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Few tips to get the last achievement: add taverns on all empty spots on the map. and the big thing is that your population increase/day decreases with each day that you DON'T mine. it doesn't matter how much. as long as you do. so you can just use one little bomb a day and the people will be happy. Also hardware stores make the tents into larger houses, which increases the pop of each house. Hope this helps!
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Kind of just wish the two parts of the game were separate. I want to mine but the building gets in the way, and sometimes my mining gets in the way of my expanding town. Also, the town building is very poorly done. There should be a mini-map, area of effect grids and other similar features. Would make it so much easier.
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"Hey Ma, I hear that out west they are using thermal nuclear weapons on trees to mine for gold nuggets the size of large buildings which then fly about willy nilly. Pack up the kids so we can live in a tent and get in on that action" - Some Random Gold Rush Hill Billy.
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Whats the point of mining? ive covered quarter of the map with town and im earning like 30k a day. still not even 2500 population, make that a hard badge at least im skipping through days without mining still takin ages...
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Got everything, except for the magic lamp and the holy grail... GOD, where are those? If I can't find it soon, the whole city will pay for my greed!
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Our local landowner, architect, constructor of towns, and millionaire gold baron this week started nuking his self built empire in a frantic search for the Holy Grail! Residents say, "The endless explosions have driven him mad!"
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So I was saving up gold in my bank and got $969,000 in one day when the gold boom hit. Somehow I don't think I was supposed to save up quite that much. :-P Good game though! 5/5
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very addictive and fun game but i wish the citizizens would live in the outskirrts of town so i dont have to destro their house when i build something :(
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@Matthias js There is one, you can get a dropzone building, and if you put that at places around your map, since there are no limits, it's basically a auto pick up
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Bleh. Was interesting, until I maxxed out every mining option, but only a quarter of the way to population goal. Either needs more interesting/noticeable interactions among the buildings, or needs to gain population MUCH faster. Not worth the grind.
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please let the "bad" signs on the place... and speed up in longer game the detonations... how about a auto-collect upgrade ?
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minning should be likle this in every game that has mining in it. like if some one is about to pickaxe ur gold spot just love tap them with ur dozer XD
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Use the 3 shot, $75 to mine at first, keep using until a spot is ‘bad’ (exhausted). Only build in an area after you've exhausted the gold there. Population will crop up 3 squares beyond green perimeter of buildings, place them inwards to prevent blowing up homes down the road. Costs $3,000 a day to operate on $75 explosives and return a small profit. Save remaining gold for goldbloom. Use daily income to buy all upgrades. Boomtown (2,500) fits on the first map section. Population increase is not in relation to finding gold, just building growth rates. After first plot, don't build in other plots until they’re mined. At 2,500 population, daily income is $35,000. Surface mine and map out surface, then go back with bigger bombs (gold words (sweet, awesome, etc) - use nukes; green - use yellow $2k shot; red - use the basic 3-shot; rinse repeat). Do this until you find holy grail – game over. Gets boring, era facelifts every 500 population after 2,500 would keep more interest.
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for those who complain the hard badge is a grinding: try to keep on mining after packing the city with school, sheriff, etc. the population growth is in a certain extent related to how much gold u mine
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One part in the 3rd season of a humurous sci-fi TV show "Lexx" was called "Boomtown". There's mild nudity and violence there, so it's a show meant for adults, I guess. So viewer discretion is advised.
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@galer - had the same problem and tried one thing. They gather where the gold is. After finding gold my birthrate jumped from 16 to 55.
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I would like an explanation about the settling system, seems like in some places i randomly place building alot settle, while other places have 0 population... finish all upgrades and just trying to go for 2500 population , very frustrating.
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I do like it where the mining 'tools' are atcually weapons, (like the last one!)...BOOM, oops, oh its just a school we nuked,......LOOK gold! it doesn't matter kids we'll build another school after we blow up more holes in the ground. lol
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So here I was, low on cash, waiting for the next goldboom. I got impatient and decided to sell all my gold for around 1300$... and then on the very next day, GOLDBOOM! @#$%! I guess you can say I missed the golden opportunity. :P
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@PoweRx: The drops seem to be random, as for me it took a long time until I came across the Crown while I was picking up at least a few things of almost everything else.
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If you don't get a BoomTown bandge for 2500 pop, just make sure you've saved your progress (autosave after each day) and refresh the game. After loading the slot it must became completed. Good luck.
PS. Best music in the flash game, I listen to it for two days and it doesn't bore me.
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That was a great game, really enjoyed it. Hope to see a sequel with some of the suggestions from the various game sites incorporated.
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I had a bad glitch where the map was moved further up than it should have been, forcing me to place buildings without being able to see them, and not allowing me to return back to drop off my load of gold. This made it EXTREMELY difficult to get to 2,500 population. Even through this, I found the game relaxing (as relaxing as a game about explosions could be!) 5/5
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Holy Moly... So I was bored out of my mind just keep clicking continue to wait for my town to grow to 2500. Then one day, when a gold boom came, I just got angry and bought 15 nukes and nuked the place... Then this happened http://puu.sh/v02O So, wild guess, secret is to keep mining and population grows as you mine???
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after I had 22 casinos wrapped around this big city I had, I just pressed 'go' and 'end day' like 4 times in a row until I got the last medium badge... way easier because you get enough income where you don't need to mine anymore really.