Especially in the endgame, when the map is almost completely full, it is very difficult to see where the latest house has appeared / spawned. The current animation and the "bling" sound are so very unobtrusive/almost invisible.

In my opinion, the search gets unnecessarily tedious.

Maybe we could get an option in the settings for players like me who have a hard time finding the latest change. Something like a coloured outline or circle around the new house? Maybe for one or two or three seconds? Or which stays visible when game is paused?

P A U S E

always PAUSE when something spawns, especially in late game
players with highscores play more in pause than running
take your time to check EVERY house if it's connected correctly, connected to the right destination & doesn't interfere with something else

pause, patience & attention

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

always PAUSE when something spawns, especially in late game
players with highscores play more in pause than running
take your time to check EVERY house if it's connected correctly, connected to the right destination & doesn't interfere with something else

Thanks, that's just what I am already doing. And that's totally okay for me. But the search effort would be significantly less, if the latest spawned house could be seen more easily. Right now, it is unnecessarily hard to find it.

Sometimes you don't even find it because it connected (more or less) correctly to the existing roads!

I don't mind checking all the connections, I just hate looking for where the latest house popped up.

if your suggestion would be optional, ok, but the devs have so far hard time to give players options, they rather go the way of generalised solutions. & your suggestion of blinking would make the game even less bearable than it already is with all the things i hate about it.
btw, i don't hear half of the sounds cause the devs give only the option to mute the background music together with half of the sounds. & i can't stand the ticking sound in the pause.

They could give the newly spawned locations a very short animation - and the option to auto-pause if something spawns and that auto-pause happens during that animation and stops it - so you could have new locations circled with a fast-fading circle if you don't want it and for players that want it you pause the moment the circle is at full size and visibility

Originally posted by HannesH:

They could give the newly spawned locations a very short animation - and the option to auto-pause if something spawns and that auto-pause happens during that animation and stops it - so you could have new locations circled with a fast-fading circle if you don't want it and for players that want it you pause the moment the circle is at full size and visibility

Yeah, good idea! Something like this would all kind of players satisfy!

Yesterday, I was playing Dubai. It happened twice in that game that the weekly game pause screen was displayed and then one new house was spawned! During the pause! I heard the spawn sound, but had obviously no chance to SEE the new-house-spawn-animation. How crazy is this.