User blog:Litlmamaini/Burnt out - Time to Redesign!

I’m pretty close to burn-out. I am to the point where I actually dread having to collect my coins and reset my stores. Just collecting all my coins takes about 5 minutes.

Then I still have to reset all the stores.

Tap (open store), Tap (start recipe), Tap Tap (close that store/open next store) – repeat 50 or 60 times with a break in the middle to buy more resources. What used to be a quick, fun, 5 to 10 minute activity to do during a break or downtime at work now has become cumbersome and time consuming now that my village has gotten so big. I’m in the game a minimum of 20 minutes just collecting and resetting. That doesn’t include feeding my dinos, doing the next step in whatever challenge there is, seeing if I can fuse, etc.

My husband jokes that he is a Tiny Village Widower (my revenge for football?).

In order to keep my interest in the game on life support for a little while longer, I began a massive redesign of my village. I decided to make it LOOK more like an actual village, not just a symmetrical grid of stores, houses, habitats and resource builders with decorations squeezed in where there was room.

Allow me to give you a tour……

First we have Capitol Plaza. Much like the National Mall in D.C., here we have all of the great Monuments of Tiny Village artfully laid out around the Great Magic Rock. A must see for all Tiny Tourists.



Next we have our planned residential neighborhood, Lucky Topaz Estates. This quiet suburb is home to the residents of this great Village. Notice the Lucky Cats and Giant Topazes that adorn the entrance to the Estates, giving this community its name. This community boasts a central play-area for the kiddies and its own post office and high-rise hotel for visitors (because as Ben Franklin said “Houseguests, like fish, begin to smell after three days”).



Continuing on, we have the agricultural center. As you can see, all of the farms and resource builders located here run on clean wind power provided by the windmills, and the farms and trees are kept free from pests by the Giant Fly Traps that border the area. There is also a nice park provided for farm hands to relax and eat their lunches at.



Located conveniently near Lucky Topaz Estates and the agricultural center is Storybook Square. This is a Literary themed park built around the Golden Observatory. Villagers can read books from the library or bookstore located nearby while resting on a park bench in the shade of trees while their children can frolic among the fairytale themed decorations. Also located here and available to rent is our Event Tent. Imagine the Weddings or Black Tie Fundraisers you can hold here in the middle of this enchanting park.



Located at the edge of the Village is the Old Indian Burial Ground Campgrounds and TinyScout Retreat. Many a TinyScout have spent a sleepness night here at the campgrounds on the Edge of the Spooky Woods, where the Man-eating Pterodactyls are said to live. Every TinyScout knows to respect the Epic Totems, so that the ancient Indians buried beneath the woods will protect them from the man-eaters that live inside its borders.



Of course, like every great village, we have our Industrial District. Here all of the stores and factories (mostly scooter stores, as we have a bustling export business) that keep the Village thriving are located. Also, like most Industrial Districts located in most cities, the smog produced from these factories prevent any good pictures from being taken.

Finally, the crowning glory of our village. A tiny-urban planning achievement; The Dino-Zoological Park and Gardens. The park itself is bordered by hundreds of Venus Fly traps that keep pests away from the dinos and guests and help to clean the air that drifts over from the Industrial District. Starting at the Ticket Booth entry gate, capped by our stately Stegosaurus topiaries, we have Trophy Avenue. Entering guests can admire the Dino Collection trophies awarded by TinyCo to our Dino-Zoologists for excellence in dino breeding and care. At the end of Trophy Avenue, guests may browse through the lovely open aire market and gift shop and rent strollers from the stroller tent. From here, we enter the heart of the park. Guests can stroll along our stone walkways and observe Dinos from all four biomes living comfortably in painstakingly custom created habitats that meet every one of their biometric needs. At the center of the park, guests can rest and admire the Dino Topiary Garden, generously donated by the estate of Oswald Dinomandius, our resident dino-expert, Ozzie’s, late father. Finally, located at the back of the park is the Picnic Area and First Aide tent (for those scrapes and boo-boos, hopefully not dino-bites). Located in the picnic area is the Salad Shop and Village Bistro, providing dining choices for both our Herbivorous and Carnivorous guests.



That concludes the tour of my Tiny Village. I hope you enjoyed it. Designing it definitely helped keep me interested a little while longer.