tolisamarie
Senior Member
When I first started there was tons to do and I played a few hours non stop. This extended game play ends pretty quickly. Now furniture takes 8 hours to make (note: use some of your leaf tickets to open up the additional 2 craft spots so you can be building 3 things at a time!), amenities take a couple days to build or upgrade, villagers rotate on a 3 hour schedule, the marketplace rotates in a 6 hour schedule, and the mine only opens once per day with help from 5 friends.
So it's the kind of game you check in on a few times a day for a few minutes to do what's available then it's back to waiting a few hours more. There are always items to collect (fish, bugs, fruit, seashells) but the inventory storage is prohibitive. (Note: use some of your leaf tickets to increase storage capacity.)
If you're like me and don't want to spend real money just to speed up crafting, this is a very slow paced game, which is fine because I'm in no hurry. So patience is key and the leisurely pace means it's not time consuming at all. Like I said, you check in a few times a day, fulfill camper requests, fill up your pockets and maybe que up a piece of furniture to craft.
I've reached the point where I'm saving all my resources for amenity upgrades, so I'm not building any furniture, which requires more and more resources as the game progresses. (60 cotton for one bed, yikes!) You can have a max of 8 campers in your camp at a time, but after rotating a few in and out there doesn't seem to be any reason to do so unless you really want a certain one (I HAD to have Maggie), so I figure instead of wasting resources building furniture to recruit different campers, I'll just keep the ones I have until all the amenities are built. This is important because friendship levels are only unlocked through the amenities, and the only way to level up is by increasing friendship levels.
For example, friendships are initially maxed at level 7. Building a tent will increase it to 10, but only for that type of camper (a cute tent will increase your max friendship with cute campers, but the rest of the personality types will still be at level 7), so you really need to build all the tents, and all the level 2 and 3 amenities, to increase friendship levels with all the camper personality types.
Given the long build times, and the fact that you can only build one amenity at a time, it will literally take weeks to accomplish this. But that's okay, I've gotten a big head start!
So it's the kind of game you check in on a few times a day for a few minutes to do what's available then it's back to waiting a few hours more. There are always items to collect (fish, bugs, fruit, seashells) but the inventory storage is prohibitive. (Note: use some of your leaf tickets to increase storage capacity.)
If you're like me and don't want to spend real money just to speed up crafting, this is a very slow paced game, which is fine because I'm in no hurry. So patience is key and the leisurely pace means it's not time consuming at all. Like I said, you check in a few times a day, fulfill camper requests, fill up your pockets and maybe que up a piece of furniture to craft.
I've reached the point where I'm saving all my resources for amenity upgrades, so I'm not building any furniture, which requires more and more resources as the game progresses. (60 cotton for one bed, yikes!) You can have a max of 8 campers in your camp at a time, but after rotating a few in and out there doesn't seem to be any reason to do so unless you really want a certain one (I HAD to have Maggie), so I figure instead of wasting resources building furniture to recruit different campers, I'll just keep the ones I have until all the amenities are built. This is important because friendship levels are only unlocked through the amenities, and the only way to level up is by increasing friendship levels.
For example, friendships are initially maxed at level 7. Building a tent will increase it to 10, but only for that type of camper (a cute tent will increase your max friendship with cute campers, but the rest of the personality types will still be at level 7), so you really need to build all the tents, and all the level 2 and 3 amenities, to increase friendship levels with all the camper personality types.
Given the long build times, and the fact that you can only build one amenity at a time, it will literally take weeks to accomplish this. But that's okay, I've gotten a big head start!
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