Board Thread:Game News/@comment-10760902-20131106101623/@comment-24161372-20140314171644

@665430 - You buy the (Desert) Island for 250 gems (Creepy Island costs 400 gems) and are given one expansion area to begin building on the island. However, there are a total of 8 other (locked) expansion areas on the island you need to buy with either gold or gems in order to unlock and build on them. Each expansion requires a certain number of neighbors/friends and gold. If you don't have enough neighbors or gold, then you would either have to wait until you do have enough or spend gems to unlock each expansion. The first expansion requires 15 neighbors/friends and 250,000 gold. Then each expansion after that remains at the same 15 neighbor requirement, but the gold amount goes up by 10,000 for each expansion until the cost reaches 300,000 and then goes up by only 5,000. Hope this helps.