Tiny Tower - Kaboom !! Again !!

Enough !!

KABOOM !!

http://towers.nimblebit.com/1009414887

UGVM Tower is no more, time to move on from this endless grind.

Tiny Tower - Rev Owen Arcade

Finally after building 99 floors I finally got the floor I wanted.

This will also be the only floor in the tower where the workers will wear costumes.

I wanted Batman costumes but these are not available in the game so the next best is the cat costume or I like to think Cat Woman.

Still miss you Owen (RIP)
Here's to you big guy enjoy the Arcade :)

Tiny Tower - New Update - Save your VIPs

It's good to see that Nimblebit are still updating Tiny Tower.

The recent update gave us new floors & costumes whilst also giving the ability to choose which floor you want to build (This is a silly option because the amount of bux's you need is stupidly high).

The most useful feature of this update is the ability to save your VIPs in the Lobby. You can save up to 5 VIPs for use at a later time. My screenshot shows me having 3 VIPs waiting in the lobby to use.

I'm continuing upgrading every floor to level 5 stock & also delving into the past history of UGVM to pull out some names for new floors.

I've now done a spreadsheet to help me see who has what floor

Tiny Tower - What to do now?

With needing to collect 499 bux I had a target or goal to aim for but now I have the best lift in the game.

What to do now?
Well I still have lots of floors left to build & bitizens to find to fill the dream jobs.

With the bux I collect now I spend on upgrading the stock level on each floor to hopefully get them all to level 5.

This takes longer for the stock to refill but has the advantage of rewarding you with more stock.

 I'm also running out of potential UGVM people to take over the floors so will need to delve into the archives & do a roll call to make sure everyone is included.

Tiny Tower - WOW !! It's Fast !!

Wow the new Infini Lift Lightspeed is really fast !!
It's taken me nearly 3 weeks but I managed to get to 500 bux without spending a single penny :)

Tiny Tower - Strategy for Making Bux

Just over two weeks ago I posted about needing 499 bux to purchase the Infini-Lift Lightspeed I had 44 bux in that screenshot. 2 weeks later & I now have 370 so how can you get bux?



Firstly the obvious option (screenshot on the left) you can purchase them at £2.99 for 100 or £20.99 for 1000 so the minimum I would need to have spent would have been £14.95 to purchase the lift. I think I would rather save than money to purchase another console game or another 21 iOS 69p apps/games.










So how did I get from 44 to 370 in 2 weeks?

1. Firstly by dropping off visitors via the lift to the floor they want to visit they will reward you by tipping you a bux.

2. Fully stocking all of the items in your shop will occasionally reward you with a bux

3. Missions when completed will reward you with a large sum of bux.

4. Placing a bitizen into his dream job will reward you with 2 bux. Even if you have all 3 positions full in your shop I always take one of the current employees out & employ the new bitizen because you will always get 2 bux every time a bitizen is placed in a dream job.

5. You will quite often get asked to find a bitizen & when you do you are rewarded with a bux.

But you need to make this process easier for you so what I do firstly whenever I build a new floor I will spend 1 bux to move it next to a similar category floor. If you look at my tower you will see that all of my retail, recreation, creative, food, service & residential floors are together. the next step I do then is to make sure all the bitizens working in these floor have the same uniform.

Kirk Dunn in the example above works on a recreation floor so his uniform is to wear a pirate hat.

This makes it easier for me to find him because he will either be working on the recreation floor or be in the residential floors.

Similarly I have given green clothes to anyone who works on a food floor, purple hat to retail floors, blue shirt & glasses to the service floor & orange shirt to the creative floor.

You have to find citizens quite a lot in the game so if you spend a bit of bux moving all of your similar floors together & a bit of time giving them a uniform. This will make searching for them very easier & reward you with 1 bux each time.

I only have another 129 more bux to go so hopefully in little over a week I should be able to purchase the lift.

Tiny Tower - VIP

VIP's occasionally visit your tower and they each come with their own special skill.

You have the following

Delivery men who will knock 3 hours off any restock item.

The Estate Agent, my personal favourite will fill up a residential floor with new people. I use this VIP a lot for helping me find people who want dream jobs in the shops I have in my tower.

Construction Worker will knock 3 hours off the time needed to develop a new floor

Celebrity will send people to your shop buying stock.

Big Spender will buy all the stock of one item in your shop.

Before you select your VIP make sure you can use them inside your tower, you do not want to waste their visit.

Tiny Tower - Ghost

ZX48K Subs had a spooky visitor today not sure if the ghost puchased the 6, 9 or 12 inch sub?

Tiny Tower - Spaceman

A new resident has moved into UGVM tower. Welcome to C Knight an Astronaut.

Tiny Tower - Infini-Lift Lightspeed

How much ??!!

I best get saving those green slips to get the Infini-Lift Lightspeed

I've also now reached 50 floors so time to look at those dream jobs & try and get all the shops having 3 'dream job' staff.

Tiny Tower - Queens Guard

The Queen sent one of her guards to gospvg games today. Sorry but I had to sign a confidentially agreement so can't say what was purchased, lets just say it involved a certain plumber & a portable machine.

Tiny Tower - Missions

A nasty bug hit UGVM tower but luckily cold medicine was purchased from Jochta's Chemist & a supply of soup & sandwich from Hakk's Diner to treat all the residents.

Tiny Tower - Cat at the Chemist

Jochta had a cat visit his chemist today, not sure what was purchased Cold Medicine, Flu Shot or RX Refil?

Tiny Tower - UGVM tower

I give you UGVM Tower, unfortunately you cannot get one image of the whole tower so I had to use the Windows 7 snipping tool to take images.


I have still have many UGVM peeps to add to the tower so do not be upset if you do not have a business or a dwelling in he tower yet. If you have any preference for a business type then let me know example when I have built a theatre then Luffers will vacate the cinema to take over this business.


The link below should take you to the tower.
http://towers.nimblebit.com/1009414887

Tiny Tower - One more smoke?

Back in July last year I gave this game a lot of stick & a friend who is still playing the game suggested I go back to it & try again.

So what's changed since July last year.

You can now customise your floor names, missions to complete to gain extra bux's, share your tower on the internet (http://towers.nimblebit.com/) - currently unavailable & stars next to floors show you if you have any bitizens in their dream job.

Upgrade floors - you can upgrade a floor to increase the amount of stock held but this cost bux's, I'm not sure how much of percentage stock upgrade this increases?

What is surprising when I reinstalled the game was that it had my old save file from last July so I carried on building from floor 35. Currently on floor 39 - will show my tower when the sharetower feature is back on-line.

So who else is still playing this digital crack. One more smoke?

New Game - Tiny Tower - Kaboom !!

Kaboom !! After playing for nearly a week I have just blown up my 35 floor tower, it's taken me 35 floors before I finally gave up on this time sink of a game. If you have ever played Farmville or any of the other thousand of variations you know the type of game I mean by time sink.

I have always despised games like Championship Manager, Farmville & Ravenswood Fair because they are games that have no ending, they continuously offer you the lure of an extra season, tile or in Tiny Tower's case another floor to build. You do not gain anything from the experience except the satisfaction of knowing you have built the largest tower, farm, city or whatever it is you are building.

Tiny Tower has you starting off on this grind by luring you into building floors & manage your residents by giving them a job in one of the many shops you build on the other floors. Match the resident with the dream job & you are rewarded by extra stock for that shop & 3 bux's. Bux's & Coin's are what you need to expand your tower. You get coins by stocking your shops & bux's by completing various tasks like transporting a visitor to a particular floor or fully stocking your shop.

Tiny Tower does have some interesting additions in the BitBook, which is a facebook type social media hub for your residents & by using gamecenter you can see how your tower is doing against your friends.

You continue this endless loop of stocking, building & managing until you shoot yourself in the head or realise what a waste of time this game was. "Digital Crack" is what these games are and the sooner you get yourself off the addiction the better.

Go play a proper game with a story & above all an ending.

Update 07/2012 - Nearly a year later & I'm back for a second stab at Tiny Tower