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wadebear
Retired Hero
9 years ago

WARNING: Unintentional Heights purchasing

I bought 20 Ornate Pier Railings the other day and plopped them on my Squidport. Today I decided to move them to another area so I stored them.

Then I started putting them back out and noticed the new little thing under the placement boxes said 1 Pharmaceutical. I was BUYING MORE!
  • Oh I wonder if they brought that feature back? It seemed to be disabled for a few months. (Previously did not have that warning)

    Off to try with in-game cash purchases.
  • yep... does the same with other items in your storage. I stored a krusty burger to free up a couple characters who were on task; and then pulled it back out and placed it where it was before; and another outline of a krusty burger comes up (this one had a $$ amount beneath it), so if I would have dropped that one it would have come from my cash supply.... wonder if donut items in storage (that are available to buy in the store) have the same effect.

  • Just tried it with a news van from the inventory, it didn't give an option to place/ purchase a new one next to it.
  • Oh that must be part of why they added that counter when placing items from inventory.
  • I for one am happy to hear that this is back!

    The placement used to work like this and it'd be annoying when re-fencing an area, etc, to run out of storage and then have to stop and go to the store to find the item again and then keep going. I really liked the fact that you could exhaust storage items and keep going w/ purchases.

    I also like how they put underneath the item, where it's coming from and what the cost is. You can actually see the cost go up when placing Kem's, houses, KB's etc. Glad to hear it doesn't do it with donuts. All in all excellent news!
  • Does it warn you before you go from stored to purchasing. Glad I'm hearing this now!
  • "alapalme;1467483" wrote:
    I for one am happy to hear that this is back!

    The placement used to work like this and it'd be annoying when re-fencing an area, etc, to run out of storage and then have to stop and go to the store to find the item again and then keep going. I really liked the fact that you could exhaust storage items and keep going w/ purchases.

    I also like how they put underneath the item, where it's coming from and what the cost is. You can actually see the cost go up when placing Kem's, houses, KB's etc. Glad to hear it doesn't do it with donuts. All in all excellent news!


    I agree. This makes is so much easier to decorate.

  • "spritals148;1467567" wrote:
    Does it warn you before you go from stored to purchasing. Glad I'm hearing this now!


    No. It just starts displaying the purchase price. Very unobtrusive and easy to miss. I ended up buying more jack-o-lanterns this way. Not that I wasn't going to anyway, but it would have been nice to know when I'd run through my stash.