Talk:Holiday Square/@comment-4833985-20120317161527/@comment-4102115-20120317173846

Good question. I was thinking the exact same thing. The "Valentine"'s from the previous event were easier to get on Phase 1 and got progressively harder, but even at its hardest you still got way more than you needed, so it made the question irrelevant. It is obvious it is more relevant in this event. However, I didn't ask the question because for someone to be able to work it out, they have to have already finished, and it looks like this is going to be really long and hard to finish in time as it is, so no-one has the opportunity to wait for an answer to work out whether to move on or not.

I estimated it may be beneficial to gather an extra 50-100 on phase 1 maybe, but you also need to calculate the number of zaps needed, which is now nearly equal to the number of horseshoe/rainbows/etc.

I had 140 Horseshoes to 60 Clovers and currently have 88 Rainbows with 30 Clovers. Lets look at yours and my data so far and using the optimal hit-rate 2 zaps per 3 Horseshoes and 4 zaps per 5 Rainbows, we get:

60 clovers per 89-94 zaps = 1 clover "costs" 1.483-1.566 (say ~1.5) zaps on phase 1 30 clovers per 70.4 zaps to 76 clovers per 190.4 zaps = 1 clover "costs" 2.347-2.505 on phase 2 So at that rate, I would imagine it will continue to get more "expensive" at the higher phases.

Once you have your 80 clovers needed, you will need 220 more clovers (100 for Holiday Square and 120 for the Leprechaun Treasury. But remember, you will still get about 30 clovers whilst getting 150 Hats and 50 Clovers whilst getting 175 pots. So you would be short 140 Clovers, assuming a reasonable amount of consistency and predicting the zap cost. Therefore not a bad idea to sit back and save up ~140 extra Clovers for the future phases.