Before I get started, let me give everyone that isn't very familiar with SimCity-like games an important piece of advice: when you start playing the game will completely suck you. Trust me when I say that it only takes a little while before you're totally addicted. Paradise Island is not an exception to this rule. Everything starts off simple enough. You begin with the tutorial that explains to you the basic rules of the game. Repairing the pier is the first task for attracting visitors by sea. You can't have visitors without important buildings such as a hotel, an office building and a power plant (or a windmill in this case). Oh and don't forget to put a hot dog stand, too!
As you can see, it's fairly easy to get completely carried away. Thankfully, Paradise Island isn't as complex as SimCity so it's much more manageable. This is especially true when it comes to infrastructure. All you need is electricity and a labor force, which means that you won't have to worry about water, taxes and other details. This is kind of a tradeoff because the lack of these minor details do make the game a bit less exciting and challenging. But then again, do you really need so many features for a game smartphone/tablet game?
I came to the conclusion that Paradise Island may lack some extra features, but it's pretty good as it is.
The game is free and without any pesky ads, but the developers earn money through in-app sales. So if you need to get some extra virtual dollars, you'll have to pay with very real money from your actual bank account. The same thing goes for getting more piastres – the local Paradise Island currency. Like Cuba, Paradise Island has two currencies that function side by side. While most everyday things can be purchased with dollars, piastres can be used to pay for special offers and deals such as repairing or painting all your buildings at once.
The reason why I'm mentioning all of this is that buying in-game currency makes the game way easier to play. Personally, I tried playing the game without purchasing any fake money with my hard-earned real dollar bills because I believe that it should be possible to play these kinds of games for free. Playing without paying makes the game more challenging and fun to play. That's why I would like to give a couple of tips: buildings that take in more money, take a longer time to collect. The most important buildings in the beginning are cabins and hot dog stands. Try to build as many of them as you can at the onset. Don't forget to keep the wind mills going and improve the office buildings in order to increase the work force.
Paradise Island is also full of trophies waiting to be had – just like most classic city building computer games. Whether it's building roads (and please build lots of them because they're free), expanding buildings or playing the game for an x number of hours – Paradise Island has a trophy/award for every occasion. With trophies comes money and experience points which can then in turn be used to access higher levels and unlock more buildings.
Bottom Line:
Unlike many Android games, Paradise Island is very time-consuming. You really have to take good care of your buildings, watch your finances, conduct routine repairs and list can go on and on. If you're into city building strategy games then you're in for a treat. I have to admit, though, that the game definitely needs some extra features to make even more fun to play over a longer period of time. The game should be more than just about making more and more money and building bigger buildings. That kind of stuff gets old pretty quickly. That's why SimCity is in a league of its own in comparison with Paradise Island. Nevertheless, Paradise Island manages to bring some of that SimCity flavor to your smartphone or tablet guaranteed to keep you occupied for hours on end.
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***NEW PLAYERS ***
Do you want free piastres & money?
1)click the "3 people icon" at bottom of your game screen.
2)then "services"
3)click the top arrow
4)enter one of this codes: "16c15f" & "9e12c0"
5)now you will recive a gift of free money!!!!
Also:
1)click the three people icon
2)at the bottom of new page,click "invite friend"
3)enter the name of my boy friend and me:
"white phoenix" & "nql"
4)now we are your friends!
Goooood luck --<--@
New players
Do you want free money?
1)click the "3 people icon" at bottom of your game screen.
2)then "services"
3)click the top arrow
4)enter one of this codes: "16c15f" & "9e12c0"
5)now you will recive a gift of free money!!!!
Also:
1)click the three people icon
2)at the bottom of new page,click "invite friend"
3)enter the name of my boy friend amd me:
"white phoenix" & "nql"
4)now we are your friends!
Goooood luck
don't work
Hello NEW PLAYER
do you need more piastres?
well,choose one of these codes
16c15f
9e12c0
and enter that in friend code part! yesssss!more piastres!
Hello NEW PLAYER
do you need more piastres?
well,choose one of these codes and enter that in friend code part! yesssss!more piastres!
pls add my boy friend and me:
white phoenix»»»16c15f
nql»»»9e12c0
thank you very much
unable to load or play. error message shown please correct system date settings. ???? what are weird error
says my system date is incorrect when it is not and will not open
says my system date is incorrect when it is not and will not open
weekend code for 22nd 23rd September is
autumn74
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friends code : 927765, use this code and get up to 5 piastres from the game administration, i also will get 1 piastre
as soon as i open "Paradise island" it says incorrect system date..yet i have the date right? does anyone know how to resolve this/had the same issue??
The only prob I have with the game is I got a error saying system date incorrect, which isn't right, because the date and time are good.
I wrote to the developers and they are helping, they answered pretty quick too, I wish I got a fast service from my gas suppliers, I've been waiting since well before easter, and its cold and takeaway is expensive!
I love paradise island, it is simple and I don't need to be connected to the internet to play it which means I don't need
to turn on the generator.
have it on fb
Trying to install for the first time and I get an error message... "Please set correct date and time..." any help, my date and time is correct? email me at beaner_37 at hotmail dot com
can't update game at all.
I click update and the game just crashes.
please tell me how can you update this game manually.
overall I love this game.
can't update to paddy's day.
how do u add ppl?
why is there no updates via android pit?
It sucks.
cool game
you can only get social button if you downloaded through Market
i do not have a sociality tab/button. does anyone else have this problem?
hey guys, how i can enter that code.. maybe i must update, i have version 1.0.21 (build 31) , thx for help... :)
new version please! Add me fizz83
great game love it
add me PURNO
super cool game
Great game for a Tablet (POV 10.1)