Problem area in your town

Since they went all weird with the way they give out land, everything around my edges is a jumbled mess.

Since i can't rebuild my KL exactly like my original, I've decided to build it in the lowest corner of the grid in a more condensed layout. But I really need one more column of land on the lower right side to do it the way I'm envisioning. Then i want to move my Vegas area behind that, and then I've got to push my entire desert area back into the right corner to allow that. Meanwhile I've got to push my airport back, and develop some new neighborhoods, one nicer and one crummier, but i don't have most of the land needed for those and prob won't for a while. Then along the back I'd prefer to have my zoo and up in the top corner instead have my Christmas land.

Times i think i might nuke it all, which would then make it easier to walk away.

The Post-Krustyland area became a new-event-dumping-ground for me. It's forever messy and it doesn't look very nice, but in some ways I think of it as separate from my main town. It's a place for events and testing and K-E-M farming, and will probably continue to be that until I've claimed all the token only land surrounding it.
I was looking through some older pictures I've taken of the game and it was fun seeing how the town keeps evolving and changing shape even if the day to day makes me think it's stayed the same for years.

"4junk3000;c-2032184" wrote:
Since they went all weird with the way they give out land, everything around my edges is a jumbled mess.

Since i can't rebuild my KL exactly like my original, I've decided to build it in the lowest corner of the grid in a more condensed layout. But I really need one more column of land on the lower right side to do it the way I'm envisioning. Then i want to move my Vegas area behind that, and then I've got to push my entire desert area back into the right corner to allow that. Meanwhile I've got to push my airport back, and develop some new neighborhoods, one nicer and one crummier, but i don't have most of the land needed for those and prob won't for a while. Then along the back I'd prefer to have my zoo and up in the top corner instead have my Christmas land.

Times i think i might nuke it all, which would then make it easier to walk away.

I think you're right. I don't think I could ever nuke unless I'd decided to stop playing. Out of all my neighbours that have nuked maybe ten percent managed to re-build, the rest quit completely or gave up designing and just dump any new stuff wherever.

"kromkromkrom;c-2032190" wrote:

"4junk3000;c-2032184" wrote:
Since they went all weird with the way they give out land, everything around my edges is a jumbled mess.

Since i can't rebuild my KL exactly like my original, I've decided to build it in the lowest corner of the grid in a more condensed layout. But I really need one more column of land on the lower right side to do it the way I'm envisioning. Then i want to move my Vegas area behind that, and then I've got to push my entire desert area back into the right corner to allow that. Meanwhile I've got to push my airport back, and develop some new neighborhoods, one nicer and one crummier, but i don't have most of the land needed for those and prob won't for a while. Then along the back I'd prefer to have my zoo and up in the top corner instead have my Christmas land.

Times i think i might nuke it all, which would then make it easier to walk away.

I think you're right. I don't think I could ever nuke unless I'd decided to stop playing. Out of all my neighbours that have nuked maybe ten percent managed to re-build, the rest quit completely or gave up designing and just dump any new stuff wherever.

I nuked a side town a few years back, and wound up abandoning it after a few days. It wasnt even a quarter the size of my main town

I have enjoyed playing the game almost every single day for years, and the disarray that it's come to had me very distressed at first, and i have to argue with myself to let it go because it's just a game. But for 4 years i kept a nice clean town, designing on the fly with every event. I used to wonder why people bothered to play if they were just hoarding new buildings in piles. Now I'm doing it too. Land tokens destroyed my play style. =(

Now i feel about it, the way i felt about cigarettes. I just have to quit cold turkey. That'll be the day i nuke.

"4junk3000;c-2032201" wrote:
I have enjoyed playing the game almost every single day for years, and the disarray that it's come to had me very distressed at first, and i have to argue with myself to let it go because it's just a game. But for 4 years i kept a nice clean town, designing on the fly with every event. I used to wonder why people bothered to play if they were just hoarding new buildings in piles. Now I'm doing it too. Land tokens destroyed my play style. =(

Now i feel about it, the way i felt about cigarettes. I just have to quit cold turkey. That'll be the day i nuke.

I can understand how you feel, I used to hate house farming and was able to keep my town in order. Now I have a regular K-E-M farm in my dump land. Of course it's in a far corner so I don't have to look at it, but still... :D The inventory is pretty awful if you want to find something, but I think I'm going to start ruthlessly storing unnecessary duplicates and buildings I can't place.

"4junk3000;c-2032201" wrote:
I used to wonder why people bothered to play if they were just hoarding new buildings in piles. Now I'm doing it too. Land tokens destroyed my play style. =(

Me too. I dropped neighbours because they had these dumping grounds and never seemed to actually design their towns, but now I'm unable to get land where I want it to build the designs I want, I have dumping grounds for the new stuff until I have the land tokens available for the space to design what I want. If there's one thing about the game that makes me want to stop playing, it's land tokens.

"joniferous;c-2032218" wrote:

"4junk3000;c-2032201" wrote:
I used to wonder why people bothered to play if they were just hoarding new buildings in piles. Now I'm doing it too. Land tokens destroyed my play style. =(

Me too. I dropped neighbours because they had these dumping grounds and never seemed to actually design their towns, but now I'm unable to get land where I want it to build the designs I want, I have dumping grounds for the new stuff until I have the land tokens available for the space to design what I want. If there's one thing about the game that makes me want to stop playing, it's land tokens.

same with everyone want use in game cash instead of land tokens

"kromkromkrom;c-2032186" wrote:
The Post-Krustyland area became a new-event-dumping-ground for me. It's forever messy and it doesn't look very nice, but in some ways I think of it as separate from my main town. It's a place for events and testing and K-E-M farming, and will probably continue to be that until I've claimed all the token only land surrounding it.
I was looking through some older pictures I've taken of the game and it was fun seeing how the town keeps evolving and changing shape even if the day to day makes me think it's stayed the same for years.

I did the same thing with that area that was given to us. I'm using it for spare Springfield Heights buildings and farming. My only saving grace the past couple of months is that I had already carved out a lot of space in my Halloween and Christmas area. So all the new content that came in already had a space. But the next major event I'm screwed. I'm going to have to plop it down in the area that was given to us :(

"joniferous;c-2032218" wrote:

"4junk3000;c-2032201" wrote:
I used to wonder why people bothered to play if they were just hoarding new buildings in piles. Now I'm doing it too. Land tokens destroyed my play style. =(

Me too. I dropped neighbours because they had these dumping grounds and never seemed to actually design their towns, but now I'm unable to get land where I want it to build the designs I want, I have dumping grounds for the new stuff until I have the land tokens available for the space to design what I want. If there's one thing about the game that makes me want to stop playing, it's land tokens.

I completely agree with you both! As soon as they gave us the "free space" in those random corners I thought there should be an option to swap. Sell back the land for tokens (Or money if that space was actually cash). I used some of my land tokens on space that required IGC. If i would've known, I would've saved my tokens when they were beta testing them. This way we can choose where to re-buy somewhere else. At this point I feel like it's there only option they have. Unless they want complaints about the amount of tokens we are getting every day.