What happens if you overclock farms/villages?

[Mike9090]

You can use overclock/ultraboost all towers and then they attack faster but the banana farm and monkey village (except 5-x-x) don't attack. Is there any reason to overclock farms/villages?

[DarkMatter]

Overclocking farms and 005 village makes them make more income.

[Mike9090]

Originally posted by DarkMatter:

Overclocking farms and 005 village makes them make more income.

Does overclocking a 5-x-x farm also increase the production of all other farms, because there's a buff the 5-x-x farm gives where all other farms earn some % more? Or does it only affect the regular income and not the income from other farms?

[Hiroko]

Overclocking increases the number of drops on all 3 farm paths, as well as x/x/5 village. Thus, more income. It does NOT effect the bonuses a tower gives to another tower (x/x/4 farm bonus to merchants for example). I'm unsure how it effects merchant generation. However, I've yet to test if x/x/5 village creation changes whether you eat an overclocked farm or not.

For example I counted 27 drops on a 2/x/4 farm (normally gets 20) while stacking overclocking.

It's also not worth overclocking as opposed to stacking on an offensive t5 tower due to cooldown time limitations and by the fact that if you had the money to invest in that engineer, you have the income needed to make it irrelevant anyways, with exception perhaps to a map where you can only get 1 farm and 1 merchant or something, to where the extra income actually matters.