Critter Island Facebook Guide: cheats, tips, tricks, hacks, strategies, hints, how-to

Critter Island is a fun, brand-new Facebook game by Lolapps. The object of the game is to build an island amusement park, get tourists to spend all kinds of money on your island, collect the money, and grow and expand your theme park massively. You can build everything from restaurants, snack bars and snack carts to amusements, petting zoos, miniature golf courses, you name it. The happier you make tourists, the bigger the tips they will leave you. Of course, games like this can be fun, but frustrating, if you find you're having a hard time making a lot of coins at this game, and it can be tempting to spend real money. But don't spend any real money on this game before you read my tips, tricks and cheats.

Your tourists will throw out gold stars when you make them happy. The gold stars increase your 'star' meter, which increases your tips, and when they max out your tips will be at 300%. Maximize what you do within this time, and earn gigantic tips while you can. After your gold star meter turns silver again, you're out of gold star bonus time for the day.

If you have a lot of coins and want to gain exp points at a fast rate, simply buy and sell attractions, decorations etc over and over. When you buy them, you'll gain experience, and when you sell them, you get back half of what you spent. So use this trick to level up very quickly and for less money.

The math: When you buy something, your EXP is total to 15% of its price. When you restock, your exp is equal to 10% of what you spend. When you buy and sell, your experience gained is equal to 30% of what you spent. So for the most EXP and the least coins spent, buy and sell stuff.

Get as many neighbors as you can and send them free gifts. They'll send you a lot of free gifts in return. You can sell them, buy things with the coins, sell things, etc etc, and keep making a whole lot of cash and gaining levels rapidly.

Also, build your initial tourist attractions as close to the dock as possible. Less tourists will get lost or bored this way, and they'll spend more money overall on your attractions. Keep your future attractions as close to each other and to the dock as possible, so that your tourists find them easily, and don't wander off.

The combination of buy/sell/buy/sell, and collecting the gobs of money you'll make from your attractions that are close to the dock, will help you build your experience level very high, very quickly.

When you start adding attractions, move your biggest moneymakers to the front of the island closest to the dock. This will ensure that these ones will be the ones to get the most tourists spending money, and will earn you massive money and experience.

Sandcastles give more luxury points per coin than any other decoration - they give 8 points for 630 coins.

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