From what I've read around here the Springfield Sign is a big earner. Or is it all the same and just multiplies based on the number of premium items? Would a 200 doughnut Santa Village be the same as a Tyre Fire?
Huzzah! Just wanted to put in my results today after testing this method. First I visited a bunch of towns to identify my "seed" town. Aha, lots of primo decorations. All of it, perhaps, in multiples. Excellent. As a little pre-test I spent about 5-10 minutes going in and out without tapping, then went to another friend and tapped once. Can't recall XP but cash was over $100 - and in a normal evening of going through all 100 friends at once, I top out around $110. WOW. Okay, convinced. So tonight I put on two episodes of Merlin :-) Spent one episode (they're about 40 minutes) tapping in and out of my seed Springfield (somewhat leisurely) and the second episode going through my friends. I didn't add any further complexity or go in and out without tapping in any other premium-heavy towns. Just did a basic run. Here are the stats:
Starting cash: $181, 085
First house tap: 66xp and between $900 and $1000
Last house tap: 73xp and $1084
Ending cash: about $312K HOLY CHRISTMAS
(way maxed on xp so didn't track but math tells me it was about 23,400)
Huge thanks to the OP and the others who discovered and developed this method, you guys are awesome! My previous high in the bank was $190K so this is EXCITING!
"Seed" town is a good term. Does anyone here have a town like this? I'm not looking to fill my friend's list with premium only players. But one seed town would be nice...
That's it. If you have ANY type of house farm, your A.S.S. is being deleted. Especially if you are over level 20. I'm sick of your **ty looking Springfield's making my game crash when all I am trying to do is graffiti your buildings. I don't know how you can log into your Springfield and say "damn my town looks good" when you have 45 *****cking pink houses, 50 *****king blue houses, and 100 *****king brown houses. Yes, I said it. YOUR SPRINGFIELD LOOKS LIKE ****. So for all of you that are maxed out at 100 neighbors and have house farms, you will have space for a fellow farmer come tomorrow morning. Blow me.
You inspired me to reduce the size of my brown house apartment complex from 60 houses to 44 houses. I don't tap them anymore, but I spent a lot of time on it and I don't have a better use for the land it occupies at the moment.
I also have a 44 purple houses in my suburban neighborhood, but they all have driveways connected to roads, with trees in the small yards. Sorry if the design aesthetic doesn't appeal to you, but it is quite true to form with the community I live in, though the houses are mostly beige rather than purple. This was also a long time in the making.
Both of these started out as house farms, later converted to "slightly less ugly" house farms, but now are entirely design-oriented elements that make up the character of my town. True, there are a lot of these two house types in my town, but I have to disagree if you think that this makes my town look like ****.
From what I've read around here the Springfield Sign is a big earner. Or is it all the same and just multiplies based on the number of premium items? Would a 200 doughnut Santa Village be the same as a Tyre Fire?
It seems to be based on your premium item bonus multiplier, so only items that earn a bonus for you will help your friends. These are the "useless" decorative items that don't earn cash or give you a character/outfit.
The Springfield sign earns the most of any single item, but doesn't give a great bonus by itself. One of my most lucrative neighbors doesn't have the sign, but has tons of white picket fencing and premium benches. Those actually give more bang for the buck than the sign, but if you're going to spend real money on decorations, you can't really skip over such an iconic feature.
-- Is this visiting bonus still happening after the valentines update?
I started playing in the last week of january, and didnt have friends until after update. When visiting, I'm only getting $18 and 3 XP per valentine i click on. And only $16 and 2 XP when clicking dollar signs, etc. it does not seem to increase even though i visit about 50 friends in a sitting.
-- Also, the walkthrough stated each valentine clicked in a friends SF would yield 0-3 hearts. Do you actually see multiple hearts pop up? Or do i need to take careful notes of my visits and check my heart tally when i go "home?"
-- Is there a thread or faq about how to be a good neighbor? For example, should i try to click on their most valuable house or property so they get more money? Or does it not matter?
Lastly, HUGE thank you to all the hard work contributed to these FAQs, walkthroughs and notes. It really has helped me get up to speed.
-- Is this visiting bonus still happening after the valentines update?
I started playing in the last week of january, and didnt have friends until after update. When visiting, I'm only getting $18 and 3 XP per valentine i click on. And only $16 and 2 XP when clicking dollar signs, etc. it does not seem to increase even though i visit about 50 friends in a sitting.
-- Also, the walkthrough stated each valentine clicked in a friends SF would yield 0-3 hearts. Do you actually see multiple hearts pop up? Or do i need to take careful notes of my visits and check my heart tally when i go "home?"
-- Is there a thread or faq about how to be a good neighbor? For example, should i try to click on their most valuable house or property so they get more money? Or does it not matter?
Lastly, HUGE thank you to all the hard work contributed to these FAQs, walkthroughs and notes. It really has helped me get up to speed.
Julianabr
1. The friend bonus/glitch (depending on your point of view) was eliminated in the last update, meaning your per-tap reward no longer goes up if you jump in and out of neighbors' towns multiple times in a row without tapping.
2. Each valentine you tap in a neighbor's town will yield zero or one hearts, so for your three taps, you'll get somewhere from zero to three hearts total. Tapping a valentine in your own town always yields a heart.
3. There are some threads, and some varying opinions about being a good neighbor. The forum's search function is kinda spotty but maybe putting "good neighbor" in quotes might help. Neighbors get the same dollar reward regardless of which building you tap... some say you should tap higher value buildings because it restarts the clock for a new payout sooner, others don't like it when their collection schedule for the higher value buildings is disrupted.
Normally, the most helpful thing you can do for neighbors is to graffitti (sp?) their school, Moe's Tavern, police station, or town hall, since they can't do that for themselves and that way they can get money from those buildings and improve their righteousness rating.
During special updates, like Christmas or Valentine's, you might want to focus on something else, depending on how the update is structured. For Valentine's, the friendliest neighbor strategy was to tap valentine cards so that your neighbors could collect hearts... at least at first. Now that most players have purchased all the items that are available for hearts, it's uncertain whether we'll have the chance to turn our leftover hearts into donuts or cash, or if they'll just disappear.
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From what I've read around here the Springfield Sign is a big earner. Or is it all the same and just multiplies based on the number of premium items? Would a 200 doughnut Santa Village be the same as a Tyre Fire?
Starting cash: $181, 085
First house tap: 66xp and between $900 and $1000
Last house tap: 73xp and $1084
Ending cash: about $312K
(way maxed on xp so didn't track but math tells me it was about 23,400)
Huge thanks to the OP and the others who discovered and developed this method, you guys are awesome! My previous high in the bank was $190K so this is EXCITING!
I also have a 44 purple houses in my suburban neighborhood, but they all have driveways connected to roads, with trees in the small yards. Sorry if the design aesthetic doesn't appeal to you, but it is quite true to form with the community I live in, though the houses are mostly beige rather than purple. This was also a long time in the making.
Both of these started out as house farms, later converted to "slightly less ugly" house farms, but now are entirely design-oriented elements that make up the character of my town. True, there are a lot of these two house types in my town, but I have to disagree if you think that this makes my town look like ****.
The Springfield sign earns the most of any single item, but doesn't give a great bonus by itself. One of my most lucrative neighbors doesn't have the sign, but has tons of white picket fencing and premium benches. Those actually give more bang for the buck than the sign, but if you're going to spend real money on decorations, you can't really skip over such an iconic feature.
I have just about everything purchased including Springfield sign, volcano etc
Ianonabeach
Add me: lawler201
-- Is this visiting bonus still happening after the valentines update?
I started playing in the last week of january, and didnt have friends until after update. When visiting, I'm only getting $18 and 3 XP per valentine i click on. And only $16 and 2 XP when clicking dollar signs, etc. it does not seem to increase even though i visit about 50 friends in a sitting.
-- Also, the walkthrough stated each valentine clicked in a friends SF would yield 0-3 hearts. Do you actually see multiple hearts pop up? Or do i need to take careful notes of my visits and check my heart tally when i go "home?"
-- Is there a thread or faq about how to be a good neighbor? For example, should i try to click on their most valuable house or property so they get more money? Or does it not matter?
Lastly, HUGE thank you to all the hard work contributed to these FAQs, walkthroughs and notes. It really has helped me get up to speed.
Julianabr
1. The friend bonus/glitch (depending on your point of view) was eliminated in the last update, meaning your per-tap reward no longer goes up if you jump in and out of neighbors' towns multiple times in a row without tapping.
2. Each valentine you tap in a neighbor's town will yield zero or one hearts, so for your three taps, you'll get somewhere from zero to three hearts total. Tapping a valentine in your own town always yields a heart.
3. There are some threads, and some varying opinions about being a good neighbor. The forum's search function is kinda spotty but maybe putting "good neighbor" in quotes might help. Neighbors get the same dollar reward regardless of which building you tap... some say you should tap higher value buildings because it restarts the clock for a new payout sooner, others don't like it when their collection schedule for the higher value buildings is disrupted.
Normally, the most helpful thing you can do for neighbors is to graffitti (sp?) their school, Moe's Tavern, police station, or town hall, since they can't do that for themselves and that way they can get money from those buildings and improve their righteousness rating.
During special updates, like Christmas or Valentine's, you might want to focus on something else, depending on how the update is structured. For Valentine's, the friendliest neighbor strategy was to tap valentine cards so that your neighbors could collect hearts... at least at first. Now that most players have purchased all the items that are available for hearts, it's uncertain whether we'll have the chance to turn our leftover hearts into donuts or cash, or if they'll just disappear.
And for you, hwolff, i've just bought a few extra trains and then sold them for $1000 cash. Helped me a few times when i was short on cash.
Julianabr