Universal Pixel People - (by Chillingo Ltd)

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  1. Nemer

    Nemer Well-Known Member

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    I had bug where i couldnt open buildings but restarting app fixed and it happened only once. Anyways i wish there was some easy way to move people to new houses so i could save some extra space.
     
  2. killy billy

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    UTO-haul : moving firm that moves people to other houses of our choice!
     
  3. mr_bez

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    Not sure why buildings they'd go in, but a couple of features I'd like:

    The ability to see a list of your buildings and jump straight to them - I can never find a couple of mine.

    An alphabetical/searchable list of people - if I know I want to splice another accountant (for example) to fill up a building, I've got to spend ages searching the pictures to find out how to make them. This would be less necessary if you didn't try to charge 5u to reveal the formula for something you've already created when trying to fill up a building - that seems particularly cheeky anyway.
     
  4. mr_bez

    mr_bez Well-Known Member

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    I've had this a few times. I've always been able to fix it by closing the app, ending it from the recent apps bar (double tap the home button, hold down the app icon until it starts to wiggle, then press the minus button), then restarting the app.
     
  5. xbtran

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    #365 xbtran, Feb 2, 2013
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    I'd love more interaction with the animals. It'd be cool if there were buildings for the animals (Zoos, Safaris, Jungle, ect.) where you can place the animals.

    I'd also like more building effects (for older or newer buildings), the ability to flip buildings, move people to other houses, and more pathway options. Im trying to make a more rural area and its impossible with roads and more modern waterways. Specifically I'd like dirt paths, plain grass paths and a more naturey water that when put side by side becomes a lake instead of what the waterways do.
     
  6. Nemer

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    #366 Nemer, Feb 2, 2013
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    Removed at request of New England Gamer o_O
     
  7. HLW

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    I'd like more pathing options too - more natural ones for rural areas sound like a great idea.
    Bridges would be nice too.
    There really needs to be some way of upgrading your housing stock.
    Also, a way of easily seeing what duplicate clones you need to fill buildings would be nice - just changing the "reveal formula 5u" to "reveal formula free" (for jobs you have already unlocked) would enable you to tell at a glance which buildings need duplicates and how to get them.
     
  8. Laire

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    #368 Laire, Feb 2, 2013
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    This. It may not seem like it from the beginning, but I believe the most precious resource in this game isn't Utopium, it's LAND.

    The cost to get more land starts to get rather high once you get to 100+. I'd love to be able to demolish two of the "1 Land, 2 Capacity" buildings and replace them with a "1 Land, 4 Capacity" building (even if that building costs 3 Utopium to make, it's worth it!), freeing up another land for job buildings.

    However, there doesn't seem to be any way to do this - you can't demolish a building if there are people in it ;), you can't relocate them into other buildings, and you can't make clones with the same career paths, swap them into a job held by other people and demolish the building that used to be occupied while the first people are back in the "clone labs." (Which would have taken some effort to do, but I'd have done it!)

    I'm almost tempted to restart to "do it right" at this point, except I don't know if there IS a way to restart, and I imagine I'd lose the 50 Utopium I purchased as a "hey, this game's pretty cool" thanks to the designers. :)


    My mind's already imagining a sequel with the ability to splice with THREE components. It wouldn't even need to always be three different ones, it'd open multiple path options like "Fighter + Fighter + Thief = Samurai" vs "Fighter + Thief + Thief = Ninja," for example.


    To people just starting out, I'd suggest using all 25 of your Utopium right off the bat for 500,000 coins so you can get a decent amount of starting land. And when you're filling hearts, sometimes it's actually FASTER to stop and restart if you get a slow-filling heart! (Which has probably been mentioned somewhere in all these pages, I'm sure.)
     
  9. New England Gamer

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    The animals are tallied at the animal shelter.

    I guess for me, instead of new buildings, would be first cleaning up some things that are already there:

    Battery life as many have mentioned
    A nice way to flip through your jobs
    Rotate buildings
    Change houses

    I feel like some of this wasn't properly addressed prior to release with enough testers perhaps? I would like to see what you have polished before adding more. It's the full experience that will keep people hooked and not more more more. When it is cleaned up sure add some more but for now most of us are plugging away at the first 150 jobs and whatever comes next.
     
  10. New England Gamer

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    This isn't the combo for cheerleader. Use spoiler tags next time too!
     
  11. Wicked8146

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    I've been tracking what rewards I get from hearts to try to figure out an estimated percentage. My last 7 times have produced:

    5,000
    5,000
    Animal
    5,000
    2 Utopium
    Animal
    5,000

    This produces the following %'s:
    5,000 - 57%
    Animal - 29%
    Utopium - 14%

    I'll keep recording to get more accurate % but this is a start.
    I know 50,000 is a prize as well but it seems to be pretty rare.
     
  12. Laire

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    #372 Laire, Feb 2, 2013
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    I also received 5 Utonium at one point. And I got a high (30K?) cash award as my second heart bonus - not sure if that was random or if it's a "fixed reward" to help in the early stages of gameplay.

    Animals seem to show up around every third time. It doesn't seem to care whether you have one already or not, though, so you can get 'wasted' duplicates early on. I got a duplicate Pug as my FIFTH animal!


    ... actually, there may not BE a consistent percentage, come to think of it. Remember how trees have a maximum 25 Utonium / Day limit. It's likely that the number of Utonium awards you can receive through hearts has a "cap" as well, and once you hit that you won't see anymore until the next day. (If we knew if such a cap existed, we'd know if it was strategically worthwhile to max out the "permanent hearts" early on or not.)
     
  13. VirtualBoyFreak

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    I got this once, and I've done the hearts around 20 times, so I'm not sure if we'll find out the %...
     
  14. killy billy

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    The prizes should go up when you level up!
    I earn 50.000 in about 60 seconds and i need 40 million now to level up, so a 50.000 prize is not woth it anymore.
     
  15. turakm

    turakm Well-Known Member

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    Any one else having trouble getting utopium consistently? Can I get it any other place besides trees?
     
  16. Lufia

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    I don't know if there is a heart cap, but I have collected many many hearts today because I wanted to find out what the "CITY-WIDE UTOPIUM COLLECTION LIMIT = 25u per day" exactly means. If it means just the U from the trees or also the U from the hearts.
    I've written down the U I collected today till now, I got 19U (or 20, one time I couldn't see my reward) from trees and 23U from hearts (I think I got three times the 5U reward and four times 2U). So heart utopium has nothing to do with the tree utopium, since I got more than 25 total U today.
    Since I am sick and not able to do much else I will continue to collect hearts today, I want to see if I can get more than 25u through the hearts.
     
  17. AIvin

    AIvin Active Member

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    Anyone having issues with iCloud? I have been playing this on my iPhone, and I just downloade it for my iPad last night. i turned on iCloud on both of them and before I start the game it tells me "loaded from icloud" but I'm still seeing my main town on my phone, and a new file on my ipad
     
  18. hla77

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    Same problem...
     
  19. lyace21

    lyace21 Well-Known Member

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    Just when I was done reading about the 50,000 coins reward went in the game, collected some hearts and got 50,000 coins :D
    Also I have 2 super rare animals (Red Panda and a Chameleon) but I dont know what to do with them :(
     
  20. Dcell

    Dcell Active Member

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    first time i fired up the game on my iPad it loaded the save that i have on my iPhone but after that one time i couldn't get it to work.

    Even worse was i was playing on my iPad made some serious progress, stopped playing, after a while picked it up on my iPhone and noticed the progress i've made on my iPad wasn't transferred to my iPhone so i picked up my iPad again, continued playing ...

    and after a few minutes i got some message saying there is a newer save on iCloud and i lost all of my progress as it somehow transferred the save of my iPhone to my iPad.
     

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