hi neighbor,a notification or auto update would be nice for all new events, i agree. If i wasnt on the forum, i would have been in the same boat as you. i wouldnt have noticed for days or at all.sucks about 45 donuts and feel your pain but even at that, 45 donuts is still a bargan compared to having to buy skinner from the store.

fastshadow2 wrote:hi neighbor,a notification or auto update would be nice for all new events, i agree. If i wasnt on the forum, i would have been in the same boat as you. i wouldnt have noticed for days or at all.sucks about 45 donuts but even at that, 45 donuts is still a bargan compared to having to buy *. skinner from the store.Hiya neighborinoThanks - and congrats on hitting 2 billion as well, can't even imagine how hard you had to grind to get that.

kjc543 wrote:Yeah that sounds very annoying. I've been late for an event as well before now, but never 3 days - that's a very substantial portion of tapping to miss out on.However, am I not right in thinking that there is a setting you can activate on an iPhone/iPad that ensures that the App Store installs all available updates overnight? So every night, I think between 2am and 6am, it will install every outstanding update for your apps if you haven't already done it manually during the day. I think this might also work for software updates too.I might have completely made that up or perhaps I'm thinking of a dream I once had, but might be worth checking out...Yes there is - and all Auto Updates and Notifications were turned on - but I still wasn't informed for three days.

74hands wrote:fastshadow2 wrote:hi neighbor,a notification or auto update would be nice for all new events, i agree. If i wasnt on the forum, i would have been in the same boat as you. i wouldnt have noticed for days or at all.sucks about 45 donuts but even at that, 45 donuts is still a bargan compared to having to buy *. skinner from the store.Hiya neighborinoThanks - and congrats on hitting 2 billion as well, can't even imagine how hard you had to grind to get that.returning the thanks, it was a grind but if your into leveling up the SH coffee shop and furniture store help a lot for xp. that helps with the grind- at least you feel like your working towards 2 goals at once, the 2b mark and leveling up.surprised they didnt force the update this timehope act 2 and 3 treats you better.

Really, the game should make everyone update to the latest version of the game. It shouldn't even allow for players to continue playing the game without updating. As for the difficulty of the event, when it was too easy, everyone complained, now that it's practically impossible, everyone is still complaining! I would much prefer an easyish event, where you only had to login, say average 3 times a day, and the prizes weren't unreachable like the Act 2 ones.

This is a great point, and it's something I've wondered about for a long time. I am a regular forum visitor and I usually find out about new events posted here. But I've noticed that I have a number of neighbors who will not start an event for days and that's usually when the forced update hits. I have always been curious if they've managed to catch up in the first round or not.For this particular go-round, I happened to be in Italy on vacation when the update hit. I was only able to access my game where I had wifi, and in my particular hotel the free wifi was taxed to the limit, so I did end up paying about 135 donuts for the final prize because of the inability to play. However, I think I did start late, comparatively speaking, not only because of my inability to freely access the game, but also because I was not able to check the forums. In addition, I was only notified of the update through the Google Play Store, NOT through the game itself.It is frustrating that there is not an IMMEDIATE notification when an update hits through the game. I've never been able to understand the three-day wait before a forced update. Tell everyone immediately!

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ravendarkstorm
9 years ago
I brought this very same issue up last event or the event before. I have android set to auto update and notify of updates. But on it too that is not reliable for timely delivery of all updates. It was days delay. And I too had to grind like crazy to get all the stuff in that event. The game should have a popup that new content update is available the instant it is live. And the game itself should push a notification that a content update just went live as well. That way everyone will know the instant the content is live so they can start playing it.
simp7fan
9 years ago
The thing about this topic that I agree with is that the game needs a notification...in the game! I don't agree with forcing everyone to update as soon as they hit the store. I believe there might be technical reasons that that's not possible (such as those of us who turn off automatic updating). It would also be unfair to those of us who don't have easy access to fast internet and need to download 50 to 90 megabytes plus another 10 or so DLC.

I think the fairest solution is to keep it as it is, but to have a system message announce that there's a new update available in the store. Technically I guess we'd need to download a small DLC (maybe the same one that comes with the app store update) to initiate that. (Usually the DLC doesn't download until you get the update.) And so people don't complain that they didn't get a system message, a bug in the corner of the screen (with an exclamation point) that won't clear until you update the game.

Echo0006 wrote:
I would much prefer an easyish event, where you only had to login, say average 3 times a day
I'd agree with that. One time when you wake, one time when you sleep, and one time during the middle of your day. After that it should just be about playing 1 or 2 more times per day to finish faster and get to the bonut rounds quicker.

Visiting neighbors should be completely optional, too. Just the same thing, to help you finish faster and also to get more crafting currency. That's it.

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