How did you manage Act I?

I accidentally crafted the clam sign (was early in the morning and the eyes weren't focusing yet). And, I missed the Igloo and the Sky Chalet mainly because I thought crafting items would be around until Act II and I wanted to be assured of getting EFCOT center. Fortunately I crafted a small amount of everything else.

maggiesmob wrote:
Whoa, you have a duplicate town!? Awesome!

The biggest annoyance of having duplicate towns is: I have so many more donuts in town A than town B. I could buy this (pointing to thing I want), but I can't get it for the other town too so that means I can't buy it...

Second biggest annoyance: I just moved a bunch of stuff around - now I have to do it all over again in the other town or I'll get confused and my brain will lock up.

Um, um, uh... But it was HERE. I was positive it was HERE. Where is it? I can't find it! What did I do with it! (5 minutes of mental torture thinking I've gone crazy while I search for IT in vain...) DOH! That's where it is in my OTHER town.

cdnmtbchick wrote:
My game didn't update to start the event until it was almost 3 day in to it. Think I did well considering.

You should sign up for my Google group. I send out a notice (as soon as I think of it) when new events become available.

It's a Google group so it's as secure as Google is.
I can't see people's passwords (though you should never use your game password anywhere else anyway).
Only I can see who's signed up for the group.
Only I can post there, so no endless list of emails like some sites.
I only send out notices for new events and limited time stuff like sales and character availability. I think I've posted about 12 or 13 messages since I started the group in June.

The link is in my signature.

Missed out on final prize in both town and only upgraded the gingerbread mansion to level 3 in both towns but have been more busy than usual and not able to get on as often. I actually did craft the ski chalet in my freemium town though.

I had to select "Other" because I crafted/upgraded everything on time in my MAIN town, but NOT in my feeder town. There was no option for that. I was like 900 hats away from Patches and Poor Violet in my feeder town. I can buy them for 55 donuts if I want to, but I probably won't. My feeder town is freemium and I mostly like to use those donuts on expensive buildings that I don't have in my main town.

missed Ski Chalet D;

jennyj9986224 wrote:

Lee3472 wrote:

Evilized6666 wrote:
I got everything done in act one plus one round of bonus donuts, with 2 or 3 days left over.

It was easy enough, I find it easy enough to take my cell phone out every 4 hours or so to check my town. I even missed a day because I was doing Ned's 24 hour task from the ski lift the same day I finished the snowman, so I had to wait to start the gingerbread house questline.

What stops everyone from being able to take out their phone? If work has a policy against it make a quick bathroom trip or smoke and lunch breaks, start when u wake up, hit it up again at lunch, and again after work and you can easily finish.

What if there's no Wi-Fi or phone signal at work? What if I was a miner, deep underground for 10 hours? (I'm not) but it bothers me when people assume they know all about everybody else's work conditions :-)

Yep, I can play when I first wake up, and when I get home from work, I have a smaller iPhone (16gb) and there's not enough room on my iPhone for TSTO to be installed (and yes I've deleted so much but the apps I need on my phone for work are large and are kinda more important), so my iPad is the only option, also I'm a doctor, kinda poor bed side manner if I was to say to a patient, hold on I have to check my Springfield real quick, I'll take care of that pain just as soon as I have Homer look up the word exotic. And what are bathroom breaks exactly? Let's pretend I stop that long to pee, I'm not carrying my iPad in there with me, and at lunch I'm usually typing patient notes between bites, must be nice to get a lunch "break". But I tear it up on the weekends!

I did not get to the end of act 1, I unlocked the dancing rain deer, and I too was caught off guard by loosing the craft items. I missed the ski chalet because I wasn't expecting it to leave! But now I kinda want the Epcot or the frozen Simpsons on the couch so I'm good with it.

That being said I love my Simpsons town, it completely blows my mind how some people have "feeder" towns as well, first I had to figure out what that even was, then my next thought was how do they have time for that?!? I've been playing close to daily for over two years and I'm almost to the ending of the levels but I realize I play a lot less often than most people on here.

Some of you guys seem upset with me, I thought I was posting helpful advice while asking what stopped people. I guess I could have worded it better. Couple things here, I'm a truck driver, my "lunch break" generally consists of eating a sandwich while operating a split ten shift in NYC gridlock. I'm unsure of your questioning a bathroom break, are you telling me the hospital or practice you work for thinks you never have to go number two, there is more than adequate tap time while having a healthy bowel movement ?

Honest question, you're a doctor and can't afford a bigger SD card or newer phone, or even a secondary non work phone, to that I would say darn you really need a raise for your work! I usually give away my old phone every other year when using my upgrade and if your on a plan like that you can keep the spare phone unactivated and still run apps over wifi. I would understand why you can't pull out and play a video game while helping a patient, but I do not believe that you have zero downtime, I know you guys tend to work long hours and are very busy but I can not think you are unable to peel away for the 5 minutes it takes to clear out the town at least once during a shift.

Anyway best of luck in act 2 and thanks for being a doctor and helping people.

Evilized6666 wrote:

jennyj9986224 wrote:

Lee3472 wrote:

Evilized6666 wrote:
I got everything done in act one plus one round of bonus donuts, with 2 or 3 days left over.

It was easy enough, I find it easy enough to take my cell phone out every 4 hours or so to check my town. I even missed a day because I was doing Ned's 24 hour task from the ski lift the same day I finished the snowman, so I had to wait to start the gingerbread house questline.

What stops everyone from being able to take out their phone? If work has a policy against it make a quick bathroom trip or smoke and lunch breaks, start when u wake up, hit it up again at lunch, and again after work and you can easily finish.

What if there's no Wi-Fi or phone signal at work? What if I was a miner, deep underground for 10 hours? (I'm not) but it bothers me when people assume they know all about everybody else's work conditions :-)

Yep, I can play when I first wake up, and when I get home from work, I have a smaller iPhone (16gb) and there's not enough room on my iPhone for TSTO to be installed (and yes I've deleted so much but the apps I need on my phone for work are large and are kinda more important), so my iPad is the only option, also I'm a doctor, kinda poor bed side manner if I was to say to a patient, hold on I have to check my Springfield real quick, I'll take care of that pain just as soon as I have Homer look up the word exotic. And what are bathroom breaks exactly? Let's pretend I stop that long to pee, I'm not carrying my iPad in there with me, and at lunch I'm usually typing patient notes between bites, must be nice to get a lunch "break". But I tear it up on the weekends!

I did not get to the end of act 1, I unlocked the dancing rain deer, and I too was caught off guard by loosing the craft items. I missed the ski chalet because I wasn't expecting it to leave! But now I kinda want the Epcot or the frozen Simpsons on the couch so I'm good with it.

That being said I love my Simpsons town, it completely blows my mind how some people have "feeder" towns as well, first I had to figure out what that even was, then my next thought was how do they have time for that?!? I've been playing close to daily for over two years and I'm almost to the ending of the levels but I realize I play a lot less often than most people on here.

Some of you guys seem upset with me, I thought I was posting helpful advice while asking what stopped people. I guess I could have worded it better. Couple things here, I'm a truck driver, my "lunch break" generally consists of eating a sandwich while operating a split ten shift in NYC gridlock. I'm unsure of your questioning a bathroom break, are you telling me the hospital or practice you work for thinks you never have to go number two, there is more than adequate tap time while having a healthy bowel movement ?

Honest question, you're a doctor and can't afford a bigger SD card or newer phone, or even a secondary non work phone, to that I would say darn you really need a raise for your work! I usually give away my old phone every other year when using my upgrade and if your on a plan like that you can keep the spare phone unactivated and still run apps over wifi. I would understand why you can't pull out and play a video game while helping a patient, but I do not believe that you have zero downtime, I know you guys tend to work long hours and are very busy but I can not think you are unable to peel away for the 5 minutes it takes to clear out the town at least once during a shift.

Anyway best of luck in act 2 and thanks for being a doctor and helping people.

Well first of all, Jenny doesn't seem that upset that she was unable to complete Act 1 anyway. Second of all, maybe she's got 3 kids in collage or something. Or maybe she just doesn't want to buy a new phone just to play a game. It's not very polite to question why someone doesn't own or can't afford a more expensive device...

At any rate, I'd rather not have my doctor wasting time playing Tapped Out anyway...

I could have crafted everything. But because every event there ever has been with crafting all stuff was available the whole event so I was going to craft all the optional stuff at the end so as to be sure I had the amounts for the critical portions of the event. Such as the craft this occurrences. I think it was humbug of EA to have removed the items contrary to their established design history. Unless they let us craft that stuff before the event ends they have lost me as a paying customer.

I got everything except upgrading the gingerbread house as it was not made clear that this was a limit to when we can upgrade, which I am incredibly angry about! I got all 5 personal prizes and I crafted the items I wanted - I have been playing for 3 years so there were items I didn't need/want. I'm just so. Annoyed about the mansion - I'm not bothered that the upgrades were limited time, I'm bothered that I wasn't informed that they were limited time! Like the disappearing crafting prizes I am annoyed due to being misled by EA - at no point did they say that the mansion Upgrades were limited to act 1!