The rock removal.

Yes, the feature of removing rocks from your island is back on test after being taken off for few months. It costs much more then when it was introduced the first time and... it also has the same bug that was the main reason it was taken off. You can actually remove rocks with the removal tool from your construction menu (without paying anything).

I have one question. Do you devs really like to embarrass yourselves that much? Because in the eyes of the testers this is just another reason not to take you seriously. It looks like over the last few months when this feature was absent from test server the only thing that changed was... the price of it. THE BUG IS STILL THERE!

*Shakes head* Why mess with the old island in the first place when your expansion island was such a success? The expac gives you 3 new islands with more almost 3x more room than the rock removal feature.

Now, I clearly see why the expansion islands were put on hold. First the pricey rock removal so the gooblets spend some gems on that, and few months later after we suck as many gems out of the suckers we give them new islands to built on.

Here is my reason. I don't care about some buggy feature. You want to suck gems out of me? Fine give me something reasonable and useful. I, as most 50ies, could use the new islands much more than the rocks. Hey, put a hefty price on it I am ok with that. Your game gives free gems in plenty of ways so if somebody doesn't want to pay real money he/she can still get the goodies just got to be patient. Scrap the rock crap that is just asking for trouble and roll in the big win feature acclaimed with such excitement by all players.

I mentioned it quite few times in my posts. I know you guys need gem sales because it pays your salaries, I don't have any problems with this. I just don't think this is a decent way to thin the gem stock so players will buy more.

Ive tried to use the rock removal buffs on test several times now and each time i keep getting locked out. On my main account i personally dont need anymore space- i demoed all the low lvl buildings and my islands production buildings are mainly- expert science, gold chain, cannon chain and exo mills. I have 118 free BLs and 42k pop (all FMs). Over time i will demo FMs to use my free BLs on Dama and xbow chains. No one on this game would have space issues if you got rid of the noob building- pine wood chain, cokers, silos, farms etc... Ofcourse if EVERYONE got rid of them there will be an increase of demand and lower supply leading to increase of price of these items, but that will never be the case because noob lvl50s just like to complain about how they have no space on their islands meanwhile their island is full of trash buildings- step your game up, set some goals to replace low lvl buildings with higher ones than not having space on ur island will not be an issue (any time soon)

I have set my production to be optimized and self feeding. I could use some space but to make my island looking nice. I am not planning on adding any more production, just want to make my home island look like home and move all the clunky stuff on expansion islands. well some extra room can't hurt for more population :)

idk what self sufficient means in this game? how the heck is there enough space to produce enough of EVERY resource in this game.....

i also dont run any advs (very rarely) nor do i have any buildings that are worth x2 buffing- so i could technically have zero production buildings and technically be "self-sufficent"

Silos fill up grain fields, water mills feed bakeries, cokers/recyclers feed weapon production only thing I have to do is find mines (marble/copper/iron) everything else is optimized for auto run and set to work as chain with a tiny bit of surplus. That is easily achieved by proper placing the production shops near storage houses.

The surplus of stuff (after buffing) is going on TO every few days in chunks of 5k-20k (coal, flour, copper, marble, wood, planks ect).

On busy days when I got tons of stuff to do at school/work I can maintain my island within 30 min time. I run advies when I can offering ls to guildies and when I am super busy ask in guild for a ls to complete guild quests. It took 2 years time and few gem purchases to set my island in auto mode. Yes, it is well worth it :)

But how can you be self sufficient if if not making dama swords, cannons, xbows, steel swords, iron swords, exo planks etc?

Its really just the players own preference to what buildings they want to have, but entirely i don't think it is possible for anyone to be 100% self sufficient (given they run advs and use buffs that you produce etc)

farms and silos were the first things i got rid- i had 52 of each, took up WAY too much space