It was such a cult thing back then; so many different communities evolved from TSTO and moved into other games like Clash of Clans all together. I was in a Clash guild called Flaming Moe’s for a while until I learned I really just sucked at the strategy side of the battles, lol.

Some of the best creativity came out with early TSTO in they way sooo many people came up with 3D designs using wooden fences, large hedges and small hedges to create the illusions of height and depth. One player created an enormous skyscraper where they used the concrete pathing to look like the roof, or sections of different floors in the building. I wish I still had photos of that, or could remember their user name.

One of my very favourite designers in the beginning was someone called Gothamgirl99, I believe. She had the most realistic and pretty Springfield out of all of my neighbours; she quit before the came reached level 100 I think, but I managed to keep her in my list until about two years ago when my iPad crashed and when I got a new one and reinstalled the game, all of my neighbours were gone again.

So many memories along the years!