House Prices

iain51269522 wrote:
It's very bad this. You buy all these new top level buildings and they cost 1 000 000. They produce 150 like evey 8hrs. You nevet get a building like that in to profit. The only way to do it is to farm with the buildings which are economical. That was the houses. Now this punitive measure by EA makes the houses uneconomical to.

The only way to start this game now is to build a house farm to speed through the levels cover and aquire land and the clear it buy selling houses and play it the way the rest of us do.

Knowing what a new player faces now who here could recomend to somebody to start playing TSTO?

I know I couldn't.

The game is now facing death as there will be no new players.

TSTOGame wrote:
Players who had a house farm tended to have far more currency than those who didn’t. One of the first thing players tended to do with that currency was buy up all the land expansions. Additionally all the extra XP pushed players to higher levels quicker than they could complete quests. This is when players would find themselves frustrated at not being able to unlock buildings that (for example) required level 30, when they hadn’t even completed quests from several levels earlier.

All the extra currency also had players buying up expensive decorations (such as the Bloodmobile) because it yields a high amount of XP, which in turn helped to push players to the bonus level faster to get dozens of free donuts.

It became so advantageous to house farm that many players stopped playing the game as it was intended. Designing a town was something put on the back-burner, as players found themselves caught in a cycle of always wanting just a little more currency, land, or donuts chances. Why bother sending characters on jobs? A house farm not only netted you more income, but was easier to collect. House farming was beginning to ruin the game, so it was clear something had to be done to scale back this activity.

johncolombo wrote:

krae_man wrote:
I get why EA did this(and changed the Donuts to money conversion rate to something based on your level) re to make it more likely people buy money with donuts. Problem is its still not worth it. The most expensive donut items are $10-$15 If you buy a boatload. With aspirationals, It's like $140. Granted that's better then the $1500+ It was before but its still way too expensive to even consider. Even with them taking away a faster way of aquirung money without spending donuts.

I've never had a house farm and I have 150,000,000 in cash plus all land and aspirationals. It can be done, you just have to play the game!
:mrgreen:

LPNintendoITA wrote:

TSTOGame wrote:
Players who had a house farm tended to have far more currency than those who didn’t. One of the first thing players tended to do with that currency was buy up all the land expansions. Additionally all the extra XP pushed players to higher levels quicker than they could complete quests. This is when players would find themselves frustrated at not being able to unlock buildings that (for example) required level 30, when they hadn’t even completed quests from several levels earlier.

All the extra currency also had players buying up expensive decorations (such as the Bloodmobile) because it yields a high amount of XP, which in turn helped to push players to the bonus level faster to get dozens of free donuts.

It became so advantageous to house farm that many players stopped playing the game as it was intended. Designing a town was something put on the back-burner, as players found themselves caught in a cycle of always wanting just a little more currency, land, or donuts chances. Why bother sending characters on jobs? A house farm not only netted you more income, but was easier to collect. House farming was beginning to ruin the game, so it was clear something had to be done to scale back this activity.

chrisgyo wrote:
so do the prices of the houses decrease once you start selling them?