Locked out of Rodeo Stampede heaven

So I've been playing this game called Rodeo Stampede and they're doing a 5 year anniversary event where it seems like more and more people come to your zoo each time you open it, which means more money each time. I haven't been playing it recently as much as just checking in when I get the pop up that a zoo tour is ready and I am shocked as to how much money I have, like it seems like more than I'll ever need in the game. I can't tell if this is a glitch, maybe because I haven't actually been riding or spending it, but it seemed like not a big deal. Well, tonight when I went in, right when it was going to add my new money to the pool, the game froze and glitched out. Now it won't reopen. I feel like I ended up with too much money for the game to calculate properly (there was also an update to v (150.0?) at the same time), likely around 100,000,000 coins, so it just won't let me in now. This feels like an interesting foreshadowing perhaps, maybe a sign of the times, but it is slightly annoying because I liked that game. It just feels like the camel and needle's eye to me... I should have built more animal houses to keep my money manageable forthe game, I should have stopped accepting new tours, I should have actually gone for a ride to maybe break this cycle. Now it feels like I am locked out of Rodeo Stampede heaven, which is all the more frustrating because it finally felt like I had way more than I needed to expand. 

Update: when the next tour came around I actually got back in! On habit I just ran the tour again without thinking and sure enough it kicked me out again and won't let me back in. It's like I'm currently locked into only being able to gather money and not being able to play in any way. Next time I'm going to forgo the money and see if I can spend enough to actually play or if playing will stop this vicious cycle. Hopefully I remember, bad habits are hard to break! Stay tuned hehe.

Final update (probably): I was able to break the cycle! I just upgraded all my aminal houses and went for a ride. I even tried my luck and opened the zoo again and this time the number of people that came was back to normal levels, and there was no issue with the game. I think the issue was that I was overloading the zoo with too many people, which seems like it was a glitch caused either by the recent update or by the anniversary event or both. So by sacrificing my ability to earn absurd amounts of money I was able to continue. I didn't end up losing the money I had made though, and since me possessing this currency does not impact anyone else in this game (it is not a multiplayer game), I feel no remorse at retaining it, and I'm pretty sure I have more than I'll ever need in the game. It feels like the lesson here is that if interest were removed from the system, the compounding of currency over time, the game would be able to proceed as intended, as there would be no real incentive to hoard and perhaps it would break the addiction to money as well and allow for a period of unimpeded outpouring. It may be more complicated than that, as the mechanisms for making money in our society, even to the detriment of others, would still exist. There is certainly a simplicity to a single player game where the only use for money is to benefit my aminals, but I thought this was an interesting thing to examine regardless of if there is a clear and discernable lesson or not. 

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