Posts split from FAQ guide. Please use this thread to add your thoughts and feedback and to chat further about the event.Thanks folks. ❤️

Think a zero is missing on the amount of cookies you win or receive in an event. D I have to finish an event almost 10x to make enough cookies to win a 1 box? Um... oops. Please do something for all us bored players quickly. I'm on my 7th house remodel due to boredom. Some of us are trapped in the Level 50 ceiling so please hurry!

I think the type of event is really beautiful and well done, but on the other hand it seems to be really difficult to me... For final prizes we have to get all 75 objects, doesn't it seems a bit excessive? I will have to spend my life glued to the smartphone without even having the certainty of completing it ☹️

It is impossible to win the grand prize. Very little amount is given for each quest. Ridiculous! If this is a taste of what is to come with new ownership then many will be saying bye-bye to their Sims.

What I Loved:I loved the anticipation and teasers from the FM SimGurus leading up to the event. It seemed that everyone was on board, engaged with the community, and hyping the players up. The teasers were a lot of fun and showed the SimGurus as being personable and excited about the release of their new event. I loved, loved, loved the newness of concept and style of event. For months TSM become very routine and the events didn’t change much. It felt like I was following a recipe when going through the walkthroughs. This event ripped up the playbook. It was creative and out of the box. Honestly, it was brave. Regardless if the event was a success or a failure in the eyes of the players, FM tried something new, and that was amazing. Furthermore, it required players to come together to figure things out and brainstorm on the best approaches to reap the most rewards. I loved working together with players to simply figure things out. It was very communal.I loved the details and design. The graphics were beautiful, the colors and details on the cooking stations were really well thought out. The writing was fun. Even the little disaster pop-up that looked like the poo emoji with sprinkles was hilarious! I got a real kick out of that. The animations were fantastic. I think this really showed off the talent of the devs and the beauty they can bring to the game.The prizes were diverse and included something for everyone: furniture, decorations, clothes, hairstyles. The bedroom furniture has energy bonuses.Removing duplicate prizes. Well done! That was great. It was really difficult to understand from the instructions and even the UI, but I liked how the Sweet Treat Challenge attempts refilled and then stored up to 3/3. It was similar to head start items in past events, like a cauldron of candy filling up, but then maxing at a certain number.What I Disliked:Oof - this event sure did drain all my resources. It was difficult, and TSM players aren’t used to this level of difficulty and spending. On one hand, I’ve played countless games with loot boxes full of prizes, and the player gets what they get, and they don’t get everything they want. TSM players who work really hard at the game and follow the walkthrough are used for getting everything, or nearly everything from an event, and don’t have to spend much to get it. Honestly, it doesn’t feel all that great needing to spend all the resources for a chance at prizes, especially if you lose. Players who are left with nothing (no prize and a loss in resources) have much to complain about. Overall, the event was difficult for a daily, overzealous super fan. It must be really difficult and unobtainable for newer players. I’m not a fan of LlamaZooms, but we used to get tokens when completing them, and that was not an option here for another chance. I think it should have been another source of tokens. The activities did not yield as much sweet treats as one would like. Only 30, unless a player had a cupcake to get the bonus. Either the rewards were too low, or the activities and cool downs were too long, because it felt like it took too long to reach 425 to open a box. This part wasn’t fun. It would have been really cool if the grand prize fireplace or wood shed offered a 75-point party action. Players like items with party actions. The details on the front of the bedroom furniture prizes, like the drawers and hardware, left something to be desired when comparing it to other furniture we’ve received. I was not a fan of the simultaneous release of the Top Secret quest. I tried to complete that with my alt account, and instead of succeeding at the quest and/or the Sweet Treat Showdown, I did extremely poor at juggling both, and that was disappointing. I hope the quest comes back at a time when a live event isn’t going on. What I Hated:This event separated the haves from the have nots. Players who completed it quickly, like too quickly to be true, were met with animosity and jealousy from other players, either for flaunting their wealth, or for having blatant hacked accounts. This event style rewards the players who hack the game and have unlimited SimCash and cupcakes, and punishes the players who are trying to complete it to the best of their ability around their real life commitments. Players who hack the game and complete it within 24-36 hours give off unrealistic expectations to other players, especially newer players, who don’t understand why they’re so far behind the players who finished quickly. I don’t know what EA can do about this, if anything, but this style of event does not provide equal opportunity to succeed and win prizes. And honestly, I would hate to perform poorly after working so hard and not get the grand prizes, but see other players have them who won them unfairly. If anything would make me leave the game, well it’s this.What I Hope to See:It would be great to unlock one of each prize before unlocking any colors for said prizes.After this event, it would be amazing to have an event where the prizes were resources, instead of furniture, clothes, hair, etc. It would be really cool to have prizes be a generous amount of simoleons, SimCash, cupcakes, fashion gems, and life tickets. That would be a nice balance between resource-draining events.

I think it's too much difficult to finish this event without use SimCash or real money...Removing the possibility of getting duplicates it's a good thing but increasing the difficulty of events at the same time is not helpful... ☹️I quite like the concept but:It looks like a Pay-To-Win event honestly.It is not well balanced, there is too little time for complete the event (15days) or you get few medals/cookies from activities (it depends on how you want to see it.)It would have made sense only if we had more time to complete it OR if the time available for finish the event was the same but getting more resources from the events/challenge.Without saying that is another LUCK-BASED event, so....

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sykrnazmn
7 years ago
I’m actually quite intrigued with this event because it isn’t like other boring events that are mostly recycled and brought back. It gives a lot of great prizes and I like that there won’t be any duplicates.
However, I loathe the Sweet Treat Challenge. Imagine getting 100-200+ Sweet Treat Tokens and a couple of Royal Treat Tokens only to lose after few rounds of the challenge and is given less than 100 Sweet Treat Tokens and zero Royal Treat Token as compensation? Imagine spending ridiculous amount of coins and cash onto the challenge? The whole percentage meter is throwing me off and I don’t understand how a 90%+ make you lose the challenge. The challenge is basically based on luck and that is pissing me off.
The three other activities aren’t good either. 30 Sweet Treat Tokens for a 6-hour activity? And one Royal Treat Token for a 12-hour one? It is impossible to get 22,100 Sweet Treat Tokens and 240 Royal Treat Tokens in two weeks and able to unlock the grand prizes. What the hell are yall thinking?! Also, I hate that you have to unlock the item’s colours. EVERY FREAKING COLOUR!
I don’t see ONE player is happy with this event. I think there will be no one who is able to collect enough tokens and get all the prizes, except the ones who use 💩load of actual money. It disgusting how this event is milking so much money out of players. I’m truly very disappointed and upset!
jayivy666
7 years ago
This is the most stupid event ever.
Viankri
7 years ago
My SIM got stuck with The showdown Challenge. It gave ALL options like on normal task (Works etc), but baking option didn't work. I had to retire My SIM to get him out.
jackieroseb
7 years ago
First, I would like to say the animations are cute, the set is beautiful and the event is fun, but the gameplay sucks.
1. 30 cookies for 6 hours & 60 cookies for 12 hour events. Even Maxis gave us enough to complete and win actual prizes.
2. This color deal I wouldn't mind so much if we could focus on winning the actual prizes and just buy the colors instead 🙂
3. Losing the sweet treat showdown above 90% is ridiculous.
4. 8 hour cool down after Showdown is a little excessive, at 4 hours would be better.
5. Like previous events we should have an earning cookies object as well. Free and paid.
6. 76 boxes to open for grand prizes? At the rate I'm going I know I'm not going to be able to get it like I was able too in the past :/ based on how little cookies we get right now.
Edit: 7. I forgot add we should be able to earn sugar cubes as well through time like our energy in the game.
I think that's all I got for now.
GracieSeven
7 years ago
@simmerdownMAL I agree with everything you said and props for a very constructive feedback, something I could not do due the upset it caused me.

I have only been playing for 11months but have supported the game by buying packs and sim cash in the store. In fact I bought sim cash just for this event. But I just cannot justify spending 100+ sim cash to complete a level when you’re on 90+%.

There has to be a balance. I am willing to pay but I don’t want to be taken advantage of.
jayivy666
7 years ago
I do not get it why we can not earn tokens from the lama quest of emily?
I do not get it why we can not get one of the megaprices for a special number of earned tickets/tokens...
Like it was in several events before...
More rewards of tokens and a safe stop at one of the megaprices with for exampke 15 oder 20 boxes each would be great....
Just add tuckets or other stuff into the boxes in a fair balance....
And that you loose the baking battle when you have like over 90 % is big nonsense...
There is so much what is wrong.....
And yes the animations and the items are pretty cute..but that will not help players if if is managed like that...
You can not enjoy the game...it destroys the whole fun.....
And why does ea not put more simcash and jewels into those events instead of 300 ugly colours....i also do pay for simcash..but there is a limit i would not go over and i feel ripped of..and in fact that is the situation now...
This fire place and hair is much more expensive then a golden whirpool...looool...
Think about it...
This event is the most expensive i have ever seen on the sims...seriously..that is not normal buying and selling...it is rip off...
Please change that!
Have a nice day again....
GothamSirens198
7 years ago
Not only am I drained from this event, I am drained of voicing my opinion... For which I have already done quite a bit of on Twitter 😂 I definitely feel as though I can agree with everyones else's opinion on here! @simmerdownMAL pretty much nailed what my thoughts are a 100%, and I feel as if she speaks for all or most of all of us on this one! The only other thing I would add is that the graphics seem to be more pixelated, but I know that doesn't haven't much to do with this event 😅 Also I am bad at navigating this site, so sorry if I posted this on the wrong spot 😁
MithHouse
7 years ago
Impossible event. I ALWAYS get the final quest prizes and I'm absolutely devasted I will not get these prizes. Even if I spend $$$'s I doubt I could achieve.
AGAIN... a ZERO is missing on the earned cookies or crowns.
I have stayed and hoped our new creators would figure out how to make things better. Please make this up to us.
Aphalune
7 years ago
We need more rewards from events, this mean we should get more cookies, and more royal tokens. (One is not enough when completing a long-time event)
Less waiting time between every challenge.
Success probability is so low, I failed a preparation at 94% this is totally unacceptable.
The event is aesthetically beautiful and engaging but unfortunately unplayable.
ItsKatlyn99
7 years ago
@sykrnazmnFrom the first moment that the "colours swatches" update was released and we started paying colours separately, I realized that something was breaking the game itself.
Obviously I don't think the purpose was to make players save some money. Of course not.

The aim of that update was probably to increase the quantity of objects to make events more more and more challenging and hard to complete, a real punch in the stomach.

I always hoped that everything one day could come back like it was before regarding colours. But this will probably never happen.

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