Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-24335865-20150906212132/@comment-26561761-20150912175131

WizzFizz7 wrote: Jrherbaugh wrote:

Well, there are a ton of premium items, and you would need to max out the rail yard for 50 weeks to just buy Barney's Bowlarama. It's kind of a mirage.

Exactly. Right on the money. It's a mirage.

EA are introducing too many premium items. Not only that, they're overpricing a great majority of said items.

In my opinion, the monorail should have been introduced in the same manner as Springfield Heights; Permanent and non-premuim. It is a mirage for freemium players and those unlucky enough to miss the event.

It's all for the money though. This is EA's way of forcing people into buying donuts with actual money. It is their way of turning a profit. Making money from a free game by introducing a premium currency isn't a bad thing. Unfortunately there's just soooo many items that cost donuts that for many players, getting everything in the game is impossible unless we fork out the cash. Which I, for one, am not prepared to do.

It's a way to have a permanent donut generator in your town. Sure, it'll take a lot of time with that alone to recoup the investment, at least is a secure way to get donuts, as long as you have the time to grind for them.

The Whole money thing was always present, of course they want you to use your money to get donuts, it has always been that way. If you're really planning to get as much premiums as possible in a completely freemium way, you need to maximize all your chances. By that I mean, log into the game in any of those special occasion, like St. Patrick's Day, 4th of July; if you can just "make an act of presence" everyday you'll get the mystery boxes (when there's nothing event related, which recently it's seems they always make the daily play combo event-related), the current winning strikes of 3 non-premiums followed by 2 premiums (and the extra lucky of 2 non-premiums, 3 premiums). By the way, there's currently a glitch that let you get both the final daily combo reward and the first reward of the following combo on the same day you need to be logged onto the game the day you receive final combo reward and go to Krustyland at the time you'll get the rewards (which can be as early as 1 hour before the time you got it the previous day) and one after the other will b given to you. This only works on the day of the final reward, all the other days it doesn't work. That way the 5 days can be reduced to 4. The friends are the other big thing to get donuts, once you get the final friendship prize you can get some random donuts which really helps a lot. In the last 35 days (the time when I unlocked the Bloodbath and Beyond), I got 36 donuts visiting friend, with an average of slightly about one per day, so yes maximize your FPs as fas as possible to help you there. Excluding the Monorail event, all the events this year had bonus donuts after having completed the prize rack which also helped a lot. Add to all that the bonus levels of the last level, where the buildings of Springfield Heights gives an amazing aid getting them faster than the normal. It's all a combination of factors that helps you get donuts without having to pay for them, but you need to be dedicate a lot of time for it.

NoWayThisUsernameIsAlreadyOwnedBySomeone wrote: Got a funny screenshot from this event ;) They are running like that now since an hour. Krusty an Mr. Burns are also the same if they manage to synchronize, since they have the same speed.

NoWayThisUsernameIsAlreadyOwnedBySomeone wrote: The Rail Yard is still easy to reach and with it I can make unlimited Track Pieces, so for me there is no need to hurry. I will probably finish the prize track tomorrow. Keep in mind that the later you get the Rail Yard the more tight in schedule you'll be to get the 5 donuts of this week. It's on the same level of difficulty of the bonus track we had in the other two acts, but those unpredictable bottle-necks you might get can delay you considerably.