Bonus Donuts

I got Patches and Violet Tuesday evening. I've yet to get my first bonus donuts.

I'm finding that without the bonus hats from the Snowman and Gingerbread House, the hats don't accumulate all that quickly.

I think I'll get one round of bonuts, but that will be it, and it's going to be close.

I got Patches and Violet today and I don't think I'm going to get any bonuts this act. It might have been close had I held off on the last Gingerbread house upgrade and grinded to finishes patches and violet. I was about 1,200 away when I finished the house got the house bonus, the bonus for finish the quest but none of that counted for bonuts. I think they've worked the math out this time with the "quests" to make getting the prizes "easy" but getting bonuts "hard" but possible.

I'm at around 3600 hats, so I'll definitely get one bunch of donuts, but that's it. Better than nothing, I guess.

shadcat4 wrote:

I think I'll get one round of bonuts, but that will be it, and it's going to be close.

^-- this..
ah well.. 3 free bonuts is better than zero :)

I started first bonus round on Tuesday evening and finished it exactly in 48 hours. It means that there is no time to collect another 4000 hats. :(

madfish86 wrote:
Is it even possible?

There are 36 hours left in Act 1:

Gingerbread House (32 every 4hrs) x 9 = 288 hats
Snowman (32 every 4hrs) x 9 = 288 hats
Wolly Booly (160 every 4hrs) x 9 = 1440 hats
neighbors = 50 hats

Am I missing any other hat sources for fremium players? If not, that comes to 2066 hats. The other 1934 hats need to come from revelers or character tasks which pay negligible amounts. Divided by 3 hats per reveler, that's over 640 revelers that have to be tapped in the next 36 hours.

Seems like a lot of work for 3 donuts which have the cash value of 50 cents.

Just small corrections:
Snowman and Gingerbread mansion give 32 each in 8 hours not in 4.
Neighbours give 68 hats.

I am 400 away from my first set, which will be my other set. Since we can get 20 a week from the weekly challenges, I am not too upset about only getting one set.

anaquarind wrote:
Just wondering how the Freemium players are doing in terms of Bonus Donuts. I played this one pretty tight and I don't think I wasted too many opportunities to collect hats. Normally I would manage 2-3 rounds of bonus donuts, but after just getting the one round, I don't think I'm going to make another.

Is anyone else finding this? How many donut rounds do you think you'll manage? Again, I'm directing this question to freemium players or near freemium player (ie. maybe just rushed a minor task or two). I recognize that those of you with the stadium, or those who donut-rushed many of the tasks are probably way ahead.

I think I'll only manage one. I was happy to get Patches and Violet today and I've collected about 700 hats after that. Luckily I still have the last part of GingerB to finish so I have a fair chance of getting the bonus round.
Previous events: same as you, I've usually managed two or three rounds of bonuts.

I am less then 100 away from the final prize so should I even go for the bonus doughnuts? Or should I just save my stuff for when act 2 starts?