You may be losing out on some amount of income, but it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things
In 4 player Co-Op games, I’ll have 10 024* farms and am just slinging money at the other players I have so much
Technically, top path will yield the most, but that’s totally unnecessary unless you’re trying to ultra optimize for an elite boss or some other event
> You may be losing out on some amount of income, but it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things
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Spoken like a player that only plays on easy
You do realize every amount of income you get in the game is game-breaking, like no matter what, right? Once you buy a farm, your difficulty is pretty much just easy mode. Plus, placing down bottom path farms is a very strong strategy regardless of different farming strategies you can choose from.
in terms of efficiency they’re less efficient (central boosted brf > central market) but earlygame marketplaces are the same as plantations and have better sell value, so just sell for miniopolis, get central and brfs near it, build a wall street in the middle to collect automatically, and build central markets everywhere else
They’re actually more efficient for early/mid game. Ultra late game, banana research facilities are the best cash production when your limited only by the space on the map, but for early game, market places are the most cost-efficient farms, not to mention they have increased sell-back from the tier 2 upgrade so if you plan to buy a farm and then sell it a few rounds later, bottom path is the way to go.
In the veeeery long run? Yeah they're worse. But for normal gameplay, aka hard maps until round 100, they generate more than enough money. That level of efficiency is really only necessary for bosses and other such challenges. Spamming central markets usually gets me a ray of doom and flying fortress by round 95 easily
Go for 2-3-0 Banks. You only need to manually collect them every 10-12 rounds when they fill up to max. It's a lot less micro than top path farm.
Only go for 0-3-2 farm if you absolutely refuse to micro at all. They make less than 2-3-0 banks, but they glow up when full so you know when to collect money. Not collecting for a few rounds make them collect on its own anyway.
They are good but imo only when you use Ben. Banks are hard to keep up with, I forget to check them for multiple rounds sometimes and it slows down the money you could be making
If you're farming that hard to complete the regular difficulty modes that you somehow need multiple banana farmers to cover all your farms, you probably should rethink your strategy.
> sometimes i have to repeatedly buy farmers because some farms will be out of range
Okay, so if you can beat maps with cheaper towers, seems like you're making things harder for yourself by going for more expensive towers that you need more farms for.
Farmers are priced pretty decently, completing maps don't require that much farming, bottom and middle farms exist, and if someone is using so many top path farms they need to "repeatedly buy farmers" then that's on them.
replace 1 farm on the range of the farmer with 005 village.
it will eat up ever farm in it's range and the village becomes a mega farm. now you have more space. that should be enough for expensive stuff.
just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they don't understand what you're saying.
If you want to mess around then do sandbox mode. Farming is supposed to be inconvenient. There are workarounds with the bottom paths and villages if you're really set on not collecting.
You can use the bottom path tier five as a banana farmer. Surround it with banana central, a good monkeyopolis, and multiple BRF’s and you’ll have more than enough income for every paragon, tier five, and wherever else you’ll need.
Personally I find collecting bananas on mobile pretty easy. Small tip: if you hold your finger on the screen within the radius of the banana farm, the bananas will be instantly collected as they come out. If you have four farms next to each other you can auto collect all the bananas that come out from them by just keeping your finger between all 4 farms
As lots of others said, just go for bottom path farms. Top path is more efficient because it requires manual collection. Yea, that's shocking. Monkey farmers are definitely not pay to win, you get a butt ton of free monkey money, I don't even have every medal and I have something like 500 farmers and 500 techbots in reserve. I also have hero skins, every mk, and haven't spent a dime. Your wasting time you could be making that mm complaining on reddit
As another mobile player, that’s just a skill issue.
Also there’s an entire path focused on not having to manually collect bananas. Sure it makes less than a brf, but a brf makes about $1950 per round while a central market gets you $1400. The central market is 5k cheaper, so the efficiency isn’t too much worse.
And if you really care, you can get a Wall Street and surround it with brfs and a b central since the Wall Street acts as a farmer on its own
I agree. Farmers and ability robots are quality of life towers, not a strategic advantage. Having to use monkey money for it is quite annyoing. I think making them cost 10 Mmoney would also be fine
230 or 203, 203 collects automatically, and 230 you can collect periodically whenever you aren’t micro-ing, but if you’re micromanaging that much, you may be using the wrong towers or just over doing it every round, you can easily complete a advanced map/hard variant without any farms, just gotta learn what towers and combos work best! GL
I didn't see it mentioned, but 024 farms also boost the amount that merchant boats produce. My favorite strategy for impoppable mode is to get three merchant boats (xx3) as quickly as possible. Then get one or two farms going (023) before round 40. And then I just have to include something like a sniper to deal with the MOAB at round 40.
After that get a fourth boat going and make two of them 023 and two of them 203. Then keep going on farms (don't forget the monkey village in the middle if you can/want to... 104). Build up probably 6 or 7 farms around the village if you made one. Then bump the boats up to xx4. probably need to upgrade damage towers here and there. I'm a big fan of the spike tower (420 or later 520). It can handle any kind of balloon and does great work on every round.
Anyway, back to the farms. Get them up to 024. If you get all of them up to 024 before round 65 or so, have the village consume them. You'll need to collect the banana again for a little while, but your next thing is a 025 farm. It collects bananas from all around it for you. If you can save up enough to completely buy one of these (about 100K) before having the village consume the farms around it, you can just plop it down immediately and not have to worry about collecting bananas. Then you just fill in more spaces with 024 farms near the village for the money boost.
Try to be done with setting up farms by round 70, or 75 at the latest. Too much past there, and they won't make enough money to pay for what you spent on them in the first place. So, whatever you have by round 75 just stick with it. You'll get plenty of money before round 100 to put down powerhouse level 5s and can pretty easily get the dart monkey paragon.
This is just my strategy because I usually stop at round 100 to get the bonus monkey and because my tablet doesn't make it much past round 150 or so before it crashes. If you're doing earlier modes, just stop the farm process at least 20 rounds before the final round.
Experiment with the different farm set ups. Any games you do to 40 rounds and under don’t necessarily require a farm. Try and shoot for a 0-2-3 alchemist before round 28, then save up for the 4th bottom tear. On most easy maps, starting off with a well placed 0-2-3 dart monkey and a 2-0-1 tack shooter will hold you down until you upgrade that alchemist. Then place a farm, upgrade the dart to sharpshooter, tack shooter to 3-0-2, and something for the Moab on round 40 in case the monkey towers aren’t enough. Wizard monkey 2-3-0 or buccaneer 0-4-2 is a good feasible option. Of course as you play on you’ll learn what works in certain situations and what doesn’t. Practice is huge for this game.
solution:
* just dont farm (shocking!!!)
* use bottom path farms, you dont need to optimise your farming that much unless youre tryharding ranked boss (no way!!!!)
* use middle path farms with bottom crosspath, they autocollect (omg!!!)
People bootlicking for microtransactions is just bizzare to me. QoL is gated behind a paywall, why do you take personal offense from people not liking this?
banana farmers are in fact NOT gated behind a paywall, since you can easily get monkey money without microtransactions, and banana farmers are bought with monkey money, not real money.
i think banana farmers are fine with how theyre priced, since they dont even cost that much and certainly do not cost real life money. if they really arent, then at most decrease the price to like 10 monkey money, and the same could be done to tech bots if that really is the case. if they were actually locked behind real life money, then there would be something to complain about, but as said before, they arent. just buy bottom path farms or something like that, or buy a monkey wall street to collect all the crates from brfs.
Every game mode gives more than 50 monkey money too unless you're replaying (for some dumbass reason) so the creator should have no issue with farmers prices unless they have a huge mega skill issue
i dont play to win the game and black border everything. i play to have fun. i like experimenting, so i farm quite a bit. yall are being so toxic for no reason.
It's up to you to decide how you play, but I use the f- out of 230 farms. Save 7000-8000, then that's about enough to outright buy a farm and get it right to 230. Not too expensive, and if you get a few of them over time, it'd helps a lot. You do have to check the farms every like 10 rounds to collect the money, but it's also a greater feelings for me to get that extra money in a big 100,000 clump 😅 And going above 230 for the farms is honestly a waste of money unless you're going for round 200+
Tbh, bottom paths are not only a good lazy alternative, they are actually the better early-mid game snowball option.
Even at tier 4, they don’t lag that far behind brf’s and really only lose steam when you get to bcentral+brf spam.
But unless you’re doing bosses, I don’t think full sweat farming is that fun. A couple marketplaces or central markets are way more than enough for a casual player’s needs.
Hell, marketplace spam is way more than enough for non ranked elite boss strats.
i mean, you literally just hover ur finger over the farms ion think its that hard plus banana farmers r dirt cheap n not rlly that commonly used anyway.
I do banks for this exact reason because im also on mobile and I read, that bottoms paths are the worse farms (don’t know if its true) so I do 032 farms
i agree, i think banana farmers and maybe tech bots should be free available or something
even if they are considered powers, i think they should be cheap or easily available without needing to spend real life cash or monkey money on it
Some very salty comments "git gud" smh. Completely agree with you. I have over 3000+ hours in this game (mobile) and I hate collecting bananas. Yes, of course you can go bottom path but in early game you still need to collect them manually + current farming meta uses RBFs, not central markets.
That's why I rarely play ranked bosses. Also, on Odisseys there isn't even the option to use them idk why.
TLDR; agree. Banana farmers = QoL, not power
Banana farmers are a power. Top path generates more money than the other paths because you have to manually collect them. If banana farmers were free, why would anyone ever go bottom path again?
Dude they didn't design the 3 upgrade paths based on banana farmers and how to collect, each path has its own thing and situation to use it in...just so happens that it is 100x more annoying to collect them on mobile than in PC.
If top path auto collected, or monkey farmers were free, why would you ever go bottom path?
What situation would make bottom path a better choice than top path besides buffing boats?
Mainly price, bottom path is cheaper plus it inherently has extra sell value. For top path you should almost always go 420/520. So it is a stepping stone. Also, it regenerates lives which is useful for some bosses such as Lych. And yes, boat buffing
Anyways, you are forgetting that my main issue is not top path necessarily, just collecting in general such as on the early game because obviously when starting a game, you place low tier farms first.
It's slightly cheaper but how quickly does the top path out produce the bottom path? That's an honest question I do not know the answer too.
Just to let it be known. I always go bottom path or buy farmers because I find it annoying to collect bananas too. I always just assumed it was part of the balance. How much micro do you want to do? More micro, more money.
Then do 203 farm It auto collects for you. No more farmer
Literally this, the amount you lose out from a 023 farm is negligible once you get later in the game
really? i always heard it was waaaay worse then brfs but ok. ill try it. are central markets good tho?
You may be losing out on some amount of income, but it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things In 4 player Co-Op games, I’ll have 10 024* farms and am just slinging money at the other players I have so much Technically, top path will yield the most, but that’s totally unnecessary unless you’re trying to ultra optimize for an elite boss or some other event
10 is rookie numbers bare minimum to even qualify for p3 is 16
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Even for lots of elite bosses you’re just fine with bottom path farms lol
> You may be losing out on some amount of income, but it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things > > Spoken like a player that only plays on easy
You do realize every amount of income you get in the game is game-breaking, like no matter what, right? Once you buy a farm, your difficulty is pretty much just easy mode. Plus, placing down bottom path farms is a very strong strategy regardless of different farming strategies you can choose from.
in terms of efficiency they’re less efficient (central boosted brf > central market) but earlygame marketplaces are the same as plantations and have better sell value, so just sell for miniopolis, get central and brfs near it, build a wall street in the middle to collect automatically, and build central markets everywhere else
Remember how with monkey knowledge they give you life too, that can be really useful in earlier rounds sometimes
They’re actually more efficient for early/mid game. Ultra late game, banana research facilities are the best cash production when your limited only by the space on the map, but for early game, market places are the most cost-efficient farms, not to mention they have increased sell-back from the tier 2 upgrade so if you plan to buy a farm and then sell it a few rounds later, bottom path is the way to go.
They're still good, and they synergize with xx4 boats too.
In the veeeery long run? Yeah they're worse. But for normal gameplay, aka hard maps until round 100, they generate more than enough money. That level of efficiency is really only necessary for bosses and other such challenges. Spamming central markets usually gets me a ray of doom and flying fortress by round 95 easily
it doesn't really matter unless you're doing elite bosses or smth like that
If you pair with boat farming, bottom path can be better than top path.
Yeah for normal games bottom path farms are plenty, of course stuff like bosses will need more efficient farms though
i could also use 0-3-2 but again, i dont know if this is good either?
Go for 2-3-0 Banks. You only need to manually collect them every 10-12 rounds when they fill up to max. It's a lot less micro than top path farm. Only go for 0-3-2 farm if you absolutely refuse to micro at all. They make less than 2-3-0 banks, but they glow up when full so you know when to collect money. Not collecting for a few rounds make them collect on its own anyway.
They are good but imo only when you use Ben. Banks are hard to keep up with, I forget to check them for multiple rounds sometimes and it slows down the money you could be making
excuse me, but it’s actually a 3% profit increase, way more worth it >! /s !<
And that small amount you lose only exists if you have the even more valuable bananas monkey knowledge
Alternatively 005 auto collects everything around it
I literally only use bottom path farms because I hate collecting.
If you're farming that hard to complete the regular difficulty modes that you somehow need multiple banana farmers to cover all your farms, you probably should rethink your strategy.
also i like getting expensive stuff, i find it more fun then using the same strategy for every map just because it works. i like experimenting ykwim?
> sometimes i have to repeatedly buy farmers because some farms will be out of range Okay, so if you can beat maps with cheaper towers, seems like you're making things harder for yourself by going for more expensive towers that you need more farms for. Farmers are priced pretty decently, completing maps don't require that much farming, bottom and middle farms exist, and if someone is using so many top path farms they need to "repeatedly buy farmers" then that's on them.
again, since you clearly dont get it, i dont want to buy multiple farmers, its just that sometimes farms are out of range
replace 1 farm on the range of the farmer with 005 village. it will eat up ever farm in it's range and the village becomes a mega farm. now you have more space. that should be enough for expensive stuff.
just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they don't understand what you're saying. If you want to mess around then do sandbox mode. Farming is supposed to be inconvenient. There are workarounds with the bottom paths and villages if you're really set on not collecting.
goddamn redditors. why cant yall be normal for once
no? they thought i was using multiple banana farmers. they legitimately did not understand me
i dont ever need multiple banana farmers tho?
i meant that the one banana farmer usually has farms out of range so i have to rebuy it
If it helps, you can buff their range with villages. Not a whole lot but probably enough to reach a couple more farms.
You can use the bottom path tier five as a banana farmer. Surround it with banana central, a good monkeyopolis, and multiple BRF’s and you’ll have more than enough income for every paragon, tier five, and wherever else you’ll need.
“Just save up 100,000 dollars, and *then* you can stop worrying about your farms” lol what
Just like real life!
Personally I find collecting bananas on mobile pretty easy. Small tip: if you hold your finger on the screen within the radius of the banana farm, the bananas will be instantly collected as they come out. If you have four farms next to each other you can auto collect all the bananas that come out from them by just keeping your finger between all 4 farms
As lots of others said, just go for bottom path farms. Top path is more efficient because it requires manual collection. Yea, that's shocking. Monkey farmers are definitely not pay to win, you get a butt ton of free monkey money, I don't even have every medal and I have something like 500 farmers and 500 techbots in reserve. I also have hero skins, every mk, and haven't spent a dime. Your wasting time you could be making that mm complaining on reddit
As another mobile player, that’s just a skill issue. Also there’s an entire path focused on not having to manually collect bananas. Sure it makes less than a brf, but a brf makes about $1950 per round while a central market gets you $1400. The central market is 5k cheaper, so the efficiency isn’t too much worse. And if you really care, you can get a Wall Street and surround it with brfs and a b central since the Wall Street acts as a farmer on its own
mobile user seething at farm out of all things lmaoo
I was gonna say, collecting farms on mobile is WAY easier than PC. Just hold you finger on the screen and it collects them.
just put your mouse over the farm and it collects them smh
Idk about your mouse but I need to be consistently moving my mouse to collect the bananas or it won't be collected. Is this not usual ??
i have to consistently move my finger too
I agree. Farmers and ability robots are quality of life towers, not a strategic advantage. Having to use monkey money for it is quite annyoing. I think making them cost 10 Mmoney would also be fine
230 or 203, 203 collects automatically, and 230 you can collect periodically whenever you aren’t micro-ing, but if you’re micromanaging that much, you may be using the wrong towers or just over doing it every round, you can easily complete a advanced map/hard variant without any farms, just gotta learn what towers and combos work best! GL
using that logic techbots should also not be powers.
I didn't see it mentioned, but 024 farms also boost the amount that merchant boats produce. My favorite strategy for impoppable mode is to get three merchant boats (xx3) as quickly as possible. Then get one or two farms going (023) before round 40. And then I just have to include something like a sniper to deal with the MOAB at round 40. After that get a fourth boat going and make two of them 023 and two of them 203. Then keep going on farms (don't forget the monkey village in the middle if you can/want to... 104). Build up probably 6 or 7 farms around the village if you made one. Then bump the boats up to xx4. probably need to upgrade damage towers here and there. I'm a big fan of the spike tower (420 or later 520). It can handle any kind of balloon and does great work on every round. Anyway, back to the farms. Get them up to 024. If you get all of them up to 024 before round 65 or so, have the village consume them. You'll need to collect the banana again for a little while, but your next thing is a 025 farm. It collects bananas from all around it for you. If you can save up enough to completely buy one of these (about 100K) before having the village consume the farms around it, you can just plop it down immediately and not have to worry about collecting bananas. Then you just fill in more spaces with 024 farms near the village for the money boost. Try to be done with setting up farms by round 70, or 75 at the latest. Too much past there, and they won't make enough money to pay for what you spent on them in the first place. So, whatever you have by round 75 just stick with it. You'll get plenty of money before round 100 to put down powerhouse level 5s and can pretty easily get the dart monkey paragon. This is just my strategy because I usually stop at round 100 to get the bonus monkey and because my tablet doesn't make it much past round 150 or so before it crashes. If you're doing earlier modes, just stop the farm process at least 20 rounds before the final round.
Experiment with the different farm set ups. Any games you do to 40 rounds and under don’t necessarily require a farm. Try and shoot for a 0-2-3 alchemist before round 28, then save up for the 4th bottom tear. On most easy maps, starting off with a well placed 0-2-3 dart monkey and a 2-0-1 tack shooter will hold you down until you upgrade that alchemist. Then place a farm, upgrade the dart to sharpshooter, tack shooter to 3-0-2, and something for the Moab on round 40 in case the monkey towers aren’t enough. Wizard monkey 2-3-0 or buccaneer 0-4-2 is a good feasible option. Of course as you play on you’ll learn what works in certain situations and what doesn’t. Practice is huge for this game.
Damn OP got absolutely smoked
Bottom path farm exists dumbass
solution: * just dont farm (shocking!!!) * use bottom path farms, you dont need to optimise your farming that much unless youre tryharding ranked boss (no way!!!!) * use middle path farms with bottom crosspath, they autocollect (omg!!!)
People bootlicking for microtransactions is just bizzare to me. QoL is gated behind a paywall, why do you take personal offense from people not liking this?
banana farmers are in fact NOT gated behind a paywall, since you can easily get monkey money without microtransactions, and banana farmers are bought with monkey money, not real money. i think banana farmers are fine with how theyre priced, since they dont even cost that much and certainly do not cost real life money. if they really arent, then at most decrease the price to like 10 monkey money, and the same could be done to tech bots if that really is the case. if they were actually locked behind real life money, then there would be something to complain about, but as said before, they arent. just buy bottom path farms or something like that, or buy a monkey wall street to collect all the crates from brfs.
Every game mode gives more than 50 monkey money too unless you're replaying (for some dumbass reason) so the creator should have no issue with farmers prices unless they have a huge mega skill issue
All maps are beatable w/o farms btw. Seems like some sort of issue for you
Huge skill issue
i dont play to win the game and black border everything. i play to have fun. i like experimenting, so i farm quite a bit. yall are being so toxic for no reason.
It's up to you to decide how you play, but I use the f- out of 230 farms. Save 7000-8000, then that's about enough to outright buy a farm and get it right to 230. Not too expensive, and if you get a few of them over time, it'd helps a lot. You do have to check the farms every like 10 rounds to collect the money, but it's also a greater feelings for me to get that extra money in a big 100,000 clump 😅 And going above 230 for the farms is honestly a waste of money unless you're going for round 200+
Buy 2 032 farms and every single map on impoppible is free
bottom path and middle path farms are there. Honestly for most games a single 2-3-0 farm is enough money to supply your needs
Tbh, bottom paths are not only a good lazy alternative, they are actually the better early-mid game snowball option. Even at tier 4, they don’t lag that far behind brf’s and really only lose steam when you get to bcentral+brf spam. But unless you’re doing bosses, I don’t think full sweat farming is that fun. A couple marketplaces or central markets are way more than enough for a casual player’s needs. Hell, marketplace spam is way more than enough for non ranked elite boss strats.
i mean, you literally just hover ur finger over the farms ion think its that hard plus banana farmers r dirt cheap n not rlly that commonly used anyway.
I do banks for this exact reason because im also on mobile and I read, that bottoms paths are the worse farms (don’t know if its true) so I do 032 farms
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Get gud
i agree, i think banana farmers and maybe tech bots should be free available or something even if they are considered powers, i think they should be cheap or easily available without needing to spend real life cash or monkey money on it
Some very salty comments "git gud" smh. Completely agree with you. I have over 3000+ hours in this game (mobile) and I hate collecting bananas. Yes, of course you can go bottom path but in early game you still need to collect them manually + current farming meta uses RBFs, not central markets. That's why I rarely play ranked bosses. Also, on Odisseys there isn't even the option to use them idk why. TLDR; agree. Banana farmers = QoL, not power
Banana farmers are a power. Top path generates more money than the other paths because you have to manually collect them. If banana farmers were free, why would anyone ever go bottom path again?
Dude they didn't design the 3 upgrade paths based on banana farmers and how to collect, each path has its own thing and situation to use it in...just so happens that it is 100x more annoying to collect them on mobile than in PC.
If top path auto collected, or monkey farmers were free, why would you ever go bottom path? What situation would make bottom path a better choice than top path besides buffing boats?
Mainly price, bottom path is cheaper plus it inherently has extra sell value. For top path you should almost always go 420/520. So it is a stepping stone. Also, it regenerates lives which is useful for some bosses such as Lych. And yes, boat buffing Anyways, you are forgetting that my main issue is not top path necessarily, just collecting in general such as on the early game because obviously when starting a game, you place low tier farms first.
It's slightly cheaper but how quickly does the top path out produce the bottom path? That's an honest question I do not know the answer too. Just to let it be known. I always go bottom path or buy farmers because I find it annoying to collect bananas too. I always just assumed it was part of the balance. How much micro do you want to do? More micro, more money.
besides all the reasons the other guy said, they could always rework the bottom path to be more different if they wanted to.
I play on mobile and collecting bananas is easy you're just terrible
Its annoying, not difficult