Feeder Towns?

izabellatrix wrote:
Okay, so I just made the new town, and I noticed something very strange. When I visit my towns, none of the characters are doing the things they're supposed to be doing.

I'm looking at my new little town now from my main town. Homer, Lisa, and Ned are all supposed to be in the Quick-E-Mart, and Kang is supposed to be in the Brown House. But when I look at it from my main town, Apu is feeding the Octuplets, Ned is jogging, Lisa is playing the sax, Homer's just wandering, and Kang is seasoning humans. Is this normal?

When I visit my main town from my feeder town, it looks like all my characters are aimlessly walking around when they're supposed to be on various other tasks.

How strange.

The stuff you're seeing from your main town INTO your feeder town happens because, if a character is on any still-in-progress indoor task, EA has it programmed so that VISITORS to your town can see all the characters "in action" ... so any random outdoor task is assigned by the Magical Computer In The Sky. If you send a bunch of people to Kwik-E-Mart, then when you go from another town to peek in, you see a whole lot of characters piling out of the Kwik-E-Mart, each doing some random outdoor task ... hence, you'd see Lisa playing her sax, Ned jogging, etc. What's fun is that they all come out of the Kwik-E-Mart doorway at the same time ... and sometimes the "task" will be one that is stationary, so a bunch of characters will be stuck in the doorway doing their stationary tasks. I'm describing it really badly.

When you visit your main town from your feeder town and see everyone wandering aimlessly ... have those characters' tasks completed? I mean, if you log into your main town after seeing that, are there thumbs-up over their heads? Because once the task completes, a visiting neighbor sees the people wandering aimlessly. For instance, if in your main town you have Lisa playing her saxophone (her 4 hour task) ... After 5 hours, you visit from your feeder. From there, you will see Lisa wandering around. If you then log into your main town, YOU will see Lisa still playing her saxophone, but with the thumbs-up over her head. She finished her task, but you haven't cleared the thumb yet.

Is that what might have happened?

Gawd, this got LONG! Sorry :(