Tiny Tower - Tips & Strategies Thread

[countingpulses]

Posted in wrong thread.

[chsn143]

So, is it a known glitch that you don't always get the towerbux bonus for fully stocking business? Sometimes I get it, most of the times I don't.

[C.Hannum]

Originally Posted by chsn143

So, is it a known glitch that you don't always get the towerbux bonus for fully stocking business? Sometimes I get it, most of the times I don't.

No, but it is a known glitch that people don't bother to pay attention to their game or, at worst, search and wind up repeatedly posting about the non-glitch: since the update weeks ago, coin bonuses don't prompt a pop-up, just the "+X" floating up over your coin total, and only a bux bonus gets a pop up (there never was a time you always got bux, it was usually just some coins, and usually not that many coins, hence the removal of the popup that some felt slowed things down).

[RichardMagpies]

It might just be because i'm a perfectionist, but does anyone else have trouble keeping up with Residential levels? Having 3 people work at every shop means I have to have one at LEAST every 1/2 floors, and it's slightly frustrating.

[roflquest]

Not sure if this has been mentioned...

Group floors by color, then change the color of the clothes worn by the workers to match the floor color type. Makes finding them a snap.

[countingpulses]

Originally Posted by roflquest

Not sure if this has been mentioned...

Group floors by color, then change the color of the clothes worn by the workers to match the floor color type. Makes finding them a snap.

That's what I'm doing. I have:

- grouped all business types together (residential floors are built from the bottom up for me)
- changed the background color that corresponds to their business type (e.g., green = food, purple = retail, etc.)
- changed the clothes of the bitizens employed to correspond to business type (I try to get the shade closest to the different types)
- a bitizen that is at their dream job, but has a rating of less than 9, I slap a read shirt on them (hehe); when a new bitizen moves in with a 9 in a dream job I switch the lesser one out
-I'm able to complete my Waldo missions much more efficiently. The only time spent would be going through the residential floors if the bitizen is not at their respective jobs

[mclide]

http://tinytowerguide.com/levels.php

A guide to the business levels, if you guys are interested

[Axiem]

I'm not sure what's so hard about entering (# of levels) * (75) into a calculator to figure out stock. Much less multiplying times three to find out the cost?

[ranitas]

Originally Posted by Axiem

I'm not sure what's so hard about entering (# of levels) * (75) into a calculator to figure out stock. Much less multiplying times three to find out the cost?

Yes, it's a lineal equation.
The insight is to figure out in what business it is worthier to increase the stocks.
For me, I find it more useful to increase level in low stock business (like most of food businesses, video rental, barber shop, etc.) that require more frequent re-stocking and often run out of stock if it takes me some time to get back to the game.
In large stock business (like auto dealer or private eye) the 75 stock increase is marginal.

[pcktlnt]

Did not read through the whole thread yet. But I need some help with a problem. I evicted people so I can get dream jobbers at the sushi restaurant and I have 3 people working there currently. However, no one goes to the sushi shop, they only visit the apartments (it is filled right now). Am I doing something wrong? Should there always be a job opening at the store?

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I think my game broke. It crashed and so I reset (still new to the game). However now no one wants to move into the apartment, they only want to visit the sushi shop. lol, I feel like I'm having extremely bad luck with this game.