User blog comment:GeoFruck/Why expansions are NOT so expensive/@comment-5229289-20120725023631

First of all i am a power gamer, stating that now before i get into my view here.

when i play a game i look for the basics of that game. the basics of a game can be used to base your progress of a game. the basics are things that progress from begining to end of the game. Xp is the most basic of all games like this. expansions are the 2nd most basic in city builders, (like this and farmville for examples) among other secondary basics. in most games the avarage player will be able to keep up with one of these and not the others, or will be behind in all of them but will have some progression in all or some of the. jack of all trades kind of thing.

i dont see wonder as one of these sense it is based off tons of factors the basics of them space, coins, lvl and rock level. so cant really be used as a true sign of basic progression

In this game the secondary basics are expansions, and the rock like Geo listed above. Expansions are the only one of these that is only limited by coin production. your rock is also based on resource progression and lvl.

so all that being said you can base your progresion in this game losely on your expansions, and you can loosely base your expansions on your progresion.

If at some point you say "why are expansions so expensive?" the simple answer would be you are not progresing the way TV expected.

That is of course WAY to simple. TV priced expansions on the need for it to be challanging. in order for them to do this they had to base it off of the amount of coins you can make at a given level. At this point power gamers kind of kill it for casuals. as power gamers we by nature try to get the most coin and xp production as we can at all times, so when they expand the expansions they have to increase the cost.

Long post shot, if expansions are to expensive at a given level, you are ether to low level for it, or you are not producing the coins you should be producing at that level.

sorry for the psychobabble