Why is your Springfield messy?

The main reason that my town is such a mess is because my tablet screen is smashed and if I try sliding stuff around I get glass splinters in my finger. I can just about tap but that is the extent of what I can do until I can get enough money together to get a new screen.

May I say that I didn't break it. Our youngest dropped my tablet on the floor while playing a game. Not a good advert for the 'protective' cover. Still, there are worse things in the world than a broken tablet screen

My collector mentality in other aspects of my life (and I believe all collectors have a bit of OCD), leads me to do the same with the game - collect all I can. However I do have organizational skills which would lend themselves to making my town look great and not "messy". The variable that makes this difficult as others stated of course is the lack of land. Same thing happens with people who collect things - you run out of space and/or money.

McTattie wrote:
I sent Consuela out for some lemon pledge 2 years ago and she just never came back. Turns out she's with some other family now :lol:

:lol:

I would consider that most of my Springfield is reasonably designed these days (although it hasn't always been that way)but I've got a section of town that has become a tetris zone as space has become a premium, I didn't start to design my town till I could afford to buy most of the land so that it was worth planning the design, I simply could not be bothered to keep redesigning my town to start with as I bought more and more land expansion and keep moving stuff around, also have you considered that some of the messy towns you have seen could be feeder towns and the owner aren't bothered about designs just stats for the quick accumulation of cash.

ghallmark814 wrote:
I look at it this way. When playing with plastic green army men some people like to use them set up intricate battles.
Some people like to build bases out of sand and use the men to populate them.
Some people paint them and some people like to fire up the grill and watch them melt.
Some people even like to bite the heads off and chew on the plastic goodness.

Can't really judge them, they bought their toys.. And are having fun doing whatever.

I play with my toys the way that is fun for me.

That is all that really matters.

I like to tie little parachutes on mine and drop them off the balcony. Sometimes the parachute , sometimes it doesn't.... :roll:
I want an omelette now. You should bring me one when you pick up the Metro Jim...

I personally don't see any problem with a messy town, it's a free virtual mini-universe. That being said, my town has been an absolute disaster since Christmas of last year.

I decided i needed a full on re-vamp of the town, but didn't want to keep re-doing it every time i got a new section of land unlocked. So I focused on buying up all the land, and just crammed new stuff wherever i could while doing that. Finally unlocked the last section 2 weeks ago, and so I've been busy redesigning. It's coming along nice, but i still have stuff everywhere for the time being.

I started to redesign my town around Christmas time, but did not like the way it was turning out. I made the decision that I would nuke in the next lull between events . . . but there really hasn't been one until now. And in the meantime, Brandine arrived & got knocked up, so I don't want to nuke until she has the kid. So I am stuck for another (hang on, let me log in & check) 14 days, by which time I'll bet the summer event will have begun, leaving me with more new stuff to add to the clutter.

I do think that many players would do more thorough re-designs given some time between events. Not that I want months between major events, but saving the levels for the between event times would make it easier. I always get stressed when I am working on event quests and then level quests or mini-events arrive that almost always require the same characters.

Anyway...just sayin'...timing is important when it comes to redesigning.

My Springfield is super intricately-crafted but my SECOND Springfield is literally just a Tetris town right. It's kind of an art in itself to conserve every bit of space and fit as many buildings into the smallest amount of land possible. It's only level 30 or so right now and I figure once I'm caught up on levels and have enough land/money I'll nuke it and then actually design a legit Springfield.

I say to each his own....whatever floats your boat. I'm the last one to be critical of how other people play. I love designing so that's my thing. :lol: :lol: :lol: