Good evening everyone! The end is within sight, so shall we get down to business?
One of my first, self-imposed, goals was to do it in do this in 50 days. Looking now, 52 or 53 days might seem more realistic, but what if I were to stick to that goal? Is it still possible to finish 7 days from now?
Here is the situation.
I have 50 tanks of eels, 3 of Grunts, and the rest are running goldfish tonight and Greenies during the day. The three tanks (5,6, and 30) that were not in sync were sold off are presently raising the grunts. The lack of XP tanks (only 22!) has cut down on my XP growth. I may even have trouble getting the 29,000 XP needed to reach Level 76 tomorrow.
However before going on to the XP's let's tackle the coins. 600 mil is needed to buy all the sharks. As you can see above I presently have a net worth of 204 mil or a little over a third of the way. In exactly two days (Sunday night) all my eels will mature as well as 6 tanks of grunts. I will assume that three of these Grunt tanks will be sacrificed doing the Lionfish baby trick. What would be my approximate net worth on Sunday night? Let's calculate:
Profit of a fully mature, happy Eel sold by hand: 60,000 XP times 2450 Eels = 147,000,000
Profits from 3 grunt tanks: 4, 284,000 coins.
147,000,000 + 4,284,000+204,079,220 (present worth)=355, 363,220 coins
With a goal of 600,000,000 I would be 244,636, 780 coins short with 5 days to go.
How many eel tanks will I need to reach it? 244,636,780/60,000 (Eel profit)=4078 Eels
4078 Eels/50 per tank=81.5 tanks.
Well I can't very well raise 81 tanks in an 80 tank maximum game can I? I'll probably be on level 76 Sunday, so I can only devote 75 tanks to Eels. (one is needed for baby Lion selling)
75 Tanks times 50=3750 Eels times 60,000 profit=225,000,000 coins
225,000,000+355,363,220= 580,363,220 net worth subtracted from 600,000,000
is 19.6 million short.
If after the four days I devote my 79 tanks (hopefully!) all to one day Grunts, I will make a profit of 11.2 million. Still 8 million short and I still haven't figured in the one or two million I will be losing from Lionfish tapping.
Mathematically speaking, then, I cannot complete my quest in 50 days. I need at least 51 and possibly 52 days considering how badly my XPs are lagging behind.
What, then, is my strategy? After Sunday., I will devote all my tanks to Greenies until I hit Level 79. At that time, I will devote all the tanks except one Lionfish tapper to Eels. To increase my XP at a greater rate I need full command of them and need to be away from work and business distractions. What I need is a tap fish retreat, and a Tuesday, Wednesday business trip may provide this for me. More on that when it become a reality.
As for tomorrow, the goal is to reach Level 76. I will focus on that now. Take care all and see you same time tomorrow!
All the best,
Shane
7.17.2010
7.15.2010
Day 42 Reflections
I'd like to start off with the brevity of yesterday's post. I was so exhausted after selling off all those Eels that I just didn't have the energy to write more. I progressed diligently over the day, selling what few Greenie tanks I have left five times over, but it is a long lonely road between levels 70 and 80.
Let's go on to other topics, shall we? Some beginners have written me to give more detail about how to progress at the beginning of the game. They asked me if I bought each fish egg individually and fed them individually. I did quite the opposite. Sure at the very beginning I tried to scrape together any XP or coin I could so I could fill my two tanks. However after that my game was all about selling all the fish in my tanks five times over in the day. I learned to sell/reload speedily. I could at the beginning before the OS4 upgrade sell a tank in 16 seconds. I sold four rounds of Green Snappers and one over night round of Goldfish to gain a few extra coins. I rarely bothered to feed my fish because the one coin and XP you get does not make up for all the extra time it takes to do this. This is just an estimate, but I would say that over 80% of the fish I have had in my tanks have never been fed even once. Tapping for Welcome and Love is useful early in the game but later on is just a waste of time. I is much more efficient to sell/reload tanks regardless of whether they are mature or not. Right now I can sell/restock a school of Lionfish in 1 minute 5 seconds on the OS4. A mature tank takes 30 seconds in OS4.
As my readers may remember, I was thinking of downgrading from the OS4 recently, but after reading a little more about it, this option does not seem to be feasible anymore. I'll just do my best with what Tap Fish and Apple has given me.
Right now all the eels I have are seriously cutting into how fast I can get XPs. I'm developing a strategy to counteract this, but I won't tell you until I actually try it out in a few days.
Take care all and happy tapping!
Let's go on to other topics, shall we? Some beginners have written me to give more detail about how to progress at the beginning of the game. They asked me if I bought each fish egg individually and fed them individually. I did quite the opposite. Sure at the very beginning I tried to scrape together any XP or coin I could so I could fill my two tanks. However after that my game was all about selling all the fish in my tanks five times over in the day. I learned to sell/reload speedily. I could at the beginning before the OS4 upgrade sell a tank in 16 seconds. I sold four rounds of Green Snappers and one over night round of Goldfish to gain a few extra coins. I rarely bothered to feed my fish because the one coin and XP you get does not make up for all the extra time it takes to do this. This is just an estimate, but I would say that over 80% of the fish I have had in my tanks have never been fed even once. Tapping for Welcome and Love is useful early in the game but later on is just a waste of time. I is much more efficient to sell/reload tanks regardless of whether they are mature or not. Right now I can sell/restock a school of Lionfish in 1 minute 5 seconds on the OS4. A mature tank takes 30 seconds in OS4.
As my readers may remember, I was thinking of downgrading from the OS4 recently, but after reading a little more about it, this option does not seem to be feasible anymore. I'll just do my best with what Tap Fish and Apple has given me.
Right now all the eels I have are seriously cutting into how fast I can get XPs. I'm developing a strategy to counteract this, but I won't tell you until I actually try it out in a few days.
Take care all and happy tapping!
Day 41 Reflections
Today I made it finally to level 75. Although my Xp take was only about 30,000, I feel exhausted after spending well over an hour selling 1450 Eels by hand. I can' t imagine how I will do 2600 more four days from now!
My coin total is just shy of 200 million, so that seems to be going fine as well, considering we have two more rounds of Eels to go through.
Tell you what, everyone. I would love to blog more, but I am really mentally exhausted after all those Eels. I'll expand more in a midday blog tomorrow!
Sincere apologies, Shane
7.14.2010
Day 40 End
Well, being my busy day at work, I only managed to tap 29,000 XP, in other words, I couldn't get to Level 75 in two days. I need at least 16,000XP to get there tomorrow. I plan to do some lionfish tapping tonight to see if I can compensate.
Tomorrow will be another busy day at work, so I converted more point tanks into coin tanks. I will run 30 tanks eels, 15 grunts, and the rest Greenies with one tapping tank for lionfish. I will have a huge project in that I have to sell 45 tanks by hand and put in 53 tanks of Eels. The game just gets funner and funner.
By the way, you may have noticed that my Eel count dropped slightly. I am trying to deal with the problem of having three Eel tanks (5,6, and 30) which are not co-ordinated with the rest. Specifically tanks 5 and 6 contain Eels of various ages. I am trying to solve this by not replacing the eels as I sell them off until I can consolidate these two tanks into one and them get them in line with the others. Hence the slight drop in Eels. Don't worry, they didn't die or anything. Just sent off to some sushi bar somewhere.
Well, it is one in the morning here, but I still have work to do. Take care, Tap fish folk!
Tomorrow will be another busy day at work, so I converted more point tanks into coin tanks. I will run 30 tanks eels, 15 grunts, and the rest Greenies with one tapping tank for lionfish. I will have a huge project in that I have to sell 45 tanks by hand and put in 53 tanks of Eels. The game just gets funner and funner.
By the way, you may have noticed that my Eel count dropped slightly. I am trying to deal with the problem of having three Eel tanks (5,6, and 30) which are not co-ordinated with the rest. Specifically tanks 5 and 6 contain Eels of various ages. I am trying to solve this by not replacing the eels as I sell them off until I can consolidate these two tanks into one and them get them in line with the others. Hence the slight drop in Eels. Don't worry, they didn't die or anything. Just sent off to some sushi bar somewhere.
Well, it is one in the morning here, but I still have work to do. Take care, Tap fish folk!
7.12.2010
Day 39 Reflections
Not much to report today. I moved up only 34,000 XP even though I sold 5 times. I just didn't do enough Lionfish tapping to make up the 6000 XP shortfall. I did, however, have enough money to buy a whole new tank of Eels, which I did, although they are out of sync with the other tanks. I will have to do something to try and make all my eel tanks sync together for the grand finale. Still, that is ten days away or so, so there is time to procrastinate. Tomorrow I will run 30 Eel tanks, 6 Grunts, 35 Greenies(which are right now full of Yellows), and 1 Lionfish seller tank. I will try to use that more instead of relying on the four hour cycle. I'm getting good enough to rival a usual Greenie cycle tank, and I can do it whenever it is convenient. Hopefully I can get close to Level 75 tomorrow, even if I can make it the whole way. Wish me luck!
7.11.2010
Day 38 Reflections
Day 38 was a productive day as I managed to Tap just over 40,000 XP or enough to clear level 73 to level 74 with about an hour to spare. I was so happy with myself that I gave myself the night off and stocked with Yellowies instead of the usual Greenies as a night fish. I was tempted to go with goldfish, but that would be using up too much time. Sleep can wait for when I finish that quest.
And when, exactly will I be finishing this quest? Some may look at the simple math. He's got 6 tanks left and he is taking two days to do a tank, that means he will finish in fifty days! That might be true if conditions were constant, but they never are.
Take Eels, for example, right now I've got 29 tanks of them that will give me a profit of 87 million every 4 days. However, with only 12 days left to fifty, I could only do this 3 more times giving me a net value of 360 million or well short of the 600 million I need. No I will have to raise my Eel tanks to about 52 next time and to about 75 the time after that. This will give me almost no tanks to sell XP Greenies.
Even if I accomplish all this, I will still fall about 4 million short of the 600 million I need when I reach Level 80. At this stage of the game 4 million does not seem like much but it is still a fair bit. Keeping this in mind, I decided at midday to convert 5 tanks to Grunts from Greenies. Hopefully if I keep raising this amount of Grunts over the next 8 days I will have enough coins to buy all my Great Whites at Level 80.
What about the XP's, then ? How can you move 40,000XPs a day if eight days from now you will only have one or two measly tanks to devote to XP? Well, this is where the dreaded baby selling comes in. As you can see in the tank above, if you load a tank with Lionfish and have a foodblock sitting on the left corner, the fish will go above the block and remain there motionless, making very easy to baby sell. Of course I am exploiting a programming blip, but I'll take any advantage I can get. Today I must have sold over fifty tanks using this, and my fingers and mind didn't become too tired. Will I be able to use this method to sell the 267 tanks a day needed to jump up the required 40,000 XP's ? We will have to see.
So can I do it? Can I finish my quest in fifty days? I wouldn't bet on me. There is bound to be something to come up that will either hold back my coins or XPs. I think 53 days would be a more reasonable goal. But who knows? There is still a lot of tapping to do!
Good night, everyone! May the fish gods bless all of you!
Day 37: Over 100 million
At 31,000 XP today was not a very good point day. I was expecting this, though, because I had all those stringy, slippery eels to sell. Most of the fish are well-designed, beautiful creations. Eels are not one of those creations. They are just these blackish brown lines that are incredibly hard to tap on individually. I'm so tempted to go for the instant sell option but the 15% penalty is just too much at this level. Above all this, I had a major presentation at work today that limited my morning tapping to only about 30 tanks or so.
The afternoon, however, was smooth sailing so I managed to sell three times over and tapped an additional 15 tanks or so of baby fish using the baby Lionfish/Foodblock trick. I haven't timed myself, but I think I can sell a whole tank of them now in well under a minute. Now that I have to manage 29 Eel tanks and have only 44 for Greenies, this baby-fish selling (God, that sounds awful) will become a big part of the game. I'm leaving tank 71 open with a food block so I can do this anytime I like. The beauty of the foodblock is that it freezes all the baby lionfish in a corner, so you don't have to hunt for them. Hell, I don't even have to look anymore to do it.
What is my strategy for the next four days? Right now I am just under 40,000 XP to level 74, and I really want that extra tank. Having only 44 free tanks makes this difficult. As I said before, I need to tap 267 tanks a day to get 40,000 points. Selling all my 44 five times will only bring me 220. Thank means I have to sell about 47 tanks of baby lions to ensure I make it there.
I'm not even sure about the five times selling is possible, because this slow OS4 means that is a two hour endeavour, compared to the 90 minute endeavor it would have been. After next week, downgrading from OS4 may be a mute point, but right now I still see its usefulness. I think I will try it after this blog is finished. I figure I could always upgrade again when this quest is finished in about two weeks from now.
In other news, selling Eels has been a pain, and I'm tired of looking at them. However, they have put me over the 100 million coin mark. I'm now a sixth of the way to my coin goal, which is still increasing exponentially. Looking at the overall numbers, I think it would take a near miracle to have both the points and coins ready by day 50. Fifty two or three days may be more realistic. Well I guess I should just keep plugging along at this task I have laid in front of me. Good night all!
P.S. I have been breeding, by the way. I gave up when it rewards didn't merit the effort, but with Grunts being breed able. I can make a Green Grunt that mature in 12 hours but is worth 12,000 coins. However, lacking fishbucks, I can only make two of them every three days, so their overall impact on the game is minimal. They are a nice change of pace, though, from the Eels and Greenies I have to look at all day.
The afternoon, however, was smooth sailing so I managed to sell three times over and tapped an additional 15 tanks or so of baby fish using the baby Lionfish/Foodblock trick. I haven't timed myself, but I think I can sell a whole tank of them now in well under a minute. Now that I have to manage 29 Eel tanks and have only 44 for Greenies, this baby-fish selling (God, that sounds awful) will become a big part of the game. I'm leaving tank 71 open with a food block so I can do this anytime I like. The beauty of the foodblock is that it freezes all the baby lionfish in a corner, so you don't have to hunt for them. Hell, I don't even have to look anymore to do it.
What is my strategy for the next four days? Right now I am just under 40,000 XP to level 74, and I really want that extra tank. Having only 44 free tanks makes this difficult. As I said before, I need to tap 267 tanks a day to get 40,000 points. Selling all my 44 five times will only bring me 220. Thank means I have to sell about 47 tanks of baby lions to ensure I make it there.
I'm not even sure about the five times selling is possible, because this slow OS4 means that is a two hour endeavour, compared to the 90 minute endeavor it would have been. After next week, downgrading from OS4 may be a mute point, but right now I still see its usefulness. I think I will try it after this blog is finished. I figure I could always upgrade again when this quest is finished in about two weeks from now.
In other news, selling Eels has been a pain, and I'm tired of looking at them. However, they have put me over the 100 million coin mark. I'm now a sixth of the way to my coin goal, which is still increasing exponentially. Looking at the overall numbers, I think it would take a near miracle to have both the points and coins ready by day 50. Fifty two or three days may be more realistic. Well I guess I should just keep plugging along at this task I have laid in front of me. Good night all!
P.S. I have been breeding, by the way. I gave up when it rewards didn't merit the effort, but with Grunts being breed able. I can make a Green Grunt that mature in 12 hours but is worth 12,000 coins. However, lacking fishbucks, I can only make two of them every three days, so their overall impact on the game is minimal. They are a nice change of pace, though, from the Eels and Greenies I have to look at all day.
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