Why it feels sometimes that Bloon Trap from the Engineer becomes broken, the further you go?

[Regicide]

I faced this several times by now.

When you freshly upgrade the Engineer, placing his Bloon Trap, it generates A LOT of valuable money, somewhat between 1,5 and 3,5k depending if you play with double money on or not.

But the further you go in that map, the bloon trap suddenly seems to become less and less useful. Starting to get "full" quicker and quicker while generating less and less money, up to the point where the trap literally triggers at somewhat around 100$ and becomes completly useless.

I faced this behaviour especially on Chimps Mode Maps.

Is this some sort system to prevent you from erarning gold with it?

[Ludoro]

Originally posted by Regicide:

I faced this behaviour especially on Chimps Mode Maps.

Is this some sort system to prevent you from erarning gold with it?

The I in CHIMPS stands for income, so any income other than popping bloons or end of round bonus is largely restricted, that's why the Bloon Trap doesn't work as usual.

[Ninja Zyborg]

So there are a few mechanics in the game which you don't seem to understand.

The first, biggest one is that starting round 40, cash from bloons is reduced. I'm not exactly sure when it is reduced later or by how much, but it is significantly reduced. Since Bloon Trap multiplies cash from bloons, its cash generation is also reduced. It doesn't trigger any sooner, it just gives less money. This means that Bloon Trap is best before round 40.

The first commenter got the other half of the issue. Chimps negates all bonus cash generation options, resulting in Bloon Trap giving half its normal amount from each trap (which means it only gives the cash you would get from popping bloons normally)

[Regicide]

Oh Wow, okay, thank you guys for the clarification!

Unfortunately, I can only mark one answer as correct, but credit goes to both of you