Crime City Economy Questions

[jmeijer]

I decided to create a thread where you can ask anything about your economy! What upgrade do you want to do and what path do you follow? Anyway, the forum has a lot of people with a high IPH and some of them enjoy a good economy discussion!

[JonHanFord]

im planning to upgrade my nc lv1 to lv2 then after that im going.to save money to buy another nc1 then save.money.again, rob rob and rob then upgrade my nc lv1 to lv2. lol

[SnortleGrunter]

If you have the 30% off upgrade you may find it better to upgrade to lvl 3 before buying 2nd nc.
Thats advice i was given & i intend to follow it :-)

[jmeijer]

If you have the 30% off upgrade you may find it better to upgrade to lvl 3 before buying 2nd nc.
Thats advice i was given & i intend to follow it :-)

I never heard this, but I'm sure this makes sense. I already had 2 NC's at the time that the Striker Minigun (first -30%) came out as a collect-10 grand prize.

[kgod]

Upgrade nc to lvl 3, buy second nc, or save for ltb? I have no upgrade mods. My iph is 300k. Been waiting for a thread like this thanks jmeijer

[bald zeemer]

With no upgrade mods you should build your second NC once your first is L2. Wait on LTBs until you have at least 2 L3 NCs.

[Muj]

I have 17m in the bank and 1 NC building currently, got the -30% upgrade cost item.. Not sure if I should save up for the 92m LTB or buy another NC first?

[bald zeemer]

Neither. Upgrade the NC that you're building to L3, then buy another. Upgrade that to 3, then start on the LTB game.

[ShawnBB]

I suspect emcee or trampstamp might jump out and say, "hey kids, good job for creating this thread."

[CoN1337]

I'm expecting something like "omg not a money thread again" from someone, but who cares. I like that this is up for a fresh discussion.

I got two nc lvl 1 and 92mill in the bank. Now, I'm considering wether or not to buy the ltb. I get a item for it, plus I boost my iph.

On the other hand, I can upgrade both my nc to lvl two for roughly the same prize (got mod). And nc rocks, I usually collect from them three times a day (on a rare occasion four).

The two previous ltbs sucked, imo. 18h and 20h is hard to collect every time. I don't want to make a similar mistake with this ltb, which has 26h output.

My current thought is upgrading nc's. Advice, anyone?

[bald zeemer]

I'm expecting something like "omg not a money thread again" from someone, but who cares. I like that this is up for a fresh discussion.

I got two nc lvl 1 and 92mill in the bank. Now, I'm considering wether or not to buy the ltb. I get a item for it, plus I boost my iph.

On the other hand, I can upgrade both my nc to lvl two for roughly the same prize (got mod). And nc rocks, I usually collect from them three times a day (on a rare occasion four).

The two previous ltbs sucked, imo. 18h and 20h is hard to collect every time. I don't want to make a similar mistake with this ltb, which has 26h output.

My current thought is upgrading nc's. Advice, anyone?

My advice is don't get wrapped around the axles with collection times. The last 3 LTBs are all phenomenonilly powerful, even with imperfect collection.

[candyson]

What level should I upgrade brownstones to?

[wrestler84]

What level should I upgrade brownstones to?

Don't upgrade Lofts and MTs until you can buy a NC

[BigMoney]

I'm expecting something like "omg not a money thread again" from someone, but who cares. I like that this is up for a fresh discussion.

I got two nc lvl 1 and 92mill in the bank. Now, I'm considering wether or not to buy the ltb. I get a item for it, plus I boost my iph.

On the other hand, I can upgrade both my nc to lvl two for roughly the same prize (got mod). And nc rocks, I usually collect from them three times a day (on a rare occasion four).

The two previous ltbs sucked, imo. 18h and 20h is hard to collect every time. I don't want to make a similar mistake with this ltb, which has 26h output.

My current thought is upgrading nc's. Advice, anyone?

I would upgrade the NCs. You can only get one LTB item, and a 518a/344d melee item isn't anything to write home about. I'm going to assume you have +25% building output bonus. They cost about the same (2 L2 NCs = $93.52mil vs $92.1mil for the LTB).

Building payouts:
2 level 2 NCs: 2 * $656,250 per 6 hours = $1,312,500 per 6 hours = +$145,833.33 IPH
1 level 1 LTB: $1,875,000 per 26 hours = +$72,115.38 IPH

So the NCs will actually add twice as much to your IPH as the LTB would. That extra $73,717.95 per hour will easily accumulate enough to push you farther in future LTBs (although with only two L2 NCs, "farther" at this point means allowing to purchase the next LTB, which I suspect you can't do on your current IPH alone without skipping an LTB to save up enough). With perfect collection, the NCs will give you an additional $1.77mil per day over the LTB, which amounts to $54mil after a month on top of what your hood already produces if it were to have the West Side Gems LTB.

In other words, it is an absolute no-brainer to me to upgrade the NCs. I've been advocating since the Toy Box event (when LTBs were $50-75mil) that you should have at least a $1mil IPH / 2 level 3 NCs before participating in LTBs. That might need to climb higher if LTBs continue to increase in price, but I suspect they won't-- not for at least another LTB, at least.

[bald zeemer]

I assume there was meant to be a comma after "don't".