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Monorail: Projects Board Daily Caps (Update: Muscular Marge)

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  • ArmpitAttack
    2353 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    anaquarind wrote:
    Let me see if I'm understanding this correctly - if a player has more than 13,500 today, then they should no longer be getting any daily tasks until the day resets?

    Tomorrow, players can get tasks until they hit 18,000 and then the tasks stop again?

    Just wondering, because I don't seem to have that limitation.


    Everyone has that limitation,[removed].
    It's the others sources of blueprints that are pushing you above a total of 13,000. (Friends visits, possums, mystery box day 5 reward of 5K blueprints.)

    So for tomorrow, and for the next few days, you can count on 4500 blueprints from doing projects.... unless you went over that limit significantly on the previous day, then that gets subtracted from what you can do today. THAT'll be the tricky part.... figuring out how much you went over the limit yesterday seems to set the barrier for what you can do today.... and I don't know how we're supposed to know exactly how much we went over the limit each day. Eh.
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  • anaquarind
    1495 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    anaquarind wrote:
    Let me see if I'm understanding this correctly - if a player has more than 13,500 today, then they should no longer be getting any daily tasks until the day resets?

    Tomorrow, players can get tasks until they hit 18,000 and then the tasks stop again?

    Just wondering, because I don't seem to have that limitation.

    it doesn't mean that your overall event total is limited to that -- it just means that the total you earned specifically from the project tasks is limited to that.

    Oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying
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  • adammeadeisd
    596 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    Thanks LP and after reading this thread I'm like
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  • pmiller067
    26 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    petehd14 wrote:
    I'm stuck at 21000. There's no way I got 13.5k bps today.

    OK...The chart makes sense of it really is a total cume of PROJECT BOARD prizes...and not tied to the other blueprint earning at all. I was able to get my 4500+ today, but may be limited by the overage (I ended up cheating the system with 2 large payouts and one smaller one) tomorrow. We'll see....

    But...what is clear...is that **SURPRISE** EA is making this difficult if you need to average 7K a day without spending donuts.

    You need to maximize the payout with neighbors...(at least 30 good ones) and whack your Possums every 4 hours...and clear every stankline...and take your bonus...and you MIGHT have enough.

    We'll see where this goes tomorrow....

  • anaquarind
    1495 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    So given this information, we should all be doing the small tasks so at least we maximize the number of donut rewards we get? Not much point in doing two big ones as opposed to 8-9 small ones assuming that in both cases we get to 4500/day?

    For now we can't use excess metal for anything else anyways.
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  • suetopia
    4235 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    Today I definitely did not hit the cap before I got locked out of the project board - I recieved just above 3500 blueprints. Something isn't right.
  • neuroheart
    8132 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    neuroheart wrote:
    Still makes no sense to me. Yesterday I earned around 3000 blueprints, just doing projects, and then was capped. Same exact thing today. If I can get 4500 per day from projects, where the hell are those other 1500 going?

    Also, this is a stupid system. Major screwup number two for this event :x

    What did you get from projects on Day One? Anything in excess of 4500 on Day One would have rolled over ...
    For two days, though? Possible, but seems unlikely.
  • dustandair
    91 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    I don't see how this cap can be only counting the amount earned from projects. I am at 24,281 and capped for today. That total includes 10,000 from getting the 5,000 5-day bonus twice, so subtracting that and the 13,500 minimum from projects, that would leave only 781 earned other sources, less if the last project put me over today's cap.
  • pmiller067
    26 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    anaquarind wrote:
    So given this information, we should all be doing the small tasks so at least we maximize the number of donut rewards we get? Not much point in doing two big ones as opposed to 8-9 small ones assuming that in both cases we get to 4500/day?

    For now we can't use excess metal for anything else anyways.

    Yep...but it has also been reported that the Donut bit only cycles three times. Anyone else verify this?
  • thatdonald845
    1607 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    Affirmative. Donuts stop after part three.
  • aidx1054
    1554 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    Do we know if the daily bonus that we get from completing a set amount of projects counts towards the limit, It doesn't seem to in my game but it would explain some figures others are reporting
  • empathy77
    4192 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    neuroheart wrote:
    neuroheart wrote:
    Still makes no sense to me. Yesterday I earned around 3000 blueprints, just doing projects, and then was capped. Same exact thing today. If I can get 4500 per day from projects, where the hell are those other 1500 going?

    Also, this is a stupid system. Major screwup number two for this event :x

    What did you get from projects on Day One? Anything in excess of 4500 on Day One would have rolled over ...
    For two days, though? Possible, but seems unlikely.

    Lets say the first day you have 4400 blueprints and then did a 1900 blueprint reward hand it, you rolled over 1800 blueprints into the next day. That means you can only get 2700 on day two, lets say you had 2600 and then did a hand in for 1500, that means 1400 rolled over the day three.

    Did that make sense?
  • jrmynxn651
    21 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    i haven't seen donut one as of yet and on my second cycle ??!!
  • Neglecterino
    5175 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    jrmynxn651 wrote:
    i haven't seen donut one as of yet and on my second cycle ??!!

    When you click the donut in the task book are you on "Project Management: Metal Pt. 2"? Is that what you mean? If so you should have seen a pop-up for 2 donuts.
  • neuroheart
    8132 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    empathy77 wrote:
    neuroheart wrote:
    neuroheart wrote:
    Still makes no sense to me. Yesterday I earned around 3000 blueprints, just doing projects, and then was capped. Same exact thing today. If I can get 4500 per day from projects, where the hell are those other 1500 going?

    Also, this is a stupid system. Major screwup number two for this event :x

    What did you get from projects on Day One? Anything in excess of 4500 on Day One would have rolled over ...
    For two days, though? Possible, but seems unlikely.

    Lets say the first day you have 4400 blueprints and then did a 1900 blueprint reward hand it, you rolled over 1800 blueprints into the next day. That means you can only get 2700 on day two, lets say you had 2600 and then did a hand in for 1500, that means 1400 rolled over the day three.

    Did that make sense?
    Yes, but I did all small projects yesterday, so that much rollover still doesn't really make sense to me.

    Still a stupid system anyway.
  • anaquarind
    1495 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    Affirmative. Donuts stop after part three.

    Oh, this is just getting worse and worse...

    But thanks for verifying...
    I like routine!
  • empathy77
    4192 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    anaquarind wrote:
    Affirmative. Donuts stop after part three.

    Oh, this is just getting worse and worse...

    But thanks for verifying...

    Lame, yay 6 donuts, woohoo
  • annettemarc
    7747 posts Member
    edited August 2015
    empathy77 wrote:
    Lame, yay 6 donuts, woohoo

    (Imagine the possibilities, right?) :?
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  • biancointh327
    2 posts
    edited August 2015
    so I'm still confused i think. that number per day is the max amount you can get from the project board.. only other way to get blue prints if from dumping trash on friends and squishing possums. how am i ever going to earn enough to get all the track pieces and unlock Ray.
  • biancointh327
    2 posts
    edited August 2015
    suetopia wrote:
    Today I definitely did not hit the cap before I got locked out of the project board - I recieved just above 3500 blueprints. Something isn't right.

    i feel the same think happened to me
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