Board Thread:New on My Singing Monsters Wiki/@comment-24441789-20140119192717/@comment-24145588-20140129190306

I think I've got a pretty nice looking Plant Island -- I actually put in the effort (and some coins) to arrange and landscape it. It's up to 78 likes, and is in the top 500. That seems pretty good to me, since it can only be found by people doing a "Visit Random Islands" trip. And that tends to come in small bursts -- 3 or 4 likes in a day, then nothing for a week, then another day with some activity (which tells you that something is probably off with the quasi-random selection).

I don't know if the Top Islands feature is even in use for Windows users. The same islands have been at the top of the list since I started playing, about 2 (or maybe 3?) months ago. Of course, as someone else pointed out, the ones at the top of the list get noticed most, so they get voted most, even though the reigning #1 island is nothing worth looking at.

I'm also very skeptical of the "visit your friends and vote for them daily" thing. If I visit an island that I've seen before, either because it's one of the "top" islands, or because the (very poorly implemented) random number generator sends me to the same "random" islands repeatedly, I cannot vote for it again. The thumbs-up/thumbs-down icons appear to me only the first time I see any particular island. Although that could also be a difference between Windows and other platforms...maybe tablet/Kindle users can vote for the same islands over and over? It would explain some of the ridiculously pumped-up figures some have claimed.

I haven't landscaped any of my other islands, or at least not much; I've just arranged the monsters themselves in a pattern that I like (and which makes them easier to speed-click at collection time). I've had to put so many structures and decorations on the islands to make them happy, and since some of the later ones get very large, I haven't been able to come up with a good way to arrange them. Maybe later when I've finished building up, and coins don't matter any more, I'll clear out some of the clutter and do more landscaping.