Talk:Crystal Mansion/@comment-5542340-20120928182315

Once again, TinyCo has missed the point and shown that they don't understand how to run a successful business. A crystal house was the golden opportunity to build player loyalty by making it the first crystal generator that could be purchased for coins. How I would have issued this: the crystal house would have been announced with a purchase price of 50,000 coins. It would have produced one crystal per week and been good for three months. Now, here is where things get creative: you would have been able to upgrade to a crystal cottage for 25 crystals, improving the yield to one crystals every 3 days with a lifetime of five months and increasing to two villagers, as with any other house. The next upgrade would have been to a crystal villa for 100 crystals, that improved to one crystal per day, a life of eight months, and three villagers. Finally, you could have upgraded to the infamous crystal mansion for 400 crystals, resulting in one crystal every 12 hours, a permanent lifetime, and four villagers. My solution results in a way for newer players to get a crystal generator for coins and to build their way to a permanent crystal generator. But the total crystal cost is 525 crystals, much more than TinyCo insisted on, and there would have been a lot of happy Tiny Village players for a change. Sometimes, I just shake my head at their lack of understanding...