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MONORAIL Q & A AND STRATEGY

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  • suetopia
    4243 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    This is crazy, so the amount of projects you do isn't based on the amount of blueprints you get in exchange, or a limit to the number of exchanges you do? There's clearly a limit, because we're being stopped from doing loads each day, so what is it?

    What I've been getting from what people have posted, and my own experience, is that the amount of project board tasks/exchanges you can complete in a day is based on the amount of blueprints - there is a limit of how many blueprints you can get from the exchanges/project board tasks. I think the estimate of 4000-5000 sounds right.

    So you get blueprints from:
    -exchanges/project board tasks (seems about 4000-5000 is the limit for this)
    -blueprints for the daily bonus (can't remember the amount)
    -friend visits/visiting friends
    -possums
    -Little Lisa Slurry building

    Am I missing any?
    I could be completely wrong about this...


    Does that make any sense? (there is so much info it seems like nothing is making sense any more :lol: )
  • AOFIGO009
    1306 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    suetopia wrote:
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    This is crazy, so the amount of projects you do isn't based on the amount of blueprints you get in exchange, or a limit to the number of exchanges you do? There's clearly a limit, because we're being stopped from doing loads each day, so what is it?

    What I've been getting from what people have posted, and my own experience, is that the amount of project board tasks/exchanges you can complete in a day is based on the amount of blueprints - there is a limit of how many blueprints you can get from the exchanges/project board tasks.

    Does that make any sense? (there is so much info it seems like nothing is making sense any more :lol: )

    See, I thought that too, but then what's the cap? One person has said they were capped at just over 4,000 while another said they were capped at
    It-s-over-9000-its-over-9000-29849302-496-370.jpg
    Hey guys, I'm AO (not AOF). I create and run the Event Strategy Threads.
  • AOFIGO009
    1306 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    aidx1054 wrote:
    Act 1 calendar thanks to tsto addicts:
    act-one-calendar.png?w=686&h=491

    Aidx, can you send me the link for this so that I can put it on the front page? Just send it to me with *** instead of otherwise it won't work, I'll add in that part later.  Although I wonder right now what use this will be. It's pot luck if you get 8,123 per day.
    Hey guys, I'm AO (not AOF). I create and run the Event Strategy Threads.
  • suetopia
    4243 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    suetopia wrote:
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    This is crazy, so the amount of projects you do isn't based on the amount of blueprints you get in exchange, or a limit to the number of exchanges you do? There's clearly a limit, because we're being stopped from doing loads each day, so what is it?

    What I've been getting from what people have posted, and my own experience, is that the amount of project board tasks/exchanges you can complete in a day is based on the amount of blueprints - there is a limit of how many blueprints you can get from the exchanges/project board tasks.

    Does that make any sense? (there is so much info it seems like nothing is making sense any more :lol: )

    See, I thought that too, but then what's the cap? One person has said they were capped at just over 4,000 while another said they were capped at
    It-s-over-9000-its-over-9000-29849302-496-370.jpg

    I edited my post to include what I'm guessing is the cap. It seems that is the most consistently reported number... But again I very well could be wrong.
  • sibemento
    5 posts
    edited August 2015
    I'm stuck (or dumb, or missed the lesson).

    City Dump is full, what do I do with the trash now?
    I've handed in some to the Project Board and turning some more over to the Metal Depot (which take 60mins) but City Dump fills up again in just a few minutes.

    Am i missing something?
  • Aidx1054
    1558 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    Aidx, can you send me the link for this so that I can put it on the front page? Just send it to me with *** instead of otherwise it won't work, I'll add in that part later.  Although I wonder right now what use this will be. It's pot luck if you get 8,123 per day.

    I pm'd it to you, did I send it right?
  • Aidx1054
    1558 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    sibemento wrote:
    I'm stuck (or dumb, or missed the lesson).

    City Dump is full, what do I do with the trash now?
    I've handed in some to the Project Board and turning some more over to the Metal Depot (which take 60mins) but City Dump fills up again in just a few minutes.

    Am i missing something?

    In later acts we will get more buildings that use the trash but for now it's okay to fill the dump quickly
  • Shirtless_Willie
    895 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    bette3900 wrote:
    It may have been mentioned already but apparently you can only hand in so many projects a day. I am a bit annoyed as one more trade would have gotten me the next prize. Oh well, I'll get it first thing in the morning.

    Bugs the crap out of me. It wasn't so bad yesterday since I didn't get the update and start working on things until late afternoon, but today I was out of projects before lunch. Seems like EA is trying to make it very hard to get enough blueprints to get all the prizes without spending doughnuts.
  • AOFIGO009
    1306 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    aidx1054 wrote:
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    Aidx, can you send me the link for this so that I can put it on the front page? Just send it to me with *** instead of otherwise it won't work, I'll add in that part later.  Although I wonder right now what use this will be. It's pot luck if you get 8,123 per day.

    I pm'd it to you, did I send it right?

    Yeah all good, I'll make sure it works later. Thanks!
    Hey guys, I'm AO (not AOF). I create and run the Event Strategy Threads.
  • AOFIGO009
    1306 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    suetopia wrote:
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    This is crazy, so the amount of projects you do isn't based on the amount of blueprints you get in exchange, or a limit to the number of exchanges you do? There's clearly a limit, because we're being stopped from doing loads each day, so what is it?

    What I've been getting from what people have posted, and my own experience, is that the amount of project board tasks/exchanges you can complete in a day is based on the amount of blueprints - there is a limit of how many blueprints you can get from the exchanges/project board tasks. I think the estimate of 4000-5000 sounds right.

    So you get blueprints from:
    -exchanges/project board tasks (seems about 4000-5000 is the limit for this)
    -blueprints for the daily bonus (can't remember the amount)
    -friend visits/visiting friends
    -possums
    -Little Lisa Slurry building

    Am I missing any?
    I could be completely wrong about this...


    Does that make any sense? (there is so much info it seems like nothing is making sense any more :lol: )

    That doesn't answer for the 9,000+ amount. And some people have had as low as 2,000. There's still something going on here we aren't getting. Those figures don't also come close to matching the 8,123 blueprints we need per day. Argh!!
    Hey guys, I'm AO (not AOF). I create and run the Event Strategy Threads.
  • kierandfishe
    22 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    I've worked out that you need to be awake for 16 hours a day minimum, be able to login every 4 hours in order to do the possums and lisa slurry, tap on all your friends towns PLUS earn 4.5k minimum to get everything by the end of the time.

    add on that you get the 5k every 5 days from daily bonus.

    I hope they add more upgradable scenarios in terms of boosting the possums to support us in getting act one completed.
  • bette3900
    913 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    AOFIGO009 wrote:
    Has it been speculated that the daily Project Board tasks are somehow connected to the quest "Project Management: Metal"?

    You mean it could be that way until we finish getting those donuts??

    I don't know what you mean by "that way". I meant that what we see as the daily tasks might somehow be related to where we are in that quest. I would have thought they were mostly unrelated, but maybe not.

    In my RTTF town, I finished part 1 of that quest by doing low value hand-ins until I'd done 10 of them. Got 2 donuts. Today I'm on part 2 started with 0/100 and 0/10. I decided to do the big payoffs today. So easily got 100/100 and have turned in the first hand-in.

    Edit: Wrong pic.

    Next hand-in will now be 2116 Blueprints for 165 metal, or 1146 for 90, or 373 for 30 metal and 50 garbage.

    And in my A-town, where I'm still on part 1 of the quest, I have this ...

    nqvNhsal.png

    Note the big payout is in the middle instead of the far right.



    By that way, I mean we could be allowed to do limited exchanges until we complete the quests that gift donuts?

    And after that there'll be no limit? Might be. I guess we'll have to see as there is no way of donuting your way through.
  • Aidx1054
    1558 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    Did anyone else notice that TSTO friends basically copied and pasted my "earning blueprints" comment into one of his posts?
    I'm not sure if I'm mad because of plagiarism or happy because my work has been deemed acceptable by a popular TSTO website.

    I'll let it slide this time TSTO friends.
  • S0Refined
    84 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    bette3900 wrote:
    It may have been mentioned already but apparently you can only hand in so many projects a day. I am a bit annoyed as one more trade would have gotten me the next prize. Oh well, I'll get it first thing in the morning.

    Bugs the crap out of me. It wasn't so bad yesterday since I didn't get the update and start working on things until late afternoon, but today I was out of projects before lunch. Seems like EA is trying to make it very hard to get enough blueprints to get all the prizes without spending doughnuts.

    This describes my scenario today, too. I got the two daily task projects, and now I am locked out until tomorrow. I guess this is the event for people who don't check into their Springfields much.

    If there is a limit of 4-5k or somethingish, do we need to worry about a future daily task requiring 3 projects where the limit is reached before doing 3 projects? There's not really much about Tapped Out that ever makes me "mad" but that would.
  • Grumpstown
    1361 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    aidx1054 wrote:
    Did anyone else notice that TSTO friends basically copied and pasted my "earning blueprints" comment into one of his posts?
    I'm not sure if I'm mad because of plagiarism or happy because my work has been deemed acceptable by a popular TSTO website.

    I'll let it slide this time TSTO friends.
    i never even heard of that page :lol:
  • Aidx1054
    1558 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    Sebastian just tired out on me :( Here's the stats I gathered from today:
    I completed 6 projects (1 small, 1 medium, 4 large)
    In total I gained 6196 blueprints from projects, so if we are working on the assumption that the limit is based on blueprints earned my limit is between 5243 and 6196
    Also something I think is worth noting all my tasks had cycled back to the lowest payouts when I reached the limit.
  • bud2046
    62 posts
    edited August 2015
    Okay, I’ve been looking at the post on the TSTO Addicts blog where the above calender for the blueprints is from and in the comments Bunny from the Addicts seems totally surprised by people reporting about the “cap” and saying they can’t earn 8100 prints.
    She wrote that she was able to continue handing projects in even after completing the daily combo and that she has now earned way more than 13.000 prints from projects today.

    With some people here reporting this too, I am slowly suspecting that what we are facing is not some kind of mysterious cap, but maybe, just maybe another – tadaaaa!! – glitch!

    What do you guys think? Could that be possible?
  • bette3900
    913 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    bud2046 wrote:
    Okay, I’ve been looking at the post on the TSTO Addicts blog where the above calender for the blueprints is from and in the comments Bunny from the Addicts seems totally surprised by people reporting about the “cap” and saying they can’t earn 8100 prints.
    She wrote that she was able to continue handing projects in even after completing the daily combo and that she has now earned way more than 13.000 prints from projects today.

    With some people here reporting this too, I am slowly suspecting that what we are facing is not some kind of mysterious cap, but maybe, just maybe another – tadaaaa!! – glitch!

    What do you guys think? Could that be possible?

    Whaaaat? A glitch? No way! EA's games are always flawless.
  • bud2046
    62 posts
    edited August 2015
    bette3900 wrote:
    bud2046 wrote:
    Okay, I’ve been looking at the post on the TSTO Addicts blog where the above calender for the blueprints is from and in the comments Bunny from the Addicts seems totally surprised by people reporting about the “cap” and saying they can’t earn 8100 prints.
    She wrote that she was able to continue handing projects in even after completing the daily combo and that she has now earned way more than 13.000 prints from projects today.

    With some people here reporting this too, I am slowly suspecting that what we are facing is not some kind of mysterious cap, but maybe, just maybe another – tadaaaa!! – glitch!

    What do you guys think? Could that be possible?

    Whaaaat? A glitch? No way! EA's games are always flawless.

    Well, yes, of course, how could I forget? Okay, let's call it a "feature" then... ;-)
  • Neglecterino
    5175 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    Grumpstown wrote:
    aidx1054 wrote:
    Did anyone else notice that TSTO friends basically copied and pasted my "earning blueprints" comment into one of his posts?
    I'm not sure if I'm mad because of plagiarism or happy because my work has been deemed acceptable by a popular TSTO website.

    I'll let it slide this time TSTO friends.
    i never even heard of that page :lol:

    +1 :!:

    I never go there.
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