08/27/13 16:30:27

Quick Tip: Use Calca to Plan Your PvZ 2 Plant Placement

Quick Tip: Use Calca to plan your Plants vs. Zombies 2 plant placement

Despite being Free-To-Play, I’m a total fan of PvZ 2. As I tweeted, the balancing is so well done that you don’t really feel the pressure to buy things, though you always can, of course. The game is just a lot of fun.

But that’s not what I was wanting to write about. In PvZ 2 there are levels where you have to keep your spending of “sun”1 within a certain boundary. Placing plants is much easier when you now exactly where to place which plant and how many, in advance. I found it quite useful to pop all plants into a Calca (OS X, iOS) document and simply let the app calculate how much sun I can spend.

Here’s the content of my document:

#@en-US

max sun = 1500

#income
sun = 50
doublesun = 125

#protection
wallnut = 50
potatomine = 25
squash = 50
iceberglettuce = 0
gravebuster = 0
springbean = 50

#attack
peashooter = 100
repeater = 200
threepeater = 300
bloomerang = 175
snapdragon = 150
kernelpult = 100
cabbagepult = 100

(5*kernelpult) + (5*cabbagepult) + (5*wallnut) + sun + doublesun => 1425

  1. Sun is the currency in PvZ.