Huge Opportunity Lost -- EA Acts Quickly When It Helps Them?

[HobbesIsReal]

With the launch of the Zoo event it was obvious that placing the Butterfly Gardens gave massive amount of XP.

Here is a rundown of what happenned and how it related to Farming.....

• With my Bonus % plus Multiplier, I earn 96,770 XP per KEM and it currently takes around 9 KEMs to get one 3 donuts bonus. And I usually buy 63 KEMs per farming round for average of 21 donuts
• Each KEM costs $14,400 in game cash so I spend around $835,000 per KEM farming round (actually something around $626,400 after I sell the KEMs back)
• Each Butterfly Gardens gave me 48,385 XP
• 144 Butterfly Gardens cost same in game cash as 1 KEM and gave me the same average of 21 donuts farming them.
• So for the cost of 1 KEM of $14,400, I could farm the same amount as 63 KEMs ($835,000).........and do it instantly so I could do it over and over and over again while watching TV.

So yesterday while watching a movie on TV I casually kept doing that.....and earned about 200 donuts. Which would have taken 40 hours of KEM farming (10 four hour rounds).

BUT THIS MORNING......EA fixed this and the Butterfly Gardens are back to normal minimal XP. It is funny how when there is glitch that is against EA, it takes less than 24 hours to recognize and release a fix.....but a glitch that hits only the player takes months to recognize and fix.

[Sarah Wiggum]

The lions did it too, I got a fair few that way.

[GeneralNedLudd]

I just saw you spend 14.400 for a KwikEMart this is the maximum Price. Do you sell all the old KwikEMarts before you build new ones? (except the first one with Apu) Then the KwikEMarts will be much cheaper (starting with 200$). A easy formula for the Price is: the first 30 cost the same as the next 10, or 40 cost the dubble of 30, so the first 20 are for free.

And there is a glitch which is very strong against EAs Income and they never fixed it! (tap thumbs and visit neighbours while the money is in the air, come back and thumbs are still there)