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Wednesday 9 January 2013

Building on Buildings...


[Please note: this is an Andy's Imagination post, purely my own thoughts and will likely not appear in game]

Recently space has become a hot topic. We know soon an Animal Hospital Upgrade is coming so those with various special animals coming out their ears will find more space, and also at least one land expansion.

But what about building storage?

Personally I think one of my highlights in 2012 was the invention of the Building Storage Building, or "Streets"  to give them their in house name.

Not only did they open up space but they were all wonderfully designed, I still think the Ranch is one of my favourite buildings for it's look and just the frontiersyness of it, if I had a Frontier town, the Ranch might be the one building I looked at first and thought... yup, I want THAT!

Still love it!
But, since they were brought out, we've seen more buildings that could, perhaps should go inside them. So this is my idea... We have a new mission thread for building storage, but NOT a new building.

Let's be honest, the ones we've got are nice enough but sooner or later we'll end up with something that doesn't work as well, as a design on a Frontier town.

So, instead of having a five mission thread with a building attached, make it a SIX mission thread with SIX buildings attached...

Each mission is the thread is do a couple homestead tasks... and expand on one of our building storage buildings.

The Ranch to now hold our Prize Animal buildings, Show Pen and the Combine Harvester. The Civic Centre to hold our Fire Station and Wagon. The Holiday Hall, expanded to hold the Snowball Fort. The Works to hold our Glassworks and Leatherworks. The Stately Estate can take the Quilting Station and Hanks Climbing Wall. The Emporium expanded to hold the Barter Office and the Bakery...

...I'm sure there's more we could slot in various places, that's just off the top of my head. The only thing I know is tricky is buildings with characters attached like the Shaman Lodge, the Barbecue or the Habitat.

So each building just gets a single new 6 item build, an upgrade to it's current level, and that adds more buildings in the same way as each previous upgrade during each buildings' own thread opened up more space...

So for example... Mission One:

Feed 50 non-rideable horses
Collect 10 Horsefeed (drops from Oats)
Expand the Ranch (a single build stage)

Yes, it would be a big mission thread, but if that was the ONLY thing we had that week, I think the rewards outweigh the length, just like the expansion missions are hard, but worth it for the extra land.

From the other angle Zynga still get what they need, requests, interaction and social stuff.

Course, I don't know how easy it would be to do... but hey, that's why it's my imagination, I can do ANYTHING in my imagination... ;) *flies off like Superman to save a damsel in distress from 42 small but extremely annoying dragons of every colour but the ONE she wants...*

14 comments:

  1. why not a mission that would give us extra posts

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    1. http://andy.frontiervilleexpress.co.uk/2012/09/clickety-click.html

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  2. LOOKING FWD TO SEEING WHAT IDEAS TO COME TO LIGHT FOR US TO STORE. WE STILL HAVE ANIMALS WE CANNOT STORE SO MAYBE SOMETHING FOR THEM

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  3. I'm all for more storage.... especially for the odd animals,trees and of course all the new buildings we have to create room to place.

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  4. EXPAND THE GREEN HOUSE SO WE PLANT THERE INSTEAD ODF ON OUR HOMESTEAD IT IS ALREADY IN A DIFFERENT WINDOW WE COULD LEAVE SOME OF OUR BUILDINGS OUT. PUT A SEARCH BAR ON THE BARN, ANIMAL SACUARY, THE PEN FOR SHEEP , PIGS AND SUCH GO THERE AND HAVE TO FIL THROUGH TO FIND WHAT WE WANT LET US TYPE IT IN. GIVE MORE WHEN UPGRADING THESE THE 5 YOU GIVE IS NO WHERE NEAR ENOUGH AT A TIME SOME DO MORE BEFORE THEY REALIZE IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO STORE THEM AND DO NOT BOTHER TO DO MORE EVER. GIVE SOME INCENTIVES FOR HITTING ITEMS ON THE WALL AFTER THE 50 HITS HAVE BEEN DONE ALOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT BOTHER BECAUSE THEY GET NOTHING FOR THERE EFFORT, THROW SOME ENERGY OR DO RANDOM THEN THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLAIN THEY DID NOT GET A GOOD FREEBEE, YOU KNOW FOR EVERY 10 OR SOMETHING IF YOU MAKE IT MORE YOU WILL LOSE THERE INTEREST. JUST SAYIN

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  5. I'm all for storing more buildings so if that's what we have to do to be able to store them then so be it! I'd also like to see another land expansion for bigger than the biggest one now available! I'm all expanded with the purchase and still need more room! LOL~<3~=D

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  6. I think it's a great idea and definitely not as bad as those repeatable missions that get old fast. I still haven't finished the one that needs all those goodie bags probably never will. We definitely need more storage of buildings

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  7. Has my vote for what it is worth!!!!

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  8. I really would love to beable to store the stags,rideable horses all the small creatures and move more buildings inside others so we have room to grow our plants and trees. I think it would give all of us time to do some "clean" up on our steads and make them more life like and enjoy how we can create using our imagination. I absolutely hate those "partner" missions because you have to rely on others that most of the time don't help. So yes to expansion and more storage.........anyway possible is all goo do me! :D

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  9. You have a wonderful imagination Andy! I hope that Zynga takes your idea to heart! It would be great to be able to store all the extra new buildings and such.....Personally I hate the wrapper missions and in my imagination they would be optional and only show up in your mission list if you choose to do them. The other thing I saw mentioned here in a reply was about needing more clicks. This is very true, we do need them. At Zynga they always tell you to add more friends if you are having trouble getting what you need...the problem there is still that 50 clicks are 50 clicks no matter how many friends you have. I usually use mine for the things I am working on and then go click everything that I find that my friends need that may be behind in on missions. Then I have to wait for the reset again. This isn't so bad until your clicks just disappear while you are sleeping like what happened to me last night.

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  10. Great imagination, ANDY !! Good going - but I already have the latest land expansion - the biggest - and I still need storage ! BUT I think its time to put the ridable horses somewhere - they've been over looked long enough and some people collect them like trinkets, I know I have a few that I don't even ride !!! Lets hope Zynga will keep the upgrades simple when they do bring out an upgrade mission. Right now every build starts out easy enough but buy the 3rd or 4th round - I am done with that building and all the begging LOL

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  11. Do we really need all the extra characters anyway. They move at will all over the homestead, "without their prospective buildings". I deleted the sarcophagus but the mummy remains on my homestead. The Trading Post is stored & totally useless but Voyageur Jacques still shows up no matter how many times I tell him to go away. The Detective Agency was deleted long ago because I thought the detective (can't Remember his name) was REAL Creepy, I am so GLAD he is no where to be found. All these people roaming around get in the way, How about a Bunk House for the characters without a building. Add a Stay feature like the Dogs we trained;when their presence is not required they are inside out of sight until we 'activate' them.

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