No Snakes, Skeletons or Bunnies???

After playing around this afternoon, it looks to me like there is some sort of limit on the number of nightmares that can spawn at once. It looks like it's maybe 10 and any over that will then spawn from the campfire. It also seems to be linked to the number of nightmares per kid and any that take you over the 10 get spawned at the campfire.

So for example, I have Bart, Database and the twins that give skeletons. Bart gives 2, Database gives 2, Sherri&Terri give 8. When I clear the brown house with those kids in it, I get 4 from the house (Bart's and Datbase's) then the twin's 8 will spawn 1 at a time from the campfire.

For rabbits, I have Milhouse, Ralph, Rod, Todd, and Uter so 2, 2, 2, 2, and 4 bunnies. So I got 10 bunnies from the house and 2 spawned later from the campfire.

For snakes, Lisa, Hugo, Nelson, Ralph & Janey at 2 each. I got all 10 snakes from the house.

For zombies, Martin, Michael, Kearney and SVT so 2, 2, 4 and 4 zombies. 8 zombies from the house, 4 from the campfire.

The campfire spawns nightmares 1 at a time and at the rate according to your campfire level. The town and bank of starspawn also needs to be cleared before you start tapping brown houses with kids, else they get thrown into the mix too.

tl;dr - clear town and bank of all starspawn before collecting nightmares; try having no more than 10 nightmares per brown house.

Here's a new one. Just spent a lot of time meticulously tracking each type of frightener thing ...

Entered my RTTF town and recorded all numbers. Finished killing off munsther and recorded again. Smooshed stars and blue blobs and recorded again. Waited a looooong time, went to KL and back, fed the cat. Came back and had a few more star things to smoosh. Recorded again. Let the kids out of their (separate) brown houses, one house at a time with loooong waits between each in case of stragglers. Recorded after each.

Here's what happened with the bones:

RTTF (freemium) town:
Entry: 4,198 bones in my craft materials bank. (Anyone want some of these stupid bones? )
After smooshing stars and 2 sets of blobs (good timing, neighbours! ) I had 4,267 bones. All is as expected.
After clearing Database (my lone "skeletons" hunter since Bart had been fighting) NOTHING showed up. Waited a loooong time. KL and back. Waited some more. Nuthin'. Checked my "bank" ..... I had 4,239 bones.

That's right. Not only did I NOT get my expected 2 bones ... I LOST 28. I'm afraid to send Database to work if I have to collect bones next week.


MAIN TOWN:
, I have all the premium kids, so I can make 20 skeletons. (18when Bart is busy) Did the same slooooow process. Cleared entire town, synced my butt off, waited, etc. By the time I got to empty out the (separate) skeleton house, I should have expected 18 skeletons payout. (Bart wasn't hunting during the night.)

Tapped and got 4 skeletons and 4 bunnies. That's it. Waited. Synced. Rebooted. Force close. Checked again after each step. Even Logged out and then logged in on a whole 'nuther device. It has been an hour now, and no more. So I guess instead of 18 skeletons EA decided to give me 4 free bunnies but stiff me 14 skeletons.

Good thing I'm so flush with premium stuff that I'll win everything even with all the rip-offs. But if I was needing skeletons and all I had was the freemium characters (Database and sometimes Bart) I'd be totally * e d off at EA and if someone came back with a snarky response that I was doing it wrong, I'd go at them through my monitor with a machete.

annettemarc wrote:
That's right. Not only did I NOT get my expected 2 bones ... I LOST 28. I'm afraid to send Database to work if I have to collect bones next week.

Sorry to disappoint you but the first Shopkeepers challenge next week is 30 Skeletons with a reward of 100 Skeletons.

I have the kids that do the same nightmare in the same house so have four on the go - what ive found is that no matter which Brown house the kids have been in, all my skeletons, bunnies etc appear around my Simpson house. Don't know if this helps?

stephtog wrote:
I have the kids that do the same nightmare in the same house so have four on the go - what ive found is that no matter which Brown house the kids have been in, all my skeletons, bunnies etc appear around my Simpson house. Don't know if this helps?

Do you have any brown houses in that area?

Mine appear top right below the mountain, but I do have a small number of unused brown houses there, but sometimes my skeletons will spawn from the Campfire instead of Star Spawns until the number from the brown house is complete.

I have a Brown house right next door but the others are nowhere near. No idea if where they spawn is random and I'm lucky at the moment!

Do any of you recall when this Act began, and you clicked maybe it was the campfire, and the screen dragged to a brown house and gave some weird message about sending someone to do something at Kill-E-Mart? It was a task that I don't think even existed. And we were supposed to be psychic and know to click that house and get the list of kids to send there?

Or am I imagining that?

Because I have more than one brown house in my RTTF town and now that I send kids to do their hunting tasks, no matter which brown house in my town I send them to, when I clear the thumbs and switch right away to move mode and pan over to that old spot, it is where the frighteners are coming out.

NOTE:
BTW, the same happens with my mausoleums and Freakmobiles. I have 5 Freakmobiles. I finally moved them into the same area of town, because no matter which Freakmobile icon I tap, all the zombies come out of the very first Freakmobile I ever purchased. Ditto for the mausoleums.

Maybe it's the first Brown House you purchased at the start of the game.

Like how the Krusty/Kwik-E-Mart skins could only be applied to your primary/first item.

Either way, I know where they coming out, so I'm not going to mess with it ;)

Having said that, those people who are not receiving Nightmares from the houses, I wonder if they have the primary Brown House stored.

Thanks, Annette, for doing all that labor to verify what we all (well, a lot of us) believed was happening. It seemed like my counts were going down, and sure enough, they are. I think I should keep better track of my $$ too, because it seems to be less than should be.

I just can't get bunnies to accumulate. Tried all the things mentioned throughout the forum, and the bunnies just don't add up.

Oh well, it is not the end of the world, but sure is weird. Now that I know it is either a glitch, or the way they intended, I'll just play and see what happens next.

It seems really hard to make cash, too. I never made the tons of money some folks experienced in the first 2 acts, but it at least felt normal. Now, not so much.

Still having fun, regardless of the mess. :D

I have been trying many of the ideas here ... I am getting better results. I am now getting snakes, skeletons and bunnies... yay. Still not getting optimum results so this is what I am doing next:

OPTIMUM (not tested) RESULTS NIGHTMARES FORMULA:
- Put all your brown houses together (sanity check)
- Tap all the Starspawns before you begin releasing the kids from the brown houses
- Only put 10 nightmares in each brown house
- Store the IRS bld while you release each house, and wait for all the spawns to appear before opening another house

This is the best advice I've found in all the posts and replies so far. I haven't tried it yet so I will have to report back with my results.

Can anyone else add to this?