Disguise your Simpson house picture challenge

Pull_Up_A_Chair wrote:
Just visited my town... This was waiting for me:

http://i.imgur.com/Bnwk1l3l.jpg

Lol. I laughed when I first saw this, but then I opened up my town and the same thing. Now I'm not laughing anymore. Gabrielleors, if you are reading this, hang your head in shame and learn how to read. :evil:

And this: (note the school is not tagged)

http://i.imgur.com/qgUgc1ml.jpg

marco_rosa833 wrote:

DJDK-ec wrote:
My Evergreen Terrace is on the far side of my SF and I haven't had anyone tap the Simpson house since Halloween. However I do have some brainiac friends, who find 3 of my Kwik-E-Marts scattered around my town and tap them. I booted two of them yesterday. I mean seriously, two of those Kwik-E-Marts are next to buildings, that can be vandalized.

What if there's nothing else in your town to tap? Also, some people don't like graffiti so I will usually graffiti one or two buildings and then tap the Simpson house or Krusty Burger or Kwik E Mart if I don't see anything near me.

Read my next post. :roll:

Pull_Up_A_Chair wrote:
Just visited my town... This was waiting for me:

http://i.imgur.com/Bnwk1l3l.jpg

Based on this picture, there was not a single other building to tap on, meaning you had collected all the payouts before their visit. Sometimes it really stinks to hunt down buildings, so I don't blame them.

Not everyone can visit before people make their collections. I personally don't care. They can tap the Simpson house, or graffiti or whatever building they want. I just want the darn tile tapped. I only get like 3-4 a day and at least another 5 other visitors just tagging buildings only.

I've read so many differing preferences: pro-graffiti, anti-graffiti, pro-high value buildings, pro-low value buildings (so you don't mess up a carefully orchestrated tapping schedule) - and this doesn't include tilegate. I used to tag one building, tap one high value and one low value building, and hope to please everyone.

Now, I first look for the trifecta, then tap high value buildings or tag if below level 33 (no training walls) or there are no high value buildings available. But I suspect that a few of my neighbors would like me to visit their KL - they've visited mine recently but I forgot to take note of who they were.

This would be so much easier if we had an in-game means of communication. Is this a difficult thing to do? Or maybe the problem is the potential for some players to use such a system to be naughty.

I need to try this. The Simpson house gets more hits than anything else. My problem is I need to do more land expansions, I don't really have room at the moment

In response to the OP ... LOL ... I LOVE your contest idea. Wish I knew how to post from my iPad, but need to get to my computer to post a picture of what I tried.

I've tried to hide the Simpson house and failed every time. The problem is two-fold ... First, the dollar-sign comes to the front (in view) no matter what is in front of it, and much more importantly, the dollar signs WIGGLE. Our eyes are drawn to motion. If it wasn't moving, it would be possible to put the house in a bunch of trees, or mixed in amongst yellow things like the observatory or school bus.

Those dont work. PLUS they have a payout and the visitor may think they are tapping something significant.

The best I could come up with was to put it behind the wreckage of Whatsitsname Kodos or Kang's spaceship, because the spaceship wreckage is animated AND doesn't look like a valuable item. But lots of people don't have that.

If I hide it behind something imposing-looking, such as the big Popsicle stick tower (or even the cooling tower things) it still doesnt work. there are visitors who aren't familiar with the tower to know that it does not have a payout.

annettemarc wrote:
In response to the OP ... LOL ... I LOVE your contest idea. Wish I knew how to post from my iPad, but need to get to my computer to post a picture of what I tried.

Thanks, and I'm afraid you're right, short of hiding it in a pink or purple house farm, all hiding ideas have failed. A disguised house intrigues people even more.

RawrGoesTheSims wrote:
I do feel bad though when I go to their town and there's no tile for me to tap, and the only other things I can tap are the Simpsons house, Flanders house and the brown house. :(

GamerGD3 wrote:
Based on this picture, there was not a single other building to tap on, meaning you had collected all the payouts before their visit.

In such situations, spray cans standout even more than usual. Spray some graffiti fer crying out loud! If your neighbor is active enough that there's nothing to tap but the Simpson house, it will be cleaned up immediately with no risk of the (frankly, overstated) drop in righteousness. Everybody wins!

MaxxSpider wrote:
message received

I will triple tap the Simpson house from now on

Victory.