User:MindoPod/Barn Expansion

My favorite thing to do in the game is to expand my barn. Personally, I don't use diamonds to buy upgrades - I enjoy the challenge of working my way up to each 'pop'. I have heard some people say "Oh it gets so hard to expand the barn as you get to higher levels, but in a way it is easier because the RELATIVE proportion of room the expansion tools take up goes down.

As you can see in this graph and the accompanying table, the size of the barn that is the most difficult to work with is 300-1200 because the tools you will need to expand the barn take up 11-11.7% of your total space. Once you reach 1050 capacity, the space the tools take up gets proportionally smaller and smaller and tapers off at just 6.6% when your barn reaches 8800 capacity.

Managing proportions is the challenge - acquiring quantity is just a matter of time. So that's why I say it gets easier and easier as you go.

The table & graph for silo expansion tools is an exact match of the barn data, which leads to the following tip:


 * Tip: If you are a new player, don't worry about expanding your silo at the same time and as fast as you expand your barn.  It is much easier to work on the barn first and then expand the silo because you will have proprotionally more room to hold the silo expansion tools.
 * The graph for the silo expansion also looks like this - so if you try to expand the barn and the silo at the same pace, both as fast as you can, you will hit a difficult zone in the game where the tools for the Silo + Barn = 23% of your total barn space: ouch!