User blog:The Primordial Clok-Roo/BTD6 Monkey City Upgrade Effect Learned

Guys, I just worked out how the new v17.0 buff to the X-X-4 Monkey Town upgrade - Monkey City - functions. It DOESN'T affect all monkeys... it ONLY affects - get this - Monkey Farms.

I noticed during a very dodgy round of Apopalypse mode on Firing Range that the Monkey Banks I was putting down (I was using Benjamin as my hero) had an extra buff icon on then. It resembled the Monkey City upgrade but had a cash crate instead of a Dart Monkey. At first, I thought it meant that the tower was in range for Monkeyopolis sacrifice, but that didn't make sense. The icons are meant to indicate buffs, not 'in-range-to-be-removed.' So I took to Sandbox mode on a different map and placed down both a 0-0-3 Monkey Town and a 0-0-4 Monkey City and placed a 0-3-0 Monkey Bank next to each. I played a round and noticed that the Monkey Bank in range of the Monkey City gained more cash... specifically, $253 versus $230... 10% more. Coincidence?

I then tried another test, using this time a single 0-0-X Monkey Village, a 2-0-3 Sniper Monkey and a 0-3-0 Monkey Bank in range of the Monkey Village against Round 44... Which I had to redo with Knowledge turned off after I realized a mistake I made. My first run was with a basic 0-0-2 Monkey Village for a controlled starting point. At the end of the initial round, the Sniper Monkey had made back $1150 while the bank made its predicted $230. The next run was with the 0-0-3 Monkey Town. As I had knowledge on, I had to anticipate 60% more cash per pop as opposed to 50% more. The round ended with $1725 from the Sniper, but still only $230 from the bank. So now came the final test with a 0-0-4 Monkey City... and as expected, the Sniper Monkey still made only $1725, but the Monkey Bank made $253. So the Bank was affected by the buff, but the tower was not!

I then ran another, much smaller, test. This time I placed just a normal Banana Farm in range of the Monkey City... every banana I picked up was worth $22 dollars as opposed to the normal $20. Further more, this doubled up on top of the Valuable Banana's 25% value buff, meaning that bananas were worth $27 instead of $25. ($28 versus $26 with Monkey Knowledge turned on.)

I've yet to test whether this also applies to Central Market's end-of-round cash bonus, but I can confirm that it does not apply to IMF Loan's $10,000 loan.

I have already made the changes to the Monkey City page to reflect this.