Death At The Drive In Phase 2 Known “Issues”

Hey there Scaredy Crows!

Seeing a lot of the same thing in the comments, so bouncing in to put it all in one spot and hopefully answer many at one time.

So if YOU are having an issue, please look at ALL the info below to see if it applies to what you are running into.

Consuela Technical Support Bunny Glitch

LOTS of details are already in the Main Phase 2 Rundown Post HERE


GARLIC BOMBS NOT COUNTING

Garlic Bomb

I have seen this many Events. It takes a bit at times for the items to “sync” with the Launcher, but once you tap on the Icon to go into the Screen… it evens out and your counts should reflect the correct amounts.

Garlic Bomb Launcher Icon

If it still seems off, report it from your game.

 


ISSUES WITH GARLIC BOMBS

If using this feature either does not work at all… just hangs on the screen or causes your game to crash… try the basics below for Crashing and contact TinyCo.

 


LOCKED OUT OF PAGE 1

I verified with TinyCo that launching Phase 2 should NOT have locked you out of the Tower and Slasher Cat on Phase 1. If you ran into this, please contact them if you have not already. Also, if one of you that did have this issue could email me a Picture of it that would be great.

familyguyaddicts@gmail.com

 


LOCKED OUT OF PAGE 2

Phase 2 Lock Booth issue

Thanks Tyler for the image! 

For those that just bought out Patty with Clams, it did an odd thing. It made the game freak out because it checked of the Library as an acquired item… but out of sync with the ones in front of it. So now it locked you out of ALL of Page 2 and you can’t progress.

They’re aware and working on it. In the meantime, please report it from your game.

 


NOT ENOUGH REELS

Movie Reel 2

I know this is the main focus right now. I am watching activity and sending them my personal feedback on it. I would suggest you do the same.

But first let me make you aware of this, once you get to Part 4 in the Main Questline and start taking out Werewolves… you start getting a LOT of Sodas and the conversion gets a lot better as you get now 10 Reels or 12 in the Exchange. So just keep going at it and see where you are by Monday.

 


NOT ENOUGH SODA

Soda

See Not Enough Reels above….

 


WEREWOLVES?? 

Werewolf

They will NOT appear until Part 4 of the Main Questline.

Here is the list of Characters per In Game FAQ that become Werewolves. I also see these are some of the ones you CAN’T store in Inventory right now.

Characters that will become Werewolves: Quagmire, Mort, Bonnie, Joe, Connie, Brain, Carter, Stewie, Consuela, Cleveland, Jake, Buzz Killington, Kool-Aid Man, Snoop Dogg, Deadmau5, Weird Al

 


CAN’T GET PAST PART 3

Death At the Drive In The Sequel Part 3

As you can see above, Werewolves do NOT appear until Part 4. Due to Part 3 asks for 3 Cannons to be made and some of you jumped the gun, you are now stuck due to at Capacity and no way now to clear Part 3 to get to Part 4 and clear them using the Werewolves.

Death At the Drive In The Sequel Part 4

I reported this. Please do so as well from your in game messaging.

UPDATE: Looks like TinyCo is pushing a fix for this and “letting the dogs out” aka Werewolves BEFORE part 4. Hopefully this will help some of you use the Cannons and move to Part 4.

 


VAMPIRES NOT SPAWNING

Vampire

I have seen some reports that the timer is resetting and nothing is coming out… or only Unholy Nuns over n over n over. I have reported this to them, please do so as well from your in game messaging.

Essentially there are now TWO Demons coming from the Movie Screen. Unholy Nuns and Vampires. The two will swap back and forth… but not right away. So you may get 3 Unholy Nuns in a row or Vampires. Just watch what YOUR Movie Screen tells you is coming next, how many, and how much longer.

Movie Screen Spawns

 

 


 

Complaints, Venting, Pitchfork & Torch Committees… Take it HERE

Crashing and Lagging help HERE

Basic Troubleshooting help HERE

Contact TinyCo info HERE

 


These are the Main Issues I am seeing that are impacting several Players. There may be a few here and there that are Player Only issues. Either way, if the issue is not resolved… reach out to TinyCo from your game.

Did this help you out? Any tips for your neighbors on these issues? Let us know.

~Bunny

246 responses to “Death At The Drive In Phase 2 Known “Issues”

  1. 😦 page two has gone from the concession booth I’ve messaged multiple times but no response, would it be because I didn’t get slasher cat in time? I can’t move on with the tasks it just says page 1/1. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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  2. The second page doesnt appear to me is it because i didnt unlock slasher catt? Because now hes unavaible and i have 60 reels but nothing to spend it on:(

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  3. It’s also really hard to.get garlic, only gerome makes them

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  4. I’m on part 7, never got werewolves and my storage is full of Canon balls and I can’t make crossbows for nuns

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  5. Long story short I stuck a capacity with the cannon balls and I can’t complete the task anyone know how to fix it ?

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  6. I am having a problem where I can no longer use any of my popcorn. I can still collect it from the Unholy nuns but in the concession stand it wont let me trade any of my 200+ popcorns for film reels. I now have the werewolves though, I dont know if that is why i can no longer use them, seems silly though.

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  7. I’ve finally got Death’s dog but it is stuck in my inventory, is anyone else having this issue?

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  8. The only thing I’m finding kind of odd…is that if the werewolves wander up to the upper left region of the city, when they stop and I click on them, the game places the canon so far away that to fire it is a waste of silver cannonballs. They just fire at nothing.

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  9. Hello bunny, i have been following certain parts of your walk through which has been so handy for the event. However i have hit a snag. I have looked and unable to find anything about it yet. Unless i am looking in all the wrong places… i am at scream level 8 but not yet unlocked slasher lois and trying to earn movie reels to get there. However in my consessions stand i have no option to use my popcorn. Its gone! I have an option to spend 30 drinks for 10 movie reels but the 12 movie reel option is gone so i have no use for popcorn. Please advise if anyone else is having this same issue. Or is this normal at this stage. Many thanks Lisa

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  10. I am getting Nuns 3 times in a row often, so vamps aren’t spawning much. And whenever nuns spawn for 3 times in a row, I seem to get spontaneously created vamps that weren’t spawned. I haven’t seen any of them randomly show up in the game, but I have seen the movie screen say that nuns are coming next, then when I get back into the game before the nun timer ends, there are suddenly vamps in my town when they never spawned.

    Has anyone else gotten spontaneous, not-spawned vampires?

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  11. So TinyCo finally messaged me back only saying they were sorry for not getting back to me sooner and asked if I was still having an issue. They did not address the fact that I only had vamps spawn once during the whole 2 week challenge nor how they were going to rectify that I won’t get week 2 prize and now I can’t get the grand prize. Also all the clams I lost trying to speed up the timer on the movie screen before I realized there was an issue with the timer. Bunny have you heard anything from them about this?

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    • That sounds like an “automated” message. It means they’re flooded and trying to “clean out” those whose issues were already resolved and need no further help. So, if you still need help, message right back right away and let them know you still need assistance and why.

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  12. Need help. Unfortunately I triggered the timer for Patty and I am nowhere near unlocking SB Lois yet. Wondering if it makes sense to spend clams on finishing Patty? I do care more for this full character than for outfits or skins. Thanks for any advice.

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  13. I am at level 8 and have 19 cannon balls in my prop stock but have not ever seen one single werewolf!

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  14. Vampires no longer spawn bats, and it made me miss out on the timed event.

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  15. You can find now the Library in your inventory, if you bought Patty with clams

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  16. Vamps and nuns are spawning again but doesn’t do me any good since week 2 challenge is over. TinyCo still has not answered any of my emails.

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    • Hang in there… there is a HUGE flood of messages right now to them for the Event. I am in contact with them about issues players hit like this.

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    • It won’t matter to contact them. The Phase 2 glitch caused me to miss Slasher Cat (I was ONE reel short with 22 hours to go), and my back and forth communications with them are useless. They just keep saying it was supposed to be hard. I argue back that THEIR bug caused the problem. They stopped responding.

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  17. Can not load crossbow or garlic bombsto go to time and then into game to get rid of bats or unholy nuns, is there any help with this ?

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  18. I completed the week 2 timed challenge last night, got the rewards, and even placed the zombie fence in my town, but upon entering my town this morning, the zombie fence is gone and the event menu shows I have not completed the challenge as well but the timed challenge is not available on my quests sidebar either. What did I do wrong? I have been working feverishly to complete the timed challenges this event and don’t want to miss out on the grand prize because of a technical glitch. Please help!

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  19. When I let them know about my problem with the timer constantly resetting from 25min and not finishing or spawning anything new, all I received was what looks like an automated response about the Garlic Launcher (which has nothing to do with my problem with the countdown timer resetting). I don’t know what else to do.

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    • Should be resolved by now.

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      • Yes, thanks Bunny, it is resolved now. It was just annoying because I needed them for one of the challenges and couldn’t get them. I am still loving this Halloween event. It is A LOT of hard work but I have still been able to get most of the things that I want (after putting so much effort in), so I can’t really complain. I was level 8 when week 2 started and I needed the same amount as you (in terms of 50 soda or 45 soda / 130 popcorn), it seemed to be too much. When I was able to get 6 characters working on getting silver bullets for the werewolves though, it wasn’t so bad. I don’t think I will get the skin for the school though, that is just much too costly for me.

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  20. I’m having the issue with Vampires not respawning. They appeared once and bats were bombed, but now all I can get are nuns. Tried spending shells 7 times in a row to speed the “screen” along, but nope . . . just nuns. Anyone have a solution?? I’ve messaged TinyCo with no response.

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  21. The timer on the portal isn’t working, I logged in 3hrs ago and it said 45mins until Vampires spawn, and I just logged in now and it’s still on 45mins, it only counts down while I have the portal/movie screen open. Is anyone else getting this?

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    • Reported and should be corrected by now. If not, let them know.

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      • Yep all good now, back to bombing Bats. And after spending some Clams I’m getting close to Slasher Bait Lois, and will hopefully have her in time for the next phase, after some consideration I’ve decided I’m going to pass on the building skin, as cool as it looks I just don’t feel it’s worth 300 Reels, so I’m feeling better about this event now, and thank you Bunny for all the helpful posts you’ve been putting up, it’s very much appreciated. 🙂

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  22. I am having an issue where the countdown timer (for the nuns and vampires) keeps resetting. It keeps saying 25min left but if I exit and return it says 25min again. If I stay on that page, it will continue to count down until it reaches 00sec but nothing new is spawned and it just stays stuck there. I tried a few things like spending some clams to try and finish the timer, I deleted and redownloaded the game – nothing has worked. It just keeps telling me 25min left, every time I look. I sent a message to TinyCo (the first time I have had to do that). If they send me a reply, do you know where I will find it? By email, in the game or somewhere else? You do an awesome job with this site by the way – thanks so much.

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  23. My garlic bomb launcher appeared once a day ago and the button is no longer on the bottom right corner of the game. Do you know how I can fix this or what the issue is?

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  24. Hi Bunny,
    Don’t know if you’ll see this in time, but I’ve been reporting to tiny co all week that my screen keeps resetting like some others with 58 min to go to get the vampires and it won’t let me use gems to speed up etc. I’m about to run out of time on the Buddy Cianci skin goal for 300 reels which I’m nowhere near since I haven’t had any nuns or vampires. Just wanted your best advice in regards to if you think I have a better chance of them resetting i love you 24 hour timeline once the issue is fixed or if I take a chance and pay the 1650 clams for the goal and hope the reimburse me. I’ve sent them quite a few messages with no answer so I just though I’d see if you had any thoughts before my time runs out. Thanks so much in advance!

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  25. Tapped 4 Vampires, no bats spawned. Dropped a garlic bomb, hoping my game was just loading and I’d get the 12 or so bats around them…No luck. I contacted TinyCo.

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  26. My game crashes when trying to change werewolves, I seem to be the only person with the issue. I’ve done everything I can to make them aware of it, just waiting to see an update in the app store for it

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  27. Having an issue where I’m not getting nuns or vampires spawning I’ve messaged tiny Co but had no reply I’ve cleared the cash and data and even reinstalled the game but still having the same issue, anyone got any ideas?

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  28. I managed to hit a lot of bats at once, and got a weird message. This is the pic. http://postimg.org/image/nvi650yep/

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    • Lol. That’s funny. Apparently you have been forced into Ludicrous Speed and entered an unknown galaxy. 😉

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    • I’ve gotten that. It happens when you get somewhere over a dozen bats at once. If you kill even more the game will simply crash and reset the bat positions.

      Apparently they didn’t even program the possibility of killing that many bats.

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  29. So EVERY time I turn Bonnie Quagmire and Joe back from werewolf to human, they immediately turn back into werewolves….. they can never complete a task! Any advice?

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    • TinyCo is working on a solution. I have provided them all the info Readers here are expressing. Hang in there. Meantime, just report what is happening.

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      • My frustration is that I can’t convert a specific character. I haven’t had Joe available since he turned wolf. I try each wolf till I find him but if any other wild walls into the radius it automatically jumps to them instead of staying with him. So far my best plan has been to catch then as they go through my maze to get to the street but that only works if you have a cannon ready to go when they convert.

        And I have a strip of road, not just one square, but the issue is the wolves show up much faster than the silver balls, no way to reduce the number of wolves with out clams.

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  30. And the Werewolf saga thickens. Characters are turning back into werewloves immediately instead of returning to task to collect. Just had it happen to Bonnie, Quagmire, and Joe. All set to 4 hour balloon tasks. None of them made it back and the locations for tasks are set right next to small road section so the distance to task is minimal.

    Reported to TC – Check
    Passing on info the Addicts – Check
    Teeth gritted – Check
    Choice R rated words expressed – Check
    Sigh and carry on – If I HAVE to… 🙂

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    • This is happening to me too. I just rescued Bonnie and Quagmire, and 3 minutes later, Bonnie is already a werewolf again. I’m never going to get enough scythes if my characters can’t work on it.

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  31. I tried Kenny’s method too of quickly tapping all the draculas to bats while they were together and managed to hit 7 clusters! And I got one soda. Just to let others know that it doesn’t appear to guarantee a payout.

    I did a screen shot and reported in game and got a canned reply thanking me for my feedback 😦

    I also once hit 4 and got 9 sodas back. Very random payouts.

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  32. Do I have to clear all items on page 2 (phase 1) in the movie projection booth before I can do page 1 (phase 2)?

    I haven’t unlocked Pumpkin Tower and Slasher Cat, and everything in page 1 is now locked.

    Have not bought Patty.

    I am currently at Death at the Drive-In – The Sequel Pt. 5 and one of the objectives is to get the Catacomb.

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  33. any news on fixing the vamp/nun problem?

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    • I hope it’s soon and hopfully they will give us week 2 prize cause there’s no way we’ll be able to get 150 bats with the time that’s left. At least I have a stock pile of garlic bombs.

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  34. I sifted through comments and couldn’t find any recent updates about this issue but is anyone unable to connect to the server? I have closed the app, hard reset my phone, no luck. Any thoughts? Thanks and I really love this site! It has helped save SO many headaches and clams. 🙂

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  35. I have no garlic bombs. Are they supposed to be made where the other tools are forged at or is it somewhere else? I have a gazillion bats flying and nothing happens when I tap them. Garlic is dropping but I can’t see it or how to use it.

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  36. Hi-5 Your Uncle!

    Garlic was not dropping for me from the playground at all. Guess why? The winter skin was still on…can’t believe that prevented it from dropping! Also, if everyone who can be a werewolf IS a werewolf at all times (turning back to one right after I use a silver cannonball), how the heck can I possibly get anything done??

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  37. 90% of my characters are werewolves and I’m having a heck of a time collecting anything because the silver balls don’t generate fast enough. I even bought Michael Myers. Any tips on what I should do?

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  38. The werewolf fix is good, but there is another issue now related to the whole “wait until pt. 4” thing that I wrote to them about and encourage everyone else to do. I’m not sure when exactly werewolves trigger now, but it becomes quickly obvious that the rate of them appearing far exceeds the rate of silver cannonball production.
    I personally spent clams on the silver forge and Michael Meyers, and have given up all use of Peter, Chris and Herbert to their 6 hr cannon tasks, and I STILL can’t keep up.
    The result is a slew of characters trapped in limbo, which is a real problem to anyone simultaneously trying to fulfill quests unrelated to the event, and it’s unfair to players who spend their real money to try and balance the ratio of wolves to cannons but still can’t.
    I suggest a fix that either does all or some of the following:
    – Reduce character loss rate to werewolf transformation (but keep the soda drops high)
    – Create more character tasks for silver cannons
    – Decrease the time of silver cannon tasks to preferably 2 to 4 hours
    – Decrease the number of characters who are susceptible to transformation

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  39. Are the exchange accounts supposed to be changing do much? Even without a level change the number of popcorns and sodas is jumping around.

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  40. As soon as the vampires would spawn I would tap them so all the bats are clustered together then get my garlic bomb. Ready aim fire crash. Would be a good payout. This happened about 5 times. Anyone else have this problem

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    • As soon as my vampires spawned I tapped them and they DID NOT turn into bats! The vampires just disappeared when I tapped them.

      I thought it was a one time glitch but 2 hours later when they re-spawned I tried again and NO BATS when I tapped the vampires. ARGH!

      I emailed TinyCo just for the record, I don’t expcet a reply.

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  41. My Popcorn and Soda is only making 10 Reels, not 12 like it says. I’m waiting to hear back from TinyCo, but keep and eye out on yours.

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    • Everyone’s varies. Each player sees different things at different points. It is why in the main rundown I asked everyone to post their current Phase, Questline point, and concessions.

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  42. Read through some of the latest comments and this is not intended as a rant but hopefully some helpful information I have not seen yet. It appears many comments are the same as I experienced this morning when all characters that could were turned into werewolves overnight and I only collected three cannonballs in that same time period leaving a futile attempt to change them back. As for turning so many over to “help” with the challenge, freemium players with three sources of cannonballs (Peter, Chris and Herbert) could get three collections a day (six hour tasks) [assuming eight hours off the game for sleep] so nine total cannons converted each day. The weekly challenge asks for 18 in three days so this is accomplished in two days so there doesn’t need to be this “takeover”. Very frustrating that it is taking characters who could be dropping for Death and/or Patty and locking them up all day since the sources for cannonballs is so limited. This was similar to the latcher problem that was used in a couple of events but there always seemed to be many sources (and for shorter time periods) to get the latcher antidote. Hope this helps TinyCo see what players are being faced with.

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    • I did send them something similar. That is more the OTHER items it is delaying. 🙂

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      • I knew you were on it Bunny. I thought what they did for week one was the best I have seen them do — five characters that dropped an item every five hours that took one hour to craft. So every five hours you had a nice assembly line working. I was fine leaving it at five hours — didn’t need to change the tasks to four IMHO.

        If I can get Death crafted and get Slasher Cat leveled up, I will be able to have five but between Lois being interrupted from teaching piano and having to wait for Peter to be free to put her back and Bonnie’s transformation and not being able to swap her back, it is a tough haul to get scythes. I am not convinced premium additions would make much difference at six-hour task times. Shorter task times might be better than more characters with the tasks since these characters will be needed for so many other things during the event.

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  43. Vampires still won’t spawn. Can’t progres past death at the drive-in part 2. Respawn timer keeps resetting to 57 minutes.

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  44. I just reached level 6 but both my 5th and 6th levels had a 12 film reel payout when I had 60 popcorn and 25 soda. The only thing that changed when I got to level 6 was instead of 27 sodas for 10 film reels… it’s now 32.

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  45. When I was lvl 6
    25 soda + 40 popcorn = 12 reels
    27 soda = 10 reels

    Level 7
    20 soda + 80 popcorn = 12 reels
    22 soda = 10 reels

    ***

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  46. My Popcorn and Soda is only making 10 Reels, not 12 like it says. I’m waiting to hear back from TinyCo, but keep and eye out on yours.

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  47. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this as I haven’t read thru all the comments… but something I’m trying regrading Wearwolves. I too was having trouble with so many main characters getting locked up as wearwolves… so I put the wearwolves chamber in storage (which spawns the little you-know-what’s) hoping to stop new ones from being created. Once I clear out all the ones I have (15?) and then bank a few cannonballs, I’ll bring it back. I’ll let you know if this works. So far (4 hours now) none of the main characters have changed.

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    • wildthornberry88

      I don’t have the chamber and all mine are werewolves XD I feel bad for people that bought that tbh.

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      • I think I figured a way to outsmart the werewolves. I was only using characters that had a function for this event. Most of the time five or more were infected and couldn’t finish their task. I decided to set about a dozen characters to just roam my town. Now I have to wait and see if the werewolves will attack characters I’ve put out as bait instead of those I need to complete tasks.

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        • I put Carter and Consuela back out and they turned in addition to Weird Al, Deadmau5, Kool Aid Man and Snoop. Stewie and Glenn keep turning even though there are other characters that could get attacked. I could put them in storage and store the werewolf chamber until they stop attacking, but I really need them lo do their tasks.

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        • LOL this comment is funny. I hope they take your bait!

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