User blog:Oioiaussie/Buy playgrounds? A common misconception!

Hi everyone.

There is a common misconception that playgrounds are the best way to make coin at lower levels. This is not so, due to the very high space they take up.

To make extra money, consider Venus Fly Taps. They only take 1 pixel compared to playgrounds 9.

Playgrounds return 300 coins every 4 hours, so on a good day 1,500 coins = 167 per pixel.

Venus Fly Traps return 200 coins every 8 hours and you should be able to get 3 cycles in per day = 600 coins per day = 600 coins per pixel.

Venus Fly Taps cost a bit more (10,000 coins), so it takes 16.7 days to get your money back compared to playgrounds 2.6, but this is irrelevant compared to the big boost in return per pixel over the long term.

Take the example of 30 days.

- 1 playground returns 41,200 (after allowing for the full cost to purchase it = 3,800)

- 9 venus fly traps return 72,000 (after allowing for the 90,000 purchase cost)

In fact, the only better "common" decorations than the venus fly trap (in terms of coins per pixel) are the street lamps, firefly lamp 1s (these are all limited to 8 per village) and the giant emerald. Of course, the wonders of the world decorations have huge returns.

Comments welcome.