EA: quit making characters that fly across the screen!

"007abesimpson;c-1684787" wrote:
The flying across the screen isn't the problem. It shouldn't bring you to the building if you tap on the flying character.

This is spot on. Moving me from where I want to be on the screen to somewhere I don't want to be is more than just frustrating. It is enough to make me close the game and walk away for a while. Honestly, Rickrolling lost all all of its humor the second or third time it happened to me. This is the same. Funny the first or second time, then just annoying enough to make me want to stop playing.

"007abesimpson;c-1684787" wrote:
The flying across the screen isn't the problem. It shouldn't bring you to the building if you tap on the flying character.

^ This.

This is the thing that irks me. Oh, you're trying to tap a lawyer? Let me just zip you to the other side of your town because you tapped too close to the speeding plane that flies across your screen.. BAHHH!!

The moment I see the plane I tap it, store it, place it, and send to 24 hours. He searches for fossils in a dig site so I placed that near my landing zone. I open the game, see that he's done his 24 hour task immediately, and send him back off on 24hrs. I rarely miss him and when I do it takes 2 seconds to store and replace the runway in my airport.
It's not the greatest but it works.
For Arnie Pie, I have the stone cutters skin for him and on that one he's not a problem.

Still, if they got rid of the flying hit boxes and instead just put the thumbs up at their buildings (the runway, the Channel 6 news building) it'd be soo much better.

A possible solution is a "button toggle" that deactivates the flying visuals much like the spy stuff event item they added but still gives the XP/money.

I lost many lawyers thanks to this. I'm trying to synch it to Norbert so I can get them both on 24 hour cycles, but it is too cumbersome to maintain characters on different job timers.

at least make the thing flying across the screen untapable or give it an odd hour job like 5 or 7 hours.

I'm looking forward to placing EVERYONE on fly tasks! This will make game play impossible :#

"Chris60119;c-1686306" wrote:
at least make the thing flying across the screen untapable or give it an odd hour job like 5 or 7 hours.

At least, yes.

"cimddwc1;c-1686951" wrote:

"Chris60119;c-1686306" wrote:
at least make the thing flying across the screen untapable or give it an odd hour job like 5 or 7 hours.

At least, yes.

As long as they don't make it 2 (or 10) hour, because I want to petition to have 2 hour and 10 hour added to the Task Manager.

"Rexplosive;c-1684966" wrote:

"007abesimpson;c-1684787" wrote:
The flying across the screen isn't the problem. It shouldn't bring you to the building if you tap on the flying character.

Exactly this. I only have 1 character flying and it ticks me off ever so slightly every time I click him by accident. I go out of my way to put him on 24hr task so I can continue my 4hr cycling in peace.

This is what I do as well