After playing fairly consistently for about three weeks, I'm level 13.5 and completely hamstrung by not having enough space. There are way too many things to try and progress and upgrade all at once for the space you're allotted. And the more areas you unlock (better focus on merging amulets) the less likely you are to get the stuff from early game. Feeling like I have to upgrade the cow barn multiple times feels pretty bad after I spent all that time saving hay. That's more space occupied by early game stuff when I'd rather get more eggs, etc. The Impossible badge is just a time sink, but not one I think is worth constantly checking on this game to get.
Took me 1.5 years to collect all trophies. I have 12k useless pearls, TV Stations soft capped at 109. Profits 107, stars 108, wood 102. Malibu caps at 143 and Thruster at 157 for workshop upgrades. Use your daily 60 bars for two 10-day boosts and bank the other 10 for whatever you need/want. Surprisingly the 2.5 billion percent production upgrade doesn't feel like a big change when you're trying to get the last few trophies. Total multiplier at completion of 99 billion%. Suffice to say, get the medium badge, and never touch the game again.
There are a lot of problems with this game, but the biggest one is scaling. Giving +40 wood then increasing the cost of the next upgrade by one million wood does not feel good at all. It's like 20 days of passive wood generation to get another +40, and then another million wood added to the purchase price. Sure you can supplement it with holy bars, but even that takes like 15 days of claiming the +60 bars. Pearls also become useless well before any other milestones are even remotely close to finishing. Some sort of exchange of pearls for wood would be a welcome change, because upgrading the aquarium when there is absolutely no need for more city income is a complete waste. It's $100 to buy enough creds to buy enough holy bars to buy enough wood packages to purchase one wood upgrade and I'm only at 64 out of presumably 100. That's just horrible.
If you thought the grind from City level 1 to 3 was bad, it gets worse. I will agree that events do make the game go faster, but only because you can get Holybars and 10 day tokens if you're lucky. It basically trades 8 hours (counts when the game is closed) for 5 spins on a wheel with 9 options. I've only seen one event theme, but I wouldn't expect them to change this formula. I'm city level 6.5, with only five more upgrades in the Lab to get. Once that is done, there is NOTHING to do until city level 14. The different tabs in the Port unlock at level 14, the airport unlocks at level 14. Until then, it's 15 spins and a daily reward each day. I don't know what's in the airport tab, but for the sake of this game, I hope there is something between 14 and 30...
For anyone who tries hard, the levels seem to be the exact same but you are given 60 seconds to solve each level. If you fail, you are sent back to menu to try again from level 1. That might justify the lack of a save function, but I agree it is quite annoying.
Seeing myself at 1 million coins and not having 5-6 finished makes me really upset when I see the video tutorial had only 300k and did the last two bosses with ease.
The random slots make it so you can't necessarily get any full branches in the ability points menu with one playthrough. I assume that's what the new game + is for.
Jumping out of the area can bypass parts of certain levels. You can jump off of collapsible tiles as they are falling. Connected collapsible tiles all fall if you touch one. Keep these in mind when playing.
Few things in the Help Section:
Hello guys, I want to put the details of the game info here. Thank you for your help!
Equip:
-Region Bosses have a high chance of dropping Legendary equipment. Normal monsters have a very low chance.
-The value of the item depends on the ratio between your CP and the monster's CP, the Map and your luck also affects this.
A few tips to consider.
-Flowers go away if you water them enough.
-Fishes spawn the same color as the water you put them in.
-Grass can not be watered away.
Look out for level 29. It's tough!
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