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! 🙂
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Just be respectful of others & be mindful of the language while commenting. Censor yourselves so we don’t have to!!
Here’s mine for this week:
–WHAT THE DEUCE… REELS!
–WHAT THE DEUCE… So hungry, but nothing looks good to eat. Hate that!
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 
What the Deuce? Thanks Tiny Co for nothing here. I’m a fairly regular and aggressive freemium player. Yet even then I’m over a week behind now – I just got to Albert and killer cars. But now the only way to get reels in my store is with ice cream cones, so I’m stuck in the Projection booth on week 4. I can’t get the Worcestershire Mystery Mansion (because I can’t get the reels) (they want 25 of them) so I can’t move on to the next week’s items. Jerome is being chased by an evil car, so he can’t complete his assignment in The Parade of Horribles, Part 5 so I can’t move on there. And I can’t get Death’s Mom to clear the evil car because I can’t get to the next set of items in the projection booth. And so forth. It’s too bad that the game has become so much more impossible for freemium players. I find myself not caring now the rest of this week knowing I’m not going to get anywhere near the end. And I might have even paid clams for the Manic Pope – he looked cool. It’s just disappointing that my play has gone from being able to complete 90% of the tasks to maybe 60%. Bah.
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It bugs me that they don’t admit you need clams to complete the event.
I’m a very frequent player, so much so that I set my clock for every 4 hours and still haven’t gotten Death’s mom.
In every event, I find I always fall behind by about a week.
and it makes me sad, angry (and I stopped buying clams)
It’s really about managing player expectations.
If TC suggests that I can complete the event as a freemium player, then I get angry when I can’t keep up and when I don’t complete the event. Resulting in me spending less clams.
But, if they’d just admit it and call the last week of an event a “Premium Week” (or something like that) then at least I wouldn’t feel so bad about it.
Then as a Mostly-Freemium player I know that I can’t get to the end of the event without clams. Hell, I might even start buying clams again.
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I have hated this event since week 1. Never had to read the manual until the slasher cat debacle that I missed out on but would have been super cool.
The reel payouts are poor as it takes too long to craft the prizes.
Talking of prizes I’m on week 4 payouts but week 5 prizes. Not sure if it is a glitch but I currently have a conversion of 25 sodas pay at 10 reels. I’m finding though it’s paying out at 30 reels every time. Should I hope this continues on week 4 in the chance I might pick up Albert before game over – 100 reels short of Devils lair now with heaps of silver balls
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WTD even with the extension j won’t be able to finish this event. Ive been playing and playing and still need reels to get deaths mom.
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I don’t understand the logic of having an event that a majority of players can’t come anywhere near close to finishing. I understand that there are players that clam-rush every task and challenge and want more things to do. I also get that they are — somehow — constantly with clams in their possession and their spending — if they are gotten through monetary purchases — is what is keeping the game active.
But a large portion of us are mixed players and even with spending my $20 event limit I won’t be close to finishing. You can give the clam-rush people a million tasks and they are going to complete every one of them as fast as possible and then look for more. I think $20 is a reasonable budget for an event for what the game gives me and I will be over $150 spent for 2015. But this is the second of three events that I won’t come close to finishing, mostly because of flaws with the game (tubas for Cleve Jr and werewolves/ice creams). The only reason I finished the Star Trek event was the extension they gave (altho I passed on Seven of Nine because I had spent all my clams) and the only reason I finished PeterPalooza was the secret concerts (I played for four straight hours and the currency I gained was invaluable).
I would like to think my $150 annually would be worth something to TinyCo’s books, but I sure don’t feel like it. They want more and more and more. Finishing the event should be the goal. I am fine to finish when I finish and then have a respite until the next new content comes around. I am going to see how Christmas goes and make a decision if that money isn’t better served elsewhere. The longevity of this game is tenuous at best based on what I have seen over less than two years. The way they are setting up things tells me they are nowhere near where they want to be on the revenue side. And they want to plan for an event involving professional athletes? Yeah, those guys don’t EVER want to be compensated for their likenesses. I am a huge fan of Tom Brady and Kevin Garnett, but there is no amount of money I would spend just to have them in my Quahog.
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This guy nailed it. I stopped purchasing clams when every event experienced a major shutdown because of something TinyCo did (or didn’t do). I WANT to support the company because I enjoy the concept of the game and I love FG. I am honest with myself and when I am unable to get things, I ask myself is it my game play (either time devoted or strategy devised) or is it a flaw in the game? Far too many times it is a TinyCo-admitted flaw in the game. I am glad they admit as a company when they make a mistake (I think there are far more that they don’t admit to), but the mistakes are too frequent for me to show my trust in them with financial support. I stopped spending money which helped me stop caring. I hate that that is the case, but I felt I didn’t have any choice.
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WTD,,, I Scream You Scream We All Scream For Ice Cream!!!!!
WTD Tinyco,, the whole Queue is just a log jam Cluster @#$@ to begin with,, this has been proven event after event, and then in Phase 5/6 you really create a super log jam with the ICE CREAM!!
It really makes me wonder if anyone at Tinyco even play their own events, I cannot believe that they do because then they would see how the queue is just terrible and then making it so that ICE CREAM is soooo very long to acquire,, oh and making the Magenets a “RARE” drop was just a big middle finger to the players.
I spent about 40 dollars on this event,,which is a pittance compared to many players,, but Tinyco you will never see another dime from me, ever.
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Totally agree. I have 6 chances every 4 hours, but I normally only get 3, so I can only really get the ice cream every 8 hours or so, and I can’t get new options to use up the rest of my inventory without having ice cream.
I seriously have 100+ whips and I just don’t have any options to use them.
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I could write a book about the event and it’s frustrations, but I feel I would be repeating what others are saying.
I contacted Tinyco about several issues, including timers starting without me even activating them. They pretty much said “too bad.” I don’t put a lot of money into the game because it’s a death trap, but I do every now and then put $10 or so into clams, and hoard them – I rarely buy premium. The characters just go into storage in less than a month, not worth it. I know they need money, but make the game enjoyable and perhaps people will happily buy characters and clams!
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Spider Hole? WTD?!? It’s locked and not even available for me to unlock. . . How can I (premium player) complete a quest that is impossible…
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For me, I can work to collect 800 reels by Thursday to get Hook Hand Albert (the item before him which triggers the timer and him) or play the quest line and work to get all of the items in the last page in the projection booth. I don’t see either being possible in the week mostly due to ice cream. I’m ticked because I liked the concept of the event (I know a lot of others haven’t) but the play for ice cream is unreasonable. The concessions booth should be wide open for the last week and not so dependent on ice cream. There should be a reward for reaching the last week since so many won’t even come close. Throw combinations of everything out there and make us knock them all out then throw in a whole new variety. We get six choices and four of them need ice cream so we get halted to try and get ice cream again. My projection booth is running non-stop and have plenty of everything … except ice cream. I get that it was the last item but that was the last phase. This new phase should be a free-for-all so we can all use the last of our items. I have hundreds of the other items but I use up the magnets as fast as I get them. At least make them an “always” drop so every four hours we are generating 20 ice cream instead of having it take 8-12 hours with the drop rate. Plus the clearing item in the concession booth is 25 ice cream so you need to cycle through twice. I hate when the event becomes halted because TinyCo didn’t think through the mechanicals on something. And I mean this respectfully: Please don’t tell me that we are where they want us to be. Every time I read that, TinyCo makes a change to the game so there is no way that could be true. I don’t think TinyCo has any clue where they want us to be until something gets played out live and that is a huge problem. And it happens every event. They should be playing out the event well ahead of time. And as freemium since that is how so many of us play, not with the premium helps. Of course the game is easy with all of the helps. But most of us make our premium purchases either due to the item or how much we think the item will help us with game play. So a small minority plays with all of them in our games. I hope the Christmas event can wipe away the memory of all of the flaws to the many, many events of 2015.
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The alternative, and I believe it to be true, is that we are most certainly where they want us: behind and panicking.
That’s how they up clam sales, by stressing the players base to see how many clams they collect, the FTP version of grabbing us by the ankles and sbaking to see how much change falls out of our pockets.
I used to rail against their incompetence as a backhanded compliment; I did ‘t think they were evil.
I no longer think they are incompetent.
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I kinda see that, but I think far more people are chucking the game rather than spending more clams. Someone earlier talked about a $20 event budget. Seems reasonable. If we got to the end of an event and I had played my butt off and was just short of something, I would be more apt to purchase and use clams to finish. Being tremendously behind in the second week only makes me want to stop playing, not buy more clams in an attempt to catch up. Their business model has been less than impressive from day one. Some people are always going to buy clams. Some people are going to do it sporadically. Some are never going to do it. Presenting a game for all three types isn’t easy. But alienating the “sporadic” group means there are two groups not purchasing. Wouldn’t two of three groups purchasing be better than one? Maybe I am wrong here. Maybe the people who purchase unlimited amounts of clams are the only revenue support they need.
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I’m surprised they haven’t thrown in a “Leaderboard Prize” on top of everything else to just screw with us in this final week. 🙂
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Ugh…please. no more leaderboards EVER again! i HATE those and they are TOTALLY unfair.
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U R right… but what I think is, we are where they want us to be (in a different way from what you mean I guess).
Events for them are not supposed to be doable, they’re just a bunch of tasks and stuff to create a need for clam purchases. So, all those so called mistakes like tubas for Cleveland Jr, Leopard Platforms in the Peterpalooza event, and now Ice Creams, with all the queue process -the same as hiring goons, staff.. bear chasers, etc- are a funnel trap conceived to work like that.
I’ve asked the same about the mechanics of the game since the mobster event, wondering if they even test them, and of course they are never going to admit something’s wrong, because nothing is wrong.. Events, since this year, are not supposed to be 100% achievable without a ton of clams… As illogical as they are, is all about selling clams. They don’t want us to be all players specifically at certain stages.. they just throw content no matter the results.
I know Bunny will read this, and I really mean THANK YOU for all the hard work on this site! but the fact that so many players need a walkthrough site like this, to achieve at least something from a mobile game, is proof of what I’m saying – Slasher Cat for example, no warning about the 24hrs timer, the lucky ones reading posts in here, maybe had a chance to get the reels, on the other hand, a regular player shouldn’t NEED a site to play a game! of course there is no challenge… is not “freaking hard” is just “pay to win” – I stop buying clams since the mobster fiasco… Quite sad, Becasue FG is a great franchise, they are ruining the fun.
Unfortunately freemium is not exactly TinyCo’s Target, you know..
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More reels would be awesome. I am so far behind! This week extension did nothing for me. I am still on page/week 4. But… I did get Deaths dog, so I guess thats a good thing. The options I am getting to convert reels really sucks though.
Why are people so inconsiderate when they go into a public restroom? Plugging toilets, making messes everywhere… I am sick of cleaning up after people. Do you do this in your own house? I hope not! Please don’t do it in public! That nice cashier you were flirting with, guess what, shes the one who had to clean up the bathroom after you made a huge mess of it…
24° this morning, burr! I am so not ready for winter….
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9.99 clam deal + 125 reels…ok I bought 19.99 worth of clams…as soon as I did, an offer for 19.99 worth of clams+500 reels.
Not Cool TC. I write them to ask for the extra reels…they said nope that how we intended it. Ok TC I see how your going to play. You are talking with a customer who has dropped well over 800 for this game during my time with it.You can’t come off with some measly reels that cost you nothing?
The game mechanic is completly busted. I have dropped 120.00 just for this event. I am no where near the end. Just got Deaths mom. Wont get much farther before its over. I feel truly sorry for f2p’s. I know they arent getting much.
I have been one of your biggest fans TC, but your fanbase is starting to shrink. Keep on this way and soon we will talk about your company in the past tense only.
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This is by design. “As intended” means on purpose. As was already stated this was a 6 week event announced as 5 week. The clams for reels offer is part of the bait and switch tactic they’ve used before and should constitute fraud. They’re playing a basic bait and switch scam by slowing down production in the final week and offering a fix to the issue they created for money, all the while making it sound as if they’re completely innocent in the process. But it is “as intended”. Yes, when you commit a form of fraud and admit to it as well, you should be held accountable for your action. However, as long as people keep paying them, they’ll keep doing it. The money grab is wearing then TinyCo. Hope they listen to the email I send out or Christmas will be my final event before I take off the kid gloves.
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Good Guy Greg: Extends the Event an extra week to help you catch up.
Scumbag Steve: Rolls out an extra week of content for you to fail completing.
I call BS- There was no extra week, the event was planned as a 6 week event, but announced as a five week event so Tinyco could trick some of the freeloaders into thinking they give a rat behind about them.
Chances for me to even start week 6 are almost zero, I figure if I can unlock Death’s Mom, I’ll just give up on the rest and wait to see what is next. Probably a Thanksgiving Weekend, extended to a week!, that requires 2 weeks (or a bucket of clams) to finish.
What happened to you Tinyco?
You used to be cool…
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This is going to be a general rant about the clam items in this game: I used to spent money on this game on a regular basis, not all that much, but if some item or character caught my fancy, i didn’t deny myself. In the long run, I was sure it would improve my overall gameplay. But guess what – it didn’t. And this is actually the major issue I have with this game. In every other game, money spent makes your game stronger, here you only get an advantage in one event, or sometimes only one phase of one event. Next week, the item is already completely useless, and you can be pretty sure that it will never be used again. Example for how it should be: Simpsons Tapped Out also regularly offers premium characters or items, and over time I bought a lot of them, spending about a 100 to 120 dollars a year on the game. And guess what, every event , some of those characters/buildings/decorations are used again. In battle games, every dollar spent makes your team stronger, and it stays that way, even after events.
I am so tired of wasting money on this game, when I have no advantage in the long run, and have to start out every new event like I just started the game. Some may call it leveling the playing field, but for me it is just not getting my money’s worth.
Oh, and I also agree with what most of my predecessors said about this event. Not enough time, not enough reels, not enough exchange options – and what is it with the ever lengthening chains? Send characters to collect items, so you can craft weapons, to shoot at various ghosts to get foodstuff to exchange for movie reels so you can buy the actual prizes – and if those prizes happen to be playable characters, you still have to collect more stuff to unlock them. I know it is called “The Quest for Stuff” but this is getting ridiculous.
And one last thing: what is the use in giving out “free” characters during timed events if one of the items to collect is so hard to get you are practically forced to spent clams? Especially if said character is also needed to move the quest along, to be able to progress in the event? Like the tuba debacle with Cleveland Jr; this time around it was Ruth and now Death’s Mom that’s holding me back.
But that’s enough, at least for now. As a closing remark I just want to say that the only reason i am still playing is this blog, and the blog community. Even if it mainly consists of a bunch of angry people. Going through some bad times together brings you closer 😉
It also helps to know I am not the only one struggling.
And Bunny, I still have a bunch of carrots in the fridge I bought yesterday – I’m gladly offering them to you, seems like something bunnies might like to eat 🙂
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I have been craving carrot cake or muffins. Maybe I will make a couple batches with them. Send them on over via the Transporter. 😉
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*beam*
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Anyone else a bit disappointed with the “grand prize” for the weekly challenges? Admittedly, the challenges were easier this time round because you had 3 days to finish them, but still… Rather ugly decoration that has to go into storage after the event anyway, to make room for another bunch of decos from the next one… Well, since I am not sure I will be able to unlock Death’s Mom in time, I probably won’t even get it, so it might be a good thing that it doesn’t seem worth the hassle.
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HOnestly… I have NEVER liked the Challenge Prizes. They all seemed MEH to me since they started them. 99% just a decoration.
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This isnt an extension. This was always planned as a 6 week event. If they hadnt added page 6 in the booth i might have bought it as an extension, but we are expected to belive that they suddenly rustled up 7 new deco prizes, some even animated? Nah. Deaths mom will be as far as i’ll get, which will be the first time since king butt i’ve not completed an event (occasional clam spender on chars only, but in this event there was no one i wanted, nor seemed like would give a good boost – my issue was the build queue and i’m just not spending clams to rush anything, ever). I’ll hang on till christmas, but if that event is like this one, i’m done. Which will be a shame, because i like the content, but it’s just no longer fun to aquire it.
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Every event gets more complex and complicated/convoluted. The number of steps to take to unlock characters this event is ridiculous – do tasks for an item, process item for awhile, use item on movie character, save up items collected from movie character to buy reels (at an ever changing exchange rate, WTD??), save up reels, trade reels in for a prize, wait for prize to drop items needed for character. Repeat multiple times for all items needed for character. Oh, and let’s make the timers for creating the weapons longer for each type of movie character. And let’s tie up some of the regular characters that are needed for drops/quest lines, too (werewolves). Oh, and maybe make some of those movie characters have more hit points than one weapon can handle!
This event is pretty much the opposite of fun. I got Death unlocked, and stopped trying much for anything else. Was still playing here and there, unlocking whatever prizes I could (Meg’s friend have all been impossible, of course, since I do things like sleep, eat, and have a life beyond this game). But my exchange rate on popcorn just went from 25 for 5 reals to something like 60 for 5, and I’m done. I’m pretty much going to finish up Death’s quest line as far as I can (Assuming it’s going to run into a “now craft xyz thing!” wall like everything else does) and ignore the rest of the event. If it weren’t for my Star Trek characters, I’d likely walk away from the game entirely. It’s just SO heavily geared towards people who want to schedule their lives around it and/or throw scads of real money at it. Takes most of the fun out of it.
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Finding a certain object is a complete nightmare. Scrolling through all the icons is really tiresome and for the majority of the time the app freezes half way. I don’t care about events and how they’re “unfair”. I care about the core game itself, how everything is set up. They really need to take some time and organize all the menus. They should also consider releasing more districts at a more reasonable pace. Seriously, this game is mostly events that slightly tie in to the show. That really bugs me for some reason.
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My wtd is about tapped out, Hedges and tents err outhouses or sheds, and 2 free outfits plus 2 characters . but god hedges and pointless crap.
Getting 2 characters was cool, but all the gathering for nothing… ohh the wailing walls.
And then theres FG, I’m way behind on the event, I haven’t even placed deaths mom and there is no zombie cars, ice cream or magnets in sight.
i’ve gotten the cat, death and his dog, Patrick, and I got friend no. 2 and I’m about to get no.3 plus I bought Satan. But really unless you get !0 free characters per event it isnt worth playing. Right
I used to be better at these events when they were easier, but I’m mad and I got some deco in my town now that just in the way.
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I have over one hundred supplies in everything except ice cream and licorice but every time I clear out the 25 ice cream for reels only one or two more options appear for like 15 sodas or crap and then once those clear the ice cream is the only thing up again. So I have a lot of crap, but can’t do anything.
Also, annoyed that the death sign needs a quest that seems to spawn in phase 6, cause I have every deco for glasses and really want that one. Burgh!
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My issue continues to be them putting out new content with no new land to put it on. The content to land ratio is insane. I wish there would be a land event where were able to place more things in storage out there. Having to constantly resign my town every event along with playing the event has been so tedious. We only get new land with new districts that come with a whole new set of buildings.WTD
Also, ear infections suck.
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Yup I’ve got the same WTD as you. REELS. I’ve spent a lot of clams on this event and still missed characters and am about 4 days behind. There’s no way I’m getting the pope. I’ve had fun with TQFS but I’m sad to say that after this cash grab event, I’ll spend the last of my clams and probably never play again just like I did recently with Tapped Out.
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Agreed i have to agree here this event was just a money grub. ive not been playing long but this was an excellent way to kill my enjoyment of the game.
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Another thing I hate is the queue mechanic that’s been used several times now. It always goes the same way. I have ridiculously high numbers of all the movie prop crafting items, but thanks to the queue there’s nothing I can do to pump them out fast enough, even with the queue going 24 hours a day.
At the very least TinyCo should heavily reduce the time needed to craft the items. 15 minutes max for each item would make us so much more productive and would have helped players actually keep up with the pace of the event.
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But how are they gonna make money from clams used to rush the queue if they do that?
the queue is a paygate, that separates the customers from the frepading rabble, and its not going anywhere…
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A what the duece repeated by many. Why is tiny co giving us an extension? To help us catch up and try to get the stuff we are behind in. Not in tiny co’s language, they just added another week of the event and put out more things to get that 3/4 of the players wont come close to getting. So instead of extending the event they just added another phase. Not really gonna help me catch up anyway. I’m still in phase 4 and play nonstop everday. I’m so far behind becouse i wont spend clams to speed things up, witch is what you do. Load up the que with 6 materials then spend anywhere from 40-60 clams to instantly get the items, witch probably bunny does (no wonder why you needed a new job lol). So as i will start phase 5 tommorow right now in my reel exchange is 30 reels for 25 sodas ssssshhhhhh tiny co might catch on, so im stockpiling the reels before i get to the ice cream cone fiasco. I’ve got over 200 reels the most I’ve ever had at one time during this event. Thanks for the vent, hope this helps out other people that are were i am at this point, literally the only thing i have left is to tap the screen for next movie, but im gonna try to get a lot more reels tomorrow to as long as i dont run out of silver balls……….
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I second (Third? Fourth? Oh, who am I kidding, it’s got be closer to thousandth…) the WTD regarding reels. I admit that I over-play this game – even when I know that there’s nothing for me to do, I still log in multiple times per hour unless I’m sleeping. However, I’m over a week behind. At best, I may be able to get Hook Hand. It’s going to be very close, and that’s because of those darn ice cream cones. I was initially calm because I read the post about concession stand exchange options, but I haven’t had more than 2 non-ice cream cone exchange options at a time since I began Phase 5 (and it’s usually only 1). I sent in a comment to TinyCo pointing out that the system has to be broken if even someone playing that frequently can’t catch up. (And that’s with skipping all of the “Freakin Hard” prizes except Slasher Cat.)
If I had known at the start of Phase 5 that ice cream cones were needed so badly to advance, I probably would have bought the creepy deco that drops ice cream cones. Unfortunately, I didn’t because I think all of those decos are disgusting in appearance, and by the time I realized how important those cones would be to progressing, I had already lost the better part of a week. Now, it’s just not worth the clams.
I really hope that TinyCo listens to the feedback and takes it into consideration when planning anything for Christmas. I’m sure I’m not alone in anticipating enough stress and demands on my time from family and holiday events without trying to factor this game into things.
And on a non-QFS WTD: the icing I made earlier tonight tastes like nothing more than a stick of butter. Blegh.
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Still one shoe away from Peter Pewterschmit. Sigh. Freemium player so I shouldn’t complain, but I play so many times a day I should be able to stay more on track. The last event I was able to keep up with as a freemium player was Christmas. Since then I’ve always been behind or missed out on items and characters.
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My “What the Deuce” moment has to be in trying to obtain the Ghostbuster Peter outfit. The quest originally called for 16 vampires to be cleared. I made it up to 11 before they stopped spawning (for over 5 hours). After trying for the entire day to complete this quest, I finally had to go to bed and decided that if I wanted the outfit (which I did – as it would complete the set), I would have to pull them out of the movie screen. I spent over 150 clams trying to pull some out (as even then they did not want to come out). Later, I was told that TinyCo had changed the amount of vampires needed to 6! As we Australians sometimes say, “not happy Jan”.
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My WTD is that this event cost my friend 10,000 clams! She loves Halloween so that’s why she spent that much. Thorough out this entire game since it began back in 2014 up to now, she’s spent more than $800.00 plus, and I think she said after this event she won’t be playing anymore because the events are getting more expensive and for us that cannot afford to spend much is hard to get ahead and get every character they offer, not to mention that they become useful and take space in the inventory. This game used to be awesome but after the Mob event down forward has become more and more of a monopoly rather than fun. TinyCo has become greedy and not helpful to those who play sometimes premium but most of the time freemium.
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I think I liked the reel exchange for Phase 4 the best. I have gone through all reel options in the concession stand and now just have 20 reels for 25 ice creams and no other options until I clear that 20 reels which is only done by getting ice cream from Hook Hand Albert and from rescuing Jerome from the demon car and that I have only been getting 1 ice cream from that more often then I have been getting the 5. I do have Sour Milk but that is an 8 hour wait. I was getting reels pretty fast with Phase 4 and 5 and now I am probably lucky to get even 100 in a day. I thought the point of the extension was for people to get caught up NOT give us more of a headache. I was really looking forward to this event also and it has been about the same headache as the Mob event. I have decided to stay with this game until the end of the year to see if Tinyco starts getting better with their events and if not then I will take my money elsewhere.
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Ya I agree Phase 4 was the best. The 7 licorice for 5 reels made it easy to cash those in whenever you got them. Phase 2 however was the most painful 75 soda for 10 reels and 135 popcorn and 50 soda for 12 reels, this was the only phase where i fell behind on but caught up in next phase. Ironic part is the horsemen give out large amounts of scream points but if your in phase 6 you most likely maxed out your scream points anyways.
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Why the hell does certain characters have so many different actions to get multiple items (ie. Quagmire) and then others have nothing! Expecially big name characters that by all rights should give something besides coins. Things like this make you realize that if you’re not a paying player, there’s no way to actually finish big events.
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As most Events only require you to be at District 3 of the Game Play, it uses mainly Characters in the game by that point to allow Seasoned and New Players to play.
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And don’t forget that it bottlenecks item generation, increasing sale on item generators!
That’s far more important than new players only on District 3 play.
The valuable clam buyers will catch up to whatever level is necessary…
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Did you see my many remarks on the “12 step program” ? 😉
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Reels! Reels! Reels! The exchanges ALL revolve around ice cream. Getting ridiculous. Also I HAVE EVERYTHING you can make with 3D glasses yet cannot clear it of the quest. Glitch? Anyone know whats up with this? Email me with solutions. And yes the event is getting long in the tooth.
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Check my list…
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I just checked your list and yes I have all of those items. Making a list & checking it twice gonna find out whose…never mind. It still won’t clear.
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Odd. Some are saying they had to rebuy some items. Please message TinyCo on this issue so they can resolve it. Even if you don’t get a response.
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I had to get duplicates of some of the earlier items. It seems the game didn’t register some of the items gotten before that task showed up.
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My WTD is Halloween being over so quickly, how i am supposed to watch all the classics in one week.
Another WTD, shops are already selling christmas trees, calendars and cards, jesus
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The “getPlayArea” bug is back. Game won’t load.
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Omg! I know! I’ve been locked out of my game for well over 24 hours… I’m so so so frustrated!
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The “getPlayArea” bug is back. My game won’t load.
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WTH… garlic bombs are completely useless!!!
Plus… no link to WTD on the home page with the article. WTD!!
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Only 125 reels for a $10 clam purchase that barely helps. Still need 500 to get hook hand Albert. Why are phase 6 prizes cost so many reels, I’m sure most people aren’t even this far. I get adding new content for the select few who have managed to keep up, but why extend the event and add a bunch of things most people won’t get. Can the concession stand exchange open the last few days so I don’t have to wait for ice cream cones to trade in for reels, I only have over 200 popcorn and 100 of everything else just waiting to get rid of.
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Need more/better snacks for reels trade ins. I’m overloaded with the first 4 snacks because I always have either just the 25 ice cream one or that plus 1-3 other options that are all Ice Cream plus a small amount of one of the other snacks. That wouldn’t be too bad if I could just keep taking down Albert to get enough Ice Cream to slowly work my way through my stock of other snacks, but there’s a continuing string of clear nuns/werewolves/horsemen/clown tasks that keep replenishing the first 4 snacks as well keeping me from taking down Albert for Ice Cream to use for the trade ins.
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This game has become so annoying and terrible that it looks like a parody of a family guy tv series.
I understand they need to earn more profit but they should at least let players have a chance to complete this event without the same old pay it or repeat the same task again method.
Some decorations are interesting and nice but most of them look plain and dull like the drunk witch on the tree, the twin sisters, haunted tv set, spider hole etc.
The only thing I’m having fun with this event is to get the 3D glass decos which has many varieties and creative NPCs not to mention the early acquistion of Death character which is great and enjoyable.
Thanks again to this amazing website for the exceptional info and notices that Tinyco failed to do it constantly. Have a nice weekend clammers!
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WHAT THE DEUCE!!! 6 days into phase 5 and still not getting options for reels. Only getting 45 per day. Nothing but ice cream cone combinations.
With that said, this event is drawn out. Back to the core game.
And why do military helicopters have to fly so low?
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I agree with Bunny’s WTD about REELS! But it’s not just the reels, it’s the process to get the reels that’s ticking me off. The concept to incubate the items (in the movie prop shack) needed to get the things that actually give you reels has got to stop. Once you have, say a water balloon, you should be able to use it immediately. I’m sitting on 133 water balloons, 72 cannon balls, 128 pumpkins, 81 barrels, 145 garlic cloves and 2 MEASLEY MAGNETS. I can’t make the reels fast enough. Which leads to my second WTD?
Where’s the FUN? This event stopped being fun for me the second week. I have never been so far behind in any event (except the King Butt one, which was my first). I’m on revenge of the scythe part 9, still trying to get Deaths Mom. Jerome has already run 6 marathons.
I can come up with a few more (werewolves, Lois and slasher cat) but I’ll stop here.
Rant over. Thank you for your time.
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Lol. That’s why I just put “Reels”… it is them and all that goes into getting them including, and I did quote this to TinyCo, the “12 step Program” of earning them. 😉
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Wtd saved reels for rainbow barf creature though it was a walking deco and it’s a animated creature waste of 600 reels
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What the deuce??!! Every time there is an event, Tinyco makes it such a pain in the butt. It takes forever to get to the next movie level, you don’t get hardly any points in order to move up. The amount of reels is ridiculous. Also, if Hookhand Albert is only destroyed by magnets, then why are they rare. Been working on deaths mom for over two weeks and still can’t get the last tea plate because it is extra rare. The only thing I can use to make reels is ice cream and licorice. Every event I have played, I NEVER GET TO FINISH……GRRRR. Tinyco is so aggravating, clam prices are ridiculous and the price to buy clams is ridiculous. I could keep going on, but I will stop for now. At least this post helps me feel better by letting me vent my multiple frustrations with this game. Does anyone at Tinyco check out if everything is possible before we start an event? Even extending the event til next week doesn’t help me. I am still 1500 points and 1 stupid tea plate away before I get to upgrade to the last movie. At this point I doubt I will even get there.
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*sigh*
This event has been a massive disappointment for me from roughly week 2… I fell behind sometime there due to RNG and was never able to get even close to caught up. Even weeks others said were easy ended up taking longer due to RNG gods opting to laugh at me.
I quite literally this morning started week 5 or whichever is the one where Albert shows up. Patrick took me almost a full week to unlock despite 14+ hour days tapping the Cyclops House for running shoes. And to boot I have a chance to get Death’s Mom, but I’ve been hamstrung waiting for magnets to get ice cream because that’s all I can currently trade in for reels!
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Worst… Event… Ever…
Twice now, right before getting an item the game glitched.
I was ONE (yes 1) popcorn and 22 hours from being able to get the last reel (yes, 1 reel) for Slasher Cat when all of sudden, nothing was dropping, no nuns were appearing, Poppy stopped popping, and even when I finally got some popcorn, there was no Trades available. Reported this to the Tiny C.O. And they wrote back that it was supposed to be hard to get. I wrote them back and said you don’t understand, the game stopped working, they wrote back and said it’s supposed to be hard to get. I wrote back and asked if that meant it was supposed to be impossible to get, and they stopped responding.
Then, right before I was going to get Meg’s first friend (Patti?), the whole game glitched with some programming error (null pointer or some such). It’s was able to get on 20 minutes after the timer had expired. Again, I wrote the Tiny C.O. – apparently they have decided to ignore me,
Well, I am going to ignore them. No more money shall go their way. Bunch of crooks and bad programmers.
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An extension that adds more content isn’t an extension.
Common drops that also drop an Always item never function correctly.
Frustrating gameplay makes me more determined not to spend clams because I’m not paying just to fix (intentional?) problems.
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I’m not even trying to get to week 6 of this.I Still stuck on week 5…its impossible to get reels, once I collect the last plate for deaths mom I’m done with this event. By far my least favorite event since this game came out. Sadly, it would have been one of my favorites if it weren’t for the impossible reel drop rates and that awful concession stand forcing ice cream with every single trade for the past 2 week now. I have almost 300 Popcorn 200 plus sodas over 100 chocolate bars a lot of licorice and can’t use any of it due to 25 ice cream with every single trade! Just not a fan of 12 step crafting and collecting. No fun in that!
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the reel system is so frustrating. I’ve gone from a top 100 player in the mob event to an entire week behind in this event. I’m still trying to get reels to unlock death’s mom, and I play everyday, and have all the premium characters. I feel like they want me to spend 1000 dollars again in a month, but that’s not realistic. I think after I get death’s mom I’m really not going to worry about the rest of it. It’s impossible anyway.
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The new format of the concession stand tho 😡
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I think that this event could have been one of TinyCo’s best. I mean we got the Death family. We got Meg’s friends. We got Slasher Cat. And we got some good movie based premium characters.
But TinyCo effectively made the event a stressful, hate filled mess by making the collection of reels about as difficult as humanly possible. WHY completely randomise what reel amounts you can get and for what price? WHY add so many hidden timers to force people to spend clams if they trigger them too early? WHY make us unlock EVERY. SINGLE. prize to progress towards the end of the list?
They even added insult to injury by adding a “reel for cash” option in the last week.”Oh whats that?” TinyCo said. “We’ve made getting reels too hard and the costs for the items to unlock too hard? Well give us money and we’ll throw you a few hundred reels, that probably wont even get you the big cost items like Albert or Maniac Pope anyway. Cha Ching!”
Do you know I started playing just after the start of the Star Trek event. And I still FINISHD that entire event before the final day. It was tough and I did get all the premium characters, but I did it. And that’s as a brand new player. But now, as a max level player, I am more than a week behind in this event, despite playing every day and buying several premium items for speeding things up.
I seriously hope this event was just the result of bad planning and not the actual direction the game is heading in. If future events are going to be this overly difficult and impossible to complete, then I wont be playing much longer. And I doubt I’m alone in saying so.
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Lol I do that all the time. I’m hungry and have no idea what to eat. I always end up falling back on the same thing like a chicken salad lol. Which funnily enough is what I’m about to have for dinner.
My personal WTD… Again with the annoying misrepresentation of stuff that doesn’t get acknowledged/sorted out, this time being the Death statue not giving out ice creams grr….. If a mistake like this is made, I really feel they should just make it happen, even if it was just a drop once every 24 hours. Not that I’m still upset about Firedog Brian or anything 😛
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It’s funny you should mention being hungry but nothing looking good to eat. Last night I literally drove around my town looking for something to eat and I ended up coming home empty handed and empty stomached.
I wish the event hadn’t been extended. I’m ready for this to be over.
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What”s going on with the reels? I’ve got soda and popcorn and just need 7 reels for the next item but now I have to spend clams? Don’t move the goalposts this close to the end!
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