Bunny's Guide on Camping/Milking

[Bunny Summers]

Some people use the term "Camping" quite often. Others say they are "Milking" a building. I decided to make a post (at the request of a friend actually) about the art of “Camping” a building to explain this art of getting more out of a building to build up your gags quickly. I would find one or more SECRET friends you can “camp” with because unless they are experienced in this they’ll have NO idea what you’re doing & probably just go ahead & kill the cogs, which you don’t want.

You need to fill up on whatever gag you want to work on (add a little bit of everything else too because you never know when you need them as a back up).

Understanding the term “Floor Multiplier” is key to Camping. What this means is that every floor above ground level will give you added experience points. The higher you go up, the higher the multiplier. I refer to this post to give you more details:

Originally posted by PeppyPeppercorn
The first floor is like the street, you get an addition +.5 multiplier per floor so,

1st floor: 1x
2nd floor: 1.5x
3rd floor: 2x
4th floor: 2.5x
5th floor: 3x

or, multiplier = .5*floor+.5

EDIT: Multipliers for Invasion

1st floor: 2x
2nd floor: 3x
3rd floor: 4x
4th floor: 5x
5th floor: 6x
or multiplier = floor+1

You can use whatever gag you want for the bottom floors but the key to camping is to save the bulk of the gags you're wanting to level up for the top two floors. On the floor below the top floor, you'll want to use a lot of your lower gags. Whatever is left, save for the top floor, going from lower level gags to high. You'll get a more experience points out of using a lot of low gags first then you will from using your top gags right away.

Below is a guide for each type of gag:

[Bunny Summers]

For Camping Lure gags: The best way is to find a person who has or needs to camp trap. Lure will be more successful if there is a trap laid out. Tell them to get only Level 1-3 trap gags at the most. When you get to the top floor, just trap, lure & heal when needed. Another effective way to camp lure gags is to use sound. You lure, someone else sounds (also low level sound gags. See! The “Horn of Horror” aka the Bike Horn DOES come in handy sometimes!), letting you lure again the next time. Although this method doesn’t make lure more successful as trap will. You can do this also with really ANY type gag except Toon-up and Drop of course. Also, if someone with a more powerful Lure gag lures with you, this tends to help the success rate of lower Lure Gags. But the downfall is, it lowers the success rate of the higher lures succeeding by kind of averaging out the two. An important point of camping for Lure is this: If you don't have a successful hit, you won't get credit for the lure. So you can't just lure & let them unlure by themselves. You will NOT get credit for a cog that isn't hit while lured. A few people have made this mistake.

Camping Trap gags: The only thing you really need for this is someone with a good lure gag. Start using the smaller trap gags first, then bigger as you go up. If you have someone who needs to work Toon-Up, you can lay out trap after trap in front of a row of cogs while the other person toons up & when you get all of the traps you can laid out, then lure. You can repeat this if you like. Remember: Never lay two traps on top of each other. They will cancel each other out.

Camping Drop: Now there are several ways to camp Drop gags. The MOST successful way I’ve seen is to Trap, Lure, and Drop. It seems there is a higher rate of Drop success with Trap & Lure. The second is to use squirt. Have someone get quite a few squirting flowers and squirt guns to stun the cogs. Drop seems to have less success with sound & throw gags, but they still can be used. Also, you can drop with someone who has a bigger drop gag, too. Again, this averages out the success rate though, as does luring with another person.

Camping Toon-up: No real trick here except don’t hit the cogs & don’t lure them on the top floor. Keep on getting hit on the top floor & toon up until your Toon Up gags are all gone. It’s best to have at least two other people who can help keep everyone tooned up though, especially in bigger buildings. But for the most part, your friends, unless they need to work Toon Up too, need to let you do the tooning. If you get into a real sticky situation where everyone is down on laff points, just have someone lure them in & everyone else Toon Up.

Camping throw & squirt: This is very easy to do. If you can, find someone with lure, just lure & hit, using lower gags first, and bigger gags last.

Camping Sound No real trick here either except this is the one time where lure & sound go hand in hand. No, you won't get a knockback bonus but if the lure is successful you are guaranteed your sound won't miss. This is especially good for people with level 3 or less sound gags which miss quite often. Also, the same with lure & drop: You can sound with someone who has higher sound gags to increase the likelihood of a successful hit.

If I've left something out, please feel free to comment. I hope this helps some of you out there!!! Now go level up!

Again, I would stress that you DON'T do this while others (meaning non-friends/non-secret friends) are in the building. They may not understand or not want to do this with you. You'll get a lot of angry toons if they aren't clear on what exactly you're doing!!! If you do go in with other toons, at least "be prepared to
heal the team if your camping causes injury" as Loosy Goosy suggested!!!

[Bailey]

Bailey, my 99 laffer, needs to max out TRAP, LURE and DROP. He also has a task to kill 1000 cogs in Dreamland.

I would like to find at least 2 other toons working these same gags, to team-up with (over 60 laff please) and that would be available evenings between 9 and 11 Eastern time.

It would help if you are already on my friends list since it is COMPLETELY full, but I might be able to find a spot or two for the right toon(s).

Please PM me rather than posting to this thread.

Thanks!

[Loosy Goosy]

Originally posted by Bunny Summers
Again, I would stress that you DON'T do this while others (meaning non-friends/non-secret friends) are in the building. They may not understand or not want to do this with you. You'll get a lot of angry toons if they aren't clear on what exactly you're doing!!!

I would leave that part out. Toons get confused no matter what
happens, hehe. Maybe add, or revise it to say "Be prepared to
heal the team if your camping causes injury." I say this because
most of the time you get non-friends whipping out their max'd
cakes in pure panic mode, wiping out cog-cattle faster than it
took to step out of the elevator. Therefore, most of the time
(when playing with non-friends), you have to "force" a little
milking but be ready to take care of those who helped get you there.

By the way Bunny, you need to add "Farming" to the list of
names hehe

[Bunny Summers]

Originally posted by Loosy Goosy
By the way Bunny, you need to add "Farming" to the list of
names hehe

I'll add "Be prepared to heal the team if your camping causes injury" as an "AND/OR" type of thing. LOL.

Do think I should add "Shucking" and "Plowing" too? Yeah, sounds like we're down at "Old MacDonald's Farm" doesn't it? Hehehe.

[Miss Taffy]

You know, there is a chance that these non/secret and or non friends won't figure out what you are trying to do. I've been camping with non-secrets and also participated as a walk-in, and all went well. Give it a chance, you just might luck in.

[Bunny Summers]

Originally posted by Miss Taffy
You know, there is a chance that these non/secret and or non friends won't figure out what you are trying to do. I've been camping with non-secrets and also participated as a walk-in, and all went well. Give it a chance, you just might luck in.

Well, just basically I wanted to let people know that you take your chances in getting someone angry when they don't know what you're doing or what goal you're trying to acheive. You can, by all means do this with strangers or non-secret friends. It just makes it easier if they ARE your secret friends. You never know when someone has to leave after that last building or simply just doesn't get what you're doing. When they see you use a banana peel on the bottom floor, marbles on another floor & all the sudden you pull out a TNT that you're trying to max out, some are likely to wonder why in the world you're using marbles & peels when you've got TNT!!! Well, hopefully they'll get the idea but some don't. I just put that there because most of us try to play with the idea to keep other people's feelings & their gameplay styles in mind.

[UMT]

Thanks Bunny Summers,

Great job

[zmaster08690]

let's go camping then

[blubberzilla]

I was doing some research, and I believe the idea of using small gags at the bottom and big at the top is wrong. I made a spreadsheat that caculates the maximum ammount of points can be gained by attacking a certain level cog with a given gag, taking into account the maximum that can be caried, and how many hits the cog can take. It turns out that level 2 and 3 allow for more points. For example...say you're in the top floor and are against a 10 and are working squirt. Hitting it 17 times with level 2 give 34 pts times the floor multipyer. A 4 or 5 only would give 25-28 before the cog dies. Level 2 is the most efficent. Be sure though to make your last "killer" shot a level 6. I need to make some more mods to the file, and I'll post it here for everyone's enjoyment. Obvioiusly this doesn't apply to lure and TU 'cause they don't hurt the cogs.

[MK_Superknees]

If I'm not mistaken, you can tell when you hit 200 points in a building. When I was camping toonup, my screen showed "no points" as soon as I went over 200. The gag wasn't "greyed out" as it would be if it were too strong.

Can anyone confirm this?

[Bunny Summers]

Originally posted by MK_Superknees
If I'm not mistaken, you can tell when you hit 200 points in a building. When I was camping toonup, my screen showed "no points" as soon as I went over 200. The gag wasn't "greyed out" as it would be if it were too strong.

Can anyone confirm this?

you are right.

[Rubber Duckie]

Oh.Never relized that when you reach 200 it doesnt give you ep pts.

[Bunny Summers]

Originally posted by blubberzilla
I was doing some research, and I believe the idea of using small gags at the bottom and big at the top is wrong. I made a spreadsheat that caculates the maximum ammount of points can be gained by attacking a certain level cog with a given gag, taking into account the maximum that can be caried, and how many hits the cog can take. It turns out that level 2 and 3 allow for more points. For example...say you're in the top floor and are against a 10 and are working squirt. Hitting it 17 times with level 2 give 34 pts times the floor multipyer. A 4 or 5 only would give 25-28 before the cog dies. Level 2 is the most efficent. Be sure though to make your last "killer" shot a level 6. I need to make some more mods to the file, and I'll post it here for everyone's enjoyment. Obvioiusly this doesn't apply to lure and TU 'cause they don't hurt the cogs.

After a couple of calculations on my part, yeah, I saw that my first description was inaccurate. Yes, you do want to use a lot of your lower gags on the 2nd to last floor, like if you're trying to max out sound, for example you could find a 5 story in Dreamland.

Fill up on your 3 highest gags:
Level 4 = Aoogahs
Level 5 = Elephant trunks
Level 6 = Foghorns

On the 4th floor start using as many of Aoogahs (you can hold up to 17) as it takes to kill off the cogs. When you get to the top floor, continue to use the Aoogahs until you're out, then start on the Elephant trunks (you can hold 7). If the cogs in front of you are nearly dead, THEN finish them off with a foghorn (can hold 3). I don't really think you need to go below a level 4 gag though because you will earn enough experience points to reach the 200 maximum but you're welcome to use lower ones. Just realize that once your toon has 200 experience points in a building, that's it! You can't get anymore.

If you only have a level 1 or 2 gag, I would just save those gags for the top floors. You can't hold that many of those anyway. Do that in a 2 or 3 story building if you choose to camp for those, preferably in TTC or Donald's Dock, for lower level cogs. Lower level gags don't work well on high level cogs.

[Snickerdoodle Dog]

Today, some friends...SF and regular...went into a building with a stranger (not friend to any of us). We managed to teach him what we wanted on the top floor. As we got into the elevator for the top floor, the speedchat banter went something like this:

"Let's use toon-up"
"Let's work on that"
"I need more gags"
"I think you should choose toon-up"

As we started the battle two of us would repeat what the goal was...helping our stranger partner build his gags too.

When we got hit, we used happy speedchat and when cogs missed, we used sad phrases.

In the end, he passed without comment and used TU as though he'd been camping with us for days.

Just some thoughts from a multiple toon player.