First of all, thank you very much for sharing some info. It is absolutely ludicrous that MA can release something like this with the level of info they have given us - and it is crazy to think anyone will lift a finger when MA have their own fingers §$%&/ up &/(&$ $%&/s! But you have done, so I sort of salute you for that.
Questions: did you get to select a 6x6 area to work on? The small plots have 8x8 tiles, you see, so I'd expect to be able to choose a 'corner' (or rather my open edges).
Is the house you are able to build called the 'colonist snug'? Or rather, does it use the materials mentioned earlier in the thread, or much more?
I wouldn't have thought it would cost 5k peds, even with mus. Maybe you do indeed have something different in progress... and you say you are just on phase one?
- Yes, you can choose where to build the house. It's a little like "The Sims", where you choose where you put a table for example.
- Yes, the house is the colonist snug. Or at least, I received the HoF for being first to discover the colonist snug. But I have no item in inventory.
- Yes it has cost me around 5000 ped, but I expect this price to drop eventually.
Keep in mind that some items, like T-Angle (and in later phase Angle & Bend) are rare. They existed already, but were very rare. I know some friends who had a few, but only like a bp with 30 clicks or so, while they play for lots of years & have like 400k + skills. So almost nobody had them, crafting them costs a lot. With the update, I expect that more bp's will drop, so over time, price will drop, especially once people found out how much it costs to build, I expect lots of people will drop out & resell their plot, so less people will ask for the ingredients. I expect that price will eventually drop to around 2000 or so for the first phase 6x6.
Also:
All plots have the same materials, I can confirm this, as I own a medium & 2 large plots, and they are the same materials as small plots.
So as I expect, I'll need to do foundation multiple times, which would be logical then, since materials for small & large are the same, large would require to do the phases more often.
But lets face it, if medium would already be 45k, I'm not yet thinking of doing the large plot...