Monday, July 2, 2012

Can you "Win" the Striiv MyLand game?


There are obvious intermediate goals in the MyLand game:  open up the highlands and lowlands, buy Turtle Island, and then open up the remaining parts of Turtle Island.

However, it is somewhat demoralizing to complete all of those intermediate tasks and then not have another goal.  For me personally this is a deficiency for the Striiv.  Many of us addicts are motivated by the challenges and goals.  When I buy a game online, whether it's a "match 3" or "strategy" or "hidden object", it always has an end.  You get a message like "Congratuations you have reach the end!"  (or you've saved the kingdom, or the child, or whatever).   The better games will add "Try again in the more difficult mode" where you get less time, or fewer hints, or something of that nature.

So until Striiv creates an end game, I have decided on one:  The final goal is to have open every land, plus build a Fairy Forest, plus plant something on every single lot, plus earn 100 million gold.  I completed that goal last week, and at least earned the satisfaction of meeting me my goal.  I then recorded how long it took me (from the statistics page).  The next morning I reset my Striiv and started over.  I am taking what I've learned and will try to reach this final goal in fewer days than it took me last time.

Have you come up with something similar?


19 comments:

  1. You RESET your Striiv? I wouldn't do that for anything in the world. You are insane, my friend.

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  2. I have to agree that you are pretty brave to reset your striiv. I would sell all my stuff and rebuild before i reset my stats. But, i think if people are having to go that far, then there should be extra lands to build on. I think maybe they didn't expect people to complete everything so quickly.

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  3. WOW you really are a Striiv addict LOL! But you have some good ideas there. As a registered dietitian I work with people all the time on goal setting. Now that I have my land pretty much filled up I wonder if I am less motivated? But maybe it's just because it has been 100 freakin degrees everyday.
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  4. Another cool goal could be to make sure every plant or building has an animal attached to it. So, sell off anything that didn't earn an animal. See how crowded you can get the place. My island is way crowded already, but i bet that would look pretty cool to be absolutely full!

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  5. I too have opened every land and am building a fairy forest. I would love another island/goal. I hope the Striiv people are listening!

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  6. I am so excited that this blog is a thing. I've had mine a week and thought I was crazy for being so obsessed. Now I can ask YOU all of my questions since customer service doesn't post very frequently :)

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  7. strIiv developers - are u working to add more islands?

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  8. hi if you buy things with energy what do you do with coins you have (bank) i must be lame i cannot figure out thanks

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2013 at 6:02 AM

    You buy the items initially with money then use energy to build them fully. So something will cost 1.2m coins to buy, then 85k energy to build to 2/4 85k energy to 3/4 and 85k energy to finish.

    Basically each item is a combo of money and energy.

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  10. Did anyone happen to notice that on Striiv's website under "MyLand Bank" (RE: Energy/Coin Exchange) that it is different than what we actually have on ours? For example... Striiv's website has 10,000 Energy = 12,000 coins. Ours has A LOT less... 10,000 Energy = 550 coins!

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  11. I have had my Striiv for 14 months. I walked about 12 months of that time(2 months off for chronic Achilles tendonitis and heel pain. I have opened every part of Myland and have built Warrior Poets on every part of Myland. Now I wil work to build every one of them to full stage. My goal this year(from 4/20/13-4/20/14) is to walk at least 1,500 miles. I love my Striiv, but I wish the developers would add more islands.

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  12. I'm brand new at this, and if I might ask how finish the "Exchange 10,000 Energy For Gold" quest. My progress has been 0/10,000 for days now. I've googled for help to no avail, watched tutorials on Striiv to the same defeat. Suggestions please?
    Thanks!

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    1. You need to click on the shovel in MyLand and then click on "Bank." A screen of coins for energy options will come up. The third one down gives you 12,500 coins for 10,000 energy. Click on this and you will complete your quest.

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  13. Interesting point too. I'm getting bored with Striiv now, because I'm earning about 70m gold a day, have 3.5bn gold in the bank, have filled in every spare square with a Warrior Poet, everything is at level 4, and there's nothing left to do! My best day's work was when I ran a marathon and did 51,415 steps in the day. Seriously considering deleting it now, because I'm also getting seriously bored of the endless 'rewards' which just interfere with normal use.

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  14. I'm working on my 25 million for Turtle Island

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  15. I wish there was a way to convert gold into energy in the land. After building everything, I decided to clear the land and build only Fair Forests everywhere but ran out of energy to grow the trees. But I have plenty of gold.

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  16. I am still playing June 15, 2016!

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