51 Characters

MumblingReject wrote:
Agreed. I think we could also do with a character screen, similar to the task book, that shows what all your characters are doing and lets you find them easier. It would help players with huge cities and maze like roads who have to sprawl back and forth making sure everyone is working and you didn't miss anyone.

Exactly, because I always do. Nothing worse than putting everyone on 24 hour tasks and then coming back to find that several of them you missed have been wandering around for a whole day. Slackers

shaygitz wrote:

MumblingReject wrote:
Agreed. I think we could also do with a character screen, similar to the task book, that shows what all your characters are doing and lets you find them easier. It would help players with huge cities and maze like roads who have to sprawl back and forth making sure everyone is working and you didn't miss anyone.

Exactly, because I always do. Nothing worse than putting everyone on 24 hour tasks and then coming back to find that several of them you missed have been wandering around for a whole day. Slackers

^^^^ This! ^^^^^

ITA that we have needed this for a while now. It would be very nice to not leave anyone behind when assigning jobs and it would come in handy in finding those dastardly characters. Ms. Krabapple has a habit of hiding in front of trees so I can't ever find her and Smithers likes to disappear between houses and wander off streets making him hard to find too.

KristinMJ78 wrote:


ITA that we have needed this for a while now. It would be very nice to not leave anyone behind when assigning jobs and it would come in handy in finding those dastardly characters. Ms. Krabapple has a habit of hiding in front of trees so I can't ever find her and Smithers likes to disappear between houses and wander off streets making him hard to find too.

I have the same problem with Smithers. And Ralph is too small to see unless you're really looking

Jay_Kay_4747 wrote:
An easy way to prevent missing anyone is to give them new tasks immediately after you collect from their previous tasks.

This way you only need to look for the thumbs up icon to find anybody you have missed.

This theory works but some character tasks are only unlocked when another finishes,so you might be one cycle behind in that term.

NeoSEC28 wrote:
Mayan god

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Lol mayan god it is lol thanks guys lol do finals have jobs?

Jay_Kay_4747 wrote:
An easy way to prevent missing anyone is to give them new tasks immediately after you collect from their previous tasks.

This way you only need to look for the thumbs up icon to find anybody you have missed.

+1
And if you release the ones in your task bar first, you can keep your questlines going too. It's how I play. :D

shaygitz wrote:

MumblingReject wrote:
Agreed. I think we could also do with a character screen, similar to the task book, that shows what all your characters are doing and lets you find them easier. It would help players with huge cities and maze like roads who have to sprawl back and forth making sure everyone is working and you didn't miss anyone.

Exactly, because I always do. Nothing worse than putting everyone on 24 hour tasks and then coming back to find that several of them you missed have been wandering around for a whole day. Slackers

I play with the mindset of when it happens, it happens. As I collect I always reassign immediately, 1 at a time. The drawback of this is that when new quests arrive I usually have to wait because the necessary character still has 23:59 remaining.

But there's no rush. I almost always have the quests complete before the next update anyways. :)

The only character (with tasks) that I don't have is Shauna.

Jay_Kay_4747 wrote:
An easy way to prevent missing anyone is to give them new tasks immediately after you collect from their previous tasks.

This way you only need to look for the thumbs up icon to find anybody you have missed.

The problem there is you have to tap away all the money before you can get a new task screen. Even though it causes me to miss a few characters sometimes, I prefer to let the money collect itself

Jay_Kay_4747 wrote:

shaygitz wrote:

Jay_Kay_4747 wrote:
An easy way to prevent missing anyone is to give them new tasks immediately after you collect from their previous tasks.

This way you only need to look for the thumbs up icon to find anybody you have missed.

The problem there is you have to tap away all the money before you can get a new task screen. Even though it causes me to miss a few characters sometimes, I prefer to let the money collect itself

I like letting the money collect itself 'cus there's nothing like tappnig a bunch of completed tasks and seeing lots and lots of cash :D But for me the most efficient way of doing it is the way sherry & I play. I think you would spend roughly the same amount of time collecting the money yourself and setting the new tasks straight away. Finding characters that aren't working on a task can be time consuming.

Having said that, each to their own, which is the great thing about this game.

After I've finished with the task bar characters, I've been clearing out and reassigning tasks in batches of three or four. You can wait for the cash to clear and still find the characters pretty easily.