User blog comment:Oioiaussie/Buy playgrounds? A common misconception!/@comment-5109847-20120601170235/@comment-5078084-20120601203002

Ahh, too many comments to read but I agree with you, Dlewded. I look at things more in time to recoup than production per land area - 10 collections to recoup is my ideal. After that, I then consider how often I need to collect.

When the Starflowers came out, I only bought 50 as 1000 coins/hr sounded pretty good to me at that level. I always thought that I wouldn't be able to collect every hour anyway so I didn't invest more than that.

I'm glad I didn't get more than 50 Starflowers as eventually, the Easter Theme came out with the DinoMellos which produces 60 coins/6 hours in tax. 10 coins/hr less than the Starflowers but I collect fewer times during the day. I invested in 500 of these and so far, I have been able to collect 3 times a day.

I do have about 30 VFTs but I bought those to replace the stores that used to give me house slots and not to make money. It will take 50 collections (realistically, that's 25 days for my playing style) to recoup the cost of buying them but eventually, I think I will replace my DinoMellos with the VFTs.