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Chocofan,
Hello!
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I do not believe you made any errors, your town looks fine. The difficulty is because, as far as MT2 is concerned, the high popularity towns are in "known" locations such as New York City, New York USA, San Francisco, California USA, Paris France, Berlin Germany, Rome Italy, etc. Without being a criticism in any way, people are not as familiar with Beijing, China. Anyone physically located in a small town also has the same disadvantage of not having many, if any, known/popular businesses near them. If a business is not purchased/franchised or even visited (Check-ins), the popularity will not increase. That is the reason why many have changed their locations. There are indeed other players that created wonderful towns without changing locations, and while it is slower to progress, those towns are no less successful.
You mentioned you need coins. One way to quickly generate coins is to remodel all your businesses into "Offices" and then buy Stock Exchanges. Each SE boosts revenue by 20% and stacks. Read my
post #1057. I wrote about stacking Wonders (including the Stock Exchange) and about deciding to sell or not to sell.
You will also need Booyah Bucks.
There is a lot of information out there. Don't be afraid to ask questions.
Hi everyone, I am glad to have found this forum.
I am new to the game and have been having a few challenges.
Over time I will read through the 76 pages of tips and advice here but I hope that I may be able to get some more direct help sooner than that.
I am living in Beijing, as I said, and every time I log into the businesses it tells me that it cannot detect any anywhere near.
All the businesses it offers me have a popularity of 25. From a quick skim read of your posts I see that I will never do well in this game unless I can make some better progress.
I also noted some recommendations to manually select my location as somewhere popular such as New York.
Is this still the recommendation?
I cannot believe that it cannot detect any businesses here in Beijing. We physically have many of these businesses here, and the Chinene locals love iPads, iPhones and the like and they love gaming.
Is there any chance that I am just not looking in the right place, or have to change some other setting? 😕
I have clearly made many mistakes in my initial explorations. I am currently level 8 and stuck for a while as I need more gold so that I can expand the land etc. I see recommendations that I should sell some businesses And rebuild them but will read more about that first as I am reluctant to sell something so hard earned without making sure there will be gains.
My town is currently over crowded, so needs some sorting out.
I'd love a visit from some 'experts' and some advice.
My town is located at ID 35709847
I am in a different time zone so may not always respond immediately - and of course there is work that gets in the way of life 😀. 🙄
Cheers
Kiwi in Beijing
AKA Chocofan