Update from Alissa: Hey guys, doing my best with the comments…trying to run both sites and take care of a little one so thanks for your patience 🙂 I also have to catch myself up on TQFS, as admittedly..it’s been a little while since I’ve played it. So if you see a question unanswered in the comments, and you know the answer feel free to help each other out…
Now regarding the timers…just got word from TinyCo that the actual not counting down glitch has been fixed. BUT the visual glitch is still lurking. Here’s what TC has to say about it:
We’ve fixed the issue with the timers not counting down, but the visual bug is still an issue. If a player just minimizes the game instead of closing it, it looks like the countdown timer isn’t counting down. If they close the app the timer will update to the correct time.
Hopefully that helps you guys out for now! In the meantime, I’ll do my best to get to your questions and get caught up on what’s going on in the game.
Hey there Lil Ones!
A New Event just dropped into our silly lil games. Looks like there is going to be a lot lil stuff going on now. So get your Osh Kosh B’Gosh overalls, your box of broken crayons, and your light up sneakers ready… it’s about to get a bit childish in here.
LI’L GRIFFINS ENDS THURSDAY JANUARY 21st @ 3PM PACIFIC
First Up, the Basic Requirements…
- Player must be in at LEAST District 3 with Al’s Unlocked
- Player must have the Multiverse Machine placed in their game
Now for some fun lil details… back with more in a lil bit! 😉
BUILDINGS
Li’l Joke Shop: 125 Clams, Earns $35 & 25xp every 4hrs. ALWAYS drops 1 Spitballs
Deluxe Playground Set: 125 Clams, Earns $70 & 50xp every 12hrs, ALWAYS drops 1 Egg Polish
Silly Clam: $700, 2hr Build Time, Earns $45 & 30xp every 6hrs, Chance drop 1 Bird Seeds
Cockfight Training Center: $800, 2hr Build Time, Earns $50 & 35xp every 6hrs, Chance drop 1 Apple Juice
Li’l Malt Shop: $1200, 4hr Build Time, Earns $65 & 45xp every 6hrs, Chance drop 1 Apple Juice
Li’l Giant Chicken Clubhouse: $1300, 8hr Build Time, Earns $50 & 35xp every 6hrs, Chance drop 1 Egg Polish
Li’l Clubhouse: $1100, 3hr Build Time, Earns $60 & 40xp every 8hrs, Chance Drop 1 Green Shorts
DECORATIONS
Red Lightning: 100 Clams
Maximum Safety Jungle Gym: 50 Clams
Li’l Teeter Totter: $1000
Bare Bones Swing Set: $800
Li’l Playground Structure: $400
Basic Playground Slide: $15000
Quahog Spring Riders: $1500
Chicken Crossing Sign: $20000
CHARACTERS
Li’l Peter: In order to get him in the game, you first must place the Silly Clam. Once placed you will collect Materials for him. New Character, Fully Tasked, Comes with a Questline, He does have an animated task to fight with Li’l Giant Chicken.
Requires
16 Stickers (Common): Steroid Chicks
10 Kick Me Signs (Uncommon): Lois Teach Piano OR Joe Patrol the School OR Founding Father
5 Chocolate Milks (Rare): Bonnie Got To Ladies’ Night OR Bruce Fret About Something OR The Playground
14 Green Shorts (Common): Jerome Be a Superior Athlete OR Quahog National Bank OR Li’l Clubhouse
*** Make sure you do NOT have any skins on the Buildings or you will not get the Material drops.
Li’l Giant Chicken: In order to get him in the game, you first must place the Cockfight Training Center. Once placed you will collect Materials for him. Comes with Questline, Fully Tasked. He does have an animated task to fight with Li’l Peter.
Requires
23 Stickers (Common):Steroid Chicks
11 Apple Juices (Always): Cockfight Training Center OR Buddy Cianci Jr High OR Li’l Malt Shop
9 Egg Polish (Rare): Mort Break Out in Hives OR Quagmire Drink at the Clam OR Li’l Giant Chicken Clubhouse Or Deluxe Playground Set
21 Chicken Wires (Common): Chris Eat a Large Ham OR Jerome Bake Sandy Scones OR Li’l Lois Bask in Popularity OR James Woods High
6 Bird Seeds (Uncommon): Quagmire Fantasize About Women OR Silly Clam OR Li’l Peter Li’l Shipoopi OR Li’l Lois Learn About Birds and Bees
*** Make sure you do NOT have any skins on the Buildings or you will not get the Material drops.
Li’l Lois: 250 Clams, New Character, ALWAYS drop Bird Seed, Chance drop Chicken Wire, Comes with Questline, Fully tasked.
STEROID CHICKS
These will start to appear during the first Part of It’s The Li’l Things (I saw 9 total on my buildings in town). You will use the Spitball Shooter and Spitballs to clear them off of your Buildings.
Spitball Shooter: Just tap on a Steroid Chick to get the Shooter to appear. Select Load to load a Spitball. Tap Shoot to fire at them.
Spitballs: Peter Be Childish OR Lois Clean Up Barf OR Li’l Joke Shop OR You will automatically get 1 Spitball every 4hrs.
Additional Spitballs can be purchased from the Shopping Cart Menu.
Small Pack 3 Spitballs: 27 Clams
Medium Pack 5 Spitballs: 40 Clams
Large Pack 7 Spitballs: 49 Clams
You will see a counter for the Spitballs in the lower right corner of your game.
Steroid Chicks will randomly drop Stickers.
QUICK QUESTLINE
It’s the Li’l Things Pt. 1
Peter Starts
Build the Silly Clam: 2hr Build Time
Have Quagmire Mix Drinks: 1hr
Build the Li’l Clubhouse:3hr Build Time
It’s the Li’l Things Pt. 2
Peter Starts
Learn About the Spitball Shooter
Collect 2 Spitballss.
Clear 1 Steroid Chick
It’s the Li’l Things Pt. 3
Peter Starts
Clear 6 Steroid Chicks
Build the Cockfight Training Center: 2hr Build Time
Build the Li’l Maltshop: 4hr Build Time
It’s the Li’l Things Pt. 4
Peter Starts
Build the Quahog Spring Riders
Build the Bare Bones Swing Set
Have Quagmire be Banned from the Park: 4hrs
Peter will also start a few Side Questlines for each of the Mini Characters and to get Spitballs.
SPITBALL SHOOTER TIMER COUNTDOWN
Like noted in the comments, this is just a visual thing and it will work itself out. Just to ease your minds, this is directly from TinyCo on it.
It turns out this is a visual bug. If you minimize the game and then return to it, the timer will look like it hasn’t been counting down.
However, if you tap the X in the upper right corner to exit the Spitball Shooter then reopen the Spitball Shooter screen, the timer will display the correct time remaining.
We’re working to get this visual bug fixed, but in the meantime players should rest assured that their timers are functioning correctly.
Update from Alissa: TinyCo has removed the wording that says it’s a visual glitch, as many of you have noticed…it’s not. Hopefully a fix comes soon.
There you have it, the basics for this Li’l Mini Event that dropped into our silly lil games.
What do you think of it so far? Giggled like a lil Rascal when you saw the pop up? Excited to finally see the Chicken in the game, even in his Li’l form? Excited for more to come before it ends? Let us know.
~Bunny
Family Guy Addicts 
Question guys (i am new in the game) if I unlock Lil Pter and Lil Chicken will they stay in the game after the event is over?
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Yes. 🙂
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One confusing thing is that the free spitball every 4 hours isn’t plopped into the counter. You just get a free shot without any indication of the spitball. So if you just picked up two spitballs from Peter and Lois, your first shot doesn’t change the counter and you still have two more to use. At least they made them all four hour tasks… For a while I didn’t seem to be getting the freebie, but it started working again. Li’l Peter and Li’l Giant Chicken finally got released from limbo by very early Monday.
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I noticed I only get the extra spitball after Lois and Peter finish their four hour mission, but when I check the next morning and over eight hours has passed , I still only get one spitball. Shouldn’t it be at least two freebies and then two more from Lois and Peter?
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I need one more egg polish. If I get that tonight, or in the morning, then I wont have to buy it, and I might buy Lil Lois.
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When you unlock Li’l Peter, you can start the questline: Forever Young
Forever Young Pt. 2
(Li’l Peter starts)
Have Li’l Peter Sneak into R Rated Movie 4hr
Have Peter Cook Disgusting Vegetables 4hr
Have Herbert Buy Candy for Kids 4hr
(to be continued)
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Anyone else seeing a very slow respawn rate for the steroid chicks? I have all the districts unlocked, and saw the full load if chicks when they first spawned, but I haven’t seen more than two or three at a time since I’ve been able to spitball them, even after hours of sleep or work when I can’t log in. I don’t buy extra ammo, so I only get three shots at most.
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I have been trying for 3 or so days to spitball the chickens but every time I tap on one my game shuts down. is anyone else having this problem?
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General tip for getting Li’l Peter:
If you (already) see you’re going to end up only needing Green Shorts and already have all the other required items, it might be smart to (temporarily) bluid (/place) a second Quohog National Bank. (built time 6hr; cost $500) It will ensure a faster income in Green Shorts.
I do recommend to only do this áfter building the buildings which are part of the special.
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When you unlock Li’l Peter, you can start the questline: Forever Young
Forever Young Pt. 1
(Li’l Peter starts)
Have Li’l Peter Li’l Shipoopi 6hr
Have Peter Stub his Knee 2hr
Have Chris Run Around With a Bucket on Head 4hr
(to be continued)
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Can’t help but say that the drop rate for spitball as common is way too low…only dropping like 1-2 out of 6 tries?
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That’s unfortunate, but in my experience it’s over 50% of the time. My best advice: just keep trying and time it so you can try as many times as possible a day.
Because of the amount of spitballs you need: set your priority on spitballs if you have characters with multiple usefull actions.
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(For who’s one step further)
It’s the Li’l Things Pt. 5
Peter starts
Have Mort Be Allergic to Feathers 8hr
Have Lois Make Fried Chicken 8hr
Build Li’l Chicken Clubhouse ?hr build time
(I already finnished it, so I can’t see the time it took, sorry)
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As I’m currently a little ahead I will post the upcomming events in the replies. I hope it will help some of you readers. To the writers of FGA: feel free to copy it in your articles.
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I have yet to get a single chick on a building. Therefore stuck on the part to clear the first one. Am I doing something wrong?
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Check if your game is up to date. If you play on your mobile divice you might have to update your game.
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The southern founder skin gives you stickers as well.
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Timer glitch is now fixed in both my games. Hopefully it is in all of yours too 🙂
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The second part in the questline is very badly worded it really should read have 2 spitballs, because it you collect any it won’t count towards the task if you start to use them before actually having it shows you having 2
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Is there an update on the spitballs? I haven’t had any drop. I bought the building for the drop just so I could get them. The spitballs that do drop from the building don’t count towards the two needed for the collection quest.
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You have to collect 2 without using any, that is why I said it is badly worded, so as soon as the counter shows you having 2 in total in the bottom corner it will count towards the quest.
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All of us are validated in our complaints about their false assumption it was a visual glitch, lol. They removed their falsely claimed visual glitch from their help and support tab. Players who logged in to receive promised spitballs every four hours should be compensated a couple free spitballs so that gameplay is not further interrupted. Hope they hear all our in game messages! I suggest every player message them. I sure did so. Hope everyone likes this event though…..the Li’l Griffins are SO CUTE! Hahaha
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Despite this glitch I’m really liking this event, I really liked the episode that had them in. It’s going to be awesome to have a lil version of Ernie the Giant Chicken too, and hopefully we’ll get the regular sized version at some point too.
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As stated by others. It is not only a visual bug.
I have started the event 10h ago, only got spitballs from lois and peter, not from the automated timer.
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Anyone else having issues with Peter dropping snowballs ? I’ve sent him 3 times and not a single snowball
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Yes, I’m also facing same drop rate! And it’s supposed to be common…
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I’m confused…you get can get a spitball from lois, peter AND the 4 hour counter? went to bed last night and only got spitballs from lois and peter, wasn’t sure if the counter (which is also broken in my game) gives you one only if you don’t use lois/peter
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Definitely more than a visual glitch on the chicken timers. I started the event at 9pm est and have yet to have any timers countdown. I in game messaged them though and hope it gets fixed soon .It’s a cute event and the chicken not counting down is blocking people from doing missions that have them on top and getting stickers to unlock Lil Peter and Lil Chicken 😦
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It’s been over 4 hours and the shooter is still on 3 hrs and some minutes for me. Anyone else having this problem?
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Yup. Glitch city.
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yes got it too, just send them a inside app message to tell them as well
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I got the same issue and I figured out its only counting the time I am logged in I’m down to 3 hours and 5 minutes now cause I’ve only logged in for almost an hour.
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Same here.
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Just to also report that I also have the spitball countdown bug. It stops counting down the moment I close the app. It isn’t a visual bug like they say as I tried their recommendation and it changed nothing. It hasn’t given me a single spitball in the last 10 hours and has counted down a grand total of 36 minutes. Don’t wish to be over critical but can they launch something without it having a game progression stopping bug just for once? It gets very frustrating as a player and it seems to be getting more commonplace.
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I guess they’re simply not testing properly anymore before releasing stuff. There’s probably a big push to give more and more content (all with lots of clam spending opportunities of course) so the testing gets cut out and results in problem after problem after problem. This plus their lack in responding to player in game messaging ruins things easily which is a shame because the events are really great (if they work!)
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“However, if you tap the X in the upper right corner to exit the Spitball Shooter then reopen the Spitball Shooter screen, the timer will display the correct time remaining.”
Sadly, this is not the case for my game.. It still says 2 hrs to go and that was 2 hrs ago. I hope they can get it resolved for our games soon.
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My timer definitely isn’t working and not just a visual glitch, it’s 6 hours since it started and has never reached zero and no spitball has been earned.
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Doesn’t look like the timer issue has been fixed. Read the article, saw TinyCo’s suggested fix, tried it, no change. Timer only runs while the game is up. The only spitballs I’ve been able to get since the beginning of the event are the ones dropped by Peter and Lois. Perhaps the stated fix only works on iPhone?
Verified timer not advancing when game is closed and task ended (open task manager in Android and swipe FGQFS off of the screen). If game is exited (Ollie prompt) and task is left running in the background for any period of time, the game usually will either restart as if it had been completely closed out (normal game splash screen and loading progress bar), or does not open back up (black screen), in which case I need to kill the task. In neither case does the timer advance. If I simply exit to the Home screen (bypassing Ollie), the timer does seem to continue when game is reopened (tested after two minutes), but I’d rather avoid doing that, since in my experience that will often fail to save progress. And even in those cases, if game has to reload when reopened (which is almost certain after a decent period of time, as Android will kick it out of memory to make room for active programs), then there is no timer advancement, as when closing game normally. At no point in my testing did closing the Spitball Shooter and reopening it advance the timer by more than the time it took me to do so.
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iOS here. Not working either.
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The timer on spitball seem to be resetted when a new chick is taking another building, at my first chicken at 4am it was at 3hrs & 50 mins,
@ 7am = new chick took over a building, both timers at 3hrs & 25 minutes
@10am(now) = 3rd chick spawned and the timer on all 3 is the same, 3hrs & 37 minutes 😦
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Sadly, the quoted comment about it only being a visual bug seems to be false. I’ve been active in this event now for over 4 hours. I just resent characters to their second round of gathering items after 4 hour tasks. However, my timer only shows 17 minutes expired and I haven’t earned any spitballs. While I still take play this game at times, this is a prime example of why I have mostly lost interest in this game and won’t make the mistake again of spending money to fund a poorly supported game.
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I had quagmire on a mission at the docks, and then a chicken showed up on top on it. Does this mean I can’t “free” quagmire until I spitwad the fowl invader?
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If you wait long enough, they despawn. Faster to spitwad, though.
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Yeah, the spitball timer still says 3:32 after 4 hours has passed.
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I had to buy lil Lois I like this event I just wished they had a lil quagmire allso my multi universe isn’t out of my inventory but I can still play is that a problem or should I dig threw my inventory to find it? Also since we get lil giant chicken where’s big giant chicken! Lol
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One spitball every four hours you say? Weird. Every time I click on a chick, I’m about 3 hours and 40 minutes away from a spitball. I haven’t gotten 1 yet!
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Well my timer is clearly more than a visual thing since its been more than 4 hours, the timer has only counted off 25 minutes, and exiting/entering as suggested makes no difference.
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Countdown timer issues? It’s Telenovela Week Redux! Lol
Glitch aside, looks like a fun mini-week. Expected multiverse stuff but my money had been on Dogverse Pt 2 this week
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It’s been past 4 hours and it hasn’t let me use a spit ball except the one I earned from Lois. I hope they don’t still think it’s just a “visual glitch” because it’s definately not.
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My spitball timer is definitly not working, I left the game for 2hrs when the timer was on 3hrs 30mins, then when I just went back in it was still at the same time, I tried what they said to do by tapping the x on the spit ball gun and it was still at around 3hrs 30mins. Should I message them, or just wait?
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Personally, as annoying as it is, I always think it’s worth messaging..
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Thanks Alissa, I’ve gone ahead and sent them an in game message.
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What are the chances they will do a promotion if you buy clams? Want Lois but need to get clams to do that but then don’t want to spend more on clanms if they offer something free for getting clams.
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They may, but last year it happened around New Year’s…so I don’t know if they’ll do it this late.
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Okay so I just noticed that when I exited out of my game to come to this site and write my last comment about the timer not counting down for the spitballs .. I went back in my game and it was at the same time it was at before I exited out to come here.. So it seems to me that the timer is only counting down while I have the game open! As soon as I exit out, it seems to stop counting down.. That’s no good. Can’t keep the game open all the time lol
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i am having the same issue the timer is not going down in my game either… I am not going to keep my game up open
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They are already on it. 🙂
Just keep going, it should work itself out. 🙂
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Okay cool at least they know about it. Thanks!
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Sadly, no. Over 4 hours, timer still stuck at 3:38.
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I dont believe them…. i closed the shooter and i opened the game twice… then i pulled game up 2 more hours i have 3 hours and 51 minutes left
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Just so you have more info… I got the same response back from in game messaging about it just being a visual error. But that’s not the case in my game. Clicking the X and then going back in doesn’t show the correct time & it’s been well over 4 hours and I didn’t get any spit balls. They also didn’t drop from Peter or Lois’ 4 hour tasks either. Can just hope they fix it.
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Same thing happening for me.
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Same here. Seems like a bug.
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So.. when I started this event I looked at the spitball time counter, and it started at 4 hours.. I went back in more then 2 hours later and it now says 3 hours and 48 minutes? It only counted down 12 minutes in more than 2 hours..? Strange. I know exactly how long it’s been because I sent Lois and Peter on their 4 hr tasks to get cotton balls at the same time, and they have less than 2 hours left. Hmm…
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I wouldn’t worry too much about it. They always seem a bit wonky… but even out in the end. If not, report it when the timer is supposed to run down. 🙂
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I don’t even have the timer. Bugers.
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You should be able to see the timer if you click on one of the chickens, it’s not visible on the main game screen.
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I see those, but since I started the event yesterday, I haven’t gotten any of the “1 every 4 hours”. I have only gotten them from Peter.
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That is the same timer. It currently appears to be only counting down when you have the game open which is probably why you haven’t received a free one yet 🙂
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The buildings topped by steroid chicks have a blinking lighting effect. As if we needed help finding them….
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Is there any point in asking TinyCo for a way to Cancel the builder’s job when you accidentally purchase land or a building? So frustrating. I don’t want my money back, just the manpower!
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You can try. Worse they could say is no. 😉
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Thanks for the reply! 🙂
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wow, just wow!
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Super helpful list as always bunny. Thank you. It was up lightning quick!! With the big events going the way they have been lately I’m loving the mini ones much more now. I am curious to see what they come up with for the next one though as the obvious Halloween and Christmas events are now over with. I guess they just go with a big Valentine’s Day day event again but I somehow don’t see it happening.
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Can we please get an updated character list please? Thank you ^.^
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Can you be patient while I try to pull the stats?
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Yeah that’s fine, I wasn’t talking this early, just wanted to know how many people there are minus this new event. Didn’t mean to rush, sorry
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😉
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Anyone remember where in the inventory the multiverse machine is? I scrolled through everything with no luck – alphabetizing the inventory would help out a lot.
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Did you check under Decorations or the ALL tab?
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Or adding a search box. I went through hell looking for the playground and the diner… (yes, everything in my town is actually in my inventory)
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Suggestion for the future, use the Characters “go” feature to find them in the Inventories if they are required for drops. It will take you right to them. 🙂
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What is this feature?
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Once you place the Building and the Character is out front ready to collect Materials, tap on the Material Bubble and it will tell you where that Material is earned. Next to each one is “GO”, tapping in it will take you to the Character or Building listed.
See if it works for your game. 🙂
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I knew that, but thanks for the suggestion. The thing is, I still can’t start earning drops, just needed to place them to start their respective cooldowns 😛 Also sent all my town on tasks according to the list above, before needing the drops (which i believe will make me able to get drops when i finish the first building in ~1 hr)
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I miss the time when decos were arranged alphabetically regardless of event, but I’ve noticed that decos in my inventory are grouped according to the event they came with, in reverse alphabetical order of event name – so “Xmas” decos tend to appear near the start, then “Valentine’s”, then “Thanksgiving”, “Star Trek”, “Septemberfest”, “PeterPalooza”, “Mafia (Fatfather)”, “Halloween”, “Fire”, “Evil” then “Dog Multiverse” which is where I found my Multiverse machine. Non-moving decos not connected to an event are sprinkled in between according to their name.
I don’t know where “Full Moon” event items fit into this theory, but maybe it doesn’t because they hadn’t figured out deco naming by then. I choose to call it “An Event that shall not be named.”
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I had to scroll through twice to find it… We need a more organized inventory system!!!! Or a find function. Really, it’s even worse than my desk.
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I wonder whether the chickens that block buildings will also block the buildings that drop stuff. Hmmmm
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Don’t know, but i whipped out 200 office buildings and placed them. Once i start clearing the chickens hopefully most will move to the offices and stay off of my more essential ones. I only run with the bare minimum of buildings to begin with so there are some characters that can’t perform their tasks to help collect items atm. Grrr
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Lois & Peter have a 4 hr task to get a spitball.
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Lol, no way! This is an event idea I’ve been wanting them to do. Pretty cool!
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This event is so cute! I really hope this event I’m able to get everything without spending money on claims to get them. The last event that just ended was impossible to get all of the characters without spending any money on claims. Smh Here’s to hoping!!!
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I’ve been hoping they’d do the Lil’ Rascals version of Family Guy. Awesome!
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I’ll state this right now Tinyco: I’m not going to be pleased if one of those chicken things sits up shop on my Clam where GUDG is finishing up getting the last ring I need for the Don. I have about 24 hours left on my timer with 1 ring and 1 hat left, and it’s going to end up with me looking an awful lot like Vegeta did when he confronted Gohan on Namek about where his Dragon Balls were in the DBZ: Abridged series…
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What?!
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The buildings that the birds land on will not pay out until the birds are removed by spitballs.
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Love the reference
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+1 Yeah really! I will not be pleased, either.
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Vegeta always looks majorly ticked, no matter what episode.
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crying with a hole in your chest? 😀
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I’m not clearing the chickens until that last one drops (ring) incase the chickens can go on the clam … If the max is 9 , if you don’t clear one yet it can’t respawn.
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