Future events

I love what they have been doing with the game.

The way I see it, EA has taken a template approach to events. Each event is split into 3 phases. In each phase, we tap things on footpaths. We upgrade. We craft.

It's the same program logic for Bob clones, corn stalks, felons, robbers, robbers with rainbow wigs, elves, aliens and bunnies.

Even upgrading and crafting is just copied from the previous few events. It feels like watching the original Power Rangers series and realising that each episode was essentially the same as the next.

The idea worked well at the start, but now it's gone stale. Events just don't have the flare and excitement around them anymore. The way to get prizes is pretty much the same.


I miss the times when each event worked differently.
* In Halloween 2013, you can also vacuum ghosts. People got possessed and it was a unique animation for each person
* For Clash of Clones, I was amused when lots of nerds attacked the Flanders house. I gleefully let them reduce it to rubble.
* The gift bags during Christmas 2013 were a nice touch - it truly felt like the gift of giving and it was in line with holiday's theme
* For Valentines 2013, I liked getting V-Day cards on top of my characters. I snickered when Martin rarely got hearts.

tl;dr
It was better when each event had a different method of play.

i'm pretty sure the wheels are done for good since christmas released the destroyed holiday wheel
http://i.imgur.com/56co7dz.jpg

along with this dialouge
http://i.imgur.com/VhV96pp.png

I dont agree with any of this nonsense at all. I Like the way that the events have been going.

If you dont like them, then dont participate in them :-)

Overall I like the crafting part. It lets me pick and choose what I want and sometimes how many.

Releasing the event in separate parts doesn't bother me. Each part has it's own time limit and prizes and it changes things up a bit for the entire event.

I wouldn't mind seeing something different though. Maybe for Xmas bring back the community prize part. It would make a nice fit for the season.

I just wish they'd stop with the random payouts. I'm way ahead on corn and fertilizer, but way behind on DNA. Just have everything pay out a set amount of all the crafting currency instead of randomly dropping stuff.

THOH I couldn't get enough gummy bears, while I had candy corn running out my ears.

For Superheroes I had hundreds of Red Phones left over after crafting nearly 3 dozen phone booths, but not enough of the other craft-able items.

The Wheel of Chance is not gone, it's just transformed into something else.

JimJ321 wrote:
I think they should do a Paw Patrol event.

They'll be there on the double...

I disagree with the OP. I'd rather have a long event with lots to do, then a long down time in between events. Everyone waxes nostolgic about old events but truth is- people complained equally. Whacking Day "too hard" Halloween 2013 "too much of a grind" Christmas 2013 "too glitchy" and people could speed up the questlines with donuts and finish in a day.

Regardless of the above - Im always just happy to have an event.

00-marco_rosas wrote:

cdepast wrote:
Everyone waxes nostolgic about old events but truth is- people complained equally.

People don't complain equally. There were definitely many more complaints from the old events where all the content was out and open in the beginning about nothing to do. The threads were pages long.

With that said, the current event isn't a good one. The problem isn't due to the 3 part format, however. It has to do with prizes and high cost of craft items and other mechanics.

I predict when this event is over, daily players grinding it out will be able to craft all the prizes and easily compete the prize tracks.

HillyBillyOli wrote:
NO crafting - make items available with event currency like previous events

https://i.imgflip.com/l368k.jpg

drumnman wrote:

HillyBillyOli wrote:
NO crafting - make items available with event currency like previous events

https://i.imgflip.com/l368k.jpg

:lol: