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. Censor yourselves so we don’t have to!!
Here’s mine for this week:
–WHAT THE DEUCE… Mystery Boxes! These are nothing more than a slot machine people. Use at your own risk. I can’t say it enough apparently.
–WHAT THE DEUCE… Exhaustion. I just feel like I want to curl up in a ball under my desk at work and sleep. No one will mind, right? Not as long as I put my alarm clock under there with me… ticking away. 😉
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 
My game has stopped working
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Can you be more specific?
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Santa and peter finished attacking the Santa village and the game asked me to rebuild the humma hangar so I did… Now Santa and Peter are stuck in limbo, when I click on the ! To attack, it shows Santa and Peter with an hourglass on their pictures… And my humma was reset to the first level, I had just finished attacking all the buildings in the village at their highest level…
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I finished the 48 hr challenge but didn’t get any prize. I checked my storage. But nothing.
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Did you go to the right place?
Inventory, not Shopping Cart
Decorations Tab.
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Huh I swore I looked every where in my inventory. But now I did find it looking a second time. Thanks
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🙂
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I just clicked on Santa Claus to get the next part of the challenge for the cat, and it popped him out of the hummer!! AGAIN!!! Argh, I’m already behind enough as it is, now I won’t be getting ANY reward from my current attack on the village. Not that I can even do the challenge because I don’t have Kevin Swanson unlocked yet so just lost my chance at the cat 😦
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Pushed my last button (got a bit excited there lol)
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WTD!!!!!! After days of waiting for a review of my account I get told my game has been altered because I have peter’s wife’s cookies building when I didn’t play the valentines event……
I did play the magic mike event where it was re-released for coins though!!!
Incompetent f#*%s!!!!
I want back in on the leaderboards and as a fair and honest paying player being called a cheater over and over as I begged for a review is making me so angry, for the reviewer to then be so blatantly wrong about something has really
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Write them back again… add this link…
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Thanks Bunny 🙂
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Didn’t think to send the link
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Does anyone else find this event kind of a let down? I do not want to be called out, but the buildings, characters, and outfits are kinda lame. Nothing like last Christmas…. Just not feeling it. P.S. Not being a Scrooge:)
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I feel the same way.
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I’m finding FG events increasingly more frustrating. I am quite far on in the game itself, level 56, and have the key characters needed for events. I play regularly, a few times per day if I have the time. Yet I seem to always be miles behind the yardstick when it comes to timing. I’m only just working for the 4th item in the first week’s lot of items in the Christmas event, and I see that week 2 has commenced, and people have literally hundreds of medals, and I’m in the 10s. Why am I so far behind? Is it because I’m not spending money on clams? The last few events, I’ve got fed up after a week and half and given up. The timed items or characters are so annoying too. Especially if you get one started unbeknowns that you should have finished something else first or whatever. I’m not expecting anyone to have the answers, and I know it’s generally a free game, but just wanted to voice my frustrations.
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I’d like to know witch family guy you’re playing, I’ve been playing since the start and stoped leveling up at 50 a couple years ago. So how can you be at level 56. Are you sure you’re not getting tsto confused, even there I’m at max level 58.
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Family Guy’s Highest Level is 60. Has been now almost a year. 😉
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My bad,😩. My level just says max for so long, i thought it was 50 when it maxed out. Hope you are feeling better bunny. Thanks for all you do.
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Lol. No worries. 😉
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I think it’s absurd to expect players to have to get Kevin Swanson for 385 presents and then Within 24 hours need to get an additional 900 presents for a stupid building..I know I know “but it’s skynet headquarters!”. Its also 2400~ clams which is what, $50!? I just find it very hard to want to continue playing this game when I don’t have access to all that it has to offer without spending ~$100 a week. It’s too much and I am shocked that so many people still play.
Also, the leaderboard is pointless unless you also want to spend a C-Note for a darn Character that you will only use for one Questline and then never use it again.. this game is a money pit
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I didn’t get the 900-present building. Didn’t need it. Got all the drops I needed long before I would have reached 900 presents… I just triggered the timer after starting to unlock Kevin just in case that was necessary. All my presents went to the prizes for the next phase. The last timed item on a page is not needed to progress, although Lyle was important because that gives us two freemium drivers for the hummer. But he was only 250 presents. The rest of the timed items are just useless stuff.
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I am so ready to scream!! I have been waiting for 3 days to get the last, stupid, army ration can. I still haven’t gotten it and it is ridiculous!! So frustrating!! Thanks for letting me vent! I feel a little better now.
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WTD: Journalistic integrity.
At some point the world has evolved into corporate run journalism. Where integrity used to be the pillar of jounalism and news, no matter what the source, reporting was trustworthy and without a hidden agenda behind it. No longer is this the case. Journalism is being bought by sponsorship on all levels, from simple reviews of a product, to the nightly news on television. While true that ads pay for the ability to reach the masses, there’s a hidden side to this that includes absolute control through censorship and plants within the media.
Voices being stifled help no one. The reason anyone is censored for any reason is because someone doesn’t appreciate the truth as told by the individual. When journalism of any variety is altered or ommited, there is no integrity to be had; thus, is without merit and without purpose.
Self serving journalism is only fueling the fire for the backlash that will inevitably happen. The corporation will blame the failure on the jounalist and the journalist will be extricated from the media at large. In the end, everyone except the money men lose out.
I applaud those journalists that stand on their own and buck the system to which they’ve found themselves thrust into. Once one gives into the corporation, they control you. They control your words and, if you’re an editor, they own you and your media.
To all: Watch all forms of media closely and discern the difference between sponsored content and true journalism. If the message praises the product or company and omits criticism, it’s potentially corporate run fluff designed to mislead consumers against the actual truth of the product. If it’s nothing but overt critisism, it is possibly a volley from the competition, or the product/company really is highly flawed and deserving of the hammering.
Typical corporate tactics are to stifle bad news and only gladhand bringers of good news. These office politics are being passed in the media to the self serving greed inherent with those uninterested in the real truth.
If you’re an editor, second guess that bribe when they choose to mute your content or those responses to your content. if you’re a writer, don’t let your integrity get compromised. If you’re the reader, let the media know you’re not being fooled. Opinions matter. Real reviews matter. Perks and money are not worth the integrity hit is it?
Unfortunately, too many succumb to this and have become morally bankrupt in the process. Would love to hear thought on this. Thanks.
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WTD ? I got banned from the leaderboard for no reason. I have only 50 medals and only limited few clams I got by watching ads !! I was not even in top 5000 then why tinyCo ? I messaged them from the game but looking at others responses, it looks like their algorithm to find cheater is full of bugs or it selects and bans randomly.
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Today I finally got my medal count up to the people with the lowest counts on my leaderboard. When I went to see if I made the board, I saw a message saying I was banned from it. I have never cheated and I have never exploited a glitch. The clams that I have have come f4om watching countless ads and visiting neighbors when the game permits. I am so sad about this. I messaged tinyco in game. I’ve messaged them a few times before and never got a response, but if I dont get a response from them this time, I think I will abandon the game. I might need to anyway, because I guess I am an addict lol. This shouldn’t have this type of effect on me.
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I have also got this message I’m only up to 100 medals and I spend a lot of time on it the people at the top have over 1000
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I wasn’t expecting much from the leaderboards – I was barely within the top 5000 even with sending out both vehicles almost 24 hours a day, and luckily I don’t really care about any of the individual prizes. (I’m much more interested in the global grand prize of God as a character.). However, when I invest so much time and energy into this game and I get the message that I’ve been banned from the leaderboards for TOU violations, it’s like flipping a switch to instantly tick me off. Even though I know it’s an error and I’m sure the feature will be restored once my ticket is looked at by TinyCo support, the fact that I’ve been banned with my measly 90-some medals when I see the top players in quadruple digits boggles my mind. I truly have no idea how you can legitimately have that many medals without cheating or spending a fortune.
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Keep in mind, it may just be a troll jerk too that reported you as cheating in the game and got you banned. If it was in error, they will correct it. You did right by messaging in. 🙂
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I think there might just be a glitch in their monitoring algorithm. I just saw I was banned too and I didn’t even have enough medals to show up on the lowest prize tier and have’t done anything other than play normally. I messaged them, but I wouldn’t stress over it if you find it happened to you too. Clearly it an error and they’ll find it.
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Yah. That’s why I keep referring players to message them. If error, they’ll fix it. 🙂
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I’ve been messaging them ever since the game started because the game keeps saying I don’t have enough bells for anything when I had much more than enough. I sent them a screenshot. I follow up every 48 hours. No response. I tried the usual troubleshooting steps, but no dice.
Why is the customer care so awful? I’ve contacted EA for The Simpsons: Tapped Out 4+ times and it was always a smooth experience.
Is Tiny Co ever going to respond? I don’t want to keep earning bells I can’t spend.
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Keep this in mind, they are NOT the same as EA. EA is a Global company with thousands upon thousands of employees along with Call Centers for support stationed worldwide.
TinyCo is just that… tiny. A handful of employees all housed and responding directly from their ONE office in California.
You are comparing a massively huge corporation to one the is …well… more like a local “Mom & Pop Shop”. In short, patience. It takes time for them to answer. You are essentially standing in line with tens of thousands of other readers. Flooding them with messages only adds to that list and delays the responses even more when you add to that work load… so…wait. Give them 5 days to respond to your in game message and if nothing THEN reply to the message and repeat. Not to mention they had a HUGE issue with the Leaderboards recently. That would have caused a spike in messaging, so more response delay.
Outside of that, what basic troubleshooting have you tried to resolve it on your own?
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I logged in/out. Hard closed app. Hard reset on device. Uninstalled and reinstalled (thrice).
My husband and I have been in the video game industry for decades. It is certainly not unreasonable to expect a timely response when a time-sensitive event is in play. We have friends and associates in all sizes of gaming companies, from the solo operation to the EA/Activisions, and this quality of customer support is never seen as acceptable. Take Happy Street. Tons of users. A two-man operation. Yet, customer care is still provided at a high level. Being a small company does not exuse them from providing reasonable support.
I don’t see how additional messages from me would delay anything as their ticketing system does not assign a separate case for each individual message. Additional messages only append info to the account. I mean, no one would create a system where each message from the user in a chat-window gets sent as a separate case to different agents. That wouldn’t make a lick of sense.
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No need to tell me how OTHER businesses run their shops. I was just trying to explain to you how TinyCo functions. If you do not like it, nothing I can do about it. No need to take it out on me. Someone helping you. I am not TinyCo. I am just trying to help you and let you know what to expect when it comes to messaging them.
Every new message sent equals ANOTHER they have to go through, so regardless if it is linked to the original or not… it will still add time as they go from one original paragraph message within a player report to 7, 10, 20, etc paragraphs. It will now take them longer to read through the additional documentation, right? So… more time spent. Think now of 100’s of other players doing the same. Imagine them in front of you. You just got pushed from being helped in 3hrs to 30 or 100hrs due to they did the same too. Additional Messaging. Or you just created a delay for the next person behind you. Make sense?
You asked a question about TinyCo, “Is Tiny Co ever going to respond?” I gave you an answer about TinyCo. We can sit and debate everyone else and how they run for weeks on end… or how you do not agree with my answer… but it still wouldn’t help the matter in anyway, right? 😉
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I messaged Tiny Co when the event started because the game kept saying I didn’t have enough bells to buy anything. I’d try to buy a blast mark and it would say that I need 17 more bells. It only costs 5.
They won’t reply. I sent a screenshot, told them I tried all the usual troubleshooting steps, and have been following up every 2-3 days. No reply.
Does this mean they will never respond? I just don’t get it when companies ignore users and then wonder why their avg. daily unique player count is in the toilet.
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So both my wife and my game are banned from the leaderboard for cheating according to the message, even though we didn’t do anything wrong. Is there a wide spread issue going on now? I messaged within the app as well but didn’t get a reply yet…
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Yup. Message them and wait 🙂
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I too was banned and freaked out! I messaged and heard back in about a week. They apologized and said it was in the way the ran their program to check for cheats. Sounds like a widespread thing. Good luck!
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Hi. Aye I got the same message as yourself, have never bought clams, get them from watching the ads etc. Not a very happy chappy at the minute😡
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Don’t stress it. Just message them. 🙂
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Sorry post should say NO action for Arnie.
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With a terminator theme why is there action for Arnold Schwarzenegger that earns materials?
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I think I’m genuinely done with this game now. Granted I’m typically a freemium player that occasionally springs for a premium character but the fact that today I was randomly banned from the leaderboard for cheating when I’m not even ON the leaderboard bit hoped to at least get the collective prizes which the ban excludes me from, I’m tired of the events getting crappier and crappier. Unless you spend money you’re screwed now.
Frankly the game isn’t fun anymore.
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well this was very interesting. I open the game after a few hours, turned out I was 17 minutes too early to start the next attack in the North Pole. So I Open the leaderboard to see how far behind I am and guess what……
I have a big sign saying I have been “Banned from using this due to violating the terms of use?”
First off, how can you violate something that just counts the number of medals you are earning. Secondly, how did I do this!!!!!
Just more stupid stuff from this company. I almost made the mistake of buying their special yesterday and boy and I glad I did not.
Wait a minute….. that must be the violation!!! I did not send them any money. Only thing I can think of. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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I got to the point where the houses in santas village were upgraded and now my humma won’t destroy even one with two drivers but I can’t upgrade the humma without the lights I get from destroying the houses. Any suggestions?
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Just Battle. You will get SOMETHING from each one.
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That’s not true. I sent two drivers to battle Santa’s Village which has such a high level that even with two drivers it says 0/3. I thought I give it a try since you said as per TinyCo that something will drop. Well, nothing dropped.
On a related note, I think the quests that require “Defeat Santa’s Village 2 times” punishes players who are further ahead. You defeat Santa’s Village and you get stuck because you can’t level up your Humma because it takes like 27 lights and you can only get 1 at a time at most by sending all 3 drivers, which means Peter can’t do anything else but Peter is needed to do all sorts of other stuff and the Eggnogs don’t always drop. This would take forever. It punishes players who are further ahead because players who didn’t level up the village would have a way easy time. And how are we supposed to know we are not supposed to level up the village by attacking them too much?? It seems to be not a good game design when you are not given the details of the game (such as exactly what you can destroy at what level and how much it will be to get to the next level and what quests are coming up, etc.) and then it turns out to get through a quest you have to do something completely unusual – purposedly not attacking something too much. That is a bad game design that frustrates players to no end because there is no remedy once you get “stuck” in the situation I just described. That is, a game should never punish a player for being further ahead; especially if such players got further ahead by spending $$. That would remove incentive for a player to spend $. I already suggested to TinyCo that they improve the quest (Santa’s Little Helper) by changing “Defeat Santa’s Village 2 times” (which only count new defeats) to say “Defeat Santa’s Village a total of # times (counting past defeats)” or better yet, have an indicator of the village’s level and have the quest be “Defeat Santa’s Village at level #”. But I just got a canned response about the rules of attacking the village instead. I did remessage them. We will see.
Thanks for all your hard work on this site. Really appreciate it.
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Look at the date on the comment… it was a while ago. Since then… an UPDATED response… “app version 1.15.5 will correct issue”. 😉
Don’t stress on side questlines. They’re here til end of event and often meant to take time. With patches coming for various things… this “issue” could be corrected too soon. It’s not a required questline so font focus on it. Juts play Main Event and leave it be for now. 🙂
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Thanks for pointing out the new FG version. I just downloaded it.
Yeah, I noticed the date of your post only after I hit submit.
Indeed I’m not stressing it out; I play for fun. (And I do buy premium stuff – I got T600 and Nutcracker Stewie.)
Because I enjoy solving puzzles, I find it very frustrating when I did not do the optimal thing when there was no way I could have figured that out with the information I had; and now I’m stuck at this bottleneck on this side quest (and it’s possible the next part of this side quest is to defeat misfit toy village twice and now I’m afraid to level up misfit toy village LoL). This minor issue is actually minor, but I messaged TinyCo in the hopes that they could improve such things in the future.
Again, thanks for all your work. You all are awesome.
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When your game keeps on glitching up, but you want to keep your Star Trek section on Quahog.
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what i wanted to tell is that i really want a button to close some animation or just this *** snow effect…we dont all have 7-8 core pcs….the game gets really heavy….
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I also wish we could have the option to stop the snow effect. It’s not causing any problems for me, as of yet, but it’s still not necessary.
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As this happened to you? Got all the requested stuff for donna, bought her but got nothing. Lost my coins and items and got nothing. Wrote to tinyco but i cant hope to get fat stewie by the time they might fix it. If they fix it. Really disappointed.
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Did you pull her out of Inventory once you got her from the market?
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She’s not in the inventory, it’s like she asnt been unlocked at all. She’s still there for some red coins, turkey legs and stuff which i dont have anymore.
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She should be. Did you go really slow and use the ALL tab? They tend to drop them randomly in the middle somewhere.
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Not to be funny….but does anyone with a full time job and without hundreds of dollars/pounds/yen to spend actually manage to get to the end of the events and attain the characters in the finales??? I always find it a stretch. My partner has given up and deleted the game. Such a shame because I really like it but finding it a real struggle. Anyone else finding the same? I haven’t ever got the final character in an event even if I’ve been close once or twice 😦
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Totally agree, even if i play 3 times a day, i cant even come close to the final event. Most of the time, its because of the items dropping that just dont drop after 3 days.
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I am on this game constantly… Sometimes once an hour, sometimes every couple hours, but at least seven or eight times a day. Somehow, I am still never able to complete an event. Sometimes I can’t even finish the questline for the event, never mind unlock the special characters. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong or not doing, but it seems impossible to get the character prizes most of the time, without spending clams.
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I did really good for a long time, including the Star Trek event. I got all the freemium characters. Staring with the Mobster event, I usually can’t get past week 3. I don’t spend money and usually play at least 7 or 8 times a day. It’s really frustrating.
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I was doing really really well up until the Star Trek Event. Then the game went to hell. It seems impossible to keep up with normal game play if your not spending your paycheck on clams. I used to love the challenge…but lately it doesn’t even seem worth the effort.
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It’s very frustrating.
I also play The Simpsons: Tapped Out. I have always earned 100% of all the prizes in every event.
In Family Guy, I never even come close, and I spend more time playing this game! Every four hours (including the middle of the night when I get up to pee and take meds), and that’s still not enough.
The item drops also make it nearly impossible to earn the good prizes without spending massive amount of clams. It’s disheartening when someone else gets three rare drops in a row on the first day, while you’ve gotten none for weeks and the event is ending the next day.
I don’t work, so it affords me way more opportunities to play. For you guys who work, it must suck. I feel for you.
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I have been playing this game from almost day one. Yet one more event where it is clear you have to spend tons of money to get a character that is useless in one week. I have been playing this religiously and I am not even close to fat Stewie or the girls. This is three events in a row where I have been rooked for not dropping tons of money. Enough is enough. Tinyco can keep this game and their money grubbing ways. I am deleting this game. Thanks to all of you for help in the past and good luck.
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WTD? I just finished with the blimp, sending Stewie and pseudo-Shirley Temple to the European Renaissance, and they come back with a guillotine?!?!? A GUILLOTINE?!?! Somehow I never think “guillotine” when hearing the word “Renaissance”. They couldn’t have brought back a nice painting?!?!
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Does Vinny and Adam West ever quit leveling up?
I’m on level 20 or 21 for them, and they’re still going. I so badly want to put them in inventory, but not until they are max. I’m so sick of these 2, always asking me what they should do next, every few hours. Go take a nap with the rest of the maxed out characters in my inventory already!
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Some stop at 15. Rest at 25
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WTD?!? Now I’m finally swimming in fit and fat coins from protesters, 24 hours after getting Donna and Roberta. The fit protesters were on strike for a while.
Meanwhile, Senior Cat has taken to sleeping on my keyboard. Forgot to put up cat-blocking devices yesterday, came back to find cat on keyboard, computer frantically beeping with the HELP screen open (which seems relevant), and three keys missing. Found the ESC and + key caps but the 6 on the number pad is still AWOL. Hope it doesn’t show up in the litter box.
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Could we literally have one event where it does not feel like we are being boned over with a drop item?? I have been literally playing for 16 hours and checking each hour to get kale to just get the pumpkin ferris wheel before I can even get to Roberta and not one time has it dropped, I have none so it’s not looking good to get her with the even ending and I need 4 to complete that and an additional 7 ( I think that is what I read, let alone the other items). Come on, no I don’t think it should be a walk in the park but not one in over 16 hours and I have Mort and the Building as the only option to obtain and checking non stop.
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I am about to go full on William Shatner on this.
kale…..KALE!!!!!!!!!
Just two more and I got fat stewie
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What the deuce…. 3 full days now and still no juice! I’ve got 40 fit coins and every other needed item for kalefornia shop and still need all 4 juices. I’m playing every 2 hours and still no juice! Could we get a character task for juice please! Arghh! Happy Monday folks!
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I’m not spending any more money on this game for a while either. Noticed a drop in clam prices on one or maybe it was two items, can’t remember right off, but they’re going to have to really come up with something good to get my cash again.
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WTD at TinyCo claiming Lard is Uncommon. I haven’t had one drop for close to a day. I wish TinyCo would get a clue and stop making 1 source able to drop a specific item. The rule should be there should always be a minimum of 2 options to get an item (1 building and 1 character). This flaw in design is the same reason for the Cleveland Jr fiasco.
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Is it just me or does the Pie Shop NEVER payout bacon. Probably hit it 30 times now and not once..
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WTD i’m stuck on deaths float from the thin prizes because juice just isn’t dropping need just one more. But also worried because rest of prizes need juice wish tiny co would add a task for juice drop i’m getting plenty of bacon and turkey both of which are rare. Not sure if i’ll get all thin prizes at this rate.
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I know that it is my choice to spend money on the game, and if they could get it right, I would have no issues, but I am tired of spending money on a game that ALWAYS, WITHOUT FAIL, has major glitch issues with every new event! We just started the Thanksgiving event, I went to purchase the ‘I can’t believe it is all butter” shop, and while it checked off the building, it is nowhere to be found, and the next item, the mashed potato volcano is still locked, so no way to move forward until they fix it! I tried rebooting the game, and nothing happened. I sent them a message, and if they react the way they have in the past, I will not hear from them until the event it over! So frustrating. If the same thing happens when I try to buy the first building in the fit line, I am done spending money on this. I still enjoy playing with the town, but I have given them enough money to train a couple programmers how to put out a glitchless game!
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I’ve only ever spent money on it once… It was a limited time deal early on, buy 5 bucks worth of coins and get 5 bucks of clams. Well i got the coins but the clams never showed. These days, with consuelas vacuum, coins are a joke. I have more than i will ever need.
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This game was very cool about a year ago (playing for 2 yrs.?) but has been turning into a money grab crap show! 😕 I understand it IS a business based affair, but W.T.D.!!!
Having to guess when to update, & missing out 1/2 of an event, getting rooked out of items, the increasing ‘set up’ to spend LOTS of $$$ or be left behind… Frustration does NOT = FUN!!! 😢 And I need a Facebook account (boycotted) to have ANY contacts!!!!!
T.S.T.O. has been much more enjoyable these days, without the headache!!!
Bitch, moan, I’ll get off my soapbox now. Without the hard work from you guys @ this site, I would have surely gone Mad!!! 😒 T.Y.!!! 😉
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Spent a whole lot of clams trying to get Bitch Brian and Jasper….NOTHING!
I got a hella lot of Human Walkers I wish I could give away.
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I’ve not posted a WTD before, so here’s hoping I’m not off topic.
I’m trying to clear space in my town by removing some (lots) of buildings. I don’t need the coins as I have more than 7.5 million (another vent for another day!). I wish we could easily see if those buildings are needed for character tasks before moving them to inventory.
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Not sure if this helps, but this is what I did so I am not caught short.
Any character leveled up to maximum is in storage. Most from events will be rarely needed again if the past is any indication. And a character is always ready when needed instead of being on a 24-hour task. Having done that, any “event” building can also go into storage since the event characters that would need those buildings are already in storage.
I tucked away all the buildings from districts in one area since I know they will be used constantly — James Woods HS, The Clam, Stop ‘N Shop, etc. If it is from a district, I leave it out. The district characters always need these and most new event characters do as well since the creators know most players have these in their games so they can safely send them on tasks to these places.
Any building from a recent event where I am still leveling up characters, those stay out in another area so those characters can access them. What I try to do is keep all the buildings from an event isolated in one specific area. Then, when all the characters from the event have leveled up, I know I can safely move those buildings into storage and I have a clean area for the next event. I expect by the weekend, I will have Greased-Up Deaf Guy leveled up and he is the last of the PeterPalooza characters waiting to go into storage. So all those buildings will go just in time for the Christmas event to start.
If you error and find you need a building for a task that is in storage, it will show you in the task menu and you can quickly retrieve the building just by clicking on the icon with the padlock on it. That was how I originally tracked down all the district buildings. I blew up my town and searched each district character for the buildings needed for tasks and brought those in.
It isn’t perfect and I don’t have the prettiest Quahog, but it is functional. It’s just not practical to think that everything can be out. Not enough land is provided and the game is sluggish enough as it is. I have $12M coins banked so I doubt I will run short. And if I do, I can always move stuff out of storage and replenish fairly quickly.
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This is almost exactly what I do! All leveled up chars are in storage. For the longest time, due to events that make you aim & shoot, i had just one square patch of road & “always” builings near by.
I recently made a town again! Yeah, it lags sometimes. But I really missed having a town! I made some of my own districts: like that patch all the way down on the water is “rich people’s place” where all the mansions, gold stuff, country club, vineyard & fancy cars go. I have an entertainment district with zoo & all my animals around it, theme parks, movie theatres, playhouse (with “actors” taking their smoke break outside), stuff like that. Made a mini-restaurant district bc I ran outta room. I have a downtown club zone, with all the bars, dance halls & strip clubs, including Bonnie’s poles & a redneck ATM for emergencies. 😉 I have residence row along the main strip, where everyone’s “normal” house sits. And my own civic district with cops, jail, CIA, hospitals, etc.
I had to take down my drive-in movie plot; where i had the werewolf movie playing for all the other cars i had collected. (Strangely, the cars and screen don’t face each other! Odd planning. So, all my cars were facing the entrance. But whatever, it still kinda worked.) This is where this event’s builings have gone.
Sidenote: HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO CONNECT TO SERVER FOR A WHILE NOW TODAY. All other interwebs working here. Anyone else having connection issues??
(Ok, as i finished typing this, i finally got in. Not sure how long it will last, though. Aaaand, Consuela just popped up again. Sigh.)
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I have had bulldog Meg continuously on her task for two days and not a single sweater has dropped. I have had better luck in the past with epic or extra rare than I have had for these gosh darn sweaters.
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Same here, it is beyond ridiculous. They should change it from ‘UNCOMMON’ to ‘**** NEAR IMPOSSIBLE’
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Where’s dog peter dog Lois and poodle stewie?
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it’s been stated many times before already, but there WILL BE MORE muti-universes in the near future (most likely mini-events jus like this one we’re playing now)which TinyCo., will probably release Dog Peter, Dog Lois, and Poodle Stewie. hope this helps!
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This has been stated where and confirmed by who?
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See main post on Part about More Multiverse.
Stated by both myself AND TinyCo several times. Even in your in game FAQ
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Same here with the Mystery Boxes ! Has anyone obtained Bitch Brian yet ? Spent over 4000 clams,and… yep,NOTHING ! Highly doubt that it is even possible to get him !
WtD TinyCO,don’t be THAT greedy !
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I have exactly the same problem. Spent around 60euros. The worst part is: they don’t even want to hear it..
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With the clams prizes I spent close to 1800 and nadda. TinyCo support says it is working fine but so excited prizes are rarer than others, which sounds like dirty pool because that isn’t mentioned.
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So,tried again,after over 6000 clams in total,NO Bitch Brian…
Asked support nicely about the droprate…they got back to me with they wouldn’t know the EXACT rate,but “the number is a bit greater than ZERO” !!!
I should just try more often… -.-
Yep,that’s how you keep your customers happy !
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I have unlocked Sheepdog Chris, Wolfdog Quagmire, and Bulldog Meg. Still working on Joe. Not really any complaints other than the mystery box. Really wanted Jasper since I started playing the game a little later than some. I knowingly at my own risk attempted 4 or 5 times and got multi items of no real use. No Jasper or Bitch Brian 😢 I gave up after that. Other than that no problems. It’s a nice little pace event. Excited for the Thanskgiving event. Saw a couple spoilers that I’m hoping are true.
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Going into the 3rd week suffering flu, jeezo knocked me right off my feet. Lots things piling up that need done, not started my Christmas shopping, and with a very big extended family which consists of more than 20 kids to shop for I can feel myself starting panic. Hopefully feel better and get back on track soon.
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Online shopping!
I’ve even bought groceries online when needed….
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I only need one more but I haven’t had a Heartworm Pill drop for days so I still haven’t unlocked Dog Quagmire.
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Yes, I agree entirely with you this week. My “What The Deuce” of the week is also the mystery boxes. I did not have anything yet out of the mystery box (since I am a newer player), so I thought I would try my luck. All I could seem to get from it though were the Human Control Trucks, the Human Adoption Centres and the Human Walker decorations.. The Human Control Trucks appeared countless times. After amassing a pile of these items (and burning though a stack of clams), I decided it was no longer worth it to continue. TinyCo seriously need to rethink how often certain items can be received from the Mystery Boxes. I do spend clams (money) on this game but after this, I don’t know if I will ever bother to open up another Mystery Box again.
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I spent 8 dog coins on that human daycare deco because I thought it was a building. (I know, my fault for not checking.) Now, without those 8, I don’t think I’ll get enough coins before the event ends to buy the dog mart, which is actually a building.
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Oh I’m sorry for your problem, but thanks so much for the warning. I had missed the fact it was a deco, so I’ll deed purchase the dog Mart first now ty 🙂
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The new update requires you to have iOS 7 or newer. I have an iPhone 4S and knowing my luck if I update it (it’s still on iOS 6 mainly because I HATE the aesthetics of iOS 7 and newer), I’ll be in the pool of people with major problems or worst my phone turns into an expensive brick. I guess I’m done with this game which sucks because I’ve spent more gift cards than I’d like to admit on this game.
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I’ve been running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4 and 4s since it came out. The game plays ok on both. And I’ve been playing since the beginning so I’ve got a big town with lots stuff. It’s definitely slower/laggy-er than a newer phone. Sometimes I have to store some of my animated decos during really busy events. But it’s still entirely playable.
Thing is: I don’t think you can get ios 7 for a 4s anymore. I think you’d have to go straight up to iOS 8or9.
But I can tell you the game was working great on iOS 8 on an iPhone 5 up until a week ago when I smashed the 5.
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I’m still playing on an iPhone 4s, and on iOS 9. It still works pretty good. Lags a bit, but my phone is full so that might be the problem. I agree with you, how I miss the look of iOS 6!
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It’s snowing! Everyone, quick drive in a ditch! Let’s race around corners and leave 8 inches of snow on the top of the car to blow behind or fall forward! And HONK at the cars that can’t make it up the hill!
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And parking lots! As soon as the lines for the spaces get covered it’s a free for all. Oh there’s already two lines of cars here and if I park behind them they’ll get boxed in? Too bad, there’s snow on the ground!!!
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my WTD, is have you seen the near insane amount of place the game take , let’s say it’s close to 2.4Gb of device use, and since about 3 days i’ve seen more and more game crash out of the blue, and once i’ve got the low RAM message and after the click OK, game crash
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This is my deuce as well. I just got a new iPhone 6 back in October and this game has started chewing through the vram quick fast.
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Make sure the game is connected to Facebook or a Google account. Then delete and reinstall. All the junk files will be gone and you can login again to restore progress.
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ah never think of that, and after this, how much do you think i’ll be freeing?
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My game sits at 565mb currently. I reinstall the game frequently, did so again after previous event. I have my town stuffed to the brim with stuff too (looks like a mess lol) so it will depend on how much stuff you have in your game on how much you will save
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oh yeah, and why don’t the humans drop dawg coins after they are done dropping the needed materials??
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There’s no way I’m going to get K-9 Joe in 3.5 days especially since you need Bulldog Meg.
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I am with you on the mystery boxes! I will allow myself one or two tries, if there is something I would like to have, but if I do not get it in two, oh well! Unless it is event currency boxes, in which case I will spend what I have left if there are no small decos I want.
My major WTD is why do people who live in an area known for its rain lose their freaking minds and forget how to drive whenever there is water coming from the sky?!?
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Think about how much easier it would be to get Meg and Joe if you had a full week to get them instead of only five days. We all sat for two or more days waiting for the new content after most of us got Chris and Quagmire. I keep reading how this was intended to be an easier, stress-free event. Actually, it was intended to appear that way. And then it turned into one with a mad dash to the finish because everyone was immediately put on a five-day timer. From the start, this was a 12-day event. Why would the first part of the content be available for 12 days to get and the final part only five days? Maybe drop the second part of a two-part event halfway through instead of more than halfway through. And with 20 hours of building just to start item drops for both characters, that was an entire day right there. I can never figure out of TinyCo is just that clueless to not understand what they have done or if they are smarter than all of us and this was completely intended to force people to panic and get them to purchase and use clams to finish the event.
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The bottlenecks seem to be the sweaters (can’t start until unlock doggie Meg) and the pills (the Dogmart is supposed to help, but I won’t have enough coins to buy it until early Monday at the earliest). But the event is over on Tuesday afternoon. So they needed to add more ways to get some stuff or make the items less rare. Dropping the new characters a couple of days earlier also would have helped, since many people already had the first two by then. I understand why they wanted to end it on Tuesday- people typically shut down offices early on Wednesday before Thanksgiving here and don’t start up again until the following Monday or even Tuesday, because so many people travel long distances or have family visiting for the holiday.
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No chance we will have from the end of this event until Monday or Tuesday of next week without something. Completely a guess but I am expecting a Thanksgiving-themed mini-event that starts Tuesday (which is why this event is ending on a Tuesday instead of the normal Thursday ending) and the Christmas event to start as soon as possible so it can run for four or five phases (basically the entire month of December). 2015 has shown that this game has become all about manic events because TinyCo has decided those are the only revenue producers they can develop. Personally, I hope they start 2016 with a very long district so they can spend some time working on the stability of the game. The dozens of gaffes every time they roll out new content are to be expected with the volume of new material being cycled in, but these random error messages and consistent crashes are doing more damage to the playing of the game than the gaffes. Not everybody has the most updated software/device, so please stop developing the game using those mechanicals. That is causing more people to leave the game than your inability to produce a quality game. No one is updating their device just to play this game.
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I agree entirely. Many of us had nothing (or very little to do) for a few days, we just waited for them to release this new content. They only just released it a few days ago and today I received a message about “hurrying up because the event ends soon”. If this is the case, why was the content not released sooner? I still have more than 2 days left (well I did, from when I received this message), so it is no big deal as I will be done soon. For those who are not though, or have not had the time, it does look like TinyCo are trying to create a panic. It is almost like they are saying “we released this content with a much smaller frame of time for you to unlock these characters, although some of you had been waiting days for it – now we are also now sending you a message to hurry it up as well”. It certainly look to me like TinyCo have tried to create a panic and are hoping that people will use their clams for it.
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I unlocked Meg Yesterday and Joe this morning, no clams spent. So it is achievable. Meg dropped a sweater every time for me. So keep going….
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Bulldog Meg wasn’t much of a problem for me but K-9 Joe isn’t looking like it’ll happen on account of the fact that Heartworm Pills haven’t dropped even once yet, despite doing the Jerome and Sheepdog Chris tasks around the clock. Obviously they want us to use clams but I won’t be doing that. It’s not funny the event ending notice is already appearing before any of these have dropped!
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The spawn rate is pathetic
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