Board Thread:Tapped Out Help/@comment-10662082-20130610050852/@comment-54.221.29.234-20140602122006

Brown house farms are great for early frequent players to build revenue fast early on, and save a few dozen brown houses (even if you go nuts with 100+ and then pare down to make room) for neighbors to click on. I keep my farm of 42 brown houses in the center, where the game loads up, along with 30 Kwik-E-Marts, then I built up 800 blue houses around the perimeter of the town, leaving room to build a decently laid out town. I get over 500,000 every 8 hours just from my blue houses, but then again I get over 340% bonus from all my premium decorations.

I wasted a few too many donuts on low efficiency profit boosting premium decorations before I finally got the Jet Engine Bike unlocked and did the math. White picket fences are the basic profit booster and one of the first you can use. You get 3 free Burning Bush decorations as you buy land expansions (and I got a few from Homer Buddahs) but they are inefficient at only 0.5% extra money and XP for 20 Doughnuts. There are plenty of items that give 2% bonus for 40 Doughnuts, the same as placing 40 White Picket Fences, and take up less room ( even if you double up the fence segments, something I figured out by accident, I do have some double rows of WPF between my Brown Houses) but if you can wait till you unlock the Jet Engine Bike (somewhere in the mid 30's, level wise I think) it give a 2.0% bonus for only 30 Doughnuts!!!

I have a farm of over 100 Jet Engine Bikes now, and I add to it whenever I build up 30 Doughnuts from finding them while visiting neighbors and from the bonus levels (you supposedly can get some randomly from the balloon game in "Sideshow You" at Krustyland, but I've yet to get one after 100+ tries, maybe someday I'll get lucky). I have bought Doughnuts for the game before (several Golden Scratch-R tickets and a few boatloads of Doughnuts) to get all the good premium buildings and characters, but now that I'm getting a decent amount from the bonus levels and while visiting neighbors, I doubt I'll buy more, unless they come out with some awesome limited time premium content that is must have.

Oh, and there is a way, sort of, to buy Doughnuts with in-game cash. When you get to the bonus levels you get a chance for 1-3 Doughnuts, if you pick 1 or 2 Doughnuts you can pay 50,000 cash to try again, I've even done it after I missed on the second try. It cost me $100,000 but I got 3 Doughnuts instead of 1 (that I got on my first try that particular time) and I get over $2,000,000 a day now so spending $50,000 or $100,000 for extra tries to get all 3 Doughnuts each bonus level is worth it. Of course, I have gotten lucky and picked the box with 3 Doughnuts on the first try a few times.

Which reminds me, increasing your bonus multiplier not only helps you earn more money, it also helps you level up faster, hit the level cap faster, and get more bonus levels between level cap increases (I'm glad to see that when a new level is introduced and one levels up to the new level cap, the XP needed to get bonus levels resets back down to the next tier above the XP for the current level cap).