Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159244-20150523094938/@comment-1577342-20150604174856

The secret to this game is flow. Constantly collect coins, spend the coins on food, level up your monsters, collect even more coins, rinse, repeat. Remember that you gain experience for baking treats, so you will start leveling up yourself.

Here is a small scale example island example with your current bankroll. 7,000,000¢ will let you bake 1 cake and 2 Turkies, for a total of 700,000 treats. You can do that one time, and then you have to start saving again. How long does that take? Your monsters won't produce more coins until they get leveled up, so your income jumps up in steps at each feeding. While the coins were in the bank, the ovens weren't cooking and you weren't gaining experience points. You would have been better off baking smaller treats constantly in many ovens.

Choose the largest treat that your income will cover baking constantly in every oven you have. As soon as the treats are ready, collect and distribute them to your lowest level 3- and 4-element monsters. They will quickly level up and start producing serious coin. I call each round of baking a "cycle." It's unlikely that your income will exactly cover the cost of each cycle, so there will be coins left over. Let those accumulate for purchases of decorations.

Just keep the process going and you will see a serious increase in the speed you advance and what that massive income allows you to do. I had never heard of this game three months ago. I'm level 29.75-ish, and will probably level up over the weekend. This method works. My plan in the long term is to populate each island exclusively with the monster that produces the most income per bed. Generally, that will be the four element monster. I will then use that income to acquire the really expensive elements in the game, like tub fountains and Wubboxes. Once I have those, I will blitz through leveling up each monster breed to send them to gold to wipe out the game goals. Following that, I will sit back and let my income and treats accumulate until I have enough to do a makeover on each island to make both the island and the song how I want them to be for the long term.

There is one basic rule about baking treats that you can use to great advantage. If you have enough coins to bake 1 of a treat, then you can make more treats in the same time by baking 3 at a time of the next lower treat for the same period as the bigger treat would have required.

For example 1 Cake makes 500,000 treats in 48 hours. Bake a Cake, and that's where you are day after tomorrow. If you, instead, bake 3 Turkies (100,000/24 hours) for two cycles, you will make 300,000 treats per cycle, for a total of 600,000 in the same 48 hours. Yes, you do wind up spending 6,000,000¢ instead of 5,000,000¢, but you can't help that. Every treat costs 10¢. Fortunately, you get an extra day to collect the 3,000,000¢ cost of the second cycle, and you only really have to collect the extra 1,000,000¢ that the faster production will require.