I know my code by heart, so that I can zap it in when needed. With both versions glitches started to happen...which I said I personally attribute to my Treo. I was worried about housing whwn the third frame never appeared. For some reason, it MUST be a builder who sees it and starts building---the third hut then appears to all.

As far as my magic flowers...if they are watered and appear is "iffy". My crops are the first thing I attend to since the berries don't last forever. I don't even show the villagers the crop field once I have enough points to purchase it because then they will stop foraging and uselessly water the crops...the crops will appear anyway. By the time the crops are gone, I make them forage and stop their silly watering while their food goes down. By about the third cycle I'll have enough points to get them fishing.

Oh yes, I do alternate foraging and crop people so that they all have experience and don't panic when I plunge them into the water.
Gail

I wrote a long reply but forgot to post it, so this will be short. The third hut's beginnings are supposed to appear after you hit 25 people.

Also, I always rotate my villagers so that they can all do foraging, harvesting and fishing. When I have enough points to buy the crops, I don't show it to the villagers since they will spend all their time uselessly watering while the food bin goes down dangerously. The crops will appear without the water. I also never breed a huge amount of people until I have the fishing to sustain them.

Yes, I do know that the magic garden does indeed have to be watered...that I have never stopped. Alas, it rarely appears.
Gail

Sorry...it was posted. My apologies.
Gail

For the price I paid for my Treo 600, it is driving me crazy! Trust me, if I didn't know Village Sim so well, it would be absolutely impossible to solve on my Treo. Anyone have any suggestions on a hand held that is reliable? I don't use it as my phone...only to access the Internet, address book, etc., and for games. My Mobipocket isn't even working now (it deletes everything), so I can't even use it to carry a book. I had the biggie on Fish Tycoon..I'm afrai to even look at what's there now.
Gail

Hi Warren,
That's part of the problem; I haven't had any "problems" with the palm platform which is supposed to be better and more stable than Windows. I did have the Palm 705 where I was able to get my Internet clippings whenever I wanted to. Palm charged me the same price for the Treo when my Palm crashed and I had ordered an upgrade which never came in. Another alternative for me, perhaps, is to check into the Treo 700 you mentioned down the road, and see what people are saying.

I think perhaps I'll do some more research on the Palm vs. the Windows platform...then I'll make my decision in November and tell hubby-san for Christmas. BTW, Fish Tycoon is gone on my Treo. I do remember the the fish formula, but I'm not going to reinstall it now.

One of the reasons I like Village Sim so much is that even if you decide to change your strategies, those little people do have minds of their own. I do know that the little man who bobs his head constantly, isn't going to be my "rocket scientist". Thanks for your input...any other ideas I will also gladly consider.
Gail

I think with the 600, it boils down to the type of memory it has. When the 650 came out they updated the memory to be static, which should make it more stable, but I had other issues with it.

One big advantage to the windows mobile platform is you can move files where ever you want. This comes in handy with these sim games. If I want to try something risky, I just make a copy of the save file and move it to another dirctory. I was a little worried when I changed to it, but so far I'm very happy with it.

Warren,
I don't understand what you're saying about the memory...I assume it's the memory that the Palm came with. I had most of my things on a memory card which blew up big time at the same time my 600 crashed. I put the memory ard back in, and the whole thing crashed again.
Gail

Gail, I would suggest you to get a Sony Clie PEG-TH55. It's obsolete now but I think you may still be able to grab new ones from eXpansys.com (I got mine there after it's pulled out from all distributors) or used ones from eBay and so on.

I have a Palm Tungsten E before I got my TH55. To cut the story short, I was pissed with T|E, that's why I got TH55. Now my T|E is a testing device and for games only. But I play Village Sim on my TH55.

If I didn't get TH55, I may have been tempted by T5, LD and TX. But I just read that T5 has a lot of issues on Palm247, so don't get it! How I wish Sony is back on the Palm bandwagon again and start to be more generous with the RAM given!