On positivity.

cogitoergosum8 wrote:

emmcee1 wrote:
It's not hard to be positive and freindly to others, won't cost ya nothing and you'll get it back. I can't see why people get upset over a free game, just don't play it of it works you up to much. If your not winning any prizes, you won't miss much then will you?

I agree with what you're saying for the most part. I do think that criticism is fine, as long as it's respectful and not hostile. I don't understand why some people flip out. Sometimes, one just needs to take a breath and put things into perspective. It's easy for some of us to get hot-headed on the internet (they've actually done studies on the relationship between anger and internet posting, lol). Some complaints are totally valid and I think that premium players who are giving money to EA have a right to complain when the product they paid for doesn't function correctly. It all comes down to HOW things are said and the specific circumstances, in my opinion. For instance, I totally understand the anger of people who lose their whole towns. I'd be pretty PO'd. It all depends on what the issue is I guess.

Agree 100% mate, nice post

*What I would like: Events to be like Whacking day: Being able to buy premium stuff to speed things up, but manageable for all to get the prizes.
*When an event starts, make it start. No 24hr.
* Some buildings had a great animation, but we don't see it as characters don't have jobs there.
* Try to avoid jobs that just makes the character dissapear in a non-animated building.
* get voices on silent characters. EA must be making a lot of money on this ( I spend over a $100)- I'm sure they can hire people with similar voices.(Makes you wonder how Plants vs Zombies 2 can be free and succesfull)
* Don't make stuff too expensive: the Whale 300 donuts. Very understandable if the item has multiple complex animations, but this one has 1.

Linkwick wrote:
Positivity? I'm POSITIVE that this Event is the - worst - Event - everrrr!!
(C'mon - someone had to say it!! :P )
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This is all I cuold think of, when I read the first part of your post. :lol:

I've only been playing since late February, so this was my first real event (don't count Saint Patrick's Day, although I liked it). I like this event, too, except for all the stupid BUGS. For days I had three or four baskets that didn't work. No excuse for that.

Most of the prizes are either cool or OK. My favorites so far are the Banana Directorship, the Kodos topiary (although I'll probably end up buying Kang to go with it if I don't win him--grr), and Father Sean. I've been luckier than many, apparently. I also collected the corn crop thanks to alerts here, so that made me happy. And I got the Faberge egg.

Given that I've only spent $3.96 so far on this game (4 Golden Scratch tickets), I'm more than happy. Yes, I'd like Shary Bobbins, but I doubt I'll get her. C'est la vie. I may buy some eggs next week since I've got the donuts, and maxed out on my FPs so I'll eventually get more. All in all, I'm not complaining, except for the bugs. They should've given us donuts or eggs to make up for that.

moxxee wrote:
I like the episode tie-ins, for some reason! It seems like they come out with random, weird stuff. The funny thing about that is that they actually get me to watch the episode. I haven't watched an The Simpsons since the Falcon/bird episode. It was also great when they had that quiz during Haloween (I think) when we had to answer a question correctly to get donuts! So maybe there would be a way to continue to reward players that actually watch the episode tie-ins.

I noticed that recently they have given us stuff that is only in the episode for like 5mins

Igcognita wrote:
This is what I've been trying to say all throughout this event. If you complain about every event, what do you expect. I asked this same question the other day and the thread died. I agree with you 100%. They made changes that worked and were fun and people still complained. I liked community prizes and people said it was rigged.
I'll never understand or respect people who feel the need to be insulting, aggressive , hostile or all out nasty to people, and then make excuses for their behavior. If you can't express yourself without being volatile, then maybe this isn't the place for them. Everyone should be able to express their opinions without other people calling them names or berating them.
I loved whacking day last year, was looking foward to it this year. I enjoyed both the Halloween and Christmas events of 2013. They were a nice mix of different gameplay. I like the FF points and reward system. I like the community prizes.
I think if the wheel must stay, it should be for lesser prizes.
Nice thread!

I was thinking that same thing just do all decorations so that way you at least can decide whether you want everything on it or no

For the most part, I've done nothing BUT complain, but I think I can do this: The thing that springs to mind immediately while playing both TSTO and Family Guy QFS is, at least TSTO has shorter VALID quests for characters. Not every single game-progressing quest takes 6, 8, or 24 freakin' hours!

My favorite has been Christmas 2012 - was able to get enough coins for all items (and skip a stupid extra funzo if I want). Then had the chance to cash in 50 coins for a chance at donuts.

I like being able to get what I want, not having to get certain things if I don't like them. Even though I get everything anyways, I'd think if people wanted to skip certain items, they should be able to.

In terms of the grinding events - Halloween 2013 was best. Seemed they really had a working formula. No endless searching for ghosts in neighbors towns, easily droppable gremlins, etc.

What I would rather see is the episode tie-ins as level updates. Make the reward getting a new character, building etc. Add decorations from the episode. I think pulling out of the super limited time items and characters would solve problems. Obviously it would be way too late to do them now, unless they can have sub levels inserted for previous episodes. They can have the storyline and have different characters involved - then either in the middle or at the end unlock a special building and/or character.

I agree community prizes and personal prizes were great. I wasn't around for christmas 2012, but the idea of collecting currency and buying what you want sounds like a great idea too! It would be good if they could retry that system with the next event!

Plus FP prizes were a great idea, along with the addition of finding donuts in neighbours towns when you're maxed out - I love that! :D

DJDK-ec wrote:
I personally loved whacking day. The only problem I had with it, was finding all 5 snakes in huge towns, but they solved that problem in the 2nd Halloween event, by having 20+ ghosts flying around of which you could tap 5 (more before they fixed the bug). At that point I was a happy camper. Adding the community prizes on top of that, he events have evolved into pure awesomeness and then EA did a 180 and did something completely different for Christmas: Hence the wheel was born.

Normally I hate gambling (i don't do the dog races and the scratch ticket either, not even the free ones), but it wasn't that bad, only because I was lucky enough to get all the prizes. I saw this as a one-off stray from tradition and I thought they will go back to the awesome style of Halloween and WD, but I was terribly wrong.

Forth comet Valentine’s Day with yet another wheel. I tolerated this event as well, because V-day is a minor event (as it was the previous year): No worries. Surely WD will be back and even better then the first one. (My god was I naive)

Well I was wrong again. They have taken the chance based pricing system to new extremes...well we all know the rest.
I have said this before, EA programmed bunnies in our friends’ towns and I would have enjoyed this event a lot more, if they had let us tap 10 of them per neighbors' town, resulting in 1000 extra eggs a day. Those extra 2 boxes a day would have made a huge difference in our overall attitude towards this event.

Edit: spacing for a better overview.

+1 Also, I'd like to know whats happening with all this 'great stuff' they got planned for this year, like the monorail; stonecutters etc which they implied at New Year 8)

Edit: clarification