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Tiki Farm developer Playdom already introduced new neighbor missions to their hit island farming title once, but today the company announced that more were on the way. All three have a clear animal theme.

Players will now have the opportunity to “rescue” newly-hatched baby turtles before they can eat your neighbors crops, clear away washed up jellyfish, and shoo away magpie birds. Although it isn’t a huge deal, all three of these missions strike me as a little weird. Based on the preview artwork all three animals look pretty cute. Shouldn’t we be helping them, instead of getting rid of them? In one game update we might be shooing away turtles, and then in the next buying them to place on our farms.

Tiki Farm developer Playdom gave a preview of the game’s upcoming achievements system today, stating that the system would be coming in the game’s “next update.” Take a look at what Tiki Farmers have to look forward to:

Two of the achievements look fairly standard for a Facebook farming game – harvesting crops, and harvesting from animals. The third achievement previewed – squashing bugs – is an action unique to Tiki Farm. What other achievements do you hope Playdom includes?

On a separate but related note, this is not the first time that Playdom has teased additions to Tiki Farm as “coming soon.” Some of those previous teases still aren’t in the game, in fact. I don’t that to get too rant-y because it isn’t a huge deal, but Playdom, you should stop promising things. Once something is completely finished and is live and in the game, let us know! And we’ll rejoice. Saying something is “coming soon” just doesn’t carry the same weight.

In addition to the new items and functions being added to Tiki Farm, developer Playdom also announced today that your neighbor’s farms would soon be experiencing new problems for players to solve.

Kick out the evil crabs, get rid of stinky seaweed, and clear te pesky lava rocks were all spotlighted today as upcoming missions. It is unknown if these problems are bringing any actual new gameplay to Tiki Farm, or if instead they’re just a little bit of variation when visiting your neighbors. Most likely the latter.

Check out some new artwork that will accompany the new missions (click for full-size):

Facebook’s other big Mafia game, Mobsters 2, added Moscow to its ever-growing list of available cities, late last night. Playdom seems to have big plans for the game. Grand Cayman, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Shanhai, and Tokyo are all listed as “coming soon.”

Like the rest of Mobsters 2, Moscow comes complete with a fairly engaging storyline (check out a little preview below), as well as great artwork. Although the central storyline, told through one-off Godfather Missions, is fairly top-notch, the standard missions are, well… more standard. You’ll spend your time bribing police, raiding weapons outposts… all tasks a good mafia member is pretty familiar with, at this point.

I greatly enjoyed Mobster’s 2 when it went live. It has a lot of great ideas and in many ways is a better game than the big kahuna Mafia Wars. But the game isn’t paced as well as Mafia Wars is, and I quickly ran out of things to do. With the addition of Moscow, I’m happy to once again be tooling around in Playdom’s top-notch Mafia world. All mobsters level 36 or higher should head on over.