The Simpsons: Tapped Out
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I also earned the spooky house and was surprised to see
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I'd forgotten about community prizes. But at least there's no spinning wheel. And I've gotten some donuts out of the treat bags!
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I picked up Witch Marge and have 82 donuts left. I think I can work that back to 100 l, no sweat, if something great comes along. The event is fun, but yeah, without community prizes there seems to be less goal outcome than before. That said, I like the three-tiered timing of the event, like three mini, related events in one. It's a unique idea to try.
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At this point I can't remember if it was the Halloween update or the one before it, but it takes forever to log in. I can get minutes of the spinning donut only to have the whole thing close. Over and over again. How much better would I be doing in this event if I didn't lose time to this phenomemon? Can't find a consistent solution, either, and I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S5 so top of the line.
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At this point I can't remember if it was the Halloween update or the one before it, but it takes forever to log in. I can get minutes of the spinning donut only to have the whole thing close. Over and over again. How much better would I be doing in this event if I didn't lose time to this phenomemon? Can't find a consistent solution, either, and I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S5 so top of the line.
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Unfortunately, it does do that. I only requested the donuts and items from before I started playing - no cash - but earning money is pretty easy now. (And I have lots items/people I have yet to spent donuts on and tons of stuff in my inventory that I haven't placed yet.) The Halloween event's keeping things interesting and I still find it fun to play, but there's definitely less of a challenge now.
My nephew got the hack before me and now he doesn't play anymore because it got too easy. (Well, that and he deleted the app to make room for more music on his iPhone.)
My nephew got the hack before me and now he doesn't play anymore because it got too easy. (Well, that and he deleted the app to make room for more music on his iPhone.)
But I'd love a ton of donuts to be ready for future events.. as well as all the old items that were limited and/or premium that I never bought.
I don't like giving my login details away.. though its not a huge issue as the password for my origin account is unique and easy to change with a password manager. I'll have to give it some thought.. I have always hated not having certain characters because they were limited and I never had enough donuts to buy them or they are premium and I don't have enough donuts to buy them.
THe other thing stopping me is that I don't want to chance having my account banned if they ever cracked down on things. Even though I really want the items and things I missed, I'm not sure I want to chance it as I've put a fair bit of time into the game over the last almost 2 years.
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Before giving your login info away, change it to something like RedditPass123, then change it to something else after they use it.
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I got the Marge cauldron.
Thanks to Confirm Donut Spend for saving me from spending six donuts on speeding up the holiday tree.
Glad I earned the spooky house so I could earn treat bags
I've changed my grem-alien strategy. I was distributing during my neighbor visits, but since those are restricted to 30 per day for guns, I'm doing grem-aliens separately, generally to the people I've been exchanging with. And while I usually try to visit all my neighbors equally, it doesn't really matter now since there's no benefit to the neighbor so I'm just visiting whoever whenever.
Thanks to Confirm Donut Spend for saving me from spending six donuts on speeding up the holiday tree.
Glad I earned the spooky house so I could earn treat bags
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I've changed my grem-alien strategy. I was distributing during my neighbor visits, but since those are restricted to 30 per day for guns, I'm doing grem-aliens separately, generally to the people I've been exchanging with. And while I usually try to visit all my neighbors equally, it doesn't really matter now since there's no benefit to the neighbor so I'm just visiting whoever whenever.
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Hmm.. now I'm tempted.... I don't care much for cash as I have about 1.5 million now. I had about 2.5 mil, but the Strip Joint for Nelson's mom was expensive.
But I'd love a ton of donuts to be ready for future events.. as well as all the old items that were limited and/or premium that I never bought.
I don't like giving my login details away.. though its not a huge issue as the password for my origin account is unique and easy to change with a password manager. I'll have to give it some thought.. I have always hated not having certain characters because they were limited and I never had enough donuts to buy them or they are premium and I don't have enough donuts to buy them.
THe other thing stopping me is that I don't want to chance having my account banned if they ever cracked down on things. Even though I really want the items and things I missed, I'm not sure I want to chance it as I've put a fair bit of time into the game over the last almost 2 years.
But I'd love a ton of donuts to be ready for future events.. as well as all the old items that were limited and/or premium that I never bought.
I don't like giving my login details away.. though its not a huge issue as the password for my origin account is unique and easy to change with a password manager. I'll have to give it some thought.. I have always hated not having certain characters because they were limited and I never had enough donuts to buy them or they are premium and I don't have enough donuts to buy them.
THe other thing stopping me is that I don't want to chance having my account banned if they ever cracked down on things. Even though I really want the items and things I missed, I'm not sure I want to chance it as I've put a fair bit of time into the game over the last almost 2 years.
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I'm distributing the gremaleins anytime I get five or more, and I'm targeting them at neighbors with the lowest ray gun counts. I figure if you have 5000 ray guns already, you don't need my help. And if you only have 2000, hopefully it'll help you, but if not, a bigger payout for myself.
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Well I did the reddit thing.
I did get a ton of donuts but the guy didn't sync something and the other stuff never went through, oh well.
whats the deal with the gremlians?
Am I supposed to tap them or let them run around?
I did get a ton of donuts but the guy didn't sync something and the other stuff never went through, oh well.
whats the deal with the gremlians?
Am I supposed to tap them or let them run around?
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Wondering the same. I did
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This morning I got the hover-copter. Since I've also unlocked all of the craft items, I guess the smart thing to do is to bank all of my unopened trick or treat bags until the next phase starts, huh?
Thanks for dropping gremaliens on me. I don't need any more rigellians, so for the next couple of days you should probably send those to people that need them. I'll keep dropping my gremaliens, though.
Thanks for dropping gremaliens on me. I don't need any more rigellians, so for the next couple of days you should probably send those to people that need them. I'll keep dropping my gremaliens, though.
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I think I should get the copter tomorrow.
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It's really just an issue with the basic item. If you open the cheap bags now, you'll get a lot of ray guns, which won't carry over to the next prize stage. The silver and gold bags are not so much of an issue. If you think you're going to hit the ray-gun prize level, it makes more sense to open the better bags and go for those prizes.
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I think it's because how the probes turned to ray guns and those will change to I'm guessing the alien DNA thing. So you usually get some of those when you open bags so if people already have enough ray guns now, they'll hold off and open them when the game transitions to the alien DNA thing so as not to waste it on the guns and get more DNA.
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For me, I just don't give a damn about the hover-copter prize, but I really want alien Burns. So I'm saving up my bags now to get some extra protein strands for that event.
If I get the hover-copter through smashing aliens, that's cool. But I'm not going out of my way trying for it.
If I get the hover-copter through smashing aliens, that's cool. But I'm not going out of my way trying for it.
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You all have me convinced. Going to save bags, leave nothing to chance. Still hoping to get the Great Pumpkin and Donut Machine from treat bag contents but that overlap will make it tough.