Re: HINTS AND TIPS
@lawmfw Welcome back!!
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TYVM, I have two whole days off work !! Then a full work week...sigh.
Working on Shine Vine while I can. Not too high on it so far (Level 1 anyway) as it requires a companion plant be very effective IMHO.
Here an updated penalty list. Most information is based on my own experience and from testing. There is no guarantee that the list is 100% accurate 😉
Penalty list
- No penalty for Instants: Blover, Hurrikale, Cherry bomb, Jalapeno, Grapeshot, Bombegranate, Power Lily, Goldbloom, Solar tomato, Potato Mine, Primal Potato Mine, Escape Root, Stallia, Stunion, E.M.Peach, Iceberg Lettuce, Shrinking Violet, Lava Guava, Tile Turnip, Gravebuster, Intensive Carrot, Ice Bloom
- Nuts: Wall-nut, Tall-nut, Primal Wall-nut, Infi-nut, Explode-O-Nut, Pea-nut
- Defensive Plants: Chard Guard, Spring Bean, Holly Barrier, Endurian, Electric Currant (?), Pumpkin
- Consumables: Hypno-shroom, Garlic, Chili Bean, Shadow-shroom, Sun Bean, Hot Date, Sweet Potato, Torchwood, Electrici-Tea, Imp Pear
- Others Plants:
- Celery Stalker, Squash, Spikeweed, Spikerock
- Shadow Pea & Grimrose swallowing zombie and disappearing
- Ghost Pepper & Puff-Shroom are not counted as dying when they disappear on their own, so no penalty
- Plants produced by other plants have no penalty when they are eaten/killed: Witch Hazel, Spear-mint (Spikerocks), Spore-shroom (new Spore-shrooms), Zoybean (Zomboids)
- Power-mints disappearing
Miscellaneous:
- Gravebuster getting eaten before removing the grave causes a penalty
- Grimrose getting eaten by a lost pilot zombie causes a penalty
- No penalty when plants are destroyed by: Torchlight Zombie’s torch, Mecha-Football Zombie pushing plants off the lawn
- Parsnip's ability to rush down a lane when almost eaten does incur a penalty.
- Guacodile's ability to rush down a lane when almost eaten does incur a penalty.
- Ultomato in Boosterama events: If Ultomato is destroyed before it vanishes on its own you get a penalty. So don’t plant Ultomato under Cardio Zombie etc.
- Pyre Vine, Blastberry Vine, Shine Vine getting eaten does incur a penalty
If Zomboss launches a missile and it hits then a penalty will be incurred, either dig it up quickly or if you plantfood it then if the plant's plantfood animation is running and the missile hits then it won't be destroyed.
I think someone on Reddit reported this for a previous event
On your Home screen there is a banner for the "Springening" event with a "Play Event" button
Through this I am able to play the Pinata Party over and over again
This was a bug and I thought they have fixed it but obviously my thought was wrong.
Enjoy the free parties everyone (while it last) 👿
Worked it with both profiles for about an hour. Got 70+ seeds each. TYVM
Unfortunately it has now been replaced by the Auto Immune banner. But hey, both Big Pig n Piglet got slopped and levelled up.
🙂
Actually I'm glad it only lasted an hour. I had promised myself a day of actual life improvement during my confinement.
.(Can a guy say 'confinement'? Is that one of those words that would be misconstrued by our friends across the pond?)
- @linuxPigPen 'Confinement' sounds alright to me xD I have decided that during my short lasting 'confinement', I am going to play as much games as possible....
- @Perfume-shroom92 Confinement, in medical terms, is being put in bed for purpose of childbirth. 🙂
@HypnoDjurre Thanks. I noticed that, too =) It's good for earning seeds but bad for earning coins since entering the PP through that banner "costs" 1,000 coins. So you basically had to hit 1,000 coins+ to earn some coins^^
- @linuxPigPen Interestingly, having done obs&gynae placement, I never heard that word being used...ever... xDDD
- @Perfume-shroom92 It's a tad archaic but Doc Martin still uses it. It's also all the rage on 'Call The Midwife'.
the 'archaic' term is more applicable than today's term...
and for sure so many people are now in 'voluntary confinement' and suffering just as if it was truly confinement; given all the children under foot !!
funny to hear parents griping about struggling to help their children with "homework"
If using escape root, which has a long arming time, you can shorten it by having a ready armed escape root ready to swap with a just planted unarmed one, they swap and both are ready to use.
@MAGICDAVESHROOM wrote:If using escape root, which has a long arming time, you can shorten it by having a ready armed escape root ready to swap with a just planted unarmed one, they swap and both are ready to use.
Nice find!
Vines aren't supposed to incur a Penalty, when eaten. Hmmm.
@FantastiXxPVZ Yep. I thought so, too...but then I tested it during the WW tournament: https://streamable.com/g8mqn and asked Haem:
From Design: "Vines are hybrids, wherein Vines as a plant group share commonalities, but individual vines take on the characteristics of the plant type they emulate. So Shine Vine is a sun generator, Blastberry is a lobber, and Pyre is a flamethrower - none of which on their own would count as defensive plants. Just because they're vines, that does not make them defensive."
Luckily, Pea-nut doesn't count as hybrid...
- Even when you can't unlock plants in PP anymore, still keep playing the feature to to get 20 gems minimum every day.
@Samsung_Tab_III wrote:
Even when you can't unlock plants in PP anymore, still keep playing the feature to to get 20 gems minimum every day.That is what I have been doing and not to mention the 11K coins and random seeds packages.
Bottom line, I now start the day by doing the PP Zomboss guest first, this gives me between 18 to 24 gems depending on the speed I can clear the zombies which carry the gem drops, 5 gems from completing the 'Collect Seed Packets', 5 gems for 'Play Penny's Pursuit', so this brings me 28+ gems done, I then watch the ads and complete the two free plays on Arena which give me a further 14 gems, this now enable to me to get 42+ gems per day (27 before PP)
Possible counters to Yeti in Arena are : Electrici Tea,Imp Pear,Hypno shroom,chilly bean, PF Missle Toe,Hot Date,PF Citron.
@HenryThePear wrote:Possible counters to Yeti in Arena are : Electrici Tea,Imp Pear,Hypno shroom,chilly bean, PF Missle Toe,Hot Date,PF Citron.
I think it is better to replace PF Missle-Toe with plant-fooded Sun Bean since PF any attacking plants with enough hits would get him either to moonwalk backwards or killed anyway.
There are other plants I have in mind but not been using it myself on Yeti:
1) Shadow pea and grimrose, not sure they will drag him to the ground.
2) Chomper and snap pea, not sure if they will swallow him whole.
Edit mistypes
- @eieio_31310
Snap Pea can’t insta kill Yeti. Don't know where to post this, but I tried Reinforce-mint-ing a column of Gumnut (lvl 1), and since the waves of zombies were just arriving and some of them were yet to step on the lawn, the bubbles splashed on them outside the lawn.
A pharaoh zombie is the only one stuck there. My Laser Bean didn't react to him since he's not entering the lawn yet. So I can only wait. Pretty sure I was waiting until I can plant another column of lvl 1 Gumnuts and still waited some more until he's finally free.
I suppose Laser Bean managed to kill those other weaker zombies outside the lawn by being triggered by the zombies on the lawn in front of them. Imagine if I used non-piercing damage plants, I might wait forever.
The normal bug report can be done via the Help Center but given EA's current focus is on other new games, this is not likely to be addressed in a rush.
Thankyou for sharing so we are mindful of this and not to use Gumnut/Reinforcemint in such situation.
@eieio_31310I'm not sure if it's a bug at first. Since I think there are other plants which attack zombies before the enter the lawn. But now I just realized that some zombies don't eat plants, like Mecha-Football zombie. I just gummed him in Arena, and he seems to be stuck without eating the gum.
If such zombie gets stuck alone before entering the lawn like the scenario above, without your plant killing it, or no zombies behind him to eat him away, then you'll literally wait forever (or until your phone battery dies).
- @ForestOutlook So what happens when you put down reinforce mint with gumnut? Does it activate the bug pink bubble that sticks down multiple zombies?
