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Jun 2020
9:26am, 25 Jun 2020
2,686 posts
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Pothunter
In theory with denser areas you are more likely to get points through traffic lights and having more bugs available to infect. Lockdown has definitely impacted that, but not a great deal we can do about it!
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Jun 2020
9:32am, 25 Jun 2020
5,014 posts
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Vancouver Jogger
I don't know because I don't live anywhere near other players, but don't you get 4 points every time you infect a bug? Flowers are spread out (certainly initially) to one every half-mile, and can't be watered every day (getting increasingly more likely as you progress through a week) so I would have thought that there's not that much difference between a flower bed and a bug fest.
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Jun 2020
11:11am, 25 Jun 2020
1,445 posts
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WtnMel
I think that must be right Vancouver Jogger because yesterday I got 44 points from infecting bugs that belong to Wendolene Wobbler (who I don't think is an active player anyway).
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Jun 2020
11:23am, 25 Jun 2020
122 posts
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ftrobbie
4 points per bug.
Going back to flowers, in steady state, if you have very few Fetchies near you, do 10 miles ouside your circle and everyone elses. I've rounded numbers to make the maths easier. If you go out everyday you plant 20 new flowers which leads to c800 flowers (20*41 days) in the scoring cycle, they gain 19 watering points over 42 days so say 0.5 points per day on average (400 points, 800flowers x0.5ppd). When they are harvested assuming they get to max you get another 400 points (20flowersx20points). So flowers on a 10 mile planting ride in steady state get you 800 points per day. I am getting 400-450 per day from planting and watering flowers, before bug squishing, clearing infecting and jewel collecting. The difference is I am not quite planting 20 per day, and I lose some to other Fetchies.
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Jun 2020
11:26am, 25 Jun 2020
1,312 posts
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TheBeardRunner (aka Abul Choudhury
Great tips ftrobbie!
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Jun 2020
11:35am, 25 Jun 2020
5,020 posts
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Vancouver Jogger
But - because flowers are no longer allowed to be stacked can you get 41 flowers in a 0.5 mile stretch and can you practically vary the first mile of your ride sufficiently to arrange it that you plant a flower 81m further on from yesterday's flower.
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Jun 2020
11:43am, 25 Jun 2020
93 posts
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Bright Strider (Something Fishy)
Yes, Vancouver Jogger, it is four points for passing through someone else's bug. I haven't noticed a limit for the bug penalty for the owner, only that the bugs disappear after 30 days.
Yes, also: you can't stack flowers. However, you do get the watering points on passing through existing ones, subject to the number of days since you last watered them (guaranteed after seven days, AFAIK). And you can randomise your planting positions by passing through bugs, jewels, etc, before leaving your circle.
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Jun 2020
1:53pm, 25 Jun 2020
5,021 posts
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Vancouver Jogger
I was questioning ftrobbie's calculations. If flowers have to be 80 m apart for them to be planted then you can only get approx. 10 flowers per half-mile so you will only plant new flowers of the first 10 out of 41 days. This gives 200 flowers at 0.5 points per day which gives 100 points watering per day for the 10 mile ride. When harvested at max value you will get 20*20=400 points but only for 10 days as no new flowers have been planted from day 11 to 42.
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Jun 2020
2:53pm, 25 Jun 2020
124 posts
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ftrobbie
VJ If you can only move along a single track you are correct. However in getting from the bottom to the top of this c1.8 miles traverse, your logic suggests that you can only get 36 flowers. By utlising the different routes through that 1.8ml by 0.5ml box I can now get over 120 flower locations. Over the last 2 weeks, 3 Fetchies have plundered 4 seprate lines through there for roughly 1000 flower points. There are over 40 flowers on there now with plenty of space for more. The ten miles out of zone is an average for me, sometimes its more sometimes its less. I have similar east/west routes and another north south the other side of the zones although it really only has 3 routes not the multitude of this. So for me the limitation is whether I want to ride altenative routes, do more than 10 miles outside my circle and keep other Fetchies from the attraction of dense flower beds.
Hopefully this helps
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Jun 2020
2:54pm, 25 Jun 2020
125 posts
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ftrobbie
The blue lines are the Fetch flower points for the north south route through the grid. Variation is key
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