Monorail: Projects Board Daily Caps (Update: Muscular Marge)

EvaMohlin wrote:

pmiller067 wrote:

TwigletStyx wrote:

aidx1054 wrote:
Do we know if the daily bonus that we get from completing a set amount of projects counts towards the limit, It doesn't seem to in my game but it would explain some figures others are reporting

I've been wondering about this as well...

It does not. Nor do any of the other BP you earn outside of the project totals.

I wonder.

Collected 6 times from project today, in total 2153 BP. Yesterday was about 4000.

It is a total cap from the start that adds up 4,5k every day. You can work around with limit but it catches up so you end up with the amount you got today.
I was hunting for donuts so i did small tasks and didnt cap until yesterday when i complete the third and final donut reward for act one and went for big blueprints payoffs.

jarya93 wrote:
Really confused about these caps. What is going on? I got 9433 blueprints + what i got from neighbouring surely i didnt recieve 18,000 blue prints today!!!! :(

No.

You can collect (from projects) 4500 BP per day. That's it. Which means day one you will have in total 4500. Day 2 - in total 9000, day 3 - in total 13500, day 4 - in total 18000 and so on.

Is there a way to know if you've hit the cap? I mean other than paying attention to the numbers before and after handing in project. I haven't been paying attention, so for all I know I've wasted a bunch of resources.

empathy77 wrote:

anaquarind wrote:

thatdonald845 wrote:
Affirmative. Donuts stop after part three.

Oh, this is just getting worse and worse...

But thanks for verifying...

Lame, yay 6 donuts, woohoo

Maybe it's punishment for those who fight clubbed their way to thousands of free donuts last event. :lol:

This cap is a reminder of why i won't give my money to EA. I was considering buying some donuts before this too. Oh well. If EA is going to be greedy, I will be stingy.

MrPMPisBeefy wrote:
This cap is a reminder of why i won't give my money to EA. I was considering buying some donuts before this too. Oh well. If EA is going to be greedy, I will be stingy.

The cap isn't showing that EA is being greedy, EA are just listening to us, people complain about not having anything to do even though events are still running, so EA decided to limit our play so we play less each day but more days in total. And also even you were to get everything on day one EA wouldn't lose donuts they would lose monorail tracks which (if they are going to stick around) would be for in game cash like SP tiles not donuts. Another sign that this cap isn't EA being greedy is the fact that it doesn't have any effect once we get the last prize, its like EA saying "oh well, we tried slow them down but it didn't work he still has X days to spare, let's just let him get as many tracks as he can while still sticking to the event". And another thing EA is giving us 6 donuts (probably the average amount a player would earn by playing an event hack/glitch free) this act for nothing because they probably knew that people would be complaining about not getting any donut opportunities as usual.

TLDR: EA aren't being greedy

jukan00 wrote:

empathy77 wrote:

anaquarind wrote:

thatdonald845 wrote:
Affirmative. Donuts stop after part three.

Oh, this is just getting worse and worse...

But thanks for verifying...

Lame, yay 6 donuts, woohoo

Maybe it's punishment for those who fight clubbed their way to thousands of free donuts last event. :lol:

This was EXACTLY my thought. Do you think EA didn't notice that some people's donut counts went WAY up? They're compensating.

aidx1054 wrote:

MrPMPisBeefy wrote:
This cap is a reminder of why i won't give my money to EA. I was considering buying some donuts before this too. Oh well. If EA is going to be greedy, I will be stingy.

The cap isn't showing that EA is being greedy, EA are just listening to us, people complain about not having anything to do even though events are still running, so EA decided to limit our play so we play less each day but more days in total. And also even you were to get everything on day one EA wouldn't lose donuts they would lose monorail tracks which (if they are going to stick around) would be for in game cash like SP tiles not donuts. Another sign that this cap isn't EA being greedy is the fact that it doesn't have any effect once we get the last prize, its like EA saying "oh well, we tried slow them down but it didn't work he still has X days to spare, let's just let him get as many tracks as he can while still sticking to the event". And another thing EA is giving us 6 donuts (probably the average amount a player would earn by playing an event hack/glitch free) this act for nothing because they probably knew that people would be complaining about not getting any donut opportunities as usual.

TLDR: EA aren't being greedy

:thumbup:
Now that we have figured out the mechanics of this, I am enjoying this pace of play.

jukan00 wrote:

empathy77 wrote:

anaquarind wrote:

thatdonald845 wrote:
Affirmative. Donuts stop after part three.

Oh, this is just getting worse and worse...

But thanks for verifying...

Lame, yay 6 donuts, woohoo

Maybe it's punishment for those who fight clubbed their way to thousands of free donuts last event. :lol:

I doubt it for many reasons. One is that these events are planned far in advance. EA has to be careful to make the mechanics work even for players at beginning levels. If those players are too disappointed with the event, they might leave the game, and EA doesn't want that.

The 6 donuts does look to me like a normal average for bonuts. The price of the premiums is another matter; those do seem to be going up.

Neglecterino wrote:

jukan00 wrote:

empathy77 wrote:

anaquarind wrote:

thatdonald845 wrote:
Affirmative. Donuts stop after part three.

Oh, this is just getting worse and worse...

But thanks for verifying...

Lame, yay 6 donuts, woohoo

Maybe it's punishment for those who fight clubbed their way to thousands of free donuts last event. :lol:

I doubt it for many reasons. One is that these events are planned far in advance. EA has to be careful to make the mechanics work even for players at beginning levels. If those players are too disappointed with the event, they might leave the game, and EA doesn't want that.

The 6 donuts does look to me like a normal average for bonuts. The price of the premiums is another matter; those do seem to be going up.

You make some good points, but how far in advance do you think they plan these? I suppose you could be right but is it possible that some of this event was "tweaked" in the last couple of months to stop ....you know what... from happening? Even if this event was planned 8-12 months ago, they've had since Terwilliger's to fix certain things, that would give EA a few months to change some mechanics.