Just thought I should post this:
EA DOES keep a record of your donuts. I had to contact Customer Support a few weeks ago with an issue and the representative reeled off a list of how many donuts I had, how much money I'd spent buying them, how much in-game money I had, etc.
They do keep a record of this stuff, I just think that most of them don't know how to access it.
So it should be fairly simple for the devs to write a routine to parse all our game databases and check for missing donuts. Bought + won - spent = number missing.
And to keep this on topic: I just lost 2 donuts. I was doing my friend actions and heard a harp strum. "Something must have happened back in Springfield..." So I went to my town and several Goal Completed pop ups popped up, and amidst them I hit the XP Bonus Level Up and got 2 donuts (I didn't try for 3, I'm cash shy from buying several plots of land). Then I went back to my Friend Actions... And then thought to check my donut count. Two donuts shy.
