So, I was able to reach the needed treats to be able to open all the boxes with 2 days to spare but only because I had to spend (still A LOT of) sim cash & simoleons. Though, in fairness, this time around, the resources spent was less compared to previous showdowns.
I read others didn't spend much or none at all?!? I'm not sure that would've given you the needed number of tokens. Please correct me if someone was able to do it with no spending of resources esp. sim cash. Coz in my game I was forced to spend sim cash almost every time I fail the first part of a showdown usually at 90%. And also happens mid parts of the showdown when I'm at 91% or 92%. So sim cash is really gonna be spent for the showdowns.
Take for the case of the royal ones, reaching L6 or L7 only gives like 4, 5 or 6 treats. And this still depends on the type of showdown if it's 7-9-or-10 parts. And to complete 240 is needed. To be able to surely get the needed royal tickets, each showdown is a must to be won by reaching L6 or L7. So, spending sim cash can't be avoided.
The clothes & furniture are cool. Good luck to those still playing & hope you get the items you want.
I've got my tokens also collected 2 days before the end of the showdown, so I'll be getting my grand prize and napping in it until Christmas. :D
Compared to the Catwalk Fabulous Showdown, this Treatsylvania Haunt Showdown was more demanding for me. And given the fact that none of these Showdowns are piece of cake. 😛 For the first 2 Showdowns (Country Living and Charming Gardens) I did not get the grand prizes, since at that point I'd only played SimsMobile for few months and didn't have resources.
Treatsylvania Haunt statistics from my game:
- 7 round challenges: 18
- 9 round challenges: 15
- 10 round challenges: 8
- 200 000 Simoleons spent, 10 SimCash & 23 cupcakes.
- 3 challenges with all rounds cleared, and one of them was the 5 round "tutorial" in the start
- 11 burned desserts
- My daily average of Royal Tokens received from challenges were around 12,5
- After getting burned 5 challenges in a row in the beginning of the challenge, I tried to play extremely carefully and that meant spending simoleons. I also bought Royal tokens if they were available to buy with Simoleons.
Comparison to my Catwalk fabulous Showdown:
- 7 round challenges: 11
- 9 round challenges: 10
- 10 round challenges: 9
- 95 500 Simoleons spent, 85 SimCash & 24 cupcakes
- 7 challenges with all rounds cleared
- 9 burned desserts
- Daily average of Royal Tokens received from challenges around 18
Sweet Treat Showdowns in general:
- I love the setting in Parkside and the decorations, it looks really good. The coffin was nice touch for Halloween
- I have insta account for my Sims and I really like all the different cakes and desserts and I was eager to get to bake them all and post pics to "Simstagram" but there hasn't been any new pastries or baking actions
- calculating the odds&sugarcubes and the constant uncertainty of winning ANY tokens sucks the fun out of baking. Getting tokens from challenges is too uncertain and require resources. I don't like to worry my challenge tactics 2 weeks straight
- Tokens from the FlavorLab and Pastry Class are minimal.. better chance of getting the Sweet tokens from quick events but that requires quite a lot of time spent in the game
- All the color options being in their separate boxes.. frustrating to open +50 boxes with just the colors. This time I got "lucky" and got one of each item in the first 30 boxes.
All the negative things started to outweigh all the good things I liked .. It's too stressful and I find myself being unhappy with the game experience. ☹️ Motivation of doing next Showdown is zero.. and I don't want my game instagram feed to be constant rant about burning cakes. 😛
I'm going to do few challenges before I collect my grand prize, just to get some simoleons back or jewels..
Hoping everyone good or at least better times with the game! 🙂
On a side note: I really liked the Halloween Haunt event which was before this showdown since it gave me time to actually breathe, gather resources, start new career and clear one piece of land. And still I got some really great prizes, fun pics and moments with all the Halloween decorations and outfits.
@Ilois4I love that you kept statistics for your sweet sweet challenge. I'm going to implement that the next time I go around.
I'm just estimating here, but I lost approximately 13 Rounds, 50 cupcakes, 60k simoleons, and approximately 150 simcash. Not to mention most of the times that I failed it was on the first or second round of the Bake Off. They certainly need to tweak the bake off's better and lower the Royal Treats boxes from 10 to something like 7, so it's doable for everyone even when they fail. It is really hard to get the royal tokens when there is really only two ways to get them. I have been told that you can get an extra Royal token if you get a commercial after your long event. So I tried to do that and I think they took that away from my game. I'm just hoping that the next sweet treat challenge I will not like any of the things and I could skip it. I am happy though to report that I did finish this sweet we challenge and got the cool hair and coffin. But to be honest it was a lot of work and a lot of stress. The only positive thing that came during this challenge was that I was able to get the beginner's package and that helped a lot.
I really tried to give these Sweet Treats Challenges a chance, but after this 4th one, I can honestly say I just don’t enjoy or like them.
When one has to keep a calculator close by to keep figuring the percentages for winning a challenge, that’s no longer fun for me.
There were only a few prize rewards that I actually liked, but overall I’m not a fan of multi-colored cobwebs, tears in the wallpaper or Left-handed wrist cuffs as rewards.
IMHO The cost of this event is still too expensive & a waste of hard-earned resources. It is also too long and too time consuming IRL.
I was so happy to buy that beginners pack with real (and very reasonable $$$), because I got exactly what I wanted- hairstyles, clothing, fireplace, bed etc. And it didn’t take 14 stressful days to do it or every last cupcake, simolean or SimCash I have.
My biggest pet peeves are how the individual color swatches are even considered “prizes”. That’s a lot of sugar cookies to “win”
a swatch color you may not even want or like.
Why not offer more/better rewards & maybe gives 3 swatch colors instead of 6 ?
OR give us the option to buy swatch colors we want even after the STS event is over, because now I have chair and a bed in a color I don’t like & will never use and don’t have any way to purge my already overflowing storage.
I still prefer the original way past Events like WinterFest & Halloween were done with progressive timelines & items like the candy bowls, Gift boxes etc. that automatically collected tokens.
I’m happy for those who enjoy these STS events and like their prizes, but I’m just not one of them.
Guess I’m just missing that gambling gene.
Thanks everyone for your coments. We have passed on your feedback to TSM team. 🙂
Please keep sharing your thoughts and experience.
