I'm with you on the upgrade buildings, they definitely aren't my style. I have seen some people do really cool designs with tons of the tall level 5 buildings, but I am trying to keep my town a small town if that makes sense :mrgreen: someplace where I'd enjoy walking and looking around. I keep them all in storage and my Springfield Heights is currently empty, I plan to just use it as a Springfield extension when I need it, rather than making it into a special resort/high class areaBIG positives about Springfield Heights for me though: We got several more generic decorations like palm trees that can be placed on grass, small potted plant, vineyard and the fancy bushes. We got a bunch more land, and most of the non upgrading buildings are cool looking (Incubator Think Tank, Burns Slant Drilling Co, LA Body Works, and Springfield Lake too)so basically, I'm not really into the SH expansion as a whole, so I'm just taking the parts I do like and fitting them into my original idea of my Springfield. Seems like it's just a way to keep people busy between events, and so they filled it with mostly non-essential content

I love SH & Railyard ... The continuous crafting keep us busy with the game, otherwise long-time players like me would have nothing to do except an occasional event and lvl up.Anyway,after your tall building reaches Lvl 5, you are now given the option to display the buildings in lvl 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. If you hate the tall buildings blocking the rest of your SF, choose lvl 1 display.For me, among each type of tall buildings, I choose 2x lvl 1, 2x lvl 2... 2x lvl 5 display. Looks cool in my SH, showing variety of buildings.

We can change the look of them to whatever level we want I thought? I have to agree in part that these SH building we upgrade could have been designed better. Especially the car dealership one it is just so way out of scale and the worst of the SH stuff. Modern mansion is tolerable, classic mansion looks nice. And the first two levels of the condos are fairly decent. I think it would be nice if there were multiple variations not just bigger/taller/gaudy versions of the same look. So like sure we have 10 classic mansions as an example but 10 distinctly different looking so it doesn't look like an apartment complex.

I'm not very fond of the SH-upgradable-buildings. They're a bit big and fugly even in their lower level skins, they don't really suit my SF, and most of all they have absolutely nothing to do with the Simpsons. It's like they've escaped from some other game, taken illegal residence, only to multiply like a virus. That's not to say that people haven't made some awesome designs with them, although of what I've seen in neighboureeno towns most just lump them in a pile somewhere for the hidden XP. I suppose that it does give something to do between events, but I've already reached billionaire so there's even less point for me to get ten of the latest Exclusive Resorts.I was hoping that the next stage of SH would've come with some actual Springfield Height shops like Abercrombie & Rich, Get Your Picture on a Rembrandt, The Prodigy Barn, Victors Secret, and Things Unnecessary (picked these from Wookiees great post on tstoaddicts). For future up-dates and events here's hoping they keep it in the Simpsons universe and make the game-play less tedious.

Everything they do doesn't make sense.They release all these resorts which are just... pointless. The old buildings in SH from the first release don't even pay out money or anything. They just sit there. Sure you can store them but then why have them at all? Now we're grinding away but everything needs just that one new craftable. Buildings need the magazine craftables, land needs magazines, various decorations need magazines, what about some variety? Buying new land with something other than magazines would be great.Then you have events where you think they could do something incredible and iconic - like making an entire event around bowling and unlocking the Pin Pal skins and various items but instead we get 'Tap Ball' and 1 Pin Pal skin and that's it. Then you have Halloween, where they could have revolved it around donuts, seeing as there was 20 free donuts per week, we got a Model Donut as an NPC but then nothing else related to that, just a amalgamation of random things. They could have had a whole Halloween event based on the time travelling toaster treehouse of horror episode where various buildings could have been the prizes -- like the Sphinx Homer house, The Boot House and whatever houses they cycled through in that episode, along with the Homer donut head as a skin (to fit in with the donut theme).Idk, nothing they do makes sense anymore and I think I've stopped caring. It is what it is, could be a lot better but it's not. I'm sure someone will take offense to my comment and say something like, "if you don't like it, stop playing" but this is just an observation I've made of a game that I've been playing every single day for 2 years. I can't say that of any other game.

lee67628 wrote:I love SH & Railyard ... The continuous crafting keep us busy with the game, otherwise long-time players like me would have nothing to do except an occasional event and lvl up.See, I feel the opposite about SH and Railyard - SH especially. The continuous crafting (and short task times) turns playing the game into a chore. And yeah, I could take it slowly, but then I've got to deal with this garbage that much longer. Or I could ignore it, but you know that's not going to happen. And don't get me started on the SH/Railyard conflicts with each other and EVERY SINGLE EVENT. There are some good things from SH, and I'm enjoying those, but for the most part I wish they'd left it out (or at least stopped with Phase 1).

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lee67628
9 years ago
I love SH & Railyard ... The continuous crafting keep us busy with the game, otherwise long-time players like me would have nothing to do except an occasional event and lvl up.

Anyway,after your tall building reaches Lvl 5, you are now given the option to display the buildings in lvl 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. If you hate the tall buildings blocking the rest of your SF, choose lvl 1 display.

For me, among each type of tall buildings, I choose 2x lvl 1, 2x lvl 2... 2x lvl 5 display. Looks cool in my SH, showing variety of buildings.
ravendarkstorm
9 years ago
We can change the look of them to whatever level we want I thought? I have to agree in part that these SH building we upgrade could have been designed better. Especially the car dealership one it is just so way out of scale and the worst of the SH stuff. Modern mansion is tolerable, classic mansion looks nice. And the first two levels of the condos are fairly decent. I think it would be nice if there were multiple variations not just bigger/taller/gaudy versions of the same look. So like sure we have 10 classic mansions as an example but 10 distinctly different looking so it doesn't look like an apartment complex.
maggiesmob
9 years ago
I'm not very fond of the SH-upgradable-buildings. They're a bit big and fugly even in their lower level skins, they don't really suit my SF, and most of all they have absolutely nothing to do with the Simpsons. It's like they've escaped from some other game, taken illegal residence, only to multiply like a virus.
That's not to say that people haven't made some awesome designs with them, although of what I've seen in neighboureeno towns most just lump them in a pile somewhere for the hidden XP.
I suppose that it does give something to do between events, but I've already reached billionaire so there's even less point for me to get ten of the latest Exclusive Resorts.

I was hoping that the next stage of SH would've come with some actual Springfield Height shops like Abercrombie & Rich, Get Your Picture on a Rembrandt, The Prodigy Barn, Victor’s Secret, and Things Unnecessary (picked these from Wookiees great post on tstoaddicts). For future up-dates and events here's hoping they keep it in the Simpsons universe and make the game-play less tedious.
defectdefect
9 years ago
Everything they do doesn't make sense.

They release all these resorts which are just... pointless. The old buildings in SH from the first release don't even pay out money or anything. They just sit there. Sure you can store them but then why have them at all? Now we're grinding away but everything needs just that one new craftable. Buildings need the magazine craftables, land needs magazines, various decorations need magazines, what about some variety? Buying new land with something other than magazines would be great.
Then you have events where you think they could do something incredible and iconic - like making an entire event around bowling and unlocking the Pin Pal skins and various items but instead we get 'Tap Ball' and 1 Pin Pal skin and that's it. Then you have Halloween, where they could have revolved it around donuts, seeing as there was 20 free donuts per week, we got a Model Donut as an NPC but then nothing else related to that, just a amalgamation of random things. They could have had a whole Halloween event based on the time travelling toaster treehouse of horror episode where various buildings could have been the prizes -- like the Sphinx Homer house, The Boot House and whatever houses they cycled through in that episode, along with the Homer donut head as a skin (to fit in with the donut theme).

Idk, nothing they do makes sense anymore and I think I've stopped caring. It is what it is, could be a lot better but it's not. I'm sure someone will take offense to my comment and say something like, "if you don't like it, stop playing" but this is just an observation I've made of a game that I've been playing every single day for 2 years. I can't say that of any other game.
roshigoth1
9 years ago
lee67628 wrote:
I love SH & Railyard ... The continuous crafting keep us busy with the game, otherwise long-time players like me would have nothing to do except an occasional event and lvl up.

See, I feel the opposite about SH and Railyard - SH especially. The continuous crafting (and short task times) turns playing the game into a chore. And yeah, I could take it slowly, but then I've got to deal with this garbage that much longer. Or I could ignore it, but you know that's not going to happen. And don't get me started on the SH/Railyard conflicts with each other and EVERY SINGLE EVENT.

There are some good things from SH, and I'm enjoying those, but for the most part I wish they'd left it out (or at least stopped with Phase 1).
petehd14
9 years ago
defectdefect wrote:
Everything they do doesn't make sense.

They release all these resorts which are just... pointless. The old buildings in SH from the first release don't even pay out money or anything. They just sit there. Sure you can store them but then why have them at all?.

They have (usually) a substantial XP bonus, so you can add another 153% xp to your total bonus. When the next level rolls around, you can start up the XP collider and collect bonus donuts.
ephphoneapps
9 years ago
lee67628 wrote:
I love SH & Railyard ... The continuous crafting keep us busy with the game, otherwise long-time players like me would have nothing to do except an occasional event and lvl up.

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defectdefect
9 years ago
petehd14 wrote:
defectdefect wrote:
Everything they do doesn't make sense.

They release all these resorts which are just... pointless. The old buildings in SH from the first release don't even pay out money or anything. They just sit there. Sure you can store them but then why have them at all?.

They have (usually) a substantial XP bonus, so you can add another 153% xp to your total bonus. When the next level rolls around, you can start up the XP collider and collect bonus donuts.

You really believe everyone who plays tapped out is willing to spend real life money on donuts just to charge a collider in order to what....? Max out an already maxed level and win 1-3 donuts?
BuckDastard
9 years ago
defectdefect wrote:
petehd14 wrote:
defectdefect wrote:
Everything they do doesn't make sense.

They release all these resorts which are just... pointless. The old buildings in SH from the first release don't even pay out money or anything. They just sit there. Sure you can store them but then why have them at all?.

They have (usually) a substantial XP bonus, so you can add another 153% xp to your total bonus. When the next level rolls around, you can start up the XP collider and collect bonus donuts.

You really believe everyone who plays tapped out is willing to spend real life money on donuts just to charge a collider in order to what....? Max out an already maxed level and win 1-3 donuts?

Just doing the railyard one time after the level up will pay for 24 hours of the xp collider. It really is a net gain for free.
AJtheboss1
9 years ago
I see what you're talking about in regards to the game going off the reservation with SH. Personally I don't mind it as much because I just store all the buildings I don't like and only keep the ones I do like. Luckily you don't have to have them out to maintain the property value, which is a huge relief.

With that said, the new machanic of grinding away for micro-currency is a bit annoying, but to be fair they did it for a reason. If you think about it, new content is usually expensive. This means newer players will feel left out because they don't have millions on reserve. Hell I've been playing from the start and I'm broke in the game. Partially my fault since I barely exploited things for multiplier increasing items. Point is this kinda evened the playing field for newer players.

My only gripe with it is, it takes way too much time and you lose out on making money by sending those characters to do those tasks. Not to mention they're short which in a way is a good thing. But not so much if you can't log in every 2-20 minutes to check up on them. It's really a double edged sword situation.

I do see how someone can compare this to the family guy game. Which interestingly enough is why I quit playing that game. The tasks to get new characters in that game got crazier and the events were overwhelming. It's the only reason why I stuck with TSTO. It was a bareable game to play. And still is for the most part. I just hope they ease off with the "special tasks" or decrease the amount of items needed to upgrade buildings.