Sean O'Hara

It's worse than you think -- because the first task today was to have everyone make toys, if you'd put them in the toy factory over night, you would've had the first task finished when you woke up.

starseed1981

Well, after kicking the Tapped Out habit for two months I'm totally addicted again. I have no clue what these fed things are though lol.

story

I was surprised you'd stopped. I added you to the inactive players list early in November. I'll move you back.

starseed1981

thanks! I was kinda burnt out. I needed that reprieve to wrap up a couple of console games. Glad to be back though.

Raul3

Last night I was really tired, but it was Friday, so I waited until midnight to go to bed, so I could start the new tasks

I'm one day ahead of schedule, but still.

davidh777

This all turned out to be a comedy of errors. I drove two hours to a party and upon arrival at 6:30ish found my elves and toymakers were ready so I reassigned them all and made a mental note to check back on Lisa in an hour. At that time, I subtly checked my phone and Lisa was done, but I couldn't start Homer on the quest because I had assigned him to make toys an hour earlier. I realized later I could have stored the workshop to free him up but then would have reset all the elves and toymakers to finish up after 1 a.m. so I decided to just leave them. The party wrapped up a little before 11, so I took the opportunity to start Homer on his two-hour task. The ride home only took 90 minutes, plus add in some unpacking time and I was able to finish the Santa task a little before 1 a.m. and got the 100-present bonus! The next set of tasks started up on schedule at midnight so I was able to get that () going as well.

Funny thing is I've been purging my friend list and I almost deleted you recently, but for some reason decided not to. I was surprised to see you active yesterday and was glad to feed you some feds. Then here you are in the thread!

davidh777

Remind me to not assign Legs and Louie to their 12-hour tasks until this event is over.

danfindlay

Hey, david, don't assign Legs and Louie to their 12-hour tasks until this event is over.

Still having a deuce of a time logging in sometimes and when I can I can't always get the tunnel to work either. Been having to restart my tablet a bunch.

Raul3

When your tunnel doesn't works, go visit your friends and when you come back it should works.

The only issue is that it removes any Feds you had, according to some people. I haven't really checked.

chowderhead

I think EA is slowing winding down this game once they cannot get more profits from it. The prizes have been very lackluster for the previous few events especially this one so far. Most prizes are donut based =. The tunnel prizes are so lame and recycles the items you could purchase last year. I thought they finally had a great prize with the crazy cat lady and her house but it was only the skin to her house and it goes to storage if you don't have her. I think with all the glitches, etc, they might be phasing out this game and not giving it the attention based on not getting a good profit from it anymore.

story

Really? I thought this was one of the biggest money-making apps in the world for at least last year. Didn't it make like $100 million? I can't imagine it's making that much less this year, nor that the costs to create and maintain the game are more than a couple million, if that.

Sean O'Hara

Last year I couldn't get through a day without the game crashing. The glitches these days are so minor in comparison.

starseed1981

Hehe. Thanks! Yeah, I need to purge my friends list too. I'd say that it's about 50% inactive. Seems like alot of folks left around lvl 40-41.

chowderhead

I don't know. It just feels like EA is giving less thought and less support to this game. It went from top 10 grossing in 2013 (#9) in the Apple IoS to now 17th

A-aron

Not sure why, but putting Homer on my task today is causing my phone to completely shut down.

kstublen

New Level Update. Still No Land.

starseed1981

How do I call Feds to someone's town? I'm on tunnel 14 and am at a total loss lol

badlieut

You have to pass Jingle Bell Wreck pt 9 I believe

starseed1981

Thx!

story

Good tip, Raul3, that's been helpful the last few days.

story

Weird glitch, anybody else notice the Writers' Building that came with Matt Groening gives out XP and cash pretty much anytime you're in town? I tapped it this morning, then when I returned again, it was ready to be tapped, and after visiting friends, it was ready to tap yet again. Anyone else?

Also, some-ah y'all gotta tap those Feds 'cause your town is full.

danfindlay

They lowered the cost of the Classy Girls Strip Club / Nelson's mom to 900k so I was finally able to afford it!

EDIT: Also shelled out $5 for some donuts and got Santa Homer, when I saw he was on sale for 80 donuts I couldn't resist.

Braddok

Is there anyway I can get a look at my whole town at once? I want to reorganize it a little and that would help. Also, if any of my friends here has any suggestions I would appreciate it

bippitty

One way to see your whole town is to do multiple screenshots covering your town and then stitch them all together.

Another is to go to tsto.me (I haven't used the site) and upload your town using your game login. Once the site grabs the map from EA's server, you can zoom out until you can see the whole thing. Then you can CTRL-PRT SCR to take a screenshot.

whotony

What is that web site? I get a privacy, unsafe error.