A quick FYI… I am already in discussions with TinyCo on my thoughts to this portion. To me, 2 mins may not be enough time. Will update with any changes. 😉
UPDATE 3pm EST: Changes to the PDA Couples below!!
Update 6:40om EST: TinyCo has once again listened to your feedback! They’ve now made it easier to tell which couple is which, with some new animation! Here’s a look at what you’ll see:
Fighting couples = a cloud of broken purple hearts will be animating above their heads
Enamored couples = a cloud of red full hearts will be animation above their heads
Another great job by TinyCo at listening to YOUR feedback!
Images of what each look like are below
Hey there Minions!
Love is in the air now, or is it? Many of you are confused on the Love/Hate relationship of the couples going on in the game, so figured we better offer a lil extra breakdown of how it all works.
Once you get the storyline going for the Romancing the Clam Event, you will be told to check out a few different areas of the game. One of those is the Affection Meter, but how does this work?
WHAT IS THE AFFECTION METER?
Throughout the Event, you will have optional prizes you can earn just by clearing the Couples that appear in your game. Just be careful which Couple you tap. You will collect a specific type of heart from these PDA Couples to help you earn Prizes. The Prize YOU win will depend on whether you gain all LOVE Hearts or HATE Hearts.
WHERE IS THE AFFECTION METER?
The Affection Meter Icon is on the lower right side of your screen. Tapping on the Icon will bring you to the Event Main Menu.
In the Main Menu, the Affection Meter will be listed under the Heart Tab.
There is also ANOTHER shortcut to it, in your Event Area… Cupid’s Note Writing section with the Big Heart behind him.
This is where you can see WHO currently has a prize option (Quagmire and Peter will start it off.) And you will also see WHAT prizes are available for that Character.
Now comes the catch, YOU will need to decide… do you want to go for Hate or do you want to go for Love? You will need to stick with this choice until you collect all the Hearts needed for that Prize for the Character. Once complete, you can start again.
HOW DO I KNOW WHAT TO PICK?
This will all be YOUR choice. Look at the Prizes offered for each side of Love or Hate and decide what one you want to go for first. Just remember, the couples only spawn every 4hrs and you only have 2 minutes to clear the right one.
You will now have 3 Minutes to locate and tap and 3 hrs between spawns.
WHAT IF I DON’T LIKE MY CHOICE OR WANT TO DO IT AGAIN?
Don’t worry, if you change your mind you can just switch to collecting for the opposite side. Basically collecting a Love Heart will cancel out a Hate heart and vice versa, so you can switch that way. Also, once you complete the first Prize collection the Affection Meter will reset and you can start a new collection for another Prize.
HOW DO I KNOW WHEN THE COUPLES ARRIVE?
If you watch your game closely, within a few moments of entering the game you will see that **POOF** of smoke as the PDA Couples spawn on any roads in your town. You will also see a quick pop up from Peter warning you they are there.
This is where having a VERY small amount of road will come in handy for you. Due to they spawn on any roads, they can be scattered and may take you time to find them. So if possible, keep your roads to a minimum and not hidden behind any tall buildings. Try to make it as easy on yourself as possible to find the couples.
This has been updated so that 8 of each couple will now spawn every 3hrs.
HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO FIND THE COUPLES I NEED?
Once they have spawned, you will notice a timer icon at the bottom right corner of your game counting down.
Once that timer hits zero, ALL Couples will disappear and Peter will let you know they are gone. So pay close attention, focus on finding YOUR couple and clearing them before the timer runs down. (My game there are usually 6 of each couple.)
You will now have to wait 4 hrs for them to return.
HOW DO I KNOW WHAT COUPLE TO TAP ON?
This one will take a quick glance at each couple to find out WHO you need to tap on. There is a very easy tell tell sign on each Couple.
LOVE: As you watch the couples wander around with the girl latched on to the guy, they will come to a point and stop. A LOVE couple will then start to make out even more as the guy kicks up one leg and they rock back and forth a few times. THIS IS A LOVE COUPLE. Tapping on this Couple will give you a Love Heart.
Update: Love couple now with the new hearts…
HATE: As you watch the Couples wander around with the girl latched on to the guy, they will come to a point and stop. A HATE couple, the girl will start arguing with the guy, reach her arm way back, then slap him so hard it literally puts a red hand print on his face. THIS IS A HATE COUPLE. Tapping on this couple will give you a Hate Heart.
Update: Hate couple now with the broken hearts
Now be REALLY careful, tapping on the WRONG Couple will give you the wrong heart and cancel out one you already earned. (Again, I usually get 6 of each this has been changed to 8 of each couple now… so once I found all the specific ones I am gathering I just let the timer run down.)
HOW DO I KEEP TRACK OF MY HEARTS?
You will need 15 Hearts total for the first Prize. The game will help you keep track of where you are. The Affection Meter Icon at the bottom of the screen will show you which way your Meter is filling up. Towards LOVE or towards HATE.
You can use the same methods above to also go back to the Main Menu Affection Meter to see your EXACT total across the top of how many you have so far. 
WHAT ARE THE SPAWN RATES?
This has just been adjusted by TinyCo. You will now get 8 of each couple (16 total) spawning in your town every 3 hrs. You will have 3 minutes to locate the ones you want and tap them to get the Hearts.
Short story long… Watch the couples closely. Leg kicking up with rocking back and forth = LOVE. Lady yelling and smacking her lover hard= HATE. Once you got that figured out, you can tap them at any time to get that Heart.
What do you think of this set up so far? Does this help to make a lot more sense of it all? Are you going for Love or Hate? Won any of the Prizes yet? Let us know if you have any other questions/concerns on this one.
~Bunny
Family Guy Addicts 
The hearts are a help, but geez these things walk around forever…last round I was only able to check about 7 of them…only 3 of which were the right kind…so frustrating…and the rate at which valentines accumulate is sooo slow which would be fine for a long event, but is holding up the start of the gazebo questline and the continuation of beautiful people…so far not inspired by this event, which means it’s unlikely that I’ll be spending clams on this event (especially with so little building space available).
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Weird. My couple seem to be comimg every two hours. Not complaining!
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Ok – just noticed that instead of a lock there’s a picture showing for the 6th prize ! It’s the love prize and it’s….
SPOLIER ALERT:
Hot Meg!!!!!!!
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hot meg is on the hate/love item list if you scroll all the way down
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I don’t have ANY couples in my town. There are no hearts floating above anything or anyone anywhere in my town. This event has started and there is nothing. Just a few slow missions… Wtf is going on? I’m just lost and confused
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Follow the questline…the couples will appear as you progress through it. You’ll actually have a quest that says check out/clear couples. That’s when they’ll start to spawn
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Are you maybe under level 10? You have to be at at least level 10 for any event to switch on.
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I have a comment waiting for moderation still. I LOVE the changes they did now! Definitely so much easier because now I have 12 Love Hearts and that’s thee highest count I’ve managed to get since last night. the last comment i posted it was just me saying how it’s not very easy and very difficult to keep a streak up of either Hate Hearts or Love Hearts, but I can TOTALLY say now that it’s MUCH MORE MANAGEABLE seriously. thanks TinyCo.!!..and Alissa&Bunny for dealing with US crazies lmao! ❤ 🙂
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Sorry…i’m a bit behind on comments tonight. Trying to write up a few posts..
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I love how you apologize for taking 23 minutes to respond to a post. I sent Tinyco a question about the couples last night at about 9:45, they didn’t respond until today after 2pm, and I know that sometimes they take much longer. I just want you guys know how much everything you do is appreciated.
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Well thank you 🙂
We know during events you guys have a ton of questions, so we try to stay on top of the comments as best as possible.
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They responded to me today every single time I sent them a ticket! kinda like we were chatting almost lol compared to back in August I do know they took weeks to respond, but compared to NOW they respond all the time ❤
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aw Alissa no need to apologize I completely understand ❤ 🙂
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i’m getting “data error” and i can’t even get into my game. anyone else having this problem? what am i supposed to do if i can’t even get in to write tinyco…?
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Try the basics…
If no luck, reach out to them OUTSIDE the game…
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TinyCo has made getting hearts insanely easy. I for one had no problem telling the couples apart from the very beginning and well now it’s way easier for the people who were having problems with collecting the right kind of heart. Great on their part for listening and updating fast.
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Thanks Bunny and Alissa for contacting Tinyco on our behalf. The extra minute and cloud heart animations make it easier to tap the correct couple. Now I can start enjoying this event! 😍
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This is still rather frustrating. They just walk around my town making out. I click on them while they are kissing and it seems completley random. I am stuck in the neutral position. I also keep running into an issue (same issue I have with all of the walk around characters) that they over load the memory of my device and freeze the game. However the timer keeps going. I end up with less than a minute to get them if I am lucky. Never thought I would say this, but I miss bombing them.
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As others have posted, I HATE the time limit to find the couples – Yet again, I’m going to have to destroy the town I built to remove all the roads to just leave a small stretch to make it easier to find the couples.
When new things I have to click come to the game, i don’t mind searching all my roads looking for them – but when I only have a short amount of time, ugh… destroy the town again. 😦
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How can I get more Valentine carda so I can build the gazebo for the first quest?
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Send characters on tasks to earn more cards…
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It really is nice when a company responds positively to player feedback. Thanks, TIny Co., and to the lovely ladies of Family Guy Addicts. Thanks for caring!
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This is a toughy! I don’t know which one to choose. Went with the building for Quagmire (yep, I’m a lover 🙂 ), but now I’m wondering if Peter uses the hot tub, then im happy to become a hater. I can’t find any information about it though – do you guys know if it’s just a decoration or if characters can use it?
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At least for now, he doesn’t use it.
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For me these prizes are hard to choose from. A building always beats a decoration. I just hope the hot Meg one isn’t a choice between two skins.
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Aren’t* stupid auto correct.
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what does ida need and is s/he timed?
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This post explains it all..
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I noticed that there is still 2 park benches to be built. I wonder if Glenda is a costume or a character but there are a lot of characters from the Valentines episode. These would be: Justin-Meg’s boyfriend, Sandy-Herbert’s Grandniece, Carol-Lois’ sister and Adam West’s lover. Ok, that’s not a lot but its possible that those 3 could be there.
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That’s probably it..should be a fun couple of weeks! 🙂
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I just went into the game after 8+ hours had passed, and only noticed Peter’s sign pop up saying that the couples had all found a room. I never saw any couples “poof” into existence. What happens if one is away for more than 3 hours, thus missing the spawn time?
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You should not. Usually there are two pop ups…one on entry… one on exit. I have been away from one game for 10 hrs and they spawned just fine for me when I went back to it.
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All of my shopping cart stuff for the event now says GO instead of a price. Then if you select it says the amount after… Please fix
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Send them an in-game report. That’s the best thing to do.
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The hearts definitely make things better. And I am happy at the increased spawn time. I still have one issue with this. I have actually followed a couple around for a good 30 seconds before they do anything, make out, slap, hearts, etc. They just stand there doing nothing, so while 3 minutes is a better time frame, get a few of the ones that take forever to do anything and the time disappears REALLY quickly.
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I have quagmire’s love prize and I’m about 18 hearts into peters love task I do wish they would describe the prizes so we don’t have to make choices blind. It’s a bit difficult keeping an eye on several couples at once but last two rounds I only made one mistake. Sometimes couples do seem to take ages to do animation after stoping (not really but it feels that way when you see the timer. I may bite the bullet and start removing roads. I’m already sending all non essential characters on indoor tasks (short ones just incase they gain a valentine earning task). There is only one thing I’d change if I could that bonnie’s valentine earning task is separate from the one to earn for beautiful Peter, correct me if I’m wrong but don’t item drop task usually earn currency in events?
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Sometimes…but not all the time. Depends on the task
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Th change is much better… At least it makes sense now… But it does seem like it takes longer for them to expose what they are
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So u can’t make all the couples that come in your town every 3 hours all one kind of heart there are what they are and u have to pick through them to find the ones u want right or wrong please let me know I am geting no where my meter is in the middle cause I keep geting a little of both
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Exactly. If you get 4 Red Hearts and 4 purple hearts they’ll cancel each other out and you’ll progress 0
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Still no couples. Last sighting for couples was this morning. It’s now 12 hours later and I have logged in several times throughout the day.
Is this a known glitch?
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We’re seeing a few reports of it. Best thing to do is contact TC and let them know. We’ll contact them on on end too.
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Thanks for the updated info ladies. I’m glad that Tinyco listened to the feedback. I think that things are more fair with the new animations for the PDA couples.
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Does any one know if the decorations come with an action tied to it? I want the hot tub but if it doesn’t do anything, I’d rather get the chocolate café building. Does any one know?
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No actions. Just a decoration.
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I realy dont think its that bad, if your good at it, you can get 4-5 of your choice or hearts per cycle, i alredy got quagmires building and it drops a rare item for ida. Working on peters love building as it seems the hate rewards are decorations with no drops of valentine cards.
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I HATE THIS GAME NOW!!!!!!!!!THESE THINGS LOOK ALIKE AND CANNOT GET AHEAD BECAUSE WHEN I TAP ON THEM I GET RED HEARTS AND WHEN I TAP ON ANOTHER I GET PURPLE HEARTS!!!!!!!!!! I’M REALLY MAD AS HELL NOW, AND I REGRET I SPENT REAL MONEY ON THIS GAME!!!!! THESE STUPID EVENTS MAKE NO SENSE WHEN THEY MAKE THEM HARD TO ACHIEVE!!!!! I’M REALLY DISAPPOINTED AT TINYCO NOW!!!! I’m venting today, and this is my first time I vent like this!!! This was my epic favourite game but now I’m really angry!!!!!
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Sorry you are frustrated. Keep in mind it is only day one. Still a LOT of time to go in the event and you are just getting the hang of it. Anything seems impossible when it is brand new. They did change the players so they stick out a lot better to let you know who is who… just watch the tapping… if you have a REALLY sensitive screen and are not zoomed in that much, you may tap more than one at a time.
Hang in there. Give it a lil more time. Still lots of OTHER things going on in the event than just this. 😉
And if needed… Vent away… in the posts we make JUST for that. 😉
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I’m so confused I had 9 love hearts before the couples spawned. Maybe I miscounted but I could have sworn I got 3 purple and 5 red but now my total love is down to 7! How can my love heart count have gone down two? Even if they cancelled out three Purple Hearts and five red hearts should not decrease my previous 9 hearts to 7..is it glitchy?
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Never mind I didn’t realize that clammy secrets was automatically placed on the screen and my heart score was automatically pushed to the next prize so that makes 7/50. Now I think I’ve got it down, thanks for this site if helps so much! 🙂
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You REALLY gotta watch those hearts. Do you know how many you had at the start? Are you sure it was 9? Were you on the Love or the Hate side?
For instance… if you started with… let’s say 5 Love hearts… add to that 5 more Love Hearts you tapped… so that is 10… but you also got 3 Hate Hearts… so that would drop you back down to 7. Make sense? Did that help?
5+5=10 -3=7
Flip that. Let’s say you had 9 Hate Hearts already… tapped 5 Love dropping your total down to only 4 Hate Hearts… then you tapped 3 more Hate Hearts adding you back to 7.
9-5=4 +3=7
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Just an FYI… The Love prize for Quagmire (Clammy Secrets) has a chance to drop Hormone Pills (for Ida).
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Good tip, thanks! I missed that because I’ve already unlocked her..
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It’s not too bad once you know what to look for. Crashes seem to be a particular problem with this event. When I’ve experienced a crash while the couples are present, then they seem not to return upon restart even if the countdown has not expired. This seems reproducible. A bit of a pain for the original stages when the count is low, but might be a real hurdle when the count grows.
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I really like this event. Makes you think and a bit of a challenge. Keep mixing things up Tinyco — two thumbs up on this release 🙂
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I think it’s fun… And kudos to tiny co for listening and trying there hardest to alwayss change the stuff ppl don’t like. Yes it’s a little difficult and may take some adjusting to and figuring out, but dang this is the first day of the event cut them some slack. I still am having trouble figuring out love/hate couples but I’m working on figuring it out. I like the event so far and it’s nice they changed it up some, the same thing gets a little old. And the events in general are fun. The game without the events gets boring. I like the rush to get all the stuff. And thank u guys for explaining and helping us through!!!
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Glad it helps! 🙂
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What I’m curious about is whether there is going to be a balance on the number of buildings between the love/hate sides. I like decorations, but buildings are better. I’m currently pursuing the 1st hate decoration, but if all the buildings are gonna be on the love side of the spectrum I’m gonna have to change my strategy. I assume we can expect a post on the prize at some point?
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We’ve got a basic one here
More detailed one will be coming.
We’ll have to see what Phase 2 brings 🙂
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I’m pretty disappointed in the hate prize for Quagmire. I went for it because I love archery, but it’s just a decoration. As far as I can tell it does nothing and earns nothing. I feel like the different sides should at least be similar. Some decorations drop coins…why can’t this drop cards?
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I agree – sides should be equal or at least a description of what you are going for so you can decide properly
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Can someone anyone answer what the hate prize is? Is it a “building” that can earn, or just a decoration? The hot tub looks more interesting than the chocalatier, but I don’t want to waste a day of heart collecting if its just a decoration! I don’t want to assume its not an earning “building” because there have been things like the confetti puff stuff and mr weed tombstone that have been earning “buildings” even though they aren’t traditional buildings. Please ask TinyCo for clarification, or ask them to add info to the prize screen.
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So far the 2 prizes are just decorations.
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I love that they updated the animation and gave us a little more time. Personally, though the people just don’t stop often enough for 3 minutes to even be enough time. I knew what to look for and still only got 3 couples to give me the heart I wanted.. I just find this even annoying and want it to end. The time constraint and the fact the couples aren’t even wearing different clothes or anything..
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This is the first event i found I’ve had to remove most of the roads because of the timer, thankfully tiny co made it a bit easier to work out which is which but still had to wait 4hours tho for spawning
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Woohhoo thank you tiny co for listening! Ripped up my road to confine them all to one space and watched for the desired colored hearts to pop up! I quickly went from being stuck at 2 hearts to 8! How about giving us a clam sale???? I want to buy some but getting double is ALWAYS nice 😀
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So is it that couples spawn every 3 hours and we have to catch them in that 3 minute window OR that they spawn and will stay in our town until we open the game? Because I seem to have missed the last spawn and now my timing is all off.
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If you’re not in your town 3hrs after the last one, they’ll respawn when you return to your Quahog. Give it a few seconds for them to popup, but they will spawn.
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I unlocked clammy secrets earlier today. Now with this new new update getting Peter’s prize should be a lot easier. I’ve decided to go for the love side of this event, even though the holiday itself is pretty meh in my opinion. The only part I look forward to is the heavily discounted candy after the 14th! I do wish we could get both sets of prizes. Maybe at the end if you go through all the characters you can restart it and go for the other side?
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Like almost everybody, my game keeps freezing or closing itself and guess what? The couples are gone when I reopen it. They could of at least made the couples easier to see like those yellow or green shirts mallrats during xmas. Getting more and more disappointed with the shutting off every time I collect money and open the brewery or go to Ollie’s village. Sending reports just doesnt help me. Thanks for your website. You’re my “go to” people once a day. Keep up the good job.
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Have you tried all the basics?
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I can’t begin to get mad at TinyCo for listening and making such quick changes. Not everything is going to be perfect right out of the gate but they listen and it shows!
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Thank you, TinyCo, for always listening to your players and making adjustments to help gameplay! That is very unusual, and much appreciated. The changes to the lovers are very helpful.
At first I thought the events were ridiculously complicated, but I have come to enjoy that a lot. It is a little boring to have a linear event in which you do a task, wait x hours, come back, read some dialogue, do a task…..this is much more interesting and creative! And their buildings and decorations are wonderful. Now if they would give us more land to display them in, I would be in gaming heaven. As always, thank you Bunny and Alissa, for taking your time to help us understand what to do! This new write up explains everything perfectly.
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As usual with new techniques and games, things are difficult to get used to, sometimes they have proved to be fun… However, I have to say that this PDA couples thing is terrible. So far, everytime I tap the kissing couple, I get broken hearts. I’ve zoomed-in completely to make sure I tap the right kind of pair… so I’m not sure the rules are really applying. On the other hand, I said it before and I’ll say it again… such a technique for a game suffering of constant crashing, is not a wise thing to add. Everytime I tap on 3 couples, the game crashes… not adding the hearts I earned and making the rest of the couples disappear when I finally load the game again… Honestly, I don’t see why everything must be timed in this game…
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How can we accumulate the homemade valentines?
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Character tasks, completing the questline, clearing valentine’s buildings
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At the moment, I absolutely hate this event. I end up hitting the wrong couples and don’t get anywhere. The love couples release little red hearts and the hate couples release little purple hearts before you tap them. I don’t know how people on phones can tell the difference. Once again, I will have to delete all my roads to get anywhere. That is getting old.
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TinyCo JUST released a fix for this. If you check the top of this post again you’ll see the new animations they added.
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With the colored hearts and getting rid of all roads except one, I was able to get the right couples. I hate my town without roads though, so I will probably pop in and out of the game rather than staying on much.
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Your lucky… I’ve waited 6 hours without a SINGLE couple showing up at all. I’m getting annoyed with Tiny Co (It started with the “Carl” Videos, Then The Dinosaur Videos, Next I stopped getting Ghost (For 2 Days Straight and ended up having to pay 80 clams to get the ghost needed) then to top that Off King Butt Isn’t in my town even though not only did I unlock him but I posted to my facebook that he was “Unlocked”…. And Finally after all of that The stuff with the couples… (Bunny If you have any pull at all, even if you don’t allow this to be posted please talk to them about these issues)
Thanks
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I agree.. The roads thing is ANNOYING!!
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Yep. Even with the fix. This is getting old. And to those who say you don’t have to demolish your townvto play, yes you do. Especially those of us with all districts unlocked.
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First off, I love the ideas they come up with and I really appreciate the fact that TinyCo actually listens to their customers. Anyway, the major problem I have with the couples is that they take quite a while to stop walking and start making out/fighting and by the time you see them they leave. This would kind of defeat the purpose of the couple’s actions, but I believe that it would have been better if TinyCo implemented the same idea as with their good/bad shoppers in their Christmas event wherein they wore different clothing so you knew right away which was which. I also like to say that Bunny, Alissa, and anybody else running the site are doing a fabulous job!
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Thanks, Bunny & I always appreciate the kind words! 🙂
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I really wish they would make them more distinctly different. Like hearts emanating from love couples and clouds from hate or dark clothes vs light clothes. It is frustrating to accidentally get the wrong couple. Another option would be to choose up front for each gift and then only those would count. I hate seeing the total drop from getting the wrong couple.
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I just noticed when they stop they eminate either purple or red hearts. Don’t know if that just changed or I didn’t notice before but it really helps.
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lol we updated the post with that info a couple of hrs ago 😉
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Not seen any couples spawn for around 6 hours now though it was fine this morning 😦 I’m even on 12 or 13 love from then. I’ve tried force stopping the app but nothing has changed. I’m playing on a kindle fire and have messaged them in game but just wanted to mention.
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Let us know if they get back to you. Hopefully it’ll be fixed quickly
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Till now events have been generally fun, so far this one is just annoying.
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