jtrucker
Baronet
That is all very true and also very sad.Looks like this is town 1.
for Town 2, I did hats 1, flowers 3, cake 1, drinks 2, fireworks 1, ship 3 and festival 3 - I save on fireworks 100 POG, didn't do mgr L2 and I will get 31 tasks done.
The 3/3 combo I do by taking festival to 300, then the ship. The production rate of the ship is 32% greater than festival so it lets you accumulate shamrocks so when festival is L300, you can collect a nice nest egg to pay down the ship faster. You only need a fireworks L50 and manager L1 production, 2.1Q/hr to match the consumption rate of the MGR 3/3 L300/300, ship 1.65Q/hr, festival 1.26Q/hr. Using the collection rate to determine the time to get 8.4Q, it takes 6.67 hours to complete that step. I have not timed (or used MC spreadsheet) to get accurate times for taking ship/festival from 250 to 300. I will probably do that next town, #3.
Isn't this a game? Shouldn't it be fun first and foremost? Why should GAME change into a MATH LESSON? I hate it out of principle even if I always loved math in school.
Anyway, I had all these strategies for Patrick event in the past years, but this year one major change happened. Before the main prize was every third on the progress bar and there was almost no space for error. From Patrick 2023 it is every second prize, same as in the Fellowship (thanks god they didn't nerf that and if they do, that would be the end of the game for me). Anyway, the previous strategies and mngr levels and such went out the chimney after that change and I implement very simple strategy.
ship/festival 300/300 mngr lvl 3, everything else mngr lvl 2 (without thinking, click them on two as soon as I open the building, increasing mngr level only if forced by task) and building levels as needed by the tasks somewhat balanced to get enough production for the ship/festival leveling to 300. After they are lvl 300, make sure there is enough production to cover their consumption and leave it for the 8.4Q (usually during my work day it happens, I don't play on mobile at work at all)
And it either will work out at the end, or it won't. I simply refuse to use spreadsheets and "100% certain strategies" and such complicated approaches. It is game and I prefer to invest my brainpower elsewhere, game should entertain me and not forcing me to refresh my high school math.