Happy Weekend Clammers!
Well we’ve all made it through another week and the weekend is here! It’s been a little while since we’ve had a “What the Hell”….so we figured what a better way to start the first weekend of the New Year then with a way to get everything that ticked you off from the year before off your chest!
All week we field your comments about your frustrations in the game (What you mean there’s nothing to spend my last 9,999 cookies on?!) and we wanted to give you (and us) a fun new way for you to voice your frustrations and get it all off of your chest.
So welcome to What the Hell?!
-Getting REALLY annoyed that there aren’t enough ccookies for 1 more shot at the box?
-Annoyed at how hard it is to unlock New Year’s Jillian?
-Someone cut you off on your commute this week?
Here’s your place to vent about anything and everything, Family Guy or not. Consider this your weekly bitch fest and get it all out with a good…What the Hell?! And start your weekend fresh! 🙂
Just be respectful of others & be mindful of the language.
Here’s my What the Hell?! For this week:
-Super late update for New Year’s Phase 2. What the hell is with those late updates TinyCo?! I know you don’t believe I have a real job…but I do. And when you hit us with updates late on a work night it makes me very cranky the next morning…
-150 Clams for New Year’s Brian. Really?! What the hell?! 150 clams for a tuxedo?! That better be one hell of a New Year’s party!
-It was 8 degrees when I left my house this morning. 8 frakkin degrees! What the hell mother nature?! Bring back summer!
Now it’s YOUR turn…give us your What the hell?! moments from the past week! Go on, get it off your chest…you’ll feel a lot better! 🙂
Family Guy Addicts 
WTH With the pop up screen advertising brian expensive outfit? Because it cliked on it thinking it’ll send me to the store but no. Instant buy, no confirmation. Farewell 150 clams. I’ll miss you. Please, add a confirmation question when adquaring premium content.
Also, I have 9479 cookies… what the hell?
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Hmmmm… maybe reach out to them on that one? See if they can help? Message them right from your game.
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Quick question: Is the Bean Stalk actually animated?
I’ve been saving up for that damn thing for 7 months. Now, I’ve actually got the clams I need, but I noticed in Tom Tucker’s Mystery Box (is that right? ‘Cuz Rupert’s on that pic—sorry, I’m an FG virgin) you could possibly win it, but it doesn’t look or say animated. It says it is in the decos? I haven’t seen one in anyone else’s game. Since I’ve been misled before by TinyCo saying an item is animated, then when I work for it or pay for it, it isn’t animated (yeah, some might perceive that as a lie), I’d really like to know beforehand. So disappointing when that happens. And, WTH! I can eagerly spend my clams on something else if it’s not. And, that’s a lot of clams for a stupid plant! WTH! Even a walking, talking dog’s skin is only 150!
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Still an animated Decoration. Tap on it and it grows a lil bit.
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Thank you!
Still… not even one tiny cow selling, goose laying mission? Ouch.
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Or magic beans? Lol
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Ya, thought about them too, but the stalk is already growing, so…
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WTH…..
1. 150 CLAMS FOR A DOG IN A TUXEDO?
2. Either start the blimp plutonium find or get it outta the harbor!
3. Why is there not a rent collect button that collects ALL the rent in one push?
4. Where the hell is MY snow?!? If it’s freezing outside there should be done dang snow to show for it!!
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WTH Jesus… Tinyco should have made his manger a crafting station, had Jesus drop prayer beads 100% (24h task, lower rates with others), and 4 beads turns into 1-3 clams… That way we are guaranteed a slow flow of clams…
GREAT PR, and minimal cost for them!!!
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What the hell is up with leveling up maxing out? Will more levels be added later? Those of that have reached MAX should at least be given a freebie character for all our hard work!
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WTH for me – I’m tired of this -30 weather. Game wise, As I have most of my stuff in inventory I would like the option of pulling it out by tapping on the locked character action that requires it. Finally cost of Fancy Brian – Tiny Co should give us a hint if he will be helpful for other quests. Their previous track record on premium characters & skins is not good.
As an aside I know that beautiful Peter is coming out but did I miss Spanish Soap Peter? Hopefully there will be no more Peter skins. Share the love for the other characters.
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Nope… spanish still coming.
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the answer is probably already here somewhere …. how long do we have to unlock Jillian’s dress ? …..I’m the same as everyone else …it’s the bracelets that are holding up progress
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All event items are here til the 15th. So you have to complete by then or lose it.
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Bracelets must be made from unobtainium, wth. Have gone 3 straight days and have gotten zero drops. 150 clams for a tuxedo! Sure won’t miss not having that in inventory doing nothing
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Whats with the drop rates of the gold bracelets and brians black collar?!?! The gold ones have 3 people with 4 hour tasks. And mort with a 1 day task for them. Wth is with that big time difference?? Out of probably 10 attempts so far, ive gotten 2. And as far as the collars, ive gotten one out of 14 attempts with both chris and peter tasking non stop for them. At this rate tiny co is going to force people to have to spend clams and buy the bar/lounge and brians tux skin just to get those items if they really want them to finish jillian and the questlines. If thats the case, its a pretty dirty little trick and underhanded move on their part. I dont normally mind drop rates cause i dont usually have an issue with them so bad. But this one is getting ridiculous! So thats my WTH!!!
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Those bracelets are so hard to get. I have everything except those stupid bracelets. What the Hell ?
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Wth….why can’t TinyCo release an update to their window 8.1 FGTQFS.
Got everything for Jillian today. Had snow days at school the past three days so I could play this game….nothing else to do really. Would rather be playing this on my laptop instead of phone though! Uggg!
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I meant alissa, now I know I’ll get a comment couse I messed up. Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow. 😉
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Yah… way to NOT spell her name right. Now she is gonna give you dirty looks. Sheesh. 😉
And just what is it exactly you want us to respond on? Lol. Many times we sit back and allow players to discuss back and forth and jump in for those more inquiries and questions type comments to help. But… if you’d like to carry on a dialog… jump into the Open Thread and have at it. 🙂
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What the hell, only 1 gold bracelet to go. Am I special or something. Dont know why everyone is complaining, the drops were fine for me. JESUS WILL NOT DROP CLAMS!!!. Going on 11 straight days. What the hell tiny co. I wrote them within the game days ago, and like jesus not droping clams I haven’t heard from them either. Cant wait to start crushing stewpaloompas with my thumb. And one more what the hell, am I not good enough or funny enough for bunny or Allison to comment on me unless I screw something up, like thinking it was carters head on the puppies. Is that the only way to get a comment. I think that stewpaloompas is a pretty good idea to call what is soon to be ompaloopas. Or am I just to old, and nobody knows what an ompaloopa is. Im only 47. WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! happy gaming everyone.
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WTH is with 150 clams for a tux for Brian? I just unlocked the red dress for Jillian without purchasing any of the premium buildings, but is Tux Brian worth it, especially with a premium heavy valentines day coming up (my assumption there)?
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Wth it’s January 10th. I’m wearing shorts,drinking a cold libation outside and it is 70 degrees. Wait, that’s a woo-hoo!
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jealous!
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Ya, I’m with you bro! No lie, we had some 80 degrees (my WTH: Why is there no degree symbol on an iPad?!!!) days this past week! We even got record snow last week. All within 10-20 miles from the SoCal coast. I can’t enjoy them much, but at least even during our recent super freeze we only got down to 33F and I’m still sleeping with my window open.
PS: Sorry, and I forgive those whose WTH is regarding my post.
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I think it’s very funny how you can have all the people doing the jobs for items for days and not receive anything. For instance: Trying to get last 2 bracelets and black necklaces, Had all people doing the jobs non stop for 2 days and still can’t get the last two items.
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I have every item for jillians costume except those stupid bracelets. I just got my 1st one this morning wth!
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My wth is with these awkward shaped buildings. I mean really the roads are on an 4×4 pattern and the land will always be in multiples of 4 so really buildings that are 6×10 really it is so hard.
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Hey Bunny and Alissa,
I got a new iphone 6 plus and haven’t been able to play my game on it for over a week. I had planned to sell my old 5 but have kept it so far just so I could continue to play! Addicted much? 🙂
I have done all the tricks/troubleshooting recommended in that area of your site. In addition I have deleted, re-downloaded, force closed, logged in and out of facebook and ingame usernames, reset phone, etc, etc at least a dozen times. Both phones run on the same version of iOS. The old one is completely maxed on memory and still works great but the new one with 40+ available GB?…nada. It crashea after the loading screen immediately. I’ve contacted TinyCo almost a week ago and haven’t heard back.
I plan to write again…but do either of you have any tips? Any other players experience this issue after upgrading/changing phones? Any tips/tricks would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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Sounds like you have really tried close to everything we would suggest. I know some patches and fixes for iOS were JUST pushed this week. So… maybe give it one more try on the uninstall/reinstall and if still same… contact them again. Whether in game on the other or email help@tinyco.com
Just make sure you completely wipe the game from the device before reinstall to make sure there is not an old or corrupted file on it. Many iOS devices have that auto back up and store a version of the game on the cloud or somewhere else.
As long as your game is saved to an email address or Facebook… that will store your game progress for you.
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Thanks for your response Bunny,
I did try one last time this morning and finally it worked! It may have very well been due to a new patch they just added, but here’s what I did incase anyone else is having similar issues.
I cleared my town of all available coins and tasks from my old phone that still worked, put all my characters in storage, and force closed on my old device. Deleted and reinstalled on my new device. Rebooted it just for good measure. Then I opened the app on my new phone and after reconnecting with my username, I got a screen full of gears where my buildings were. I didn’t touch a thing while they all loaded and then slowly shifted my town a little at a time until the others loaded. And viola…game is back!
Now…anyone in the market for a FGTQFS compatible iPhone 5? 😉
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Hahahah
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Actually, I am!
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I haven’t gotten one bracelet since I started working on Jillian and I have almost all of the other items. So frustrating!
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My regret for 2014 is that I did not heed the TIMELY warnings from you amazing folks and missed sexy lingerie Peter by one item!! I hope he comes back in other sexipode so I have another chance! Grrrr
Also land land land my quahog looks like a yard sale for buildings no room to really get creative
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WTH Jesus has never ever dropped clams not even once since the XMAS event ended!
Jesus sucks!
and those damn donuts for Jillians New Years party skin hardly drop
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I’m not sure she eats donuts.
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Not sure where to post this but I’ve had some questions on Christmas characters. I believe Jesus, Paul, and Gene have a task associated with the building dead format records. Was very curious as to the time and xp payout of those three tasks if you knew. Also Santa has a task in the Luckys Orphanage which I’ve never seen. If you had that info I would love to know
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Let me double check on the Dead Format, not near my game device at the moment. As for Santa (as I had sent him on this many times) I believe you are asking about him Delivering Toys there. It’s a 6hr task.
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Thanks for the response. Always interested on those locked out tasks. Let me know on the kiss characters and Jesus when you can. thanks again!
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Levelling up comic con & district 9 characters to 25. What the hell is up with that?!?!? It’s annoying that all my Halloween characters & several of the Smiths are already yellow on the face space page while the comic con celebrities are mostly still blue. It seems like forever trying to get a character leveled up beyond 15.
I’m going to throw this one out as speculation from Matt’s post yesterday, but it looks like Beautiful Peter is going to be a limited time skin in the Valentines event. That means future players can be forever locked out of completing Peter’s costume box. It was annoying when they did it with Cleveland in “the guys” box, annoying when they did it with Human Rupert in the “characters you buy” box & will be annoying again this time around (if that’s how things play out). I guess I should wait to see, but still one of my what the hell moments for the week.
& cities changing their names for a football game. It’s ok to show some team pride but the city to the south of me changed its name to Urban, Ohio, while the city to the east will be known as Meyersville, Ohio, for one day only Monday in honor of OSU coach Urban Meyers. I’m a Buckeye fan & alumnus, but seriously … What the hell?!?!?!
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Please bring back Grass, snow was cool for December. Its the little thigs TinyCo
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It is winter still so why should the snow go away. Some games do season so when its fall there’s no leafs on the trees and in winter there snow on the ground and bulidings.
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Interesting that we think that all the world has snowy, white winters.
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WTH!!!! these last 2 freakin extra rare gold bracelets better drop in the next 24 hours cause im gettin reallll impatient AGAIN..
lol jk i love this game. But 90% of FB posts on their page is concerning that… 😐
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About characters: Stan Lee is THE man IRL! But in the game is soooooooo useless! poor Stan haha
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Currently I have only 2 What the hells:
– 150 clams for a skin that only has a rare (or is it very rare?) chance of a drop. That’s way too expensive. The least they can do for that price is making the drops uncommon on him.
– 1 more black high heels, 3 more bracelets and … all 5 black necklace to go. I hate those necklaces. I just can’t get them to drop, I have both peter and chris working on them none stop but still no drops at all… I hate this, what are the odds of having a town where necklaces don’t seem to have been invented yet?
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Judging by the other comments…pretty good unfortunately 😦
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Odd, I had ALL necklaces in a split sec. 0 donuts though…
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The tux Brian drops Necklace everytime, even when the job says extra rare. (I bought it by mistake. Yes, you read well, mistake) thats why I know
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Oh and also my real life WTH is why that it is like bone chilling cold here in St. Louis and it’s killing my brand new car battery.
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My WTH is mostly about all that time we didn’t have Lois and Peter’s tasks for bracelets and necklaces. I’m pretty sure I only have one (maybe two) other characters that can help with each, so that was a big deal for me. I figured TinyCo would extend the event a bit after that oversight but so far we haven’t heard anything. WTH TinyCo? I’ll have all my common items easily but I’m very worried about those rare items. I feel like so far I’ve had more luck with the game’s epic items than these specific rare/extra rare ones. 😛
I agree with the WTH about Brian’s skin costing 150 clams. That’s a LOT for just a skin for a character, which probably won’t get used much since Brian has a few other skins already. I just saw that their New Year’s outfits will have exclusive animations, which I guess is a selling point, but still- is a skin with an exclusive animation (IF you can unluck Jillian’s skin…my significant other was still stuck on even unlocking her until yesterday and isn’t even going to bother with unlocking her New Year’s skin since it would be next to impossible at this point) really worth 150 clams? Will it even be helpful past this event?
My real life WTH is all about the terribly cold weather and how badly my townhouse was apparently built- there are way too many drafts of cold air in this place. I should not feel a blast of cold air coming from near where my dishwasher is!
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Oooooh sounds like an opening to possibly the drain allowing air to get through. I hate that.
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So my what the hell is about the stupid blimp. It’s taking me so long to gather items for the blimp and it bugs me that when I do finally finish the blimp there’s nothing I can do with it because it has been released. It’s pointless and irritating.
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I wish every character had a 24 hour action. I never use Vinny and the longest I can keep him running around is 6 hours.
I have the American dad characters but none of the premium buildings. I do not have another chance to buy the buildings so they should removed the locked tasks for their task list. If I don’t have their house and can never buy it now, then I shouldn’t be seeing a locked action for Francine to call her parents.
It would be cool if American dad characters and family guy characters could do actions together. Like I would like to see Quagmire and Roger do something pervy together or maybe Stewie mess around with Steve.
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I hate Vinny for his short alone task. When possible I send him together with Bruce on the 12 h task, but Bruce is mostly needed for other stuff.
Additional Vinny never reaches the level cap! I’d like to store him as soon he reached the maximum level, but it is Sisyphus all over again when TinyCo raises the level cap!
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Looks like tinyco heard u! Just checked my characters and vinny now has a 12hr w/Bruce. Not sure if it’s new for anyone else but new for me! Just wanted to let u kno in case it’s new for u too!!
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Other than the fact that neither Peter nor Lois ‘s tasks have appeared for Jillian’s skin again,I declare pleased with the game.I mean during the xmas event Tiny CO was pretty generous as far as clams are concerned.I mean I was able to get John Mc Clane and I am a freemium player!I just hope I can get Jillian’s skin in time with minus two characters helping.
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Yes too many clams for a skin. Some of us don’t have money in real life to waste on a game. I rather pay my rent.
My Jesus never drops clams… Total false advertising.
I am so over this New Years event. I am a cross between bored and pissed off that I see more and more that this game is being programmed to require you to buy things. I rather pay an upfront fee for the game app download, then get drawn in on the free only to get stuck and pay my way out.
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Please report your Jesus issue if you have sent him on only the Clam task for a week straight and nothing popped out. They can look into it. They are rare…as they state. I have not got many. But I have got some. Other players too.
So message them right from your game menu to have them look into it for you.
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I did, twice now. Abolsuley no response.
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How long ago? Remember, it is not an immediate thing (kinda like here). It does take time for them to get through all the tickets and they work regular work days during the week so tech is limited on the weekends.
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Nah, I’ve been contacting them since Dec. 22 about an issue I’m having. I finally got a “sorry we couldn’t get to your ticket” response well after the new year, and my response to that has since been ignored also. When not doing an event, they always seem to respond right away. But if they’re even remotely busy I do my best not to contact them because it’s pretty much useless and extremely frustrating.
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Aww sorry about that. I know Christmas was a NIGHTMARE to reach out. Not just them. ALL U.S. based companies. It is the worst time of year as that is usually when EVERYBODY takes their time off so they don’t lose it before end of year. So majority of workers leave just before Christmas and no one returns til after New Year. I run into this in almost all business I do and deal with.
During Events they’re getting better. I think it is also Player interaction too. If players don’t understand something, they will immediately write in and ask a bunch of questions instead of seeking them out in the game or elsewhere… or if there is a mass issue, they get flooded as an issue impacts lots of players and spreads (like servers down). So they got to try and go through 1000’s of emails over the same issue to try and find those with singular ones. Not a fun feat to do. (I did similar in another job.) They are doing some revamping and hopefully will be able to find a way to improve their response.
They are now back to full staff this week and show get better on response as they play catch up.
I get the frustration when you want something fixed. I really do. We are players ourselves, so when we get shut down or have an in game issue… it hurts our ability to help others on and give you guys info here on the site. So we REALLY feel it. Hang it there. I really hope it gets better. For all of our sakes.
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I’ve been running Jesus non-stop on the clam task for about 2 weeks now. He’s dropped 2 clams for me twice. Since I spent about 30 clams to speed up tasks to get him in the first place…It’ll take me maybe another 13 weeks to break even. At this rate, he’ll drop 104 clams per year. On one hand, not fantastic as visiting Ollie pays back better, but on the other hand – it’s a 100 clams i wouldn’t otherwise have – so STILL HAPPY.
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I can promise all those that doubt Jesus’ clam claims that he does indeed, produce the goods. For me, he’s dropped them three times, of which the first two were on consecutive days, each time providing me with two clams – for a grand total of six so far.
Just have faith, persevere & your prayers should be answered!
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Amen!
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Jesus has dropped 2 clams twice for me since I got him….not impressed but I guess better than nothing!
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I do have an honest WTH with Tiny for not utilizing the hard-to-earn special characters. It was kind of nice actually using Paul to unlock something. I started during Comiccon and just managed to get Patrick, Ron and Felecia Day. . . but aside from their usual jobs, they don’t ever help unlock things. It’d be nice
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Felicia Day had a task to help with Jillian.
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Got some jobs going today, then was roving around and WTH??
Freakah tiiiiiime
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Exactly TWO extra rare drops since the Jillian skin became available. SIgh.
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You know what really grinds my gears….. Expensive characters. They need to be less clams or more coins or perhaps Tinyco how about a combination of both clams and coins???? Why don’t we mix it up and try something different??? Bunny, any thoughts on that?
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I see a reason behind it on a business stand point. And in comparing to other games, it is actually right on for a Premium skin for a Character. My thought is this…if people invest more in the game, prices come down as THEIR costs go down. To “cheapen” the item that is basically their paycheck…it is a tough call. I see the benefits to players but also the possible damage on the business end. I just have a different perspective on things outside just a player.
This is my thing, if the Premium Characters became MORE useful within the game (which they have been getting better at implementing now) their value would be more appreciated and understood. For me, that is the hardest part to swallow. I don’t mind at all investing in a game I am passionate about. Happy to do it. I just want a lil more back for my return. Like how they tossed in the random Clam for Jesus. BRILLIANT idea. Something along those lines where a Premium Character helps earn other Premium items would be awesome. They have something like it in the Character Group Clam payouts, but I would like to see a lil more kick back within the game too. I could go on n on n on about this for hours. Actually did with our Meeting with them when we went to San Francisco. Great many thoughts and ideas, and so far… many are coming into play in the game.
They have been dropping a lot of Free Clams on us lately which I appreciate. Little things like that here and there, in my mind, are a better way at kind of giving in to a players wants and sticking to the business model too. I want to see what these next few months bring to really see what they put in play. 😉
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Yes I agree I see the value… As long as they make them do a little more, be more helpful and give kickbacks. And I understand what you are saying about it being a business that was my reasoning for the split clams/coins characters. And Jesus making clams is awesome and hopefully in the coming months maybe
They will incorporate a building that can make clams too… And maybe make it a freemium building since Jesus was a premium. ( kinda throw a bone to some players that can’t afford to buy clams. Appease the masses)
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The Q Hotel from ComicCon was originally built to drop Clams, but there was a problem with it so TinyCo removed it. With Jesus working I’m hoping TinyCo will go back and restore the building to be as advertised.
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Actually…partially accurate. It was set to spawn Nerds which in turn the Nerd being cleared would offer a rare Clam drop. The Nerds caused issues during the Event, so they could not continue them after. Great concept, just killed the game for many players. Those NPCs can do that to some devices not able to handle the Memory drain.
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Just a quick and rational thought. From a business exec… Alienation of your customers will lead to less customers. By definition they have to listen once people do things like drop the rating on Google Play, report them the the BBB, rant on a fansite, etc. Frankly they walk too thin of a tightrope. Understandably businesses are in business to make money; however, not pursuing revenue streams that stare them right in the face are downright pointless. An overhaul of the game and business model would not only appease the masses, but would generate more revenue than they ever imagined. Here’s the proposed layout and new model:
1) Generate 2nd town map (through blimp travel, similar to what Farmville did with the England map and the hot air balloon). Then place restrictions in place to limit items per town map (Approx 250 objects not including characters) with upgrades purchaseable with coins or clams (ie. 500000 coins or 50 clam for a block of 50 items add-on). This will correct the processor intensive issue which crashes games and be less server intensive as well.
2) Create a container building (warehouse for storage similar to the skins in Al Harrington’s ) for storage for the stuff. Most people’s inventory is over bloated unsorted junkpile. Make these storage buildings have a finite limit with more space/upgrades purchaseable with again with coins or clams (again something to save up for – assists in having a goal other than twidling thumbs waiting for next update).
3) Create a perpetual factory of crafting (similar to the Mayor West perfume factory; however have your recipes for components buyable with coins but have characters farmed for components (makes characters more useful and people less bored). Items crafted to add to the towns are stock and standard with limited time items on timer.
4) All quest related items and all characters are free except buildings that give a temporary boost to item collection and only 1 special characters per event as a clams purchase. Skins should be limited time and timed with the event. Incomplete buildings, characters, or skins that haven’t been fully collected by the end to the time allotted will be transferred to a clams shop for purchase (see below).
5) Create a clams shop that is both purchaseable in game and online. Shop will contain any missed items, characters, limited edition or helper items purchaseable with clams. This is suppose to be a casual game… sleep should not be lost over it… besides, “Clams solve all our problems”. Additional functionality to view items friends may be missing, and possibly a wish list. This should also incorporate gifting of items paid for with clams but not gifting the clams themselves. List items in clams shop on bi-monthly sales that may be of use in upcoming events; however do not have the items on sale once the event occurs. Fortune favors the prepared.
6) Set up memberships. Members will benefit from reduced prices for both coins and clams, larger allotments for items, a 25-50 percent reduction in build times, and priority customer service. Memberships will be tiered at monthly, bi-annual, and annual. Coupled with the annual membership will be a clams producing item that generates x-amount of clams weekly.
7) Expand into gift cards. Most gift cards for games online are sold in various locales. It’s not a difficult market to get into and generates new players. Each gift card can be used for either paying for membership or clams and will come with free items and 1 free character or skin.
8) Close monitoring of drop rates and calculations should be allowing players to achieve the goals within an average time. Setting servers to monitor item collection rate and auto adjust drops as needed should be a standard automated practice, not manual override. If calculated correctly when put into play, roughly 20% will complete all the tasks with a large excess of time, 60% with a small excess of time, 10% with little to no excess time (final day), and 10% not completing the tasks. This variable rate is only on the monitor side to nudge drop rates as increase and should never be set to decrease.
9) Add an official website with clams store. Site should also show server up times, planned management (downtime for upgrades/updates) and faq’s/troubleshooting for the game. Your outsourced crack team of support specialists with copy paste precanned response isn’t cutting it. Most problems can simply be solved by sharing their knowledge base with the masses. Use ITIL standards to determine incident/problem management and fix issues before the masses turn on you. Gamers are fickle and have short term memory when it comes to awesome things you do. People always remember the bad.
10) Finally, Bunny and Alissa do a great job at polling your players and have great input toward the direction the players want the game to head. It’s not enough to hear the players, you have to react to what they’re saying. The girls have this in spades and do so selflessly. Work with them on getting a better designed website with full history and cross reference and/or when the official site is launched (and should be by my plan) give them moderator status on an official capacity as either paid or volunteer.
Hope this makes its way over to Tinyco as this is a vision I think many have already been seeing with a business mind twist thrown in the mix.
Thanks for reading…. **drops mic**
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Send it to them. Right from your game. 😉
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**picks up mic, dusts off, annoyingly blows into mic**
Evil, I’m not there yet, so not familiar with number 1 or 3. The rest?…
As to number 2, WTH! Spot on description. My thoughts are for them to just offer us some sub folders. And yes, please take us off that proverbial server teat. I don’t have a data plan on my tablet and can’t play unless I’m “tethered”. Even if I did have that option available to me (over Edge or G3, G4) I wouldn’t waste my data on this game. I frequently play other games well known for their “nickel & diming”, but aren’t forced to be connected EVERY FREAKING SECOND OF THE GAME. WTH!
Number 4 I’m not a fan of the first part. I like the idea of eventually being able to get a character I couldn’t get in an event later on for clams. However, I’m totally okay with a cooling off period where the character is not available for a bit. I don’t mind waiting. For a bit, anyway. People are diverse and want choices though, so limiting an event’s characters doesn’t make sense to me. Did I misread?
I like some parts of number 5—sleeping and gifting. I’d support a decision to keep the game in the game. App game websites that mirror the tech and FAQs should be a given though. I have no idea if there’s one already. Not really interested.
I have a problem with number 6 in the area of Customer Service. EVERYONE should have a reasonable expectation of positive customer service. That’s obviously missing from and sorely needed in this game. If quick customer service were based on payment, non paying customers in a FREE game are marginalized. This game is pretty new, right? Growing pains are expected for new ambitions and it seems TinyCo is willing to listen to at least some constructive criticisms. Jury is still out on the CS for me as NONE of my issues have been addressed except the one where I made a mistake (item hiding behind other things so I think I didn’t get it when earned or paid for). Yet, they’ve np telling me my other issues are resolved. WTH?
Number 7’s good. Number 8; those settings seem as if they’d simply be a number stuck in a database for either those items, characters decos or buildings? But auto monitoring, seemingly, would solve some customer complaints and take a load off TinyCo in addressing those complaints.
Number 9… number 9… number 9… yes!
Number 10… I get that the Internet is all about a celebrating our faves, grassroots campaigns, self-promotion and networking with like minds for free, but seriously TinyCo dudes, in Herbert’s creepy sing-song-voice… you should be giving these girls a stipend! Maybe go viral!
One thing I know for sure: things change. Thanks for sharing—two heads and all.
**relinquishes mic**
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Well thought out and some great ideas here, I applaud you.
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I know this has been said before but I’m going to say it again; please, TinyCo, don’t restrict tasks to unlock an item or person, etc. to just a few characters. I know that you have to balance play so that new players aren’t left out of the action but surely the solution is to add unlocking tasks to more characters (like Cleveland, why is he so rarely of use? Or Consuela? Both of them are available relatively early in the game yet they’re rarely used for completing unlocking quests).
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Thank you for your post Sammycat. I’ve not got them yet cuz I don’t have enough clams. Looks like I won’t really need them.
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D’oh! SAMMICATCAT! Sorry.
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Why the hell does Brian have to be so expensive?! Unless I can make them go on a date all the diddly darn time, he’s not worth it!
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I would pay 150 clams or more to unlock a character like Brian, in fact I bought Consuela, Cleveland, Buzz, John, Gene and Paul. But it’s sad that they want clams for a skin. I guess that my questline stops here. Otherwise, I’m happy with the game overall, and it still keeps me coming back every couple of hours or so. Ahhh, venting. 😜
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WTH TinyCo ? You post a wonderful summary of upcoming events and then go and post a suggestion on FB to have all the FBers come over here. While this might be great for this wonderful site – please don’t funnel all the hateful drivel over here. The comments on FB are endless posts of add me, I can’t get in, fix the update, and gimme more free donuts you greedy jerks.
There are rarely any helpful comments on FB. And now I am afraid that by letting the secret out on FB about this site you are going to overload our wonderful mods with having to moderate all these extra comments that take away greatly from the helpful posts here.
I have stopped reading comments on FB and really dread having to stop reading comments here if it turns out the comments here turn into endless complaints. So WTH TinyCo…
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Don’t worry…Bunny and I are very good at keeping the hate down over here 🙂 And a lot of those Facebookers won’t comment over here, since the comments are moderated.
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8 degrees? It’s zero here. And it’s also ninth January. All New Years thoughts are long gone. Far too late for a new year update. And you can collect for nye jillian but not nye brian?
So….basically, everything you said……
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Bracelets.
Seriously.
WTH!?!
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Exactly! I cannot get those darn braclets!! I have everything else and need 3 more. All characters running their bracket tasks. WTH!
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Why doesn’t Jillian have any tasks that help with unlocking her new costume? Seems like a massive oversight!!
Also, why are there only two characters with tasks to collect Jailhouse Meg’s Soap? With Joe stuck on NYE Jillian-duty I’m reliant on Connie to try and get the four more bars I need :S
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I totally agree with that first part! Jillian should be able to help unlock her costume. I’ve only been playing since the tail end of American Dad but this is the first time I’ve seen a character with an unlockable skin not be able to contribute to it. Granted I couldn’t use my Mort to get his holiday costume because he wasn’t high enough level yet, but it was at least possible for some people. I get that Jillian is not supposed to be very smart but she doesn’t have to be useless!
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During the main story and major events…my drop rates on items are amazing… but during the minor events (the clones, Kool-Aid Man, New Year’s)… My drop rates are terrible.
Like…what the hell, man?
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Why 150 Clams for a Tuxedo outfit your just getting greedy now, and the last 5 mystery boxes i opened dropped stuff i no longer needed because the ball had already dropped and Gillian was unlocked. Looks like I’ll be switching to Tapped Out simpsons very soon.
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What the hell, 150 clams for tuxedo brian, I am unemployed right now cant collect unemployment, doing side jobs for scratch to pay for food and phone. Im down to 74 clams becouse I did splurge to get mcclaine my favorite character, and he doesn’t do @! $# now, but at least he talks loud, not like Jillian where I have to max the volume and put the speaker next to my ear. Now I wont be able to partake in the special date, unless jesus starts droping clams, going on 10 straight days of turning water into clams still nothing. WHAT THE HELL TINY CO. thanks for the vent. Keep up the good work.
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Why do most of the original characters max out at level 15, but peter and the newer characters keep leveling up into the 20s?
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What the he’ll? I was sleeping great this morning when I was awaken by my parrot sitting on my chest
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Polly wanted a cracker
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Yeah, I have 9,800ish cookies too so I feel that frustration. But it’s all good.
I hate timed events. I feel like it adds stress to a game that was just fun when J started. I could finish things and unlock characters at my leisure. Now if I don’t obsess and check in every few hours I may miss out on several characters and outfits. That’s what really grinds my gears.
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