To Collide or not to Collide, that is the question...

4junk3000 wrote:
I have read these xp farming threads before, and they are always confusing.

Part of me would love some free donuts. I'd love to be able to add whatever new feature i wanted. I'd also like to add some basic features, like just a few police cars.

But I'm afraid to touch that collider thing. I don't want to lose my donuts and i don't want my game to freeze up.

Besides, I'm at the feature limit anyway, so how much can i really add?

Game might be starting to lose its appeal, thanks to this dumb feature limit.

=(

I've put out all the horrible SH buildings to maximise my XP returns, and have gone for a 3 day Collider boost. The game is slow and laggy, and I'm having a few crashes but my in-game cash mountain has now been replaced with donuts. I've temporarily put away lots of small decorations, flower beds etc to try to minimise the lag.
As a separate issue, 4junk, I'm unable to visit neighbours on either of my devices since this update, even before I cranked up the Collider, so sorry I'm not dropping off any prospectors in your town just now. Trying to sort out storage problems on my phone to remedy.

I am having a new glitch where donuts obtained through leveling up are NOT remaining when my game syncs. Just a fair warning. Started a thread about it here.

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/10411244.page

Newcastlenia wrote:
See I'm torn with whether to collide or not. I'm still amazed at how low the bar is to level up and I think that's my issue here. There is nothing to stop them going in and pushing up the XP amount you need to level up by at any moment, it just feels too easy at the minute. I don't know if my view is slanted on that though. I've been a freemium player over 3 years, my multiplier without SH is 310% and I have a ton of in game cash I could burn if I wanted to.

Where is the fun in that though? Torn, torn, torn!

They're already put in a patch that changed the XP requirements for the joke levels. Why would they change them again?

The point is to get us to burn through our cash reserves 'leveling up'. Why else add almost 900 levels to the game at once?

I've decided to just hang in there and work my way through the levels at normal rate. That way when I DO get to the final level I'll still have my cash reserve available when I charge up the Collider and start getting actual bonus donuts.

Oh, and your town is almost more than my anonymus... anyonymouse... anymonsow... How ever I spelled the name of my game that I play on my old Nexus 7. I may have to kick you out and look for a lower level player. It lags so badly when I hit your town I almost can't move.

I don't see any point NOT using the collider if you have enough cash for one good go (collider for one day). You easily level up as for each dollar earns 5x xp so level up 5x faster, meaning earning donuts 5x faster. Once brushed thru 939 the donut boxes are back then all glitches problems fixed. If you are under 939 there is always a risk with a big item like googleplex the collider or multiplier pushed you over 1 level and the rest of xp, even though supposed to level you a few times, level you only once and the rest get wasted instead.

As for the one having trouble with donuts after syncing, I'm pretty sure you aren't 939 yet. Is it because you earned level too fast? When I got more than 1 level at a time before 939, it DOES NOT get registered. It only takes 1 level, gives you one donut, then the rest is wasted after you sync (like you jumped from 105 to 108 in one shot after buying a big item. You get one donut. You sync and come back, you are at 106. I had the same trouble. A prison bus netted me over 20 levels I think and it didn't register. So ONE LEVEL AT A TIME until you hit 939 then it should be ok to buy big items.

monduboiss937 wrote:
I don't see any point NOT using the collider if you have enough cash for one good go (collider for one day). You easily level up as for each dollar earns 5x xp so level up 5x faster, meaning earning donuts 5x faster. Once brushed thru 939 the donut boxes are back then all glitches problems fixed. If you are under 939 there is always a risk with a big item like googleplex the collider or multiplier pushed you over 1 level and the rest of xp, even though supposed to level you a few times, level you only once and the rest get wasted instead.

As for the one having trouble with donuts after syncing, I'm pretty sure you aren't 939 yet. Is it because you earned level too fast? When I got more than 1 level at a time before 939, it DOES NOT get registered. It only takes 1 level, gives you one donut, then the rest is wasted after you sync (like you jumped from 105 to 108 in one shot after buying a big item. You get one donut. You sync and come back, you are at 106. I had the same trouble. A prison bus netted me over 20 levels I think and it didn't register. So ONE LEVEL AT A TIME until you hit 939 then it should be ok to buy big items.

I am not level 939 but I don't think it is because I am earning donuts too fast. The issue has occurred through normal play (without collider activated) and I've "naturally" leveled up one donut at a time.

For example, this morning I leveled up just by clearing buildings. My donuts went from 1202 to 1203 (for one level up). When I went to Krustlyland to sync, I immediately had 1202 again.

wadebear wrote:

Newcastlenia wrote:
See I'm torn with whether to collide or not. I'm still amazed at how low the bar is to level up and I think that's my issue here. There is nothing to stop them going in and pushing up the XP amount you need to level up by at any moment, it just feels too easy at the minute. I don't know if my view is slanted on that though. I've been a freemium player over 3 years, my multiplier without SH is 310% and I have a ton of in game cash I could burn if I wanted to.

Where is the fun in that though? Torn, torn, torn!

They're already put in a patch that changed the XP requirements for the joke levels. Why would they change them again?

The point is to get us to burn through our cash reserves 'leveling up'. Why else add almost 900 levels to the game at once?

I've decided to just hang in there and work my way through the levels at normal rate. That way when I DO get to the final level I'll still have my cash reserve available when I charge up the Collider and start getting actual bonus donuts.

Oh, and your town is almost more than my anonymus... anyonymouse... anymonsow... How ever I spelled the name of my game that I play on my old Nexus 7. I may have to kick you out and look for a lower level player. It lags so badly when I hit your town I almost can't move.

No problems about dropping me from your other account-do you get the lag when you visit me on your primary town too?

Decided to buy 10 days on the Collider-1 day would have sufficed to get to 939 but thought I might as well maximise returns! I'll be happy to not see another bloodmobile or rat trap truck for a while!

And to the person who complained about donuts not registering, I did not have any issues progressing, and I was going up about 30 levels with each turn on the rat trap trucks. I popped into KL a few times during the process but it did not cause me to lose any bonuts.

Happy tapping guys :D

10000 donuts and still going? Nice. Is it necessary to change all cash to donuts? Not 10 k donuts yet but wonder if I should use up my cash. Still have 300 millions. Getting 5-6 rounds of boxes a day now with the collider just collecting/ setting tasks. If they release lands 100 million should be plenty. Wonder if I should blow it all in donuts. did everyone spend all their cash?

wadebear wrote:
It's not like I'm in a huge hurry. And I actually LIKE reading the funny stuff.

Exactly. I've only used the XP Collider once (during the free 24hr period when it was introduced). I've held off building the Googolplex in hopes of not leveling-up too quickly, yet Level 61 arrived early this afternoon. I'm currently at Level 63 and seem to be gaining a new level with each round of tasks... which is a bit too quick for my taste. :lol:

Edit due to double post.

ForumNerds wrote:

wadebear wrote:
So I started building the Googleplex and was going to charge up the XP Collider today, but then last night I started thinking...

The reason for doing that in the past was to quickly boost up XP and get bonus donuts when the XP bar filled. But in this case as soon as the XP bar fills I'll be going to the next "level" and getting 1 donut (if I've read all these posts right). And then the XP requirement drops to almost nothing (40,000? I can do that in a day or less with my house farm and multiplier.)

There won't really be any "Bonus" donuts until I've reached level 939. Wouldn't it be smarter to wait until I hit 938 to charge up the Collider? It's not like I'm in a huge hurry. And I actually LIKE reading the funny stuff.

Then there's the issue of my third game. No house farm. Piddling multiplier of 17.5%. No cash reserve to buy Rat Trap Trucks or Bloodmobiles...

By the way: which IS the best bang for the buck? Rat Traps or Bloodmobiles?

Opinions? Flames? Declarations that the game is over anyway so who cares?

Wadebear, you are aware that the XP requirement of 40,000 XP is only for levels 61-100 ... Right? Because after that, it is 500,000 for levels 100-939.

All of those are one-donut level ups. After you clear level 939, the "bonus" levels (aka "3 donuts" ) begin ... At 1 million XP per level.

Some poor underpaid slob at EA had programmed 40,000 as the requirement all the way through the roof. So for a short time yesterday, we spent our time blasting through hundreds of levels and bonus rounds and some folks ended up with upwards of 6,000 donuts. It was a short-lived money party. The Glitch Of Glitches. I like to think he did it on purpose, as his Last Act as an EA employee before quitting his job. My hero. :)

Then they sent a patch to fix it. :(

Drat! I've been vacationing in a canyon the last 3 days (no cell service, no wifi) so now I'm trying to catch up with all the changes as well as catch up on missed current event progress. I still don't understand the no more level up stuff, so guess I have a lot of forum searching to do when I get home.

wadebear wrote:

ForumNerds wrote:
Wadebear, you are aware that the XP requirement of 40,000 XP is only for levels 61-100 ... Right? Because after that, it is 500,000 for levels 100-939.

All of those are one-donut level ups. After you clear level 939, the "bonus" levels (aka "3 donuts" ) begin ... At 1 million XP per level.

No, I missed that. Too many posts with people saying different things to keep track of all the numbers.

By the time I'd learned what I could about level 60 and posted in my Google Group for new events the bug reports had started rolling in - particularly LPN's. I wasn't about to start anything with the risk of losing my town.

The thing is, my B Game still hasn't recovered from the last time I used the Collider so I could afford the Yellow Submersible. And then I bought both the Fortress of Choclitude and Krustyburger Oil Rig thinking nothing new would be coming up until at least after the Wild West ended.

It still makes more sense to me to wait until I hit 939 before I charge up the Collider. I'll get the same number of donuts from the intermediate levels whether I smash through them at high speed or not, but I'd be using up my cash reserves to get to the point where I'd actually get the bonus donuts. I'm already over halfway to level 61 and I haven't even collected the XP from finalizing the build on the Googleplex.

The reason you want to get to level 939 ASAP is because EA could always change the XP requirement to level up. It was at 40000 all the way to level 939, then it was changed to 500,000 form level 100 to 939. At level 939, the XP bar is 1 million. If EA sees too many people farming too many donuts, they could change the XP level ups, and bonuts rounds. Remember how EA raised the prices of houses without any warning to discourage house farming?