I tried to clean everything up and put names in bold and add the questions that Stoot was replying too. I hope everyone finds this as helpful as I did (and thank you Stoot for answering all our questions! You rock!)
stoot barfield part of the point of towers to be able to create a space that you want to be public — houses don't work well for that since it is where you keep all your private stuff, resources, etc. and you don't want to let people in
stoot barfield balconies will likely come to houses as well
stoot barfield and unexpansion for houses as well
Wobbles its a great idea IMO stoot, props to the whole crew
stoot barfield Thanks!
Wife of ToeLivz I think the towers are an awesome idea & whoever came up with it should be given many high fives :D
Cuddlesworth Oohhhh Stoot you are such a tease!!
Mackena in the meantime, can our inner doors be locked and we can make a store out of the ground floor? :-D
stoot barfield Mackena: 100% for sure there is no chance of that
LilySunshine Will we be able to put furniture in the SDB's that way we can sell what we make?
stoot barfield LilySunshine: put some SDBs in your SDBs?
LilySunshine that way we can sell our SDB's too! haha
stoot barfield it might happen, but furniture is a bit more complicated (b/c of the upgrades, etc.)
LilySunshine I understand they need to be fungible, so I would guess no upgrades would work the best? (or all the same upgrade etc.)
Lorraine ♪ towers are gonna murder serious resource routes. no telling how many trees we'll have to kill off to fit a tower.
stoot barfield towers are totally optional
Mackena how much space in the yard will they take?
kepi stoot! how much space will the tower kill? more than a space or 2 worth of resources?
stoot barfield less than 5 planks, I think something around the width of a large garden
Wobbles i will be wanting to Bedazzle my castle stoot, think you and the homies can swing that?
stoot barfield Bedazzling: yes!
Syrup So will the towers be coming before or after the game goes live again? ;) or is that classified?
stoot barfield Syrup: yes, before re-launch
stoot barfield relaunch: final date is not set yet, but the order will be: (1) turn invites back on and work through the queue of people who have been waiting, (2) send a notice to older players who haven't been back since all the stuff changed and (3) open it back up completely with lots of testing in between, at each step
glum pudding stoot: please make a video of the new tutorial so 30457209385 people don't sign up for alts just to see it
stoot barfield yeah, we will, glum
glum pudding yay thanks
stoot barfield you can't pick up SDBs with stuff in them
Miss Bobbit stoot, please give us a bettr way to buy and sell upgraded furniture
stoot barfield so you have have schlep everything to the tower the hard way
Mackena darn! I dont think I have enough ROOM in my bags for most of them :(
stoot barfield Miss Bobbit: thinking about it
Miss Bobbit thanks
stoot barfield Mackena: most of the stuff you have near-infinite supply of, people are not going to want to buy anyway :)
stoot barfield I think there will be lots of restaurants and bars
Syrup Furniture store would be awesome.
stoot barfield restaurants b/c there will be another change in the future: bonus iMG when you eat a variety of food so, people who don't have/use cooking skills will have a reason to buy crafted food
JNNX ALL LATER COMMERS: stoot barfield (a tower is a new kind of building which you'll be able to build on your home street and which will be accessible to all home street visitors)
stoot barfield because towers have narrower floors (elevator on left) the spaces are more "room like"
stoot barfield on the dev server, my tower has a nice lobby, a spacious high design coffee shop on the 2nd floor, a shrine room with some special trophies, a fancy-looking place to sell gems, etc.