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AOFIGO009 wrote:
Can we have a mathematical breakdown of how to get the most amount of spades each day please? I know we need 1200 odd spades per day, and I know the ways you get spades, but I think the maths will make it simpler for everybody, especially as the figures needed are so high this event.

Give me a little while. I'm getting the numbers on sources of spades, and payouts from each. I'm working on it right now. :)

annettemarc wrote:

AOFIGO009 wrote:
Can we have a mathematical breakdown of how to get the most amount of spades each day please? I know we need 1200 odd spades per day, and I know the ways you get spades, but I think the maths will make it simpler for everybody, especially as the figures needed are so high this event.

Give me a little while. I'm getting the numbers on sources of spades, and payouts from each. I'm working on it right now. :)

@Annette

Sweet of you my dear but with the random tasks its difficult?
Thats why I have my own system :mrgreen:

AOFIGO009 wrote:
Can we have a mathematical breakdown of how to get the most amount of spades each day please? I know we need 1200 odd spades per day, and I know the ways you get spades, but I think the maths will make it simpler for everybody, especially as the figures needed are so high this event.

Also, how exactly do you get the mutant seeds. It's always important to me to help my neighbours, but that's not going to happen with just two of them! :(

Edit: Also on the Mutant Seeds, when tapping them in your town, does a message come up telling you you've got them all? Like the Mutant Corn?

Plus: Have any of you noticed Sideshow Bob is whiter than usual? I think it's the same colour the Simpsons went when Lisa got them to eat all healthy fruit and veg, and it did bad things to their systems!! Coincident??? :O

Go to the tstoaddicts website and they have a post there about the math

suetopia wrote:
MODS - any possibility of stickying this topic? It is really helpful, and I would hate for it to get buried. :D

We're trying to keep bumping it for now. Figure people who are checking the stickies will see the walkthrough and all its links. We may end up stickying, though.

KillaSqirl wrote:
This isn't so much a question but a tip for those that may not have noticed. None of the event jobs show up on skins task lists. I have taken all of the skins off every charecter in town. That way I can quickly assign everyone to event currency earning tasks using the charecter locator when a new group is unlocked after a lab upgrade or when Cecil assigns a new task.

This ^^^^ took me a day to remember to unskin everyone

SPADE PAYOUTS (Disclaimer: I'm horrible at math. Corrections welcome.)

FOR VISITS EVERY 4 HOURS, 5 TIMES PER DAY AND COMPLETE ALL OF CECIL'S TASKS

SOURCE: Monsarno building (360)
PAYOUT: 120 every 8 hours (360 per day)
FREQUENCY OF VISITS: once per 8 hours.

SOURCE: Cornstalks in neighbor towns (90)
PAYOUT: 90 per day (180 with license, but I'm not factoring that into total)
FREQUENCY OF VISITS: once every 24 hours

SOURCE: Cornstalks in YOUR town ((840))
PAYOUT: 168 spades every 4 hours. (24 cornstalks every 4 hours/7 spades per cornstalk)
FREQUENCY OF VISITS: once per 4 hours (5 times per day)
360
SOURCE: Cecil's Tasks (700)
PAYOUT: Assuming you get ALL 4 Tasks complete, payout is 40+80+160+320 ... plus 100 for completing all 4
FREQUENCY OF VISITS: These blow a Gigantic HOLE in the every-four-hour-theory. They vary. Good luck.

SOURCE: Those Tasks that pop up in the task bar with the 'box' icon (300)
NOTE: These are NOT Cecil tasks, and NOT tasks YOU send characters on automatically.
PAYOUT: 100 spades for EVERY task, regardless of task length. Tasks are usually 8 hours, some are 4, rarely 12 hours
FREQUENCY: Inconsistent, based on length of that task, but I'm averaging ... 3 tasks per day if visit every 4 hours.

SOURCE: MUTANT SEEDLINGS (Too complicated to evaluate. Not much, IMHO.)
PAYOUT For seedlings YOU drop: 4 spades per seedling in first 4 hours, after that it's 2 per seedling.
PAYOUT for seedlings NEIGHBORS GIVE YOU: 4 per seedling in first 4 hours, after that, zero.
FREQUENCY: I'm not even counting these. They're too rare and unreliable, and frankly, not very impressive payouts for all the hoopla surrounding them.

GRAND TOTAL IF YOU VISIT EVERY 4 HOURS, FIVE TIMES PER DAY AND COMPLETE ALL OF CECIL'S TASKS: 2,290 (*with license, it would be 2,380)

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NOW FOR EVERY 5 HOURS, 4 TIMES PER DAY AND ONLY COMPLETE THREE CECIL TASKS:
Monsarno Building: (240)
Neighbor Towns: 90 (180 with license)
YOUR town: 840 (30 cornstalks every 5 hours = 210 spades every 5 hours)
(Yeah, it doesn't matter if it's 4x5 or 5x4. Your town can hold 6.5 hours worth.)
Tasks from Box in Task Bar: I'm going conservative here, because timing makes a difference: (200)
CECIL'S TASKS: (I'm going to assume you only make the first 3 tasks ...) (280)

GRAND TOTAL IF YOU VISIT EVERY 5 HOURS, 4 TIMES PER DAY AND ONLY COMPLETE THREE CECIL TASKS: 1,650 (*With license, it would be 1,740)

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These are not exact numbers you will see, because your timing would have to be pretty good to max out your town's cornstalks ... if you're a little early, you'll miss a few ... I'm SURE I missed some, or messed up the math somewhere. PLEASE let me know where the mistakes are!

brickevand408 wrote:

annettemarc wrote:

AOFIGO009 wrote:
Can we have a mathematical breakdown of how to get the most amount of spades each day please? I know we need 1200 odd spades per day, and I know the ways you get spades, but I think the maths will make it simpler for everybody, especially as the figures needed are so high this event.

Give me a little while. I'm getting the numbers on sources of spades, and payouts from each. I'm working on it right now. :)

@Annette

Sweet of you my dear but with the random tasks its difficult?
Thats why I have my own system :mrgreen:

You mean those random tasks that show up with that box in the task bar? I know -- they're random lengths. Some are 4 hours, some are 8, rarely they're 2 or 12 -- but they all pay out at 100 spades each, regardless of length ... I'm wildly guessing that someone who signs in every 4 hours, 5 times per day, would catch ON AVERAGE 3 of those tasks (300 points), and that someone who signs in every 5 hours, 4 times per day, would catch ON AVERAGE 2 of them. (200 points)

Annathewicked wrote:

KillaSqirl wrote:
This isn't so much a question but a tip for those that may not have noticed. None of the event jobs show up on skins task lists. I have taken all of the skins off every charecter in town. That way I can quickly assign everyone to event currency earning tasks using the charecter locator when a new group is unlocked after a lab upgrade or when Cecil assigns a new task.

This ^^^^ took me a day to remember to unskin everyone

we need an unskin all button.
:mrgreen:

ACK!!!! I forgot to add the spades from Cecil's tasks! (Goes back to calculator ... ) (Crap.)

NOTE: Post above has been edited to insert points from Cecil's tasks ... assume that every-five-hours-people only complete 3 tasks per day.

johncolombo wrote:

Annathewicked wrote:

KillaSqirl wrote:
This isn't so much a question but a tip for those that may not have noticed. None of the event jobs show up on skins task lists. I have taken all of the skins off every charecter in town. That way I can quickly assign everyone to event currency earning tasks using the charecter locator when a new group is unlocked after a lab upgrade or when Cecil assigns a new task.

This ^^^^ took me a day to remember to unskin everyone

we need an unskin all button.
:mrgreen:

Yes, defenitely, they could build it at the same time as the "tap all houses" button, the "all thumbs" button, and the automatic "put all my characters to 24-hour tasks" button. :mrgreen: