Talk:Rock Candy Store/@comment-71.215.93.228-20120812153050

with the price of food typically being anywhere from 0.7:1 to 1:1 from the market if you buy your resources for this store, and do the shortest recipe, consistently, you will make some profit, albeit not entirely large. for the 3 minute recipe, like it says, the break even point is 115 per 100 food, so, most of the time, you will always at least break even, as well as make a small profit in gold. however, as said by the previous two wikiacons, this store is absolutely EXCELLENT/the best for gaining experience until around level 30+. its first recipe is extremely short in duration (3 minutes), and if i'm not mistaken, it is gives the most experience of any shop (+371 XP) for something of that short of a duration. if you want to blaze through the levels, i would suggest investing in mulitple rock candy stores. after a certain level, you should be expanded enough, and have enough gold to purchase many of them. they cost next to nothing in gold and resources to build [once you have gotten to the teen levels (13+), 1050 gold and those resources should only take you a matter of minutes to acquire. what i did, was i actually placed most of my resource buildings as well as other stores in the inventory. then with the remaining space, i added 30 rock candy stores, over a period of a day or two (as i was a low level when i did this, and with full decoration collection, i typically collected around 15k-20k in gold per day. since food rarely breaks the breakeven point for the first recipe (115 gold per 100 food) and is typically at around 70-80 gold per 100 food, using the first recipe, you always will almost always make a profit.  the profit is not large, because the recipe takes 48 food, and only gives 55 gold, but honestly, as long as you are not losing money, it doesnt matter.  the slight bit of profit is just an added benefit of this store - the XP it gives is its crowning achievement.  just to give you an idea, with 30 stores, each doing the first recipe simultaneously (+371 exp) gives a grand total of +11130 XP every 3 minutes.  multiply this by 20 (the amount of times you can do a 3 minute recipe in an hour), and that gives you +222600 XP in just ONE HOUR. which at lower levels, is absolutely ridiculous. obviously no one can perfect collect, but just for arguments sake, if this was done continuously over a 24 hour period, you would end up with a grand total of +5,342,400 XP in just a single day. i never was a perfect collector, and i understand that doing 3 minute recipes means you have to constantly check your phone, but there were some days when i wasnt busy, or just didnt feel like paying attention in my graduate classes (lol) where i know that i earned at least 2 million XP in a day's time. to put it in perspective, many people complain about grinding throught the 30-40 levels in TV and that many resort to the windmills to get easy XP. they only cost 15 crystals each and give 25k XP every 6 hours. even if you purchase 10 windmills, that gives you a max of 1 million XP you can earn per day, assuming you have timely collection. it is definitely more time consuming to continuously complete 3 minute recipes all day long, but it is a surefire way to get LOADS of exp. you dont even need farms, just fill your storage to the max with food bought from the resource market - as long as you purchase at a value lower than the breakeven point, you will always make a profit. today, the market value of food is high, at 960 gold per 1000 food. even so, say you can hold 20,000 resources and you are carrying 0 food. spend 19200 gold (960 price x 20) to fill your food to 20,000. with 20,000 food, you can do the first recipe 416 times (20,000 food/48 food per recipe). as the first recipe gives +55 gold for each successful completion, multiply this by 416 total completed recipes, to get a gross profit of 22,880 gold. subtract the initial cost to get a net profit (22,880-19200) of +3680 gold. again this is not very much total profit for the work put in, but using this example, you would have gained (416 total recipes x 371 XP per recipe) 154,336 XP! sorry for the long and often long-winded explanation, i just had totally forgot about this method until today, and thought i would spread the love! REMEMBER, if you do this, you need to get multiple (as in at least 15) rock candy stores!