Talk:Awards/@comment-74.111.104.100-20120128182534/@comment-4102115-20120129081936

Well, there is that, and the developers are a business and it is our choice whether to "donate" for the privelege of playing a free ad-free game. But also there are many players who have been playing this for 12 months now and without additions it gets quite boring. The recent time-limited tasks added a change and tasks to work on but were designed to run just for a short time. For Level 40 players with nothing else to do, they just want to get through these new tasks quickly. For Level 5-35 players, this just adds extra challenges to work towards over time. The developers don't expect a new player to collect income 250,000 times in a week, it is a long-term award over the weeks and months that you play. Likewise, this Wonder is a long-term addition to the game that they expect and want you to work on for a month or three. For lower-level players it is just something extra to collect for free while otherwise playing. Even without visiting friends islands or using any piastres you can buy them Leonid with lots of time collecting free resources or using $s at the totem. So like all the other challenges, you can get through this challenge without spending any real money. It is up to the individual whether to spend real $s or play the game for a year or more or just quit and uninstall the game. I chose to use real $s only for the purpose of building 3 Pirate Ships and 5 Nono-Generators because they are time-limited offerings impossible to get without spending $s (because of the timing) and they make a huge difference to the game-play (profitability of water-cells and freeing up hundreds of land-cells).