Got updated. No issues here so far.

My game hasn't forced an update yet and I managed to get Egg Council Guy. Woo-hoo!

Still didn't get that 50th fence, though.

Ugh, it's terrible.

Thanks -- it did!

Spoke too soon?

In LTE worked fine, but at home, using Wifi it runs really slow... WTF?

I'm still clinging to the un-updated version in hopes of squeezing out another gold box, but the odds are pretty unlikely. About half my neighbors have updated so I can't get eggs out of them.

Those who have updated: Are any of the Easter items now purchasable?

I saw someone post that the Cat Lady, the two topiaries and one or two other things are still available.

I'm sometimes accused of having too much "blind love" for all things The Simpsons.

So let me be clear: that even sucked.

Hoping for something new and exciting in this game to get us fired up as a group again. The flame has certainly died down a little bit since last summer which is too bad.

Haven't picked up the Cat Lady yet. Is she voiced? It's Tress MacNeille and she's not the "main cast" but this character's yells and grunts would be so, so funny to hear I would actually consider dropping donuts on her.

Hey I sent out some friend requests but if you want you can add me as well, my UN is Frunkuss

I have my sounds turned off, but I think she just makes cat sounds.

Accepted your invite, though it took a couple tries. Nice to have some new players.

Added you to the OP.

To everyone, I apologize for not keeping the OP up to date as much as I should have in recent months. Hope to get it better organized soon. Will ask again, because it's been a while, shall I perhaps move the people whom don't play anymore from the main list to a second list? Is that helpful for people?

If anyone who still has the Easter update wants to dump some eggs I Have some baskets. I need 100 more gold eggs for a last shot at Father Sean and Sherry Bobbins.

Taking my last shots at the gold characters, I scraped out two blue boxes for 100 gold eggs each, then dumped enough blue eggs on toddarino for one pink box and lucked into 300 gold eggs. Bought the gold box... Easter fence. Maybe I should just give up and run the update.

Update Today:
Episode Tie-in: The Yellow Badge of Cowardge

4-part, quest line* (Milhouse triggers), features:

1. Fit Milhouse Van Houten Character Skin-- Free (unlocks in quest line)
2. Macaroni's Shed -- 30 donuts (0.75% multiplier)
3. Friendship Points: Cool Lisa Simpson Character Skin (Summer of 4'2" episode) -- 5,000 FPs (triggers new quest line)
   

Should be pushed out, no app store update needed. Doesn't seem to fix the general lag -- and/or crashing -- the game is having for some folks.

*There is also a Lugash side-quest line unlocked, if you have Lugash and his gym.

Limited-time event (save for FP items), ends in the early hours of May 20.

Nice.

and

Friend Points don't seem to be active.

When I go into the screen to visit friends towns, I see the new prize showing.. but nothing I tap on in their towns gives FP and nothing in mine when I tap on a handshake or mop gives FP.

Another note about this tie-in:

Along with post-Easter lag/crashing, FPs are busted right now as now.

It looks like the status bar is not giving credit for FPs collected. Some users are reporting not being given credit for completing the last FP level even though they have the Capitol City Goofball roaming around.

Also, this forces the update to be installed before continuing, so my quest for Shary Bobbins is officially over.

Thanks for the additional post. It shows that they know its an issue so hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

Update: Should have been a hotfix pushed out last night to correct the FP issue.

The post-Easter lag/crashing/selected neighbor crashing/selected task errors/possible total game lock-out clusterfudge is still a known issue that is being addressed.

Yeah, FP was fixed last night. I haven't had a crash yet on my iPhone 5S but scrolling is sluggish.

One more day for Brandine!

Yep.. FP worked for me as well last night.. I didn't have any sliggishness in my town.. But some towns I visited were noticeably slow while others behaved normally.

If it's not too much work, I think it'd make sense. No need to have people sending them requests and such.

Ugh...i've still got epic sluggishness / lag.

Like Canis, my sluggish-scrolling problem is only in certain towns. Maybe it's size of town or number of animations running at the time.

I'm liking this Spuckler brat, though. Working on #2!