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tempt
05-01-2012, 08:16 AM
After using a small supply of Tapjoy gold on the recent art event (and didnt get past 9th item), I am slowly earning those gold again.

Just wondering what advise people have for spending the Gold (given it will not be a big supply). Level is 62, Atk:6401, Def:7964, Income:9398/hr. Honestly I think I can reap benefit from all the options above, but thought maybe there is an angle I haven't thought through.

PS: Currently semi-camping to accumulate RPs to stock 100-150 NVBs before starting to collect CWs.

sexkitteh
05-01-2012, 08:19 AM
I'm not going to lie - your income is low... I'd invest into gold buildings!

sexkitteh
05-01-2012, 08:21 AM
Also how many mob members do you have? You are currently bringing 310 to a fight... can you outfit all 310?

You might want to consider dropping your mob count to a number that you can reasonably equip.

tempt
05-01-2012, 10:26 AM
Cool. Already dropped my mob count from 600 down to like 290s. I've got enough to outfit 310 people, but the stuff are junk, so perhaps money buildings to better equip. But also finding most $ equipments are inferior to RPs or Gold equip, that's why I am asking.

Thanks for the advice. Will stick with gold buildings for now.

sexkitteh
05-01-2012, 10:39 AM
Well I think the best thing to do is drop to like level 100 and have 100 of each BEST RP weapons/cars/items... assuming you aren't spending real money. Get your income level up so you can expand your territory and build a whack load of defense buildings keeping them all capped at lvl3. (you need money to do this).

Also there are items worth buying with money.

sexkitteh
05-01-2012, 10:41 AM
How much gold do you have btw???

Ask here what is the best building to buy with gold... as I have 0 experience with that...

Night Clubs seem to be everyones favorite... and I think they are 500 gold each so start saving!

ryusho
05-01-2012, 11:05 AM
To unlock Nightclubs for building, you must have 500 mafia and it costs $40 million each to build. No gold necessary.

As for gold buildings, I would refer to this:


Those of you looking into buying gold and parlaying that into optimum-paying buildings, here is a metric for you. First I derived level 10 payouts of gold buildings with available data. Then I divided the payouts by collection times to get $/hr. Then I divided that figure by gold paid to get a kind of "return on investment" figure, represented as $/hr per gold spent. Sorting the list, we get:

Pirate Tavern, $3409.09
Gentlemen's Club, $3000.00
Palm Hotel, $1937.50
Rock Cafe, $1571.43
Wedding Chapel, $1173.33
Adult Movie Theater, $807.69
Smoke Shop, $550.00
Church, $300.00
Ice Cream Shop, $296.88
Zeus Theater, $250.00
Chicken & Waffles, $194.44
Basketball Court, $187.50
Gaming Parlor, $186.67
Anchor Imports, $133.33
Carousel, $132.00
Sushi Bar, $83.33
Blues Club, $70.00
Empire Theater, $45.00
Moden Art Museum, $28.13
Jazz Club, $12.50
Mansion, $10.63
Cowboy Casino, $10.31
Techno Club, $7.81

IMO everything below Anchor Imports is a swindle and even Anchor is questionable. Personally I wouldn't go beyond the first four. EDIT: exception being possibly buying two Basketball Courts with the initial 10 gold. EDIT2: this list was updated. "First four" previously referred to Adult Movie Theater, Smoke Shop, Church, and Ice Cream Shop.

Level 10 payouts were used to compare faster growth Type A buildings with slower growth Type B buildings. List positions won't change based on level if restricting to one type class.

Some of these buildings may yet be unavilable due to your level constraints.

tempt
05-01-2012, 11:26 AM
Well I think the best thing to do is drop to like level 100 and have 100 of each BEST RP weapons/cars/items... assuming you aren't spending real money. Get your income level up so you can expand your territory and build a whack load of defense buildings keeping them all capped at lvl3. (you need money to do this).

Also there are items worth buying with money.

Wow, I haven't thought about dropping down to 100 mobs, but maybe I should. So far, I am not getting robbed or attacked that often. But maybe I should drop lower...

And maybe I'll start with Ice Cream stores, since I just blown through my gold for the event (and failed). :)

sexkitteh
05-01-2012, 11:29 AM
lol I have 2 ice cream shops and I like them :)

The in game money building to get are movie theaters lofts and night clubs then... I didn't realize those where the nightclubs everyone spoke of lol...

So basically drop to about 100 mobies get your movie theaters up and running then lofts and the go back to 300 mobies and get the nightclubs :)

Jazz
05-01-2012, 03:10 PM
How much gold do you have btw???

Ask here what is the best building to buy with gold... as I have 0 experience with that...

Night Clubs seem to be everyones favorite... and I think they are 500 gold each so start saving!

Nightclubs are $40M. Are you thinking of Gentlemen's Clubs? Those are 150g each, I think. 24h collection time. IMHO they're the best gold building out there.

EDIT: Ah, nevermind. You already fixed your mistake. Please ignore this post.

Joeycool
05-01-2012, 04:07 PM
my advice... save 145 and get 3 crates.