Are these critter homes in your budget?
Big Water Way costs 520,000 coins. Holds 3 animals with capacity of 10,000 coins.
Big Dark Cove costs 900,000 coins. Holds 3 animals with capacity of 15,000 coins.
Big Gem Grove costs 6,100,000 coins. Holds 3 animals with capacity of 80,000 coins.
That's one helluva real estate market! So what do you say? Some day? Or no way?
Some day. Soon we will have millions of coins
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
Coincidentally, I was just thinking about this myself. I don't think that I will buy them any time soon. My reasoning is the following:
Coins:
- At first, this seemed like a good reason to upgrade; When I'm not playing for a longer time and can only collect the max limit of coins for a habitat, I would get more coins - e.g. the Big Water Way would give me 5000 coins more than the water way; if I'm assuming that this happens only during the night or let's say twice per day, and the Water Way costs 512.000 coins more than the normal one then it would take 51 days to break even (512000/10000 unless I'm calculating that incorrectly); so the coins alone are no reason at all to buy it
Habitat Limit:
- I don't have enough space to reach my current habitat limit (limit is 25 at level 24) so that is no reason to buy it
Space:
- Space is my main limit at the moment; with the Big Water Way, I could house 3 animals in 4x4 squares (5,3 squares per animal), with the normal water way I could house 2 in 3x3 (4,5 squares per animal); however, the frost island that I'm expanding to right now seems to have a size of 12x12 squares; so I could either place 3x3 big habitats there or 4x4 smaller ones (which would be 27 animals in big habitats vs 32 in smaller ones unless I'm mistaken); while some other places might be more efficiently used by a big habitat compared to multiple smaller ones, that doesn't seem like a good reason either
So, to sum things up: no, I was initially planning to save up for one or for another dark cove but I don't see a reason right now to do so (not now, nor in the future). What would be your reason to do it, is there something that I haven't thought about?
Not now. I'm barely scraping by as it is. Maybe in the future when I have millions of coins doing nothing.
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Nearly all the big habitats offer relatively little increase in capacity relative to the increased cost. What they save us in space is not very significant. You can house 6 creatures in 3 small ones on 27 squares of space or in 2 big ones on 32 squares.
The benefit, if any, would be the convevience of collection hours. We had no trouble with the big Nature habitat costing 65 times the cost of a small one, because a habitat holding only 1800 coins would fill up in no time. The big Water habitat also costs 65 times the cost of the small one, but it seems like a more drastic increase due to the sheer challenge of raising 520,000 coins.
Although the big Gem and Dark habitats are only 18 times and 3.3 times the cost of small ones, again, the sheer magnitude of those numbers makes the cost prohibitive.
For me, the big Water habitat is "some day" but I may buy no more than one or two.
Right now, I'm thinking "no way" on the big Dark & Gem homes. I am many moons away from making that kind of money, especially since I've bred only one super-rare and one rare creature so far. Income from ultra rares should eventually make up for that. Or so I hope.
NOT planning on building any of those because they are so expensive. In fact, I am not even going to build a second SMALL Dark Cove. All my dark mixtures will go in the other habitats. My one dark cove I had to buy to house my skyger (now 2 skygers) is the only dark cove I will buy for a LONG time. I am building more of all the other types of habitats as I level, though.
I did with the big dark habit
I mean of iam gonna buy a small habit for 270000
Might as well buy the big one
Sooner or later I would need to upgrade it
Here's a list I made concerning this topic. It takes much longer to break even on the big & expensive habitats, unless I'm calculating that wrong. You can also see what flowless meant: the big dark habitat only takes twice as long to break even compared to the small dark habitat. Unlike all other habitats, here you have a real reason to consider buying the big one immediately (but if you view it absolutely, not relatively, it's still an expensive investment that takes a long time to break even).
(*1): Number of times you'd have to collect a fully filled up habitat to break even
Habitat Cost Capacity Number of collects to break even (*1) Days to break even (*2) Fire 200 250 0.8 0.3 Fire Big 10000 2500 4 1.3 Nature 550 1800 0.3 0.1 Nature Big 36000 5000 7.2 2.4 Earth 1000 2300 0.43 0.14 Earth Big 43000 7500 5.7 1.9 Water 8000 5000 1.6 0.5 Water Big 520000 10000 52 17.3 Dark 270000 10000 27 9 Dark Big 900000 15000 60 20 Gem 340000 50000 6.8 2.3 Gem Big 6100000 80000 76.3 25.4
(*2): Number of days to break even, assuming that you could collect a fully filled habitat 3 times per day
(I have not included grand habitats because honestly... I'm not ever planning on buying something like that with real money. I'm not against spending money on gems but it would have to be for something that is fun and not as pricey.)
Last edited by hansmolln; 08-03-14 at 06:52 PM.
I just saw I have to buy a habitat for a common creature, Skyger, @ $270K? Am I seeing that right?
Ultimately, you're not buying it for the Skyger. It's for the super-rare Dark-Fire and Dark-Nature hybrids whose earnings will overwhelm the big Fire and Nature habitats.Originally Posted by chalupa2030
As Flowless, Hansmolln and I have noted, the Big Dark Cove costs 3.3 times as much and increases both animal capacity and coin capacity by 50%. Cost-wise, this is by far the best ratio between the cost of the small and big habitat for any of the 6 elements. Buying it directly, it costs 3.3 times the price of the small. But upgrading from small would cost 4.3 times as much: 1,170,000 coins!
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