Hard to leave buildings alone again!

hipmama197190 wrote:
During the Stonecutters event I got used to tapping all my buildings whenever they needed it, instead of leaving them for my neighbors to tap. Clearing the money didn't affect the "spy cameras" and made it easier to clean up the pyramids.

It's only been a few hours since I updated, so I'm sure I'll get back to "normal" soon, but right now it's hard to leave the dollar signs, cash registers, and restaurant bills alone!

Does anyone else have a hard time switching gears?

Yes! I was making a lot of money between clearing all buildings all the time and the short tasks. Trying to figure out how many buildings I need to leave uncleared so neighbors have enough to tap.

I'm glad I'm not the only one!

So want to clear all brown house, no must leave for neighbors, but so want to clear all brown house ....

I have SOOOOO loved being able to go through the town in a collecting frenzy during this event! Felt so satisfying, even though I had no need for money whatsoever. There was no feeling of leaving behind unfinished work.

In one of my towns, I have a crummy little corner where I stuff all my little money-generating items from past events, and a little house farm that I try to think of as not really a house farm. (Lipstick on a pig, I guess.). It's a little easier to accept leaving it unfinished (handshakes only) while collecting the rest of the town.

It's tough to leave them alone, thankfully this is when brown houses, the Simpson and Flanders house, and Kwik-E-Marts earn their keep. Someone can just wait a few minutes after you have gone through and they can be tapped again...

hipmama197190 wrote:
During the Stonecutters event I got used to tapping all my buildings whenever they needed it, instead of leaving them for my neighbors to tap. Clearing the money didn't affect the "spy cameras" and made it easier to clean up the pyramids.

It's only been a few hours since I updated, so I'm sure I'll get back to "normal" soon, but right now it's hard to leave the dollar signs, cash registers, and restaurant bills alone!

Does anyone else have a hard time switching gears?

Oh yeah! I loved being able to click all of my buildings to get the cash. I think I made about 3 million during the event, since I cleaned up 2 times a day on blue and white houses.

Now, I need to figure out what to click and what to leave for neighbors. Before this event, I would clear white houses myself and leave blue ones for my neighbors. I just redid the place and now everything is all mixed up with no clear white or blue house developments. I do have a brown house development tucked away at the bottom, right corner of my town. I don't think I will get much traffic down there.

If anyone has any ideas that work for them, I would love to hear them :D

lauriegator wrote:

hipmama197190 wrote:
During the Stonecutters event I got used to tapping all my buildings whenever they needed it, instead of leaving them for my neighbors to tap. Clearing the money didn't affect the "spy cameras" and made it easier to clean up the pyramids.

It's only been a few hours since I updated, so I'm sure I'll get back to "normal" soon, but right now it's hard to leave the dollar signs, cash registers, and restaurant bills alone!

Does anyone else have a hard time switching gears?

Oh yeah! I loved being able to click all of my buildings to get the cash. I think I made about 3 million during the event, since I cleaned up 2 times a day on blue and white houses.

Now, I need to figure out what to click and what to leave for neighbors. Before this event, I would clear white houses myself and leave blue ones for my neighbors. I just redid the place and now everything is all mixed up with no clear white or blue house developments. I do have a brown house development tucked away at the bottom, right corner of my town. I don't think I will get much traffic down there.

If anyone has any ideas that work for them, I would love to hear them :D

Between events, in my opinion, it's not worth worrying about, except for maybe the first four or five days after a new FP prize is introduced. For those four or five days, I notice a big bump in number of visits, and I make a special effort to leave buildings available so people can get their FP.

But in general, between events is extremely laid back. We don't really have any urgency to earn emblems or gift cards or gremlins or anything like that. The money we collect from each tap is not that significant to get nervous over. It is MY experience that many good friends, who visit daily during events only drop by a few days per week (as if to say "hey") between events.

The pressure times I recall were when I started, with people I hadn't gotten to know yet, and we found each other in the add-me thread. Problem was that we had all put the promising words " daily tapper" in our "add me" post. So we sort of felt obligated. That settles down after a while.

If I were you, I'd clean out my entire town once in the morning and once before bed. Its not as though 100 neighbors are going to come charging in at one time. Youll have buildings maturing at various times all day. Then, maybe midmorning and mid afternoon if you possibly can, just go in and clear handshakes.

annettemarc wrote:

lauriegator wrote:

hipmama197190 wrote:
During the Stonecutters event I got used to tapping all my buildings whenever they needed it, instead of leaving them for my neighbors to tap. Clearing the money didn't affect the "spy cameras" and made it easier to clean up the pyramids.

It's only been a few hours since I updated, so I'm sure I'll get back to "normal" soon, but right now it's hard to leave the dollar signs, cash registers, and restaurant bills alone!

Does anyone else have a hard time switching gears?

Oh yeah! I loved being able to click all of my buildings to get the cash. I think I made about 3 million during the event, since I cleaned up 2 times a day on blue and white houses.

Now, I need to figure out what to click and what to leave for neighbors. Before this event, I would clear white houses myself and leave blue ones for my neighbors. I just redid the place and now everything is all mixed up with no clear white or blue house developments. I do have a brown house development tucked away at the bottom, right corner of my town. I don't think I will get much traffic down there.

If anyone has any ideas that work for them, I would love to hear them :D

Between events, in my opinion, it's not worth worrying about, except for maybe the first four or five days after a new FP prize is introduced. For those four or five days, I notice a big bump in number of visits, and I make a special effort to leave buildings available so people can get their FP.

But in general, between events is extremely laid back. We don't really have any urgency to earn emblems or gift cards or gremlins or anything like that. The money we collect from each tap is not that significant to get nervous over. It is MY experience that many good friends, who visit daily during events only drop by a few days per week (as if to say "hey") between events.

The pressure times I recall were when I started, with people I hadn't gotten to know yet, and we found each other in the add-me thread. Problem was that we had all put the promising words " daily tapper" in our "add me" post. So we sort of felt obligated. That settles down after a while.

If I were you, I'd clean out my entire town once in the morning and once before bed. Its not as though 100 neighbors are going to come charging in at one time. Youll have buildings maturing at various times all day. Then, maybe midmorning and mid afternoon if you possibly can, just go in and clear handshakes.

Thank you for the long- time player strategy! It actually sounds relaxing after the hourly tasks from Stonecutter's. I guess that's how you keep at it without burning out.

Good point. I stopped tapping every building and putting every character on tasks after christmas. But now with the sit-n-rotate I have to make a like 7 million. It is definitely a different gear, but it's nice.