given to farmers who reported a bug to administrators. A bonus representing 10% of his score is then given to him.
26 - Why I do not earn as many points as expected? Why do I lose points when I make no action? Each distribution of points is a total number of points depending on the number of farmers enrolled and then distributed. If a farmer does nothing and the number of players increases, he earns fewer points... and lowers his overall score.
27 - Why don't I get more points or much money at the beginning (Level 1)? The first level is to familiarize youyself with the various game aspects and make you aware of the importance of your choices. It's not a race for money or points ... it's gradual.
28 - Do I have to pay to play RanchStars? Not at all, this game is completely free. There is however an Gold procurement system by phone that allows you to financially support the development of the site. You get a few bonuses in your shed.
Beware, there is absolutely no need to use this service to win this game
29 - Where do I see how much Gold I have? The balance is displayed in the upper right corner of each page (once connected). Players with 15-inch screen may need to use the vertical and horizontal lifts.
30 - How do you earn Gold? There are three ways to earn Gold, 1: sell rabbits, milk or eggs to the Item Store, 2: speculate on the market to farmers, and 3: use the call (for players in distress only).
31 - Can we make donations to our friends (money, objects, animals ...)? Sorry, it's not possible to make donations (not before the fourth level and the association with another farmer).
32 - What is your policy on advertising? We believe that players should not be taken hostage by advertising. Also, we are prohibiting any pop-ups or pop-unders. As for banners, we are trying to better target their content in order not to upset the players (young people, families, etc.). Farmers are free to click to support the site or not.
33 - Do we have the right to have multiple accounts on one computer or a single IP address? Of course, multi-accounts are welcome on RanchStars: members of the same family can come and play from the same computer, and several machines on a network can be used. Any excessive behavior will be punished ... the RanchStars police is watching.
34 - What if I go on vacation or if my computer crashes? If for some reason you can not access the site during a certain period, you can use the "hibernate" from the "My Account." Your account will be frozen until your return. If you do not feed your animals for 3 days, your farm will be put into hibernation automatically.
35 - How does hibernation work? Hibernation suspends time in your farm: the days don't pass, your stock don't die. Your farm will come out of hibernation upon your next connection.
36 - What does the button "reset my account" in the "My Account" do? This button, which can be used only once, allows a farmer to restart his operations from scratch. You go back to the first day, with 300 Gold, 4 chicks, etc..
37 - Can I change my password? Go to "My Account", you can easily change your password.
38 - It is normal that the time is not always correct? The clock isn't managed in real time; it's reassessed with every page refresh.
39 - As there are players from different countries, one might have different clocks showing the time in corresponding time zones? It would require a huge scoreboard to display all our players' time zones. As everyone can calculate the time difference with the server time, we decided to keep only the clock server.
42 - How did you come to create this site? We were followers of online livestock games, and simply seeing other sites with bugs, poor ideas, or where administrators had no consideration for their players gave us the idea for RanchStars.
43 - How long did you have to expand? The idea began to germinate at Christmas 2003 and we opened the site on March 25, 2004.
44 - What is the role of the founding members? Our founding team is composed of three persons: Hollowgod - who deals with the Code implementation, Tictic - who creates graphical objects, and Hopf - who coaches the whole team (except for drinking coffee and criticizing, he doesn't do much ... hey hey).
45 - Might he not have to overload the server with the increasing number of players (including market)? Prior to this, Hollowgod established a strategy of network development and implementation of new servers that does not leave room for such surprises: no waiting for delivery of new servers, no unavailability of the site, etc..
46 - Can we talk about other farm games in the forum? Of course!!! RanchStars is a site where players can have fun!!! You have every right to discuss other livestock games, exchange site addresses, share tips, etc..
47 - I often see posts about "IM." What does this mean? As their participation in the forum, many farmers have expressed the desire to use a forum free of any fault of grammar or spelling:
48 - I want to be a moderator or facilitator, what do I do? To join forum moderators or facilitators (and get a green or blue star), you must regularly participate in conversations, help beginners ... and especially, don't ask. We will contact eligible farmers, and we hold regular recruitment campaigns.
49 - There is a good atmosphere on the forum and chat. Does everyone know each other from before? Not at all. The community of players has developed gradually through the use of forums and chat. We are very attentive to player requests and suggestions, so everyone can have fun and a true community can develop.
50 - What if I find a bug? Two options are available: keep it to yourself and exploit it to earn points (or anything else), which is illegal, or tell the administrators in transmit contacting us (detailing the problem ). In the first case, you will get what all cheaters get. In the second case, you will receive the medal of bug hunter and a score bonus representing 10% of your total score.
51 - How are cheaters dealt with? Our policy towards cheaters is very strong because we believe they ruin the player community (not to mention the directors' work). The first penalty is a forced one-week hibernation (and a fine depending on the fault and recovery of misappropriated assets). Upon second offense, the account is deleted. If the cheating is considered serious, the player's account will be deleted without notice. Please note that we regularly watch player behavior (which has already helped end a first series of illegal practices).
52 - I just started and I have no chicks (or rabbits or cows)? Sorry to disappoint you, but they must have died of hunger or disease. Animals are distributed to a player on his first connection to the site. Moreover, the distribution of animals goes hand in hand with the creation of an account: if the creation of a single small chick is impossible, no account is created!!
53 - How do I feed my animals? There are 2 ways for farmers to feed their animals: select animals to feed directly on the page and click on "feed" or buy a bag of food that can be used on all animals. For farmers to choose the most economical solution. Attention, from Level 2 on, each species requires a particular type of food.
54 - Is this game difficult? This game may seem a little more difficult than average, but rest assured, even if you do start to earn either money or point, everything has been tested and you can proceed to the second level. Just make logical choices ... and if you make a huge mistake, the reset button is there "reset." And to borrow a quote from a player, "with a husband and a goldfish at home, I should be able to get on with this game."
55 - How do you go to Level 2? Is this a new beginning or continuity? When advancing to Level 2, your operation will keep everything you've developed during Level 1. The move to Level 2 happens when the amount of 1,500 Gold will be reimbursed to the bank. To do this, you must have at least 2,000 and, having repaid your loan 1,500 Gold to the bank, you have the minimum to start on Level 2.
56 - Can we join with another farmer before Level 4? No, it is not possible to associate with other farmers before the fourth level.
57 - At what time is the transition from one day to another? The transition from one day to another (i.e., the time when animals are fed, watered and where eggs are laid) occurs during the closure of the site, between 2:00am and 5:00am.
58 - Can I create multiple accounts to control market prices? Of course not! The use of multi-accounts for changing market prices is strictly prohibited and will be punished. How do I know if I'm obeying the rules? "Ask yourself the following question:If I do not have a single account ... Would that market price would be the same? "If your answer is no, it's a problem.
59 - Can I use a robot to come and play in my place? Of course not! And what would be the value of using a robot, there would be no fun in playing. If a robot is discovered, the player's accounts will be severely punished.
60 - Can you share funny pictures and videos on the forum? Absolutely! Provided that the page does not contain adult content (including links). To be sure, you can use the free www.dailymotion.com for video and www.imageshack.us for pictures.
