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Criticism: Island unbalanced works vs need

I bought all the land this time and added all the required # of everything to attempt to do the side tasks only to find that since I had upgraded my algae pond to lvl 2 I was short workers for the second sheep. I had 7 workers and needed 9. My happiness was -49. I used only farm dollars, only gold decos were the hidden ones, all houses were regular. So it is impossible for someone using farm dollars to do many of the side tasks starting at near the middle of chapter 2 w/o starting to demo things or go in to the red on happiness. I got my 2 lvl 3 seal task out of the way and took one out to get the workers I needed. I wasn't ready to give up the seal but I needed to get back to checking off tasks because the downtime already had be behind on my plan.

Why are things so unbalanced? I had a couple empty squares of land but I played the shuffle game to free up as much space as possible. I had main and all other houses maxed out. It is pretty disappointing to work that hard on it to find a road block that big causing me to choose to stop tasks or start demo
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  • Porkies (INT1)Porkies (INT1) Posts: 103
    edited 08.08.2015
    Supposedly someone has actually finished book 3 with only dollars...I find that extremely hard to believe......GGS is a Business and need to make money in order to stay in business, so there are many aspects of this game that are geared towards money players to keep GGS in business and to let a lot of players actually play for free. Making the game as "fair" and "balanced" as many would like it to be would just hurt GGS' bottomline.
  • White _Doves (US1)White _Doves (US1) Posts: 1,200
    edited 08.08.2015
    Thare are some eho have finished all 3, with no gold. It can be done, with planning well.
  • Yakoska (US1)Yakoska (US1) Posts: 1,631
    edited 08.08.2015
    And some who got the pearl with no gold. But it takes a great deal of effort. And yes, sometimes you need to demo, and not all the tasks are worth it. In fact, all the Peacock/penguin tasks beyond lvl 1 will send you off the wrong path. Below is one example of how to do it.

    http://en.board.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/showthread.php?131680-The-Island-a-Journey&p=1569039#post1569039

    -Y

    edit> I should note, mistakes were made, so read ahead, and see what they were, and don't make them. lol
  • BriannospamGame (SKN1)BriannospamGame (SKN1) Posts: 1,803
    edited 08.08.2015
    Thare are some eho have finished all 3, with no gold. It can be done, with planning well.

    Correct... I have earlier finished all 3 books only using dollars... and a lot of playing hours!
    - but not yet all side task + all 3 books. - I hope for it every time. ;)
  • rocnrobn (US1)rocnrobn (US1) US1 Posts: 259
    edited 08.08.2015
    Also you don't need to do all tasks to finish the chapters. The tasks with the tree on it are the ones that advance the chapters.

    The major problem is the houses. Snow dollar houses only gives max of 20 workers where as the gold houses give a max of 33 workers. This really needs to be changed...
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 08.08.2015
    rocnrobn wrote: »
    Also you don't need to do all tasks to finish the chapters. The tasks with the tree on it are the ones that advance the chapters.

    The major problem is the houses. Snow dollar houses only gives max of 20 workers where as the gold houses give a max of 33 workers. This really needs to be changed...

    Nooooooooooooooooo they did change it on the candy farm, gold houses were only 2 extra workers, I think thats a terrible deal for gold.
  • rocnrobn (US1)rocnrobn (US1) US1 Posts: 259
    edited 08.08.2015
    Nooooooooooooooooo they did change it on the candy farm, gold houses were only 2 extra workers, I think thats a terrible deal for gold.

    I stand by what I said... The house change would make it more doable for non gold users.
  • gavinfarms (US1)gavinfarms (US1) US1 Posts: 2,273
    edited 10.08.2015
    I finish the chapters every time and it can be done without gold. I started a thread a long time ago asking for simple upgrades to make the island/viking more do-able. One suggestion that I made was to simply move the regular houses from multiples of 4 to multiples of 5, thereby getting 25 percent more workers. Instead of 8/12/16/20, going to 10/15/20/25. That would make a huge difference. They also need to address the fertilizer shortage.

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