Thursday, March 28, 2013

Glam Fever currency


In the interest of research (what a rationalization!) I bought $5 worth of both coins and diamonds. Now that I have played a while I find that is not going to be enough, and I should not have paid for coins at all. I can earn them "working" playing the concentration game to get what else I needed. 

When you go to the special offers page you will see that there are no offers that allow you to earn diamonds. Watching the videos is the easiest, but you get very little coins. I took about a half hour to do a survey and got a couple thousand coins.

The offer for a domain name worked best for me. It was something I would have bought anyway, and I got a lot of coins.

I saw an offer from a well-known audio book site (audible.com, a division of amazon.com) for 26000 coins. This is a good deal, but you should check to see if it is appropriate for you. I cannot use this since I already use the service. (BTW I love audible. I purchase audiobooks and listen to them on my ipod nano while walking, driving, gardening and doing other chores.)

Seems like the offers change every day. You may find one that is right for you.

Never use diamonds to buy more fever. Diamonds are hard to earn. This is a very bad deal. Just leave the challenge. You will have to start again once your fever recharges, but you will be ahead in the long run.

I'm only use coins to buy clothes now. Yes the diamond ones are cuter, but unless you want to spend a lot of money on the game... Earning coins is much easier than earning diamonds. If you are going to buy anything, buy diamonds, not coins.

Glam Fever games


These are three in-app games that you spend most of your time playing.

1-
"Working" is a concentration game that involves flipping cards to pair items. This is how you earn coins, and occasionally awards and diamonds. The items on the cards correlate to the equipment you bought. The concentration game is available in 4 career paths that take place in 4 different locations in the city. More about careers later.

Tip: To help you keep track of the cards you flipped and did not match you may want to use a paper and pencil. 

Tip: To earn the most each time you play, make sure to match the 4x and 2x cards before you match all the items. 

2-

“Flirting” is a cute shooting game that involves a tiny bow and arrow and a tricky winged heart racing around the screen. I am not good at arcade shooting games, but this is what I have learned from flirting:

Go to the disco and then choose the room. Go thru the list of guys and decide which one you want. I like to vary the type. I don't think the occupation is important but it might be that the higher glam ones have nicer bonuses. I think it is random, but you can let me know what you think.

If you want to be picky, just go back, enter the room again and there will be a fresh list of guys. Select on and this will open the "Flirting" game.

When playing, try to be patient. That little heart is harder to hit when it is far away on on the side. Wait and it will come right over your arrow. I get over-anxious so I try to calm down and focus. If you miss, you will lose chances, which are linked to how much fever your doll has. Miss too many times and you will run out of chances. Sometimes I will get an offer to watch a video to get another chance. That is very helpful. If instead I get an offer to buy fever, I leave the game. Diamonds are valuable and hard to earn. You will need them for other things. Don't throw one away to get one more chance. Just leave the game, wait two hours for your fever to recharge and try again.

You will want to get admirers. They increase your glam and you can earn helpful bonuses and gifts by "Dating" them.

3-

“Dating” involves a logic puzzle with colored hearts. 

I thought I would share how I play the date game. This is tricky because it can cost you a lot of fever. Make sure your fever level is full when you accept a date or make a date.

When an admirer has a bonus I want to earn. I buy the most expensive date I can buy for coins, because I can earn the most points (5) at once. This is my strategy to play the heart logic game when there are 8 hearts. Make a wild guess the first time. Use any four hearts and put them into the tray in any order. Press "Go."

After you see the results, think carefully. Remember to look at the results at the right of the guess. The game will display a set of pink rings above the results, which can be confusing, but ignore those, that is for the next round.
If a ring is pink, that means there is a wrong heart. If a ring is blue, that means you have a right color but in the wrong placement, and a gold ring means that you have the right color in the right spot. That will also be obvious because the game will place the correct heart in the next tray and it will have a gold outline.

If I get 3 blue rings and a pink one I keep playing with the same four hearts. I place each one above and one to the right of the previous try. The last heart I place first. This way I can methodically try each slot and easily keep track. I can do this two more times if I need to, but my result will be that I will have 3 correct within those turns and I will then know which one is not the right one. I swap in the other colored hearts until I win. (You will have enough turns to do this if you play methodically.)

If I get 2 blue rings, then I select 2 from the first tray and make sure to put them in the next slot to the right from their original positions. Then I put 2 unused hearts in with them. Then I submit. This has a variety of outcomes. The best is if you are lucky, you will get all blue rings. But all pink rings is lucky too, because then you will know that all these heart colors are not in the final solution.

There is more to think about, but this is a start. This is a logic puzzle, so try to figure out the logic instead of randomly guessing each time. Make sure never to place the same color in the same place more than once. Double check for that before you submit. This game helps you use reason to solve problems. Think hard and clearly and you will be a winner.

Notes about the Glam Fever App


The app gives you what looks like lot of currency to start, and you can earn more, but things are priced high so that the provided currency spends very fast. There is the option to purchase more currency in the app (in my case, thru itunes.) It would be wise to play for a while before deciding to spend real money.

The app rewards a few coins for writing a review, so most of the reviews are from new users who are doing it just to earn a few coins. Which renders most of the reviews meaningless since few users have been playing much.

The app is a bit buggy, sometimes quits unexpectedly. I have been unable to send some of the items I earned to my Stardoll suite. Trying to send these items crashes the app. It is better to decline sending the item when you first earn it and then try sending it from the item list. 

There is little help in the app. I keep guessing what things to do when. I paid for a date and later got asked on a date and then it was free. I broke up with one of my admirers and lost glam! I bought a dress, but then found that wearing a top and skirt got me more glam. I learned that paying for more fever was a very bad bargain. Learning has been a lot of trial and error. 

I find that continuing to play Glam fever has diminishing returns. Some of the gifts will not send to my suite. I still have not gotten the dog on a stretcher. I want to get the gifts from accepting dates but they have to ask!

There are a lot of pop-ups for other games. This can be very annoying.

Glam Fever doll Glam


Dressing up and styling your doll is a very small part of the game. I was shocked to find if I bought a new hairstyle, if I wanted to go back to the old hairstyle, I had to buy it again! And the color you have on when you buy it is the color you get. It costs each time to change hair color, and it costs even more to change hair styles.

Glam value is assigned to all garments, so to have the highest glam, you must dress your doll in your most recently aquired and expensive garments. Some of these outfits are not even harmonious! Whoever designed this part does not understand the art of dressing well.

Glam Fever - Tips for new players


When you first set up your doll, you get to pick face shape, features, hair, hair color, eyes, eye color, makeup, eyebrows and lip shape for free. Make sure you go thru all choices. I did not notice the scroll bar for choices for lips, eyebrows, etc. so I wound up the default.

Changing all features will cost after initial set-up, so make sure you like your look before you save it. The doll is cute, but there are not as many options as with Stardoll.

My main doll is madmadeleine
You can see my collection of items I earned playing Glam Fever in my penthouse on the right side.

I have more tips and discussions at my club Double_Rainbow