UPDATE BUNNY : For those waiting for fix for Slutty Cat Meg and Mr. Weed … that is still on its way. 🙂
Hello There Clammers!
The portal has upgraded and phase 3 is upon us!
We’re working through all the details now…and we’ll be back as soon as we’ve got more info for you 🙂
For now know that Joe kicks things off…as long as you’ve completed phase 2 and are able to upgrade the portal.
DO NOT DIG UP FRANCIS GRAVE UNTIL YOU ARE READY! You have FIVE days to unlock! More details on how to below…but for now DO NOT DIG UP
So let’s start with the easy stuff…all the new buildings and decorations
New Buildings:
Freemium
Brookfield Insane Asylum- 750 Spirit Vials. 8hr Build. Earns 10 Vials/2FP/8hrs. Chance for Occult Book.
Phantom Limbs Prosthetics- 1,000 Spirit Vials. 8hr Build. Earns 5 Vials/ 1FP/ 4hrs. Always drops Goggles.
Quahog Mariner’s Banquet Hall- 1,500 Spirit Vials. 8hr Build. Earns 10 Vials/ 2FP/ 8hrs.
Nostromo- 500 Spirit Vials. 8hr Build. Earns 10 Vials/ 2FP/ 8hrs. This appears to have been pulled out of the game. I’m assuming for a technical issue. Hopefully this will come back soon 🙂
Premium
Maize Mega-Maze- 200 Clams. Earns 50 Vials, 10FP / 8hrs. Always drops Candy Corn.
Candy Clam’s Sweet Shop- 50 Clams. Earns 5 Vials, 1FP/ 4hrs. Always drops Occult Book.
Slice of Life Knife Shop- 100 Clams. Earns 8 Vials, 2FP/ 6hrs. Always drops Fireman’s Poles.
Decorations
Freemium
Creepy Tomb- 175 Spirit Vials.
Human Remains Bin- 100 Spirit Vials
New Costume
Ghostbuster Joe!
To unlock Ghostbuster Joe you’ll need…
1500 Spirit Vials
15 Goggles (uncommon)– Get From: Make Joe Go Undercover OR Make Jerome Borrow a Halloween Costume OR Make Chris Hang Out at Home OR Get From Phantom Limbs Prosthetics
15 Occult Books (rare)- Get From: Bomb Devil Kids OR Bomb Witch Kids OR Get From Brookfield Insane Asylum OR Get From Candy Clam’s Sweet Shop
10 Fireman’s Poles (rare)- Get From: Make Bonnie Twerk It OR Make Mort Report a Ghost Sighting OR Make Meg Punch-Drunk Dance OR Get From Slice of Life Knife Shop
New Crafting Item
Candy Corn
Earned by Clearing Trick Or Treaters and from the Maize Mega-Maze
New Cauldron Items
Four new items have been added to craft in the Cauldron..
Iron Maiden- Requires
500 Vials
5 Candy Corn
10 Terror Dog Bones
Meaty the Quick-To-Anger Clown Statue- Requires
750 Vials
10 Candy Corn
10 Banshee Tears
Confessional- Requires
500 Vials
10 Latcher Talons
10 Terror Dog Bones
Francis’s Pulpit- Requires
1000 Vials
25 Candy Corn
5 Banshee Tears
New Character
Francis
Get from Repairing his Grave- 250 Spirit Vials. 12hrs to repair.
DO NOT REPAIR UNTIL YOU’RE READY..you have FIVE Days to Unlock Once you Repair the Grave.
Here’s what you’ll need to unlock Francis:
Craft the Pulpit
Craft the Confessional
Build Mariner’s Banquet Hall
Has a 4hr task to help you earn more Ghost Traps.
And yes…he is voiced.
Week 3 Challenge
Thisweek’s challenge is to clear those Pesky Kids.
Clear 200 Trick or Treaters in 3 Days and you’ll earn Zuul’s Portal
Demonic Mystery Box
This week’s Mystery Box is 50 Clams and is full of all kinds of Goodies!
Here’s what you can win….
Catacombes
Haunted Lighthouse
Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory
Haunted Manor
Headless Horseman
100 Clams
6 Stink Bombs
8 Banshee Tears
8 Latcher Talons
8 Candy Corn
New “Terrors” Trick-Or-Treaters:
Much like the Minions for Comic-Con you’ll now have to Stink Bomb the Trick-Or-Treaters!
SIDE NOTE FROM BUNNY: These Brats spawn out by the portal, move your maze over to the exit point from the portal. This should help to start directing them. More coming as I play with some items to make mazes. Feel free to elaborate on yours too. Post pics if you’d like. 😉
Where you are on FP Levels as well as Districts open will determine your Spawn Rate on these kids. Expect to see at least 2 every 30 mins Minimum and up to 6 Maximum. The total amount you will see will be at least 8 Minimum Total and up to 48 Maximum Total in your Quahog at one time.
Collect Stink Bombs to Defeat these little “terrors” and they’ll drop items for Ghostbuster Joe, Candy Corn and more for you!
You can earn stink Bombs from:
-Demonic Mystery Box
-Chris- Make Stink Bombs, 8hrs
-Bonnie- Make Stink Bombs, 8hrs
-Mort- Make Stink Bombs, 8hrs
-Jake Tucker- Make Stink Bombs, 8hrs
-Pink Brian- Pretty in Pink, 4hrs
-Slutty Cat Meg- Punch Drunk Dance- 4hrs
-Purcahse Packs from the Shop (Available in packs of 1 (15 clams), 12 (150 clams) and 24 (250 clams).
Once you have Stink Bombs..here’s how you bomb the trick-or-treaters (we’ll have a full post on this later):
The Traps also changed their timer from 6 hours down to 4 hours making it easier to get those Latchers.
And that about covers the Phase 3 Rundown my friends!
What do YOU think of the new additions? Anything you’re excited to see? Thoughts on the “minions” coming back? How about Francis or GB Joe? Sound off in the comments below, you know we LOVE hearing from you!
Family Guy Addicts 
Just went to build the Mariners Ball, and saw the Nostromo is back in the shop. So naturally i built it lol. Hope there are no problems with it!
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So I havnt had any bombs the last times trick or treaters were set free and are running amuck Everywhere. No rhyme or reason to them and fences and blockades seem to help as much as screaming at a spider to die (these little witches and demonds remind me of spiders crawling everywhere. Yikes!). So ive been playing around with my little quahog and had an empty space in the middle of it and noticed that with alot of open space its easier to see them and quite often find them in easy close groups of 4-6. Still a few hours from POSSIBLY getting some uncommon bombs, but seems like this may help get rid of the little buggers if theyve slipped past you out of the portal
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Its only possible if your on a high fright level to get 12-15 in one spawn. To be on that level you must have spent clams throughout. Also if you are a new player like me and on district 7 you get much smaller spawns. I also have had 4 bombs in 24 hours and have been lucky to get 20! I have now though ran out of the kids 😦
If you miss them by the portal you can catch them on a road junction they meet up there!
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Nit really. They spawn every 30 mins…so if you wait…say 2 hours and allow 4 spawn cycles to pass…when you return to your game there will be more and you cant hit many at once. 😉
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Where are they spawning from? Mine seems to go from terror dogs, to banshees and ghosts with an hour each and then 6 kids. There isn’t any every 30 mins????
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Portal…BUT…you have a MAX in your town…so if you have a bunch running round…no more will come till you clear them.
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Hi sorry I get one per half hour spawn. Its a shame that I won’t get 200 through the portal in 3 days to kill. I have reported this to tinyco. Its not fair on us newbies. I also missed out on pink Brian as was on district 5 at the time so is harder to get bombs plus I need to buy Cleveland to complete the guys set and ghost busters set.
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Thank you so much for letting them know. Feedback is critical to make improvements and alert them to issues. 🙂
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I think there’s a maximum of 15 per shot. I’ve had more spawn in the blast radius and they survive.
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That is what I am seeing too. Same as Minions.
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My portal says it’s one hour till the next batch arrives (6 of them). Not 30 minutes.
And also, if I wait, then they won’t all suddenly spawn at the portal, but they’ve already spawned and be roaming free in my city.
Any advice? I am literally nowhere near the daily target.
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Ok, I just sat by my portal as the timer for more devil kids ran down and … nothing. Tried restarting the game, even a force restart, and still nothing. And I had bombed some right before to make sure I wasn’t stuck with the maximum in my town as well. I only have 29 out of 200 and only a few bombs to my name anyway, so I might as well give up. Apparently not as lucky as others.
Frankly, it’s ridiculous we even have to go through these motions just for a shred of hope of completing the challenge in the first place. Bombing minion Stewies was one of my favorite parts of the Comic Con event, and now this is just a worrisome chore. Something must be done, and not just a simple time extension either.
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Give this kind of feedback to them too please.
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The way I did it was I racked up bombs before I did the first quest which is to bomb five kids. The 3 day task doesn’t start until after the first task is completed.
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I can’t find Meg’s rask to “go punch drunk” for joes items? Is this catgirl Meg task? If so they should clearly label it as such.
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Slutty Cat Meg
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So I decided to try bombing the kids at the portal and the timer said 5 more minutes until they come out so I patiently waited and with 30 seconds left I got my slingshot ready and counted down just waiting to stink them out but the clock ticked down and nothing happened. I tapped on the portal again and now it says banshees are next and no trick or treaters ever came out 😦
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Were there some in your town already? If so, none will spawn if you are at your MAX no matter what the timer says.
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Did you stay long enough at the portal? As long as you waited long enough to open your game, and stay at the portal area for them to spawn (they are last I my game, the ghosts, dogs, and banshees pop in first THEN the kids come out), and wait for them to already march in so they are starting to be in your town, you’ll get the max for your level.
But you need to be patient and wait a bit. Don’t sit there for like 3 seconds and say “they aren’t spawning!” They will come, just be patient and play the game.
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I’m going stockpile me some bombs then blast away near the portal as advised and see where I end up, hopefully im left with more than a cloud of stink. TinyCo love to hit us with a challenge and it’s nice see so many sharing tips of how to beat the evil TinyCo goblin who unleashed this weekly challenge. We can beat this…… 😊😊😊 And Bunny hope you’ve not spent the last 20 hours building and testing mazes, for some reason I can visualise you, (in a non creepy way of course), manically trying different designs while Alissa feeds you cauldrons full of coffee.
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Too late. 😉
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Number one problem: Stink bombs don’t drop nearly as often as they should and 4/8 hours is far too long to wait for characters to try and get them. Might be ok if you could click on the trick-or-treaters to steer them into groups to bomb (like during Comic-Con with the mutant Stewies) but alas, we cannot. I feel bad for all of us trying to get the weekly challenge at this rate…I’ve had all my characters focusing on getting stink bombs non-stop since the new portal came out and I’ve only wiped out like 50 of the 200 trick-or-treaters necessary to complete the weekly challenge.
My suggestion: extend the weekly challenge by a day OR make the actions required to get stink bombs shorter (especially the 8 hour ones, that is just ridiculous)
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Couple people have touched on this, but I’ll reiterate. They key is to build up your maze right by the portal exit. I just nailed 15 the last 3 shots in a row. Anywhere from 4-7 candy corn each time. Not sure how often you can do this, but seemingly every few hours or so.
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I have two. Post coming with them. 🙂
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Great, just finished tasks for dropping characters and no Stink Bombs drops whatsoever! Great job TinyCo pissing off players! Absolutly not going to pay them for Clams to get bombs!
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Well i’ve only just got one bomb after waiting all day for it, but currently there are only about 20 Trick or Treat kids spread out throughout my Quahog, with no groups of more than about 3 in one place at one time. I’ve watched the portal and seen maybe 4 come out at once, but that was all.
I’ve been checking into the game every two hours to finish Peter and Quagmire’s Ghostbusting.
I’m game Level 50, all districts unlocked, and Fright Points level 4.
With the ComicCon event there were dozens of Stewie minions running all over the place, and if you played regularly you at least had a chance of getting enough bombs to drop. Seems that’s not going to be the case here. I’m sorry but this seems way skewed against the freemium player, no matter how often they visit.
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If you hit your MAX, no more will spawn til you clear some. It was the same for minions too. Same for Banshees, Ghosts, and Terror Dogs. Got to clear your MAX to get more. Some stuff I did to corral those running wild coming.
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One positive observation among all the whining: Either I have been extremely lucky, or the odds for this week’s mystery box are very good – any chance you guys could pull the actual odds from the files?
I really wanted the haunted house and got it on the first try. Later, I decided to try again for the toy factory, just to have a fighting chance at this minion thing, got clams instead. Seemed like a good sign, so I went ahead and got more clams, all the unique prizes and some candy corn, and came out only minus 150 clams. And I am quite happy with that bargain, as almost all the prizes drop at least vials, plus some additional bombs from the toy factory.
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Unlike the other, TinyCo does not allow access to game files. All the stats we pull are from our own games, information they do provide to us, and just playing the games live. For me, I got all the prizes right off the bat. I think one set of Banshee tears tossed in, but still…REALLY good odds on the Demonic Box for me.
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It’s nearly impossible to complete that 3 day challenge. Those trick – or – treaters are so hard to bomb. It was easier in the last event since you could tap on the mutant stewies and they would stop. Ugh, just thinking about it irritates me!
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Help coming in the form of me testing things out in the game.
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I have not had 1 single stink bomb drop from any character sent on a task. they should make them 1-2 hours not 8 and guaranteed drop, it’s ridiculous. I play 24/7 and only have 15/200 so far. Really really disappointed and questioning the logic of TinyCo when clearly lots of people are going to struggle with this
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At the risk of echoing every other comment on here… TinyCo you have let your players down a little bit here. I don’t mind spending a few quid per event but the money you’d need to spend ( just to get enough bombs for this task) would be quite a decent investment.
I really wanted Ecto1 too.
Ah well, worse things happening in the world I suppose!
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My characters have been dropping stink bombs but my bomb count hasn’t changed
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Alert TinyCO.
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Ya know, and maybe it has been said, but I can’t help but remember the last event. I recall many many people going on and on ranting about all of the extra bombs they had left over, and how they felt cheated having nothing to do with what they earned. It has been proven over and over again that TinyCo listens to their player base, so I am not sure why the surprise when they changed the drop rates after all of the complaints about too many bombs. Careful what you wish for.
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^^^^
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Omg people actually complained about having EXTRA of something!? Shame on them. I had dozens extra too but there was no need to complain. It was nice to have them just to randomly blast more stewies for some extra blam at the end. I was very THANKFUL for that. Some people. Jeez lol
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Does Francis have a quest line? I unlocked him and nothing was prompted.
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He does…it’s started later in the phase. Peter will start it….
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Extremely disappointed in this latest update. It is impossible to accomplish the Ghostbuster challenge without spending clams. I’ve acquired a total 4 bombs in the first 24 hours having all my characters work on acquiring them. I’ve already given up on it and have decided to close my wallet off to this game. Between this and the Diane debacle i don’t like the direction the game is taking. I understand the need to make a profit, but if everything is going to be put together to try and milk people for every cent they have, then this isn’t the game i thought it was. Here’s hoping i’m wrong because i’ve invested more than my fair share so far and would hate to lose out on the investment i’ve made.
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It’s definitely pretty messed up. I’ve had everyone who has a stink bomb task (and I have them all) working to get them for almost two days non-stop, and I’ve gotten 3 stink bombs total. Whatever, no Ecto-1 for me, but I find it pretty glitchy for an uncommon item to drop at an extra-rare rate.
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Is 200 kids possible in 3 days? Ive gotten 20 so far im alittle frustrated. Its saying I have 2 bombs but when I go to use them its telling me I need to buy them. Is that a glitch? What should I do?
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Odd. Alert them from your game please.
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I was still able to build the Nostromo even after you posted that it had been pulled. It only showed up in the “Buildings” tab though, not in the “Event” tab.
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Yea it was jumping all over…just waiting on confirmation that it’s back for good 🙂
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How awesome would it be if tinyco added NPC versions of the creatures currently haunting our quahog… So a non playable character version of the terror dogs, banshees and ghosts. At least these would enable the ghostbusters costumes to still be able to complete the tasks associate with the creatures. They could also add, instead of a decoration, a version chomps the zombie, the monster from space ace ace ace and meaty the quick to anger clown because when I found out they all just stood there I was a little disappointed. Plus I don’t know if it’s my device but all the new decorations all seem grainy and really poorly drawn and pixelated especially the chomps the zombie and I’m a little disappointed. But… I love this game!!
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I made a maze just where the kids spawn and not only do they not appear through there, they can walk THROUGH the hedges!!!
Can anyone give some advice? Everytime I’ve tried to bomb them, there’s a lag and I only end up getting one!
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Advice coming in 10 mins. 😉
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Wish there was a heads up before you start the 3 day Challenge!! I get on this game many times a day but it doesn’t matter because the drop rate for the stink bombs are 8 hours, maybe 1 or 2 take 4 hrs. I have all characters available set to get stink bombs and I’m sure it’ll be near impossible to get 200.i only have 22 with 2 days 10 hrs left and no stink bombs.
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I accidentally clicked to repair the grave. I’m assuming as long as I don’t also accidentally click the check mark when it is complete, I won’t start the timer?
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Correct. 😉
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Do u guys have the problem of not having anyone dropping stink bomb? I contact them so hopefully it will be fix soon. Thank goodness the 3 day thing with the kids haven’t start for me yet.
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Already have all the quests done just need to wait until next portal upgrade
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lol you do realize we rush so you don’t have to right? 😉
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i bought candly clams sweet shop and it say always drops occult books but mine idn’t, anyone else having this problem?
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Odd. It should. Please report it. Yours is only one I have seen so far, so will watch for more.
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I really wish TinyCo would change the drops for the bombs. Either let the bombs drop from buildings or make the tasks to get the bombs shorter. Otherwise this mission is impossible
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i agree
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Agree. I could see the challange being throwing stink bombs at 100 kids, even that is a stretch. I’m almost 12 hours into the challange and have only managed to knock over 18 of those kids with 5 stink bombs. Considering how long it takes to get more bombs, 3 days is pretty impossible. Adding a chance that grey ghosts could uncommonly drop them would make the whole event worth it. Or if there was a way to temporarily hold them in place like you could with the stewies.
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Or make the same kids give out bombs like stewie minions… and make them appear from roads and not portal…
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Man there are way to many people on here complaining about not having enough time, or not getting bombs to drop, not getting many trick r treater kids in the bombs. You guys just need to be patient. I am a premium player but thus far I have not spent 1 clam or 1 dollar on this event and as of now I have already gotten 131/200 kids with 2 plus days left still. When you guys load up your game immediately get a stink bomb ready after a short time there will be like 8-15 kids that enter your town coming right from the general area of the portal. I have done this like 5 times over the past day and every time I did I have gotten like 13-15 kids each time to help build up my count. I’m not positive how often you can do this but it seems to me it’s every few hours so maybe like 6-8 times per day would net you over 60 kids minimum. I realize not everyone can sit there on their phones all day and do this, and that’s why some people that have no time pay to get extra bombs if they want things that bad. This game is made for people that have a decent amount of time on their hands, if you plan on only playing like once a day then unfortunately you may not be able to obtain everything you want, but all in all I believe this event has been very fair compared to others. People need to remember that nobody is forcing anyone to play, you play only if you want to and pay only if you want to, hopefully more people will keep that in mind before bashing everything about this awesome game!
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Well said! Just gotta play and see what happens…I hate those stupid things and I’m already at nearly 100 (no clams).
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No clams? Really? Because down below you said “It’s funny because yesterday all I wanted was candy corn from the box (was trying to craft something) and all i could get was everything but…” Doesn’t that box drop bombs and a bomb generator?
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Yes. However, remember I play in 2 different games (actually 3). There’s my A game that I don’t speed up and i play at a normal pace. And then there’s my B game that I speed up to write the posts for THIS blog. In my B game i purchased a TON of mystery boxes, so I could craft items to get YOU guys information. However, in my A game I have not purchased any stink bombs. However, I did buy 1 box and was lucky enough to win the Toy Factory which generates stink bombs…but beyond that 0 clams.
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Getting them as they come out of the portal is definitely the way to do it. My record so far is 14 with one bomb. Followed that up a few minutes later and got 9. That is 23 in about 15-20 minutes.
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I don’t really follow what you are saying to do. When I go into my town (hourly) the trick or treaters are already roaming around and no new ones are coming out of the portal when I am in the game. I haven’t been able to come up with a good strategy yet, they can walk through everything I have tried.
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You got to give them time to get used to the maze…mine worked.
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But I’m on it almost every hour…except when I sleep at night….I’ve only got 2 bombs so far…and only bombed 3 out of 5 trick or treaters!! How can I get a stink bomb ready when I load the game if I don’t have any? It’s frustrating waiting 4 or 8 hours for a bomb and then don’t get any! And without spending money, clams are very limited and don’t last long. Help!!!
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Thats a good tip ill have to try it even though I have yet to see any actually walking out of the portal they are pretty much just all over the place. Im glad things are going so well for you in this challenge but I think I speak for a lot of people when I say im not even close. (10 out of 200 in 16 hrs.) We are here to get help and tips on successfully reaching the goal from those of you that are doing so well. If a little venting comes out in the process its understandable we are addicts after all. You just arent feeling the frustration because things are working in your favor. Again thanks for the tip but those of us who suck at this challenge ask for your understanding.
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This guy gets it!
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Okay, let’s break this down purely by numbers.
Assuming you have Jake Tucker and both Pink Brian and Cat Meg, and you immediately tap them when their task is over, you can potentially get 24 per day. But it’s an uncommon drop, so again assume best case scenario, and you’ll get about half of that. That’s 12 per day assuming you don’t sleep, have all characters, and play every 4 hours.
So, let’s also assume the best case scenario for timing. You start immediately when the 3 day timer starts. if you get 12 per day, you can get about 32 stink bombs over those 3 days (the last 8 hours won’t count because by the time that last 4 and 8 hours task is done, the 3 day timer will also be done). That means every single stink bomb MUST hit on average 7 kids, or you won’t get the prize.
That’s the ideal situation. Here’s my real scenario. I have zero stink bombs and no kids bombed, using my first 3 just to get used to the system and getting that initial 5 kids. I have everyone except Cat Meg, so that right away cuts me down to a potential maximum of 18 per day, and with uncommon drop, that’s 9 per day. All of my characters that are able are doing nothing but crafting stink bombs. So if I play everything perfectly, play constantly, and don’t sleep, I need to get at least 12 kids with every bomb I drop. That’s really difficult. Add in the fact that we all need sleep, our aim isn’t perfect, and that these kids are more unpredictable than the mutant Stewies, and I have to think that this event is by far the most difficult of any timed events thus far. It’s doable without spending clams, but only if you have the absolutely best case scenario and/or planned in advance.
One final issue. I’m at Fright Level 4. My kids are coming out of that portal SLOWLY. I don’t see any possible way to have ALL 27 bombs I drop hit 12 kids each.
There’s a lot of very tight time constraints here. Most people who post here are devoted to the game, and spend a substantial amount of time playing it. If THOSE people are complaining about it, then there is a major problem. I’m glad you have no issues with it, but just going by the numbers, this is a really rough one that we can all feel justified in complaining about.
Apologies if anything I posted seems an attack, just trying to work things out as I write.
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I appreciate your feedback. We know many players speak out of anger and frustration. It is why we put up the What The Hell posts. To give you a place to vent. 🙂
Great feedback. I would suggest relaying it to TinyCo too from your game. 🙂
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It seems to me that players are experiencing wildly different spawn rates.
I have only bombed once in the last 8 hours (only getting 4 kids) and when I zoom out, I see that I have about 20 kids TOTAL walking around my town. When the kids spawn, they spawn about 3-4 at a time and they are widely spaced out so I might be able to bomb 3 of them at once as they emerge from the portal.
I’m Fright Level 5 and have unlocked all the districts, so I wouldn’t think there’s THAT much of a disparity in the spawning rates. But with my town, I’d be insanely lucky to ever get more than 6 kids within a bomb’s range.
On a side note, I’ve also noticed that I’ve completely run out of Terror Dogs and I’ve only been using Peter to get them.
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That is not true for everyone. I log in and nothing comes out for a while. It is usually ghosts, a terror dog or banshee. I get maybe 4 trick or treaters every half hour and about 1 bomb every 8 hours. I am fright level 4, all of the districts are unlocked and level a 43 town. It seems that there are many of us in the same boat. Congrats on your over spawning kids. I have a weekend to enjoy.
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It sounds like yours are spawning just right then. I posted by the kids how the spawn rates work. A few every half hour is correct. Especially if you are on FP Level 4. As the other reader stated, you can wait to get them and let them “collect” by only entering your town every few hours. That will give you a larger group to tackle and more hits per stink bomb. 🙂
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And you have to think about the max. If you them running around loose no new ones will spawn ttyl you kill off some of the existing ones.
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i think what some are not realizing is just like with the little stewies is that once the max is reached for your town, no more spawn. you have/had to kill a bunch so they would spawn the next time you logged in. with no bombs to kill those first 20 or so and then no extras to use on the next log in, this method does not work.
with the stewies i saved up like 40 bombs and then used about 20 of them to clear out all the minions and then had max spawn each log in and enough bombs saved/coming in to keep my town 100% free of minions. all freemium. this time i don’t see how to get enough cleared out and have bombs left over to do what you are saying with the wait times and poor drop rates. how exactly did you get the initial lot cleared so they spawn?? my town is overrun with kids and no more are spawning and i have had 2 bombs drop since last night!!! this is my question to all of you who are doing this, how did you get them killed so they could respawn???
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My mazes. Post coming.
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I’ve been doing the same and with approximately the same results. I usually have to wait 1-2 minutes for the kids to spawn at the portal, but I’ve gotten 8-15 at a shot by bombing right in front of the path once the first kid reaches it. I wish I had more bombs. I have put all possible characters on bomb tasks… You have time to get Ghostbuster Joe after you complete the 200 kids challenge. As a premium player, I also did the Demonic box a few times – got all the prizes in less than 10 spins, including the 100 clams (paying for 2 spins&) and the 6 bombs, which helped a lot. Now I’m waiting for the 8 hours to hopefully get 3-5 more and I hope to hit the 200 by tomorrow night.
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It’s worth mentioning that this doesn’t happen unless u have bombed all the kids in your town. If u have no babs u can’t set it up to behave this way easily. Once u reach the kid cap 8-15 they stop spawning altogether and they remain scattered until u bomb all of them! With no bombs.. This ain’t do-able
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It is still doable if you corral them. Post coming. 🙂
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Anyone got a good effective maze? How large should it be? Do they -stay- in there?
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Yup. Post going live in 5 mins. 😉
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Managed to get to 85/200 so far without clams. Maze doesn’t seem to be working as they just walk through the edge of bushes. Hopefully I can get more bombs soon as I can’t get them at spawn now 😦
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Everyone is saying kids spawn at the portal but my town is overrun and I haven’t seen a single one cine out by the portal. They are never together so it would take 10 bombs just to clean up the ones that are already scattered around town.
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Second that.
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Third that.
I have no bombs right now, and they’re running all over.
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Third this!! Plz stop spreading false info saying this is eZ purely because your getting all of the kids to spawn at once. It doesn’t work like this for everyone.
One more rain this challenge need to be looked at by tinyco. Inconsistencies in the way each players game behaves
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Well if your town is over run, then you are probably at your MAX. So of course no more will spawn out of the portal until you clear some out. Same goes with Banshees, Ghosts, and Terror Dogs. 😉
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Normally when new phases or events begin I read comments in here and I’m like wow..”freak out much?” Well when the next phase began last night I was thinking wow this challenge seems difficult but I will figure out all of the basics first..like how do I even earn bombs lol. So six people have tasks (if you have them all) and the costume characters take half the time at four hours…did some basic math and figured if I averaged four it would be tough but doable. This morning while collecting I earned two bombs. So the differences between this and comicon minions is that bombs are waaay more limited, you can’t stun them, they appear faster and dont even stay on the roads…I am always up for a challenge but this may be one of the rare times I agree with the people that call anything and everything a cash grab. If Tinyco wanted to ramp up the challenge I get it.. but this is over the top. Just read the comments. …they release a ton of items and this is pretty much the only thing being talked about
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Does it annoy anyone else that they are sending characters on a quest that is “Make Stink Bomb” and then there is no stink bomb drop? Does this mean that the character failed the quest? They failed to make a stink bomb? I really have had no issues with anything they have done in game up until this part of the event. But, making 8 hour tasks and only a chance to get a bomb, they are really forcing the purchase of stink bombs to finish this quest.
And, I have spent money on clams. I have all of the premium characters from the Comic Con event, I purchased clams to get the Predator. So, I’m not just a free player. I don’t have a problem spending some money on items in the game, but being forced to purchase expendable items that are only usable for a limited time is a dis-service to the players.
I know you’re not Tiny-Co, and I have sent them a message expressing this in game, but I just wanted to express my feelings, because again, I think that everything they have done previously has been great, and I’ve only had minor issues with them.
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Don’t mind the venting..that’s what we’re here for (just not a fan when people yell at us like we made the game…not that you’re doing that 😉 ).
And yes…Chris is someone who could make a stink bomb, not a doubt in my mind that he could fail at that 😉
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In your expert opinion should I craft meg or continue with the ghostbuster roll out part 3 ad craft the iron maiden?? Don’t know what to do first
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Meg will help you earn more jars (bones)…so that’s a plus there. You have a while to do the roll out questline 🙂
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Didn’t see this anywhere but THE HAPPY GO LUCKY TOY FACTORY HAS A CHANCE TO DROP STINK BOMBS. It’s in the demonic mystery box and I didn’t see any info about it dropping stink bombs until I unlocked it. Hope that helps for what it’s worth
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We’ve got a mystery box post coming that will have that info 😉
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I’ll agree with everyone here, this latest bombing things sucks. Maybe the minion stewies were too easy but this is a complete reversal. Bombs take too long to craft and are too random, minions roam everywhere. I could have been satisfied if it was one or the other (untrappable but fast bomb generation or trappable but slow bomb generation) I’m not happy that this will cost me a pile of cash (If I drop cash for bombs/clams I have to get my wife and son some too, triple dip). I was so happy with the Comicon event I did pay $$$ for clams to get Cranston for me & Fillion for my wife. This is not making me feel so great about spending.
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This event is just a repeat of the last event. Tap on ghosts? Tap on aztecs/nerds. Stink bombs on kids? Bombs on stewie minions. I guess we will have to fight the stay puffed marshmallow man by collecting certain items later, like with the giant latcher stewie in the last event. I am going back to the regular storyline in the game. Only thing I try to do is create the ghostbuster costumes.
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I am on a rant. I have done several stink bomb quests with nothing dropped. I have just 6 out of 200 kids. I am out of bombs and no more are coming. 3 days…200 – sure. Seems impossible from my vantage point. Even if bombs, start flowing now, you cant click on the kids to corral them in order to use your bombs wisely. I even had the meter say I have one bomb and the slingshot say there were none. The kids nor ghosts drop bombs. And without the kids, it messes up the weekly challenge. Your event has glitches with Diane starting before you want her too (with no warning till later) and now this. And, I cant get ‘extra’ clams like others because you have no other way to have neighbors other than Facebook. This is a TinyCo game… not a Facebook game. So I dont have many of the premium characters, still saving up towards Consuela. And just yesterday I had 30 clams disappear, for no reason! I have in-mailed Tinyco and still havent heard back.. They must be slammed. They may need to hire another person to answer all the email.
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I have… NO idea what the best way to spend my vials is. Do I save for Cat Costume Meg? Do I use it build buildings that always drop items that I’ll need? Do I use it for Francis’ requirements? (Thankfully I haven’t started the timed Francis quest yet!) I spend just about all of what I had left after getting Quagmire finishing that plant quest, so I’m down to nothing.
I know Meg drops some stink bombs (which I desperately need for the Zuul’s Portal challenge), but she requires a lot… probably more than I have time to collect in 3 days! Should I spend clams on something in the hopes that I’ll get more vials?
I could really use some advice. What’s the best way to go here?
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It all breaks down to what YOU want and what will get YOU there the quickest route. Meg does help with Bombs and Bones. That is true, but if you like the look of a building and want it more…than you can invest in that. Meg will be round til the end of the event. Francis too, so they both can wait til you are ready for them. Just focus on what YOU can afford and what YOU are acquiring enough of to get the items.
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I hate Stink Bomb the Trick-Or-Treaters task. Again like with Diane time limited task I am in deep sheet by not reading spoilers beforhand. (But is is not killing whole fun of play?) TinyCo should add some sort of confirmation/decline message before activating time limited tasks so a player can stock up required items before task starts ticking time down. This bombing task is made waaayyyy tooooo dificult and demanding. Esspecially that you cannot freez the targets. And I am fedup with remodeling Quahog to set up a maze in front of the portal spawn. 200 to kill and barely any bombs available to freemium players. And w.t.h about Predator which I bought? That was paid character (250 clams) and should not he earn us bombs?!? Now I don’t have enough for buying bombs or speeding up characters what give you some. I understand they have to earn money from players buying Clams but I don’t like beeing pushed to do it in such a bad way.
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In 8 hours all I got was one stink bomb (and I do have Jake Tucker, but not Meg’s costume) and I only hit 3 terror kids. So with that rate I’ll hit 27 kids in three days…….. So that leaves me with using about 850 clams to buy stink bombs or around $25-$30. Talk about an expensive game…………….
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I don’t know if it has already been mentioned before but the only effective way I found to get 12 – 15 hits per bomb (not using the maze trick since I’ve read that it doesn’t work like during comic-con) is, once you have a few bombs at hand, when you launch the game, as soon as your town appears on screen, zoom out as much as possible and hover towards the halloween portal area.
The trick-or-treat kids spawn from the portal outwards, so once you see a puff of smoke appear near the portal (meaning that the kids are about to spawn in your town), select the stink bomb and aim a bit further down than the portal where the kids begin to walk in a straight line to enter your town. The trick is be as quick as possible to hover to the portal area and bomb as many kids as possible around this area before they begin to roam freely and sparsely around the streets of your town.
In this way, without destroying much of your town and building various types of mazes, you can easily get 12 – 15 hits per bomb. Repeating this process every hour or so should give a steady income of 12 – 15 kids every hour if you have enough bombs to spare.
Hope I was clear enough to understand me 😛
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This only works if you’ve already bombed a bunch of kids and they haven’t yet respawned before you leave and let them build back up. The minion Stewies were the same way. If you stick around too long, they start trickling back in a few at a time (ie: at their normal spawn rate). In other words, if you leave the game with 15 kids bombed but not yet respawned, when you come back (if you wait long enough), all 15 will reappear. But if you’ve only bombed, say, 5 of them, then only 5 will reappear when you come back. It’s getting those 15 dead before you leave that’s the kicker. That’s effectively impossible to do from scratch without a bunch of bombs. First bomb I dropped, I killed 11, as they were coming out of the portal. That was before the count started (in fact it started the count going). But by the time I took care of all the other tasks, I was overrun, and they were all over the place. Now I can’t kill more than three at a time.
Three suggestions I’ve got that will make this reasonable.
1) Spawn a lot more kids at a time. Obviously this would be problematic for older phones, but it would allow you to kill more than a handful of random kids at a time.
2) Make the kids “stunnable”. Even if their stun period is less than that of the minion Stewies, it would still make it manageable.
3) Make bombs much easier to pick up. The ability to get 3 or 4 per 2 hours, that would be about right. Then we could stock up 5 or 6, kill off 15 or so kids, then pop in every few hours and nail a bunch of them.
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All I know is I am not brewing the clown statue unless they force me too. Clowns are scary!
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Can’t sleep clown will eat me
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If you wait by the portal for the kids to emerge you can get around 8 to 10 with one bomb.
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The Creepy Tombs work very well for creating a maze. I managed to get 13 on one spawn, and 12 on the next. I doubled them up, and they follow the flight path I laid out for them.
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If you haven’t already it is probably best off not activating the 3 day challenge until they either make it easier or you have built up a stockpile of bombs
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I managed to hit 4 kids with those 3 bombs you’re given, I can’t see this going well but it looks like I’m lucky I didn’t hit 5 of them to set off the weekly challenge. I’ll try stockpiling some bombs for a few days.
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