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11 years ago
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For those of you who would like to plan their cities ahead, either in your heads or on paper, the fully unlocked map is 50x50 squares.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    All you need is a 'supply' city to shop the market for you while you farm coins to pay for it all. I had the board only about half unlocked and storage at about 200, level in the 40's, when my supply city started buying up underpriced storage expansion materials and all land expansion materials, and selling them to friends only. I was able to buy all I needed in about a week, which is how long it took to earn the coin at about 80k/day.

    My storage is now 250 (the final expansion costs 25ea item) and all land is unlocked, with roads laid out, tho not yet populated. I'm now steadily buying services to cover the extra area, while the supply city earns coin and expands its own storage and land at a level (8) that makes such purchases far more feasible given the current state of the GTHQ, which tho improved, still requires a lot of luck to find what you're looking for, but far less luck with only a handful of other items crowding out the extremely rare expansion items.

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  • Which will take a lifetime to unlock unless you cheat (I've heard it is possible).

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    ...cheat or use real money. ☹️

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    All you need is a 'supply' city to shop the market for you while you farm coins to pay for it all. I had the board only about half unlocked and storage at about 200, level in the 40's, when my supply city started buying up underpriced storage expansion materials and all land expansion materials, and selling them to friends only. I was able to buy all I needed in about a week, which is how long it took to earn the coin at about 80k/day.

    My storage is now 250 (the final expansion costs 25ea item) and all land is unlocked, with roads laid out, tho not yet populated. I'm now steadily buying services to cover the extra area, while the supply city earns coin and expands its own storage and land at a level (8) that makes such purchases far more feasible given the current state of the GTHQ, which tho improved, still requires a lot of luck to find what you're looking for, but far less luck with only a handful of other items crowding out the extremely rare expansion items.

  • Anghild's avatar
    Anghild
    11 years ago

    That is almost exactly what I did. Right in the beginning when everyone was trying to make fast money and building, I bought up all the expansion items and unlocked the full map. Took me about two weeks or so of selling chairs, collecting taxes and hunting for dozer parts. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I leveled up too quickly without realizing how hard it would be to get parts later on.  However, I've been expanding by putting a priority on dozer parts. So if I'm trying to build a new hospital or something and I see a dozer part in HQ, I'll buy it and accept the fact that the hospital will have to wait a little longer.

    Personally, I think of a "supply city" as cheating. That's not a judgement on those that do it, it's just how I see it, and I prefer to play legitimately. It IS possible to fully expand playing normally, as long as you have a little patience and always buy dozer parts whenever you see them.  I'm not fully expanded yet (I have a dozen squares left to unlock) but that's okay, because I have way more space than I'm currently using, and I'm unlocking a new square every couple of days.

  • You’re wrong, it’s 50 vertical and 68 horizontal. If you look carefully you’ll see that it’s wider than its height. I’m sure of it, I got other people to do it and they got the same results. If you want to make sure. Go to someone’s city who’s fully done. And count how many roads you could fit to know, so for example 1 residential building is equal to 2 roads. 

  • BlazinsZ's avatar
    BlazinsZ
    5 years ago

    @Jesseapolis wrote:

    You’re wrong, it’s 50 vertical and 68 horizontal. If you look carefully you’ll see that it’s wider than its height. I’m sure of it, I got other people to do it and they got the same results. If you want to make sure. Go to someone’s city who’s fully done. And count how many roads you could fit to know, so for example 1 residential building is equal to 2 roads. 


    @Jesseapolis  If you look carefully too you can see that this thread is from 2015, lol, the game has changed a lot since then.

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