Thread:Flynavy319/@comment-25181245-20140715040550/@comment-24145588-20140715181046

Agreeing with the previous posters. Rule #1 for playing a free game: It's free. There's absolutely nothing in MSM that requires you to spend money -- money buys diamonds, which are simply a substitute for patience. So if you are patient enough, there's no need for spending any money. (Although, of course, I'm glad that somebody is spending the money, since otherwise there would be no BBB and no MSM.)

And, even so, it doesn't really take that long to do anything you want. Build up your islands, put monsters on them, put decorations on them. Start with the less expensive items, they will earn you plenty of coins to buy the more expensive ones. All of the monsters can be bred for free. Make them happy, feed them up, they'll earn you more coins. Convert coins into food, feed your monsters, etc.

Pretty soon, the cost of even the most expensive in-game items (probably the castle upgrades on Earth Island) will seem trivial.

If you feel the need to spend diamonds, you can have a Mini-Mine on every island except Gold, so you can get seven per day. That should be plenty for anything you need to speed up with them.

In my experience (with the obligatory implied, "your mileage may vary"), the Seasonal and Shugafam monsters take only a few tries each. The only ones that really require "a lot" of attempts are the one-element Ethereals, when you are initially breeding them on the Natural islands. And, chances are, at that stage of the game you'll have other things you're working on also.

At this point, I've accomplished pretty much everything I want to in MSM. I've bred every creature except the Wubbox (don't care), Hoola (in progress), and Punkleton (started after its 2013 availability ended). I have 100M food saved, nearly 300M coins, 3 million shards, and 1200 diamonds. I haven't done much landscaping, although I might, now that I don't need to worry about decorations and monster happiness.

If new game features are added, I'll check them out. But there's no great hurry, it's not really a priority. Just something to do for a few minutes each day.