time investment (active playing time) versus exp gain
People may have diffrent goals in this game, and may ofcourse play this game however they want.
Thats one of the strengths of this game.
Someone might want to:
- Make the most money
- Level up the fastest way (most exp).
- The biggest barn possible
- Biggest silo possible
- Get all Pets and a beautiful farm
- Boat points
- Any combination of the above
- and more
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In this post im going to focus on the goal "level up the fastest way (most exp)".
I will also take a look into "time investment (active playing time) versus exp gain".
To estimate the maximum experience gained a day, we will diffrentiate 5 diffrent ways of gaining exp:
- machines
- Trees/bushes
- crops
- animals
- Boat and truck
- the rest.
Machines:
All your machines, mills, bar melters, etc. can produce a maximum of around 5k experience a day. By choosing the products that yield the most exp/hour (taken into account that there is a cheese and sugar limitation). By choosing the poorest options, You could produce around 3k a day.
My note: what products you choose to produce in your machines, does not make a big diffrence experience wise. Truck orders and boat orders (wich depend on your available items, stock, products in machines), have a much bigger infuence. My advice would be to produce whatever is needed to fullfill as many high exp truck orders and boat orders.
trees/bushes:
Trees and bushes are a much underestimated way of gaining experience. Their limitation is in the ammount of saws and axes u can gather and the space available on your farm. I personally have been able to manage around 400 trees and bushes a week. (25-50 of ea kind, 200+ chocolate tree. tree cause saw is more available and uses less space then bush). Experience gained this way for me adds up to around 10k a day average (70k a week). But even the not verry active player can even manage to get around 100-150 trees/bushes a week. This still adds up to around 30k a weel (around 4 k a day).
Note: To get as much as possible axes and saws, it is good to grow many fast to yield crops. This way u will get more random items like expansion materials, saws, axes, mining materials.
Crops:
managing crops is one of the biggest exp factors. By growing wheat, u can get around 25-40k experience a day (16 hour harvesting). The limitation on wheat growing, is the ability to sell it (storage capacity silo AND slots in your personal shop). Will dig into other crops later on.
Note:
Growing crops is not only a excellent way of earning exp. Its also one of the things that yields the most random items.
By doing so, it influences also other experience gaining factors (trees, bushes). By doing so, a bigger barn and silo will come easier (influencing the ability to have a bigger stock and do more truck/boat orders).
animals:
Experience gained by harvesting animal products, is relative low. Considered a almost full day of playing, you will atmost gather around 2-3k experience with harvesting animal products.
Note: All animal products are readily available. If u dont have much time available, or cant login often enough to make all the animal food needed, I would advice just to buy these products from others.
Boat and truck orders:
Boat and truck orders together also are one of the biggest exp factors in game. The limitation on experience that can be gained with truck orders, is the availability of the requested items. This depends on the items available in the newspaper, items available in neighbors shops, and the possibility of using tom to gather the items needed. By buying the readily available items from fellow players, and by producing the rarer ones myself, I can gather about 25k of exp a day using truck orders and boat orders. The use of tom can increase this ammount by around 20k.
Note: Barn size plays a large role, cause of the influence of stock on the ability to keep doing orders. Barn size indirectly influences the ability to do truck and boat orders. Of course u Could get more then the stated 25-45k exp a day by boat and truck orders. But not without using up most of your stock, so on a long term base, these are realistic values.
The rest:
there are some other ways to gain experience (pets, mining, neighbor orders). all together they will add up to around 3k a day. Pets contribute the largest part of this 3k.
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Considering the above, an estimate of the maximum daily exp that can be gained on a long term, is around 90-100k. Considered not using Tom or trade your expansion materials for rare food items. This is based on the assumption of a full day of active playing (12-16 hours).
Because most of the hay day players probably have jobs, go to school full time, and have busy lives, I will now talk about where this post is all about. The factor time VS experience gained.
The exp gained when playing less time a day versus all day, is mainly noticeable in the exp gained with earning crops and the exp gained by truck orders. All other factors of gaining exp seem fairly constant.
Since the factor crops can only be infuenced by playing more activ, this factor cant be influenced much. Only the type of crop and exp gained by it can be optimized with next estimated login.
The factor we have biggest impact on is the Truck orders. These can be done every 30 minits.
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My way of gaining the most exp possible, spending the least time possible:
1. Once a day fill up your barn with truck order and boat order items.
2. Take quick care of your machines and rest of the farm too.
3. avoid long sessions and spread your time during the day in many small session.
(better to do 12x 5 minutes then 1x60 minutes). This can be your morning wait for the bus.
During your cigaret brake, coffee break, pee break, lunch, etc).
4. During short sessions (3 minutes):
- harvest sugar/soya/carrot/corn/wheat.
- plant wheat 1x
- fill machines
- Do all truck orders wich offer a fair ammount of exp
(considering the items needed to complete and the availability of these items).
- Delete all orders U cant complete now OR by the next time you logon (machine is making it).
- boat, pets.
- harvest wheat
- plant sugar/soya/carrot/corn/wheat
- If using tom and hes available, use tom (the effect of tom is even greater % wise when not playing extremly much).
5. During longer sessions:
- harvest wheat.
- Take care of trees
- Help friends
- manage barn (fill up on low stock items, sell high stock).
- and the stuff of the short sessions
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Hope this helps all of u to LVL up fast (for those who have this goal).
