Giving up

Same here! And now we can't even choose what we want to craft either.
Likely I won't be able to craft the last two prizes, but EA made me waste a lot of points to "level up"
Plus I have more than 15,000 useless future bucks! What are the for? To have the Devs laugh at us? Thanks for nothing EA.
I've stopped buying donuts. :(

You really don't need to play every hour to get everything. I play around 3-4 times a day and always get every prize.

lightening79 wrote:
You really don't need to play every hour to get everything. I play around 3-4 times a day and always get every prize.

Good luck to you!

We've all been there. When I started they had The Stone Cutters event going on. In addition to being new I had a vacation in there which limited what I could get. My advice is don't get hung up on getting everything. Most will go into storage. Just enjoy the game at your pace and enjoy your down time outside of the game. The longer you play the higher likelihood you'll receive all the prizes fairly easy. Hang in there. Don't get discouraged.

I play morning train,quick lunch break, train home and pre bed. I hit everything with 2-3 days spare. I spend maybe 15mins a day total.

But yer its way to hardcore at moment and forcing casuals like me out.....

Zozobras wrote:
Same here! And now we can't even choose what we want to craft either.
Likely I won't be able to craft the last two prizes, but EA made me waste a lot of points to "level up"
Plus I have more than 15,000 useless future bucks! What are the for? To have the Devs laugh at us? Thanks for nothing EA.
I've stopped buying donuts. :(

Note sure about the wasted points on leveling up. By crafting items you leveled up. If you just used parts to level up by clicking the 'number' needed you missed a big part of how this worked, and that was covered in the walkthroughs and tons of posts. Hope that didn't happen to you. I have used future bucks to craft a ton of cash earning items for my freemium town and its actually earning a ton of cash and xp now.

To the OP:
I hear you. I have found in the last few events there was no way for my freemium town to get the last couple of prizes, even logging in 4 or 5 times a day. The difference in my main town was the extra 20 or so premium characters, who not only add to earning power, but do it at double the rate. My personal opinion is that with the huge number of avenues to free donuts, EA is expecting us to have premium characters to succeed. This event I have not missed a day of 4 times logged in. I got the last prize of act one with 40 minutes to spare. When I get enough donuts built up in that town I will start farming KEMs with the collider on and it will join the premium group.

As much as I love the events I am also finding the never ending grind is wrecking the fun. Gone is the time when we get down time to actually design and have fun. Part of the issue there is the never ending I'm bored when is something going to happen threads that start before each event even ends. I actually enjoy the event, and don't see it as a get everything as fast as you can then complain type of game.

As in any game there are vastly different styles of players and its hard for EA to strike a balance but the pace now seems to be scaring away and burning out those of us who cant spend hours a day, or don't have 3 or 4 times a day to log in. Unfortunately I don't have an answer, but you are definitely not alone in your thoughts. I really hope we get NOTHING ELSE until Halloween to allow some breathing time.

Sorry for the long post, but its one of my very infrequent long rants :wink:

OP, it's very disconcerting to keep missing out on the final prizes. I understand that. It's never happened to me aside from my very first event when I was locked out from continuing because I was lower than level 22. Every time I see that everyone else seems to have the opera stage or SSB's dad...not upset, but envious a little. Maybe it's okay to live with a little envy, like a bit of motivation. As you've seen others say, it is possible to complete these acts as long as you pop in 3 or 4 times a day and maybe spend 15 minutes total collecting currency. Though, premium characters really do help. Just get one next time and enjoy the event at a more leisure pace. I hope you take your break and enjoy it and then come back for the next event, or the one after that. Whenever you're ready.

Jabba0the0hutt wrote:
If I could complete all prizes in 2-3 days instead of 10 out of the 14 allowed its really not a very interesting game to higher level players.

Higher-level players always have to figure out what to do in down time. Designing, perhaps?

LMAO, horrible gif, Jabba0the0hutt!

Tapping critters is boring, but at least they brought a way to zap everything at once. I think the Big Ben is a good buy because you can be sure you aren't letting any get away.

Hopefully the bring something like this to all events with roaming critters.

osg, i always get bummed when i see these types of threads but completly understand where your coming from. my thought is maybe take a break for awhile and take care of real life but try coming back after a period of time with a renewed intrest in the game. for some its a month, others its a year off. That has helped many players thinking of quitting according to their personal accounts. Another thought is that you must care somewhat for the game or you probably wouldn't have posted here and deleated the game without caring about our opinions or input on the subject. Genuinely hope you don't quit for good but if you do, don't forget the forum will be here to help you get back into it if you change your mind

I so understand how you feel, and I don't know how long you've been playing, but I joined somewhere around the first monorail event. Think I had been playing a couple months or something and I had a bear of a time getting through it. I just accepted that I wasn't going to get "all" the prizes and enjoyed the design part of the game. By the end of the event I had gotten enough that I had the stations and enough rail to put them together. I also had the recycle buildings but didn't get the rail yard. Was totally bummed because that meant I also couldn't create more rails (actually at the time I didn't realize the rail yard continued to make tracks till I saw other towns with what appeared to be miles of it.)

The next few events I also didn't get the final prizes, by then I was getting the first act final prize but not second- then first and second but not third. See where I'm going with this? Eventually I built up enough characters and collected donuts along the way to get further, now I can usually get all the prizes by the end (but not always)

The fun is in playing with what I have and enjoying the silliness of it all. If it's only about winning everything all the time then that's a shame and sure that can't be any fun. Yes, I totally envy the towns that have cool premium characters and buildings I can't just buy, but one by one I'm collecting the ones I want and lovin' designing and redesigning my town.

Probably doesn't help you worth a crap but this is such a better game then most and hope you enjoy it more as you build up.