Anyone every have their characters just drop assigned tasks ? I've noticed that for the past 3 days when I send them out through the unemployment center they drop the tasks after about an hour. I send them out for 8 hours and after an hour I find them just wandering about doing nothing. It's weird and frustrating.I submitted this on the bug board as well.

That's probably because a neighbor tapped it for you 7 hours ago. That's a feature not a bug.

"EllieGuseman;c-1837679" wrote:This sounds like a syncing problem. You can manually sync before closing the game by going to Krustyland and back. You can also uninstall and reinstall after making sure you know your Origin ID and Mayhem ID and making space on your device.https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out/How-to-resolve-crashing-freezing-and-loading-progress-issues/td-p/5716153I always sync (via visiting friends) after sending all characters anyway, because some characters take forever to walk to their new task location, and it screws up the free donut rush when the tasks are nearly ending. Synching starts their task timer. Even if I don't sync, which occasionally happens, I've never had this problem, but I have a huge problem on Tiny Co. games; it's almost constant and I'm considering not even going through with the effort of tasking characters if they don't even do anything from it.

It's not been happening to me but my wife mentioned about the same problem the other day that characters that she had tasked where just wandering around when she went back into the game, she's now doing a quick visit to Krustyland or the neighbours screen before exiting forcing the game to sync and it seems to have stopped happening since.

Do you KEM farm? I have noticed if I assign tasks and then go take care of my KEM farm this happens sometimes. I'm assuming the characters start their task in one of my farmed KEM, then I sell it so the task is cancelled. At least that was what I thought happened. I could be wrong.

This sounds like a syncing problem. You can manually sync before closing the game by going to Krustyland and back. You can also uninstall and reinstall after making sure you know your Origin ID and Mayhem ID and making space on your device.https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out/How-to-resolve-crashing-freezing-and-loading-progress-issues/td-p/5716153

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simp7fan
7 years ago
That's probably because a neighbor tapped it for you 7 hours ago. That's a feature not a bug.
wiedmannaj
7 years ago
"EllieGuseman;c-1837679" wrote:
This sounds like a syncing problem. You can manually sync before closing the game by going to Krustyland and back. You can also uninstall and reinstall after making sure you know your Origin ID and Mayhem ID and making space on your device.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out/How-to-resolve-crashing-freezing-and-loading-progress-issues/td-p/5716153

I always sync (via visiting friends) after sending all characters anyway, because some characters take forever to walk to their new task location, and it screws up the free donut rush when the tasks are nearly ending. Synching starts their task timer. Even if I don't sync, which occasionally happens, I've never had this problem, but I have a huge problem on Tiny Co. games; it's almost constant and I'm considering not even going through with the effort of tasking characters if they don't even do anything from it.
devilhunt1449
7 years ago
It's not been happening to me but my wife mentioned about the same problem the other day that characters that she had tasked where just wandering around when she went back into the game, she's now doing a quick visit to Krustyland or the neighbours screen before exiting forcing the game to sync and it seems to have stopped happening since.
weirdalturtle
7 years ago
Do you KEM farm? I have noticed if I assign tasks and then go take care of my KEM farm this happens sometimes. I'm assuming the characters start their task in one of my farmed KEM, then I sell it so the task is cancelled. At least that was what I thought happened. I could be wrong.
11EEvey
Hero+
7 years ago
This sounds like a syncing problem. You can manually sync before closing the game by going to Krustyland and back. You can also uninstall and reinstall after making sure you know your Origin ID and Mayhem ID and making space on your device.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out/How-to-resolve-crashing-freezing-and-loading-progress-issues/td-p/5716153
simp7fan
7 years ago
My game is installed on local storage instead of SD card and that no longer happens. Good luck.
adidas4fun68
7 years ago
I’ve noticed it with buildings. An 8hr building that I collected from 1hr ago is ready for collection again? Wtf?
11EEvey
Hero+
7 years ago
I have never had this syncing problem in TSTO or FWOT. But I also never task and close out right away either.
stinkbugger
7 years ago
"wiedmannaj;c-1838737" wrote:
I always sync (via visiting friends) after sending all characters anyway, because some characters take forever to walk to their new task location, and it screws up the free donut rush when the tasks are nearly ending.

What is the longest that a character can take to get to their task location?
devilhunt1449
7 years ago
"stinkbugger;c-1838981" wrote:
"wiedmannaj;c-1838737" wrote:
I always sync (via visiting friends) after sending all characters anyway, because some characters take forever to walk to their new task location, and it screws up the free donut rush when the tasks are nearly ending.

What is the longest that a character can take to get to their task location?

I'm not sure but definitely several minutes can be taken for them to reach the place that a task happens as I've followed characters through my Springfield.