Hey there Testers!
I wanted to put up a place for those that are testing out the New District. The main purpose of this post is to give you somewhere to go to leave your main questions, concerns, suggestions, issues, etc for Tan Lines while you play and progress through it all.
For the Main Details on the Tan Limes District, go HERE and HERE.
Feel free to leave your comments below as needed. I will be passing all this information on to TinyCo to help correct areas of concern and overall improve the Tan Lines District before game wide launch happens.
I will also try to post any feedback or updates from TinyCo on those items in this post. Thanks for helping test out an interesting New District. I know I’m looking forward to it all.
PLAYER FEEDBACK
Remember to be helpful and be detailed with your feedback. Don’t just say fix something, explain issue and make suggestions for improvement. Feel free to even give kudos to something you really like about it.
I’ll start it out with the #1 thing I am seeing…
Concern/Suggestion: Players don’t like that Characters on Tasks/Checked In at the Tan Lines Resort are showing up in the Character Task Selector Icon in the top left corner. Scrolling past 15+ Characters per floor to find one you actually want on a Task is tedious and time consuming.
Players would like the Characters removed from the Icon to help game experience and save time scrolling through them all.
TinyCo Feedback: They’re aware of the Concern with the Tan Lines Characters showing up in the Icon and are looking into a solution. UPDATE: “Issue with characters checked into the resort appearing in the character finder will be fixed in version 1.21.0, which will be released in a week”
UPDATED 4/13/16
Concern/Suggestion: Daily Quests not appearing. (FYI, mine finally appeared triggered by Peter, and yes… they will vary by Player)
TinyCo Feedback: This was fixed, but you may need to wait for the next Day Daily Quest to trigger.
***Side Note Bunny: Also try to make sure you do not have TOO many Tasks open preventing it from showing as well as restarting your device to ensure patch is in place.
Concern/Suggestion: With the Stewie Cash Drops being “Chance” and a small amount, some feel the District may go TOO slow in earning items to get to the Evil Monkey, as it will take a lot of exchanging. Can more be given or an ALWAYS drop? Also suggestion of shorter time for the payout?
TinyCo Feedback: Thanks for the Feedback, we will look into it.
Concern/Suggestion: Can we exchange currency down as well as up?
TinyCo Feedback: Thanks for the Feedback, we will inform the team that Players are wanting an option to trade down too.
Concern/Suggestion: Why are some Characters not included as being able to use Tan Lines, Like WrestleMania?
TinyCo Feedback: Certain main characters can’t be checked into Tan Lines to prevent potential blocks. These characters include Peter, Lois, Jerome, Mort, Chris, and Joe. You will also not be able to check in new event-specific characters for the duration of their event. We are working on a fix for not being able to store WrestleMania characters, and it should be pushed by Friday! (4/15)
Concern/Suggestion: Will there ever be a possibility to add Characters to ONLY one level, instead of the system automatically adding them from first to last?
TinyCo Feedback: Thanks for the Feedback, we will look into it.
Concern/Suggestion: Kool-Aid’s Girlfriend is showing as a Clam purchase now and not for Currency for some Players.
TinyCo Feedback: Please send any players reporting this our way! Screenshots would also be very helpful.
***Side Note Bunny: If YOU see this in your game, please report it from your game right away and if possible include a screenshot of it or feel free to email me and I will forward it to TinyCo (familyguyaddicts@gmail.com)
Concern/Suggestion: Players would like to continue to earn keys in advance. Players stating they stop earning them once they meet requirements for a Level, but want to keep earning as they know the next Level needs them.
TinyCo Feedback: This may not be possible as Materials are programmed to not drop if they are not actively needed.
***Side Note Bunny: I agree with this one. I get that it may be cool to keep earning something in advance when you know it is coming up next, but I also have seen the downside of this. To set it to keep going no matter what… downside… it won’t STOP dropping that Material and will keep more cluttering up your Characters Tasks with unnecessary Material drops on Tasks you may need for, say, an Event. I personally think that an “unlimited drop” is a bad idea due to this has happened in the past and it was frustrating.
There you go, a place to voice things you run into as Testers for Tan Lines District. Take your time playing it. No need to rush Districts. Have fun! 🙂
~Bunny
Family Guy Addicts 
So I used to put the unused characters in the hotel. Now all of a sudden some have come out and I can no longer put them back in
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It’s because of the tornadoes in the Oz event, characters are used as bait for them. Once event ends you’re characters cab return t topping up their tans
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Nope. Unless I missed something, characters like Jerome, Quagmire, Bonnie, Lois, Chris, Herbert, cannot be put into Tanned Lines. The Oz event has been over for 2 days now and I’ve restarted the app many times.
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You can’t put them in because they re now being used for the new Chridtmas event.
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I’m on Pt. 4 of show me your tan lines and I apparently don’t have enough characters to get to the next floor? I’m confused. Do I just need to wait until I have 30 characters.
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Yes.
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Hello, it happened that I had Meg, Dr. Hartman, Stewie and some other character in the hotel now they got kicked out and I can’t put them back. Can someone solve this problem? Thanks.
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They are part of this phase, the tornadoes capture characters and these ones are used for that in order to lessen the impact of the tornadoes on characters essential to the Oz event, although Bonnie and Mr Herbert can be caught up, the other Oz essential characters seem to be being left alone.
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The Sea Pirate or whatever event just ended and I had Daggermouth doing the robot to finish a quest and I think he was in the event somewhere because now if I click go on the quest it takes me to the water that’s out of the boundries and says I can’t do it. How can I get him back?! I wasted clams so I could get him before the event ended and now I don’t have him anymore?! ***!?
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Other players are reporting Daggermouth is missing , please let TinyCo know via your in game contact. I will have Bunny report back to TinyCo also.
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Hi, I started the Tan LInes quest when it showed up and I still have the hotel but I don’t think mine is working, there’s nothing to do there, I only played the chapter where Brian had to read snooty books then no more quests popped up for it. I now have all the floors unlocked but there’s nothing else to do with it, that can’t be right can it? Unless it was a timed event !?
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You just book your characters in to the hotel and collect Stewie bucks. With these you can purchase things, including Evil Monkey.
You will find a guide here: https://familyguyaddicts.com/2016/03/31/new-district-tan-lines-overview/
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Is it correct that Peter is the only character that can’t go into Tan Lines? And why did they change everyone, but not Peter?
Thanks!
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It would appear poor Peter is currently banned from Tan Lines, obviously someone at TinyCo thinks he’s not earned a break yet. Now you’ve got me wondering why. Lol.
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I can’t put any dinosaurs from the last event into Tan Lines– maybe Tiny Co will be working on it?
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Usually it takes a lil bit then they can. 🙂
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At first some of mine were able to be checked in. I think once the event ended, I couldn’t check them in anymore. I can’t remember which, but I know raptor couldn’t check in.
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It varies on what TinyCo does with the settings.
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I’ve hit a major glitch. I was working to unlock the last floor, Conch. I collected all the needed keys and then hit the button to start unlocking the floor, which I think said needed 12 hours. Well the next time I thought to check in there the floor had the unlock button back. I said hmm, I thought I unlocked that already. When I click on unlock it shows the number of keys I need to collect again, but when I try to send characters to collect them there are no keys shown for the quest, and they don’t collect any. So the floor is locked but won’t let me collect keys. I’m stuck.
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Message TinyCo
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I reported this couple months ago but no word and still not fixed, anything you can find out?
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So it sucls that ive been playing FGQFS a long time now, and i only have enough characters to fill 3 floors so the rest are useless to me. Plus with events i need some charters out. I like it but it needs a better set up, maybe choosing what floor they go on eden they are unlocked, or need less to fill each floor. It’s good idea bc i do have a lot of char. I need for events but not as many as are necessary to make this work. I hope to see some changes soon! Thanks
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If you pay clams to unlock all the floors before the “show me your tan lines pt 2” quest, you will be unable to earn bronze keys to progress that quest. I’m currently stuck there.
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Many get stuck due to they rushed. I would message TinyCo if you run into this.
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A question on how the Tan Lines occupancy and rewards work:
Can you earn rewards/bucks if some but not all levels are full?
I’m currently tentatively working on the Rock Oyster Floor (#6). It’s not a priority because I won’t be able to fill it unless (1) the number of residents needed to fill it drops instead of increases from floor-to-floor or (2) I stop participating in events so I can free up characters (and reading through your info, a lot of those characters won’t go to Tan Lines anyway, as they are reserved for the current event)..
If I unlock level 6 but fail to fill it, it seems logical that I would still have a normal chance to earn bucks at the Blue Mussel level (#5) and below (as long as I keep them full), but logic doesn’t always rule the day in these games.
Has anyone tested this?
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No… it has to say “CHANCE OF” on the floor to earn that Currency.
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I can’t speak to level 5/6 but i currently have 3 open but can’t fill it without using current active characters, and i get my 3 Stewie Bucks most days.
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I feel like this is the first event that rewards long time players. I am thrilled that I can use so many characters from past events. Just wish it wasn’t so hard to earn Stewie bucks.
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I don’t know if it’s random or what, but i got a red stewie buck from my daily quest 3 days ago, and a blue 2 days before that. Every other day has been green so maybe it’s just rare but that red is like a months worth of greens.
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A clam is rare too
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I just opened up the 3Rd floor but I don’t have nearly enough characters to fill it. Which upsets me. I feel like I can’t play anymore which is frustrating. I have been playing this game for well over a year. Why do u need so many characters to fill each floor, anyway it can be reduced?
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Would it be possible to trade a million worthless coins for even 1 Stewie buck? Because that would be pretty awesome…
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how about a poll on Tan Lines?
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Reported an error that occurs when you try to remove a character using the link in the daily task quest.
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My suggestion is this: lock characters into the floor assigned. Right now, guests flip topsy-turvy when I reload, and I try and put people in certain floors so I can find them. Then they move. Argh.
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Tan Lines, does anyone else have a glitch with the Tiki Bar?
I have a task to purchase the tiki bar and cannot complete it, it wants 32 green stewie bucks,, I have 7 green and 5 blue, but the game will not exchange the blue to complete the sale, I have contacted support twice with no response, can anyone help?
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You can’t exchange down.
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ask them to change that…..
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Look up at the post. Already did.
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Can’t add Consuela or jake
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That is because they are in use right now. Consuela turns to a Mutant (see part above about Why Characters can’t go there) 😉
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I have had tan lines since the beta test. Everything seemed to be running smooth initially however the past couple days I noticed characters that I had checked in somehow checked themselves out. When I tried to add them back in they don’t show up as available (Consuela, Jake Tucker). I msgd tiny co a couple days ago about the issue but still havent received a response back. Also I haven’t noticed daily tasks for this. Should they appear with my other tasks or within the tan lines pop up box itself.? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Some were reshuffled.
If you have TOO many tasks in your Task bar, nothing new can show up… like daily tasks. Clear some out
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This area is no fun with only 22 characters I use most of them daily too.
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I thought i had a ton of characters, with like 30ish i don’t use in my inventory going to waste. Then i realized i can barely fill the third floor if i use all my active characters. These are the ones that are regularly needed for events. Looks like Tan Lines is a long term side quest for me >.>
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Although it says main characters above apart from Bonnie who you could class as a main character, have also found that jake tucker doesn’t show up and would never class him as a main character.
Also as mentioned above kool-aid mans girlfriend is still showing as a clam purchase and have reported it to TC, not sure how you send them a screenshot though.
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I did send them one from another players game. You can email them the pic. Or send it to me to forward to them 🙂
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I have high hopes the drop rates for stewie dollars will improve!!! With the extremely low drop rate of 1 green stewie dollar utilizing 15 characters for 24 hrs and a chance at completing the 24 hrs task, you can get 2 green bucks a day (granted the more floors unlocked the more bucks but still wildly not close to enough pay out!!!) SOOOOOOO….That means it’ll take 4 YEARS to get evil monkey. How OUTRAGEOUS!!!
And a helpful solution to the issue…stop being such a Mort Goldmen about youre stewie dollars TinyCo! and spend the love around a little!!! 😉
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Oh and that comment was meant with lots of smileys, LOLs and just joking around!!! No harshness meant at all!! LOVE this game and all its characters!! I’m SUPER excited for the new district!!! 🙂
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RAWR IT WAS TOTALLY RAWR!!! 😛 😉
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With the start of Week 2 of the current event, Spock and Mr. Miyagi were expelled from the Tan Lines hotel. I also needed to collect, which removed my chances to get a blue Stewie buck.
My biggest concern is that they will not go back in the hotel. I put them into my inventory and replaced them with other 2 other characters.
I reported it to TinyCo via in-game messaging.
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Just gone into game to find Consuela and Spock have been booted out of the hotel and can’t be put back. Not like they’re needed elsewhere atm. Perhaps Spock hasn’t paid his mini-bar bill and Consuela’s housekeeping is not up to scratch?
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Just had an odd thing happen after tonight’s event update. My Tan Lines Resort was full on the three levels I have unlocked. I collected from it earlier tonight and now I just found Spock and Consuela wandering my town instead of being on the Corporate floor where I left them. When I tried to check them back into the resort they are not available. I had to bring other characters out of inventory to take their place. I’m not sure if this was just coincidence that the Boomsday event update just went live at the same time.
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Dislike the new Tan Lines area. The whole point was to make use of characters who no longer have tasks to complete, but when they’re in the hotel they can’t earn me coins to expand into other areas. They sometimes have side quests, but to do them you have to take them out of the hotel, defeating the whole point! And the currency can take YEARS to accumulate enough to buy characters!
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There is no way to trade “down” currency from higher value bucks to smaller ones.
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When you are unlocking a floor, it would be nice to continue collecting keys after that floor requirement is met. So the key count would continue for unlocking the next floor.
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One problem I have is… With all the building and people, my game runs very slow. Support said to put people and buildings away and bring them out when you need them. How do I know when I need them? just took god out and saw he had a 24hr mission…. If I go into my inventory and then events, nothing is there… so how do I know who is need?
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The way that things work is if you need a Building for a Task, the Task will actually tell you when you tap on the Character. It even goes further to have a lil tiny “GO” icon on that task that takes you right to Inventory Storage to pull the Building out.
Same seems to work for a Character. If you have a Questline appear that needs them and tap on “GO” in the Questline pop up, it pulls out the Character from Storage to use. It is helpful in that way. Then there is always my detailed info for Event Phase releases. I will note the Materials and the Character or location that drops those materials, so you can get an idea of who or what you will need. 😉
I have a TON in storage since I have been playing since BETA in 2014 before the game launched.
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I am not seeing Daily Quests. I have had the district for a few weeks now but have never had a daily quest – it says I’ve completed it each day but I’ve never even seen one. What do you think?
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Still in progress for some. I still see same “come back” on them. Hang in there, fix coming. 🙂
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Just got into the Tan lines. Only got so far as sending the people to the first floor. Only sadness I have so far is that one of the 3 characters for the daily task was sent to a 24 hour task just hours before I got the Tan lines so definitely will not be completing the first daily task, which was red riding hood stewie, counselor troi and Cheryl Tiegs
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Did you see on the info page you CAN take them out? It is really simple.
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Reminds me of the krustyland expansion from TSTO. Basically everyone plays the game for 2 years, has loads of spare cash, so boom another currency that you have to spend clams on. Yawn.
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Actually I would highly recommend to NOT spend Clams on Districts at all. They’re not timed and they are here to stay. Nice to have something you can relax and not stress about. 🙂
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It might be me, but i dont get the Tan Lines – Lobby. I sent 15 people. When do they go back and how do you get the Stewie Money? Thanks!
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Gotta leave them there fully filled up to max for full 24hrs.
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For some reason I swear they tried this last year as a promo. It seems awfully familiar. Must be a case of Deja Vu!
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I would love it, if the floors required less characters. I have 40 characters in my resort and that doesn’t even fill up 3 floors, with 5 more floors to go. Being that I don’t pay for clams, it seems it will be a long time before I have enough characters to even get past the 3rd floor. Although, I am glad I can finally use a lot of my unused characters.
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I can’t check certain characters into the resort even though they are available and not completing tasks
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Not all can go. There are a few they don’t allow. Could be due to they’re Characters mostly used
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Yeah I find that a bit frustrating too, like heavy flo and a couple of other of my wrestle mania characters can’t be checked in even though they don’t have other roles to fulfill anymore, (can check in giant Chris etc from previous quest though) as such I don’t have enough characters to fill the first floor as all my others I need for the current quest. Would be easier if they allowed all characters to be checked in so its your choice whether you want them in the resort or doing other quests.
I’m glad that once they’re checked in the resort now they no longer show in the corner so don’t have to tap through them all.
I’m enjoying the new area though think everyone is going to enjoy it when it’s all fine tuned as rolled out for everyone to do.
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I gotta say that I am really enjoying Tan Lines – the pace, great utilization of characters who would otherwise be in inventory, known/constant exchange rates, non-critical characters used for key collection. Can’t wait to see what they do with this district when it goes live.
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Okay, one massive gripe… Tinyco needs to REALLY check the algorithms that decide who gets to be a Beta. I’m ONLY on district 4 and CANNOT use the island. I am locked out. What point it a beta tester who can’t actually test ANYTHING. Meanwhile my spouse.. who has maxed in levels, is working on district 10, and has over 90 characters doesn’t have it. The Beta test slot is WASTED on me!!!!
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They do not go off your progress, they go off your Player ID. All were picked randomly via the Player ID. It would take AGES to go through over one million plus games to see who is on what level to give BETA too. Basically longer than it would take to just test it. 😉
If you don’t want it in there, just message them to be removed. 🙂
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Has anyone seen a daily task yet?
I had “check back soon…”
now have “task complete” yet have no idea what the task was or that I had completed it.
Keep meaning to check this 1st before I do anything else but don’t always remember as Tans Lines is still kinda new.
Looking forward to the update to stop guests showing in the job queue
I too have had Tan Lines 24hr timer reset by a block being cleared.
and I also believe that the end of the Wrestlemania event cause the 3rd floor (corporate centre (not center I’m British!)) to cancel unlocking, key totals left in tact so have set it off again.
I hope Giant Chicken becomes available again as I missed out on him by 3 voodoo dolls, hell I didn’t even manage to get Stone Cold’s Truck let alone Heavy Flow. Haven’t got a clue why exhibition matches were still spitting out belts when there was no use for them!
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Everyone has seen the wording change. Waiting for clarification on it as there is still not really a “Daily Task” that is active in testing.
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I am stuck I used clams to open more levels now I can’t get the quest for keys done.
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Message TinyCo. This is reason I noted to NOT spend Clams during a testing phase.
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Mort is NOT on the guest list?
That can’t be right
Maybe his penny pinching ways have him banned
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It could be due to some of the Characters are “reserved” for other uses.
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Daily Tasks up and running and working fine. They have kept them quite basic. But maybe need to know a defined payout, rather than just a chance of this or that. As depending on payout I may decide to not tackle that daily task over something else character is needed for on a particular day, or vice versa.
Could we maybe have a pier leading to the resort, I likes fact they are using the water but it seems alienated with no way for characters to reach it.
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They aren’t kidding when it says “Chance of” for a Stewie buck. Timer counted down and only received a total of 1 buck today. 1 for the lobby but nothing for the mezzanine. I’m sorry but a 24 hour timer should be an always, a guarantee, not a wait a day and be dissapointed at the horrible drop rates as per usual. It needs to change to always if the floor is full. This isn’t Jesus producing clams here, this is a currency that has insanely high exchange rates for higher color bucks. (One Gold buck is equal to 720 Green ones.)
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Remember it’s testing and drops are more for testing purposes. More options for the money should hit… like daily tasks.
In the meantime keep the constructive requests coming. 🙂
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I have had my first floor full about 4 times now. The timer hit twice because I used clams to speed it up and twice at natural speed. I have not received one green dollar from any of those timers hitting. I thought I was doing something wrong to not get anything but after reading on here that doesn’t seem to be the case. Also, the island’s timer has reset itself before hitting 24 hours multiple times upon clearing a block or constructing a building. I don’t think it’s supposed to reset itself, and like the other times, I did not receive any green dollar from those timers resetting as well.
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Definitely something to report from your game to them. I reported it too, but they need to see it in a game that is having an issue like that and writing in to them will trigger that.
Thanks for making me aware it’s going on as well as noting it so in case many other experience the same. It is what the Testing helps to curb before it goes live for all. 🙂
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I’ve had similar luck. I’ve had the 2nd floor unlocked for 3 days now, and all 3 collects have given me only the 1 dollar from the first floor. I have triple checked to make sure it says chance of 2 stewie dollars with the yellow check mark just like the 1st floor.
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It is a “Chance” as the image in the Tan Lines says, so the payouts will vary on what you will get. Just make sure they list it as “chance” and the floor is full. Just testing, so the earning may be slow for testing purposes… but it will give them an idea of the functionality of it all. No worries, just keep going along and see how it plays out. Districts are here to stay.
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Yeah i understand. Just letting him know he’s not alone in his abysmal luck 🙂
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