Hey there Toady Lickin Roadies!
Bouncing on by to go over a few comments we are seeing all over the site. I know many of you have concerns, questions, and other things going on… so let’s dive right into them.
First off, remember we are the ADDICTS. NOT TinyCo. We are gamers just like you trying to help others. We put a lot of our personal time and effort into that help. Keep that in mind when commenting on our site. If you have an issue with TinyCo, address it directly to them from your in game messaging or email. Otherwise respect the work we do here and keep the anger and venting OFF the helpful posts, ONLY on What The Deuce, or it will be moderated.
This post is ONLY for technical concerns and to HELP other Players.
MY GAME KEEPS TAKING ME TO FACEBOOK
This one seems to be impacting more iOS users than others, but either way… TinyCo is in the process of tracking down why Players are getting this. Contact them with the following information below in order to help track this issue down and stop it once and for all.
These are the keypoints TinyCo is asking…
- Do they currently have a Facebook account?
- If not, have they ever had one in the past that was tied to an FG account?
- Please include a PlayerID so we can look closely
The first one you should be able to answer easily. The 2nd one, you can actually check how you are currently logged into the game and get your Player ID all in one shot. Menu, Account… Lower Right corner REALLY long number is your Player ID. Save it and have it somewhere handy. It is good to keep.
Also on this same screen it will note HOW you are logged in. The only 3 options are Facebook, Email (any), or specifically g+. You will see your email or Facebook name next to the option that YOU chose when linking your game.
If none show, you are not linked to anything and may want to consider doing so. As this is the way your progress is saved and can be recovered if needed through troubleshooting.
If you are unable no matter how hard you try to get into your account to in game message them, email TinyCo with the same information requested above instead. Just make sure you note the Subject as this game and the Facebook Login Issue.
More info on contacting TinyCo can be found HERE.
More info about creating an Account can be found HERE.
FEMALE FAN BLAMMY DROPS
The Female Fans WERE originally set up to be able to drop Blammy Awards for the game during a Concert. However, there was a possibility of unfair play and exploitation of this feature and so the option was pulled. This will prevent the abuse of the feature.
The only part of the Concert that you will get Blammy Awards now is the End of Concert Star Awards. Which can MAX out at 20-30 depending on the Concert.
If you have any questions or concerns on this, in game message TinyCo.
LOST IN TRANSLATION PT. 2
For those of you that tried your luck in the Mystery Box and were able to get Tomik, there seems to be a few reports of issue with Lost in Translation Pt. 2. More specifically Quagmire’s Task for Pt. 2, Work on Foreign Relations.
I ran through the Questline and found no issues on my devices. As this one is more isolated all I can suggest is to make sure Quagmire and Tomik are available, that the Drunken Clam is in your game as that is where the task takes place. Outside of that, you will need to reach out to TinyCo as this one is only impacting a few and will need to be looked at on a one on one basis.
ALICE COOPER’S BOOTS
I know many of you are concerned about Alice and the Boot drops. I did ask and was responded to that they are “dropping as intended”. All I can suggest is to keep reporting your concerns to TinyCo from your in game messaging. We will see where everyone is by Wednesday.
CAN’T REDEEM ALBUM
I covered this before, but will go over it again here. IF you are on a device with Google Play access and IF you are in the region that is qualified to get the Albums, you should be able to redeem them just fine by going through the usual Google Play standards of redeeming anything through their market (login and credit card required to just secure the Google Play account).
However I am seeing some issues more of “code already used” among other things. If you have difficulty redeeming them and even going back through the Event Menu Icon (guitar), then to the Music Section Tab (headphones), then to the Artist and tapping go to try again but failed… then reach out to TinyCo. Just know that Google Play is the main one in control of this offer and it may take a lil longer than usual to get a reply… but follow the usual follow up message to TinyCo if no word back within 5 days.
As usual, with any technical issues… you can try the Basic Troubleshooting steps we suggest. Anything above that, address to TinyCo personally from your in game messaging or contact them via email.
There you have it. Some questions and concerns we are seeing on the Event.
Did this cover your issue? Have any tips that worked for YOU on these issues you would like to pass on to your fellow players? Let us know.
~Bunny
Family Guy Addicts 
looks like I’m done with this. Been days now. Finally got a hold of Tiny Co. via email but all the information they need you to send can only be found by the game opening. I get the usual loading screen then it just goes black.
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Actually… no. If you can’t gain access into your game, then send them back the information “I am unable to access my game to get the Player ID, here is my opening screen instead”. Then send them a screen shot of your Loading Screen that has the serial info split on both the left and right side. Not as good as Player ID as it creates more a needle in the Haystack issue to track the game. Send them any other information you remember from the game too if you can. Clams, Glowstick count, etc. Anything to help them identify your game.
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Something’s wrong with avril. I had her doing the secret show task which was 10 or 11 hours last night, woke up this morning to check her progress and her timeclock is reset to 23 hours. Now she won’t finish by today’s 3pm deadline to do one more concert. I’m in 1st place in my group at the moment and don’t want to lose out on getting starlight express Peter. I already left a message for tinyco. Is there anything else I can do to fix this?
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We see this every event… a characters “time left” shows odd times… but it evens itself out and the Characters should still finish that task that you put them on in the appropriate time. She is in the Drunken Clam, correct?
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After posting here, I went back into the game and avril was back to normal. Tinyco guys saw the message in time and fixed it. Yay,
Tinyco!
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I’m still stuck on the box that says reload the game to see exciting new features. When I click go the screen freezes the goes black.
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Have you tried some basics? Reached out to TinyCo via email?
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How do you get ahold of tiny Co?
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Message from in your game or email. (See the links in this very post you are commenting on.) 😉
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I’m still stuck on the Avril lavigne tasks as every time I click to start concert, and consuela appears with a button close error and it resets my game. Every single time! I have emailed and messaged via Facebook etc etc and no answer or reply at all 😦 anyone else had/having this issue? Any ideas at all?
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Is it the one I listed in the post below? “Attempting to display completion modal for non-existant reward”
If so, all you can do is contact TinyCo through their main help@tinyco.com email. Facebook will not assist you. That is a separate department from tech. Email or in game messaging are how you get to tech.
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No it says could not find close button ‘button_close’ I’ve emailed and messaged through the game too 😦
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All you can do is try the basics and wait then.
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Thanks for going over the problems! I let tinyco know about my game issues, but I am curious..
Anyone else have glowstick tasks go missing? Quagmire can no longer work on foreign relations (but I don’t have Tomik). Chris doesn’t have obsess over Avril listed, and Lois does not have the Alice Cooper related tasks anymore. Avril is unlocked in my game; Alice is not. Arg.
Chris has been missing the task for over a week, and my first message to TinyCo was answered with a very general, “We are working on a patch.”
On a less frustrated note…I am super excited Alice Cooper will eventually be in my game. He is the only celebrity I have met in person! (He apparently likes fancy watches; I worked at a jewelry store near a concert venue.)
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I think many of us lost them. Trying to get more clarification on them as I had them up to just yesterday I believe.
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Since I got Alice and don’t need anymore tickets, I haven’t seen the greased up deaf guy running round. I know he is only there every 12 hours but he hasn’t appeared for a day and I’m stuck at catching him only 8 times. Should he still be appearing?
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It’s around once a day. I got Alice and he’s still showing up in mine. Tap in go on the quest to find him. 8 times is good when Phase 3 only been out 4 days
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Rockstar Peter – Destroy Hotel Room animation has changed. It had been a bed that showed up in the middle of the road, now he just stands in the doorway of Punk Junk (which is better, the old animation took up the whole roadway.)
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I liked the other one better. Made me giggle. 😦
But I wonder if the animation was too much for devices.
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I am a android user and i live in brazil. Since a week ago, my game dont work anymore. Everytime says, game error load again, and again, and again…..
Whats happening?
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What troubleshooting have you tried? It could be anywhere from a connection issue, to something in your device, to the game.
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Freemium also. I’ve had Peter going for boots for days. Still need 6. Any hope of doing a concert to compete in the leaderboard is quickly disappearing.
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Exact same here. I have left a message in the chat for tinyco. But next phase is tomorrow, and no hope for 6 boots by then…
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I have actually seen 5 comments now from players that their drops are getting better and they are getting a lot more boots in last 24hrs.
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I just finished building the International Hostel and now am working on the tasks to collect Belgard. I am playing freemium, and still have Alice Cooper locked, so I still cant do any concerts again yet. I am not using secret concerts for fear of being locked out.
Some seem worried they cant possibly collect enough glowsticks, but you can; here are some tips:
Tips to get more Glowsticks:
+ Build every free (non clam) building that pays out glowsticks as soon as you can. Most will end up paying for themselves within three days, so the sooner you build them the better.
+ Spend only on buildings and decorations that pay glowstick dividends!
+ Send your characters (not on task at the moment) on the shortest tasks as possible – these yield more glowsticks per hour.
+ Keep collecting as many honey jars as you can and (unless you need guitar pics) only clear the dark bee fan girl. You might get a blammy but you might get glowsticks.
+ Go into the game as often as you can and clear the frogs and blond concert goers (and send everyone on short tasks).
+ Dont spend the 700 glowsticks on Alice Cooper until you already have collected everything else he needs, you might want to use the glowsticks elsewhere.
+ Do concerts if you have Alice unlocked. (I still cant do this.)
Hope this helps someone!
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In the games FAQS it says that each concert drops between 40-70 awards. I’ve just finished a concert and only got 20 (like you have said) the person above me had 220 about an hour ago and now they have 290..?? Is anyone else getting more than 20-30 awards for doing concerts??
Thank you.
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Nope. The ONLY way to get extra Blammy Awards since the day after Phase 3 launched is Concerts, Toads, and Bees. You may have a player gone premium. especially since it is low even drops.
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I would love to meet the Funko guys and visit one of their factories. I started with bobble heads and now pops.
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Some really nice people work for them. Great guys. 😉
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I love the weeping angel Pop Figures!
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Just want to applaud Bunny and the Addicts for always keeping their cool and continually reminding us all that this is just a game. I’m sure even you all sometimes have some steam shooting from your ears, especially given some of the comments you get, and you always act professionally and courteously to the end. Much praise and commendation for being such an upstanding team of (unpaid) workers and keeping this community thriving. I never knew about the secret concerts or any exploits, etc., and I only occasionally check this site (usually when I find something that looks wrong in some way), so I second the notion that exploiting the Secret Concert glitch was abuse. Fortunately, I do not appear to be in a Leaderboard where anyone used that glitch (1st Place is at 138, and I’m in 4th with 26). But I sure would be steamed if anyone in my Leaderboard was so far ahead that I had no chance of catching up. Fair is fair.
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The hippie girls have stopped spawning and I still have two days left on Brian. Has this been reported by others?
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They are still dropping in my game. They should appear every 3hrs. If they are not, please let TinyCo know.
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Thanks. I did. I fear that they won’t answer until after the timer on Brian is up. Oh well…
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Sorry.
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For some reason i can’t activate the SECRET CONCERTS anymore. Were they removed from the Game? I drop Peter in appropriate spot and nothing happens.
Also if i didn’t activate the encore for Peter, did i lose the opportunity to do so?
Thanks!
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Yes. They were not supposed to exist in the first place.
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I dont buy that they werent meant to be there. I believe they were meant to be there, and anyone who got to use them before they took them away just got lucky. I personally didnt get to really use it, and I got locked out of my game for four days when I tried while i had someelse doing a concert on accident, but………..I still feel like these hidden “glitches” make the game more interesting, and gives us something else to look for and do in our games. As always, the ways you play, and the way you pay affects the final outcome in your own game 🙂
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I hadnt considered people being able to get blammys this way, but I agree that this glitch is unfair for a competition style event like a leaderboard. TinyCo had to stop fan drops, 🙂 glad noone on my leaderboard got to get many of those!!!
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They weren’t. I explained it in detail many times. I can’t go further as it is future event linked for something not complete. End result… still it was not supposed to exist. I’ll dive further when I can
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I have a question, I am about 150 glowsticks away from getting the Hostel and whatever his name is. I have 5 boots for Alice (drop rate is a proper drag). Should I bother to get the hostel when I reach 4000 (should be a bit later on today) or wait and let Peter do his thang and get Alice eventually?
Thoughts please
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Keep in mind this, it is not just build and done. You will still need to unlock Belgard. I just want to make sure you are aware what you will be in for. MORE collection and level up to 2 to get access to the Boot dropping task. So make sure you are using that info when making a decision.
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I think the boot rate has been adjusted, I now have four boots all from my last four attempts starting with the overnight Sunday/Monday play.prior to that none had dropped despite sending peter on that task non stop from release.
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I am not enjoying this event.
I really dislike when we have to send characters on tasks over and over waiting for items to drop, to then use those dropped items to create another character (beekeeper) to then clear another drone crowding the roads, hoping for another item to be dropped that if we’re good boys and girls, and play every spare moment, we might unlock the next Character…. unless time runs out and the next phase begins. 😠
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Let them know. Send them an in game message.
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If you dislike sending characters on tasks to drop items I don’t think this games for you considering that’s the general idea of the entire thing
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My son and I have hundreds of Funko Pop Figures! Have spent way to much money on Pop Figures!! Lol
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My recent acquirment… a blue box, a 10 doc, a lil adipose, and lots of weeping angels to hide in someone’s room while they sleep. Because I can’t wait for the morning screams “DON’T BLINK!!”
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After seeing your reply I thought I’d share with you my ultimate dream for our game. I wish one day they would decide to do a Doctor Who event like the did Star Trek complete with all the Dr’s and a tardis. They already have given little smiles of hope when George T was getting unlocked a red police call box sonic screwdrivers. They could relate it to the episode where Peter gets all his fat sucked out and the doctor has to rescue the town from adipose. We can dream at least:)
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And all the Doctors can be unlocked by two hour tasks, no rare items!!! And no clams needed!
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I’ll be seeing the Funko guys here really soon. They’ll be in town shortly. Lol
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I have to laugh at the “dropping as intended” re Alice’s boots. Is that a misquote Bunny? Should it read “NOT dropping, as intended? Lol. 😉 I have a big fat zero, and am still not even close to unlocking the option to even buying the hostel. Do we only have a week for them? When’s my week up? This is the mobster event all over again. I did not enjoy the mobster event.
Thanks for the hard work, addicts! I truly appreciate the effort you all put in here, and it has made me enjoy my game more. 🙂
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I will not know what Phase 4 will require of us until they release that info and we see it go live. So for me, I am hoping Alice will NOT be required to move on and more options to get more Glowsticks will appear. Just like other Events. That “boss” type battle that gave us a huge increase in Materials. Maybe a big Concert Battle. Musician against Musician or w/e. We will have 24 days on this Event. That is still over 3 weeks. Anything can still happen. 😉
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So, Alice won’t disappear if *when* i haven’t collected all those GD boots by, say, Sunday? I think I have him confused with the week limit on Brian & Meg.
Hopefully, fingers crossed, TinyCo learned from the mobster event to not keep this from advancing the storyline. I am, however, not optimistic. Things were going so well in week 1 & 2! Now, i’m frustrated, as per usual. 😦
Thanks Bunny!
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Correct. You have til the end of the game to unlock ALL current Character/Costumes… minus Brian and Meg. 😉
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Oh, phew! I thought I only had a week to get Alice! And at the current drop rate of once in a blue moon on those boots, I figured it was going to be impossible. This does ease some of my frustrations. Big hugs and thanks!
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😉
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I hope you’re right and we can move on without Alice. But I was able to delay phases 1 and 2 by simply not completing the next-to-last part of the main quest, so I could do an encore. The last part of all three phases is to do the first concert with the new artist. Once I was ready to move on in phases 1 and 2, I just completed the last task in the next-to-last part and then I was automatically shifted to the last part (doing the concert), which was already done and checked off, and then poof I was in the next phase.
With the mobster event, I think the last part of the main questline was to tap on Peter’s mansion to upgrade it, unless I’m misremembering. Once the mansion upgraded, the new stage was in place. So I could hold off on the next stage (to do extra runs) by not tapping to upgrade. Once I accidentally tapped the mansion while almost finished with one last run, and poof I was in the next stage and lost my hours of work (sob).
So you can why we’re assuming we have to do the first Alice concert before poofing into Phase 4. That’s been the pattern: finish the main questline, then move on to the next phase. I’ve been late starting phases before and never got very far into the Star Trek event (left poor Counselor Troi and Dr. Crusher pinned under debris), so it’s not a disaster, but no concerts will be possible until some new rocker is unlocked – if we can move on Aliceless, we just start from the beginning unlocking the next one unless Alice gets all his boots first.
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But you do need Alice for pt. 5 of the main questline
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Yes, I know… I wrote a post on it. 😉
I am just saying I do not know what will come of this week so I can’t assume what will or won’t happen… until it happens or I get confirmation.
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I have 0 boots earned as of Tuesday night 5 min before we’d am.
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I have lost all drag and drop ability except for rockstar Peter doing secret concerts, and he’s busy with Alice cooper. No characters will open actions when I drop them on a building. I even tried deleting and re-installing with no luck. Mostly I wanted to be able to do secret shows with avril.
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I think they killed it to stop people from attempting it as those concerts are not intended to be in the game. Reports back now from many not getting a single item from the Concerts or the payouts all messed up and Consuela lock out error increasing. TinyCo pulled a lot from them as they’re aren’t supposed to be there. I personally am not going to attempt anymore.
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Every item is always ‘dropping as intended’, which says a lot about their intentions…
Did the feature with the female fans dropping blammies get pulled before or after certain players rocketed up thier own little leaderboard on the first day?
If after this only rewards the exploiters for their behavior by keeping them solidly in the lead. Better to advertise the bug as a feature and let everyone in on it, leveling the playing field.
Finally, does Alice come with a free album on Android?
AL, SD, meh, couldn’t care less, but AC is pretty cool in my book. Saw him play with Judas Priest a million years ago, heck of a show that was…
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They pushed a patch to pull it right away… how long it took to hit all games I do not know. At first it seemed they tried to keep them to JUST Concerts, but unable to isolate so a complete pull of the Material to even Playing field.
Yes, as noted in main post… Free “Best Of” album. 😉
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Whoops, sorry missed it in main post, thats what I get for speed reading! Thanks Bunny, time to reinstall it on my new tablet!
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I agree at first I was on the top of the leaderboard, but now I’m on the bottom!! (And I’ve been playing constant all weekend!) I can’t get the leopard boots and so I’m stuck‼️ but I was so looking forward to catching up by getting blammys at a concert finally, when I can finally get Alice cooper unlocked⁉️ but now I guess I’m just screwed‼️ I wonder if it’s more unfair now than before when the “abuse” was reported⁉️
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The ONLY way for anyone to move ahead now is Regular Play or Clams. Has been that way for a few days now. Blammy Awards are only Spotted Toads (1 Random), Bees (1 Random), and complete a Concert (up to 30 Blammy’s depending stars) & Encores (up to 20 Blammy’s depending on stars). So anyone still moving up is paying for it… literally. Either with time or dime. It is a lot more fair and level now. The options are all back to only in regular game play.
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It’s not more fair and level unless they’ve gone back and retroactively reduced the rewards earned before the Great Nerfing. If they left those rewards in place, all they’ve done is put players who are playing as intended at an even greater disadvantage. They’re just as far behind, but on top of that, they get fewer blammies per concert, assuming they even unlock their stage in time to have concerts.
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What is the point of trying to turn every single comment I make or another makes into an argument? If you have issue with what happened BEFORE they pulled the Blammy Awards from Female Fans, then take it up with THEM. TinyCo. Not use our site to turn it into your personal spit fire and war.
Plain and simple it IS more fair and level now going forward. Take up the past with those that make the game and stop trying to tear apart my posts, comments, and the Addicts site with your hatred of TinyCo. WE ARE NOT TINYCO.
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Wow. Where is this hostility coming from? I disagreed with your statement that it is more fair now, and I tried to explain that it’s not more fair for some players to only get half as much reward for completing the same number of concerts simply because they had their stage available at the end rather than the beginning. I think I did so civilly and without any hostility directed at you OR TinyCo, and I certainly didn’t call other players “sobbing losers” like another post that received a much more reasoned reply. Perhaps I shouldn’t have jokingly referred to the change as the great nerfing, but I’m not sure that warrants such a hostile response.
I guess I’ll just stop posting. It’s not worth your aggravation or mine.
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It is me being blunt from what I see from your comments all over our site. This is not just a spark of something new. It is a compilation of many comments from you. Rarely do I see anything “helpful” on helpful posts. I am saying that it seems instead that 99% of your comments are hostility and anger at TinyCo but directed towards us and placed in ever corner of our site you can post it on. I am the one moderating them afterall. I do see every single one. Many are vent after vent.
We get that you do not like something. We get that you are not happy with it. So take it to those that NEED to hear it. TinyCo. But there is no reason to be consistently negative on the Addicts site. More specifically a post that is here to help others with glitches and issue. It is not fair to us as writers to have every post we put out turn so negative on a game we do not create. It is not fair to many other readers that complain all they are looking for is help and instead see complaint after complaint that belongs on What the Deuce and instead is clogging comment feeds of posts they just need help on.
I am saying that you really need to pull back on the negative, keep your comments more constructive, and vent those frustrations at TinyCo and stop venting at us. Need a place to go to “yell and scream”, use What the Deuce. It is open 24/7 365 days. ANY one of them. Use them. Get it off your chest. And move on. Be respectful to our simple Guidelines for our site and appreciate what we are trying to do here for ALL players. Let us help other players the way we do.
I even noted right at the top of this very post…
“First off, remember we are the ADDICTS. NOT TinyCo. We are gamers just like you trying to help others. We put a lot of our personal time and effort into that help. Keep that in mind when commenting on our site. If you have an issue with TinyCo, address it directly to them from your in game messaging or email. Otherwise respect the work we do here and keep the anger and venting OFF the helpful posts, ONLY on What The Deuce, or it will be moderated.
This post is ONLY for technical concerns and to HELP other Players.”
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I wonder if they increased the Blammy drop rate from dark bees to compensate for pulling them from the fan girls? I got three Blammies in a row from the dark bees, which is unusual.
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If the boots are dropping as intended in my game, then TinyCo doesn’t intend me to get Alice Cooper any sooner than in a couple of weeks or longer… Which means they don’t intend for me (not paying clams to speed things up) to advance to Phase 4 on Thursday or even the following Thursday. If that’s their intention, no problem. Otherwise, it might be a tuba issue.
I’ve had Peter worshipping Alice every 8 hours since early Saturday without a drop yet. At 3 chances per day, a rare boot drop is likely to take two or more days and nine boots are needed.
I splurged and bought the hostel Sunday and am working on unlocking Belgard, who can help with boots although we’ll see by how much. Belgard needs rare shirts and I’ve already collected 4 out of the 5 needed. But his shirts can be collected by two people in six hour tasks, meaning 8 chances per day for the shirts rather than 3 chances per day for the boots while just Peter is on the job. But it still seems that the meaning of rare is different for Belgard’s shirts vs. Alice’s boots in drop rate.
If others are experiencing the same slow drop rate for boots, TinyCo may need to do as they did for the tubas – put more characters on the job. One obvious thing would be to drop from the boot building as well. If they expected everybody to be able to afford the hostel and unlock Belgard quickly, that was unrealistic. They might be assuming that people have time for many more encores than they really do after unlocking the previous main stars to get access to the stage and so have much bigger glow stick stashes that they really do. If I hadn’t collected about 2000 to 2500 extra glow sticks in a single secret concert in Phase 2 while it was still possible, I would not have been able to buy the hostel until the end of this week. The 4000 glow stick purchase put me down to about 500-600 glow sticks. I’m able to accumulate about 600 glow sticks per day from buildings and tasks. And I’m able to check my game more frequently than many people for a variety of reasons.
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My assumptions are this… they did not anticipate an instant buy on Belgard. They did not intend Alice neede to move to next Phase. High ticket items always seem to be those that you work toward and gain more use as the game progresses. Right now, all we can do is wait and see how Phase 3 plays out and what requirements come in Phase 4. It seems this happens every Event. High Ticket item dropped early to gain towards. So… now we wait. 😉
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You can’t complete the main questline without unlocking Alice and running a concert. That’s the last part of the main questline. Unless they don’t require completion of the questline, unlocking Alice at the end of the event means missing the phases after phase 3. Did they change the trigger for entering phase 4?
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That is what I am saying… we do not know what their plans are for the Next Phase. What the requirements will be. I have seen in the last Event you travel on without it all done. So it can happen. All we can do is wait and see. Nothing has “been changed” as nothing has been stated or set in stone that “X IS REQUIRED” to move on. 😉
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How is Belgard an instant buy? I still need 1200 (roughly) glowsticks to buy him. I can’t find an option to purchase. And once I get that 1200, I will be at ZERO.
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Instant as in the Hostel. It is why I phrased it as a Buy. You got to get the Hostel first. Every Character has a “Buy Out” too. Tap on the individual item to see its cost. Or tap on the unlock bubble to see an overall Buy Out.
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Oh I thought the Hostel itself was somehow an instant buy.. I see now lol!
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Once you get the hostel for 4000 glow sticks and start unlocking Belgard, the usual option to buy your way out via clams appears in the collection list (with the open lock symbol, click on it and it will ask if you want to buy him for x clams). I need just one more shirt and one more dictionary for Belgard, and his buyout price at the moment would be 50 clams. I don’t know what it was before I collected any materials for him.
The hostel does drop a lot of glow sticks, I think 9 every four hours, although that will cover only about 1/4 of the cost over three weeks.
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I had a ton of characters on my street which is right next to the stage area and I accidentally dragged Avril to the stage, it said preform a secret concert 10 hr task, I did not do it,, is this something that had I done it I would find myself locked out of the game?
I know it used to say secret concert 24 hr task,, but now it is saying 10hr to do secret concert?
Is it safe to do a secret 10hr concert, or should I avoid it?
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I would avoid it to be honest.
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Bunny, I think he might be referring to the 10 hour “Have Avril Perform Secret Shows” task that is required to do an encore, not the drag and drop “super secret concert” that caused a ton of people to be locked out.
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As he stated the he pulled her to the stage and it said that is my concern. Her 10hr task is at the Drunken Clam, not the Concert Stage.
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The drop rate for the Boots needed for Alice Cooper is horrid and I am having poor luck getting glow sticks to get that building for 4K
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When I contacted TinyCo during the Mobster event about the Tuba drops they told me they are dropping as intended and we all know what they wound up doing. Changed the drop rate albeit a bit late for some players and it put them behind. Why not learn from their miscalculation and resolve now rather than be inundated with thousands of support tickets and players unable to start the next phase on time?
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Why not ask them? You never know how they planned the pace of the Event. Each one varies. Alice may not be needed to progress and be calculated as a “longer to obtain” one. All we can do is wait and see WHAT Phase 4 asks of us. 😉
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I will message in game as well but wow, I can’t believe they have removed the blammies from the fans. I’m just about to unlock Alice (one boot) and was really looking forward to being able to have a go at moving up the leaderboard 😥 bummer.
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It was being EXTREMELY abused. I saw some in the thousands. It was a smart choice.
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How do you know? Complain to TinyCo if you have one on YOUR group. Let TinyCo Police the accounts, that is their job. Stop stressing so much about something out of your control. You do not know WHAT that player did to get them. It could be “secret”, it could be just Concert after Concert and they used Clams to get Alice to speed them (I did in my site test game… it wasn’t hard). You do not know how TinyCo is handling it. So let the Police do the Policing. Let the Addicts be the Addicts. You be You. All this unnecessary stress for something that is optional. A “side’ feature. Even a Leaderboard with everything perfect and no issues, someone will still get #1 and the rest won’t. End of day, someone will win Grand and if it’s not you… are you going to be happy for them? Or complain? It’s a pointless cycle. 😉
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With the additional caveat that the stress is what they are counting on to drive clam sales.
This is a FTP game after all…
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That is not unusual for any Mobile App, no. That is why we do what we do and beg people to hang on and ride it out. Get all you can for free. Save the money for only things you really want. Splurging is fine, just do it wisely. I splurge on things at Comic Con, Funko Pop Collectibles, Movies, Dinner with friends, Drinks, and games I enjoy. It is all personal taste to find what makes YOU happy to spend that money on. 😉
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How was it being EXTREMELY abused? Every sobbing loser had the same opportunity to do the 24 hour concert where there were thousands of fans spawned that dropped blammies. Just because some people utilized an option in the game that you didn’t doesn’t make them cheaters. If it’s an option, use it. That doesn’t make it abuse. Don’t hate the playa, hate the game!
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Lol. Let’s look at this from another point of view, shall we?
You are playing a game. NO knowledge a site like this exists with tips, tricks, inside scoop, etc. You are doing all you can to play, follow the in game FAQ, and for some reason you can’t figure out why others on your top 30 have 2000, 5000, or 10000 Blammy Awards to your 76. How would YOU feel? Would you scream at TinyCo your game is broke? Think something is wrong? Be upset? I think you definitely would.
The secret concert was NOT broadcast to all players as it was not supposed to be in the game. So in that regard, NO… it was NOT an option. It was not even a valid feature of the game. Just a “hiccup” in coding for another feature “in progress” that would come down the line they were working on. Not intended to be done for Free. Not intended for any payouts. Just an random “place holder”. It was not in the FAQ. It was not in a Pop Up. It was not promoted by TinyCo. It was only AFTER I had found it and posted on it that attention was drawn to it.
Now if TinyCo let EVERYONE know about it, if it was a valid in game concept, if it’s function was intended, if it’s drops and payouts were intended… then there would also be a separate scenario to this. Like if it was in the questline just like regular concerts… then that would be on the Player to not know a game aspect that was in the game.
Leaderboards should be fair to ALL Players. Not just a few that stumbled on some odd glitch by luck on a random website or reddit post. If you were on the opposite end of this one, I think your tune would not be of happiness. I think you would be upset and frustrated too. For it to not supposed to be in the game, not available to all, not function properly for all players, and not reported to all Players of its existence… but only kept in “secret” for those “in the know” to use… that is abuse. It is exploiting a glitch. Plain and simple.
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One question. It is clear based on how much people jumped in the leaderboard with early concerts that the must have gotten Blammies from fan girls. There is no way for me to catch #1 any more if I can only get 20-30 each concert. Do you know if there will be any adjustments made to make this more fair?
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They started by pulling the Blammy’s from Female Fans, but keep in mind… that wasn’t a HUGE amount from a Regular Concerts/ Encore Concerts. They still were random. Here and there, so the main amounts still came from item collections and final Payouts from completing the Concert at the different Star Levels. Not to mention now those players are locked out until they get the next Musician for the stage too. So… while you have access, the will be locked out. Role reversal.
If you have any other concerns… talk to TinyCo like I suggested here. 😉
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It seems that after the first AC concert gave me 30 awards all the others now give me 20. Is there a certain character that can give me the 30 again from the encore or is it pretty much 20 from here on out.
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20 here on out from what I am seeing.
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Thanks for the confirmation. No surprise jumps on my leaderboard since they took away those fan drops. Think it was good for stabilization at least.
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A lot of stabilization for the better. So for those wanting to jump, they will have to work for it and/or get lucky with the Toads and Bears. 😉
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Thanks for all the info
Quick question: Is it possible to do any (legit) concerts or encores until Alice Cooper is unlocked?
And same question for the (risky) secret concerts? I have not done a concert in days, it seems counter productive in a music event!
And on that note, they should allow Goth Chris to Rock out for the event!
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Nothing until Alice is unlocked. As there are Materials being pulled from Secret Concerts and more reports of Consuela lock out… I won’t risk testing it. 😉
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I said this somewhere before but can’t find it to see if you guys replied but I said that platforms aplenty should drop alice coopers leopard skin boots
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Suggest it to TinyCo from within your game. See what comes of it. 😉
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Ok and ty.
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