impossible in 24 hours?

It says "Make Springfielders stock Santa's sleigh X9" are you sure that means only the toymakers?

And there is exactly nine free toy makers anyway

The 24h starts when you start the first task - so 4h + 4h + (8h x 2) = 24h.

Losing out on 100 presents is not so bad at this stage in the game if you are unable to manage this. :-)

pokercrazee wrote:
Could you not spare a few donuts to end Milhouse or Apu early :?:

Never spend donuts for a temporary game currency! big mistake!

thatdonald845 wrote:


Losing out on 100 presents is not so bad at this stage in the game if you are unable to manage this. :-)

Agree. I've already gotten all the present-related prizes so I'm just working toward donuts at this point. I want the bonus 100 presents but it's not all that important if I don't get it.

I have to believe that anyone who's managed all of the prior 18 tunnels in less than 24 hours also doesn't "need" the 100 present bonus...

Lisa, Homer, Bart, Marge, Ned, Milhouse, Rev. Lovejoy, Willie, Apu. That's 9. The only way you'd have to do it twice is if you haven't unlocked all those characters yet, but that's always the disadvantage if you're a lower level player. It's unavoidable. It has nothing to do with freemium vs. premuim.

You should be able to do it fine. I started Milhouse on his task awhile ago and I'm a half an hour through Apu's task. Then just the final one (even with Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart on separate tasks I still have 9 Toy Makers). I just got my Nativity Scene last night!! :D Too bad Bart is on a 24 hour task for Level 48 so there's no Baby Jesus in my Nativity Scene. If I was thinking I would have waited on sending him on that task. Oh well...today's gonna be a good day! We'll get the Fever Cabin AND Zutroy! I'm excited. :)

I think it's kind of a gyp. If your character finishes the final task within the 24 hours, you should get the 100 prizes.

For example : the most recent one. I had Willy sweep up the floors (8 hour task, I believe) with 10 hours left in the challenge. Since I'm a human, I went on with my life and went to bed. I clicked to clear Willie this morning, 11 hours later.. and they didn't credit me with finishing it on time.

Garbage.

I don't see how you get the prizes anyway. I'm still about 125 away from Bonestorm Santa, and that's with non stop present making and keeping up with the daily doors, clicking feds non stop, and averaging about 50 presents a day from my visits to neighbors. Since I have only one more daily door left and I've exhausted the Santa story line.. there's no more big 100 prize bonuses for completing tasks. Unless the Nativity Scene is 11,500 presents, it ain't happenin' for me. I understand not giving once a day players a chance to win fabulous prizes, but I'm checking in 5 times a day and still coming up short.

It is not that odd that that the last tunnel is the hardest. It is what I expexted.
Lucky I have a few premiums, as I put Bart on a 24 hour task for Janey.
And at least I got the family off their nativity scene quest.

Yeah but we're all human too. And somehow we're doing it. So you may not actually be human.

You should get checked.

I can empathize with you, it can be frustrating completing these tasks in the 24 hour period. With this current event, the part that is frustrating me the most is when I log in to clear the characters, but albeit close to the 24 hour time frame to expire. When I log in every time now I cannot access the tunnels or their tasks until I leave and go to KL or visit a friend. It takes me a long time to load either one, and those few minutes it takes me to go to KL and come back are precious. Twice now I have missed on the 100 present bonus because of this. Now I know I have to leave at least 15-20 minutes of tapping time before the 24 hour clock expires to clear these tasks.

And I also am still working towards Bonestorm Santa. My game also crashes after visiting between 5-8 friends, every time, without fail. So it is very annoying trying to make it through the 40 friends that pay gifts, much less visit all of my 100 neighbors. I remember during past Xmas events that the game would crash every 15 minutes or so, and I would have to log back in. I used to have more patience with EA for this, but I no longer do. Personally, I hate that when I purchase premium content it actually increases my game lag because of the increased content. It is a catch 22 for me, I want to buy these new items, but they are decreasing my enjoyment in the game because of the constant crashing. I apologize to my neighbors for not visiting regularly like I typically do. Maybe if I upgrade from my I phone 4 in the next few weeks then it will improve. I hope so.

Edit: spelling and grammar