bigbridge59
bigbridge59:
How stacking Wonders work:
Spaceport increases population by 20%.
If you have 100,000 pop, and own 1 SP, your population should be 120,000
If you own 2 SP, then your population should be 144,000
If you own 3 SP, then your population should be 172,800
If you own 3 SP, then your population should be 207,360
and so on.
Some people quickly boost their population by buying the Statue of Liberty because each one gives 50,000 population.
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Stock Exchanges increases revenue of Offices by 20% and works the same as SPs and adds up using the same calculation process.
As you can see, whether pop or rev, the numbers do add up really fast.
However, it is important to continually level your Office businesses upward. Each level increases the revenue and in combination with SEs, the more coins you'll receive.
You can compare the different revenue very easily--check one of your Offices. After you collect your coins, click the sleepy blue face, write down the 4 levels of revenue. Don't click any of the job times. Instead, click the paintbrush to remodel that business to what it really is. Go back and click the sleepy face. Since you already own 9 SEs, you should see a significant difference. Of course you can remodel the business back to Office.
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It's a tough choice: build up population or build up coins. You need population to buy businesses. You need coins to buy land.
There are towns that have focused on one kind of businesses. Other towns that kept a variety of businesses. There is no wrong or right way. If you're playing without *ahem* shortcuts, it will take time and patience.
The Wonders are all good and help in their own way, but if you focus on one or two strategies (e.g. population, and/or revenue, then the SP and SE are the ones to get first. And since SEs only cost 30K in coins, they are easily affordable.
As a comparison, the Eiffel Tower is nice for restaurants, cafes and clothing, but if you don't have those kinds of businesses in your town, then the ET is no use. Select the Wonder(s) that will help your particular businesses.
I wrote earlier that I'm not sure franchising is the way to go. It's only observation, but my lower popularity business has better revenue than my franchised business that has high popularity. I've focused on buying my businesses outright and level them up and generating lots of coins with SEs. I'm a long way from a billion coins, but I'm working on a big bank and hopefully will have enough to buy the next plots of land when they become available.
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That is quite drastic to sell everything off and start over. The problem is that high popularity businesses aren't everywhere and some players don't have anything really good near them. They are at a disadvantage to those who live locally in New York City, Washington DC, Paris France, Berlin Germany, Rome Italy, and other cities with super-duper high popularity businesses. This is a weakness of the game. As it turned out, one of the "cheats" discovered is to change one's location, but that can only be done once. I'm not sure of all the details, but constantly changing to a different location, other than your original and second one, can cause a player's game to crash and possibly be lost for good. Hopefully Booyah will sort that problem out so everyone can have a chance to get good businesses without having to pay a truckload of Bucks.
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By the way Ref your post #1034, I think I found it; the town name is Booyahtopia. It does not have an id#. I found it via Social > Explore > San Francisco, California
Booyah is located in SF.
I hope this helps. 29434232 Monstropolis
