I really need help with KEM farming induced levelling!!

Christmas event and Snowball II got me from 580% to 810%. Game now feels a bit easier. Went from about 70 donuts a day to 120. Big difference.

Good advice on this thread. KEM is I real grind and I only do 37 every 4 hours. I look forward to giving it up but I like the efficiency over RTT, at least for now. What's your time worth, right?

My overall .02 is this. When I really put the gas on increasing multiplier I paid attention to the footprint of the multiplier item. That's why Snowball II was so great. I want to limit the storing and hiding of multiplier items as much as possible as I move forward in the game. The whale was finally in my vault and I succumbed to buying it. But, it goes against my cost/footprint rules. 225 (net) for 7% and it's big. Gotta have the whale though.

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Alright, I tried it the rat trap way since I'm REALLY getting tired of constantly building and selling hundreds of KEMs at a time.

After a typical collecting run of my blue houses and many, MANY Lard Lads, I had just under 4 million to play with. Normally, I'd have gotten as many KEMs as I could for that, waited four hours, collected and repeat. This typically gives me anywhere from 120-180 donuts per run, but it's a huge time committment to do this several times a day. Even just finalizing the buildings by tapping the checkmarks takes forever with so many of them!

Instead, within the huge area I normally reserve for KEM farming, I just tapped on the rat trap icon as many times as I could until I ran out of money. I then proceeded to level up what seemed like at LEAST thirty times in a row and quite possibly more. When I finally finished this, I sold them all and did the same thing again - this time with fewer rat traps of course. When all was said and done and I exhausted my cash supply, I had roughly one hundred donuts. So there's no doubt the rat trap method is quicker and far more painless than going nuts with KEMs, the return is roughly one-third to one quarter less than using KEMs. I suppose the time saving and ease of this method make it worthwhile...right? I'll always be able to make more donuts the old way of course, but it's less and less fun, plus I need to reserve a lot of open space to do it. Thanks so much for the advice everyone!

I did the rat trap thing properly, didn't I? I mean, it SEEMS obvious, but you never know! I'd love to never have to build another KEM, and 100 donuts every four hours, or 600 donuts per day or more certainly seems worthwhile..I already have most premium stuff available to me. I've been using them mostly to buy mystery boxes and increase my multiplier to ensure yet more donuts in the future. Although of course this continues to produce massive Lard Lad territory. I swear, my once-wonderful and proud town is now close to half composed of Lard Lad farms!! I want to stop, yet they're also by far my main source of income. I literally get millions of dollars every four hours from them. If I take them away, my income is obviously slashed significantly.

Oh, one last comment about the billboards/vans - a lot of people have been advising me to hide them behind other stuff. That is indeed what I did for as long as I could, hiding first in the Heights, then the main part of town. However, I now have so many of each, they're absolutely impossible to hide at this point. I have huge clusters of them, and I HATE the way it makes my town look! I suppose this is a tradeoff...as someone suggested, I suppose I could slowly replace them with more efficient XP-giving items, yet won't that eventually become very hard as I lose the gains from all the billboards/vans?

Thanks a lot for the help!!

"Bomb319;c-1880990" wrote:
So there's no doubt the rat trap method is quicker and far more painless than going nuts with KEMs, the return is roughly one-third to one quarter less than using KEMs. I suppose the time saving and ease of this method make it worthwhile...right?

This is something that is argued about on here (although not always explicitly). For some people their time is important to them and they prefer rat trap trucks over KEMs. Yes, the price per donut is way more, but it's also more convenient. Others want the cheapest way to get donuts, even if that means tediously building many KEMs multiple times throughout the day. Both sides have pros and cons, and neither side is "right", it depends on what your playing style and goals are.

Unfortunately the only thing that you can do with all the multiplier items is to try and hide them the best you can, that's one of the reasons why I stopped at around a 1700% multiplier as I still like to decorate around all my house's and buildings and with the item count limit it's a balancing act, as to the limit I can't remember exactly but it's around 10,600.

You could switch out the billboards for other items that have a bigger mutliplier, so that you don't raise your item numbers but still increase your multiplier. Of course you'd ultimately lose the multiplier from the stored billboards.
Personally I think Lard Lads are quite bad for farming, because they take up so much space. Maybe you should at first think about how many millions of ingame cash you really need every day and build up farms of blue/white/pink houses to earn this money. That should in the end save you some space. Or you look out for the rare multiplier items which earn you ingame cash, like Wailing Walls, Elf Houses or Snake-Trees (forgot the actual name). Normally these are quite expenisve and only available during a short period of time, but with your set up and multiplier it should be no problem to build up a (small) farm.

"heyababy47428;c-1880257" wrote:
If you're at 2000% you can rat trap truck farm.
KEM farming is for poor people...

Or people with a low XP percentage.

Thanks a lot for the advice all! It's definitely getting boring as hell building Kwik-e-marts all the time. If I have around 4 million or more, I can make about 150 donuts every four hours. Still, back in the day I have spent literally well over ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS of REAL MONEY on this game, so I'd like to think I've earned it lol.

It would be very nice to stop the KEM farming, at least. It's not like I really even need the money anymore with the exception of events, and Cecil's stuff. I've done rat traps too, of course. It's not really farming per se though, is it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the procedure here:

1. Get million of dollars
2. Build as many rat traps as you can
3. Collect donut bonuses
4. Sell all rat traps
5. Repeat
6. ???
7. Profit!

Am I missing anything? I've bought so much extra land for farming too...just taking the time to build 300 KEMs is getting to be too much. It's just that I've been playing this game since 2012 and don't want to screw it up, you know? That's why nuking scares the HELL out of me! When I think about all the hours spent on SF Heights and building my freaking monorail piece-by-piece...rebuilding it all would take FOREVER! On the other hand, those vast fields of Lard Lads while very lucrative, look terrible and are contrary to my original vision. My SF Heights is also messy and always has been.

I have to keep my multiplier bonus up though, and that means I STILL need to find a good spot for the many hundreds of vans and billboards, even if I get rid of all the Lard Lads. Anyone have some advice about where to put those two bonus items? It's also a real shame that they count as buildings because won't I inevitably be cut off from building anymore because those many bonus items capped my building limit??

Highlight and store all of Springfield Heights then rebuild that with all the vans and billboards hidden behind the ugly tall buildings along the mountain edge. Get rid of the lard lands too you will feel much better.

Don't fear the NUKE its fun :)
Build the city of your dreams...

It's really easy to get overwhelmed with a desire to quickly get what you want.

My advice is utilize your lard lad farm to keep buying stuff, but not mystery boxes anymore. It's really a simple solution.....step back and think of how sad you'll be when you have nothing left to purchase......so what's the point of 5000%?? You'll have everything bought then be drooling for events to spend, rushing all tasks....not fun, not needed. I suggest start utilizing your donuts for stuff that you'll be excited to place in your town. Even if it is expensive. Look at other towns and get creative ideas.....

Do you think you can create cool theme areas? What would make good center pieces.....?? How can you build an area and what items can you use that give bonus? Thinking along these lines is just way more fun...

And hiding billboards and vans is fun too. Go to any advance town and tap around you'll hear billboards behind all kinds of things.

You WILL have way more fun farming those KEM if you are doing it to buy cool items NOT the same lard lad,van,billboard cycle. I can guarantee that. Once your enjoying it, your doing it right.

Also if anyone followed me this far. Has anyone put the pyre behind a tank? I'd like to see how it looks as I want to create a war theme I have a lot of ideas but I need to know if I can make the tanks look a bit blown up.

OK, I have gone through all replies again, and once again I want to thank you all for your advice :) Ican definitely see wisdom in all these answers :) So basically, now that I have a multiplier of 2000 and can effectively make as many donuts as I want, it IS better to stop KEM farming entirely and either switch to rat traps, or stop farming entirely? Also this may be a dumb question, but nobody ever keeps their masses of Kwik-e-marts just to collect the frequent tax on it, do they? I only ask because I've seem farms of completed KEMs in other towns. I'm definitely happy to stop; it gets quite tedious building, selling and repeating thousands of buildings! I also ALWAYS hit the single donut prize and it annoys the hell out of me after awhile!

I'm also getting the impression that most of you suggest that I do in fact KEEP MY BILLBOARDS AND VANS. Just find better hiding places. I used to hide them in SH, but after awhile there are no places left - good or bad. As far as the nuke goes....it still scares me! We're talking about a town started in 2012. Do you know how many hours I've spent, arranging and rearranging houses, trees, and everything else?? I've always disliked my SH, so I can see nuking that and hiding my stuff among it better as well. But you can't nuke SH without nuking everything, right? I suppose the best I can do is just mass-tuck everything away in my inventory?

Thanks again for all the tips, guys. It's very much appreciated. If you can think of anything else that I either should be doing, or things I'm doing that I really shouldn't, by all means please point them out to me!

Remember, I remain a VERY active player, and still have several free spots. Feel free to add me at any time

- Bomb319