I really need help with KEM farming induced levelling!!
Alrighty, here's the deal:
I've been farming Kwik-e-marts for donuts for a long time now, earning countless mystery boxes and ending up with the Channel 5 News Vans and Itchy & Scratchy billboards. I also have a TON of Lard Lads from all those mystery boxes! I've been building them as cash farms all over my city, but the problem is that it looks terrible! Just wave after wave of the same building, you know?
All that farming has certainly worked, however. I'm just short of 2000x multiplier, and I get many millions of dollars in cash daily. I can also get hundreds of donuts per day if I build and rebuild KEM every four hours. So what it all comes down to is simple - SPACE~
I've been gettings warnings forerver about how the game will not run as well. Since I can build up to three hundred KEM at a time, this adds greatly to my total. I believe I'm up to 10,300 buildings or so WITH the extra marts which I will be selling as usual. I don't know what the absolute max is (where you simply aren't allowed to build more), but I must be nearing it. Obviously that's not a problem for the Lard Lads which I can simply hoard in my stash, although that would be a huge loss of income for me (I have literally HUNDREDS of them!!). The real problem is what to do with the vans and billboards.
Every run nets me more and more of them, and of course I have to put them out for the multiplier bonus, which by now is HUGE! They're starting to make my town look lousy though, as I long ago ran out of discrete locations for them, both in Springfield Heights as well as in town. I got a bit creative and used the billboards as walls (fences) for my vast Lard Lad farms, but it doesn't look great and space is running out. Sooner or later at this rate, I will have reached my absolute max of items but from those two multiplier-growing ones that I can't store.
SO I guess what I'm asking is what you guys did to mitigate this problem? I still have lots more city I want to eventually build, and also store at least SOME of the space-intensive Lard Lads. Where can I put the bonus items such that
1. they won't be overly conspiculous and/or look like garbage
2. I can maintain and increase my multiplier without hitting the building limit?
I know KEM farming is very popular here, so there must be others who have run into this problem as well. I down want my whole Springfield stuffed with signs and vans. When I do decide to get rid of one of my giant Lard Lad fields, I want to build normal structures like the rest of my town, only wouldn't I be giving up a ton of money that several hundred shops for $135 x 2000 every four hours?? That will be a big blow.
Than you guys SO much for your help and consideration! I have been meaning to make this topic for a very long time now
PS. I have some free friends slots available, so if you're interested in joining me, the name is: Bomb319
I've been farming Kwik-e-marts for donuts for a long time now, earning countless mystery boxes and ending up with the Channel 5 News Vans and Itchy & Scratchy billboards. I also have a TON of Lard Lads from all those mystery boxes! I've been building them as cash farms all over my city, but the problem is that it looks terrible! Just wave after wave of the same building, you know?
All that farming has certainly worked, however. I'm just short of 2000x multiplier, and I get many millions of dollars in cash daily. I can also get hundreds of donuts per day if I build and rebuild KEM every four hours. So what it all comes down to is simple - SPACE~
I've been gettings warnings forerver about how the game will not run as well. Since I can build up to three hundred KEM at a time, this adds greatly to my total. I believe I'm up to 10,300 buildings or so WITH the extra marts which I will be selling as usual. I don't know what the absolute max is (where you simply aren't allowed to build more), but I must be nearing it. Obviously that's not a problem for the Lard Lads which I can simply hoard in my stash, although that would be a huge loss of income for me (I have literally HUNDREDS of them!!). The real problem is what to do with the vans and billboards.
Every run nets me more and more of them, and of course I have to put them out for the multiplier bonus, which by now is HUGE! They're starting to make my town look lousy though, as I long ago ran out of discrete locations for them, both in Springfield Heights as well as in town. I got a bit creative and used the billboards as walls (fences) for my vast Lard Lad farms, but it doesn't look great and space is running out. Sooner or later at this rate, I will have reached my absolute max of items but from those two multiplier-growing ones that I can't store.
SO I guess what I'm asking is what you guys did to mitigate this problem? I still have lots more city I want to eventually build, and also store at least SOME of the space-intensive Lard Lads. Where can I put the bonus items such that
1. they won't be overly conspiculous and/or look like garbage
2. I can maintain and increase my multiplier without hitting the building limit?
I know KEM farming is very popular here, so there must be others who have run into this problem as well. I down want my whole Springfield stuffed with signs and vans. When I do decide to get rid of one of my giant Lard Lad fields, I want to build normal structures like the rest of my town, only wouldn't I be giving up a ton of money that several hundred shops for $135 x 2000 every four hours?? That will be a big blow.
Than you guys SO much for your help and consideration! I have been meaning to make this topic for a very long time now
PS. I have some free friends slots available, so if you're interested in joining me, the name is: Bomb319
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Personally I think Lard Lads are quite bad for farming, because they take up so much space. Maybe you should at first think about how many millions of ingame cash you really need every day and build up farms of blue/white/pink houses to earn this money. That should in the end save you some space. Or you look out for the rare multiplier items which earn you ingame cash, like Wailing Walls, Elf Houses or Snake-Trees (forgot the actual name). Normally these are quite expenisve and only available during a short period of time, but with your set up and multiplier it should be no problem to build up a (small) farm.
I loved nuking my town.
Warning though the inventory is a nightmare!
My suggestion is with your multiplier that high you could cut out some excess. You won't be making what you were but you can free the clutter. By the sound of it you have no issue with donuts currently anyways. That's what I'd do with the mutiplier that high. Just start removing excess and see how much it's affecting your donut ratio. Then whatever you can deal with, go with that.
KEM farming is for poor people...
Or people with a low XP percentage.
And probably when I'm happy with my donuts/money reserve, I will store the Lard Lads.
I'm near 2000% and I feel like I'm losing bonuts using RTT's (the math is awkard, should get more boxes that I get), so I buy bunches of 5 Tiki Bar's who gives me the right amount of bonuts.
My friend list is at full capacity but with new events there's always a drop out so send me a request then?
I gotta say it again. I loved nuking my town
I will send you a request when the event starts then
It would be very nice to stop the KEM farming, at least. It's not like I really even need the money anymore with the exception of events, and Cecil's stuff. I've done rat traps too, of course. It's not really farming per se though, is it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the procedure here:
1. Get million of dollars
2. Build as many rat traps as you can
3. Collect donut bonuses
4. Sell all rat traps
5. Repeat
6. ???
7. Profit!
Am I missing anything? I've bought so much extra land for farming too...just taking the time to build 300 KEMs is getting to be too much. It's just that I've been playing this game since 2012 and don't want to screw it up, you know? That's why nuking scares the HELL out of me! When I think about all the hours spent on SF Heights and building my freaking monorail piece-by-piece...rebuilding it all would take FOREVER! On the other hand, those vast fields of Lard Lads while very lucrative, look terrible and are contrary to my original vision. My SF Heights is also messy and always has been.
I have to keep my multiplier bonus up though, and that means I STILL need to find a good spot for the many hundreds of vans and billboards, even if I get rid of all the Lard Lads. Anyone have some advice about where to put those two bonus items? It's also a real shame that they count as buildings because won't I inevitably be cut off from building anymore because those many bonus items capped my building limit??
Then I eliminated ugly SH buildings and farms.
Right now I'm replacing low multiplier items with higher multiplier ones: benches, flower planters, white fences, replacing regular items with premium versions (like chicken coops), placing BBQ Pigs instead of billboards (pigs are 2.5%, have 1x2 footprint and easy to hide behind buildings). That will give me another couple of hundred %s.
I'm more or less done with boosting my stats. I get all I can buy (including paying with doughnuts for crafting during the events) and I don't see any good reason to have an excess of doughnuts which I cannot spend.
Don't fear the NUKE its fun
Build the city of your dreams...
I started playing just after thoh2012, my new design is such an improvement! I left out the monorail and that increased performance a lot. My kem farm and billboards are now in SH, news vans on the far right column so I can easily move them to the right if new land comes available. If you reach your item cap, I think most sea stuff counts for 2, deleting them will give you more leverage
My advice is utilize your lard lad farm to keep buying stuff, but not mystery boxes anymore. It's really a simple solution.....step back and think of how sad you'll be when you have nothing left to purchase......so what's the point of 5000%?? You'll have everything bought then be drooling for events to spend, rushing all tasks....not fun, not needed. I suggest start utilizing your donuts for stuff that you'll be excited to place in your town. Even if it is expensive. Look at other towns and get creative ideas.....
Do you think you can create cool theme areas? What would make good center pieces.....?? How can you build an area and what items can you use that give bonus? Thinking along these lines is just way more fun...
And hiding billboards and vans is fun too. Go to any advance town and tap around you'll hear billboards behind all kinds of things.
You WILL have way more fun farming those KEM if you are doing it to buy cool items NOT the same lard lad,van,billboard cycle. I can guarantee that. Once your enjoying it, your doing it right.
Also if anyone followed me this far. Has anyone put the pyre behind a tank? I'd like to see how it looks as I want to create a war theme I have a lot of ideas but I need to know if I can make the tanks look a bit blown up.
I'm also getting the impression that most of you suggest that I do in fact KEEP MY BILLBOARDS AND VANS. Just find better hiding places. I used to hide them in SH, but after awhile there are no places left - good or bad. As far as the nuke goes....it still scares me! We're talking about a town started in 2012. Do you know how many hours I've spent, arranging and rearranging houses, trees, and everything else?? I've always disliked my SH, so I can see nuking that and hiding my stuff among it better as well. But you can't nuke SH without nuking everything, right? I suppose the best I can do is just mass-tuck everything away in my inventory?
Thanks again for all the tips, guys. It's very much appreciated. If you can think of anything else that I either should be doing, or things I'm doing that I really shouldn't, by all means please point them out to me!
Remember, I remain a VERY active player, and still have several free spots. Feel free to add me at any time
- Bomb319
Or just NUKE the lot
I've been playing since 2013, level 939 and bonus 3000% best thing I did was nuke.
Shall I mention NUKE one more time?
NUKE NUKE NUKE NUKE NUKE NUKE NUKE
If your shy about nuking, use your income from the lard lads to buy a huge chunk if you can still buy land then think about what you want there! Most people do theme areas. So in your new area drag over items that fit what you want to do, farm for what you need and can buy. Repeat....eventually areas will get sparse and the land buying won't be necessary. Replace 1 unit billboards over time with 2-3% single items to help your item count....