IRS job manager strategy

brickevand408 wrote:

wildminion wrote:
I'll try going through all my characters and selecting their premium skins - thanks for the idea!

For sending all - my game is sending "all who are available and have a task of that duration"

So far I've tested this with 1, 4 and 8 hour tasks. I'll try a set of 24 this weekend.

Hank Scorpion has a 24h job but its not working with the "job manager"

I guess we need to start a list, seeing how we are debugging this for EA. :)

@EA: I love the idea though. Good going.

I don't seem to have a problem sending all or all that's available. I just got all tracks this week so I'll free everybody up and send them on 60 min to see what happens.

Whaaaaaaaaaat? I'm just sending them on the task lengths I need. I didn't think there was any strategy involved...

izabellatrix wrote:
Whaaaaaaaaaat? I'm just sending them on the task lengths I need. I didn't think there was any strategy involved...

Thank God I'm not the only one really confused by this thread, I thought I was missing some vital piece of information everyone but I knew.

Neglecterino wrote:

brickevand408 wrote:

wildminion wrote:
I'll try going through all my characters and selecting their premium skins - thanks for the idea!

For sending all - my game is sending "all who are available and have a task of that duration"

So far I've tested this with 1, 4 and 8 hour tasks. I'll try a set of 24 this weekend.

Hank Scorpion has a 24h job but its not working with the "job manager"

I guess we need to start a list, seeing how we are debugging this for EA. :)

@EA: I love the idea though. Good going.

Just went through my characters, putting all my Stonecutters in their Stonecutters skin.

Then in job manager set all on a 1hr task. Tapping on the SC Lodge, I can see all Stonecutters there.
So, cjryder635 is correct - the characters go on the task for the skin they are in at the time. Awesome!

That means the JM can be used for premium skins and premium payout.

I'll test the 24hr bit next.

one thing I've noticed is that characters who have jobs shorter than 1 hour won't show up as available characters to send on 1 hour jobs (ie, I used the job manager to send everyone on 1 hour jobs and the people left were all people with shorter than 1 hour first tasks (Fat Tony, BumbleBeeMan, Martin,Milhouse)


this would explain the have 50 characters free but only 43 can go on 1 hour job or 35 on four hour job (note:I made up the numbers for this example (maybe the 4 hour jobs have problems with characters that have 2 or 3 hour jobs, it's a guess

(from a programming standpoint, I can understand why characters with non standard first jobs lengths might result in bugs

izabellatrix wrote:
Whaaaaaaaaaat? I'm just sending them on the task lengths I need. I didn't think there was any strategy involved...

For those people who think the new IRS tapping area is problematic and might create friend problems with nothing to tap on. This strategy is to quickly send all on various tasks so you can clear throughout the day without adversely affecting your current friend(ships) beliefs.

AARONRTD wrote:

izabellatrix wrote:
Whaaaaaaaaaat? I'm just sending them on the task lengths I need. I didn't think there was any strategy involved...

For those people who think the new IRS tapping area is problematic and might create friend problems with nothing to tap on. This strategy is to quickly send all on various tasks so you can clear throughout the day without adversely affecting your current friend(ships) beliefs.

I...umm...that seems like way too much effort. Just get a bunch of Brown Houses and don't collect from them. Problem solved.

wildminion wrote:
Is there a way to get it to send characters on a task in a specific skin?

Seems to me that it sends everyone on their basic skin task.
I have a lot of Stonecutters and would prefer they go on their tasks in those skins - cos they payout more.

This is exactly what I was wondering about the skins specifically the Stonecutters especially since it sends a lot of non-premium characters on jobs with larger payouts.

It's why I haven't used the Job manager yet except to complete the tasks. I'm still not too sure on how it works.

Tested the 24hr send all and it seems to be working as expected.

All available characters with 24hr tasks have started them, all in the skins they were in.

Maybe the issues people are having are device related or something? I'm on an iPad mini, if that helps at all.