As @GiftXchange suggested, I started playing "township" recently.
At first, I thought "oh no, cute overload" but after giving it a try, I got to liking it.
I guess it is a game directed at younger players and thus it is pretty much straightforward and there is not much planning ahead @Robobobo888.
When you start, you have some fields on which you can plant something. You can pick between different seeds. All of them cost some money except for wheat which is always free. One of the first plants you buy is the bakery where you can bake bread just from wheat, so also for free if you planted wheat first.
Wheat can be harvested after 2 minutes and like all plants or products that you harvest, it is stored in the barn then. From there, you can either use it - wheat to bake bread or something else or in combination with other plants, you can produce animal food from it in the food mill. You can also sell it - directly from the barn or through customer's requests who require a bunch of products that are then being delivered to them by helicopter. If you reject a customer's order, you need to wait some time until the next customer shows up.
Should you run bankrupt, you can always start earning again by planting free wheat grains.
As you level up, more buildings become available. Some are new farms like sheep to produce wool, others are plants to produce things from what the farm like pullovers from the wool, others are community buildings, houses and special buildings.
Farms and plants are self-explanatory, so I describe just the others.
Special buildings include e.g. a market where you can buy items that you do not have currently.
In order to expand your city, you need to buy new slices of land around it. Those can be bought just for coins, no greenies needed. However, you need to have a certain amount of population to be allowed to buy the next slice. To increase your population, you need to build new houses which come in different sizes but so far, all fit on a 1*1 slice of land. To be allowed to build a new house, you need to first build a "community center" which can be a police station, a fire station, a coiffeur and stuff like that. Each second level allows the construction of one of those and when it is completed, you can build as many houses as the building expanded your population limit. However, you need more than money to complete these buildings, e.g. windows and such.
These arrive by train. You first need to load the train with products required like wheat or bread and when you filled it completely and sent it away, there is an announcement when it will return and surprise you with some items. If you do not have one of the products required to fill the train, you can ask friends for help and they can fill one of the waggons for you. If they do, they are not only paid with coins and experience for the items they gave you but they are also being rewarded with a shamrock. For collecting 5 shamrocks, you can open one of 9 treasure chests and either get an item, coins or even greens. Sometimes, you also see a golden balloon flying around with a golden treasure chest and you can click on that. It either opens immediately and gives you a freeby or you need to pay 3 greenies to open it but I haven't tried that yet, I rather save them. Likewise, your citizens sometimes speak to you and if you click on their speech bubble, you get rewarded with experience points.
With your growing populations, you are also allowed to add new fields every now and then.
You need the greenies to expand your plants with additional slots to produce stuff which is handy since you can then let the game run unattended and come back later to collect what was produced. You can earn greenies by building community buildings, by fulfilling quests like "plant 1000 seeds" or "build 20 houses" and such. At later levels, you can unlock additional buildings like an airport, a pier, a harbour, a place for events, a zoo, ... If you unlock e.g. the airport, you can earn gems by filling planes with required goods. You can use the gems to get special items later.
Since you only need greenies to expand the production of your plants, I don't see that you'll run out of greenies and come to a dead end unless you spend them on speeding up things but even then, you can still earn more and invest them again later.
At first, you can only buy one of each building except for some houses and in later levels, you are allowed to build a second, e.g. a second food mill.
The number of items you can store in the barn is limited but you can constantly expand the limit if you get or buy the items needed for that.
I include some screenshots.
If you want to give it at try, please add me, my code is CCV63B and my town is called Phyllopolis.
At first, I thought "oh no, cute overload" but after giving it a try, I got to liking it.
I guess it is a game directed at younger players and thus it is pretty much straightforward and there is not much planning ahead @Robobobo888.
When you start, you have some fields on which you can plant something. You can pick between different seeds. All of them cost some money except for wheat which is always free. One of the first plants you buy is the bakery where you can bake bread just from wheat, so also for free if you planted wheat first.
Wheat can be harvested after 2 minutes and like all plants or products that you harvest, it is stored in the barn then. From there, you can either use it - wheat to bake bread or something else or in combination with other plants, you can produce animal food from it in the food mill. You can also sell it - directly from the barn or through customer's requests who require a bunch of products that are then being delivered to them by helicopter. If you reject a customer's order, you need to wait some time until the next customer shows up.
Should you run bankrupt, you can always start earning again by planting free wheat grains.
As you level up, more buildings become available. Some are new farms like sheep to produce wool, others are plants to produce things from what the farm like pullovers from the wool, others are community buildings, houses and special buildings.
Farms and plants are self-explanatory, so I describe just the others.
Special buildings include e.g. a market where you can buy items that you do not have currently.
In order to expand your city, you need to buy new slices of land around it. Those can be bought just for coins, no greenies needed. However, you need to have a certain amount of population to be allowed to buy the next slice. To increase your population, you need to build new houses which come in different sizes but so far, all fit on a 1*1 slice of land. To be allowed to build a new house, you need to first build a "community center" which can be a police station, a fire station, a coiffeur and stuff like that. Each second level allows the construction of one of those and when it is completed, you can build as many houses as the building expanded your population limit. However, you need more than money to complete these buildings, e.g. windows and such.
These arrive by train. You first need to load the train with products required like wheat or bread and when you filled it completely and sent it away, there is an announcement when it will return and surprise you with some items. If you do not have one of the products required to fill the train, you can ask friends for help and they can fill one of the waggons for you. If they do, they are not only paid with coins and experience for the items they gave you but they are also being rewarded with a shamrock. For collecting 5 shamrocks, you can open one of 9 treasure chests and either get an item, coins or even greens. Sometimes, you also see a golden balloon flying around with a golden treasure chest and you can click on that. It either opens immediately and gives you a freeby or you need to pay 3 greenies to open it but I haven't tried that yet, I rather save them. Likewise, your citizens sometimes speak to you and if you click on their speech bubble, you get rewarded with experience points.
With your growing populations, you are also allowed to add new fields every now and then.
You need the greenies to expand your plants with additional slots to produce stuff which is handy since you can then let the game run unattended and come back later to collect what was produced. You can earn greenies by building community buildings, by fulfilling quests like "plant 1000 seeds" or "build 20 houses" and such. At later levels, you can unlock additional buildings like an airport, a pier, a harbour, a place for events, a zoo, ... If you unlock e.g. the airport, you can earn gems by filling planes with required goods. You can use the gems to get special items later.
Since you only need greenies to expand the production of your plants, I don't see that you'll run out of greenies and come to a dead end unless you spend them on speeding up things but even then, you can still earn more and invest them again later.
At first, you can only buy one of each building except for some houses and in later levels, you are allowed to build a second, e.g. a second food mill.
The number of items you can store in the barn is limited but you can constantly expand the limit if you get or buy the items needed for that.
I include some screenshots.
If you want to give it at try, please add me, my code is CCV63B and my town is called Phyllopolis.
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