User blog:Zamphyr/Turning 70

I've been meaning to write for a while now. I'm now a day away from level 70. A day away from starting the completion of the phoenix challenge and from starting the top pyramid. I've known for close to 2 months that I would be reaching 70 by the end of June. As mentioned in other blogs, money isn't a problem once the apple stores, the bistro and the scooter stores come into the picture. It also doesn't hurt that there's nothing really to spend millions on at this level. I'm now earning roughly $7M/day.

I took Ranjitinoz's advice and bought many scooter stores when I turned 46. Being me, I decided not to go whole hog, so I limited myself to one when I could afford it, then later, one a day at most. By the time that well went dry, I had 28 scooter stores. Then I went to get the bike stores and my fill of canoe stores. It had become clear though, xp was the way to go. Following that, I decided not to go with any more apple stores or bistros. They just came up to about a third of the xp. Anything less was simply not considered. Still I kept some apples out. But for how long? I'm currently earning 25-30M xp/day. Maybe I'll keep it going for another week or two before I start switching to mainly decorations as Oioi has done.

Despite all the warnings, I still haven't really run out of space, not that I've tried very hard. When going for xp, it's easy to put away those decorations that just take up space.

I am still maintaining my streak of not spending any money on the game. To all unbelievers out there, it is possible to rack up lots of crystals even without spending money to get crystals. I got up to 1100 before I decided to start spending them. I am currently earning roughly 22/day (2 crystal spheres [6], 1 crystal wish [3], crystal valentine [4], crystal timekeeper [4], crystal volcano [3], Great pyramid [1] and crystal bank [1]), though I'm not perfect.

In the last 2 discount sales, I purchased many habitats and started working on my dino collection. I've been making at least one per day since, but still haven't filled them up. I'm just creating the basic tier-0s and fusing them, so that's taking a while.

Will I quit? I don't know. I might just concentrate on new dinos for a bit, but then I may just get frustrated by the whole deal when I don't get the dinos I want.

One more thing. Although I mentioned that I haven't spent any money on the game and even that I may quit (who knows), I am tempted to buy the next time they have a crystal sale. Why? Not because I need the crystals, but rather because the designers came up with a game that entertained me for over a year. They've earned my money.