Million dollar items

Linky2g wrote:
8 blue houses per square
13x13 squares per town
if you put blue houses on 60 squares its 480 houses.
$150 per 8 hours per house + bonus income.
72,000 per 8 hours.

ie house farming

But thats such an ugly way of doing it (no offence)

I have played for a loooooong time. I was able to get the Escalator without farming :D

jbillotte wrote:

Linky2g wrote:
8 blue houses per square
13x13 squares per town
if you put blue houses on 60 squares its 480 houses.
$150 per 8 hours per house + bonus income.
72,000 per 8 hours.

ie house farming

But thats such an ugly way of doing it (no offence)

yeh but you can store the houses once youve got the cash you need.

I've been playing since the game was released so I've just accumulated that much over the last year. Sure I could've had more if I had house farmed but those towns are always so boring. I just need a bit more to get the magnifying glass and ill be back to running out of things to spend it all on.

Farming. If you have enough land you can build up your town and have a farm off to the side.

Patience. That and eventually getting premium items boost income from the tasks. It will take time to get the six million (!) needed for all three items. EA might give us the monorail before I have them, if it is a consolation to you.

You don't need farming. Once you accumulate all the characters and assign them to tasks daily the money just piles up. We used to wait a long time for updates so all we did was save money. I think the high ticket items are designed to even us out with newbies. They're not that great.

with my farm and bonus I'm getting about 300k a day before tasks and my "regular" town is collected. tonight I should hit 2mil, then I'm storing my farm and extra vehicles I set up to increase the bonus until I need more money again. if you want the big ticket items, you gotta farm, no way around it.

jaytay777 wrote:
They're not that great.

Agreed. After acquiring all three million-dollar decorations (they don't earn any $ or give any bonus), I can tell you that the only one I would buy again is the Escalator to Nowhere. The Popsicle Stick Skyscraper is an eyesore and the 50FT Magnifying Glass is moderately humorous for about a week.

Of course, hindsight is always 20/20.

There's two routes to go to getting millions somewhat quickly, the free one and the premium one. House farming is better because it doesn't cost any real money, it earns a lot per day and you level up more frequently so you get more free donuts. I've seen a few people on my friends list who have nice house farms and not a sea of roofs, so it can be done nicely. However, I chose to go the premium route, and have never actually house farmed, except for a few browns and blues early on. I bought a ton of items with high bonuses. Going by the Gulp N Blow, my bonus is at 455% right now, so getting more than triple on every building and task can really add up if you play frequently enough and have all the buildings. I only have 18 houses total and very few duplicates, but manage to earn around 300K per day. Other than Magnifying Glass, I haven't spent much cash, so I'm making and saving almost 2 million a week, but it cost me a lot of donuts. That's why I think house farming is smarter, especially for players just starting out.