Garbage in Springfield

laurapound81 wrote:
Some people use them as part of their decorations, I for one don't & cleared it all away & got my donuts!

Its all personal preference :)

You get Donuts when you clear everything? Cool. I still have some land to buy but that's cool.

How many?

I cleared some of it, but I kept quite a bit. There are areas that look good with some junk scattered about, and it can't be bought, so I piled it on the edge of my town to use later.

LostCauze-NL wrote:

laurapound81 wrote:
Some people use them as part of their decorations, I for one don't & cleared it all away & got my donuts!

Its all personal preference :)

You get Donuts when you clear everything? Cool. I still have some land to buy but that's cool.

How many?

I've read that it is a random probability, and very low at that. And that matches my experience. I forget what the probability is. Anyone remember?

I used this sites "Search" (which sucks and blows by the way) and found this old thread discussing donut drop rate from cleaning the garbage.

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/25/9037459.page#26811677

I have a nice garbage farm by the Nuclear Plant/Cooling Towers. I also leave a little in various spots around town to decorate certain areas or neighborhoods.
I use to clear and might of got 2-3 dounuts that way. You will get some but not a whole lot.

It's essentially a "limited" decoration. So once you clear it all, you'll never see it again. So a bunch of us keep it around since we'll never see it again. The donut drop rate is laughably low, so it's fun to keep a few of each around permanently. Those with mass amounts of it, probably didn't take the time to clear some of it out yet.

I prefer to just clear it out, it's in the way it isn't meant to be kept around for decoration.

One of my friends has the garbage that looks like a keg outside the brewery!

While the tutorial goes through that Lisa & Homer clean it up, it didn't register for me because of all the quests. It wasn't until a friend reminded me that they do & more hidden donuts. I was at level 28 & had collected it in one large space, so it opened up 2 land plots for me.

What is unusal for me is those that have hugh numbers of houses all bunched together. I understand the income tax dollars, though doesn't resemble any town that I know of.

Hi, my name is FarmerCyn, and I am a garbage piler.
I have heard of players getting as many as 25 donuts for all their garbage and as few as 3, but I have chosen to keep some of my garbage. In my main town, I have spelled hi and made a smiley face out of it. At Halloween I spelled boo, and at Christmas, I spelled Joyeux Noel. No, I'm not French, but it is shorter than Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or even Feliz Navidad. I like to use it as a tucked in decoration around building as a remembrance of the explosion. I don't think I will ever clean up all my garbage. I like the look of it.