Maxed camp without spending cash

Just out of curiosity, i would like to hear from people who have maxed or are close to maxing camps without spending cash or maybe very little cash. I am interested in what it was like. How much time u spent. Was it harder or easier than u thought. How much time total. U dont need to be too specific, but if nyone would like to share their experience it would be cool.
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Been playing around 6 months and spent about £10.
Because there are so many different things to do, I've not been that bored but when I am, I play something else.
The long upgrades, I set off at bedtime so they're at least half done by morning.
I've not played a game like this before, and stupidly finished the good farming levels on all 3 degrees of difficulty......Doh!
I don't let gas tank overfill during awake hours and most of my food came from food exploration missions.
I did Challenges (100-200stars) but since 1.8 patch I traded Challenges for Outposts because they are more lucrative.
I dont play F2P games and I will never do it again, I knew the dangers (adiction) before I downladed it but I love Walking Dead series and I was going to play it only "a week", then untill I finished all episodes (10) and now my idea is to leave the game when prices are too high.
It's simply not possible *YET* with the amount of time it takes to earn the supplies, etc. Even if they played 24/7 without EVER sleeping, not enough time has passed yet to earn everything necessary to be maxed out.
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I have a decent amount of upgrading to do before being completely maxed out. All my "important buildings are maxed (Council, Training, Workshop, Radio Tent, Mission Car). Currently I'm upgrading the last of my 5 farm plots to level 9, so I still have level 10 upgrades on all farms. Plus, my two XP tents have 3 more upgrades available each, and each of my 4 supply storage buildings have 1 upgrade each. My hospital still has two more available upgrades. Not to mention my Outpost building is only level 3, and my walker pit is Level 5, so I'm not sure what the cost of those upgrades are yet...nor do I care, I'll upgrade those when everything else is taken care of, and I have enough great equipment to justify spending my trade goods on upgrading stuff to protect nothing...
The cost of those upgrades is at least 25 mil supplies, plus around 17-20 days of building time. Still a ways to go, but I'm happy with what I've been able to do without spending any money yet. Once I upgrade all my Storage Supply buildings, I will probably buy the 2.99 bundle to max out my supplies when they are needed for "important" upgrades.
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Building .... Cost in Millions of food
Council.... 1.86
Training... 2.35
Work......... 2.35
Radio........ 2.35
Tent.......... 4.24 (2.12 x2)
Supplies.. 6.12 (2.04 x3)
Supplies.. 4.25 (new supplies storage at council 16)
Outpost... 1.3
Walking... 2
Total ~27M
Days since 1.7 patch: 43
Food at start of 1.7 patch = 3.36M (1.12M * 3 supplies storage)
Daily food needed to upgrade everyting: 27M / 43days = ~630000
So you "only" needed 630k every day and I even didn't count that 3.36M at the start of 1.7 patch.
I got around 600000 at survivors level 16 in pure food farming days. Now at lvl17 with increased farm output and Outposts, it can be more than that. And remember 1min / 5min gas regeneration days!
Honestly I play just as much as the other addicted players. It's literally not possible to be maxed out without spending money at this point in time.
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Ofc I start with a maxed pre 1.7 patch because It was possible to be maxed at that time:
It was needed around 14M food to be maxed from 1.6 to 1.7 and it lasted 21 days, so 660K/day needed or 500k/day if you count 3.3M from full supplies at the start of 1.6patch.
500k/day pre 1.7 wasn't an impossible amount to get so maybe you aren't so addicted (thats good!) as other players or you don't focus in this task.
If you still believe it is "impossible" it will be nice you back up you words with data!
Based on my experience as a developer and as a player, I am saying you don't know what you're talking about, or yes, you're lying. You either spent money and are not owning up to it, or you abused the bugs in the game and didn't earn being maxed out legitimately.
Either way, it doesn't change the fact that it's not possible unless you spent money or cheated.
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Outpost and Walker pit need lots of upgrades.
But I have lots of lvl 16 toons, and have finished all episodes normal, up to 10 hard and 8 nightmare. Play challenges up to 100/140 and will do outpost again once I spend my 15000 for a lvl 17 Lucille.
I try not to feel the grind too much, and I never farmed the levels you can flee.
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However, some people have referenced some kind of device that would essentially "auto-click" for you to farm while they sleep. I think most would think of that as cheating.
as someone who has spent a fair bit of money on gold (more than id care to admit) farming 7.4 nightmare isnt even the most efficient way to get xp if you can afford some gold in the last 2-3 days ive farmed the xp side mission on chapter 13 hard mode buying all 9 picks after the mission and refilling my gas tank with gold i get between 80-100k each gas refill and ive maxed out two level 17 weapons from scratch (a little over 2 million each) and im already back to 70k xp after my most recent upgrade. it has cost maybe 4000 gold to do that considering it costs 6300 just to go from 19-20 instantly i thought it was worth while
and thats without max strategy either and having to use gold for healing when i probably could be a little more careful and avoid getting hit at all
side bonus of doing it this way i also pulled a lvl 17 katana with gold arc, and about 50 radios which make up part of the cost of the gold spent in and of themselves
I'm pretty sure it would be entirely possible to be completely upgraded without spending a penny.
Although I can get away with playing at work which I guess a lot of people can't.
I also barely played in the challenges at all until recently because the rewards were worthless and just did lots of farming missions. Now I do no farming missions at all and lots of challenges and outpost raids. It's a lot more enjoyable
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In short, without an exploit, there is no way to be maxed out on everything at this point in time (since game launch) without dropping some cash on the game (and I appreciate the people that do!).
Nobody thinks farming xp is cheating. Not even NextGames themselves. This is about being maxed out, not about farming xp though. Farming doesn't help you get tomatoes. It's very simple for anyone who thinks critically about the way the game mechanics work to come to the conclusion that it's simply not possible to be maxed out without spending money.
I'm not even saying spending money is a bad thing or makes you lesser of a player. Just that it's not possible to be maxed out without having spent some money on the game. It's certainly hilarious that someone would get bent out of shape over that.
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