For a change, literally, try wanting some features that are likely to increase profitability AND improve the game.
A change? A change? Where have you been? We players do that all the time and they listen to us as closely as they listened to us about the magic academy....that is to say not at all. Go read the suggestions section.
Want to hear some of them again:
Sell skins. So we can redecorate our cities with different colors. If I want a red house, I can pay extra and have one.
Sell backgrounds. Don't tell me this isn't possible, I have seen it over and over on different games.
Sell avatars.
Sell another scout.
Sell different backgrounds.
Sell a warehouse where we can buy lots of stuff and put other stuff. Only the stuff that is on our screen at the moment can count towards our score.
This is a city BUILDER. Sell building materials! This isn't FoE. It doesn't matter what sells on FoE. Stop trying to make this FoE light. FoE prime already exists.
Too hard to create all this content? Ask players to give it to you for free. Or for some diamonds. (not real diamonds you know, just that little pixel currency).
Want to make more money? Go read the forums for the other ideas that have been posted over over.
And how about having a specific forum to discuss all these money making ideas. Keep it separate from the other ideas forums and see what you get.
The pretense that a few knowledgeable users somehow understand the game, and it's potential, BETTER THAN the developers, is just absurd.
It is just absurd that the players
wouldn't understand game
play better. We are the only ones who play it in real time. We are the ones who study the layouts. We agonize for months where the next building will go. We may not know how to create the game, but we sure know how to play it. Over and over we have proven this. They would be morons not to listen to all this free work product we give them.