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Okay, here's what I did:

Farm: Harvested my waiting Tomacco, planted Corn
Channel 6: Collected the 3 handshakes sitting there, then started Channel 6 News task
Squidport: Of the 4 handshakes sitting there, I collected 3, leaving the last one in place

Downloaded the updated (Android)
Watched the update install, then download the XXX/148 updates
Splashscreen shows my Origin ID and icon in lower left corner, plus "38" (my level)
Tap
Game starts, Lisa and Homer blabber about getting VD from Cletus's Farm
Dialog goes away

Status:
Farm: CORN IS FULLY GROWN!!
Channel 6: News task is still running, 15h 41m left (no change)
Squidport: All my handshakes are gone! (dammit!)

So the VD update only hurries the Farm task. I would plant corn before the update. The Channel 6 and Squidport behaviors seem to contradict each other. One was untouched and unhurried, the other was reset. I guess I would collect all but 1 or 2 handshakes from both then leave them alone for the update. If EA wipes either/both of them out, there's nothing you can do about it but collect as much as you can from them now. If EA doesn't, then leaving a handshake will save you time after the update.

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Cool. Looks like what happened to my Squidport was a glitch then. Bummer for me, but at least others will be spared.

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Remember to use Witch Marge to speed up the rose harvest.

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Yeah.. I'm just glad I got all the level 38 stuff and the Duff Blimp back. Though I am now having to redo all the level 38 quests with Qumiby, Wiggim and the Judge.... But everything is there... I'll deal with the level thing if that doesn't correct itself.....

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The new start screen before you tap to enter your town is different.. Has your account avatar and level showing. And in your town when you tap on a handshake, the text to tell you who did it is changed now. I think the friends list is easier to manage now, as well, but I haven't checked that out yet.

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What a pain in the ass. I installed the update, do the rose harvest and have marge speed up the crop. Then I get kicked off. I open the game again and have to download the entire update. Then I tap to start and it's showing me the intro video for level one. So now I'm uninstalling and downloading a third time. And it's downloading slowly.

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I got wiped back to 37. At that point I restarted my Nexus 7. When I opened the game, it started downloading updates again. 20 MB. After that finished, I got my 38 stuff back and the level quests restarted. All of the handshakes on my Squidport were still there.

I wonder if this is what bit you. It might be better to not tap any of the Squidport handshakes beforehand.

If you haven't, you might want to reboot your device and look at your Squidport again. Just to make sure it wasn't a temporary glitch.

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The update just force grew my corn! Saved 71 days and got my 45k!

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So I guess that's what happened to me then.

I haven't opened the game after I played it for a few minutes after the update. Waiting for more details from the experts.

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I haven't been able to log in for the last hour. Keep getting the Bart screen. Hopefully they are fixing this mess.

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I've only been able to set a few people onto tasks. When I got past all the connection errors, the game crashed before I could finish. Getting a ton of graphical glitches. Multiple statues. Buildings imbedded into other buildings. Ghost characters. This is, far and away, the glitchiest app I've ever seen.

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I did. It didn't.

I prevented my Android device from synchronizing and updated my iOS device with VD. Wanted to see if the Squidport handshake deletion happened only locally or if it tracked to my saved online version. Alas, after the iOS VD update, I have discovered a Squidport with no handshakes and no ability to start a new tile building task. It's gone - apparently forever. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to be happy with the 230 tiles I've got. Lol.

What bums me out more than this is that when I tapped Channel 6 (which is between my Squidport and my Farm) to find out what it's task status was, my device instead tapped my Farm - cashing in my Corn. No! I was hoping to leave it for others to tap for me.

So even though I got the $ and XP for a Corn harvest, my farm, Channel 6, and Squidport have all been reset task-wise. Was fun while it lasted. :)

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^ ditto all of the above on Bluestacks. I think I can definitively confirm that my EA-stored game has nothing growing at the farm, is working on my 16h Channel 6 News task, and has a Squidport arch that will forever be unsullied by handshakes or floating waffles.

But hey, at least I got a bogus "Level 38 Level-Up" award of 2 donuts... even if all of my previously-completed Level 38 tasks now demand my attention.

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I never got any donuts when my level 38 came back.

After fighting through multiple crashes, I was finally able to set everybody to tasks. The graphical glitches weren't resolving, so I deleted and am currently installing. The first update took forever. Not looking forward to doing it again. Guess I'll have time to make that Everest ascent that I've never been dreaming of.

ETA: Finished new install. Graphical glitches unchanged.

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With all the hassles, I forgot to reset the confirmation on donut spending and lost 2 donuts. And they wonder why they get voted worst company.

And I'm ticked off enough to muddle the post.

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300 donuts for a whale! Screw that!

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This is the best update ever for me, because Krustyland doesn't crash any more when I visit it. :banana:

No other issues that others have been reporting, either. But I'm not sure what platform everybody is on (iPad for me).

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And the furtive whispers of "sock party for Groucho" begin.

I'm on the latest version of Android. I get crashes during loading, crashes in my Springfield, crashes visiting neighbors, but never crashes in Krustyland. Maybe because I don't spend much time there.

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Wow, the whale sucks ass. I thought it would be modeled like one of the "non interactive characters" but one that moves around in the water. Instead it just sits there.

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But the 7% multiplier is pretty cool.

So is Cletus's farm the only way to get roses? Hopefully they'll stack like the other crops. And hopefully when you tap on them in someone else's town you also get them.

Before this update there were a lot of friends' towns that would crash my app. I could enter the Krustyland of those towns, though. I only had one town crash for me after the update.

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I'm so bummed I missed out on the Super Bowl donuts. I couldn't finish the tasks as I was busy over those few days.

First off, I just want to say that I still got my squid port tiles after the update. I cashed in all but two, synchronized, then updated. However, when I use my feeder town to tap my squid port tile, I as the neighbour, don't get the major XP anymore, only 2. But the town being tapped still gets over 1000 XP.

Second, I used my feeder town to tap my corn. I was only able to do it once. My husband tried to tap my corn out of yet another town after and it wasn't available. WTF? Is this a glitch or can we only get one tap on our corn per 24 hours? Or ever? Does anyone mind checking if they can tap mine please?

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Can't do it. Don't see an icon to tap. I also don't see your tile. I checked one of my neighbors who hasn't played for months. Town still has the Halloween update. I hear the goblins growling every time I visit. Always has a tile. Still hear the goblins, but no tile.

Immediately after today's update my tile was tapped and a handshake added. More recently two other folks can't see my tile.

A little bit earlier, I tapped on someone else's corn, and he saw no handshake at all. Just the corn.

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I think once you unlock the ability to tap on characters in other towns, you can't do any of the actions with building or tiles in other towns.

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%$#@^ &
*&^&%

If I lost my tile handshakes i might just quit this game.
that will really pidd me off.

I might have had 30 of them there.

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You could get a 7% multiplier by buying 14 orange trees for 210 donuts total.

Now if the Sea Captain had a whale hunting task it might be cool to have.