Hmmmm....now that I think about it, I have the same problem.

Holy crap. I will investigate this myself to verify. By the way, a couple of your calculations are off. According to the numbers you provide, the skinner Mensa meeting is only a 3.7 increase, not 11% and the first three you listed are a 4.3% increase (ok, just nitpicking on those :D )jbondra wrote:Yep, I have the same issue. Should be 8.5%, after adding up my items, but I'm stuck at 4%I am guessing you are looking at the star rating window, which will only say you are receiving up to a 5% bonus. The bonus granted by premium items is in addition to that and is not listed anywhere. The only way to determine the bonus you are (or should be) receiving is to do what the guy did in the first post and total them up.

Hey Folks, thanks for the replay and the proof that something is going on here. and special thanks to hellokenney, who corrected my math. I just corrected the post above for the correct numbers. What it seams like - that it is totally ignoring the premium items and is just taking the Star Bonus and that is worst then i thought. Please, if you have a few minutes - i listed nearly every premium item in my first post. Sum up what you have, and give us 1 or 2 quests , and what you get from them. FOr me all 70$ Quests give 73$, regardless of the quest and the charI really really fell fooled when i noticed that i bought that stuff for cash, and do not get anything from it. CheersSwedep.s. teenager and moleman i can accept as "wanted" game logic, as they really give more xp then the usual chars24h 1000 to 600, even if this is not 100% more, as written that is the lower problem. For me the mayor bug is that the other prem items just do nothing...

I think EA didn't think we know how to do math. LOL I mean in this situation its an advantage to me because I have not purchased any donuts to get any big premium items. What I have in my springfield, 2 burning bushes were found and Homer's hanmock was a must buy. These already enabled me to earn approx 73 bucks for the Kwik-E-Mart tasks (seriously not possible, no matter what) which is the same as what people who bought premium items earn. This is quite ridiculous. A few days ago I was just contemplating buying donuts, especially since there have been so many updates and the game seems quite stable (for me) now. THENNNNN......I read all the posts in the forum about springfields STILL going missing and now this?! Scares me when I think about how much money, time and effort everyone has spent on this game. I mean...money can be earned back but time and effort...hmmm... WE CAN'T EARN THESE BACK EA!!!

A couple questions- does the lemon tree give a bonus? If so, what? Also, is the bonus for the orange tree the same as the apple tree? Currently, the description for both just says "look out for vandals".

afaik: no bonus for the lemon tree, and Apple and Orange are the same

[EA confirmed] Major Bug with % Premium Items. DONT BUY THEM - THEY DONT WORK!

schwede510
13 years ago
bump
schwede510
13 years ago
last bump for me , before i also exit out via apple support.

thats really a shame EA ...
justinmryan
13 years ago
Anyone have any update on this issue. Hearing from the EA folks that are said to exist in this forum would be super
KrustyBrand
13 years ago
I was planning on re-engaging with EA's help desk on this issue sometime within the next week, but before I did so I thought it might perhaps help if I had a better idea about the extent of the problem. Specifically, is there *anyone* out there reading this for whom the calculation of money and XP for tasks correctly factors in the possession of premium items? (Or is this a bug that affects each and every gamer?)
Jbennett4624
13 years ago
KrustyBrand wrote:
I was planning on re-engaging with EA's help desk on this issue sometime within the next week, but before I did so I thought it might perhaps help if I had a better idea about the extent of the problem. Specifically, is there *anyone* out there reading this for whom the calculation of money and XP for tasks correctly factors in the possession of premium items? (Or is this a bug that affects each and every gamer?)

Added effect doesn't work for me either.. oh well build more = more money and xp :roll:

yeah xp to go no where for now.. make it go to level 100 at least.. 5 donuts a piece for level upgrade. Map room isn't big enough even after you bought all land expansion.. you need to x10 the max :mrgreen:
jackriversio
13 years ago
Hi there - after having suspicions myself about this after buying a stack of 60 Donuts for 4 Homer Buddas (I got a pretty rubbish haul to be honest!) I contacted Apple support to explain that the advertised effect of the premium items bought with in app purchase items weren't doing what they were advertised to do. I contacted them via the following:

https://expresslane.apple.com/Issues.action

Then I clicked 'Other iTunes Store Topics' then 'Quality of Purchased Content' then filled in the form. I heard back from Apple within around 2 hours and they refunded the stack of 60 Donuts - I kind of wish I'd brought more now! Oh well.

Anyway, it might not be the same for everyone and I know that items can do more than just increase %, but if anyone brought them for this reason alone I'd give it a try as this is a genuine problem with the game!

Loving the game though apart from this bug - currently level 20 and looking forward to being able to save up a bit of money to make my Springfield a bit nicer once I don't have to buy all the buildings anymore! I'd say add me, but I've already hit 100 friends...

Good luck to anyone that tries the above!
youredoinitwron
13 years ago
Of course they don't. This is standard operating procedure for EA.
justinmryan
13 years ago
Bump
justinmryan
13 years ago
Is there any update on this yet.
schwede510
13 years ago
ok first data update went in - EA - i really hope that you are sending an system update via app store asap
that fixes this bug...