How is it fun?

wadebear wrote:
I'm a crammer. 2 towns worth. I started my first game just before THOH 2014 and the second in the middle of it (by accident, then I decided to continue it as a lark just to see how a pure Freemium game would play out).

I quickly realized that if I bought a bunch of land, filled it up with streets and made everything look pretty, I'd never catch up (I'm still trying to catch up: level 49 on my Premium game, level 47 on my Fremium), so I just started cramming stuff everywhere - better to buy buildings that earn money than buy land that doesn't.

Meanwhile, I realized that the characters on outside tasks and off task were attracted to streets. I also realized that aliens (THOH) were also attracted to them, so I limited my street to one short section. No more tracking down aliens to squish! A few taps and I'd gotten them all.

Later in Winter 2014 part 2 I realized that the elves were also initially attracted to streets when I moved my street over to connect to the Squidport (which also attracts characters). My street was NNE of the cannon and all the elves would drift in that direction after they crashed in - I moved it to the east and they started drifting East...

Furthermore... The streets are all out of proportion to the buildings. They're almost as wide as Brown Houses.

Designing takes time. I have more important things to do than sit around going, "Hmmm, maybe this building would look better over here... And maybe I should build a complex flower bed around it...".

Then there's the fact that I have no artistic sensibility. Anything I designed would look like a typical planned subdivision anyway, so why bother? Sure, I could copy other people's designs, but what's the point? It wouldn't be original.

And lastly... It's A Game. You don't get points for how pretty your town design is (yet... And if that ever starts I will lose SO many points).

I can just imagine them adding that to the Conform-o-meter with your neighbors voting daily on the appearance of your Springfield... I'd have 0 stars for THAT.

that wouldent be good if they added that i can allready see so meany trolls abusing that and voteing bad on good towns and voting good on there crappy friends towns.