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.