I kind of like the mix depending on who you visit. I've already had a couple times where I was close to a target number of one thing and instead of using a whole 4 hour story and S'mores period to finish it off I was able to switch to my next story type and finish off the first one from the visits.

I have to look over miles and miles of roads to find a freaking snake. I converted my town to a neighbor friendly design temporarily. I left only a small area of roads near the campfire, so hopefully monsters are easy to find.

petehd14 wrote:I have to look over miles and miles of roads to find a freaking snake. I converted my town to a neighbor friendly design temporarily. I left only a small area of roads near the campfire, so hopefully monsters are easy to find.A few of my neighbours have done this. In some cases it helps, but in others I have found that they have wandered off the one stretch of road and still have difficulty finding stuff.

I agree this is terrible. It used to take me 20-25 mins depending on crashes but now its an hour or more with twice the crashes. The only reason i keep going after i stop getting rewards is the chance at getting donuts. A 20 hour reset time instead of 24 hours should be automatic with events like these. If everyone spawned zombies it would not be an issue but the bunnies and snakes are killing my eyes.

I've just been dropping the blobby things. Looking for something to tap in the neighbours is just painfully slow...sigh

Just be glad you don't have a phobia like some do. Recently, there was a guy that posted in the forum, that he's freaked out by snakes, and was asking help what he could do, but still get the bucks, like the stump log snakes. Someone suggested he hide them behind buildings. Other's might hate bunnies, skeletons, and those freaked out zombies, that for what ever reason, walk backwards. I do wish, there were more of what ever to tap in friends towns. I have a few that don't like roads, just rivers, or, they'll have a tiny stretch of road with 50,000 characters slamming into each other, and, hell on earth trying to find something to tap. At least this event, it's a little easier to acquire thingy nightmares to leave in friends towns. You just gotta take the good with the not so good. You can always play dress up with a Barbie doll, and have tea parties with your real friends, or, go with the flow, and EA's short comings.

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petehd14
10 years ago
I have to look over miles and miles of roads to find a freaking snake. I converted my town to a neighbor friendly design temporarily. I left only a small area of roads near the campfire, so hopefully monsters are easy to find.
suetopia
10 years ago
petehd14 wrote:
I have to look over miles and miles of roads to find a freaking snake. I converted my town to a neighbor friendly design temporarily. I left only a small area of roads near the campfire, so hopefully monsters are easy to find.

A few of my neighbours have done this. In some cases it helps, but in others I have found that they have wandered off the one stretch of road and still have difficulty finding stuff.
guitarman627
10 years ago
I agree this is terrible. It used to take me 20-25 mins depending on crashes but now its an hour or more with twice the crashes. The only reason i keep going after i stop getting rewards is the chance at getting donuts. A 20 hour reset time instead of 24 hours should be automatic with events like these. If everyone spawned zombies it would not be an issue but the bunnies and snakes are killing my eyes.
yukongirl123
10 years ago
I've just been dropping the blobby things. Looking for something to tap in the neighbours is just painfully slow...sigh
Truckergaryd
10 years ago
Just be glad you don't have a phobia like some do. Recently, there was a guy that posted in the forum, that he's freaked out by snakes, and was asking help what he could do, but still get the bucks, like the stump log snakes. Someone suggested he hide them behind buildings. Other's might hate bunnies, skeletons, and those freaked out zombies, that for what ever reason, walk backwards. I do wish, there were more of what ever to tap in friends towns. I have a few that don't like roads, just rivers, or, they'll have a tiny stretch of road with 50,000 characters slamming into each other, and, hell on earth trying to find something to tap. At least this event, it's a little easier to acquire thingy nightmares to leave in friends towns. You just gotta take the good with the not so good. You can always play dress up with a Barbie doll, and have tea parties with your real friends, or, go with the flow, and EA's short comings.
chippers29775
10 years ago
It takes 3 minutes (yes, minutes) to load each neighbour's town. The lag is terrible.
lowjeff783
10 years ago
I just started depending on my own nightmares to fill the campfire quota

As far as neighbors go I just been collecting anything and everything and dropping terrors
I'm hoarding resources at this point lol, saving up for the better prizes to be released
Mirality
10 years ago
If you don't find something to tap in a neighbour's town immediately, just wait a minute or two instead of scrolling around. The nightmares have the usual wandering AI: if you stay in the same spot they'll all come to you.
Arbok9782
10 years ago
Have to agree... this is the most painful neighbor visits have ever been. I hope they do something to address this.

Mirality wrote:
If you don't find something to tap in a neighbour's town immediately, just wait a minute or two instead of scrolling around. The nightmares have the usual wandering AI: if you stay in the same spot they'll all come to you.

That only works if you have a lot of time to kill. It works, but it's not fast by any means.
Owningrampage
10 years ago
if we tapped Snakes, zombies, bunnies or skeletons in our neighbors will it count towards us for upgrading the campfire