Banana farm vs merchantmen (buccaneer)

[Maartmaster]

Does anyone know if there is a comparisson between the income rates about the two towers in the title? i can't find anything, but i got very curious about which would be better to use in different situations

[SandTag]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1641631453

Merchantmen have a base efficiency of 16
Favoured trades have 18
A trade empire with 10 merchantmen is 13
... Dropping as low as 8 with the maximum 30 merchantmen

A bank on the other hand is 10 (With MK)

and a bottom path one is 14/16

Efficiency being the number of rounds on normal difficulty to repay itself

Generally banks will be better than boats, and banks can be used to buy the monkeyopolis.

Supply drop is actually your lowest though, with 1 activation per round i believe it is 9, and unlike trade empire it does not need boats to achieve this.

Supply drop is not included in the guide because it is RNG based and thus impossible to test.

[Skleedle]

Also if you arrange to freeze bloons where they can't be hit you can make rounds last a lot longer to get even more more bux out of snipers/helis.

[SandTag]

Originally posted by Skleedle:

Also if you arrange to freeze bloons where they can't be hit you can make rounds last a lot longer to get even more more bux out of snipers/helis.

yeah, max stalls with supply drops with a spot of luck has an efficiency as low as 3, heli im not sure on, probably still wouldent be great.

[evilauthor]

Honestly? Buy what you can get based on real estate. If the map is mostly land with only a few small patches of water, you won't be able to buy many ships to begin with. And the reverse is true for maps that are mostly water.

[Maartmaster]

awesome , thanks guys!