Just had an idea for an update. I would love seasonal change according to where you are in the world. Seasonal buildings could be made temporarily available for a certain amount of u's.
Thanks to Vicsark for introducing me to yet another game. Vic, you seem to love pixel art games - Tiny Tower, Pocket Plane, the Blockheads and now Pixel People. I like the additional clone slot. I also like the idea of a clock tower that shows the local time (someone floated this idea). I agree with TRB4 that the spirit of the game/economy shouldn't be destroyed by IAPs. I googled and found that there are hacks that give 9 million (or some astronomical number) of utopium and coins. I don't trust those links (don't want to invite virus into my computer) so didn't try. But in any case, what's the fun of the game if one has all those coins/utopiums? Part of the charm of this game is to strategize, plan and even grind your way up. I have something that I'd like advice on. It will be a long post so I thought I'd separate into two posts.
I think there is a bug with the tree achievement, I just hit 30 tress without it unlocking and placed an additional tree. So I am at 31 trees total still no unlock. Maybe it's looking for 30 of one type of tree?
I wish I could start a second game to try a different play style. I don't want to lose my progress on my current game but I'm thinking about deleting and starting over. Really wish you could move people from the early crappy housing to new housing to free up space.
That crappy housing is only 15% less efficient than the new housing (the utopium cost for the "better" housing would have put you 85% of the way toward just buying the extra land you're "saving"). They didn't forget to include this feature so much as they overestimated the insight and common sense of their player base.
So as a new player to a brand new game I should know all of the gameplay dynamics of said game? All I was saying is that if I had to do it over again I would have been more efficiant with my space and waited longer until new housing opened up. No need to be a dick about it.
One future update building idea: gas station and convenience store(assuming that they don't already exist because I haven't discovered them yet if they do).
@Machiknight - are you still playing the town? how's the progress? I tried TRB4's strategy last night. Planted 6 trees, the minimal buildings/jobs as suggested and and got down to 35% discount. And then started to grind for coins/hearts for expansion and more deco.With those few buildings, the trickle of coins was very small even with active clicking of trees. But that was nothing compared to grinding for utopium via hearts surprise in order to do the 50% discount fr deco. With coins, it is a long wait, but there's a definite end. Utopiums from heart surprise is unknown wait ... I expanded until 70 blocks when I realize that Atomic Cottage is available and thought to myself - I don't have to be totally perfect (i.e. only shiny towers). Furthermore, during my grind for utopiums, I actually had accumulated enough coins to expand to lvl 4 (70 squares) without land discount. So I restarted the game with a new strategy - reducing hearts via research lab. I began the game with the same 2 new rocky mansion and the requisite jobs as TRB4 said, and also bought 6 trees (9 trees in total). Then I slowly accumulated 270k coins to expand to lvl 4, grinding utopium from heart surprise and trees in the process. At lvl 4, i built atomic cottage and set about to build the research lab. As luck (or lack of luck) would have it, I was given the explorer gene rather than the dreamer gene that I hoped for. Still, i could splice a long-winded way to the zoologist and research lab, cloning 3 atomic cottages worth of clones in the process. I plonked all my utopiums there and have been grinding for utopium since. My aim is to go for max hearts reduction that hopefully will aid the utopium grind in future. And then expand to 110 squares and shiny towers before building any more housing. A slightly "lower" version of TRB4's perfect housing strategy. I expect to be grinding for the next couple of days to reach max hearts reduction. In the meantime, the coins are slowly accumulating to almost 3 million now (at 48 CPS, short working time.) By the time I'm done with max heart reduction, I might have enough coins to expand to 110 squares and shiny towers without land discount. So here's my question - should I go for the 50% land discount deco (16 3spirit deco) ? I'm the go-for-max-discount person (I diligently acquired 50% discount in my old deleted game). I originally planned to 1. max reduce hearts in heart surprise 2. get 50% land discount before doing anymore expansion. But now I'm re-considering -- since heart surprises are faster to get, is expansion via law firm's 40u more viable than ? Assuming that I build 2 shiny towers per level, that would mean 52u per level. This will mean that I HAVE to go by the law firm expansion route from now on. Or should I work harder now and get the 50% land discount now so that in future I can expand via coins or utopium and have spare utopiums for speeding up construction and upgrading buildings? Your advice please Edit: Current stats - 41/70 land used, 4 rocky mansions and 3 atomic cottages, 3.1m coins Just reduced hearts. (Next research lab reduction is 60u. How many more levels to go? It took me the whole day to collect 50u). 19/150 jobs found. As for animals found -- 17/20 from page 1, 17/20 from page 2, 12/20 from page 3, 3/4 from page 4, total 76 animals rescued. And the residents are protesting that I barge into their houses too frequently.
Well, first off, the mechanics are right there in front of you. Second, you are missing the point; you will have done yourself almost no good waiting, nor in upgrading even if that were possible. Cost to house a single clone in the 'crappy' housing: 2u, cost to house a single clone in the 'best' housing: 1.67u. Anyone who's played the game to the point they are thinking they should have waited and/or had the ability to upgrade housing ALSO has all the necessary data in front of them to realize they're wrong. Last, I'd guesstimate a good 15%-20% of the posts in this thread deal with the "oversight" on the part of the developers regarding housing from clueless players, so excuse me if I don't give two craps about seeming rude at seeing it come up yet again.
Try planting 2 more. The achievement says "Build 30 Trees" not have 30 trees. Remember that the game starts you with 3 trees, so even though you have 31 trees, you've only built 28 of them.
@Castlepage: dude, stop grinding, start playing lol Don't be obsessed with hearts reduction, i think max is 6 upgrades, so 5 is already really good lol. I almost finished the game and I don't have nearly as many animals as you have! Also begin the friggin' game! I' advise not using the 40u for expansion shortcut, at least not until the price is over 50m or more after discount. Your income should keep growing along the price increases. So use your next U to build decor, but I don't see the point at going over the 50 spirit/expansion discount though. Start splicing and buildings. If you want to optimise, try to fully staff the buildings and get the bank asap. Some buildings are better than others, it depends on your play style also. If you play a lot, City building is the one to fill. University is good and easy to get early. Best is the stadium in mid to end game. but try to leave a bit of fun and don't look at the full jobs listings. Maybe only to find the last job to fully staff a building. Now is the time to have a bit of fun
You are very close to maxing out hearts, 60u is the final heart upgrade, and you'll get 10u of it back from the achievements page as soon as you build a Police Station. As for whether or not to use the Law Firm to upgrade, this is something you need to think about. Every time you use the Law Firm, the price to upgrade with coins increases making it harder and harder to reach. However, it is much, much, much quicker to earn 40u (especially with max heart upgrade) than it is to earn anything higher than 10M coins. However the way I look at it is, coins are pretty much only good for buying land and buildings, but utopium is much better spent on the Research Lab, Decor, and building upgrades. I now have 200 land, and I have paid coins every time, my next upgrade is 70M coins. The way I keep talking myself out of using the Law Firm is with this logic "If I use 40u to upgrade instead of 70M coins, then each u is worth 1.75M coins. But if I wait until my next upgrade which will cost 80M, then each u will be worth 2M coins." and so on. Eventually I figure that I will have to start using utopium to gain land instead of coins, but there is a some what compromise option to getting land with utopium while not completely phasing out coins. If you buy land through the Church, it costs twice as much as the Law Firm, but it does not increase the coin price of land. So if you don't mind getting less value for your utopium, you can still save your coins for upgrades while getting land with utopium. I would still recommend getting the Decor for the discount. Even if you do plan on using the Law Firm, you should max out the Time Discount. Around the 100+ unique clone mark each new arrival will take 20+ minutes to get to the arrival center, and buildings will take over a day. I have the max 50% Time Discount and my new buildings still take 18-20 hours, that would be a day and a half if I didn't have a discount. Then again, if you would rather just forgo spending 132u on maxing your discount and rather just use that 132u to speed up the construction of 33 buildings instead, well that's certainly an option as well.
I had about 75-85 people but didn't like the way I was doing things, So I deleted the game and started all over, I think I'm doing a little better now. When I first started I was trying to do everything as fast as I could, But this is a waiting game, It takes time and patience to achieve the things you want to achieve and yes I do wish we could move people from to smaller houses to free up space. Maybe for the next update add a 1 land cost 6 capacity house for just coins and not utopium. That would e nice, Of course they'll be a little pricey but I rather spend big amounts of coins than utopium. That's probably just me though...
Hi! Long time/first time here! I love all the advice and hints available in a good forum like this, so thanks for that! Regarding housing, it's pretty typical for games like this to start you off with cheap and less efficient housing, and then as you level up, more expensive/efficient housing unlocks. If you didn't realize that would be the case, no worries. It's not SUCH a deficit overall, but consider it a lesson learned. This will almost always be the case in any game, so in future games, just keep it in mind before building ten million crap shacks.
Err ... y 132 u for deco? I thought 16 3-spirit deco will do the job? We can't go beyond 50% discount right? 16 3-spirit deco requires 64u. But yes, I think I will go for the 50% discount. As for the 10u reward for maxing out the hearts, I'd like to negotiate to get them BEFORE I max out the hearts. It's tough enough to grind for 50u, let alone 60u I am doing EXTREMELY well in rescuing animals. Almost 100 animals rescued. How about an IAP that doubles/triples the chances of getting utopium from heart surprise? Edit: Crossed the 100 animals rescued mark. How about achievement award for 100 animals rescued, 500 animals rescued? LOL Vic. I played the game one-third way before restarting it. Grinding the hearts isn't that bad when I'm doing something else (e.g. typing this post). It's long if I sit there waiting for the heart to appear. But when I'm reading or typing, I'm often pleasantly surprised by how frequent the heart surprise comes. Edit: Vic, you're right. I'm obsessing with hearts reduction. I don't have to do it right now. Can always do it later. Like while waiting for shiny towers to build Thanks for pointing out to me.
Hope it's not a bug, but it was pleasantly surprising to see same sex citizens get a heart next to them.
You are correct, you can't go beyond 50% discount. However, the Time Discount only goes up 0.5% per 1 spirit, therefore in order to get a 50% Time Discount you need 100 town spirit. The most efficient way to do that is 32 3-spirit decor and 2 2-spirit decor. Here is an older post I made addressing this:
How did that happen? All citizens come in sets of boy-girl, and all houses hold even numbers of clones. Are you sure that your not just looking at a girl that looks like a guy? Some of the costumes are very similar looking.
So I erased my game and started over with this strategy. Thanks for the guide! Quick question, what are the quickest splicing routes to get a bank and research lab? Thx
