TIP: SCIFI: Q & A AND STRATEGY THREAD: ACT II
Act I Prize Track: Skyberdine Systems-1,600 Future Duff Sign-6,500 Simpson's Hover Car-12,000 Holo-Theater-18,000 Sgt. Skinner-24,000 How to Earn Event Currency: Please clear your town manual...
Forum Discussion
Introduction
First of all never pay to upgrade the printer, crafting will do that for you. Don't worry about wasting robot parts if the price of the demo is greater than the amount to level up, robot parts will carry over to the next level.
There are 35 days in the event, but I'm using 34 in my calculations to (hopefully) give everyone a little leeway for starting the event. Also, LPN's info cites 19 robot parts needed to upgrade to level two crafting but I'm pretty sure I needed more than one holo-tulip before this unlocked in my game so I'm using the tstoaddicts info for levelling up crafting (see above). Also, I'm ignoring level 19 crafting as the only thing this unlocks is future buck conversions and crafting Homer's dream home at Level 18 is more than enough to open up level 19.
Robots in your Town
Robots in town pay out one robot part each, the spawn at a rate of one every three minutes with a maximum of 80, which takes four hours to reach (convenient, huh?!).
SciFighter
The minigame can be played every four hours and you can figure out what your payout will be by using the following formula (20 base + # seconds survived + # robots killed). So if you survive the full 20 seconds and kill 30 robots, you will get 70 Robot Parts.
Anomaly
The cube that sometimes appears in a friends town pays out one robot part. You must not have used all 89 friend actions for the cube to pay out event currency. Because this is so random, I will not use this as part of the maths
Daily Challenges
There is a chance of your daily challenges paying out 100 robot parts during the event. If you don't want cash/dark matter etc. I'd recommend swapping for the chance at robot parts or donuts (1 donut can buy 20 robot parts via rushing). Again, because of the randomness of this, I will not be factoring this into the maths.
What we Need
You need a minimum of 19,700 Robot Parts to unlock and craft Homer's Dream Home (which is the final craftable prize, at Level 1, which is 16,700 Robot Parts to Level up to Level 18 plus 3,000 Robot Parts for Homer's Dream Home itself. This will be enough for one of each craftable item, plus 6,160 Robot Parts for duplicate crafting (19,700 Robot Parts total minus 13,540 cost for one of each craftable item).
26,420 robot parts would be needed to craft all demos available for each craftable, however, DO NOT max out your demos if you're interested in crafting Homer's Dream Home. Unless you can clear five 4-hour cycles each day of the event you will not have enough Robot Parts for every demo copy of every craftable. Craft enough of the items you want to unlock crafting levels and use up Robot Parts on duplicates over and above this amount after you've got everything you're interested in owning.
Now for the Maths
19,700/34 days = 580 parts needed per day.
3 Visits per Day:
Three 4-hour cycles would need to provide 194 robot parts per cycle (580/3), which means three 4-hour cycles per day is not enough for this event. If it's the best you can do though, log on as far after the third cycle as you can to clear robots spawned in your town. They spawn quickly (one every three minutes or 20/hour) so it might be possible with an extra visit off-cycle to tap robots and the few from anomalies/daily challenges to get there. It'll be tight though if you make it at all. In case this is the method you need to use, here is the accompanying maths:
Each Four-Hour Cycle
-Robots in Town- 80
-SciFighter- 20 base + 20 seconds + 52 robots killed = 92 (Maximum)
-This leaves us short 22 Robot Parts per cycle.
Three Four-Hour Cycles
-Robots in Town- 80 x 3 = 240
-SciFighter- 92 x 3 = 276
-This would leave us short 66 Robot Parts per day, or 2,244 over the whole event
4 Visits per Day
Four 4-hour cycles would need to provide 145 robot parts per cycle (580/4).
Each Four-Hour Cycle
-Robot Parts in Town- 80
-SciFighter- 20 base + 20 seconds + 25 robots killed = 65 (Minimum)
-Using the SciFighter Formula, you may be able to get past with a loss, assuming you survive 15 seconds and kill 30 robots (this is just a suggestion, get creative, folks!)
Four Four-Hour Cycles
-Robot Parts in Town- 80 x 4 = 320
-SciFighter- 65 x 4 = 260
-If you're really good at the SciFighter game and average 40 robots killed you could get +2040 Robot Parts, which is 8200 parts for duplicate crafting. But still - don't craft all available demos or you'll be short for the level 16/17/18 items even though you'll have unlocked them.
Conclusion
So, three cycles per day is not enough and four cycles per day is more than enough. Four cycles is so much more than enough that you could miss 12 of those cycles and still get enough Robot Parts for Homer's Dream Home, provided you killed an average of 40 robots per SciFighter game. If you’re not that good a the SciFighter game and instead average a respectable 35 robots per game, you could miss 9 cycles and still make it. So aim for four cycles and if you miss a few but succeed at the SciFighter game (or even better, score a daily challenge), you'll be fine.
The most efficient route to success is to play the SciFighter game four times per day to collect enough robot parts for crafting. Hold off on crafting duplicates unless you need to in order to advance to the next crafting level.
A collaborative effort between Aidx and Becker, and edited by AO.
First of all never pay to upgrade the printer, crafting will do that for you. Don't worry about wasting robot parts if the price of the demo is greater than the amount to level up, robot parts will carry over to the next level.
There are 35 days in the event, but I'm using 34 in my calculations to (hopefully) give everyone a little leeway for starting the event. Also, LPN's info cites 19 robot parts needed to upgrade to level two crafting but I'm pretty sure I needed more than one holo-tulip before this unlocked in my game so I'm using the tstoaddicts info for levelling up crafting (see above). Also, I'm ignoring level 19 crafting as the only thing this unlocks is future buck conversions and crafting Homer's dream home at Level 18 is more than enough to open up level 19.
Robots in your Town
Robots in town pay out one robot part each, the spawn at a rate of one every three minutes with a maximum of 80, which takes four hours to reach (convenient, huh?!).
SciFighter
The minigame can be played every four hours and you can figure out what your payout will be by using the following formula (20 base + # seconds survived + # robots killed). So if you survive the full 20 seconds and kill 30 robots, you will get 70 Robot Parts.
Anomaly
The cube that sometimes appears in a friends town pays out one robot part. You must not have used all 89 friend actions for the cube to pay out event currency. Because this is so random, I will not use this as part of the maths
Daily Challenges
There is a chance of your daily challenges paying out 100 robot parts during the event. If you don't want cash/dark matter etc. I'd recommend swapping for the chance at robot parts or donuts (1 donut can buy 20 robot parts via rushing). Again, because of the randomness of this, I will not be factoring this into the maths.
What we Need
You need a minimum of 19,700 Robot Parts to unlock and craft Homer's Dream Home (which is the final craftable prize, at Level 1, which is 16,700 Robot Parts to Level up to Level 18 plus 3,000 Robot Parts for Homer's Dream Home itself. This will be enough for one of each craftable item, plus 6,160 Robot Parts for duplicate crafting (19,700 Robot Parts total minus 13,540 cost for one of each craftable item).
26,420 robot parts would be needed to craft all demos available for each craftable, however, DO NOT max out your demos if you're interested in crafting Homer's Dream Home. Unless you can clear five 4-hour cycles each day of the event you will not have enough Robot Parts for every demo copy of every craftable. Craft enough of the items you want to unlock crafting levels and use up Robot Parts on duplicates over and above this amount after you've got everything you're interested in owning.
Now for the Maths
19,700/34 days = 580 parts needed per day.
3 Visits per Day:
Three 4-hour cycles would need to provide 194 robot parts per cycle (580/3), which means three 4-hour cycles per day is not enough for this event. If it's the best you can do though, log on as far after the third cycle as you can to clear robots spawned in your town. They spawn quickly (one every three minutes or 20/hour) so it might be possible with an extra visit off-cycle to tap robots and the few from anomalies/daily challenges to get there. It'll be tight though if you make it at all. In case this is the method you need to use, here is the accompanying maths:
Each Four-Hour Cycle
-Robots in Town- 80
-SciFighter- 20 base + 20 seconds + 52 robots killed = 92 (Maximum)
-This leaves us short 22 Robot Parts per cycle.
Three Four-Hour Cycles
-Robots in Town- 80 x 3 = 240
-SciFighter- 92 x 3 = 276
-This would leave us short 66 Robot Parts per day, or 2,244 over the whole event
4 Visits per Day
Four 4-hour cycles would need to provide 145 robot parts per cycle (580/4).
Each Four-Hour Cycle
-Robot Parts in Town- 80
-SciFighter- 20 base + 20 seconds + 25 robots killed = 65 (Minimum)
-Using the SciFighter Formula, you may be able to get past with a loss, assuming you survive 15 seconds and kill 30 robots (this is just a suggestion, get creative, folks!)
Four Four-Hour Cycles
-Robot Parts in Town- 80 x 4 = 320
-SciFighter- 65 x 4 = 260
-If you're really good at the SciFighter game and average 40 robots killed you could get +2040 Robot Parts, which is 8200 parts for duplicate crafting. But still - don't craft all available demos or you'll be short for the level 16/17/18 items even though you'll have unlocked them.
Conclusion
So, three cycles per day is not enough and four cycles per day is more than enough. Four cycles is so much more than enough that you could miss 12 of those cycles and still get enough Robot Parts for Homer's Dream Home, provided you killed an average of 40 robots per SciFighter game. If you’re not that good a the SciFighter game and instead average a respectable 35 robots per game, you could miss 9 cycles and still make it. So aim for four cycles and if you miss a few but succeed at the SciFighter game (or even better, score a daily challenge), you'll be fine.
The most efficient route to success is to play the SciFighter game four times per day to collect enough robot parts for crafting. Hold off on crafting duplicates unless you need to in order to advance to the next crafting level.
A collaborative effort between Aidx and Becker, and edited by AO.
