No longer able to 'pick one'

[leets]

Sorry I'm sure this is already addressed --but I really love this game and have been working on a single island for HOURS. I have been having a relaxing time placing all my buildings, but the progress of the game is slowing like I'm walking in tar because I am no longer able to chose which buildings I want. It instead gives me random assortment of stuff. It is just barely enough to reach the goal every round. I wanted to expand this island forever but this mechanic is forcing me to switch when i sort of don't want to. Is this intended, or a bug? Is there no hope for my island? I spent way too long on this island to lose it! :(

[aaroc]

When you "pick one" you are simply picking a pack of items (or a single item) to unlock. Once you get to the point where you are no longer picking an option when you advance, that means you have unlocked all options and the game will just give you random objects you have already unlocked. The points required to get another build pack are constantly increasing with each pack you unlock, but also by the time you've unlocked it, theoretically you have enough around to continue getting more and more points for the new things you want to place. Eventually, though, you will come to a point where you just aren't able to increase your score enough to keep up, but that's kind of the point of the game; to keep building and moving to new islands.

If you want to keep building on a single island, I would recommend just playing on sandbox mode. That you can just grab whatever you want and place it however you want to make your island as pretty (or ugly, I suppose) as you want, without any score limitations. Conversely, you can plan your island out to decide where things are going to go and leave enough room to place your optimized builds.

If you really like your island, just take a screenshot to share before moving on.

Hope that helps.

[Jon.Topps]

I was just gonna say, if you've managed to build a single amazing island, screenshot it, because that's a sweet trophy.

Like already mentioned, the point of the game is not to be like Sim City, where you keep working on a single island. Realistically, this isn't a typical city builder. It's more of an arcade game, which sounds weird. You gather points through good strategy in placements, so you can keep advancing. The entire mechanic behind the game discourages you from staying still. If you want a similar game, but that allows you to really dig in and create a single area that's wonderful and strategic, I'd recommend Banished.

[heliosmj12]

You get to a certain point on each island where you no longer pick a set of buildings and the game just gives you randomly picked ones. It takes a fair while for it to get to that point though.