Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-208.104.102.52-20180202144603/@comment-27370080-20180203045953

Every update is an attempt to get you to spend where it's not beneficial at that time for a given player. I have come to depend more and more on the upgrade strategy guide found in the main navigation bar up top.
 * FM wants you to spend real money, as I unknowingly spent over a grand in three years, $20 USD at a time. I justify this trickery in my mind by telling myself that a great game deserves to be thrown a bone occasionally. It's not free to develop and maintain.
 * I actually finished with time to accomplish other tasks in my life. However, I have begun the game again from scratch and taking a completely different approach. No real $!
 * What I'm learning is that you can have a great amount of fun, passing on many of the "specials" that suck you dry, and still progress linearly, no pressure to gain assets. They still come in time.
 * My 100% I still play the contests and wttts, where I realised that's where I learned to actually play. The result is my new start, my skills are such that upgrading is really not needed, and can be focused where it's really needed.