Why do some towns look like episodes of Hoarders?

'cause they have so much money they don't need the char. to do jobs and they leave them roam

Yea, I delete. Figure they're not really into playing.
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I have a few as neighbours too - I don't get it - isn't the whole point of the game to design a town?

HWick_Bluenose wrote:
I have one that has what can only be described as a forest of stop signs. Maybe as many as 500. And rows of Kwik-E-Marts and Krusty Burgers. I just don't get it.

seriously???
ok during xmas if you had stop sign near ur depot it meant u don't want bags anymore but now? doesn't make sense.

I have char. roaming around town cause as i said i've so much money i don't care but my city is always updated and i visit friends everyday so people know i'm alive :D

If i see the squishing together is largely consisting of buildings. If so, i keep an eye for whether they're advancing questlines. To me, that means they're focusing on accumulating buildings, which are costly but earn money, before they buy up land, which is costly and does NOT earn money. Money from the buildings (and the characters that accompany each of those buildings) isn't the most glamorous way to earn your land, but it is the most intelligent.

As far as characters walking around ... Hmmm. I used to keep my characters on one-hour tasks most of the day. Though it was tiring and boring, it was the best way to earn money. I rarely came back to my town at the exact moment they completed their one-hour tasks. Keep in mind that when a visitor to your town comes in when a character has finished the task, THEY see the character wandering aimlessly. If I had Moe carrying the panda around, when I returned 65 minutes later, I would see him in my town still lugging around that panda, with a thumbs-up overhead. The only thing a visitor would see at that same moment is Moe wandering around.

When keeping characters on repetitive, one hour tasks to try and make the most money, the only way to round them up quickly is to have them in a confined area. Hence, a limited number of streets.

Obviously there are EXTREMES to which some go, but some of the factors you are pointing out may just be symbolic of a person working their hardest to get money to build their towns.

Yep. Got some of those. One guy seems to buy only as much land as he needs to cram in the buildings released with the new update. Seems like he doesn't get it. But it drives me nuts going into these places where they have all the land and have every building on what would be it's own 5 acre lot in real life. Some of the buildings really do look better right next to each other like a real downtown. Every building doesn't need fifteen parking lots, especially if you put several buildings in a row. It just makes the buildings look small and lonely. Plus, nobody in these SFs drive, so they really need a town planned for walking. Grrrr.... at least I give the crammers slack for being lazy. I don't know what the thought process is for the folks who spread everything out so thinly.

Some of those towns may be side towns (feeder towns). A couple of the towns described above sound exactly like my side towns.

One had 1000+ white houses. I was farming for xp's and it worked nicely. Probably got 30 doughnuts from it. It also gave me something to do during non-events. I take them down for visiting events. This time I just left them down.

My other two side towns have all the buildings crammed into the corner and I have just enough land for the crammed buildings. Someday I will get around to designing these towns, but right now I don't have time. But, when I do get to designing these towns they will have all the event buildings. That's why I keep them going.

I have a few friends in each side town. I do visit my friends from my side towns during events as well.

kungpao214 wrote:
One thing's for sure though, it takes creativity to fit all of those bldgs into the little space and cover all the land.

Tapped Out Tetris anyone?

Mine was very bad for having to many buildings cramped in too small of a space. I have finally got enough land and have spread things out to where my town isn't craptastic anymore though still a long way from where I want it.

Ok, no one said it already (although I did kind of skim the first page of comments), but I've come to believe that there has to be some young kids playing on their parents devices (permission based I hope). It may look strange to us folks who are over ...a certain age, butttt, have you ever seen a young boy play with his legos, transformers, GI Joes and dinosaurs all in one space, making this horrific soup of an imaginary play-scape that only he knows what is what...? That's what I see in those "hoarders" towns ;)