After playing the game for a long time I decided to start KEM farming. My bonus is almost 400% and I'm farming with about 128 KEMs (16×8). I am using the XP collider. I read about KEM farming online and some say they recommend buying the mystery box with donuts acquired and pay for 10 days of xp colliding. What do you recommend doing with the donuts? I'm thinking of using the yearbook to get the Springfield Sign.

You can use your hard earning donuts for what ever you want ;)

I threw every spare donut at mystery boxes to build multiplier %.

10 day xp collider is the cheaper option. If you get your bonus % high enough the donuts will come easier and then you can easily buy everything in the Yearbook.

the news van and the billboard increase bonus, the lard lads earn cash so helps. Once the uniques are out of the box it follows a pattern. The % boost per donut spent is the second best in the game after Beach Hideaways (and upgrading them all the way) and getting the buildings in Springfield Heights.https://forums.ea.com/en/the-simpsons-tapped-out/discussion/149536/kwik-e-mart-also-known-as-kem-farming-guide/p1

"Cousigames;c-2221515" wrote:Here are my results:I started KEM farming at around level 259 on August 25, 2022 at 10:10 am.I reached level 939 on August 31, 2022 at 1:26 pm.Bonus xp went from a bit below 400% to 578%.KEM farming works well but I used up most of my cash. How much cash do you guys usually accumulate before you start KEM farming?You may want to consider many of us here have been playing for around ten years. So It wasn't quite the same for each of us as we were figuring it out on the fly. Many started with house farms first. I never house farmed and didn't start kem farming until my bonus was pretty high. Farming was considered controversial back then because we didn't know if it was unjustified exploitation. Then the game itself acknowledged and laughed at itself (and us) regarding farming, and has repeatedly ever since. Once they introduced the treasure boxes of old things, for donut purchase, i took it more seriously. And then i increased my bonus to over 4000%. I'm actually decreasing it now to keep up with the item limit. I've stored like 900% in burning bushes to fit new radars release prizes. But my town is effectively 99% finished. I find just setting the town on 24hr tasks and using the Skyfinger collection once a day, if they are 12hrs apart, collects the most efficiently, enough daily resources to cover all new event premiums, and increase total pink sprinklies slowly over time to offset impatience of task acceleration spending. You are hustling to increase the rate quite fast. This is a long haul game, and at the end of the line, i can tell you it's the journey that's way more fun than being at the end, hoping they "lay more track". So don't rush too much. Have fun building your town.

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1-Graham-S
Hero+
2 years ago
@Cousigames - if you keep working on that bonus you'll probably hit 4,000% by next winter :smile:
If you haven't already add a nice amount of extra houses depending on how often you tap. Personally I favour the purple(3 hour), blue(8 hour) and white(12 hour) to suit the 4 hour event cycles and a load of brown houses you can tap at the start and again when you've done tapping. The latter is also handy for neighbours to find. That gives you the XP from building 'em and regular extra $$s and XP to boost the farming :smile:
Willy9292
New Hotshot
2 years ago
"Cousigames;c-2225206" wrote:
Doesn't it take a lot of space to get to 4000%? You need a lot of space for those vans and billboards. I'm worried about running out of room.

There are a lot of items with from 2 to 7% multiplier. the jet bikes and snow cats are easy to hide behind other buildings. Whales add 7.
1-Graham-S
Hero+
2 years ago
I had over 100 tiles at the top end of town with nowt but bonus as well as scattered stuff.
Shame they're not back this year but the Snowball II Snowman ( AKA Snowcat ) is 1x1 and 2% - that's 512% per land tile or 12% in the same space as a single newsvan !!
Mini nukes are 0.75% per 1x1 compared to 0.333..% for a newsvan or jet engine bike if space matters
EDIT - I had 26 tiles full of burning bushes in my B town, when they were offered for $$s, but if I scrolled anywhere near them my game lagged beyond belief - far better with 4,000 snowcats !!
Cousigames
New Spectator
2 years ago
Wow 16k bonus is impressive.

Where in the store are the nukes and jet bikes located? When is it a good idea to start getting them? Should I stick to mystery box for now?
4junk3000
New Spectator
2 years ago
"Cousigames;c-2225293" wrote:
Wow 16k bonus is impressive.

Where in the store are the nukes and jet bikes located? When is it a good idea to start getting them? Should I stick to mystery box for now?

They come around in the Vault. That's the time to stock up.

I recommend buying a few more every time they appear. I never did the mystery box thing, as I didnt want giant fields of vans and billboards.
simpsonare
2 years ago
"5PtBuck;c-2222910" wrote:
Probably took me 3-4 years at least to reach the max level.

That's about what it took me to farm freely. But I also spent about 1k.
frosted1414
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago
At 16k% I bet everything you touch generates donut boxes!
1-Graham-S
Hero+
2 years ago
At one point @168sean168 had over 25k% !! At 16k the fun was waiting for the counters to catch up and hoping Bart didn't wreck it !! Skyfinger took over 2 minutes collecting bonut rounds
lone_viper_wolf
2 years ago
@1-Graham-S yeah but I didn't keep track for a long time. These days items are getting so big and land is getting scarce may have to store some of these bonus items
frosted1414
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago
"Cousigames;c-2228111" wrote:
When you do KEM farming, do you always try to get 3 donuts each time? It could cost 100,000 cash if you get 3 donuts on your third try. Is there a point where your multiplier is high enough that your strategy changes?

There exists a calculator to answer this! (For level 939 only) http://lwshost.com/tsto/kemcalc.pl