"pevh;c-1611754" wrote:
get the aspirational things first. don't get trapped in the rat race of kem farming and bonus percentage. it is overrated.
(some day i will write an essay about kem farming and bonus percentage "great expectations, ever deminishing returns. why you think it is exponential, yet it is not")
This is a fairly baffling comment...
First off, it actually is exponential, and fairly easy to understand why, since your bonus multiplier provides a bonus to both your cash and XP. Since the majority of people in the situation of starting out KEM farming and boosting their % do not have billions of dollars in the bank, they will experience cash flow as a rate limiting step creating a situation that does increase exponentially, when you view it as a KEM/period of time function. I have developed a couple of excel models on this topic that explain this very well, which I can delve into at another time.
In addition to your first point being wrong, I am extremely curious what your alternative is? Basically I am hearing that you think free donuts are overrrated and you should focus on aspirationals ,which, albeit are cool, provide NO benefit to your town (through XP or cash flow). My guess is that maybe you are an EA employee....
Anyways, back to OP's question. If you don't have the beach hideaways (as horrifically ugly as they are), they are a gold mine in terms of percentage. Additionally, I realize that KEM farming is a grind, but it is definitely worth while. You gain a significant increase in the number of donuts over BM/Rat Trap farming. From there, you really just need to keep your eyes open for good deals in terms of a donuts/percentage ratio. The best permanent item is the Jet Engine Bike, which is 30 donuts for 2%. Knightboat rebate is coming back in a couple days, which is pretty good at 20 donuts for 2% (which I will be buying a bunch of).
Unfortunately, the answer is free donuts are a bit of a grind until you get a high percentage (around 1000%). You can just keep reinvesting your donuts and build this up relatively quickly, and switch over to KEM farming, which will give you best benefit.
