UPDATE 9PM EST: I was able to get in again… WOOHOO!!! Now don’t all go mad rush it and crash it again. 😛
FYI… Yes, Consuela must have got jealous of Greased Up Deaf Guy cuz now she won’t let us in to play. Lol.
Hang in there. They’re on it. 😉
Just in case for those just stumbling on it… it’s 8:20 PM EST here and I am still locked out. This has been going on for about an hour.
Hey there Toady Roadies!
I see the usual group of questions popping up in the comments, so I like to put them all in one place and address them all at the same time to help you out.
Take a peek below and see if your concerns/Questions are addressed.
GREASED-UP DEAF GUY
In my opinion, I have a feeling at the end of it all we may just get him to keep. We won’t know for sure until it happens, but the info in the Event Menu Screen is very promising. Though it could also be just a reminder to keep catching him.
Speaking of… his spawn time. He appears about once a day. Twice if you are lucky and time it just right. (It really seemed between 12-16 hrs for me. But again, YOUR game may differ.) Don’t worry. His questline is NOT critical and everyone is on the same drop, so we are all about 10-12 captures for him by now.
UPDATE: He will now help drop Lighters too.
SPAWN RATES
This one is a difficult one as it varies by Player and by what Phase you are on. These are what I am seeing so far in Phase 4. Many I have not had enough time to really test how often as we are barely a day in. So these are really rough estimates. Feel free to share what YOU are seeing in the comments.
Spotted Toads: These still seem to come in plenty in my game.
Red Head Bee Girls: They are still showing up in my game and seem to respawn still after I clear them. At least every 2-3hrs.
Dark Hair Bee Girls: They seem to come in groups of 2 at a time in my game. about every 4-6 hrs, but still working on it. After clearing my last one, they have not returned since. I assume due to they were mainly for Blammy Awards and we don’t need those right now. So wasted resources.
Toad Users: Still showing up but slowed down on spawn. Show up at least twice a day it seems.
Brown Bears: They seem to pop up in groups of 3 in my game every 4-6 hrs
Honey Gold Bears: These come in groups of 2 in my game when they show up. Still working on a spawn but at least it seems 4-6 hrs on them too.
Overall, the majority of spawns I see every single Event seem to be every 2, 3, 4, or 6hrs. So check back around those points to see what YOUR game offers.
LIGHTERS
This was a concern of mine as soon as I ran the questlines and tested out the new Phase, more so a concern of a Player not paying attention than anything. Let me explain… Lighters are needed in the game to Unlock DJ Herbert & the DJ Booth. Concerts are the ONLY Freemium option to drop Lighters in the game.
Here is the concern point, a Player not paying attention to what they spend Materials on could get stuck on Lighters. For instance, if you spent any of the 10 earned Lighters on DJ Booth… you now just put yourself into a “CLAM ONLY” option.
Why? Well once you run the first Concert for Peter and get 10 Lighters, the Stage is then taken over until DJ Herbert is unlocked. Shutting down any Freemium options for Lighters. So… a loop. No way to get Lighters without Herbert Performing Concert, no Herbert without Lighters.
I addressed this immediately with TinyCo. They jumped right on it. They are adding another source to get them just in case to avoid this. (It may or may not be in the game by the time this post goes live.) I will update it WHEN it goes live if not. So hang tight if you did get locked up due to buying out the DJ booth instead of using them for DJ Herbert. Help is on the way.
Greased Up Deaf Guy will now help drop Lighters
HONEY BEAR LP DROPS
Honey Bears are the option to get LPs for many Players. Right now the LPs are a Common drop. This means that you will NOT Always get one from the drop locations unless you get Deadmua5 that is a guaranteed Always drop.
So you will get a coin here and there instead. I know there are concerns from you all on this one and I did address them. It is being monitored. All I can suggest is to FIRST… play the game. See how YOUR results go over the next few days and then determine how fast or slow it is going. If you feel too slow… let them know. Show them your results and message them from your game.
BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS
Yes… I know… sore spot. Again, all I can say is report YOUR results to them. Tell them where you are, how many tries you made, how many you have after those tries, how it is holding your progression up, etc.
LEADERBOARDS & BLAMMY AWARDS
Leaderboards closed with the end of Phase 3. The Prizes we were told would be awarded anywhere from 4-7 days following the closure.
The Next Leaderboard will not come until Phase 5, so next Thursday.
As far as the Blammy Awards, we have no idea as of yet what will be used for the next Leaderboard. There is not a solid answer, so until we get one we are unable to clarify anything on the new one until that information is released.
CHARACTER TASKS
Many of the Character Tasks come and go and are only there for use for a Phase or just a Questline, so many will rotate in and out as you progress. Due to this it is difficult to say what ones stay and go until they do. Mainly I am seeing at least one staying for Joe & Quagmire. Outside that… Lois & Chris’ come and go. Connie’s was short lived.
So mainly the Characters introduced within the Event itself will be the main Task source of Glowsticks along with the questlines and buildings.
WHERE IS CARL?
UPDATE 630PM EST. I am seeing more people trying to find the New Character Carl after you redeem him in the game, so figured I better add this info in as well.
Once you are ready to Redeem Carl, either by Clams or Materials… you will see the Merch Kiosk go to the cut screen while the Guitar Sways. Once it is done, you will get the Congratulations Screen.
Tapping on Collect seems to drop him directly into your Inventory Storage. So you will need to go there to pull him out.
Once you tap on him in Inventory Storage, he drops into the game on your Quahog Streets with the “Unlock” symbol above his head. Tapping on that symbol will trigger him to go live in the game and ready for use.
PLAY AND ENJOY!!
It sucks we have to keep repeating this, but some just are still abusing it. It has got to a point that the Site’s importance and existence itself is being questioned.
The Addicts are Players just like you. We just offer our results and knowledge to HELP other Players… on our own personal time. We prefer to try and keep the atmosphere on our site NOT what is everywhere else online. Too much anger and aggression in every corner for anyone to stand. This is a game, games are supposed to be fun, we want our site fun.
We get people get frustrated, mad, upset, or annoyed at aspects of the game… we do too… but that does not mean that the Addicts or the Addicts site is here for your own personal punching bag. You are essentially harming those that are just the messengers and those that are here to help. That is like yelling at a Doctor in the E.R. trying to help you after an accident and blaming the Doctor for all the damage someone else inflicted on you. Just sayin. Take those concerns to TinyCo directly. Offer them constructive criticism. Offer solutions to help other Players.
We are more than happy to and will help to find answers to your questions, offer tech support from things we know to help or worked for us to fix it. Keep an eye on major issues and relay them to Tech Support. We will provide all the in game information to you that we can pick apart, get our hands on, and acquire through our connections.
So… in return… all we ask is you follow our Site Guidelines. Be kind. Be courteous. Be respectful. Leave the pitchforks, torches, and hate at the door. Need to blow of steam? We got a place just for that, What the Deuce. Use it. Any of them. Anytime. Any day. Get it off your shoulders and keep it off all the OTHER posts we put so much time and effort into. To have all the OTHER posts flooded with it makes it pointless for us to even write them anymore. They just become soap boxes for the anger and all the help is lost. There is a difference in voicing a concern vs just outright venting.
There you have it. Some Basic answers to the main questions we are seeing in the game. Please let us know if there are others we have not already covered. I am working on a Poll for the overall “where are you” and will post it later this weekend.
Did this help to answer your questions? Did you run into the Lighter issue? Any other tips you can offer to your fellow Players to help them? Let us know.
~Bunny
Family Guy Addicts 
I have a question has anybody else noticed the G.U.D.G. hasnt appeared in the game to drop tickets or lighters once you bought him in the shop. I have been working on getting the tubs of grease for him but for the past 5 days every time I try to click on his option to try and win a Ticket or lighter it says I scared him away but he hasnt appeared since I purchased him. I know he used to appear in the game at least once a day for me. Is this a glitch or is that suppose to happen when you buy him….PS I have actually been getting lucky with the tubs of grease at least with the gold robots. Havent tried the silver ones yet.
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Once Vat placed he won’t return
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Ok thank you thats what I kinda figured but I wanted to double check….
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Greased up guy hasn’t dropped a single lighter all week. As a matter of fact, he hasn’t dropped anything at all. And yes, I picked up the latest update for the game. Game process is dragging on and no hope in sight for DJ Herbert.
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Did you use the lighters from Peter’s Concert on the DJ Booth? If not, if you haven’t done it yet… then that is the best place to get them. Otherwise… contact TinyCo
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I can’t remember, does phase 5 start today (thursday) or tomorrow? There are usually pop ups that tell us, but I have seen nothing, which is why I am confused.
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Today.
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I finally unlocked Alice Cooper and had his concert, I collected almost all of the fans but got no reward!! No guitar picks or anything??!! Didn’t he have a payout?
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You sure? Did you tap really fast and miss the pop up?
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i got the pop up that the concert was over with but it never told me how many stars and I never got any picks. I checked my pick amount after the concert and it never changed. I’m heartbroken, I was waiting on those guitar picks to purchase a lot of things at the kiosk lol
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What Phase are you in? Phase 4 does not award Guitar Picks. It is Glowsticks and Lighters.
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I’m in phase 4 now, trying to unlock Carl. it didn’t award me those either. I just checked and I have no lighters. I contacted TinyCo about that and about the spawn rate of my bee swarms, I had enough bee keepers but my bee swarms didn’t spawn fast enough for me to clear them for the 24 hour challenge 😐 so I was short 2 and didn’t get the reward. Hopefully I hear back from them soon! Thank you for everything you guys do on here! I know this page has helped me immensely! Lol
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Any word on the continued headphone drops?I wonder if i should continue trying for them since they stopped counting once they reached 11/11.
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Not yet. I assume it is the usual. Drop until Character is live. Seen it several times before.
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Has anyone else been able to exceed the 11 Headphones needed for Carl? I’m pretty sure I’ve earned an extra 3-4 already. Which either means that there might be another character that needs them? Or is this just a glitch?
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At times you will still get drops until the Character is live in the game as it may “think” you still need them until then.
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I have not gotten any lighters at all from GUDG and I’ve caught him at least 17 times now. With the drop rate being common, I feel like I should have gotten at least 1 by now. I emailed TinyCo but I’m not a premium player so probably won’t get a response til after the event. 😦
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Premium has nothing to do with it. You are in line with THOUSANDS of other players emailing in.
As far as lighters… it varies between the two. Also, as the lighters were JUST added to him after I spoke with them… It would be impossible to have 17 chances at a Lighter since the task drop was released. Hang in there, if you need them still, you will get a drop sooner or later. The ones from him are more a fail safe there, the Concert will be your best results. 😉
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They must have done something, because Alice boots are suddenly dropping like hot cakes for me. I had four in over a week, now I’ve hit four more in a row. Can’t just be luck.
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Finally broke down and bought some clams to finish Alice Cooper and am working on the tasks. I’ve used up my glowsticks building things (again) so Belgard won’t be happening anytime soon (again). No rant this time…just thankful I get to start week 4 before we get to week 5, LOL. Thanks for all this great info — I’ll keep it in mind.
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anyone else noticing issues with the Golden Bears. I cleared one about 12 hours ago and i have three Rangers ready to clear the next one, but no more bears have appeared. I thought it was having the same issue yesterday but I decided to actually time it today to confirm and well, no bears.
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I dont have any more hippies or toad users (they’ve been gone for several hours now), so Im stuck with 4 bee keepers, and cant clear bears or even spawn the rangers. 😦 [thats a really funny sentence out of context]. Not sure what to do… working to unlock carl, but need another 1k bracelets. Fun event overall, but this is a bit of a bummer at this point.
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I hope GUDF comes back because without him we will need to use clams to obtain the requisite number of lighters. All he dropped since phase 4 were tickets…
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Well, he came back and is still dropping tickets. Maybe that changes after you get DJ Herbert? Anyone else getting lighters from him?
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I’m STILL trying to unlock Alice Cooper. I need 3 more boots. It takes me days to be able to get just one boot. It is really holding me back in the game.
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same with me… i only have 1 left. by the time i get to phase 4, it will be phase 5
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Hi, a bit bummed this am. Caught deaf guy for 15th time and, well… Nothing! Spoiler alert… He gets away again!! Hope he keeps coming back though… Need the tix and lighters!! Thanks for the tip about getting Herbert first and not dj booth. Have a good rest of the weekend and good luck to all you clambers out there!
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I got 15 GUDG finally! Hooray! And I got…………………NOTHING!
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I did it! Got gudg 15 times! I got….nothing. Nothing special and no new quest.
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Just got the 15th capture for Greased Up Deaf Guy. How un-spectacular. Are we EVER gonna actually unlock him at some point?
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Still almost 3 weeks left in the Event. Lots more time to see what that crazy Greased Up man will do.
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My toad users are gone…. Peter was after one, and I had a couple wandering around, but now they are all gone, and so is the task (really gone, not just passive). Also, I’ll only need to catch the greased up deaf guy one more time… It’s been almost 11 hours since the last catch, sooooo he might come really soon.
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How long has it been since you last saw one? I know they slowed down, but I do not think they stopped completely.
As for GUDG… it just finalizes the questline.
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GUDG still shows up. He is dropping tickets for me. I hope another questline shows up. Gold bears and toad lickers are showing up for me, taking some time, but showing up.
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my toad users are showing up one at a time about every 8 hours and Peters task for them doesn’t show unless there’s one wandering around.
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