Donut farmers are cheaters

HappyGamer73 wrote:

GamerGD3 wrote:

happybillmoore wrote:

Peppermallow wrote:

The OP said he never spent a dollar on this game. And now has a 1100% bonus and makes 150 donuts a day. I'm premium (every item and fully decorated town) and have a 527.35% bonus. There is no way he could've gotten that many donuts to raise his bonus from a hundred (not sure what the standard freemium %) or so to 1100%.

Back when table tennis tables and spooky walls were purchasable/craftable with an unadvertised-bonus %, some players went to town buying them. I bought as many as I could, and was considerably late to the party. I managed to get around 300% on top of what I already had. With that, i'm easily clearing 9-12 donuts every 4 hours.

ok I get it unadvertised %; but how does that equate to donuts?

This % bonus is then added upon collection of rents, tasks. To make it easy, I believe the Simpsons house is 1 XP every 30 seconds, or whatever it is. If his rate is 1100%, then that means every 30 seconds he receives 1100 XP points. Now - before level 60 and the other 800+ levels launched, you could get donut boxes for filling your XP meter. If the XP meter was set to like 400,000 - that means if he collected on JUST the Simpsons house, and did that 364 times, he would "level up". When presented with the donut box, he would then earn 3 donuts. (for those interested, that's about 3 hours of just tapping the Simpsons house - assuming I am correct that the refresh rate is 30 seconds, and payout is 1 XP).

So, from his posts, we know he's been around for a long while, and is a current "house farmer". Meaning he was able to purchase nearly unlimited amounts of blue, white, orange houses - a vast amount of these at the original price. So if you are quite an active player already to log in at 8 hour/12 hour intervals - you will see a mega increase in XP per collection. The XP collider has been around not as long, but I'm sure when it launched - he's been buying the 10 day pass to always have it active. So that 3 donuts turns into 6, turning into 9, etc. I think the XP used to cap around 1 million (or was it 10 or 100 million? I don't know I'm not a farmer). So he would probably level up multiple times a day as he would easily hit it, assuming he sets his characters on 4 hour tasks (or maybe 1 hour?).

This takes lots of dedication to be logging in as frequently as he does. This is not something you can just do once a day.

A little over-generous on the math there. A 1100% bonus means that he would get 1100%(bonus) +100%(base) = 1200% bonus, or 12X the XP, so the Simpsons house in your example would net 12XP instead of 1.

The math may be wrong, but other than that, it is fundamentally correct. I started playing during the first Superheros event. If somebody were to start today, it is still possible to farm donuts, but would require probably 2 years or more to get a sustainable donut farming operation up and running. Also, you would need another tennis court and wailing wall crafting opportunity to appear again.