Special buildings - why more than one on island?

[Dorotheus]

Agreed. They are adding more space soon but it still is just one thing chasing another. I would think you would buy/earn "level up" points or blueprints or something like that and improve the existing building. Even if they then grew a bit (Snack Stand going to 3x3 at lvl 3 and 4x4 at lvl 5 or something) I think it would be better.

You can't have buildings which get bigger, as they grew they would overlap any buildings next to them or anything else for that matter.

As for the idea that you level up by adding another building we have two issues. Firstly they have not designed the graphics for that, though that is a easy fix. Secondly and more importantly they would have to think about how many levels of the building a player could achieve considering there is nothing to prevent a player from owning several hundred of these buildings.

[PELIAS]

You can't have buildings which get bigger, as they grew they would overlap any buildings next to them or anything else for that matter.

As for the idea that you level up by adding another building we have two issues. Firstly they have not designed the graphics for that, though that is a easy fix. Secondly and more importantly they would have to think about how many levels of the building a player could achieve considering there is nothing to prevent a player from owning several hundred of these buildings.

I would say that the max level would be up to level 6. Once level 6 is reached and a seventh building is earned, it would be placed on the island as a second building. Just like the buildings we upgrade now, then so on. Also there is no real need to design new graphics for each level, they could if they wanted to though.

[Kotugo]

I would say that the max level would be up to level 6. Once level 6 is reached and a seventh building is earned, it would be placed on the island as a second building. Just like the buildings we upgrade now, then so on. Also there is no real need to design new graphics for each level, they could of they wanted to though.

You could also have it similar to normal buildings where the upgrades get more expensive the higher the level, it would mean:

1 level 6 = really expensive, but saves a lot of space
2 level 3 = compromise, uses twice as much space and not quite as expensive
6 level 1 = cheap but uses a ton of space.

Pretty much the same as normal buildings really, the upgrade cost would be some building materials along with at least one of the buildings in the star menu to be consumed during the upgrade.

For stuff like snack stands/footie fields where you rarely get another, it means there would be no extra space needed until you have ~7 of them (after several years playing).