Optimum Lobster Stratgey

Hi,

Has anyone posted the optimum lobster approach yet?
I reached Level 44 2+ days ago and immediately started the lobster pool repair (90k coin).
This morning it opened and I started two lobster cages in the net machine (2x 2 hours each).
I read the pots take time? to soak so I started the first upgrade of the pool (52k coin).

That gets capacity = 2x lobsters in 12 hours time.

What are the next recommended steps?
Obviously I am going to drop the lobster pots in to soak once they are done and start more....
But there are six upgrades for the pool I read soemwhere, total 340k coin.
Are they all necessary?

Any advice? or maybe post a link to an existing thread please.

Thanks,
Marcus.

During upgrade you can have lobster in it, once the upgrade is done your lobsters are ready too.

There are not 6 but 5 upgrades to reach the max cap of the lobsters pool, and the time increase per 2h, the last one need 20h.

During 6h while my lobsters are happy together in the pool, I make another 3 to 4 cages by the time my lobsters finish their bath (I assume that I'll be there 6 or 8 hours later). I don't use net and all fishing area expanded. I have then 4 to 5 fishing spot available for fishing. And if you have the choice, put your trap where the cool down time is the most (4h).

I don't think you need all upgrades right now if you are still saving for other machines as lobster trap may not keep up. But having free place in the lobster pool can benefit you as an extra storage when your barn is full and you cannot get the lobster out. Too bad they can't be stock piled :)

Hi,

I have system that I make 4-6 lobster cages, then drop to water. While this have another 4-6 lobsters boiling.

If you time this right there's always some boiling and some to catching in water. Good way to time is that you drop in water before you get to sleep.

You might not want to fill all fishing spots with lobster cages if you doing some fishing.

Thanks for replies so far.
Is there a cool down period after you haul your lobster pot out or can you put another pot in right away?
My first two lobster pots are in the water now, soaking for 6 hours each.
I assume the six hours loster pot soaking time is the same in each of the eight open fishing spots?

Thanks,
Marcus.

No, there are no cool down time after trapping lobster (always 6h). You can either fish or put another trap right away.

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Originally Posted by meonhoc

No, there are no cool down time after trapping lobster (always 6h). You can either fish or put another trap right away.

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Thanks for that.
So the bottleneck is the net maker (with no mastery?) as each trap takes x2 hours = 12 pots the most that can be made per day. The output of the fishing pots is a maximum of 32 per day (8 x 4) and the output of the pool averages out at one lobster per hour (so 24 maximum per day).

Therefore three fishing spots would seem to be the optimum for lobster fishing I conclude (provided they can work 24/7). And as you can only regularly catch 12 per day as driven by the net maker the lounging time in the pool = 12 x 6 = 72 hours per day required so actually only three lobsters will be swimming on average at any one time.

I conclude I will not go past capacity = 4. 6 lobsters will never be needed unless you want to work in time blocks with significant time away from the game?

Comments?
Marcus.

I agree :)


http://forum.supercell.net/search.php?searchid=1740317

I upgraded my pool to fit the max of six.

Lobster trapping goes on only overnight, I put the 6 traps in before I go to sleep, wake up, pick up lobster in the morning and in they go in the pool. Always making traps (never nets)...do not like fishing with nets and not want to use 5 diamonds for mystery net.

After the first round, now I always have between 6-12 lobsters in the barn, somtimes more if I did not have to use lobster during the day. Never needed more than that.

Plus, this way I keep all my spots open for fishing with lures.

Anyway it's really important for everyone have optimum lobster strategy in their lives :D. (Think this line as joke and as in real life)

I tried a few things, and finally settled on 4. I make 4 cages at a time, have 4 cages in the water and four lobsters cooking in the pool. I check in every 8 hours if I can, and swap everything at once. It amounts to 12 lobsters a day, more or less, and means I only have to interact with it three times a day.