New Year’s 2015 Phase 2 Is Here!

UPDATE BUNNY 2pm EST 1/9/15: Just verified from TinyCo a patch has been pushed to resolve the issue with Peter and Lois and the item drops. Please let us know if things are back to normal in your games. 😉 

UPDATE BUNNY: Putting this up top, but it looks like they have finally set the end date as January 15th! So make sure your Characters are unlocked by then. 

UPDATE ALISSA: If you have the Pet Cemetery from Halloween this can also be used to drop Black Necklaces.  Sorry for not having the info yesterday…I didn’t have it in my town (it’s in inventory).  So pull those Cemeteries from inventory! 

Hello There Clammers!

New quests, new skins & one crazy hangover…oh my!  New Year’s Phase 2 has arrived in our Tiny Quahogs!

Inside this new update you’ll find New Year’s Jillian (freemium skin) & New Year’s Brian (premium skin)…plus new quests!  So everyone that was complaining about an empty task bar….your complaints have been heard!

More details are on the way…but for now know that Lois gets things going for this new phase.  You will also have to have completed Auld Lang Syne Pt. 7 in order for it to start for you

Party Hat 2015 Glasses

Be back with more in a bit! More details below the fold..

WARNING Mild Spoilers Ahead…

First…as always….let’s talk about the new buildings and decorations.

New Buildings:

Party TentParty Tent- $7,500, 4hr build.  Earns $140, 90xp/16hrs. Not a new Building… but a New item drop associated with it.  Also it’s required for questline

Qu'Est-ce que pueQu’Est-ce que pue- $10,000, 24hr Build.  Earns $180, 120xp/ 24hrs

Quahog GymQuahog Gym- $1,000, 4hr build.  Earns $80, 55xp/20hrs. Required for questline

Unemployment OfficeUnemployment Office- $4,500, 20hr build.  Earns $60, 40xp/12hrs

Providence Rehab ClinicProvidence Rehab Center- $2,000, 10hrs.  Earns $40, 25xp/ 10hrs.  Required for questline

Dr Ling's Eastern MedicineDr. Ling’s Eastern Medicine- $1,750, 6hrs.  Earns $140, 90xp/16hrs  Required for questline

New Year's Cocktail BarNew Year’s Cocktail Bar- 125 Clams.  Earns $30, 20xp/ 4hrs.  Always drops Black Necklace OR Bracelet for New Year’s Jillian.


New Deocrations:

Frosted FoliageFrosted Foliage- $850

Winter Wonderland TreesWinter Wonderland Trees- 20 Clams.


New Character Skins:

Freemium..

New Year's Jillian

New Year’s Jillian- Collect STUFF to unlock this Lady in Red! Here’s what you’ll need:

Black High Heels20 Black High-Heels (Common)- Earned By: Make Jerome Play Darts OR Make Bonnie Go to Ladies’ Night OR Make Bruce Fret About Something OR Make Seamus Flirt with the Table OR Get from Providence Rehab Center OR Get from Gingerbread House

Lip Glosses12 Lip Gloss (Common)– Earned By: Make Jingle Joe Camp Out OR Make Herbert Freeze Popsicles OR Make Mort Obsessively Count Cash OR Make Jake Tucker Play the Organ OR Get from Party Tent OR Get from Quahog Gym OR Get from Unemployment Office

Bracelets5 Bracelets (Extra Rare)- Earned By: Make Joe Patrol the School OR Make Stewie Travel Through Time OR Make Lois Donate Lightly Used Clothing OR Make Hanukkah Mort Light the Super-Menorah OR Get From New Year’s Cocktail Bar

Black Necklace5 Black Necklaces (Extra Rare)- Earned By: Make Chris Hang Out at Home OR Make Peter Do a Drunk Dance OR Get from New Year’s Cocktail Bar OR Make New Year’s Brian Adjust Bow Tie

If you have the Pet Cemetery from Halloween this can also be used to drop Black Necklaces.  Sorry for not having the info yesterday…I didn’t have it in my town (it’s in inventory).  So pull those Cemeteries from inventory! 

Premium…

New Year's Brian Drunk

New Year’s Brian- 150 Clams.  Will help you unlock New Year’s Jillian.


Basic Questline Details: 

We will have a full walkthrough up shortly for New Year, New Lies but here are the quick facts for those that like to jump ahead…

Buildings you’ll need to buy: Party Tent, Quahog Gym, Rehab Center, Dr. Ling’s
Part 1 requires Peter & Lois
Part 2 requires Quagmire
Part 3 requires Bonnie
Part 4 requires Peter and Lois
Part 5 requires Joe
Part 6 requires Chris
Part 7 requires Meg

New Year's JillianTardy to the Party will start after part 4 of the main questline.  This questline will require you to unlock New Year’s Jillian.  This whole questline nly requires Jillian

New Year's BrianLove Changes Everything is the premium questline for Brian.  It will start for you even if you don’t purchase him.  For this you’ll need:

Unemployment office
Part 1 requires Brian
Part 2 requires Brian and Chris
Part 3 requires Brian
Part 4 is where you’ll be required to buy New Year’s Brian to continue the questline.


And that my friends concludes the details for phase 2 of New Year’s in Quahog!

What do YOU think of the additions this week?  Thoughts on Jillian’s new outfit?  How about Brian’s tux? Any thoughts on the new buildings?  Sound off in the comments below, you know we LOVE hearing from you!

177 responses to “New Year’s 2015 Phase 2 Is Here!

  1. I’m sure someone asked this already and I’m just not seeing it, but how long will the New Years Brian outfit be available for purchase? And is there any word on a time limit remaining for this event?

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  2. Love changes every thing part four says tuxedo brian is required to carry story line from that poit. Is that no longer true. Are premium skins going to be the new way to cont a story line. What value will it have in future game play. Like to see more use of my newly acquired thanksgiving an christmas characters. Otherwise why have them. Game is about gaining more stuff. The more stuff i have should be to my advantage otherwise whats thevuse of collecting them. Make me want to have more cause its to me presant and future advantage. Duh. Tiny co

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    • They actually have been incorporating Premiums a LOT more into the game. Reusing buildings from the past for drops, Characters, etc. They really are listening and making the changes.

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      • Thanks. what about part four of Love changes. Will he be required to finish the quest line still. See no dialogue for that, Curious what that part will be all about?

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        • Dialog is coming. And yes he will be required for that as the task is to get him. But you don’t have to unless you want to. Otherwise the quest stops there and will go away when the event does.

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  3. Although since I’ve been playing I’ve got every Family Guy costume/character, I just see no reason in using clams for the Brian skin. It’s gonna be useless once the event is over. I’ve decided I’m not gonna get any skin worth clams anymore unless I really want them!

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  4. I could be missing something here, but doesn’t it make more sense to buy the cocktail bar rather than buying Brian’s new costume? The bar drops both bracelets and necklaces, where Brian drops only necklaces. You save 25 clams with this method. Does Brian do something else that I’m not seeing?

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  5. Aaaaaaarrrrghh! Been waiting a week to send the important characters on all day tasks and just when I thought it was safe and I finally book them all for 24hrs… more new stuff for them to collect!

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  6. I would prolly spend 75 or 100 clams on Brian’s skin but 150 is a bit extreme to me! Event emds Jan 15th sooooooo i will bide my time for now and see if the price goes down as we get closer to deadline.

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  7. Finally got the Jillian fix! I unlocked her and did not crash. The key is I had to exit the game (or reboot my phone) for it to take effect. I wonder if it ha been fixed a while and they just never told me until the 3rd time I contacted them through the Help feature of the game.

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  8. Good news is Brian’s Tux Skin gives Black Necklaces all the time. Makes it more worthwhile to get the bar though.

    Ps…is there a way to bug TinyCo to rereleasing bitch Brian, Stewie & Human Rupert.

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  9. For me New Years Brian dropped his “extra rare” item every single time I sent him 4/4

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  10. HisNameisJames(quagmire's cat)'s avatar HisNameisJames(quagmire's cat)

    Does the new Brian skin have any new fun outdoor activities? Im still trying to figure out if its worth buying yet.

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  11. I was able to unlock Jillian!

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  12. Just need 10 more clams for Brian’s new suit.

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  13. While 150 clams is not a bad price for Brian’s skin. I wish they would have just made him like a million coins instead. I have millions of coins and nothing to spend them on. But other than I’m pretty happy. Just waiting to see your review on should I buy or not for Brian’s skin.

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  14. Wth…2 common items and 2 extra rare for jillian? Bit steep if you ask me. Im not too fussed over this new years questline and outfits mainly because of the fairly steep requirements for them both. Ill see how I go though, wasnt too bothered about intimate apparel peter but still managed to get him without clams.

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  15. I’m struggling with the fact that I have Jesus turning water into clams, I have 299 saved up now and then they drop a new skin for 150…. I have enough for it but I’m 1 clam away from Consuela…. decisions…..

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  16. 150 clams for a skin!!!!!!! Wow!!! Should of gotten something else with it for that price. It’s not even a. Extra character, it’s a skin!!!!!!

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  17. I never had any problems with this game not a single lag nor problem with it now i am waiting to see what happen next

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  18. I still cannot unlock Jillian, I had an email reply saying they will fix it on the 7th but nothing yet, I might miss this fun and even jillian if they don’t soon…ahhh D:

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    • That is where I am stuck too. And I put up a couple of buildings that say they will drop New Year’s Jillian items. But they aren’t since there is no Jillian. And we can’t start using characters to get other New Year’s Jillian items. They need to fix this now AND extend the time beyond the 15th for every day they are late (1 already).

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  19. I feel like they added Joe and Mort for the common items with long tasks purposely so you would set them on it before realizing their costumes were needed for the extra rare items. I now have to wait until tomorrow morning for Joe to start on the extra rare and tonight for Mort. If both tasks were their regular selves, at least we could have seen which task was more optimal to set them on. Wouldn’t have been as bad if they didn’t drop it at an hour when most people on the east coast were sleeping. Just my thought.

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  20. It is all awesome….

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  21. I think 150 clams is a really good price for Brian’s alt compared to if you wanted to buy Jillian’s alt outright without having to farm for the pieces for it. I myself have also just unlocked the mayor and am now working on Jillian’s alt and the pain in the butt cologne bottles. Hopefully I will be done with the main storyline before District 10 comes out which I get the feeling may hit right after this event is done.

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  22. Lois: “It’s almost time for the New Year’s Gala”

    Me: On January 8th? *facepalm*

    Well planned, TinyCo. Well planned.

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  23. After watching and being disappointed by Brian skin, I started to think, that I rather get stuff to instant buy skins, it feels like a game waiting to tap a check mark and getting your hopes up for that last item that you need to fully unlock a skin or character.
    I guess I’m one of the few people that really like how the game works.

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  24. 150 clams for new years brian and 20 clams for the winter trees?? ughhhh tinyco you suck 😦

    Currently I have 166 clams (all of which I earned in-game), so my question is… Will it be it be worth spending almost all of my clams on Brian’s new skin? I want it for completion but unless the steep price is justified then I’d rather not spend all of my clams. Thanks in advance!

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    • Also, I know its hard to tell because this part of the event just started, but does anybody else think it will be very difficult to get Jillian’s new outfit in the week we have before it ends? 10 extra rare seems like a lot in such a short time (remember how difficult it was to get 10 extra rares for Stewie?!)

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      • It all depends on how they drop. I stopped looking at their labels long time ago as it seems the drops are still so random. I have seen all my Extra Rares drop many times during collection long before the Rares did.

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    • Right now his drop shows Extra Rare on it, so I am not sure I can justify the purchase on him unless that changes fast. Lots of new tasks, but for a skin. I am still weighing the balance myself.

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  25. Does New Years brian always drop items for jillian or is it also rare? If so I might as well buy the bar thing as that always drops

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  26. 150 clams for a skin wow now that’s gready at least it should have came with a building. I think I’m finally done with this game

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    • You don’t HAVE to buy it. There are many things offered for freemium.

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    • I totally agree. Way too much for a skin.

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    • I totally agree. Way too much for a skin.

      I don’t even have 150 clams. And my Jesus has never dropped one in the past 7-8 days. Total waste.

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      • Would like to see a survey on Jesus and the number of clams people have received since the acquired the. I put him on task with a mini break between and he HAS NEVER dropped a clam. I’ve been sending him on this rotation just after I acquired and completed the top Hat Yeti, shortly a day after the quest posted.

        1. Sent Jesus on less than Five attempt, since acquiring him.
        a. Received 2 or more
        b. 1 or less
        c. none
        2. Sent Jesus on between 5 &10 attempts, since acquiring him.
        a. Received 4 or more
        b. 3
        c. 2
        d.1
        c. none
        2. Sent Jesus on between 10 06 more attempts, since acquiring him.
        a. Received 6 or more
        b. 5
        c. 4
        d. 3
        e. 2
        f. 1
        g. none

        Curious. Jesus and miracles. He really needs to up his game. His performance is lacking. LOL.

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  27. Wow, I really love all of the freemium buildings that were added; these won’t be out of place after the event! Bought the Brian skin. I’m at the point where I have every character and character skin, with the exception of Rolo Cop. I’ve become obsessed with having a complete “roster.” Haha! TinyCo has me in their vice.

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  28. Winter wonderland trees has a small orange branch for some reason. I know I’m being really nitpicky, but for 20 clams it should be perfect. You don’t see it when zoomed out but i know it’s there, and that drives my OCD crazy. Also, has any one else noticed that when you send a character on a task within a building, the building will often have a weird bug where the windows are duplicated on top of the building, but shifted slightly? It’s hard to describe, but it’s been around since almost day one.

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    • LOL. I think its intentional. I spotted it right away (as I am usually one grabbing those images)

      As for the “overlay” glitch… it impacts games and devices differently. All we can do is report them from our game (as again…it may be a device issue) and have them look into it. That way if it is there end they can fix it… if it is device end… a patch may be needed.

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  29. After an excellent christmas event tinyco have dropped the ball here. Why should a skin for a character be 150 clams when, after this story line its never going to be used again. Plus its not even new years they missed that by about a week. And why are they releasing a new year jillian costume 2 days after the character got out when theres plenty of characters with no costumes who have been around since release. Just seems like a major moneygrabbing attempt. They wonder why people hack.

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    • Not sure what all goes into the cost for skin, but it fits in with what we have seen since launch of the game. (When looking at cost of clams to outright unlock skins, most are 400+.) We don’t know what the future of the skin may bring or its usefulness. That is impossible to tell right now.

      Jillian is NOT for Clams, so both completely optional and only one requires Clams for use. And it was more to stick with the storyline and keep the flow of that the two were paired.

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  30. So I just got my girlfriend into this game and so she got hit with the tail end of Christmas and this New Years event with no characters to help do stuff. She bought jillians egg booth and the rite of passage tower but it will take forever to unlock her thanks to her lack of characters. I know people ask this every time but I just want to be sure. So will Jillian disappear after the event ends or can she take her time and unlock Jillian later? Please help! Thanks!

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    • As with all Events…the Character HAS to be unlocked and roaming the streets in order to be kept once the Event ends. Otherwise…they go with the Event items. Sorry. We will update if any notifications of changes.

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  31. Will the new year’s gillian skin quest end on 15th as well or will that quest line continue so long as you have unlocked her main character ?

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    • We don’t know on questlines until TinyCo lets us know and that is something they usually wait until closer to the end of Event to inform us. It all comes down to if it is possible to pull it beyond or not. If items pulled with the Event will cause conflict as they will no longer be available after the Event.

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  32. A big thank you for getting these up so fast!

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  33. Thanks for the heads up on who will be needed in the later phases of the questline 🙂

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  34. More stuff , no more land.. Smh. This building is HUGE!

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    • I see LOTS of Freemium buildings in there. Looks like a lotta love to me. 😉

      You don’t HAVE to buy it all if you don’t want to. No one is forcing you. 😉

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      • Bunny, that is not really the point though is it. It is not that we do not want new things, it is just that we cannot fit them in our town anymore.

        I do want to buy every thing, but I just don’t have any place to put it. I have got a lot of the things I bought/earned tucked in my inventory and my town is still filled to the brim. I have only just nuked (4 days ago) and rebuilt and now that I am happy with the desin, there is even more (that I want), but do not have space for. Even after sticking everything close together. Hardly anything from the King Butt event or the comic con event is in my town. It’s all in my inventory. And yes I have read your post that said that we shouldn’t want to display every thing at the same time. But most of us do. What’s the use in buying stuff if you have to stick it in your inventory. I am not the type of player who wants to keep redoing parts of my town to display different things at different times. I had so hoped that new district would be unlocked. Oh well, I guess I will just have to learn to live with this.

        *frantically searching for things to put in inventory to clear space*

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        • Actually…it kinda is. There is a LOT of stuff in this game…hence its name…Quest for STUFF. Lol. I know many are like us and want to have it all, but I learned many months back, the land will not hold what is available. I am sure as the game progresses this will change, so we as players have to change our thinking…either stop getting STUFF or store the STUFF. For me it is not so bad as I have conditioned myself over years of play on the OTHER game we write on to store STUFF. I constantly rethink my town design, play with options, move things around…which I know for many may not be ideal.

          I am just saying for now…as this will ALWAYS be the Quest For Stuff and with the game not even a year old… we gotta rethink it one way or another. If we want it that bad, where are we gonna put it til the game gets more space? Kick something else out or store it?

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  35. Ok im starting to get really upset…

    They said they would fix the issue with getting Jillian but its STILL not fixed.
    And now Im not going to be able to make any progress on New Years Jillian…

    And now that phase 2 hit, I start playing the game and my Mobile Data goes thru the roof. This game has never used many MBs and now my phone bill is going to ne super expensive….

    Really pissed

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    • If you are speaking of the issue with unlocking characters (tap and it kicks you out) they ARE pushing a fix for it. Specifically Jillian so it won’t lock up the event. They’re making it priority to push a small mini patch for her while they continue to work on the others for the 1.6 Update. We were hoping it hit tonight with the Event …it may still. Just keep checking.

      As far as data…yah… I NEVER play app games on data. WiFi only.

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    • I have the same issue and I’m also getting worried about it, I hope they have an update today or at the very least tomorrow D:

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  36. Sigh…seconds after I send my builders to work building extra old buildings that take 12hrs to build, new content pops up with NEW buildings to build. 😦

    But my practice of making extras is beneficial and paying off since I had four cemetery’s in my inventory that’ll help with gathering the extra rare black necklaces for Jillian.

    Gotta echo that 150 clams for a SKIN is ridiculous. But they’ll see that we’ll buy it anyway and it’ll be common place in no time.

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    • How do cemetaries help? I don’t see a task using them

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    • I am confused – What Cemetery? I don’t see that as being a listed task to help gather the extra rare black necklaces for Jillian.
      Thanks!

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    • Yeah, it was listed under Jillian’s NYs costume in Al Herringtons shop as a helpful building for the black necklace. Back during Halloween I built four of em as it musta dropped something important for a character I’m guessing. At the time I had an abundance of clams ;).

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  37. I learned my lesson from many of tiny co. late drops to not put anyone on tasks. I did have Jesus trying for clams. They need like a calander to give us a hint when new things are coming.

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  38. So close TinyCo. It’s “Qu’est-ce QUI pue”… Still made me laugh. 😜

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  39. My task bar has been empty a few days as well, so I put all of characters on 24 hour tasks except the majors. Just in case! They’re on eight, but I can put them to work with my AM run through. Yay!

    Trying to decide if I’m ready to put away Christmas like I did Halloween. I left a few things out, but I think they could release 20 areas of land and it wouldn’t be enough.

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    • Seriously. Land, TIny Co.!!!!! I’m freemium buildings only and my town is just one big clutter puck with LOTS of stuff jammed into inventory. You want to make people happy? Release A LOT more land, not including district 10…., whenever that opens.

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  40. Why no animated bartender? Dumb, but deal breaker for me. Still, appreciative to have an update!

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  41. If Brian were 50 clams I’d get him in a heartbeat but 150? Ouch. That’s half my clams

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  42. Not paynig clams for a skin for a character I can’t unlock due to the unlock crash/bug

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    • And I can’t start the Jillian costume yet until the unlock bug gets fixed. Waiting 2 weeks to unlock Brian (Xmas holidays, I know) and now Jillian. D’oh!

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  43. Where in the hell do they expect us to put all these new buildings? Tiny Co please get your head out of Quagmires read and release a large portion of land. (Aside from what’s coming with the brewery)

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  44. Wow 150 clams is ridiculous for a SKIN and not a new character. Greedy TinyCo is greedy. I get it will come with a storyline which will probably last a whole 4 tasks *eye roll*, but damn that’s steep for a skin. Of course as I type this I will be caving in to TinyCo and be purchasing New Year’s Brian due to my OCD… Damn you TinyCo for taking advantage of people’s sicknesses.

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  45. Just loving the 24 hour quests for drops! Sitting this second part out. Enjoy all!

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    • I can’t check all the tasks as everybody in the game is busy, but I can only see a couple that are 24 hours, other people doing the same tasks have a much shorter time.
      Seamus has a 24 hour task for shoes but the other 3 characters have 6 hour tasks for them.
      Mort has a 24 hour task for Bracelets, Stewie and Joe both have 4 hour tasks for them.

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  46. Hi again, I had to write back right away. I went back to my quahog again right after I posted and bam, new quests for stuff. I put every character back to work except jesus who is always woking on clams, this will be my 8th straight attempt at turning water into clams, maybey now jesus will do it. I didn’t realize how many characters I had just wondering around, now they are all working once again. Thanks, keep up the good work tinyco.

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  47. 150 clams for a skin? Sorry, no. And I *have* 150 clams…

    Betcha if TinyCo dropped the price to 50 clams, they’d have three times as many people biting on it…

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  48. LOL of course they launch new content at 11:30 eastern. And just after I sent characters on their overnight tasks. Oh well, at least some of them line up with what Jillian needs 🙂

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    • They almost always release something right as I’m about to go to bed…without fail lol

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      • What time zone is this blog in? It’s not even January 8th in PDT.

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        • Alissa is in Eastern Time Zone and the site timers are set to that. I am on the west coast. Still…it is a later time drop for the middle of the week. Not something we see normally.

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      • Try being outside the usa. Updates generally drop at 11pm/midnight of later here. I have asked Tinyco many times to drop them before noon their time so Europe has a few hours to play.

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      • I never send anyone on tasks longer than 8 because of the burns I got from the random drop of event updates (there was one that was 2:30 am one time after I had sent everyone on 12hr task. And I believe there was a build that was required 10-12 hr, so about a half day slow). Jesus is my only 24hr worker, but I need to let him go until the morning as he is currently approaching 3 am as a collection time and I am not waking up that early just to get a rare chance for some clams. (Incidentally, I think my biggest Jesus Clam drop was 3 so I am averaging a little less than 1 clam per day currently).

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  49. 7 minutes after I sent everyone on 24hr tasks… 😡

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  50. Hi, cant wait for the new stuff, my task bar has been empty for days, so im assuming that I completed auld lang syne part seven, becouse I just checked quahog and nothing new. Jillian has a voice now, although not as loud as the other characters. Hope you all liked my kiss/halloween setup, I thought I was the only one taking time to do this. There are some good ones. Love this game, it shows creativity in people doesn’t it.

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