Thread:Bassmech20608/@comment-5552829-20141104152219/@comment-25021853-20141127060257

Sorry for not replying sooner, been a bit busy. I used to pan sear before I got my culinary torch, a pan works fine for relatively flat things but the torch is better for uneven items. I prefer the torch, as I can see what I'm doing, can see the browning as it's happening and control it better. I used to use vegetable or olive oil, but I find butter works better for getting a good Maillard Reaction, and it doesn't smoke like oil does (especially with the higher temperatures at the center of the flame from the torch, about 2700-3000 degrees Fahrenheit, versus 350-500 for a pan or grille).

A lot of people have been having trouble with either signing in, getting kicked out of the game frequently, or significant slow down or stuttering. I've been having the game slow down a lot more than usual, sometimes to the point that it makes the game almost unplayable. I hope they fix the problems soon, I have an unusually high number of neighbors who have stopped playing the game for several days or more.

As for converting Cash to XP, most of the Decorations and Buildings return XP equivalent to 10% of the purchase price (so the Bloodmobile costs $132,000 and you get 13,200 XP, plus whatever your bonus is), the exception is the Aspirational Buildings that only give XP equivalent to 1% of the purchase price. Decorations are instantaneous, so they are preferable to Buildings for converting Cash to XP, and most Decorations can be resold for 25% of the purchase price, so the total cost is only 75% of the original purchase price. I have checked most of the Decorations and there are only a few exceptions to the XP being 10% of the initial cost, the Weather Station is one, it costs 9,500 Cash but gives 1,000XP, the downside is that you have to buy and resell a lot more of them. I used to buy and resell the Bloodmobile, but the new Tiki Bar is a lot smaller and the price is good, and the new Rat Trap Truck is now the most expensive regular decoration and the fastest for converting Cash to XP.

I've been mostly saving my Cash, to try to get it to 1 Billion eventually, but I do occasionally convert some Cash to XP, especially when we get a new Level and the first few new Bonus Levels don't take much XP. Then once the XP per Bonus Level goes over a Million, I wait till I'm more than half way to another Bonus Level and I convert a bit of Cash to XP to finish the Bonus Level.