User blog:Zamphyr/Small village for now

Today, I'm level 41. Up to now, I have not spent any money at all on the game, though I was tempted during the last crystal sale. I've got the majestic rock and the statue of Zeus. I just looked it up and it seems that I've got the 30th expansion, so I've got 2 more to go. I'm currently making roughly300k/day.

Crystals: I'm producing at least 5 a day: 1 from the crystal bank, 2 from the crystal alchemy store and 2 from the crystal mansion. I'm a day away from being able to afford the ancient storage (499 crystals). I'm debating whether I should buy the ancient storage right away or whether I should keep them in case a crystal producer comes out around Christmas. I'm leaning towards getting the storage just because it has such a large effect on my village.

For now, I've got 15500 storage. I've got 10 farms, plus 2 rustic farms (from Bingo) that I'm using for my 3 apple stores and my village bistro, in addition to the roadside diner and the hospital. Once I get the ancient storage, I'll wind up putting almost all my producers into inventory and keep my 2 rustic farms (from Bingo), my dino quarry (from Bingo), my rustic pen (from Bingo) and a tree chopper. I'll go with the market for my unprocessed materials, as do many of the people in this Wiki. I do have 5 stone carvers, 5 lumber mills and 6 cloth weavers. The cloth weavers I have in anticipation to getting a Comfy Cushions store at level 42.

As of earlier this week, after TV fixed the hauler bug, I am no longer swimming in raw materials. Basically, all my resource producers were working at the correct rate, but it seemed as if some of the advanced material makers (stone carver, lumber mill and cloth weavers) were not using the raw materials. Anyhow, I am going to have to go with more storage if I want to complete that wonder challenge at level 45.

Once I get the ancient storage, I'll bulk up and buy apple stores, comfy cushion stores, etc. and pretty much get rid of all the smaller time stores that I have except the minigolf (from Bingo). I'm tempted to sell some of these since I'm making more money with the other stuff. The stores that are limited editions will never be used again for challenges (Are they going to create a challenge where you need a store that was only available 3 months ago?).

I've seen posts where people have mentioned that everybody is going with apple stores or village bistros, but from what I can tell when visiting others, that's not the case. Perhaps it's only people who read the wiki.

Obviously, I did not have the comfy cushions store when it still used stone, but I have to say, it's got a pretty nice ROI for woven fur. Other than that, how else are people using their woven fur? Teradactyl trainers? The Tuxedo shop? The ROI on comfy cushions is comparable to the ROI for Teradactyl trainers, but in larger volumes. The XP for the short recipe is slightly less than the XP for the long recipe in the apple store. The hiking store's short recipe gives slightly less than the XP for the long recipe in the village bistro, but the cash ROI stinks.

I'm thinking of just focusing on crystal production once I find the money/resource equilibrium after getting the storage.

I start wondering, what keeps people going, especially after level 46. Yay, you've got the scooter store, you've got all the money that you need, but there are no more wonder challenges. I read a post where someone said that they're level 54 and they have all the money that they need. Some people at the top have over a billion coin and more social currency than they know what to do with. So what gives? I suppose there's always the phoenix challenges as well.