Did you start playing TSTO during an event?

Downloaded it when it first came out (March 2012) but I didn't "get it" and deleted the app (doh!)

Re-downloaded years later in the midst of Superheroes 2 and never looked back. I didn't know what I was doing during that event - hadn't found this forum yet - but was able to craft a ton of income producing buildings starting a nice little farm.

I started during the second Halloween event. I don't know what year that was.

I really don't want to think about how long it's been, because i haven't stopped playing since. I'm not even sure i brush my teeth so consistently.

When my wife and I bought an iPad for Xmas 13 I started playing. This was during the Xmas event at the time. Love from first tap

I started just before Halloween 2013. I was playing freemium and anonymously with no neighbors except Other Springfield. I gave up 5 precious donuts to complete the Choo Choo Choose Me quest rather than get neighbors, don't know why. I didn't get any until the Event whose Name we Will Not Mention (though I did love seeing my small town flooded with bunnies). I don't know how anyone understands how to play the events without finding this forum.

_ Loooooooonnnnng time lurker

I started midway through a Christmas event that I think had the hated wheel of fortune thing for prizes. My town was literally the Simpson house, Flanders house, brown house, KEM, Cletus's farm and then an elf home, big metal Christmas tree thing. Looking back I did surprisingly well out of that event (Mr Plow, Plow King and Snow Monster). I got far too addicted to playing early on though and when I realised I was wasting my day off by basically waiting for my notification every hour to say that tasks were complete I decided to ditch the game (some time around Easter that year).

I came back to the game towards the end of the Monorail event while I was traveling in Australia and stopped playing at the start of Deep Space Homer when free WiFi wasn't a regular luxury. Finally I came back to the game again during some sort of Lard Lad mini event and have been here since! Must be very close to a year solid now and can't imagine me even giving it up again while there's still life in it.

I started during the Clash of the Clones and didn't know it was an event until it ended and game went back to non-event style LOL

Started during Stonecutters Event

I downloaded TSTO in January 2014 for my daughter who was going into the hospital for surgery, along with a few other games. The wifi was spotty at best in the hospital, so she didn't get to play it. We didn't even really know what it was about. About a month later, I was poking around on my kindle and came across it. I started it up, and fell deep in the rabbit hole smack in the middle of the Valentines event. I had no idea about the mechanics, and didn't realize how many prizes I was missing out on. Within a few weeks, I got my wife and my daughter involved just in time for the dreaded E-word event. No neighbors other than ourselves and Other Springfield, we squeaked by, my wife and I each earning the coveted Faberge Egg near the end. I found the forums near the end, which helped, as well as our mayhem ID numbers giving her pink and me blue eggs (my daughter soon lost interest, but occasionally plays still).

I'd made a couple posts on the forums, but didn't think my town was ready to open the Friend gates via the add-me thread. One day, I got a request out of the blue, and decided to bite the bullet. Most of the people who added MolzPink and I are still loyal Neighboreenos.

So, thank you @Dat1279, and thank all the rest of you for making the last 3 1/2 years such fun and so informational here on the forums and in game.

Peace, Love, and Light to you all.

Even JoshSheerer.

Nothing going on when I started in August 2012

Valentines 2013. Wish I'd been able to experience THOH and Winter 2012.