EA Generous with Donuts Lately

I've also noticed the improvement in free donuts in the game and for them I say thank you to whom ever decide to make the change, so a big thank you to EA and all involved in this fun and addictive game.

I concur. As a three year freemium player it's been a hard slog, but the one thing I've learnt the hard way is to never pay full donut price. I conserve until a Gil sale and then have a massive splurge!

I agree. When I first started off, you definitely got the sense that you got some donuts from leveling up, and some of the startup quests, but after that the well would run dry. The implementation of a slow but steady trickle of donuts has definitely re-invigorated my interest in the game!

Great opening post by MaxxSpider outlining the ways we can get donuts. You could add to that list the new XP collider/level up method which would give you maybe 9-21 donuts per level, but obviously only if you are a player with a maxed out town.

Related, I'd like to see a writeup that shows the number of new items released each month over the years (to see how the rate may have changed) and that shows any donut inflation that goes on.

There's a little known thing in the business world known as give people free stuff and they spend more money than they would if they didn't get the free stuff. The more free stuff you give them the more money they are willing to give to you. This is why buy one get one free sales and the like are popular in brick and mortar stores. You should see how the revenue jumps from that kind of sale. More revenue, higher profits. It ends up being a win win.

I think the game has improved a lot. We said no more prize wheels and we haven't had one! Sure we find things to complain about but who can complain about free donuts? I was able to get maison derri?re for FREE because of all the gift donuts!

I agree, EA really gave a lot of donuts since monorail event.
But i dont think OPs math is completely correct. 15 levels a year? I dont think so, but on the other hand weekly challenges give us 100 per event and I think they are kind of a standard now.
While the number of bonuts increased so did quantity and prices of premium items.
I am 1 year into the tsto, freemium player, max level and completed every event since Xmas 2014. I still have 40 playable non limited premium characters yet to get. Count in the limited ones + all the other decos and you get one hefty sum of bonuts. With 1k bonuts a year (optimistic) I can buy barney, mount Springfield and 3-4 other char+building combos. That still leaves tons of other stuff to get, with this pace I would need a decade.

Sorry for spelling I'm typing this from my phone.

Tulumos wrote:
I agree, EA really gave a lot of donuts since monorail event.
But i dont think OPs math is completely correct. 15 levels a year? I dont think so, but on the other hand weekly challenges give us 100 per event and I think they are kind of a standard now.
While the number of bonuts increased so did quantity and prices of premium items.
I am 1 year into the tsto, freemium player, max level and completed every event since Xmas 2014. I still have 40 playable non limited premium characters yet to get. Count in the limited ones + all the other decos and you get one hefty sum of bonuts. With 1k bonuts a year (optimistic) I can buy barney, mount Springfield and 3-4 other char+building combos. That still leaves tons of other stuff to get, with this pace I would need a decade.

Sorry for spelling I'm typing this from my phone.

I think my guesstimate of 15 levels per year is pretty accurate.

when the game started it was only up to level 20 and it seemed like forever being maxed out with no idea if they were ever going to add more to the game. So i am basing that guess on that we are soon to be on level 60 and there has been level ups for about 3 years. At one point we were getting level ups like it seemed every couple weeks and i don't think we have gone at least a month without a level up so it is at least 12 per year. I am sure there is a list somewhere of all the level update release dates and we can really figure out how many we get per year but i don't feel like putting all that work in.

I was just estimating and basically said we get 1000 donuts per year minimum and i don't see why you need to question my math unless you post proof to back it up.

I forgot to account for the XP collider like some other have posted but that takes into account how much cash you have to spend and how high your multiplier is. You also have to spend donuts to make donuts with that.

MaxxSpider wrote:

Tulumos wrote:
I agree, EA really gave a lot of donuts since monorail event.
But i dont think OPs math is completely correct. 15 levels a year? I dont think so, but on the other hand weekly challenges give us 100 per event and I think they are kind of a standard now.
While the number of bonuts increased so did quantity and prices of premium items.
I am 1 year into the tsto, freemium player, max level and completed every event since Xmas 2014. I still have 40 playable non limited premium characters yet to get. Count in the limited ones + all the other decos and you get one hefty sum of bonuts. With 1k bonuts a year (optimistic) I can buy barney, mount Springfield and 3-4 other char+building combos. That still leaves tons of other stuff to get, with this pace I would need a decade.

Sorry for spelling I'm typing this from my phone.

I think my guesstimate of 15 levels per year is pretty accurate.

when the game started it was only up to level 20 and it seemed like forever being maxed out with no idea if they were ever going to add more to the game. So i am basing that guess on that we are soon to be on level 60 and there has been level ups for about 3 years. At one point we were getting level ups like it seemed every couple weeks and i don't think we have gone at least a month without a level up so it is at least 12 per year. I am sure there is a list somewhere of all the level update release dates and we can really figure out how many we get per year but i don't feel like putting all that work in.

I was just estimating and basically said we get 1000 donuts per year minimum and i don't see why you need to question my math unless you post proof to back it up.

I forgot to account for the XP collider like some other have posted but that takes into account how much cash you have to spend and how high your multiplier is. You also have to spend donuts to make donuts with that.

I didn't call you on your math as I said its not completley correct (and its not) meaning most is true bar some small tweaks e.g. level one, the thing that you mentioned about collider and by glancing again I see sideshow Bob every 4 months times 5 donuts is 15 etc. But that wasn't my point, most of my post was about number of donuts and content available now most freemium players would still need a decade to complete everything by earning yearly (your maths estimate and nothing wrong with it) 1k donuts.

Oh and level 49 came in January 2015, that's 10 levels and I can only see EA pacing that down and not up.

Free donuts makes people more likely to buy donuts. For example if I wanted Disco Stu (who I'm saving up for at the moment) I'd have to spend $31 on donuts in one purchase which is something I'd never do, but give me a few free donuts here and there and bump it down to the next lowest or the one after that and the chances of me (and many infrequent donut buyers) buying donuts goes way up, while the amount of donuts the frequent donut buyers buy probably doesn't reduce much if at all. While the never buy donuts people just get free donuts. Everyone wins and everyone's happy so it makes a lot of sense from both a business and PR perspective.