I FINALLY FIGURED OUT RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! Sort of...

wifeypoobeck wrote:
Caps were intentional, as I've been baffled by the 'righteousness' section of the Conformometer for months now.

Maybe I'm late to this party, but none of the forums I've read on this subject have ever pointed this out unless its buried deep, so, my apologies if this is a repeat.

Here's what I've discovered (and tested): When your Righteousness goes down, you can bring it back up by going to neighbors' Springfields and CLEANING UP THEIR GRAFFITI. As far as I can tell, it's not your own graffiti, nor does it have anything to do with tasks. The only item I know of that you can purchase to boost your Righteousness rating is the very recently added Training Wall (level 33).

It still is not clear to me as to how or why your Righteousness goes down in the first place, though. It seems inconsistent with Sideshow Bob's appearances. But I know for a fact that cleaning up graffiti in neighboring Springfields IS a solution. It gives you back half of a star for every building you "clean".

Also, I found an easy way to tell who might be most likely to have graffiti to clean up (many of you have about a gazillion neighbors, which takes a lot of time to scan through and find graffitied bldgs) thanks to a fairly recent update; when you step out of your own Springfield and see your neighbor list (so to speak), you'll see now it shows how developed their town is, whether or not they have Krustlyland, Squidport, etc. chances are, if they don't have SP and/or KL, they probably haven't played in a while. Which means, they are the most likely to have graffiti that needs cleaning.

So there you have it, friends. Hope that helps ease some of the pain that comes with suddenly losing your 5-star rating due to something we used to believe was out of our control - now it's not :)

Please feel free to offer up any (preferably legitimately tested) theories on why the Righteousness dip happens in the first place. Chances are I won't see it, bc I'm not on here that often, but maybe it will help others.