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… “6 Step Program”. OK… so it is a bit better then the “12 Step Program” of earning materials, so progress is being made, but I would still like to see a bit more changes done.
–WHAT THE DEUCE… Working in the Health Industry with Doctors to fall terribly ill and have to be the patient instead. BLAH!!
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 complaint is how many times my game crashes!!! My goodness it’s so frustrating!! In the past 34 minutes, and all I’m trying to do is put my guys on their new 4 hour tasks, it crashed over 10 times. And when it crashes, it doesn’t save what you just did. I put Santa on a task 7 times, which will be 8 before I finish typing this. (Actually by the end of typing this sentence it crashed). I have enough space, I never have anything going on like music or anything in the background and I even started restarting my phone. That’s restarting my phone almost every hour!!! Nothing helps. And another thing, why is Tapped Out so much smaller?? My land there is bigger, I have more buildings and people, but the size is a quarter of the size of Quest. So frustrating! I’ve contacted Tiny and just get their text book response, do this, do that, all of which I do. Makes me feel so dumb for spending as much as I have on this dumb game, when I’m about to just uninstall it. Thanks for listening internet land.
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Was checking how far I was from getting Snake (yes, that’s how far behind I am in this event…again) when I accidentally bought him out 😦 It wasn’t a ton of clams, but still…so WTD TinyCo? Still no confirm spend button.
And I always criticize my son for blaming everyone else…
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Thanks for a great site. Without your hard work I would have been lost playing the game. Unfortunately the crashing has become to much. I downloaded the latest OS for my iPad, reinstalled the game, etc. it was crashing at least once per set of actions (to collect and assign characters) but this morning it was 4 crashes and still I was not done. I did try and figure out when it was crashing, but there was no consistency. You made playing no the game much more injoyable and I appreciate that.
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Was really looking foreward to having that clam tree, but by the time i started the quest the crashing happened and the app wasnt having any of it and miss out . Its total bs, iv wasted money for no reason.
Thought id treat myself coz ts cheistmas and now iv learnt never spend money ever on a frem ium game coz ittll bugger u over in the long run.
Sorry for the spelling, i have th slowest typing ipad in the world, and. Dysexia
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Been an absolute piss take, iv contacted tinyco and theyve fixed. The crashing just waiting on my tree, i hope i get to take part itd be annoying if i got refunded.
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I have had no options to trade chestnuts for 4 days. All trades have consisted of hats, cars & gumdrops. Would be nice not to see them go to waste. Also (like other comments) is up with the spy watches? It looked for awhile there may be aT-1000 action for them but that didn’t occur as well. Maybe we will be able to use our thousands of silver bells to buy them.
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I’m frustrated at this point. I’ve sent TinyCo images of my glitches. No points for attacking district 2. No ability to attack district 3. My progress has slowed to hoping Sara Conner will earn me a car after beating up snowbots, and then maybe I’ll have enough within the next 5 days to trade for presents.
I understand they need time to fix the issue. I honestly don’t think they took enough time on the first try. I know they are usually quick to give notice about fixes or fix issues altogether and I’m grateful for all they do. Maybe I expect too much because I haven’t been affected like this before. Blerg and WTD.
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I t has been almost an entire day that I can’t even log in into my game! It is crashing all the time
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I’ve been playing this game since it launched. I’m so over this event, can’t get into it at all, not interested in any of the stuff or characters. Have a boat load of characters not doing anything, and I’m just really tired of the same old, same old. Where has the innovation gone, all the premium stuff is super expensive in clams, I have some premium stuff that I’ve purchased in other events, but am of the mind set of why bother when it has a one event use anyway. Moving on, nothing to see here, might hit the Boxing Day sales, have a drink and open some choccies. Sitting the rest of the event out with no stress. Christmas should be fun, not a constant slog and battling to achieve stuff that’s going to sit in an inventory.
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Oh, I forgot to add in my gigantic post, I have not gotten any of the timed events that require Quahog characters to do things. I’ve only gotten the timed events for presents and buying clams/coins.
Just another bug infesting my game.
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Oh, and Merry Christmas everyone.
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This is such a cluster of an event… I’m to the point where I’m actually considering uninstalling this game and leaving a scathing 1 star review on Google Play. I play this game all the time, love it… so for me to get to this level of frustration is saying something.
1. Got a bug where the aluminum tree base wouldn’t let me complete a task (the adding points to locked characters bug).
This one was fixed by TinyCo.
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2. (a) Got a bug where my 3rd vehicle hangar disappeared.
This was fixed by TinyCo.
2. (b) Ever since my 3rd vehicle hangar reappeared and was re-leveled to its previous point, I have been able to collect ZERO rewards for attacking the aluminum tree base. ZERO. I am to the p0int where the base re-leveled on me and I need to upgrade my vehicle to be able to start clearing the trees. However, even on failed attempts you’re supposed to be able to collect something. Ever attack results in ZERO payout. So basically the 3rd base is a waste of space for me. I am able to net nothing from it.
This is still affecting my game.
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3. Got a bug where my 2nd vehicle hangar disappeared. The fix that TinyCo reported (that allowed my 3rd vehicle hangar to re-appear) did not work for my 2nd vehicle hangar. I did every step, and still nothing. The 2nd vehicle hangar isn’t in the shop for sale, and it’s not in my inventory. It’s just gone. So my 2nd base is also a waste of space for me now. I am able to net no payout for it because I’m unable to attack it.
This is still affecting my game.
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4. Not that I’m complaining about this particular bug, but somehow I got the Skynet building (the challenging last unlock of the 2nd stage) in my inventory even though I didn’t earn it.
This is still affecting my game.
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I have sent emails to TinyCo and in-game messaging to TinyCo about my outstanding issues… I get no response via in-game messaging and their reply to my emails are bulk emails that don’t help me one iota.
So basically, my Christmas event progress is crippled. I have three areas unlocked (1st three stages), but I can only attack the 1st because bugs have frozen me out of doing anything with the 2nd and 3rd stages. My resources are obviously scarce at this point. It’s going to take me 3-5x as long to get presents at this point.
It’s also frustrating to see my medal rank start to tank because I can’t really get many of those now that sections 2 and 3 are unattackable to me. I was around the 3K rank mark in medals when all these stupid bugs started messing with my game yesterday afternoon. As of today, I’m down to around 4K. I was comfortably in money to unlock the Chuggs character, but that’s going to eventually slip away as well. No way I finish in the top 5K at this rate.
What a joke. Way to ruin the event for me. It’s laughable that TinyCo offered up 15 measly clams as restitution for those affected. 15 clams does not begin to make up for how screwed up my game is right now.
Anyway, appreciate having an area on the website to vent like this. I’m so steamed right now.
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Is anyone else having problems with Brian and Stewie going on missions you didn’t send them on? I don’t have the outfits for either to do battles but the keep showing up there. I set them on a task and then when the battle ends there they are and the show as being on the battle when I check to see how much time is left. So far I can’t get them to do any task because they always end up there and never go back to their original task. They release when the battle is over and I can choose a new task for them but it does no good because it just happens all over again. I just sent them a message but I am so frustrated. I want to get puppy Brian but it’s no use if he can’t complete a task.
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Yes, this happens to me as well.
Nutcracker Stewie ends up attacking the 3rd base with Kevin for me (but I don’t get the added boost for having 2 attackers in the vehicle) even though I don’t have Nutcracker Stewie unlocked.
The part that really sucks is that whatever mission Stewie was in the middle of gets reset and erased once the attack on the base ends.
I had Stewie doing a 14 hour task (part of an unrelated Olivia quest) that he was in the middle of that got erased. He was down to about 3 hours left when the base battle ended. Bye-bye 11 hours of progress on Olivia’s mission.
Frustrating!
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Yes, this exact problem is happening with me when trying to get Peter and Stewie to do “Quahog” tasks. I do not the Nutcracker Stewie outfit, so he shouldn’t even be able to go on an attack. I sent Kevin to attack the 3rd base and it pulled Stewie out of a 1 day-long task which was only about 2 hours away from completion. This then happened a 2nd time. It happened with Peter twice trying to do a 6-hour task. I’ve lost a lot of time because of this bug. I just tested it again and took screen shots to show that I did not send Peter on an attack and that he was doing his task in Quahog, but when I closed the game and reloaded it, he now appears to be attacking the 1st base with Santa (and he’s wearing his normal clothes). This is double-irritating, because I’d rather he be attacking the 2nd base with Sarah so that I earned more cars, but this bug defaults to screwing the player in the most ways possible.
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Third day without access despite multiple (hundreds) restarts of device. Had luck only one single sporadic time this morning to find out that: despite announcement, no bonus clams per blocked character were credited (had 3 characters stuck in battle vehicle including nutcracker Stewie which I paid for); all actions were reset to starting point of three days ago; went also back with main quest line, back to 6, which I had tried to climb the other day spending clams. Fantastic. All this after having invested 2x 19.9€ clams purchases. No really, that is a very professional handling of the application. Seriously? Are they all drunk in Christmas spirit at this TinyCo thing? Congrats for the epic fail.
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The drop rates for Secret Spy Brain are absolutely deplorable. Thought I would have an advantage by forking over 1400 presents for the Ginger Bot Bakery and thus far it has only dropped two pens since acquiring on Wednesday. Complete waste of presents.
Worse yet, Disguise Kit items are more epic than uncommon (3-30). The North Pole Train Station has dropped NADA. But honestly, WTD is up wth the Spy Wristwatch? Do we need some kind of secret decoder to get that rolling, or is it TC way of forcing you to get the T-1000?
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Yes, I’m wondering what kick-starts the Spy Wristwatch as well. Thought maybe I was just way behind in the progression of the event.
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I have been playing Family Guy TQFS since it started almost 20 months ago. And I can honestly say that this latest glitch is the last straw.
I get that if I pay money for premium players then I get to do x,y, andz that other characters cannot. But after the event, they’re worthless. Unless you want 4 million coins that do nothing.
I get that technology is confusing and extensive and that crashes happen to software all the time. But after the Mob fiasco when I was personally out of the game for the last two weeks and the entire Magic Mike event, one would think that TinyCo could actually learn ANYTHING from their previous cluster****.
I’ve become convinced that this glitch will run until the end of the event because TinyCo will never admit that part of their programming has failed. Likewise, because of their own stubborness, they have lost a customer who has – quite honestly – spent close to $400 over the entire game.
When TinyCo actually starts to show that they value their customers AT ALL, someone give me a call.
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Exactly, I literally have over 3 million worthless coins just sitting there. For everything You either have to spend clams/ special event currency. Like you I have played the game since it basically started, it’s ridiculous they need to get their stuff in order
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So this has nothing to do with the event but I triggered the special 24 hr Vinny dog event I could have easily done it too, but noooo I can’t even get into the app it loads all the way to the end then do I get in nope. And bye bye special blg. Thank tinyco
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I hope TinyCo is paying attention to this one as it is important:
My WTD is that I am locked out of the game. My account itself is locked as it will not function no matter what device I go on, even on a fresh download on a new virtual machine. New accounts and my alt account work just fine. So i’ve contacted them (TinyCo repeatedly and only received 1 precanned response that has nothing to do with the account being locked out). So, being dissatisfied with support, I contacted Google. As per Google, all app developers have a 3 day window to adequately respond to any technical/financial issues. Failure to do so results in violation of Google’s terms of use which will get the app pulled from the store. I don’t wish to get the app pulled, I just want the support I’ve paid for. If TinyCo can’t play by the rules, then they seal their own fate. I was asked by Google to share the link below with the community. Google wants to hear from you if the support is sub-standard.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/6179357
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Not too fond of this event. 280 clams for a Stewie outfit (which either way I personally wanted since it easily suits his personality from early seasons), and only one single visual animation. This current bug issue (without blaming Tiny Co.), and if I have to pay for my personal religious belief to be in the game (in my opinion without bringing up a religious war or anything)….
I’m happy that I’m not too fond of the Terminator or any other movie referenced characters in this event. This is one that’s just a ‘alright let’s get what we can…’
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“This current bug issue (without blaming Tiny Co.)”
Who else is there to blame besides Tiny Co.?
They are a substandard developer and display it on a regular basis.
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It was mentioned that during the time this entire event was in process, there were absolutely no bugs in the system for the event. It wasn’t until it happened that it, well, happened. It’s not fully nor do I think, it is their fault. It’s like taking a piece of paper and putting it in the shredder, only for it to get stuck and bust the circuit on it. Doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the person’s fault if it worked before and coincidentally happened.
Though I do believe that for past events, in my opinion, Tiny Co is to blame. I make my word, especially as a premium player.
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Am I doing something wrong? I can’t collect Magic Hats anymore. It says they come from Santa’s village still, but every time I attack, I get no hats, so I’m at a standstill. I can’t get hats for christmas presents and collect proceed with any of my quests. Guess I’m done with this event? or is there another way (besides wasting $ on clams)?
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What Level is your Humma? How many Characters do you have to attack with?
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I have level 7 humma, I have Santa, Peter and the the robotic elf dude, forgot his name. My hovercraft disappeared too, but I see that’s one of the common problems I guess. Just has me stuck on tasks, so there’s not much reason to keep up with it.
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Same here. Game is a total standstill at this point.
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I am way behind with this game. My Santa kept disappearing and I could not do the Santa Village battles, to collect hats to exchange them for presents and so on.
In previous special events it bothered me, but I have gotten to the point where it just does not matter. Of course I would like to have all the special buildings and characters, but the way the game is set up lately is frustrating and it takes the fun out of it.
I contacted Tiny Co about the Santa issue, and I was told that I probably sent him to go watch a movie for 24 hours, 3 times in a row? I don’t think so. I finally put the movie theatre in my inventory and that helped.
I will keep playing the game, but I am not as addicted as before. This whole new system of collecting one thing, to exchange it for the next thing, and then you have to go through the whole list to reach an item that you actually want, is really not the way this game should be set up.
I have been playing Family Guy and TSTO since the beginning, and for now I will invest more time in the Simpsons. Much better set up and more fun to play.
Just my $0.02
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I’m sad to say that agreeing with the majority of players here, that the whole get x to get y to get z, that i dont want anyway is getting completly boring. Now that I’m working (yeah!) the whole 4 hours to attack santas village turns into over 10 hours before i can check in every day. So the whole getting Christmas presents is a long drawn out process that is killing my progression. It takes me almost 3 days to get 250 presents for buildings to help collect materials then when i finally get the building i already have all the materials needed anyway so another building in storage along with just about every character too hence the handfull needed to do more than one task. Perfect example someone said this is a terminator related theme why not use arnold he is the terminator after all. I dont know i just find it really boring of late becouse of lack of progression. I just unlocked kevin, but still need over 500 presents to get snake, i now have 3 presents. How long till i get snake when i can only check in a few times a day? You be the judge. Im thinking 4 days tops. At least in tsto i never feel like im behind at all. Hope things change for the better next year. Thanks for the vent, keep up the good work bunny on this site, and merry Christmas and a happy New year 2016.
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WTD, If you were to ask what is the biggest pet Peeve most people have (any time of year) it would be “Poor Customer Service”
Now Tinyco exchanges our real money for imaginary game items (they are only pixels on a screen) Yet when the players tell them “We hate being forced into collecting items in order to exchange them for other items so that we can turn them in to be forced into buying a deco we don’t want so that we can start all over in order to get another deco we dont want in order to start all over in order to get the deco/item/character we DO want, just so the we can start all over collecting things for the next 2 decos we don’t want (but are forced to get) in order to get the next deco/item/character we DO want.
That is just poor customer service personified.
They know what we want, they take our cash, and with a smile on their faces, they go and give us exactly what we told them we don’t want.
I became a freemium player after the Halloween event and I will never give Tinyco another cent of my money.
i recommend others do the same, and for those who would say, if everyone did that there would be no game,, well NO,, what it would do is force Tinyco to actually listen to what the players want and then give it to them, does anyone really think that Tinyco would quit producing a game that is making them millions of dollars a month just because they don’t want to give their players more imaginary pixels?
They can still have tones of clam characters/items and still have tons of premium buildings that give needed items, but if everyone said,, until you actually listen and implement some of the changes players have been begging for for months, you will see a massive drop in your profits. but the only way to force a change is to stop giving them your real money in exchange for a few free pixels with a HUGE side of frustration/aggravation/ Poor Customer Service.
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I just can’t get over the prices. Things should cost 10, 25, 50 clams. Maybe 100 for the really exclusive stuff. I mean 280 for a Stewie Costume is mindblowing. You have the right idea though. They set these outrageous prices because enough people pay. If we want change enough people have to stop paying. Fat chance. More dollars than sense I suppose.
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I feel the exact same way and became a freemium player as well after that event!
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Let me say that this is event is only slightly better than previous ones. Collecting presents isn’t nearly as impossible as collecting reels was. I went for Lyle so I am a tad “behind” but think I get a little closer to catching up each week.
HOWEVER …. this formula that TinyCo seems stuck on (X does task and drops Y which is needed to collect for Z which is needed to exchange for A which is needed to get B) is exhausting after four straight events in this way.
It would be nice if the last event of the year was a collection of the best challenges from the year. Not the most impossible ones, but a little flavor of the year that was. Of course that would require switching up the challenges from event to event. But mapped out over the year with something unique for each major event, enough could be developed so the final event of the year would be a kind of “best of” adventure.
I get it that whatever formula was used at the onset of the game hasn’t been working, so decision makers have chosen to change the path of the game. I am curious as to what the retention rate will be after year two considering how different the game play was between the two years.
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I’ve reported this on game, but I’ve got a major glitch this morning.
I tapped all my check marks including my battles this morning, but then the humma hanger was in inventory. I put it back out, but it is now level 1 where it was previously maxed. AND Peter, Santa, and Lyle have all disappeared, not in inventory, the North Pole, or Quahog.
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I’m not enjoying having characters earn material, to trade in for different material, to trade in for a building that drops material in order to get a character who then does a task to earn more material, and it becomes so circular and boring. But at each one of those steps TinyCo can sell buildings and characters that help collect material, so this format of game play presents them with more opportunities to increase revenue.
I have all the Star Trek event characters and skins, so after I earn Snake (I love Kurt Russell) I’m going to just play with Star Trek. I’m done with events.
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I just finished Santa`s Village with Peter and Santa and suddenly I had to place the Humma Hangar again, and now my Humma is Level 1 again and Peter and Santa disappeared. They are just gone. No matter what I tap or do, I can`t get them back and I just can`t attack Santas Village.
Well done TC, well done! I was just getting closer and closer to the top 5000 and now this.
Anyone else having this experience?
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Hey… Anyone else’s hovercraft disappear? My “hanger” for the vehicle to attack the broken toys area is gone.
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Why are these events so stressful to play, I just don’t enjoy them. There’s just way too much going on and it’s as if they want you playing the game every day, 24 hours a day no stop. The Simpsons game events have the pace waaaaay better, I haven’t failed to finish an event yet. It’s not long before I give up on this game, shame I love FG. WTD tiny co make an enjoyable event for a change.
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Some players were complaining about events not being challenging, having too much currency at the end of events and having a quiet day or two between phases. The current state of the game was TinyCo’s response.
TSTO have tightened things up, you can’t just skip days now but they’re not punishing players for sleeping more than 4 hour a day.
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Every four hours, for the entire weekend, I was sending Santa and Peter in to attack Santa’s Village…and kept netting ZERO damage! WTD?!
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I am having same issue. Cannot earn any prizes from humma battles. So was stuck cause I needed black hats to exchange for presents. Still able to earn cars from other battle but all my exchange possibilities required hats to exchange until I loaded the update and was finally given an option to exchange just cars. So finally was able to get bed and breakfast building. But update did not fix human issue.
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Every four hours, for the entire weekend, I was sending in Santa and Peter to attack Santa’s Village…and netting ZERO damage! WHAT THE DEUCE?!
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I’ve got about 600 Silver Bells with nothing more I want to buy with them. Need more decos or more of those chance boxes to open up.
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I don’t even have the option to buy anything with them so you at least have that option going for you.
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So a general WTD on this event. TC has brought together all of the things I’ve hated in past events.
Leader boards, crazy high items counts for furthering the plot and advancing the quests, forcing you into buying certain things in a certain order to advance when i don’t really want some of those buildings and of course making you get the last item of that set to start the following weeks quest line so once you fall behind (which I did starting week one) you will always be behind and never catch up. They have also included the staged item approach where you need X items of one thing to make or get Y items of another to get the actual item. Let’s not forget the dreaded timed items.
And finally they have all the tasks and items to get stacked on the shoulders of just a handful of characters all of whom are needed for at least 2 or 3 other things or quest lines. Let’s see Stewie, Carter and Brian are all unused even though they are in the story line of dialogue. How about Dr Hartmen? These are all early characters gotten so most would have them to help, but instead Bonnie is needed for Champagne, dog tags (12 hour task) and some quest lines, etc. Way to bring all the most hated aspects together TC.
They did add one new feature which is the biggest WTD here for me. Advancing the level of the hummer. So you need light bulbs to advance the level and get a higher payout and you get light bulbs for destroying the villages. So I advance the hummer somewhat cautiously, but now I’m at a point where if I select Peter and Santa it says I can destroy 1/3 buildings and it shows a payout. (If I only select one character I show zero payout). So I send them and after 4 hours I get nothing. So I figure a glitch. I try for 3 times total and nothing. So I cannot advance my hummer for more damage because I can’t get more lights because I can’t destroy the village, but I can’t destroy the village because I can’t get more lights……and oh my god my head just exploded. So a big raised finger (I’ll let you decide which one) to TC for wasting my resources and time in the game. I can’t be the only one here. Messaged them and no response yet. Awesome.
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The battle vehicle level thing is strange. It mostly seems detrimental to level them up. This quest for medals wants me to defeat the village twice, but my hummer’s level is so high I’m still working on the total of 60 light bulbs in order to level enough to accomplish two village defeats. Thats with all three drivers.
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It is way past time to make eggnog an “always” drop. The two other fuel items are. Not exactly rocket science TC, but this type of change “can’t be made mid-event” per support. WTD?!?
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And right on queue, main questline takes Chris out of action for 12 hours!
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Silver bells… What the deuce are they for? I know I can buy decorations, but decorations have no payoff. So… What is their point?
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To make your town look pwetty ^_^
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I have yet to unlock Sarah. Yay for the events being more poorly balanced every single time.
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My WTD concerns the Encampment. Santa’s Village is still rewarding lights for defeat, even when the Humma has maxed out. The vehicle for the Encampment should max out at level 22. Only problem is that at level 20, the wreath rewards disappeared – even from the reward icons. That means to get those last two levels will require spending clams.
WTD is up with that?
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WHAT THE DEUCE…
I’m upset over how far behind I am as I have not gotten to Sarah nor Kevin yet. I am way behind in this event by a week or two. Just like the Halloween one. 😦
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WTD, I am feeling robbed as I decided that I didn’t want to be behind and therefore spent clams. Apparently I shouldn’t have done so as now the game punishes me for it and favorises the ones who didn’t do so and were behind.
They more or less got Sarah for free, and now they are also taking the leaderboard prices, with me having no chance of catching up again. My humma is level 11, and I need 27 lights to level up and destroy Santa’s village for the questline about Santa’s little helper. 27 lights where I can max get one per attack, one for three people attacking who can only take out one house. With Bruce needing for the damn dog tags I can only attack once per day, so at the moment it will take me 27 days per total destroy of Santa’s village. Before I finish part 2 in Santa’s little helper, the ones who were behind as they didn’t spent clams will already have finished part 3 and thus leaderboard is all gone now for me.
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I didn’t get Sarah for free. The box gift items helped, but I still had a lot of collecting to do for her and Kevin (some of their items overlapped). People still working toward Lyle got boosts of items that I didn’t get while working on him pre-hovercraft, but that doesn’t bother me. The more the merrier, and every medal obtained by anybody helps all of us have a better chance to get God…. So we all benefit if people are helped to get less behind.
I’m far away from finishing Kevin because of those dog tags. If you’ve been spending clams, you should be ahead of me and you are. I’m not even visible on the leaderboard and never will be. I can’t afford to take people off tasks and battles just to get a few more medals when I have a snowball’s chance in you know where of getting any individual prizes from the leaderboard.
We’re all stuck with the multiple tasks for the same person problem – I’ve had to keep Peter idle because I didn’t have the fuel for his hovercraft because Bonnie the Lush was busy clipping coupons to unsuccessfully try for her son’s dog tags. Now Sarah is unlocked but WTD?!? Takes her an hour to beat up one little toy to maybe get an antidepressant for Kevin! How depressing. Where’s the chocolate? I need endorphins NOW!!!
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Why do they have so much jammed into such a short time. Instead of 4 weeks straight, have 2 acts of two weeks each. I mean I am still on page 2, haven’t even been able to start 3. And of course I still haven’t unlocked Kevin or Sarah, so can’t use them. Need 3 characters to damage 1 building with a hummer so that takes forever. Would have been nice to upgrade but not have buildings get 1 tick better than your hummer gets.
And yes, drop rates stink. Pretty sad when you can get 10 rare items (boots) and the 6 terminator arms (which are 6 and 8 hour quests) before getting 10 uncommon items (the magazines) which you can get from a 4 hour quest and you get two when they do show up.
I mean, after that fiasco, i finally collected enough to do it for Kevin and have 15 towards Sara, but still….why are rare items much more readily available than uncommon?
And if a character has to do a 12 hour quest it should be ALWAYS.
Why isn’t it 12-24 hours ALWAYS drops item
8-10 COMMON (meaning 90% of time)
6 hours can be uncommon (maybe get 70% of time)
4 hours can be rare (50% of time)
and extra rare items can be 1-2 hours (30% of time)
You should never have to do a 12 hour task (with 2 characters Bonnie and Bruce) to get dog tags and after 24 hours you click them both 2 times and get 1, that’s right 1, dog tag…and it’s supposed to be common……
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My WTD is why don’t we have a counter that says how many eggnogs, bottles of champagne, etc we have. It would be really helpful to know how many total we have instead of just the amount needed to do a run for the hats toy cars etc. do you know if this will happen anytime during this event?
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Ditto on your WTD. All they need to do is show the total in the fuel info box as they do in Al’s place and the shop. They keep doing this every event, keeping us in the dark about the number already collected of some crucial item we need. Makes it really hard to decide what task to assign characters who have more than one thing they can collect or who also are needed for the Questline. This can’t be intended to be part of the game, they tell us numbers for everything else. They must just forget to do it and don’t want to go back and correct it when people hop up and down about it. Oops. They must plan these things well in advance, though, so maybe sometime in the future they’ll do the counters right on an event not yet set up at the moment.
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Ok my wtd is: I’m at a standstill! Ughhh I’m so frustrated & hate making decisions! I fell a little behind due to health & automobile issues. (Yay! My dumbbutt never brought the car to a mechanic to check it out & had I I would’ve known to run for the hills bc the frame & other undercarriage parts were already rusting badly!)FF 3 yrs, I almost lose my gas tank bc the straps snapped from rusting out& my rear end of the frame has a huge hole & is about to break! So yay! I get to go used car shopping for Christmas & spend money I don’t have!
Anyhoo back to the game. Bc I’m behind. I’m still trying to unlock the Swanson kid lol I still need 4 dog tags, a few pills (no prob) & over 12 ammo boxes! With only jerome & the building drop that will take FOREVER! I still have quite a few hrs left on skynet & have the gifts to get it. So, do I get skynet to help unlock the character or spend the gifts on the next set of prizes. I can’t move on in the quest line without unlocking him. Ughh So conflicted! WTD!!!
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I wouldn’t worry about getting skynet because IMO unlike Lyle it seems it only helps this round of characters. Yes I could be completely wrong but I’m going with what I see now.
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Thanks : ) This seems to be the consensus. On I trudge to get Kevin then lol
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WTD: TinyCo setting the collective board to an astronomical 80 billion (which based on their own numbers would be unobtainable unless every account was earning 950 medals a day… last check on the leaderboard showed top place had under 5k since the beginning of the even and not every account is participating, their numbers are also including people who don’t play anymore). So they had to fix it by coming down on that to 40 billion (still unobtainable). When that wasn’t even getting close, they’ve started rigging the meter (last check was 522 medals every 30 seconds), tossing in 100 medals in a holiday box promo, and adding a side quest to get medals. As I see it, if we don’t get God, then they’ve failed. “Why make Trillions when we can make…Billions”, right TinyCo. LOL!
WTD: Apparently I can’t mention the word “ambassador” on here as it refers to TinyCo’s internet PR program.
WTD: Why’s it so frickin cold in Florida all of a sudden. Hey Canada, you can have your cold back, it should be done vacationing by now.
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Look again- I believe that is 8 billion not 80 billion. The step after that is 15 billion.
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Was referring to the total to get God. Though free clams is a nice gesture, 3 is the monetary equivalent of less than 10 cents. I find that in loose change on the ground in the parking lots when shopping. Anywho, just was commenting on how they’ve had to cheat their own system rather than admit they made a mistake.
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They have downgraded that to 40 billion at this point. They could downgrade it more if it looks like that amount is also undoable.
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Ned, I’m on vacation in Florida now, and 72 degrees is not cold!
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If it makes you feel any better, it’s only about 50 degrees in England XD
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What is with all the gripes about the leaderboards?
Where are the usual complaints about drop rates, or the lack of item counters, or needing the same handful of characters in multiple places at once (or the lack of anything worth a hoot to spend all those Silver Bells on)? In all fairness, the event is actually running okay so far, but a few tweaks might have made it even better – I just do not understand why so many people are in a lather over the leaderboards.
Personally, the leaderboards are irrelevant. Trying to get more Medals is merely a distraction from focusing on the main questlines and gathering materials for HQ items. Sure, I will take whatever Collective Prizes come my way, but I have no desire to waste time working towards another useless character to max out and dump into inventory.
This is only a game, and games are supposed to be fun. The leaderboards have turned it into a contest that some people are taking way too seriously. These folks are spending real money to “win” a virtual prize, which is feeble and ridiculous to me (have fun showing off your trophy in 10 years after they shut down the game servers). I play because the game is fun, and the moment it becomes anything else – I can put the game down and do something else.
Seriously, this is a lot of hoopla over nothing…
Oh, and Snake Plissken? I heard he was dead…
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Couldn’t agree more! I HATE when ppl get all hyped up over stupid things just like the leaderboard. It’s a game ppl! I also agree with you on the drop rate. I know I’m a bit behind, I’m still trying to get Kevin (need like 4 more dog tags & a HUGE amount of the ammo boxes? Almost all of them. So, I definitely agree. Do you have players doing tasks, unlocking players, or attacking the villages OR getting fuel to attack the villages. Lol
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I keep hoping events will get better but they never do. I don’t even remember the last event that I made it through to the end. I haven’t made it to the last phase in the last 3 events or so and it’s probably not going to happen again this time. This game had a few good events early on, but then they became way too complicated.
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All I can say is: That stupid leaderboard!! I’m not even on it!! 😦 [or at least not that I could see].
I know it’s “optional”, but on the first one, I somehow actually made it to the first tear, but then due to the finishing time (midnight here) and not earning enough meant I dropped down.
I really liked the one where you were pitched against 30 other players with a similar playing style to you. At least it was a real competition. Even if it were a 100 people, TinyCo should bring back this system. Who’s with me? Yay or Nay? [Crickets sound]
At least you can hide it and not bother to look at it, but you see the prizes and you’re never going to get them. Most people will get nothing. It almost would have been better to just make all the prizes 24 hour challenges. At least, you could try to win them!
I have bought Clams (mainly when they come as a combo with event currency), but I play “freemiumly”. I only buy buildings that help with events if they are cheap and I like them and I don’t speed stuff up. I try to come back every couple of hours, but I STILL am not on the stupid leaderboard!! Including the 100 free medals from the mystery box. They helped nothing. Most people at the top are presumably premium players (could you maybe do a poll, just to see whether high number of medals = premium?).
At least we have the global prizes…
Rant over. (Sorry about the length. Why am I always so behind with FG:TQFS compared to TSTO??)
On a side note: What’s with the weather these days? Nothing but fog! And no snow. There was even a wasp in here. No idea where she [worker wasps are all female] came from… Daffodils and cherry trees are blooming. No snow in the mountains. We’ll have a white Christmas, just not on the ground.
And another side note: Why is Harry Potter and The Cursed Child fully booked until Jan 2017?? Good luck booking even 1 ticket let alone 5…
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Ummmm “most people will get nothing”…???
Don’t forget we ALL get community prizes, and there’s several possible of those 😉
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I meant “get nothing” just in relation to the leaderboard stuff itself, excluding community prizes and the craftable items + any gift box things. Oh well. At least we have those! Just keep the gift boxes for bells coming. Hopefully, they’ll do another one of those.
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Honestly … I look at top 3 as EXTREMELY Overpriced Premium items… so I don’t even focus on them. Not worth it to me. It’s more the Community Prizes I look at only. They’re Freemium and we all get them as they trigger. 🙂
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True. Not a great loss really. Just extra characters who will (probably) be useless in the future. The Community prizes are decent. Kinda sad I missed out on Jesus last year (and God? Was He released last year?). Ah well. Hopefully we’ll get some cool stuff for bells. I’m way behind yet again. Just trying to get enough presents for Kevin’s camp. 🙂
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God is a new Character. 😉
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P.S. Just realised God is a prize on the community er… thingy. YAY!!! Does that mean everyone gets him if we reach 40 billion medals?! Double yay! Guess the leaderboard presents really are crummy!
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Um, how about no leaderboard or 24 hour challenges at all because why pit players against each other to see who will spend the most?
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I don’t mind leaderboards, but prefer the ones where you are up against people who play like you, so you actually stand a chance (without clams).
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We get behind on Family Guy but not TSTO because TSTO is a much simpler game…. 🙂 If you just follow the quest lines dutifully in TSTO for events and check in every few hours, you’re pretty much guaranteed to get all the prizes. I don’t know why people keep comparing them. They are only superficially similar, both town builders based on goofy cartoon shows about dysfunctional families with idiot fathers. They both have their charms, but I definitely have to think and wait longer playing freemium on FG and have to skip a lot of side quest lines in events. TSTO is more of a no brainer.
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Actually, it’s so impossible to get anything on this particular leaderboard (other than the collectives), it actually is relaxing. I don’t even bother looking for my non-existent rank…. No stress. Would be kind of nice to get God’s roommate, though.
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I’ll never buy clams again after the mobster event, it’s clear a lot of effort has gone in to this update yet if all the buildings and decorations were simply given as gifts and the licensed characters were available at 100 clams I’d probably spend around 500 more than I’m going to.
There’s nothing fun about learning how to play outside of the game and then struggling to balance that so it’s actually rewarding while carefully avoiding traps to save real time. The new content is automatically going in the inventory with the ghosts of past events.
How many times are they going to pull this before everybody realises there is no core game left?
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My what the Deuce is why the Deuce was I banned from the Leaderboard?! I have zero clue how one can possibly do something suspicious even (how does one cheat in this game?!). I went to the help menu and under the option of Leaderboards, it says if you believe you have been wrongfully banned, to send them a message through the help. I did that on Monday and still zero response. WHAT THE DEUCE?! A big flip of my bird is the word to TinyCo. Thanks for reminding me why I should spend zero dollars on this game.
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Their catch-the-cheaters algorithm went rogue and was giving lots of false positives, so just contact them inside the game. They’ll fix it. The only thing you’re losing is a place on the leaderboard, and you’ll get back on and collect any community prizes you missed right away.
I don’t really know how to cheat in this game, either. But from what I read by idiotic proud cheaters, there are places to pick up tons of free clams and some places to get other hacks to change stuff, I think. Maybe getting buildings and characters no longer or not yet offered in the shop? Assuming you really want to risk your device by accessing sites run by arrogant hacker thieves… Yeah, that sounds like such a wise move, what could possibly go wrong? All this is violation of TinyCo terms of service (to which we agree when we start playing the game) and they can block someone from the game entirely if they catch the person. Such hacks can destabilize other people’s games also if the server gets messed up and also just takes up support time, so it isn’t harmless. So bouncing people from the leaderboard is a tame response and correctable without any real lost time in the game if they accused in error. On another forum, I get so tired hearing the cheaters loudly proclaim that they “have to cheat” to get through events. No, they don’t. They can either buy enough clams with real money to do everything they want (supporting the developers) or be selective about what they can do if they play freemium. Can’t have everything, just like in real life.They don’t have a right to a free ride, cheating is stealing. The developers have the right to decide how their software can be used. We can do quite a bit without spending a realspace dime.
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Let me just add a side note from MY perspective and what I see as far as “damage” from “hacked games”… a LOT of the “glitches” that are really bad for players and reported… 85% come from a version of a Hacked game. Even if it was not clams added, but just one building or just one character added to the game. ANY change in coding from TinyCo’s released and authorized coding will plague your game til the end. Only way around it is to start all over with a brand new game loaded directly from their files as that code is now in there and even though you go “legit”, those issues will appear later on when that altered coding causes a “hiccup” in the game when new stuff is added. Just not worth it to me. If a game makes someone so unhappy to play that they prefer to hack, might as well not play at all. Just my thoughts. 😉
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WTD….I ordered photo cards from Shutterfly two weeks ago. According to the email they sent me I should have had them today but nooooooooooo…..so I’m writing this as I’m on indefinite hold with them. Seems the tracking info they sent me is non-existent. Looks like some folks will be getting their cards after the holidays 😡
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I cannot understand what I am doing wrong. I play all throughout the day. I am attacking three zones at once. I received the bonus 100 medals from the mystery box. I have even spent $40 worth of clams on premium items. Somehow I only have 400 medals and am barely in the third tier of prizes. How is it that everyone in the first tier has over 1000 medals. What are they doing that I am not? What the deuce?
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You’re not spending $1000 to gamble at a “chance” at a few prizes. I wouldn’t stress on it. Honestly. Leave the premiums to empty their wallets. Just play at your pace. Help collect what you can and cross fingers we ALL get God. 😉
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Thanks, Bunny. That does make me feel better. I thought I was missing something.
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If you are using clams to advance, spend them on the prototype buildings. I’d recommend getting the next one (fir the new exchange item) as soon as it pops up in your game. That way you’d get most out of it, and you’ll already be collecting the new exchange item while working on the last buildings from Santas HQ.
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That sounds good, except I now have over 140 chestnuts and no options to trade them in for presents (occasionally I’ll have the chance to exchange one or two chestnuts along with Hats for presents, but never more than 2 and then only infrequently). Although reading everyone else’s posts makes me feel I shouldn’t complain, as I am close to getting Snake and just need 100 more presents to craft the thing that drops guns. I *would* like the final building in Santa’s workshop, as it looks pretty cute, but 1200 presents sounds ridiculous. Plus it won’t do me any good for Snake, since I would already long have him before amassing so many gifts.
P.S. I too am not bothering with the Leaderboard. I was originally slated to get Chubbs (Chuggs?) but I don’t want him. Would like to get God on the Collective prize board though.
Bunny, I hope you’re doing better!! I worry about you my furry friend!
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Don’t worry, I’m sure the options will come. That’s what happened to me with the toy cars as well
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Exactly. This is why I decided not to bother with the leaderboard. I think it is obvious that almost everyone who is in the top 100 has more than likely spent a fair amount of clams on the leaderboard. I know that many people would like to obtain all the prizes but only a small amount of people will be able to earn them all. Please don’t waste your money if you can not afford it, just try your best and don’t get disappointed. It’s not worth getting upset over it. 😉
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Looks like we will soon hit the 8 billion threshold for 3 clams. If things progress like this then the 40 billion target should be achievable. Fingers crossed!!!
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I’m assuming there will be a last minute miracle. Hey, it’s God!
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I’m with you. I play all day everyday and have even bought a few premium items. Top 5 on my leaderboard have roughly 8,000 – 5,000 and last place has 646; I’ve got 534. Will still try to get God’s roommate Chuggs, he was the only prize I cared to earn off the leaderboards anyway.
Bunny, thank you for all the time you spend putting this info together for us. It’s very helpful. Really really appreciate it.
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Santas Little Helper questline favors less committed players. It was introduced at a point where bases were already maxed out by people who play often, which makes the “defeat” a base tasks almost impossible. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if the awards weren’t medals, which are the currency for leaderboards. So, I have 2/3 of the bases maxed out, bought all the premium items and play very often, yet have a rank of 900. What the deuce!?
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I think you also have to use clams extensively to speed up tasks and battles to have a chance at higher rankings. Just having all the premium droppers isn’t really enough for this event. 900 is pretty good, though. I’m non-existent (freemium).
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