There was a thread a while back about someone collecting data on crowns/heat drops in floors and generally which maps were more worth the cash etc.
What I've come to wonder lately is simple; assuming you're not worrying about energy costs (let's say you're on an ele pass, or have ME, or are making enough to buy back the ce regardless), are the crowns from shrubs worth the time it takes to run around and collect them all?
I mean, I know there's a chance for higher crowns, but the liklihood is so, so small it's not even worth considering.
Like, running around your map, you get your dropped crowns. But then stopping and tearing up every bush and bookcase for a mere single crown each (maybe!) is adding very little to the runs total payout. In the time it takes you to collect them all, you could have moved onto the next floor. Over the course of an entire tier (especially ifyou go through aurora isles or wolver dens) this can add a susbtantial amount of time to your runs, potentially setting you back floors at a time, ifyou're putting a few solid hours into the game and running continuously.
May see like a stupid question, but when you consider that you're stopping for at least a couple of minutes per floor to collect essentially 10/15 crowns, is it really worth the time? Is it just a false economy, when time is the only factor?
And yes, to reiterate, I'm aware that if you're paying elevator costs and/or time is irrelevant, then the shrubmoney is certainly worth the time, making the most of your limited runs, but that's not the circumstance involved here.
Anyone tested this out before, or wondered it themselves?
That's true but.... gaming OCD. Must kill ALL the bushes. I do this in every game. I don't care it doesn't have a good payout. >:O