Characters return to SF

I'm pretty sure they drop at random in different places. They may appear in the same location every time, but I've never spent the time to figure it out.

Seems pretty random to me.

Mine always return near their associated building, eg. Homer, Lisa they return near the simpsons house
Skinner returns near the school, and so on.

Looks like a new glitch that you can't select them after returning until you can locate one of them, set them to a task and then you are able to use the character selector in the top right for the rest.

After reading the original post ... Tested it. Placed shuttle at Landing Zone to see if they got off shuttle there.

Nope. Its totally random. They were standing all through the town. (Oops. Noticed above posts mentioned specific locations. I wasn't looking for that!

It WOULD be kinda cool if it showed them disembarking from the shuttle as a group ... The way everyone comes pouring out of Kwik-E-Mart or church or Moe's.

Wonder how complex the programming would be to do that ...

annettemarc wrote:
After reading the original post ... Tested it. Placed shuttle at Landing Zone to see if they got off shuttle there.

Nope. Its totally random. They were standing all through the town. (Oops. Noticed above posts mentioned specific locations. I wasn't looking for that!

It WOULD be kinda cool if it showed them disembarking from the shuttle as a group ... The way everyone comes pouring out of Kwik-E-Mart or church or Moe's.

Wonder how complex the programming would be to do that ...

But what if you went from KL to the friends screen and then to your SF? What if you exited the game before going to SF? Does the game even know, when you are in SF, where you just were?

Programmer: It's not in the original design to keep track of that! Put it on the list of requirements for version 2.

:mrgreen:

Neglecterino wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
After reading the original post ... Tested it. Placed shuttle at Landing Zone to see if they got off shuttle there.

Nope. Its totally random. They were standing all through the town. (Oops. Noticed above posts mentioned specific locations. I wasn't looking for that!

It WOULD be kinda cool if it showed them disembarking from the shuttle as a group ... The way everyone comes pouring out of Kwik-E-Mart or church or Moe's.

Wonder how complex the programming would be to do that ...

But what if you went from KL to the friends screen and then to your SF? What if you exited the game before going to SF? Does the game even know, when you are in SF, where you just were?

Programmer: It's not in the original design to keep track of that! Put it on the list of requirements for version 2.

:mrgreen:

I hadnt considered all those permutations. (Sheesh. Programmers.)

I was most interested in the "visual" being exclusive to that "All Aboard" moment ... In that scenario, the way for me to get directly from my Krustyland to my Springfield is to tap my shuttle and it asks if I'd like to return to my Springfield. That would be the only time I'm referring to when I say for everyone to disembark. So that tap on the shuttle as it sits in the Krustyland parking lot would be the trigger. Just as it is, at the moment, the trigger for the message box asking if I want to return to Springfield. And if I tap "yes" everyone shows in a group disembarking back in Springfield.

Right now, when I take the shuttle to Krustyland, the characters arrive all piled up at the Krustyland entrance, to signify that they just arrived. Something like that, but only when its a direct ride back to Springfield.

How 'bout that option?

I've tried to figure that out but I couldn't. I think it's random. And....very annoying when they don't appear in your task list as an available character. I have all of the land and all of the water and it can take awhile to find one to get them back in the list.

annettemarc wrote:

Neglecterino wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
After reading the original post ... Tested it. Placed shuttle at Landing Zone to see if they got off shuttle there.

Nope. Its totally random. They were standing all through the town. (Oops. Noticed above posts mentioned specific locations. I wasn't looking for that!

It WOULD be kinda cool if it showed them disembarking from the shuttle as a group ... The way everyone comes pouring out of Kwik-E-Mart or church or Moe's.

Wonder how complex the programming would be to do that ...

But what if you went from KL to the friends screen and then to your SF? What if you exited the game before going to SF? Does the game even know, when you are in SF, where you just were?

Programmer: It's not in the original design to keep track of that! Put it on the list of requirements for version 2.

:mrgreen:

I hadnt considered all those permutations. (Sheesh. Programmers.)

I was most interested in the "visual" being exclusive to that "All Aboard" moment ... In that scenario, the way for me to get directly from my Krustyland to my Springfield is to tap my shuttle and it asks if I'd like to return to my Springfield. That would be the only time I'm referring to when I say for everyone to disembark. So that tap on the shuttle as it sits in the Krustyland parking lot would be the trigger. Just as it is, at the moment, the trigger for the message box asking if I want to return to Springfield. And if I tap "yes" everyone shows in a group disembarking back in Springfield.

Right now, when I take the shuttle to Krustyland, the characters arrive all piled up at the Krustyland entrance, to signify that they just arrived. Something like that, but only when its a direct ride back to Springfield.

How 'bout that option?

That highlighted sentence.... the game most likely does not work that way. When you leave KL, the game syncs. The design does not know how or when you will get back in your SF. It might even be on another device. Hence, the information that you came from KL, would have to be saved in your game file on the server. So, yes, it's doable, but might require a change in the game file.

The other direction does not have this problem because you only have one way to arrive in your KL.