User blog comment:GeoFruck/Why expansions are NOT so expensive/@comment-49697-20120806162537/@comment-5220945-20120811212120

Hi Superlslacker, thanks for posting :) Well, this kind of backs up one of my underlying points about the need for balance, which I believe TinyCo has done a good job with on the expansion prices.  I mean, your village is verifiable proof that you don't need as much space as is available in order to generate enough coins to comfortably get the next expansion.  And, yes, the people who want them to be cheaper are more than likely concerned with decorating their village, not stacking everything right next to each other, in order to get every last square being productive, and other such concerns.  But, that also comes around to another one of my points.  Players have to CHOOSE for themselves how they want to play the game.  If they cannot earn enough coins, for whatever reason, in order to purchase the next expansion, within a time frame that they consider comfortable, then this is because they have chosen not to be efficient with the use of their current space. I'd even go so far as to say that you would have to be extremely careless with the use of space in order for it to become such an issue, as it seems to for many players.

What I am hoping to accomplish with this blog is to have people come here and read it, realize that they might just need to tweak their village a little, then be off to the races. That is also one of the reasons I am developing the TV Tool, so these people have something to use that will help them to attain the coin production that they desire.