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EA, please let us store the Homerlayas

I crammed mine in the furthermost corner I could. I'm pretty much right there with you in wanting to create the most realistic town I can. I'm stuck with money mountain because the payout is too good to pass up, but I usually either skip things like the fortress of choclitude or stash them away in my inventory.

Personally I'd probably keep the Homerlayas out, even if it does throw the realism off some, but I'm pro making things inventory-able so we have the last say in buildings our Springfields how we want (which is kind of the point of the game).

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  • devilhunt1449
    3838 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    Personally I'd much sooner they allow all the other mountain based items (Mount Carlmore, Satan's anvil etc) able to be placed in the mountain range as well as I think that they would look much better there.
  • stinkbugger
    1984 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    It's a very cool prize, but I don't want it in my town right now. Goes against the more "realistic" feel I'm aiming for while building my Springfield.

    What else have you decided to store? While a "realistic" feel sounds good in concept, it seems like that would be extremely hard in this game as a lots of the content is not realistic.
  • KrustyBrand
    15340 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    Personally I'd much sooner they allow all the other mountain based items (Mount Carlmore, Satan's anvil etc) able to be placed in the mountain range as well as I think that they would look much better there.

    Yeah, i like that idea.
  • JimJ321
    4206 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    Great ideas tappers!
  • mr_skeltal_80
    18104 posts Member
    edited May 2016
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  • glenjamin8
    144 posts
    edited May 2016
    And the Ornate Pier while we're at it.
  • DrumminBeard
    182 posts
    edited May 2016
    It's a very cool prize, but I don't want it in my town right now. Goes against the more "realistic" feel I'm aiming for while building my Springfield.

    (And while I'm here, may I just add how truly wonderful this game is? Just wanted to express my love for it since the Level 60 fallout. Sure, the game isn't perfect. But it's by far the best mobile game I've ever played. And I plan on sticking with it until the end...which I pray never comes. Bravo to all the Tapped Out writers, animators, programmers, coders, vending machine stockers and anyone else I've missed!)

    I second this proposal so very much. Can we make this a poll, OP?

    Though, to be honest I think literally EVERYTHING should be storable for the same reason (i.e. 'realism') and it bothers me when we get awarded with something that we can't store. I mean-- it's not like we could refuse said 'prize.' Mandatory buildings/decorations are the only true complaint I have about this game, actually. I also agree with you, OP, about how much I appreciate the game itself. I've played every single day for over a year and I still catch myself thinking "I really LOVE this game" on a monthly basis; if not more often.

    So, please EA: make stuff storable if you have no good reason not to do so. We understand that storing Homer/Lisa/Simpson House might well break the game, and it's funny that the Lemon Tree isn't storable for obvious reasons. But there are quite a few examples of non-storable items that have no obvious explanation, and I suspect that any explanation EA might offer would be insufficient to justify their decision to keep certain things "unstorable."

    For example:
    **The Recycling Buildings (which generate 'special' currency) can be stored, but the Springfield Heights currency-generating buildings cannot.
    **The Squidport Entrance cannot be stored, presumably due to its 'expansion' status; but what stops us from storing the Ornate Pier entrance?

    I also think it's silly we can't store the Red Blazer Realty, but at least that sorta makes sense; with the whole Springfield Heights expansion being an ongoing thing-- maybe it's not storable for the same reason that the Squidport Entrance isn't???
  • C0rgano
    442 posts Member
    edited May 2016

    no argument against the storage option.... but what isn't realistic about it? Not like there aren't real world examples of faces/heads/images carved into mountains.


  • notDepressed
    286 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    glenjamin8 wrote:
    And the Ornate Pier while we're at it.
    Yes, please! So ugly.
  • Johnny2bd
    680 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    C0rgano wrote:
    no argument against the storage option.... but what isn't realistic about it? Not like there aren't real world examples of faces/heads/images carved into mountains.


    For me at least it's not so much what's realistic vs what isn't, since it is all fiction - it's more like what's canon vs what's just been added to the game cause it's cool (and personally I think the Homerlayas are pretty cool, but it's not like they're something that shows up repeatedly in the show).
  • bluehelm2013
    14 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    It's a very cool prize, but I don't want it in my town right now. Goes against the more "realistic" feel I'm aiming for while building my Springfield.

    What else have you decided to store? While a "realistic" feel sounds good in concept, it seems like that would be extremely hard in this game as a lots of the content is not realistic.

    I've stored Death Mountain, Fortress of Lonelitude and the Re-Neducation Center among other things. Again, not that I don't think they're very cool -- and I enjoy seeing them placed in other towns. They just don't really "fit" inside the Springfield I've created. That may change in the future as I play, but for now I store overtly extravagant or mostly supernatural buildings/decorations.

    (Although I will admit no Tapped Out Springfield will ever be truly "realistic" ... just something I generally lean toward)
  • DrumminBeard
    182 posts
    edited May 2016
    For my part, 'realism' in this game is arbitrary (and in my town, I'm the arbiter).

    I have stored so many buildings/decorations that I don't care to look them up and list them all here. I have done so in an effort to make my town as town-like as possible; without going too overboard on things like lampposts and stop signs. I'm still designing, since my mid-Casino-event nuke, but I am very proud of the design I've settled on and I'd prefer not to have mandatory items in it. The first selling point for this app, listed in the Play Store is something like "Create and maintain your very own Springfield!" While obviously no two town designs will be exactly alike, having mandatory pieces kills me from a creative standpoint.
  • johncolombo
    11667 posts Senior Moderator
    edited May 2016
    I just realized today you can pick between the levels of the Homerlayas, so at least you can dial it down to just homer if you like. Makes it a bit less obvious.
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  • LPNintendoITA
    11661 posts Member
    edited May 2016
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    seems cannon to me
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  • simp7fan
    4163 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    I agree with everyone's ideas. Store everything. I remember being able to store the crafting buildings during Xmas and Halloween, and maybe even now. Why does that donut shop need to be out since we only ever access it by top right of screen? I think the only buildings that I understand having out is the SH tunnel, Simpsons house, and KL shuttle.
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  • jjluv1500
    307 posts Member
    edited May 2016
    what is this Homerlayas...and how do you get one.....

    Im really in the dark with this thing....I dont see it posted anywhere in the game????
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