Tips and guides

Useful Tips

• It's not necessary to tap all the bits, etc. that fall out of buildings. If you leave them there they will be collected automatically.
• Rocks can be removed from the building field for 1000bits (small rocks) to 16000bits (the giant rocks). Similarly small shrubs can be removed for 200 to 800 bits.
• If you tap on any sort of decorations(bought/not bought), there's a chance of one bit falling out.
• Often buildings offer the same bits per hour for the two items it offers, so it may be profitable to spread your ponies out and just build the faster item if you don't mind checking back often.
• If your shop employs three ponies it may be more profitable (bits per hour wise) to build the first item instead of the second item (Example: Lemon Stand gives 158 bits for Lemons in 3 minutes with three ponies, and 203 bits for Lemonade in 4 minutes 30 seconds with three ponies. That's 52.667 bits/min for Lemons vs. 45.111 bits/min for Lemonade).
• Place all of the job buildings as close together as possible, so you don't have to scroll across the map to finish their jobs.
• Ponies who live in a house that's already built arrive instantly when purchased. For example, if you already have Sugarcube Corner built (from getting Mrs. Cake) then Pinkie Pie and Mr. Cake will arrive as soon as you unlock them with bits.
• Shards of Harmony can be spent at activated Harmony Stones for bits. You get random amounts of bits (even zero bits) for every shard deposited.
• One can move ponies to a shop that is about to complete it's production cycle to get the third pony bonus, and thus better use available assets when attending to the game.
• One can fill his or her "unlocked space" with decorations (ideally wells or dirt paths) to fully mitigate the costs of removing rocks/debris that randomly spawn there during "catastrophes".
• Similarly, filling at least one square in all 2x2 areas will prevent parasprites from spawning in your town. You can select a "pile of hay" from the store to find open 2x2 that need to be filled.
• One can repeatedly buy and sell wells/lfancy bushes for cheap EXP.
• One good way of economically exploiting your ponies is to ask this question. "considering my habits, how long are the average intervals between my checkups on the game?" If your answer is every 8 hours, buy the cafe, bowling alley, joke shop. If the answer is every 4 hours, buy a mane salon, toy shop, asparagus stand. But it is generally advised to have 8-hour shops, (due to the need to sleep).
• It is best to always have access to a shop that will be continuously working for the duration of any of your absences from the game. (prioritizing the short production cycle shops of course)
• If the second item in one of your shop's production cycles is about to finish (30 min), and you fear that you will lose productivity in your absence (240min), it may sometimes be a good idea to switch the production cycle to the first item (180 min) which may will keep your ponies busy continuously during your abscence, and thus gain you more bits. You can then switch to the second item (30 min) when you are at a time where you can tend to the game more often, like when making edits to a wiki (every 10 min).
• Judging from the shops graph, Shops can be divided into 5 catagories. 1. The attentive (1-4), which demands your continious oversight. 2. The "proper" (15-90) which should be tended too as one does low priority tasks. 3. The stange (240-360) which probably have the worst production timers. 4. The sleepers (360-480) which can be used while sleeping. 5. The non-playing, (720-1200) which should be used by those who really can't play the game. (numbers in parenthansis represent minutes).

Technical Stuff / Troubleshooting

• Android Users: If your game just pauses (so none of the timers update while you're away) and takes up battery life when you're not playing consider closing it with a task manager type app (or a built in task manager) if you're not playing for a while. For the Nexus 7: press the windows list button, long press on the MLP game and choose "remove from list".
• Android Users: If your game is crashing on startup, try turning on Airplane mode. To do this, hold your power button and a menu will pop up. In this menu should be an option for "Airplane mode" click this and it will turn off all wireless connectivity and the game should start. WARNING: When you turn on airplane mode on a phone, you will not be able to recieve phone calls, SMS messages or anything else that requires a cellphone or wireless signal.