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Coins are making me have dark thoughts about house farming...

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Do you pay 50 coins PER HOUSE or once you get one you get them all? I'd consider farming maybe one...or two...or 10 :shock:

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  • SNE4K
    241 posts
    edited December 2012
    Well after finding out the decorations effect every house of the same type..I also realised more houses of the same type = coins all day long !!!

    I then went I started to build afew more brown houses and pink houses..

    Mainly because I didn't realise how cheap they was for starters...it had been so long since I built the earlier houses I didn't realise they cost practically nothing..

    But personally I won't be going as far as farming...I barely have any houses as it is until I eventfully have Anouilh room to place the houses in a street organised style
  • cassiayoung
    82 posts Member
    edited December 2012
    Don't do it!!!
  • elsie_d
    722 posts Member
    edited December 2012
    http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/90/9150258.page#26116680

    One coin (translates to total of five) per house type. Sorry, I was referring to the floating image of the coin as it appears to represent treats per multiple house when in reality the coin over each house of the same type simply means you can obtain the " payout" once per house type. An earlier poster must have seen the coin icon over each house and assumed the 5-coin payout would be for each house of the same type.
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  • Nine9Nines
    930 posts New member
    edited December 2012
    Doesn't work like that. You only get 5 coins/day from each house type, regardless of how many houses you have.

    1 brown house = 5 coins/day
    50 brown houses = 5 coins/day

    There's no coin benefit whatsoever to house farms.

    And for the other question, you only have to buy the decoration once, and it will be displayed on each house of that type. You don't have to buy it for each specific house.
  • shockman85
    265 posts
    edited December 2012
    It's my understanding that you get coins per house type, and not per house. Can anyone confirm/refute this?


    Too slow on the draw again!
  • ctex05748
    150 posts
    edited December 2012
    "I won't delete you, just silently judge you from my well decorated Cool Brown House. " :lol:
    Full points awarded for that line.

    Not sure yet how much time pressure there will be to accumulate Christmas coins... accumulating Halloween currency and acquiring Halloween items was no problem, but of course the logistics are different with this update. I'd certainly consider farming if I thought it was the only way to complete Christmas quests/obtain Christmas schwag in time. Doesn't seem like EA would design it that way, though.
  • ch498859
    13 posts
    edited December 2012
    Nine9Nines wrote:
    Doesn't work like that. You only get 5 coins/day from each house type, regardless of how many houses you have.

    1 brown house = 5 coins/day
    50 brown houses = 5 coins/day

    There's no coin benefit whatsoever to house farms.

    So there it is. My town will remain pure. I had a dream of a field of coins with Bart dressed as Mario collecting like a fiend for an extra life.

    Back to judging from afar.

    Thanks for the info!
  • Nine9Nines
    930 posts New member
    edited December 2012
    ctex05748 wrote:
    "I won't delete you, just silently judge you from my well decorated Cool Brown House. " :lol:
    Full points awarded for that line.

    Not sure yet how much time pressure there will be to accumulate Christmas coins... accumulating Halloween currency and acquiring Halloween items was no problem, but of course the logistics are different with this update. I'd certainly consider farming if I thought it was the only way to complete Christmas quests/obtain Christmas schwag in time. Doesn't seem like EA would design it that way, though.

    I don't think there's going to be much pressure for regular players, especially if you visit friends daily.

    100 friends = potentially 300 coins/day
    Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge, Ned tasks can total around 70 coins/day
    Tree - 10 coins/day
    Houses - 65 coins/day (75 if you have Frinks Lab and the Volcano Lair)

    That's potentially 445 coins a day without spending any donuts. Plus you get coin rewards for finishing xmas tasks on top of that.

    In total, you'll need 4,850 coins to get everything. At 445/day, that's less than 11 days, and the event goes until the 3rd of January. If you were to keep at it until the event finished, you'd be able to get well over 10,000 coins without spending any donuts.
  • torch21wood
    11 posts
    edited December 2012
    Nine9Nines wrote:
    Doesn't work like that. You only get 5 coins/day from each house type, regardless of how many houses you have.

    1 brown house = 5 coins/day
    50 brown houses = 5 coins/day

    There's no coin benefit whatsoever to house farms.

    And for the other question, you only have to buy the decoration once, and it will be displayed on each house of that type. You don't have to buy it for each specific house.

    Thank you very much! :)
  • ch498859
    13 posts
    edited December 2012
    @ Nine9Nines

    Yea I put my name on the webs today for the first time. Already had 5 friends I know who play the game. Have 100 friends now.

    This updates Ridiculous :wink:
  • Nine9Nines
    930 posts New member
    edited December 2012
    ch498859 wrote:
    @ Nine9Nines

    Yea I put my name on the webs today for the first time. Already had 5 friends I know who play the game. Have 100 friends now.

    This updates Ridiculous :wink:

    It doesn't take long to acquire new friends around here. Especially right after an update like this when everyone is hunting for them. :wink:

    I agree, great update. I was starting to get a little bored with the game, but this update has me going strong again.
  • lyonsek
    103 posts
    edited December 2012
    Thank Nine...great reply. No plans to hours farm here.
  • laramcmahon
    75 posts
    edited December 2012
    Nines, you are a legend. Wish you still had friend spots!
  • ctex05748
    150 posts
    edited December 2012
    Thanks, Nines, for calming us all down.

    Anyone want to guess the date of the first post complaining that the snow is getting boring? I'm going to say Dec. 12.
  • sonny1618
    1543 posts New member
    edited December 2012
    Nine9Nines wrote:
    In total, you'll need 4,850 coins to get everything. At 445/day, that's less than 11 days, and the event goes until the 3rd of January. If you were to keep at it until the event finished, you'd be able to get well over 10,000 coins without spending any donuts.

    Of course, initially you have to spend some of those coins per day on purchasing the decorations to begin with so it will likely be a bit longer than 11 days but it should still be easily doable in a month.
  • angryeraser
    9 posts
    edited December 2012
    Really, the benefit is to visit the house farmers so that you can quickly click on any of the multitude of decorated homes without having to hunt around.
  • sonny1618
    1543 posts New member
    edited December 2012
    Hunting around is part of the fun and encourages people to actually view their friend's Springfields.
    People just running in, hitting the first three things they see and skedaddling always seemed lame to me.
  • zuzupj
    1452 posts Member
    edited December 2012
    I like looking at everyone's towns. I know I put a lot of time into decorating mine, so it's nice to see what others have come up with.
  • lisamaseyk
    55 posts
    edited December 2012
    Yes , I love looking for houses now instead of graffiti sites, nice change. Wonder now if righteous stars will go down? Oh well given up on those to an extent anyway.
  • Nine9Nines
    930 posts New member
    edited December 2012
    sonny1618 wrote:
    Nine9Nines wrote:
    In total, you'll need 4,850 coins to get everything. At 445/day, that's less than 11 days, and the event goes until the 3rd of January. If you were to keep at it until the event finished, you'd be able to get well over 10,000 coins without spending any donuts.

    Of course, initially you have to spend some of those coins per day on purchasing the decorations to begin with so it will likely be a bit longer than 11 days but it should still be easily doable in a month.

    Yes, very true. However, the coins you get from the houses are a relatively small percentage of the possible daily total. Plus, each time you add decorations to a house, you get 10 coins back as a reward for completing the task.
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