Speed Up Tokens
I started the 24 hour quest for the speed up tokens. As of writing I've been playing for 11 hours straight and only managed to accumulate 106 of the needed 160. I've spent all my coins several time...
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My first question for you is how much storage capacity do you have? Also, what level are you currently?
Your storage capacity should match your level, so if you're level 29 you need 290 storage, if you're level 32, 320 storage. If you're level 40 you need 400 storage. Max is now 500 as of the Mayor's contest update.
I personally have 7 cheetah buildings right now and have never paid on dime on the game. I was originally upside down in my level to storage capacity and didn't realize it until I started doing epic projects. I was level 32 with only 190 storage. I completely stopped going up in levels at this point. It took me 2.5 months to catch my storage back up to where it should be. Once I got around 300 storage, Cheetah became possible relatively easy. It still look a long time, but it was easy to make.
Your goal is this. 10 three epic point buildings. Destroy all or have very few 1 point and 2 point buildings. I only use the beach for cheetah right now. I currently have 6 pier and 4 two point buildings, I'm still working my way to the 10 buildings myself. With 6 three point buildings and 4 two point buildings I make cheetah in about 4-6 hours.
I also go into it with no less than 5 of each item. Clear out by using or selling any items for Storage, beach, mountain or land. I prefer to use them rather than selling them, although lately I don't mind selling beach or mountain items since they're in plentiful supply in the store right now.
If you have any turtle or llama buldings, save them up until you have 5 speedup tokens of each of them.
If you build up your storage in this fashion, stock up on items and go into it with 100,000 to 150,000 coin you'll make cheetah no problem.
Once you get your first cheetah building it starts to become easier because you can save up your cheetah tokens too and have anything you need to make be made faster.
Also make sure your commercial buildings are clear for anything you need to make so you can start making them immediately and don't have to wait.
There's a guy here that can go from 0-160 in an hour, but he's a much higher level and storage capacity than I am.
I'm currently level 34 and 340 storage, so I've only gone up 2 levels since I started working on epic projects and getting my storage up to par.
I've seen people who are level 43 with 120 storage and with that, No you will never make cheetah with that.
Don't get discouraged. You may need to slow your game play to a crawl like I did to get your capacity up to where it needs to be, but it can be done without spending real money on the game at all.
Good luck to you.
If you want something to be upset about, try this: When I first started with Cheetah tokens, you needed nine pieces to get one token. Then it became ten pieces. Then 11 pieces. Then 12 pieces. I'm now subject to 13 (yes THIRTEEN) cheetah pieces to make one Cheetah token.
I can only surmise that as you get more cheetah buildings, you need more pieces to make a token. Or, perhaps, it's related to how many tokens you've earned (as I've heard of another person complaining that the turtle tokens were also increasing but they weren't adding more turtle buildings). I'm not sure as I've been adding cheetah buildings and also making tokens for use.
And I too, originally complained that cheetah tokens were ridiculously challenging to attain (see one of my previous posts where I detailed the insane time required for the tasks at hand).
Another person pointed out an important detail that helped me a lot: Store the long creation time items and create the short creation time items as needed.
While this helped, I still usually end up having crazy requirements as I near 160 points and must deploy one or more cheetah tokens to get to 160 points. My biggest pain is creating stuff in the Farmer's Market (milk, flour, and watermelons have been in short supply and nearly impossible to find on the global trade market).
I haven't spent a penny on the game - but I've sent countless mind numbing hours playing it.
There are several threads showing how you can get cheetah epic building. It's not as hard as people make it out to be. If you plan ahead and have 350 or so storage it's easily doable within 12 hrs.....On my current epic job I've gotten 80 epic points in just under 3 hrs.
I agree, the Farmers Market and Donut Shop takes a crazy amount of time to get what you need without speeding them up. Any food items really. Because they take the longest to build up, I generally use all other items for money making while I'm stocking up on food items. Once food items are up to par, then I'll prepare any other items needed.
I did one cheetah last weekend without using any speedup tokens and took me about 6 or 7 hours. Every once in a while I'll get one building that doesn't require me to jump through hoops to get it and seems to be evenly dispersed, so what I have in stock will due with purchasing some easy to find items. Out of the 7 cheetah buildings I have now, that's only happened twice. Usually it's jump through hoops to make it happen.
I'm starting to believe that what you get is based on what you have. They intentionally try to make it difficult by giving things you don't have, so make what you don't have the easy to find items in the market. That's only a theory though. Next time I'm going to stock up a little differently and see how it goes.
My storage was 230 and I started with with over 100,000 in coins and 1500 in dollars. I noticed something however, the longer I play in a single session the crazier my task requirements got, but then if I closed the game and reopened it the task requirements were more reasonable. For example, 10 Ice cream sandwiches for 3 points became 4 Watermelons for 3 points. Unfortunately I didn't notice this trend until after the first 10 to 11 hours.
So far with 3 hours left I have 135 of 160 points. All the tasks that remain require 4 to 6 hours of production time for 1 to 3 points, and I've already spent over 1000 Sim Bucks on buying down production times as the only viable means I could see to completing that task. I estimated out given the tasks I have what I would need to complete. To buy enough stuff to complete the 3 point tasks takes about 150 sim bucks. To buy enough sim bucks will cost quite a bit.
At this point I've sold all the special items for more coin, depleted my coins AND the bucks. I sorta feel like the only options in front of me of are pony up $100 or fail and have absolutely nothing to show for it. I could probably rebuild the coin etc in time, but the knowledge of how many bucks and resources I p***ed away is going to eat at me.
The only advice I have for someone still playing is to avoid long sessions. Log off and back on again and it seems to make the objectives more within the realm of reason. Inventory also seem to be affected but I was unable to consistently reproduce it For example 1 task required 5 ladders and I had 1. Upon closing and reopening the app I had 6 ladders and the quest was completeable. Other times things like my shovels would disappear. I was making sure not to use anything that required them, and I was producing them with a speed up token. After collecting the 5th one I went to check the count and it said 1. I logged off and back on and magically I had 3. Not as good as 5 but better than 1.
So far as I can tell the problems only seem to occur when you've been playing for an extended period of time in a session. What constitutes an "extended period of time" I can't say, but at least once every 30 to 60 minutes I'd recommend at least closing and reopening it.
10 Ice Cream sandwiches? Something is wrong. I've never had any epic project task require more that 5 of anything and I have about 30 epic buildings. you should NEVER do any task that is less than 3 points for it.
You've spent 1000 sim bucks in one epic project? thats insane. I've spent zero and I'm now at 154 points on a project that I started 7 1/2 hrs ago.
With only 230 storage, No, I don't expect you would be able to make cheetah with that and hard pressed to make Llama. Get your storage capacity up to 300+ and you can do it with proper preparation.
I can guarantee you've been asked for 10 of single item. Happens to me all the time. It happens when two different locations are both asking for the same thing. I've had as much as 15 of the same item being asked for at the same time. 3 different buildings asking for 5 drills each. That was a pain and required a cheetah token or two to be able to complete it in time.
Where it's not impossible, it makes it frustrating when you have 5 of so many other items but the game is stuck on one item across multiple locations.
when @jrandomuser said "For example, 10 Ice cream sandwiches for 3 points became 4 Watermelons for 3 points." I assumed they were talking about 1 task. Yes, I have been asked for over 10 of the same item between multiple tasks but never more that 5 for 1.
