Hey there Tribbles!!
Matt from TinyCo was gracious enough to take the time to Comment to our AWESOME Readers personally in regards to your Questions on the Star Trek Event.
(For complete Q&A, go to the Post HERE)
There was some really great questions Matt from TinyCo (TinyMatt) answered that I wanted to highlight for you in case you missed it or don’t have the chance to go through all the comments. (The Original Comment will be linked to the Reader asking the Question. Feel free to tap on the link to see more.)
EVENT PLANNING
Q: Amber Tim
How far in advance are you guys planning stuff?
Do you know what the next event will be (planning stages of course, not asking for you to reveal it)? The next two events? The next district? The next two districts?
How do you decide how long the events will be? (Personally I LOVE the longer events. It seems like it gives you guys more development time to craft future content as well as giving us time to get everything we want!)
A: TinyMatt
We started working on Star Trek in January, and we had it signed well before that.
In fact, if you look through all of my Family Guy Addicts comments and blog posts since January, you’ll find a fair number of hints hidden in them 😉
To clarify: you’ll find Star Trek references galore
The length of the event depends on:
1) How much content a theme can feasibly provide. (Star Trek is packed with inspiration and ideas; “Adventure”, a bit less so.)2) How long players enjoy a theme before it grows stale. (Many felt that Comic Con lasted just a bit too long.)
3) If there are themes that fit right after that. (Halloween -> Thanksgiving -> Christmas -> New Years -> Valentine’s all have clear calendar periods. That makes the end and start of the year already packed.)
4) If we think we’ll revisit a theme again in the future. (Halloween comes around every year and is very popular, so we didn’t want to use EVERYTHING right off the bat.)
I want to stress point #4 some more – we plan on being around a long, long time. This means that sometimes, when you see an omission, it’s because we are keeping it in our pocket for some time down the line 😉
DO WE KEEP A TRIBBLE?
Q: Geesica
Do we even get to keep a Tribble?
A: TinyMatt
Would you like to?
(He basically is saying if YOU want one, message them and let them know. It is YOUR response that could make something like this happen.)
DO WE KEEP THE ENTERPRISE?
Q: AmberTim
Is there any possible way you guys can let us keep The Enterprise?
A: TinyMatt
There is not. We looked for ways to make it happen, but with the way it’s set up, it would create a significant increase in server load and save game size. We’re looking into ways we can have a static Enterprise hang around for players to visit, but this would not be *your* Enterprise, and we aren’t sure what that entails engineering-wise yet.
That said, we wanted to make sure that you get to keep things you pay for, whether you bought it with time or money. Individual enterprise rooms you unlock will get beamed down to Quahog at event’s end.
The characters you unlock are yours to keep, of course.
PICARD CHARACTER?
Q: Oscar_T
Will Picard be an entirely new character or will it be a costume for Patrick Stewart?
A: TinyMatt
Can’t give too much away yet. Some things I can share:
– We approached this with the conceit that each Star Trek character is a unique being in the multiverse. We think a lot about whether it makes sense for something to be a skin. Like with Bitch Stewie – should that be a skin, or a separate character? We ended up with the latter because in the show’s fiction, it is a distinct being from the “real” Stewie.
– While we do re-release characters important to a storyline, such as with Cleveland, we want the ST characters we release to be consistent. You’ll notice that there is no Jonathan Frakes character walking around. (Though now that I think about it, perhaps there should be.)
A question for the community:
Which option seems the most interesting to you? Have Picard AND Patrick Stewart? Just one, and the other a skin? What would make the most sense, from a game perspective? How would you fit it in with the event?
(Feel free to message in to them with your response to this one.)
WHY STAR TREK EVENT?
Q: Ducky1102
Hi Matt! What was your motivation behind doing a Star Trek Event? Why Star Trek and not something else?
A: TinyMatt
The short answer is: we’re all huge nerds and we adore Star Trek. It made is incredibly excited to give Star Trek a huge, hilarious treatment. So much so that we basically built an all-new game within Family Guy: TQFS.
There were other factors, of course. Star Trek has a huge following – tons of fans who we knew would love the game but hadn’t heard of TQFS yet. We knew there was a cross section of existing Family Guy fans who grew up on Star Trek, be it TOS or TNG.
When looking at stuff like this, we examine:
– The size of the fan base
– Whether it makes sense in the Family Guy style and universe (having episodes and cutaways in the TV show certainly helps prove the case)
– If the rights holder is interested
This kind of size, familiarity and fervor meant we saw a huge opportunity, and CBS agreed.
GETTING LEGAL RIGHTS FOR CONTENT?
Q: AmberTim
How do you amazing people (you’re the most amazing Matt!) go about getting the “rights” for franchises such as this? And in the same regard, how do you guys go about getting the INSANSELY AWESOME voice talent that you guys get? How does that process work exactly?
I always find it incredible how you guys are able to do that. It just wouldn’t be the same without the real actors/actresses doing the voices! Just incredible.
A: TinyMatt
We’ve invested a LOT in an amazing team who’s primary job is interacting with folks outside of TinyCo. They’re crucial to what we do. They brainstorm things like “what if we put the Ghostbusters in the game?” Then they shop that to the team, and work with outside partners to sell the opportunity. We’ve also spent a great deal of time building those relationships.
The other reason is Y’ALL. It’s because YOU have supported the game in a HUGE way. Like, we expected it to be big – but we had no idea the outpouring of love and excitement you would have. This meant that since launch, other companies have taken notice. It used to be our team arrived in a room with skeptical executives and a power point. Now, the industry has heard of TQFS and the avid community within, and they want to connect.
We tell them about the feedback you provide, the real time connection, the amount people play the game, and we even mention this very blog. It’s a new, exciting thing, and a huge part of it is because of the excitement you show.
So… thank you 🙂 we will keep working hard so long as it excites you.
VOICES FOR CHARACTERS?
Q: Bunny
Here is one that I see these guys bringing up all the time…. What goes into getting the ability to voice a character? Is there a legal process involved? Is that why some are voiced where others are not?
Can you elaborate on that at all? 😉
A: TinyMatt
Yep! There are legal things and there are people things. We have people and they have people, and everyone’s people talks to one another. When getting the rights to use someone’s likeness, we try to get the rights to some original audio as well.
So far, we’ve been amazed at how great everyone has been to work with. The Community team sometimes gets to listen to the audio before it goes in game. We laughed HARD at Benedict Cumberbatch 😀
The writers will write out suggestions, and the actor/actress will sometimes ad lib. It’s glorious.
BACK TO THE FUTURE EVENT?
Q: Eddie
I know this isn’t the proper place, but you’re here and I’ll just ask anyway.
Back to the Future game content. Should I give up that dream? Or do we at least have a Dumb and Dumber, “one in a million”, “so you’re saying there’s a chance” chance?
A: TinyMatt
There is always a chance.
While some things regarding outside IP is beyond our control, the best way to have an impact is to ask for it. If we see excitement about something, it becomes very interesting to us.
STAR WARS EVENT?
Q: SBC497
Since we’re seeing Star Trek now, what’s the likely-hood we’ll see Star Wars?
A: TinyMatt
There is always a chance. However, the opportunities available to us are dependent on the rights holders.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY EVENT?
Q: Skittles
I know it’s OT but why no St. Patrick’s Day Event? Seems like it would have fit perfectly in Quahog! Thanks!
A: TinyMatt
Well, we had this scifi-themed event coming up, and….
We’ve also gotten feedback that players enjoy focus. Back in November, there was a week that we had American Dad AND Thanksgiving at the same time. Some players liked the hustle, but many expressed to us that they didn’t know which one to focus on. This matters when sending characters away on tasks, etc. It’s possible we could have done it the weekend prior to St Patrick’s, but we didn’t pursue that.
There’s always next year 😉
DRAG AND DROP FEATURE?
Q: Chadlamasa
Can you guys disable the character drag option? I’d like it to go away permanently personally but I know some people like it. At least a settings option possibly. If not permanently maybe just for the event. While scrolling for tribbles it can aggravating to accidently grab a character. Love the event so far.
A: TinyMatt
This exchange of comments perfectly sums up Ragdolling™ – the term we use for drag and drop. Some people love it. Some people hate it. I personally love how, back in the day, each character had a unique “oh crap I’m getting dragged around” animation, but we felt it best to refocus on unique in-game animations and on doing more new characters.
From a design perspective, any time you get a split of people loving and hating something, you’ve got a cool thing. With the way people’s attention is drawn every which way in this day and age, having people pay attention to you is rare. Any change we make, we want to make sure we still have people who *love* the feature, rather than turn it into a feature that everyone likes but nobody loves.
TINYCO HELP DESK/HOURS OF OPERATION?
Q: BuddyV
Do you guys outsource your Help Desk? How many people are currently on support tickets? What are their off hours? So if we send a ticket in after ____ we shouldn’t expect a response.
A: TinyMatt
We do everything in house, with some remote agents to help take up volume. Peak hours are 10am – 7pm seven days a week, with a smaller staff on weekends focused primarily on catching new issues.
The time you send the ticket shouldn’t matter. If you don’t get a response of any sort after 5 business days, something went wrong. This happens more than I would like it to, and we are looking at ways to address it.
USE EXISTING CHARACTERS/NIMOY TRIBUTE?
Q: Reaganomics Lamborghini
I have to assume we will be able to use George Takei and Patrick Stewart for certain tasks or to get new skins… Oh, and now that I think of it, Benedict Cumberbatch, too!
What about other random characters we have gathered over time? Especially those purchased with clams. It would be great to be able to have them to help us, even if just to get drops here and there.
Also, please let there bit some sort of tribute (that we can keep) of Leonard Nimoy? Perhaps him singing Ballad of Bilbo? 😀
A: TinyMatt
1) This is a popular request.
2) We are looking at ways to respectfully tribute Mr. Nimoy. No announcements or promises yet, but it’s important to us.
CRASHING/LAGGING ISSUES IN GAME?
Q:Shauna
Not a question. More of a request. Please fix the crashes. The game keeps crashing after I collect money or after a get a new quest or when I zoom out to see my whole town or when I try to go to the other town or just randomly. It is a frustrating feeling when there is so much to do and I can’t do it all if the game crashes every 3 minuets. Aside from that, thanks for all the awesome stuff!
A: TinyMatt
Thank you so much for writing this. Please do send this to support from in-game – we are always gathering logs and crash reports to look for broader trends we can tackle.
Q: michele
Why can’t I visit my neighbors without the game restarting? Its been going on since before christmas. Sent several tickets and never received a reply. Love this game though.
A: TinyMatt
Visiting neighbors is one of the most memory-intensive actions in the game, which is why it can lead to crashes. You’re loading a lot of stuff you didn’t previously have cached on your device. It’s something we work on improving in each update.
You can alleviate this by closing out other apps before running the game. It’s not a perfect workaround, but it helps.
Q: Kerry
I play on an inexpensive (read: cheap) android tablet with a 32MB SD card that I pretty much bought solely for this game. The game is housed on the SD card and there is nothing else on the tablet other than the OS. With the release of the event, I am now getting an error message upon launch that my device doesn’t have enough memory. The game starts and I am able to play so far without incident. I assume they mean RAM as opposed to storage memory. I understand that there is a lot going on with the event, but is this going to be a trend for the future? Have your technical people looked into the various playing devices and what your cap is for RAM to be able to play the game? I haven’t sent an in-game message yet because I didn’t want it to get lost with all the immediate game stuff that people have issue with right now but I plan on sending screen shots and specs for my device to see if there is any advice.
Anyone else experiencing similar issues?
A: TinyMatt
Is there enough memory on your SD card? We’ve seen weird things happen on some devices when the game splits between an SD card and the built-in hard drive.
Additional Responses:
Kerry: FG game is only thing on the device and the memory card. Haven’t used the device for anything except the game on purpose. Glad (but not glad) that someone else has a similar experience. At least I am not on an island on this one.
John: Yes!! My tablet has partitioned memory, certain amount of memory dedicated to certain things. And SD card is only for music, pictures, and video. So while I have A LOT of unused memory I can only have 2 or 3 games at a time. I had to uninstall TSTO yesterday to make room for the Star Trek update..
ADDICTS IN THE GAME?
Q:AddictsFanatic
Are there any plans to add our favorite Addicts to the game? How awesome would it be to have Alissa & Bunny in Quahog?!
A: TinyMatt
One of the Tribbles is actually Bunny. I’ll leave it to y’all to guess which one.
Q:savorycook
Hi Matt. Is there any possibility we might see Bunny & Alissa as characters in the game? I’m sure those rights would be easier to work out than others you have had. 😉 We rely on them so much they might as well be in our game. 🙂
A: TinyMatt
We’re having difficulty securing the rights to Alissa’s likeness. She’s really expensive. We have a call in with her agent, though.
SOME FINAL THOUGHTS…
TinyMatt
That’s all, y’all 🙂 I’ve got to go deal with an issue involving a Trex on the main floor of the Enterprise. (Actual bug. Related note: I love my job.)
Thank you for the amazing questions!
Tell us! 🙂 the TC community team listens to ALL feedback – but if you like something, please do tell us, via support or comments or on this here blog. It gives us quotes we can give straight to the team.
There you have it. Matt from TinyCo stopped on by to communicate with you personally. As you can see, they really do listen and really want you to communicate with them. They are very much player involved and love it. You may not get a response depending on the contact reason, but they ARE paying attention and love your input. Give them more. 😉
What did you think of the Q&A? Cover some of the topics you were wondering? Answer some questions you wanted to ask? Let us know, and of course… let THEM know via your in game menu.
~Bunny
Family Guy Addicts 
Really looking forward to a star wars event. Let them do it disney 😁
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Informative. Though I will say he did a good job answering-but-not-answering the “ragdolling” question. Glad I’m not he only one who would love to see the option of disabling that mechanic… Can’t tell you how many times a day I feel like chucking my phone across the room because the game wants to drag someone while I only want to scroll to the other side of town…
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Me want tribble!!me want tribble!!yes yes tribble!! 😀
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OMG !!! I can’t wait for the addicts to be in quahog. Awesome !!!
On another note…hope this gets to Matt from tiny co.
I have Been quiet about this for sometime. But I think it’s time for tiny co to address this issue.
First off … Great event update … Good job tiny co. One of the best events yet 🙂
Now for the much needed address….this happens event after event after event, character after character. It is very frustrating that after days or even a full week unlocking a character by collecting a TON of items and the quest line finally becomes available, you are all of a sudden blocked in the questline because your new character who is needed and is on xp level 1 needs to be xp level 3 or 4 to continue the quest. This makes us send the character on the same repeated tasks over and over and over again for another 2-3 days or even another week just to level them up to a higher XP level. This is very frustrating. After spending so much time having to collect items for a character we just want to enjoy the questline. Not be blocked by a xp level block. It is very very frustrating.
Please tiny co. Address this.
Although every game has its ups and downs. This is one of the main downs for me with FGQFS. I do really enjoy the game but when I get blocked by an xp level thing after 3-4 days + trying to unlock a character, I just feel like quiting as I feel my time was wasted and will be wasted again.
Anyway, not sure if anyone feels the same but this is really frustrating me.
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This has never been a problem for me. In quest lines the actions a character has to do normally is always open by the time the quest line advances that way. Meaning if a character does two actions for part one and two of a quest a lot of times they would level up enough for the next part of the quest. I have very rarely needed to send my character on another action to get them to a level they need to be and when I do another action it is only one or two, not a week’s worth.
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I’m changing my vote to having Picard as a separate character. If you make it as a costume, there’s going to be one group or another that’s going to be pretty unhappy with the situation. I think most of us newer players would be pretty unhappy with him being unavailable or for clams, and the people that bought him as a premium might be unhappy if he could now be earned. Feeling the inconvenient need to level him up for the longer time players I think will be less dissatisfying than either of the other outcomes.
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Patrick Stewart should be a different character to the actor out of Star Trek because they are different people in a sense, like if the game included hell boy now, we wouldn’t make it a skin for Ron Perlman, that would be lame, characters are better than costumes, also peters real dad who was Irish but looked exactly like him, in the future probably next St Patricks day, he should be a new character, as well as his pet sheep that looks a lot like brian. Yay for more characters, and please, please have Spock of a premium character in this event, it’s not Star Trek without Spock…
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Seperate character for sure. Partick Stewart is from the present. Picard is from the future. Please, no clams! I grew up watching these characters. Would love to be able to earn them without needing real money.
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Capt. Picard/Locutus (do we get Locutus as a costume too? 😀 ) and Patrick Stewart should be treated as a single character for those who have PS. There’s no issue with having costumed characters with different lines, so his Trek lines would play while in character, and current lines would play while PS. I’m still confused why we never got a Dir. Bullock skin for PS during the American Dad event, one of his lines even mentions the character.
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TinyMatt did say they held back some event items because of recurrence possibility. So I assume two reasons for Avery not being released. First, is the skin/character dichotomy (is Patrick Stewart Avery Bullock or is Avery Bullock an actual character alive in the Family Guy/American Dad separate from Patrick Stewart). Second, is the hold back mentioned and it kicked the skin/character debate further down the road for a better debate in house at TC.
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When does this event end?
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April 30th
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My suggestion, make Patrick Stewart available again for clam purchase and make the Picard skin earnable for free.
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It should be a skin because no event character has had a skin yet (except Jillian if you count that) so it would be pretty cool to get another one.
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Yeah, I really agree that it makes sense to have Picard as a Patrick Stewart Skin. I know that some players won’t like this because they may not have Patrick Stewart, but Picard is a “costume” for Patrick Stewart in real life too. I started playing because of the Comic Con event and Patrick Stewart was the only character I unlocked. He was the first and easiest character for that event. That being said, I wouldn’t want others to miss out on the chance. Maybe he can be both?. For those who have Patrick Stewart, Picard becomes the costume. For those that don’t have Patrick Stewart Picard is an independent character? I don’t know if that would exactly work, but I feel like I’m getting too many characters. Also, I want tribbles in town!! I love those little furballs! And the shuttlecraft!! Also, I haven’t seen any mention of which costume! On the Enterprise we have Borg Picard and on the splash screen we have Starfleet Picard, will we get both??
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Patrick Stewart is an actor, Picard is a Star fleet captain. Picard having Locutus as a skin makes sense but not all 3.
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Hang on. So if after the event we don’t keep the Enterprise then why am I wasting clams on special rooms?!?! Grrrrr
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As it says you’ll get to keep Quahog versions of the rooms
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So they made bitch Stewie his own character because he was in the show and they made Hot Meg a skin because…And is there anyway they could make Patrick a skin without a lot of people missing out on him. I don’t have him and they can’t make him free anymore because they just sold him for clams in the best of 2014 so they would have to make the guy a new character.
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There’s no real reason not to make him a character anyway. For some reason people put their characters in storage after they are done with leveling them up (which seems pointless to me) so its not like most will even see him most days. And for those who are ocd in this game, and from reading the comments of past event articles it seems like a lot are which is kinda weird, and want to level up their characters fully before they put them in storage, well that doesn’t really change anything because it’s not necessary and they can’t change your ocdness.
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I’m very OCD about leveling them to max, but after I’ve done that, I don’t put them in storage, I let roam around so that I can see them. That’s the whole reason I wanted them to begin with.
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I level up all my chars now because I had a task for a char Id had for ages but was unable to complete due to not having a high enough level,so now I level all of them to the max, not ocd just makes sense
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And I agree with you Eddie, I like leveling up my characters too. But I’m expecting an influx of people will ask for them to change him to a skin because they already have too many characters and they don’t like *having* to level them up when they just put them in storage. I’ve seen it in the comments before with other events and districts and such so I’m just trying to combat those people before they fill up the comment board.
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Funny because I want it to be a skin for the reason that it technically is a skin in a real life for PS. Bitch Stewie in the show wasn’t a skin, it was a clone, therefore a different character. I level mines up because that’s what they’re there for. And once maxed out I just keep them doing tasks. Look at my character inventory. 0 characters and I could care less how many characters they release. I want them ALL. I just think a skin for PS is the logical way of going.
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Messi, no offense, but that makes no sense. It’s not a skin. The characters in the game aren’t meeting the actors who play the Enterprise crew, they’re meeting the actual crew. If it was like a star trek comic-con event it would make sense. That’s like saying if they put Mila Kunis in the game it would be a skin for Meg, just because she voices her.
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Actually, no it’s not what I’m saying. How would Mila Kunis as a skin for Meg make sense? Mila Kunis voices her but isn’t her. Patrick Stewart in a sense is Picard. On set, he puts on his outfit, and he’s Picard, jumps off set and he’s PS. I understand where you’re coming from with the they’re meeting the crew argument, but since we already have PS in game, why make it seem as if we have two. Everyone always says, let’s do it this way so it benefits the new players as well, but what about long term players that have been there since the beginning putting in their money? Why do they not benefit of being there from the start? I’m not saying make it impossible for new players to get PS, they already did once before.
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I think it’s amazing the attention that TinyCo give to the blogs about this game. It’s very smart from their pov, great advertiss for the blogs and foruns, what make them even better for us followers. I personally just follow the Addicts, wich is the best imho. Alissa, Bunny and Chewie from TSTO are amazing, make fantastic contents, fast enough, and are always answering our comments!
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What happen to my blip? Why it did not come back on my city? 😥
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It goes when you are done. See bottom of post on the subject you are looking for.
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Maybe not the right place to post this, but since the Star Trek update, has anyone noticed Mayor Adam West and Tom Tucker’s level increase? I am sure I had maxed them out but now they are back to levelling…
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Maybe also add Vinny to that list. Surely not a coincidence they are all District 9 characters. Yet I can’t find anything on this site or others advising of this…
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Most Characters sat at 15 but a lot of newer ones topped at 25. What levels are you seeing? The information IS on our site. Our handy search tool in the menu can find a lot of details for you by just putting in a few words or a phrase. 😉
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Thanks Bunny. I swear they had maxed out – I store all characters once they max out. But now, they are showing level 21. So either they did max out at Lvl 25 and dropped levels or maxed at a lower level and now have reverted to not being maxed out. OR…I’m losing my mind. Occam’s Razor dictates the latter….
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Look I have a good option insted of everyone posting thier own thing
Everyone who whants a TRIBBLES after the event like this comment
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Leaked info from tinyco
Read only if you whant to know
****** are going to be premium charecters if nothing in the plans change
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Leaked from WHO?? If it is not straight from TinyCo, I don’t put much belief in it. 😉
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All of my dilethium crystals disappeared!!! T-T
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Can you be a bit more specific?
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Also if keeping the enterprise is a storage issue, why not offer it as a premium (aka clam) option?
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I’d pay 200 clams to just be able to keep the BGM of the enterprise on the normal game. Reminds me of a remix on the space mountain ride at disney, so much more relaxing and enjoyable than the usual jingle. PLEASE give us the option.
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Me too as a big “YES” for Picard as a skin for Patrick Stewart please.
A tribble to keep would be a nice to have, especially if we could pet it and it makes a cute noise ❤ or if it made complaining sounds when you dragged and dropped it.
Thank you Tiny Co., for making such an enjoyable game!
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I want at least 2 tribbles roaming around my Quahog! I also hope that we can acquire that shuttlecraft that Riker crashed in. Also, I hope that there will be a Harry Potter event one day! I would put more real money for that. 🙂
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I would like Picard as a separate character from Stewart because that is what he is a separate character. And why no Seth MacFarlane character yet?
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the stand is gone too its like it was never there at all, and it just happened today after i got 13 plutonium and used it.
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hey guys my time travelling blimp has completely disappeared out of the water, it was there before today and the last few times i used it after collecting 13 plutonium it didnt give me anything. i think the only thing i got from it was the saloon. any help?
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Not really a question for this post… but here you go…
You are not done with the questlines. The Blimp Trip is just one of 3 to 4 parts in a quest. There is dialog involved too you need to complete. So until you complete the dialog portion and the entire quest, the prizes won’t drop til then. 😉
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It’s nice of the developers to answer some questions, when they really don’t have any obligation to. But since they’ve gone to that trouble, the responses to the constant crashing issues (which usually means I have to send most of my characters to a task 2, 3 or 4 times before it saves) was rather dismissive.
I like events, it keeps people interested. But i would have thought getting to the bottom of the instability in the game should have become a priority. Adding 40 days of new content is only going to make things worse And before you say anything, I’ve already send many tickets to point out the issue, and most times Android says I can report it, I do. I get an generic response and then many days later a “your ticket has been closed” message, when nothing has been done.
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Here is the “sticky” part to crashing/lagging I have personally experienced on my end. It is device dependent on the cause. So with multiple possibilities of cause, it is simpler to have someone alert them so they can look into it on a case by case basis, then to offer a ton of different possibilities. It also helps when players write in to see if there is a growing issue on one device specific causing to no longer be compatible with their game and further investigation and work involved. Short story long, it is not a simple answer as it is not a simple fix. My two cents anyway. 😉
Myself, the main things I have found he did point out. Memory. I run into it not only in this game, but others as well. Here are MY workarounds.
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Has anyone else experienced this error message “no button setup id with star Trek EventHub”? Everytime I go on the Enterprise and try to complete a task or tap on Giordi Laforge, I get this error message. I have no tasks showing when I’m on the Enterprise either. I am running Android 1.73 on a blackberry Z30. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the game and still no luck. Any ideas?
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That is definitely a new one. What part of the questline are you on and where are you tapping when you see it?
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I’m on Oh Captain, My Captain Pt.1 and An Officer and an Idiot Pt.4. When I click on either Giordi Laforge or click to build the Robotics Lab, it goes to a dialogue screen when you complete a task and then once it’s completed the dialogue, I get the error message.
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What troubleshooting have you tried?
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I got the same message the first time I tried going to the Enterprise. It was just a big grid covered in little gears. I took a screen capture of the error, but after I force stopped the game(theusic kept playing on my phone long after the game closed) it worked fine. I’d upload the pic, but don’t know how.
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You can always email a pic to us. familyguyaddicts@gmail.com
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Sent:)
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Heck yes on the Keep a Tribble front!
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Reading the comments on making Bunny and Alissa characters on the game, I remembered that last year, around June, there was a contest and the winner would get the chance to be a playable character… (lots and lots of complaints about that)… any news on what happened? Never heard of that again.. The ad is still on their FB page…
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Yah… not sure when he comes into play. They are keeping hush hush on it… Maybe… he will be a red shirt? HAHAHAH
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I heard the winner never sent a photo in so tiny co had no idea what to make the character look like.
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Lol well I can assure you that’s a lie. The winner went to TinyCo and spent the day there.
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I’d be down for having both of you in the game. I’m pretty sure Bunny would be premium though. Sorry Alissa 😉
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BWHAHAHAHAHAHHA
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I’m ok with that…I’d be in more games 😉
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Definitely a Skin, already have enough Characters that never get used. On the other hand. This is the perfect opportunity to have Odo and 3-4 other changelings replace all current and future Characters/Skins. Think of it.
1- We never use more than 5 characters at any given time.
2- They’re Changelings, they can be ANYONE
3- A Huge drop in memory usage, virtually eliminating game crashes.
I do agree with Bunny and Alissa being add to the game. They’re Characters should represent what they do for this game, HELP. All their tasks should have ” Multiple ” so they can HELP with any quest.
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My opinon on Patrick Stewart/Picard is sadly i would prefer a skin. The reason for this that if he were a character i would have to spend months leveling him up to max level(facespace pic has to be gold,damn ocd). And 9 out of 10 times once their said event ends that character ends up being useless.
It’s a LOT OF TIME invested to reach level 15 let alone 25 only to store the character once reached,lookin @ you vinny & kool aid man.
At least with the skin i earn it, use it & maybe wear it in the future. No leveling up someone to go into storeage in the future.
If characters were usefull after their event i would want the character.
Sidenote….. Ladies i’d love to see a poll on “when did you start playing FG TQFS”. This might be useful to show TC that there is a HUGE # of players who have under used/useless characters wandering their Quahogs and that we want them and ALL FUTURE characters earned or especially BOUGHT to be useful for future events.
Much R-E-S-P-E-C-T ladies!!!
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As a newer player who started after being able to get Patrick Stewart, I would still be okay with Picard being a skin for him. It makes the most sense logically. I would want to be able to have a way to earn him though that didn’t cost clams.
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I think that was pretty awesome that Matt took the time to do a Q&A! Loved his answers!
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He makes me giggle. Amazing guy to talk to. He really knows his stuff (not to mention he has a sense of humor) 😉
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what the folks asking for a Picard skin are forgetting is that he will still have PS’s normal dialogue. No ‘make it so’ nor ‘tea, early grey, hot’ or anything else. besides, who cares if there are more than one Patrick Stewart? they already have Locutus coming up, might as well make it a trio!
Also, its painfully obvious that Picard will be premium, along with Worf.
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Stewie says quack only in his duck costume 😉
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How is it obvious Picard will be premium? Isn’t that him, in the bridge, just like Geordi was?
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Also, it would be cool if they added a way for him to say different things based on what costume he’s wearing. I wonder if this is doable.
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I think its imperative we get to keep the Enterprise in some form. It would be such a shame if all the design work that went into the ship went away after a few days. It should be like a Krustyland.
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Someone should’ve asked them to have a simpsons update. Lol.
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This was mainly on the event. Our Dear TinyCo posts are full of requests like that. 😉
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That’d be awesome we already had an American Dad event
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And Patrick Stewart with a Captain Picard Skin, with an opportunity for those to get him as well, in response to the poll, for us long time players.
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Oh My Lord. Jeez. Mary and Joseph. Sorry some peeps missed that but that was an incredible summation of a wonderful CM Live Q&A session 😉 TY ladies.
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BTW, you ladies should take another day off tommorrow. Why? Well, because u can! Not to mention, u deserve it 😉
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Hahahahah I got too many posts to finish, clothes to pack, and a flight to catch Tuesday so I can go back East and harass players. 😉
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All the more reason to take a day off…
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With the Arnold and Bruce Willis/John McCain characters, how about an 80’s action hero ‘Expendables’ tribute?
And perhaps the Mouse company will allow a Star Wars event if we make enough noise.
I agree with other posters about a Back to The Future themed event, Terminator/Predator themed event, Knight Rider event, anything like that.
And really hope the Leonard Nemoy tribute is able to happen, if it’s possible.
Great game, playing it about a year now. Keep it up TinyCo.
Cheers.
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I would say a skin for Patrick Stewart. Picard is a character played by an actor and we have that actor. Let’s just use the costumes from his characters as skins. I would love to see a Charles Xavier skin for him if one day they do an X-Men event! Same goes with all the actors and actresses we have. For this event, it would be cool to have a Sulu skin for Takei and a Khan one for Cumberbatch as well.
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Yes, they should make a skin for Patrick Stewart, as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard. It would certainly be like a sort of gift for the long time players. Ah, great game!
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Why is TinyMatt so Tiny?
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So he can get in those Tiny spaces that only a TinyMatt can get. 😉
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Picard should be a skin for Patrick Stewart because a lot of characters become useless outside the event they are from granted they are getting better at including them sometimes
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To the Patrick Stewart question. Since Family Guy crossover, there was a discussion about Avery Bullock being introduced and whether he should be a separate character. Now with Star Trek TNG cast being here, I think a separate Jean Luc Picard is the best way to approach this. And TC could play off the interaction between them. Kind of a actor meets his creation kind of deal.
As an aside, when Lalla Ward was going to be on Doctor Who as Romana II, she was in a Shakespeare play with Patrick Stewart. He said to her, “Why would anyone give up the stage to do a Science Fiction television show.” There is irony for you.
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I think Picard and Stewart should be one character, but bring back Stewart to unlock aswell, I mean with 40 days I think there is time to get both. Since I don’t have Sir Patrick Stewart.
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Thanks Matt
have picard as a skin. Characters are great but too many may cause future issues.
Maybe that is a reward for us long time players to feel special.
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Love to have it as two separate characters for Patrick Stewart and Picard.
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Against! I am for reusability,and a nice reward for all loyal “long time” player: Give us a costume for Patrick Stewart!
TinyCo should of course give others without Patrick Stewart an opportunity to get him someway.
Let’s have a poll to settle this 😛
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Agree it should be a skin, but slightly for a different reason, although I agree with you on that point as well. Patrick Stewart plays Picard and a costume on set is a skin in game haha! Bitch Stewie is an alternate character because he is an alternate character (clone) in the show. But yes, give those without PS a chance to get him.
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Against! as well. I think Locutus & Picard should both b skins for PS.
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Definitely a skin, already have enough characters that are always of no use to the game. Better yet, this would be the perfect opportunity to introduce Odo and 2-3 other changelings to Quahog. They can replace all current and future Character because no matter what’s going on, we seem to always use the same ones. This alone would drastically cut the amount of RAM needed to run the game without crashing.
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I’d rather see two different characters as long as they’re voiced separately. I want Picard to say Picard stuff. Not the same Patrick Stewart stuff
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Skins can have different voices, that is not an issue
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I agree! There are plenty of players who were not yet playing when Patrick Stewart was available to unlock and who couldn’t afford to get him from the more recent clam mystery box. I’d love to be able to unlock him clam-free but I doubt they would offer that since some people recently got him with clams. However, I would hope Picard would be unlockable (clam free) during the event since he is one of the characters pictured on the Enterprise. I don’t see how they could release Picard for a clam-free unlock if he is only a Stewart skin since not everyone has that character. Even if Picard will be a clam purchase for some reason, this would require some players to make a double clam purchase (Stewart then Picard skin) when they might have been more happy with just Picard. It also just doesn’t make sense to me that Picard would only be a skin whereas the other Star Trek characters so far are independent characters. That would just be odd.
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