User blog:Soosieloo/February Farfenoogins and Fulminations

Its that month. You know the month, that crazy moody month where one day its a balmy hot day, the next .. blizzard. Where trees and flowers are fooled into sending out the first buds of Spring only to see them be nipped back in an ice storm.

I kinda feel like ole slumbering Regina there. Cobwebby dreams and fancies weigh down my game ambitions and oftentimes I find my TV time lagging as well. I blame it on February. Why on earth is it pronounced feb-You-ary but spelled Feb- ROO- ary. Just being cantankerous I reckon. Like my TV game.

Almost 1500 decorating items and nary the energy to use them. Just thinking about using the inventory system to unload, store and then choose new decorations is numbing. Once one gets to a certain level and have all the expansions and stores and money is rolling in.... then the game is much different. After dino hatching what else is there to do but decorate and make money? If decorating is so annoying, then why bother to buy and buy and buy the new decorations that are blared and claxoned about each week?

I find myself behaving much like the month of February. Blowing hot one day and full of ambition and joy to play, then the next day grousing about lag and the most recent lag bought mistakes. Its those days I  just set the longest recipes and take the day off from playing.

In a moment of insanity, I recently bought one of those crystal volcanos, the ones that yield 'free free FREE' crystals every 7 hours and if you are a good and dedicated player you can double double DOUBLE your crystals!!!! meh, as days go by I am starting to resent these little critters. Having to wake up in the middle of the night to get my crystal is so tiring. I do it now only when I need to get up for other reasons and just let the crystals wither on the vine till I am good and ready to play and collect. To heck with that lock in customer for 3mths sale come on.

I have a gaggle of crystal producers and they all come to fruit at different times. My game play has now resolved into watching the bloody clock and logging in to harvest. Why? In order to gain enough crystals to buy the next weekly installment of decorating goodies. Why? Because they are cute and I would like to use them to decorate and play with. Why, when one cant stand to use the inventory system or your inventory is already full of years of weekly decorations?

So now my sleepy question is.... why. why? why! erm.. why, does one continue to play a game that has made the main reasons to play so irritating and annoying.

Totally speaking of my own game reasons and not a clue why you the reader plays. My TV game is to visit, see how others decorate and arrange their stores or habitats. Also, to decorate and play with all the cute items and animations they sell each week. And to dino fuse. However, visiting is fraught with long load times, game freezing and constant kick outs. Sometimes I have to reboot my kindle fire entirely. That leaves decorating. Anyone with at least 1300 items know what a lag fest annoyance that has become. Glitchy, unsortable lists, lag times to place and remove items, cumbersome and unintuitive. Limited storage space despite weekly come ons with new items and stores that are part of game quests and acquisitons.

Ok, that leaves dino fusion. Once again, bizarre sorting in the long long list, instead of sorting by dino types and age, it sorts by kung fu. Not a full understanding of it but I think its to do with habitats and the order of the habitats bought and then by the dino value inside. O_o    seriously... really?? No toggle switch to hide dinos you want to keep, no ability to group into whatever group the user wants. for me I would love to be able to see at a glance dinos I have for fusing, separate from my permanent list. Or how many dilo's I have and what stage they are in.... you know .. basic game functions.


 * sigh





So I dream on, tucked in warm in my comfy canopy bed while outside the Feb-roooo-ary weather blows and gusts, warms and shines, freezes and cracks. If you look closely you can see my dream. It is of a customer friendly interface that encourages and rewards me to continually buy and store new weekly installments of frippery,  finery and foolishness. It is of a village from whence I can daily visit each of my friends villages and oooh and aaaahhhhh over their newest decoration imaginings with nary a lag or dropout. Perhaps leave them a note on their wall saying 'that was adorable!"  Then hurry home on my fat furry feet to rearrange and play and sort and shuffle easily a newly inspired theme of the week or even *gasp* daily! cuz its that easy!

That would be a lovely Tiny Village day indeed.