TappyTown, a new stage in the development of the "tapalka", has been launched in TapSwap. The announcement of the launch of "city building" and trading on the DEX exchange was on August 9.

The bidding has not opened yet, there is a waiting circle.

But it is already known that everything will be implemented with the participation of Ston. fi - a DEX platform on TON. What role TapSwap will play - a client application for the exchange, or something else - is still unclear. And it does not matter, the main thing is that the future#TAPStokens will find a utility function there.

But the city can already be built. Let us remind you that the drop according to the project should be in the third quarter of this year (that is, until the end of September inclusive). And activity in#TappyTownis one of the criteria for the drop.

How “happy” the community was about this can be seen from the reactions to today’s post from the team.

But "if you want a drop, you need to be able to build a city." And if you want to do it faster and with less effort, just spend real money for a better result. Again 🤪. True, you don't have to spend real money, you can spend your game coins. Development will be slower, but it will be free. Thus, TappyTown launches the mechanism of burning game tokens. And it's high time, because their emission is already 762 trillion.

From what we understood from the game:

TappyTown in TapSwap is a mini-app game that combines elements of construction and management simulation with earning and exchanging virtual currencies and items. Each building has its own specifics. The main goal is to develop your city, maximizing resource extraction. There is no leaderboard yet, but there probably will be.

The TappyTown section has three new currencies/resources in addition to the in-game coins:

- Video views - are awarded for watching videos and are needed to improve buildings.

- Gray cubes are the main currency of TappyTown, both the cubes themselves and the income per hour are important (hello hamsters). They are necessary for upgrading buildings and will affect the drop. Produced by buildings.

- GEMS gems - an additional currency that is needed to speed up construction and increase the number of builders. It is given for upgrading buildings OR bought for $. From 30 pieces costs $0.6 to 5500 pieces for $49. Not bad, given the vague prospects for the project.

We also already see that for some building upgrades you need to be subscribed to the official Telegram channel of the project. And this is probably not the only task for subscriptions.

Apparently, the end goal, besides the maximum level of buildings, is the highest possible speed of mining gray cubes (and their number) and the maximum number of GEMS (green crystals).

It is clear that the use of paid features can significantly change the dynamics of the game, allowing users to achieve goals faster and with less effort. But it also leads to inequality between players, based on their willingness to spend real money. Early farmers of the project's game coins, who spent a lot of time mining coins, are probably "delighted".

But overall, it's not as bad as it might look. Especially considering the team's plans, apparently, to build a trading platform based on the application. These plans look better than the current Notcoin model of earning money by purchasing Gold and Platinum levels for income from motivated traffic. Levels that, at the same time, do not pay off at all.