Happy Weekend Clammers!
Well we’ve all made it through another week and the weekend is here!
All week we field your comments about your frustrations in the game and we wanted to give you (and us) a fun way for you to voice your frustrations and get it all off of your chest.
So welcome to WHAT THE DEUCE?!
Here’s your place to vent about anything and everything, Family Guy or not. Consider this your weekly bitch fest and get it all out with a good…WHAT THE DEUCE?! And start your weekend fresh! 🙂
REMEMBER: This is the ONLY place all that Venting and Frustration is allowed, so please Respect the Addicts Guidelines and post them ONLY here. They are always open, so you can use them at anytime. 24/7, 365 days a year. Help us by keeping the Vents/Rants off all the other helpful posts. 🙂
Just be respectful of others & be mindful of the language while commenting.
Here’s mine for this week:
WHAT THE DEUCE… I want more lil Decoration. I’m seeing a ton of really cool things I want in my game. Trees, bushes, sidewalks, dirt, fences… PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me more PERMANENT Decorations from this event!!
WHAT THE DEUCE… Someone had to go on a drunk driving rampage and knock out Internet for a lot of businesses and homes. Come on people. If you’re gonna drink, at least act like an adult and take a cab. NOTHING is worth driving under influence. Nothing at all. Risking your life and all those innocent bystanders is just… well… stupid.
Now it’s YOUR turn…give us your WHAT THE DEUCE?! moments from the past week! Go on, get it off your chest…you’ll feel a lot better! 🙂
Family Guy Addicts 
See TinyCo. Don’t even listen another 7 day timed character you guy are ridiculous. Why do you put timers? Like I said before people can’t check it everyday. Is it so we have to buy clams? Or do u do it to make people mad and quit?
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Phase 3 is live and I still haven’t finished Phase 1. The clock for Patty has got one day left and I have no chance of getting her. I wish I hadn’t activated Phase 2 so quickly because it really set me back, I’d only just gotten into a rhythm collecting reels and with the change it was several days before I got anywhere near getting any reels at all.
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So I’m still trying to unlock Lois’s outfit and go look at the new items to craft and notice the timer has started on the high school building skin. I guess I’m not allowed to try to get that one anymore……
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After having 2 accounts for FTQFS I have decided to eliminate one of them, so I can fully focus on catching up on my main one. This makes me sad, knowing that I was able to manage two accounts since exactly one year (last halloween event) and am no longer able to do so. But times change I guess hopefully I’ll catch up in about a week.
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What the duce but another 4 letter word, the school has a countdown already and I haven’t even gotten the pumpkin pyramid? Really? That’s just a slap in the face. I did get patty, if only because I had 75 clams sitting around.
Though I think they lowered the number of Soda’s needed to get 10 reels, so there’s something at least.
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I came to the game just as the Star Trek event was ending. I am a mostly freemium player because with my work life I don’t have the time to spent on the game, so I am not inclined to spend huge amounts of money on it. Accordingly I am happy to just progress through the districts and get what I can when the limited time events come along. Usually I get the early characters. For instance, on the mob event I was happy getting things like the Fatfather, some trophies and the Corleone house and leaving it at that. Peterpalooza was ok, but become harder as it went on. Alas, I missed out on Rick Astley but I felt that if I had had the time I’m sure I could’ve done it. This event though I feel is just making fun of players. The way I see it, it has the following problems:-
1) Casual freemium players pretty much have no chance of getting any characters after Peter’s skin. They might get Death by the end of the event if lucky.
2) Frequent premium players are pretty much now forced to spent cash to progress
3) Hardcore players who spend regularly are, quite simply, being fleeced for cash if they pay to progress through to getting everything. I figure it costs hundreds of dollars/pounds/euros to do so. The return you get for that cash isn’t remotely worth it when you consider that event characters usually become useless with a few weeks.
4) The werewolves and Slasher Cat chasing Lois make the game almost impossible for all but the most heavy paying premium player. The respawn timers are far too short compared with the average six hour wait for cannonball, which you use only to see your characters change back almost immediately.
5) The timers on characters like Patty and Slasher Cat make it almost impossible to get these characters unless you pay through the nose. Patty is completely compounded by the werewolves and if you want death by freemium route then you simply don’t have a chance on the rest.
6) The werewolves not only hold up progress on event tasks, but also non-event tasks so those of us still working through the districts have suddenly had not only the event compounded, but the regular part of the game as well.
7) The currency drop rate isn’t enough for soda and popcorn if you are anything other than a hardcore premium player. I’ve found it almost impossible to collect a decent amount of waterballoons AND cannonballs since the werewolves showed up. Plus,on top of all that is the need to collect garlic.
8) With this being the second stage of the event it is only going to get harder and all but hardcore payers will be the only ones not trying to catch up.
9) With so many new tricks and mechanics introduced into an event at a time, it takes time to work out how to do things, which again is compounded by the timers. Thank God we have a site like this, but many players will not know about this place and will be sitting around trying to work new things out every few days. With the taught timers and various different tasks they will make mistakes, which will contribute to them being held back in the event.
All in all I have found this an utterly miserable event that has totally ruined the enjoyment of the game. Now that the werewolves are disrupting the regular part of the game as well, I am minded to just walk away. A game is meant to entertain, not upset.
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Just spent the 150 3D glasses for Joe’s hell house skin and got 0 scream points! !! WTD!?!?
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Do u listen TinyCo? I had more fun with the Star Trek event and I hate Star Trek. How the hell I am I gonna get 592 reels? Can u explain? TinyCo. Needs to do something about it
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I am loving and hating this event at the same time. I can see the work that went into creating the graphics, and just wish an equal amount of thought had gone into the mechanics of playing the game. I like the concept of the nuns and werewolves, it is just the execution that sucks. Since this event started, the only questline I even look at is the one that you need to complete to move forward. Other than that, all my characters have been focused on wither creating water balloons and launchers or silver balls and launchers. That’s it, and frankly, it is getting boring, on top of frustrating, because even though I am maximizing the time, I am just getting farther and farther behind. Nuns and werewolves have completely taken over the town, and I do not feel like I am accomplishing anything. Now moving into the next phase, i feel like i am going to have to deal with the same thing, only now adding yet another obstacle. I am thinking, unless something changes, I will just step away until this ends, because i come here to relieve frustration, not add to it! *chuckle*.
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Seems all the characters needed to drop balls, popcorn and balloons are turned into werewolves and there’s never enough garlic to drop on bats. Only Jerome drops garlic and no one else? Bad enough I triggered the timed cat and Patty too soon and missed out on both, now it’s going to take forever to get pumpkins for stage 3, and that’s if I ever reach it. Can’t get a scythe to save my life. Guess I can kiss death and slasher Lois goodbye, too. When stage 3 comes, I’m not activating anything. Plus, I’ve got $4.5 million in coins just sitting there doing nothing, can’t buy any buildings, mystery boxes, materials or people with it. Such a shame.
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I’m still trying to get the dark society library, something really needs to change it’s getting silly now. They keep changing exchange rates so obviously they are trying but it needs major changes.
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This will be the third event in a row where I’m a week behind, awesome…
How are people making more than 36 reels a day? Bats rarely drop much so it’s reliant on the werewolves, Slasher Cat you say? I only unlocked him 2 days ago after rushing onto week 2 in the hope of getting better exchange rates and finding out I need soda, meaning I couldn’t exchange for reels until I unlocked the werewolves, that’s days wasted. Death should be unlocked later today so he might help.
I needed 40 reels to finish week 1, add than to week 2’s total and that’s nearly 400 reels, at 36 reels a day that’s 10+ days, this doesn’t add up.
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Ok, I’ve held my tongue long enough! For those who think”who is this newbie coming here talking crazy commenting on our site and disrupting our community” let me tell you firstly, I am a VET at TSTO, and been with TQFS so long it’s like an errant child, so get that out of your heads right now!
I am sick and tired of seeing those little like stars Not shining with any likes. These posts are cool, and I can tell from the fact that the little I’ve tried to give the Freemium experience, that it’s not easy to out this stuff together.
And I can be sure I am not the only one who thinks a commenter-hah- left an awesome helpful funny etc post and then see the few replies and the next to nonexistent likes at the end of the comment. Shameful!!! I said Shameful!!!!
That’s some of the reasons why I decided to start posting to hopefully lead by example.
Let’s like these posts, let’s like these comments by players, he’ll let’s tell that person “Hey, you tripped me out with that”, or “Hey, I didn’t think of that”, or “Hey, if you try it like this you might…..” And let’s not forget to check those likes at the least!
And if you don’t think I’m going to treat this like a “real” community and try to be positive and silly and ME, well, it’s gonna be a hell of a lot of fun to scrub up against your last nerve! I love all you fools, I have too much blood sweat and tears on both these “games” not to! If I say something out of line, let me know, I don’t wanna be a stinky brown butthole, but honestly sometimes I can’t help it, and savorycook, I am dying to know if your site is really about savory cooking or is that some cover for some sick dark black majic hoodoo?? WTD? Whew, I feel so much better now!!! 🙂
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You have to be logged in with a wordpress account in order to like the posts and comments on this site; and in order to create a wordpress account, you must create a website using wordpress. It’s not that people don’t want to like Bunny’s posts or other peoples’ comments, but that we just can’t.
We could take a little more time to reply to others’ comments, that’s true; but we can’t click the like button without having wordpress accounts. 😉
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Well Primus said it best” I caught a 100 pound sturgeon with 20 pound test a Fish On!!! Ahaaahaha , this wasn’t an actual wtd to be truthful. Just felt like seeing what it was like to be so upset over a game. This was the best I could come up with! Sorry Dillion, really didn’t think it would cause a reaction but since it did I feel like I must apologize. It’s just too ridiculous to me that so much negativity is given over a game. Whew!! Wild that you gotta be logged in to WordPress to like but not comment so maybe one day that will be my WTD! I can see it now……….. Sorry man, sorry official WTD commentators. If the day comes when a game gets me hopping mad like I see I will find a couple X’jdjdx’s and sorry again! 😉
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No harm done. I just wanted to let you know why most of us aren’t liking comments and posts. We would if we could. 🙂
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🙉🙈🙊 hahaha!
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Canonballs are a waste of time I change a character back to normal and they don’t even last long enough to get back to the building they were in so I can clear the action!
I hate this event! It is the worst one in the history of this game!
And on top of it all you write to tinyco and get automated messages back and then automated messages for the second reply and then they ignore your feedback altogether, WTD?!
I feel like I wasted money getting Poppy the Salted and hate that as you level up the requirements for reels go up, it’s not like leveling up gives us more options to get the stuff.
Also putting timers on characters sucks. The timers are impossible without clam help.
I love Family Guy and I love this game that I have been playing for over a year and put a lot of actual money into but if this evet doesn’t change they won’t get another cent from me.
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WTD?!?! The cost of the Popcorn + Sodas combo almost DOUBLED all of a sudden. Until that I thought I might have a snowball’s chance in heck of unlocking slasher bait lois soon enough to get the girl in the trunk. Now I’ll be lucky if I can get slasher bait lois at all.
Increasing the cost of film reels without making it at all easier to collect the needed resources is a great way to tick people off, TinyCo. Well done!
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They have been changing constantly on me. Every time I think I have a handle on getting the needed resources to finally get the film reels to get Lois, the concession stand changes the exchange rate and put the goal that much further away (just like slasher cat last week). I should get her by tonight, barring another change, but unless the Lois’ task is less than 8 hours, the girl is gone.
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Well, I got A’d in F ( ;-P ). I feel like the game is punishing me for advancing. Everytime I make a huge step forward, the game smacks me down hard. I unlocked Death Tuesday, thinking great another cannonball collector for sodas. At the time I could get 10 reels for 25-27 cups, 12 reels for 32 cups 35 popcorn. The next time I went to exchange it was 45 cups for 10 reels and 50 cups 80 popcorn for 12. So essentially the exchange rate doubled for required items but I only got a 10 cup increase from getting death. And I have had seen similar changes happen with other advancement. Well, Patty for me is on 4 hours to collect presently, and Lois is now at least another day away.
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Good job TinyCo. Your actually making people quit. Thank you for putting a timer on Patty (sarcastically)
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WTD! This is so beyond frustrating. I don’t have the district 9 open so splurging on Mike Meyers was a waste in an attempt to get more cannonballs. And Slasher cat needs to level up to 6, and I’ve been going at him non-stop with tasks for over a week & not even to lvl 5 yet. So my only source for cannonballs are Peter, Herbert & Chris who are going non-stop. That’s only 24 sodas, 4X a day max. And at scream level 8 that barely nets me 25ish reels a day with popcorn & garlic blasted bats. That means MINIMUM it will take me 4 days JUST TO GET SLASHER LOIS, and I’m not even through getting all the worthless crappy Halloween decor yet. Falling further & further & further behind.
I’ve even tossed anything that earns scream points and no “stuff”‘ in inventory to slow my scream level progression & keep reels as cheap as possible for as long as possible! Patty & the school skin were a joke unless you plan to shell out crazy clams. I don’t even want to see how hard & worthless the next few weeks worth of stuff is. I wish I could choose to just ignore the events & focus back on unlocking the normal districts but everyone’s a werewolf so I may as well not bother logging in until November.
Horribly thought out TinyCo. Way to drive people away instead of drawing them in.
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Honestly, the best part about this event, is that since everything uses special event-specific currencies, I’m saving up tons of coins during this event. By the time the Halloween event is over, I’ll be able to breeze through my next district with all of these saved coins!
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Why isn’t the Psychic and the other ghost characters involved in this event? They would fit………….
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I am so glad I read these posts; it really helped with the frustration! These werewolves are stupid! Most of my people are them now, (seriously I must have 10+ running around) and I have no chance of turning them back since why bother, they will just turn again. It should be at least a day before they can re-turn so we can get some productivity out of the character. All drops are few and far between and the event so many of us were looking forward to now fills us with dread. I spend money when it makes sense but now it no longer does for me. I will continue to play however I wont care if I make any goals or not. Such a shame………………
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Ive seen a lot of you guys struggling with the bats. It may seem like a pain but I have a solution. I built a little maze (out of flowerbeds
) with 1 block of road in the inside corner of the maze. Using this method I have 0 swarms of bats in my town. They all get killed right after i tap on the 4-7 vamps on my 1 road square inside the maze. This only works on FB for me (mobile usually crashes). The one tricky part is too many werewolves sharing the road with the vamps I want to tap in the maze. What i do, again kind of tricky.. This works because Werewolves run faster than vamps… Place 1 road square kind of far away from the maze (like 15 squares away+). Remove all other road squares and wait. Once everyone is gathered on the far away road, add one road square to the inside of your maze and remove the far away square. Once everyone is running to the maze, switch it back. The werewolves will land first in the maze and immediately start running back out to the other square. Once the last werewolf that lands starts running back out of the maze, switch it one last time. So all vamps will stay in the maze when they land but werewolves will be busy running away for a bit to a phantom far away road square. As soon as all the vamps have landed, tap them all to release bats then grab a garlic bomb. The bats will be in the maze for a bit zigzagging back and forth so they all get hit. I only need 1 bomb usually. Sometimes 2 if it doesn’t go perfect. Sounds tricky but I do it every time and it works. Good luck!
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TEN bats blasted and what do I get! 2 lousy sodas. For real? WTD? If they don’t want to give out soda, at least start dropping popcorn, too. Jeez!
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What the deuce at the terrible, terrible, terrible drop rates for DEATH! How on earth am I suppose to get him if those damn Scythes don’t ever drop. I’ve been trying for them non-stop since I’ve been able to collect for death and only gotten TWO. Just two! Now, I’m stuck in the questline cause it requires him. I’ve sent several in game messages, and no responses. Just so d*** frustrating!
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At least you got two. I have zero! And Lois always comes back empty handed no matter which item I send her for.
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I am finally bidding this game, adieu. I have been in since Pee Pants Peter and have almost all of the characters (I stopped paying for them a while ago). The straw that broke the camel’s back was slasher cat and the 24H timer. With all of my characters taken as werewolves and the film reel amount spiraling out of control, slasher cat was not possible. The other issue is having these 90 characters and skins and they are of no real use in the events. I have them all in storage because why not? The 5,962,00 I have in coins is useless. Coins and xp really make no sense in the game. Why do the characters level up? Why not make the clam characters worth 1,000,000 coins instead of clams. So, I am frustrated and finished with this game. Im tired of never accomplishing the tasks and getting the premium items or grinding on 12H extra rare drops. Thanks for the fun. I’m outta here.
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Oh cruel the fates are. I am about 90% finished collecting all of patty’s stuff, but i’m so far away from slasherbait lois, I’m not even going to worry about it. If TinyCo was smart, when the next phase comes down, the either restart or better yet, remove her timer.
The worst thing is I bet werewolves are going to stay in the game so its going to be hard to collect pumpkins or whatever you need to throw at the headless horsemen
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What the Deuce? I have Peter finish up his job. Before sending him on another job, I check to see if Lois is being chased, but no she’s in her last few minutes in her Teaching Piano task in the house. So I send Peter off on another Cannonball mission. Within 30 seconds Lois is being chased by the cat, and now I can’t clear her for 6 hours. Nice timing there. I know it happens, but frustrating when you can see it live.
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The part that will gaule you is when after 6 hours, you get Lois free, send Peter back onto the silver cannonball task, only to have Slasher Cat chase Lois again before you can collect her task and she is locked again for 6 hours.
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After satisfying the requirement for Patty’s unicorn stickers bat swarms give you practically nothing. I have it down, clearing 12 swarms with one garlic every time the vamps spawn and get a mere 3 sodas (if I’m lucky). That’s bullshirt! Plus the spawn time for vamps went up to 2 hours??? Wines and Jesus! Someone on the forums said people used to complain about events being too easy… What the deuce!? This is so difficult you have to choose what FREE unlockables to give up, that is if a surprise timer didn’t round house kick you in the face. . . . . . . . . . Roadhouse.
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I dont post, but have been a longtime listener here. I usually only read through everything on this site, but now I feel I need to vent. My main concern is that at one point my vampires stopped spawning bats (maybe because I was trying to farm bats) but now I have 2 swarms in the entire town! And now I’m only spawning nuns! I’m so **** close to getting the zombie fence….but so far…urrrg. Anybody have a solution?
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Can’t wait to quit this game only 1 more ghost to unlock and death from this event, then I can stop playing, I have all the characters I want and a lot that I don’t.
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I’ve been playing freemium ever since the very beginning and was able to complete all events to my satisfaction up until Star Trek. I’ve stuck through the Star Trek frustration and the Mobster fiasco and even played through Peter Palooza just to stick with it. However, the movie reel debacle has to the the straw that broke the camel’s back. I’m sad to say but I’m quitting this game for a while and going to focus on Tapped Out. At least they have realistic game play for freemium players. Tiny Co really needs to test out how achievable the game is before releasing it. However, that said, I’ll still be checking out the addicts site. I really appreciate all the work that the authors put in here and it’s what makes this site a great gathering place for the QFS community.
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Bad event… We all know why, but my biggest WTD is at peoples assumptions about the Tinyco staff. People are blaming those that make the game and the blame goes to those running the company. The designers artist writers programmers are top notch talent, but they are employees that need to make money to live, they have no say in what goes down. Its the Management that dictates how the game flows. High items with poor drops aren’t accidental nor is the werewolf paradox. It actually takes conscious effort to code a game that way. Picture this…
Employee: Hey boss we just completed slasher cat, fully tasked and set to stop chasing Lois when he unlocks.
Boss: Cool, the CEO wants a timer and reel increase to get more clam spending, oh and he wants slasher cat to keep on Lois.
Employee: uh okay… 7day timer or 3?
Boss: 24 hours.
Employee: 1 day?
Boss: Yup and a $50 non decreasing buyout…oh and I’ll need you to stay late tonight for the live adjustments. Actually I’m gonna need you this weekend too, McKay?
Get my drift?
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Just sent this to tinyco. Everyone else having same issue?
I’m am noticing that I am leveling up way too fast. And because of this, the price of the film reels is increasing faster than I can earn the items needed to trade for them. It seems that because I have a lot of characters earning 3D glasses and concentrating on earning items for the death character, my levels are rising faster than I can earn soda and popcorn to trade for film reels. And the need to earn the silver bombs and clear my characters that earn water balloons is also stifling my progress. It seems that too many of the necessary characters are being held up as werewolves. In other words, I’m spending more time clearing characters to help me progress with the story line which increases my level faster than I can earn items to buy film reels at a cheaper rate. So they get more expensive and this turns into a viscous cycle that prevents me from moving forward in the story line. I haven’t even attempted to fix patty’s car because I nowhere near the total film reels needed to get Lois from the concession stand. Not sure if there is a fix for this, but it’d be nice keep the cost of items down based on the week you’re playing and not the level which you’ve reached. Otherwise those of us with lots of characters earning blades for level up’s will never be able to get enough film reels to progress.
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I’ve pretty much given up on this event. My goal is to get death and maybe slasher bait Lois if I can even get that many reels at the slow pace I can earn items vs. what they require with the higher levels.
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Yes I am having the exact same issue. As soon as I got to level 8, the price to get reels almost doubled. Now I’m not sure I will be able to get slasher bait lois. So, what I did was put a lot of the buildings in my inventory so I don’t go to the next level until later in the week. The game was moving along pretty nicely and now I feel like I’ve come to a complete stop!
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Yes, in my opinion, the exchange rate at the higher levels is prohibitive for getting through Week 2–and I play almost every waking hour! WTD!! Granted it started late, but I estimate it will be late Saturday night at the earliest before I can unlock Slasher Lois, and that’s without collecting any advance reels for the Jr H–which I’m not even attempting to save me from the stress. Other than the difficulty level of this week in the event to get movie reels, I’m really enjoying it, ha ha ha.
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Just had the funniest pop up, it pointed out if I had the werewolf torture chamber it would help create MORE werewolves because u know the one thing we all need is more werewolves 😃 wtd. I’m way behind this week too but if I’m l will manage the 2nd weekly challenge.
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What the (insert your favorite naughty word here) happened at TC? Things started out great, we had plenty of tasks to get holy water for the nuns so we could get popcorn to swap for reels at not too bad a rate. Things were moving along pretty well. I even thought I’d have a chance at Slasher Cat, but nope, without any warning the price for reels jumped from 35 popcorn to 80 so goodbye kitty. Move to part 2 of the event and holy cow what a mess. Reels price gets even worse, they turn most of our townspeople into werewolves making every one except Bonnie and Quagmire useless for item gathering since for most people Death is the main draw of the event so all their cannonballs are going to B&Q in the slim hope that one of them will drop a scythe.
Bonus WTD. Contacting TinyCo is also useless. During the event I’ve sent them 2 different messages through the contact us option in game and a third through email. No response at all on 2 of them with the third being a canned response that had nothing to do with what I’d asked them.
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My WTD Top 10 List in no particular order:
1) Nine days since the last WTD? Poke Poke B. ;P
2) Poll on where we’re all at in the game? Can I please be pointed in the right direction as to where?
3) Overly complicated mechanics that brutalize new players. Just when I thought it was safe to only complain about Lois, they pull in Quagmire, Joe and Bonnie. I have a separate completely clams free game I’m playing and believe me, newbies don’t stand a chance.
4) I know they’re limited on space but how is this game suppose to be played without sites like these providing roadmaps. Technical issues shouldn’t have to be addressed on a third party site…no offense.
5) The issues must be overwhelming them yet again. I asked a question last week, about Wednesday, and still no response. On a timed event, I’d expect better.
6) The learning curve on this event is terrible. I’m a veteran with this game and I’m approximately behind 2 days. Again reference the above #3.
7) If I hear the words “as intended” one more time I will copyright the phrase and bill them! Really they should own up to mistakes. If things are running as intended then that means all crashes, glitches, and potential cheats are intended. It means poor drop rates are intended. It means poor customer service is intended. Ok that last one wasn’t intended. My bad 🙂
8) Offers should be reasonable… spending $20-$50 for an action that’s kinda useless after the first week is bad. Sure not all offers are that bad but it sullied the good name of Death.
9) Not sure what kinda mathematical voodoo they’re trying to perform with the event currency this event. I likened it to chaos theory playing out but even that’s an insult to Chaos theory. Come to think of it that’s an insult to voodoo as well. Must be something they learned under common core. LOL!
10) And finally on a personal note, though I love what I do, not sure how some companies get so messed up as to not realize that the all powerful Evil Ned cannot possibly be in two different cities, hours apart by plane, at the same time. I’m **** good, but not that **** good! Sheesh.
Evil out
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Evil Ned, I love your WTD’s. I agree 100% with 3-9. Its a shame how far the mighty have fallen….
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I took a break from this game about 2 months ago. Decided to check in here and see if it’s gotten worse and it sounds like it has… not regretting my decision to walk away.
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Quick question, not update related or anything, but do you still have to have a Facebook in order to get friends on this game?
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Yes
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I was fine at the beginning with how it looked. Seeing Michael Myers and what seemed to be a great idea. I missed last years event because I didn’t have a smartphone. I started at the valentines day event. I was really excited to see my horror film killers invade Quahog for a spooky adventure. Yet again, and it isn’t a surprise, its mother cash grab event. Last event was great! Heck, even the Septemberfest was better planned out. But its all a bunch of knots tied together and its all tangled up with this event. I know over time there will be more options for reels, I get there will be better pay out, I get we still have a month, but I need that stuff for later, now! The timer was completely une unexpected by me for Patty and while I knew about Slasher Cat from you guys, I wasn’t aware of that because I went straight in. A whole day to fix things, a whole day to make the concession stand less fustrating, enough time to NOT have timers placed on things, and not using the same method for a “catalog” for items like they did with the prop shop last major event, its horrible. They should’ve used the prop shop method where you get what you want from a week and if you don’t get everything before the next week, you can still go back. Heck, at least let the last timer item/whatever skin/character on a page be activated until its the last item you get. If you don’t get everything on the page just yet, you should be able to go back and fourth to get items. It’s more of a chore and a stress enhancement with this event more than anything else. Inget they need money, but they can do that by ads like they’ve done. Ten clams for two ads, five clams each. It would be amazing. Make premium items like they do now, but don’t keep characters and skins premium, especially if they were free before! Gah, I’m just overwhelmed and I’m not going to make it in time for Patty, let alone for Week 3. I’m going to be so far behind and it sucks!!
II know not everything will make sense but I need to get this off my chest… Even if it isn’t exactly logical…
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To be fare there has ALWAYS been premium characters, I’ve been playing since the first week I believe Consuela was premium since day 1.
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In BETA… she was 600 Clams.
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*siiiiiiigh* They keep messing with the soda amounts needed for reels. I was paying 25 sodas for 10 reels at scream level 7. I haven’t recently leveled up or completed a Death at the Drive-in quest because you know, everyone’s a werewolf. Now it’s 35 for 10 reels or 20 sodas and 105 popcorn for 12 but I can’t get popcorn because werewolf. They even had the audacity to give me a pop-up saying to buy the werewolf torture chamber to turn more characters into werewolves.
Have sent them messages on the whole overdoing it on the werewolves part but it’s like they’ve taken the holiday weekend off. What a *
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Funny that so many players have reported problems with the game throughout this event (including myself) and the only thing tiny co has done since returning to their office is uping the price of sodas to get reels (27 to get 10 reels is now 32 to get 10 reels, trust me I have not levelled up just returned to my game and saw this extra money grab for tiny co)
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I’m at 50 soda for 10 reels. If I use an alarm so I can clear the 3 cannonball producers every 6 hours I can get 12 cannonballs per day. That gets me almost enough soda for 20 reels per day and that’s not nearly enough.
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Another twist on the werewolf problem as I started looking at the numbers — I’m having to use every single one of my cannonballs just to keep turning Quagmire and Bonnie so that now and then I can complete the scythe task, which is already stressing me out since it’s an “extra rare” item needing a bunch of them. And 3/4 of the team keeps getting pulled away. I’ve had to leave Peter off all tasks just to keep rescuing Lois from Slasher Cat, so no cannonballs from him. Slasher Cat is the only one who is at least doing something every 4 hours (well, and Lois, at the expense of Peter doing anything but rescuing her). Bonnie and Quagmire are constantly werewolves. I go through all of my cannonballs and then I have to wait 6 hours for more, so the 4 hour scythe quests have effectively become 6 hour tasks. So here’s the twist — since I’m using ALL of my cannonballs on Quagmire and Bonnie, no one else who becomes a werewolf ever has a chance of rescue, so whatever they’re needing to do isn’t going to happen. This was a really stupid idea, TinyCo, having a lot of vital item-earning characters constantly ripped away from their tasks and then making the remedy really scarce so that a large portion of them can never do anything. So I’ve worked out a strategy to where I can MOSTLY keep at least all of my scythe miners going (though I can’t see timers, so it’s hard to keep up with when the tasks are actually due to end while they’re werewolves) but collecting anything else for this event? NOT HAPPENING. I think I’m done after I get Death, however long that’s going to take…
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Don’t bother saving Lois until Peter is done with his cannonball task. Her task timer keeps going. Then let her go back to her house and you’ll see the check mark and get the scythe if by some miracle she drops one. Put her on task again right away, although probably the Cat shows up only about once every six hours.
With the others, only hit them with cannonballs when they are definitely finished with their task by the task timer (which keeps going). Then let them head back to their building, watch for the check mark and collect the drop. Then immediately put them back on task before they get wolfed again. I keep track of when their tasks are scheduled to end in a notepad on my phone so I know when I can safely hit them, since I can’t see their timer while they’re in fur. Otherwise you’ll waste cannonballs re-hitting them before they are ready for the item drop.
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Yeah, Death’s scythes are really grinding my gears. Trying to unlock Death so I can continue the quest line has basically put my whole game into gridlock:
– Dedicating 3 characters to trying to get items that almost never drop, instead of actually collecting resources.
– Using almost all of my cannonballs to temporarily un-werewolf them just to see them not drop that item and put them on the task again
– Having a 2-hour time lag between Lois finishing her task and actually being able to tap on her because she’s getting mauled by Slasher Cat and Peter’s cannonball task takes 6 hours.
C’mon, this is just ridiculous.
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Ok, like this Halloween event is one big cash grab for Tiny Co, like how can I get 100 film reels in 24hr for the slasher cat character without using clams??
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Uhm, you can’t.
And they know that.
You have to have them saved up before you trigger the timer.
So yeah, a giant clam grab.
Heck I knew about the timer but triggered it on accident trying not to drop my phone.
When you add that to bats no longer spawning from vamps, looks like I’m gonna be 0/2 on ‘free’ charachters….
(Still working on death but the werewolf fiasco has put the kibosh on that effort…)
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I avoided getting the tower until I had enough reels for both tower and Cat (120 total). So I got Cat immediately after getting the tower and triggering the Cat timer. That made it less likely that I would trigger it accidentally, although they really need a failsafe. At least a cancel button before starting any timer.
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Death at the Drive In couldn’t be a more appropriate name for this event. It has killed my love of this game. TinyCo really dropped the ball in the development of the event. The werewolves are obviously a huge issue. Joe is a werewolf. Shoot him with silver cannonball. He heads to his assigned destination and before he can even make it there and complete the assigned task, right back to a werewolf. Seriously?!?! So Joe is in a perpetual state of hairiness unable to contribute to the event in the form of task drops? Same goes for the others characters that will turn into werewolves. And the fact that the overpriced (100 reel) Slasher Cat must reach lvl 6 before they can be tasked with created silver cannonballs is just another sadistic joke played on the end user by the developers of this game. A game I once really enjoyed and spent a decent amount of hard earned cash on has been relegated to a complete waste of all the time, energy, thought, and cash I contributed to it over the course of the past year. I will most likely continue the event just so I can see how it plays out. But here is hoping that EA doesn’t poach any “talent” from TinyCo, as TSTO actually knows how to develop and conduct events in such a way that they are enjoyable and gives the people that play them realistic goals and an expectation of a satisfying experience. #moneygrab #lack of foresight #the end
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Make werewolves only occur occasionally to characters ( not permanent )
Cut timer for patty.
And decrease materials needed for reels or increase reel out put as you level up and need more materials
Do these things and I will have fun in this event again
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But then you will be less likely to spend money on premium currency.
They don’t care if you enjoy the game, only that you spend money on it. Because if you don’t, then you are a dirty freeloader leeching their bandwidth and their ‘creativity’…
Unless complaining about the game is supposed to be a free mini-game, in which case, five stars!
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Yes, their only concern or goal is to get players to buy in for cash, and that’s fine, but this event is sucking the joy out of the game to the point where I’m not inclined to invest in it – this is enough to make me regret money I’ve given them in the past, and I’m not feeling motivated to buy in further.
And I have seen SLASHER CAT come back within an hour of Peter rescuing Lois – that’s pretty ridiculous. yes, you can time actions so that Peter frees up as Lois completes a task – but if Peter’s task is longer than Lois’, then you’ve just arbitrarily lengthened the Lois task. Weak.
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ARGGGGGG!! I don’t know which is more frustrating — the fact everyone is always a werewolf, and I can’t store the non-earners in inventory; the hitting 8 flocks of bats to get ONE freaking soda (seriously?); the fact Slasher Cat now only chases Lois when Peter is on his 6 hour cannonball task (thanks a lot, whoever tipped off TinyCo to my one-minute-task sneak). Oh, or how about the fact I had to waste film reels on a decoration that’s now available for 3d glasses? I (foolishly) ponied up and bought 2 silver mines and 2 garlic buildings, but still never have enough of either. Oh, and nobody’s dropping scythes since the Werewolves started, plus Slasher Cat has to be at level SIX to start dropping cannonballs (he hasn’t dropped a scythe yet, btw). I’m hoping TinyCo adjusts the cannonball (and garlic) drop time like they did the water balloons. I need a billion sodas to get S-B Lois (and Patty), so the dearth of drops for bats combined with the ever increasing exchange rate may be my top complaint!
Frustration aside, I will say the werewolves are a really clever idea! Oh wait, compliments don’t belong in WTD, I need to take that s**t elsewhere. Teehee!
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PS – I forgot to thank the poster here who pointed out we can see who the werewolves are in the frame, I totally hadn’t seen that before!!
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Not trying to take you to task, but buying generators justifies Tinyco making the game so warped.
if people didn’t buy them, only to fall behind just like the rest of us, their profits would tell them this method of shaking is buy the ankles to see how much change they can shake out isn’t working.
But it is working. It always works….
*sigh*
I used to love this game…
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For everyone saying tinyco does not respond, it seems they do somewhat to Google reviews of their company. I’ll let u guys read the reviews, it speaks volumes. Maybe if enough of us speak up that way it might help save the game some. Its a shame, so many of us unhappy this event. I did review the app on Google Play. Going to do Amazon & then Google. I hope it gets better. If not I’m gonna take a break from playing for awhile. I can’t even imagine how much worse it would be without the hardwork Bunny & Alissa put into this site & the game. Good luck fellow gamers!
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Its Monday, I counted, I need 250 film reels just to unlock Lois and go on to stage 3. I have Death, Chris, Peter, Herbert and the clam cost building for cannonballs., I have poppy and drink clam char’s for more. At level 9 it costs me 50 pop or 45 pop and 135 popcorn for 10 or 12 reels. The chars who can get me holy water balloons are constantly werewolves, or needed for cannonballs. At this rate I figure I can earn some where between 30 and 40 reels a day, so it will be Sunday or Monday next week just to unlock Lois putting me 3 or 4 days behind the next schedule. As you can see I had been paying for stuff this event. As well I have Godfather, all the Star Trek char’s, all the rock char’s from previous events, because I paid for things. But i’m not paying anymore. The costs for this event and time needed to get anything are grossly unfair, unless you pay clams to unlock items in the build queue you just won’t complete this event.
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Just the thought of playing this event for another 3-4 weeks is exhausting.
I wish I’d waited until I was fully finished week 1 before starting week 2, now that the characters are turning into werewolves I’m not making any headway on Death. I’ve given up on Patty.
They made this event so complicated, it took me a couple of days to get my head around week 2 and I’m not usually that dumb 😛 Having either werewolves or vampires in one week would have been more than enough. My town is completely overrun already and there’s still a lot more to come.
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Today’s did real timers after switching toons from werewolves to normal.
I know it is a short sample, but maybe others can add to it be provide some math data to TC on why this is such a sucky ides.
Switch Bonnie’s – did not get a sickle started new task. Switch to werewolf between 2:00 and 2:10 hours.
Switched Quagmire – did not get a sickle. Switched back to a werewolf in less than 40 minutes. Yes before the next cannonball was ready.
Switched Jake. – thought it was another toon. Switched back to werewolf between 1:40 and 2:00.
To others try to post this data. Let’s show TC how messed up this is because We can not collect items for toons, popcorn, etc.
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Switched Connie to advance the quest line – Started next quest task. Switched back to werewolf between 1:00 and 1:40.
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Final data.
Switched Quagmire – switched back in less than 1:00
Switched Bonnie – switched back 1:10 minute
So no such thing as a 4 hour task. Every thing is at least 7 hours, 6 for cannonball + 1 for making th cannon
Epic fail
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Well this is fun isn’t it? 🙂 Quite enjoyed reading some of these comments, probably one of the most popular pages at the moment!
However, I wouldn’t be here unless I had a gripe. I don’t know if I’m comparing it too much with the Simpsons game but I don’t seem to have the issues with that one as much as FGtQfS. I play both regularly(ish) throughout the day but I feel much further behind on FG and don’t ever get the feeling I’m going to catch up whereas if I fall behind on TSTO, I feel I have a chance.
It is all about the balance for me. With a freemium approach, the goals should be attainable but with the required extra effort. The question is how much effort should be required and this is something TinyCo very rarely get right. They have been doing this a while now and in every event, it seems tweaks are made because what they have set up is not possible. The case in point is the scream level changes to proceed for the 2nd week. They should know what is feasible based on the gameplay and they completely missed something and it seems to me to be becoming more and more common. Yes, they change it but after running the game for this length of time, the scale of the errors is pretty shiocking. This isn’t to say that TSTO is perfect, I can remember them dropping the ball on a few occasions but for the last few events on FG, there have been some very hefty flaws.
It is actually a great shame as I’ve been impressed with some of the ideas (I like the concept of the werewolves for instance), it is just the implementation of them that has been flawed.
Oh well, just going to have to keep plugging away for Death, the only character I’ve wanted for a long long time and then I’m calling it a day on the game on concentrate on the Simpsons one. I think TinyCo have made enough money out of me for the first few events where I was a premium player. When I realised I wasn’t actually seeing any benefit for spending clams after events finished, the money stopped and now unfortunately, so has the enjoyment.
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The issues is it is no longer just TC. See the nice Fox Entertainment logo. So TC was purchased and Fox what’s their money back + ASAP.
Do not blame them, but it is no longer the same group running the place. Even if it is there are new rules which mean bled them dry.
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Ummmm… you do realize that the FOX logo is due to Family Guy is owned and copyrighted by FOX, right? It’s always been around. It’s my choice of what images I put on the site. 😉
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I think Kevin’s referring to the new blue splash screen that shows the TinyCo and Fox logos before the main loading screen. Not sure that splash screen actually means what he thinks it does, though.
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That’s been there a long time is what I’m saying. Since as long as I can remember. Just maybe not as noticeable
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Sorry then, but when I saw the big fox logo I thought TC had been purchased.
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Lol. Nah. Just copyright requirements from FOX. It’s the same for the other game we write on. It is EA’s game, but Simpsons belongs to FOX too. So they got FOX logo stamped all over. 😉
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I’ve noticed that the Vampires and Unholy Nuns have stopped spawning…which is a significant problem. I need the bats to complete unlocking Meg’s lame friend (which is a timed event). Also, the most silver I can now process to fight the werewolves is 4…because I have processed water balloons to combat the Nuns…and there are no Nuns to use them on.
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WTD 1:Silver balls, silver balls, why are more not dropping silver balls…
WTD 2: What is it with people who book the window seat on a flight, then close the shade, lean on their friend the other direction and sleep. I could have used that window. Grrr.
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