Since I started playing, my city hasn’t grown as much as I expected to. A big part of this is the fact that buying more land to expand costs diamonds after a few plots have been bought, and I don’t like spending diamonds. In addition, I don’t have a lot of time to play so my empire isn’t as big as I would like it to be. I recently reached the iron age, so I have been selling old buildings in order to build new sophisticated ones since they have been unlocked. I also have messed around in different worlds to see if making an empire differently will have any effect on the outcome, but since this means I have to start from the stone age again it is uninteresting and I get bored quickly.
My thoughts about the game honestly haven’t changed much. I have never been super into games that are like this, where you build your own town and do everything on your own. I very much enjoy quick phone games with easy levels like ball-shooting games or puzzles. I used to play a game like this but with dragons, which was much more interesting to me since you bred your own dragons but I soon got very bored. I think this type of game play just doesn’t work well for me. I understand how it could be educational and good for the classroom, but I wouldn’t choose to play this game just to play.
My guild doesn’t seem very active because when I check activity it says no one has had conversations. I think that people in the guild are in a similar position as I am (playing time) or this could be a guild from a while ago and most players are inactive now. I am going to start conversation and see if anything happens because I would like to know if they play or not. I wish the timeline showed when people joined and if they send messages what time and when they do so. Also, it would’ve been cool if before joining I could see when it was made and how active players are within the game as well as the guild.
EDU 185: Gigi's Blog 