Thursday, June 28, 2012

Collecting Gold: Are you Crazy or Lazy?

When you first start using the Striiv, and you see the gold coin on the lemur, you will probably jump into Myland and collect the gold right away.  After playing a few weeks, however, you may not want to be collecting gold every 8 minutes.

So when deciding what to plant, keep in mind how often you will check your Striiv and collect gold.  A Flowering Bush, for example, generates 120 gold every 30 minutes.  So in theory, if you checked every 30 minutes and never slept, you could get 5,760 gold in a day.  Impossible.  But if you are a Crazy gold collector you might catch it on average every 40 minutes for 14 hours in a day, for around 2,500 a day.  If you're a Lazy gold collector, and you check on average every 80 minutes for 12 hours a day, you're getting 1,080 gold a day.  Obviously a lazy gold collector should not be planting flowering bushes when there are better options.

4 comments:

  1. I am completely gold crazy! I have lots of huts, bougainvilleas, and warriors planted, because i harvest a lot! I thought it was pretty funny to consider someone who harvests every 80 minutes lazy, because i have heard of people only harvesting twice a day! But, i guess when there are people like us, every 80 minutes can be kinda lazy...ha!

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  2. It's funny that the laziest way to collect gold in the game is to be extremely energetic in the real world, thereby generating enough energy to grow the highest-paying plants, which require collection less often.

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  3. Right! Although oddly enough the highest-paying plant, all things considered, is the bougainvillea, which is one of the lowest cost, and pays off twice a day.

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  4. I have a million bougainvillea because they are the cutest thing! No wonder I have a lot of money!

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