Hoarding felons for crafting guide

There is a cap on hoarding felons. Once so many are released it won't give you anymore until the others are taken care of. I think the cap is 5 but I'm not 100% on that.

anaquarind wrote:
Not sure about this. By hoarding felons now, I would reduce my pie count. I will certainly have no problem making the 3 main quest items by the deadline, but pies that go past that count towards free donuts, presumably?

So if I think that by NOT hoarding felons I can likely get one more batch of donuts, does this amount to paying 3 donuts for 5 handcuffs?

I know the simple math would be 150 pies X 5 felons = 750 pies, which is not close to what is needed for the bonus donuts, but this assumes perfect timing. Realistically you are missing a few rounds of felon captures, which probably amounts to substantially more pies.

Unless we have reason to believe that handcuffs will be the limiting factor in crafting (like say, pumpkins used to be)....

Not really, my felons where gone only spawns each 8h and my heroes take care of them in 3 or 4h, and in the meantime my heroes have pies doing 8h jobs.
When a six schould spawn i clear 1 to get him.

So in the run of 55000 pies i have the samd amount felons like you.

billdoors1533 wrote:

hot4daryldixon wrote:
There is a cap on hoarding felons. Once so many are released it won't give you anymore until the others are taken care of. I think the cap is 5 but I'm not 100% on that.

I've seen this as well although someone else wrote that the limit applies to 3 heart felons only I am sure someone who has surpassed 5 will surface shortly and set us straight...

First time i hoard my felons where 5 with only 1 heart so to get the other i had to finisch 1 of them.

So fellons drop craft items too? I though only criminals would, good to know.

brickevand408 wrote:

anaquarind wrote:
Not sure about this. By hoarding felons now, I would reduce my pie count. I will certainly have no problem making the 3 main quest items by the deadline, but pies that go past that count towards free donuts, presumably?

So if I think that by NOT hoarding felons I can likely get one more batch of donuts, does this amount to paying 3 donuts for 5 handcuffs?

I know the simple math would be 150 pies X 5 felons = 750 pies, which is not close to what is needed for the bonus donuts, but this assumes perfect timing. Realistically you are missing a few rounds of felon captures, which probably amounts to substantially more pies.

Unless we have reason to believe that handcuffs will be the limiting factor in crafting (like say, pumpkins used to be)....

Not really, my felons where gone only spawns each 8h and my heroes take care of them in 3 or 4h, and in the meantime my heroes have pies doing 8h jobs.
When a six schould spawn i clear 1 to get him.

So in the run of 55000 pies i have the samd amount felons like you.

Oh, I didn't realize they still spawned after getting 5 max felons. Makes sense now. I guess it's time to start hoarding!

Thanks!

No, you have to clear 1 to get more otherwise the game tells you that you have max.

I didn't hoard any felons before the start of this issue and I really don't think I'm behind at this point (over 20,000 pies now - by the calendar count I'm actually way ahead!). I think it's kind of a six-of-one, half dozen-of-the-other kind of proposition. I won't and I'll see what happens. I kind of need them to get the Collector anyway as someone else stated. I don't think I'll be able to hoard that many at this point anyway.

BEWARE!

For those who are hoarding 5 criminals, if you get the collector, DONT press on the criminals!
FIRST YOU HAVE TO DO A LITTLE QUEST WITH KRUSTY,
SECOND YOU HAVE TO GET 5 PICKLOCKS (JUST TAB FELLONS)
BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BUILD FIRST THE BOT. GARDEN

If all those steps ade done (about 10 m)

Just PLACE THE GARDEN ( DONT HAVE TO BE BUILD COMPLETLY)

Then the game tells you there are more prizes

This is the point to collect your 5 handcuffs ( you will have then 5 from the 35 you need in total)

Succes :wink:

Darn, wish I read this earlier and started hoarding felons. I should be getting The Collector in the next hour, so guess I'll just have to hold off on tapping them until I can start earning handcuffs.

Thanks for the tip and reminder. Managed to get some hoarded!