Prep for switch to Issue 2

annettemarc wrote:
I'm almost 65 years old, and I'm staying awake until freakin' midnight (which is at least 3 hours after my bedtime), to be sure I get the maximum number of pretend pie bombs because I no longer need pretend rods, and I want to be able to get as many pretend prizes as possible for my pretend town.

Please. Save me.

:lol: :lol:

Poor Annette...

You could be like me. I fell asleep early on accident and woke up about 4 am and remembered the next event phase. I had buildings and criminals galore that I could tap plus neighbor visits. Close to 2,500 pie bombs now.

annettemarc wrote:
I'm almost 65 years old, and I'm staying awake until freakin' midnight (which is at least 3 hours after my bedtime), to be sure I get the maximum number of pretend pie bombs because I no longer need pretend rods, and I want to be able to get as many pretend prizes as possible for my pretend town.

Please. Save me.

I'll be happy to add you as my neighbour. :)
(if that's what your looking for/asking)

edit, I love your consistent use of the word pretend, because lets face it, that's is exactly what it is. http://www.motor-forum.nl/global/smileys/schater.gif

annettemarc wrote:
[I tap 60 each town, each morning, and if I'm out of my town for long periods of the day, I get 60 then as well. Honest. 60.

So I took a minute today after I got up and logged in to hit the edit button (and turned off the buildings and decorations) then started counting criminals.

I counted 30.

I didn't think to check my pie tally and count the Signals first so I could compute what I actually earned, so that's still up in the air. Plus I didn't have time - I had a dental appointment to get to and had to get stuff tapped out and get there (2 fillings and a temporary crown - the Lidocaine has almost worn off so I can eat without chewing the inside of my mouth to pieces...)

wadebear wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
[I tap 60 each town, each morning, and if I'm out of my town for long periods of the day, I get 60 then as well. Honest. 60.

So I took a minute today after I got up and logged in to hit the edit button (and turned off the buildings and decorations) then started counting criminals.

I counted 30.

I didn't think to check my pie tally and count the Signals first so I could compute what I actually earned, so that's still up in the air. Plus I didn't have time - I had a dental appointment to get to and had to get stuff tapped out and get there (2 fillings and a temporary crown - the Lidocaine has almost worn off so I can eat without chewing the inside of my mouth to pieces...)

Yuck. Dental stuff. I send thee mucho sympathy. :(

Please do me a favor, so I know I'm not insane. Next time you're out of your town for over 6.5 hours (just to leave some leeway) tap the 30 you first find, and then see whether a second wave comes along. You were right about that initial 30! My bad on that one.

I just tested in one of my feeders which I haven't cleared out of criminals in days. I put all my other characters on indoor tasks except poor Kang who won't go indoors. I haven't been working the event much in these towns, but this is from just a few minutes ago, when I went to test my theory. This town is annettemarc7. (Don't ask.)

As you can see from the first image, there are a bunch. In the neighborhood of 30. (Sometimes I get a few stragglers who go off the road)

Keep an eye on the rod counter. The first image has 1,367 rods. Pre-tapping.

The second image is about halfway through. As you can see, the counter shows 1,742. A difference of 375 (25 criminals tapped already.) If a town only held 30, there should be 5 remaining.

What I noticed was that a second "wave" started flooding in from the left of the screen, as I cleared out the pack. Just out of nowhere. There had been no criminals in that area at the start. Its mostly empty land (a strip or two). between this section and Squidport. So I know for certain there was nobody over there.

That 3rd picture shows the count now at 2,207. That's 56 crooks. The one guy is still there, and I guess the other three decided to stay on Squidport to escape my finger. (My Squidport being minimalist, at best.) ;)

So that's what happens in all my towns. Im ashamed to say how many towns i have. (Hint: 12.) I don't doubt your experience, however! During the Easter event last year, I kept hearing rumors of "banks" of extra bunnies and only got the bank payout a few times that whole event. :(

But would you test in your town and see if its working?

Here are those images. Hope my resize efforts work okay, so they fit. (And hope you're enjoying food again.). :)









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annettemarc wrote:
But would you test in your town and see if its working?

(And hope you're enjoying food again.). :)

Still on pain killers...

I'm off to bed. I wrote down how many pies I have in both my towns. Tomorrow I'll try to do the math and figure out how many criminals I've tapped. My towns are really small and crammed together still, so I don't think I could just tap the criminals without tapping everything else and vice-versa.

wadebear wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
But would you test in your town and see if its working?

(And hope you're enjoying food again.). :)

Still on pain killers...

I'm off to bed. I wrote down how many pies I have in both my towns. Tomorrow I'll try to do the math and figure out how many criminals I've tapped. My towns are really small and crammed together still, so I don't think I could just tap the criminals without tapping everything else and vice-versa.

No problem. Get well. I have a town like that. ;)

Ok, so I got up and counted the criminals in my Premium town... 30.

Then I carefully tapped through it (Premium town is slightly larger than the Freemium town)... I counted about 60.

So there is some sort of bank.

I tried to count on my Freemium town, but I kept hitting multiple criminals.

Here are the numbers:
11920 - 10086 = 1834
11286 - 9579 = 1707

Of course I tapped out 32 neighbor taps in Freemium and 18 neighbor taps in Premium. Plus 2 Felons in each town at ? pies each...

I've thought about starting a third town just to do some criminal counts at various times, but there's no way I know of to delete it so it just doesn't feel right.

wadebear wrote:
Ok, so I got up and counted the criminals in my Premium town... 30.

Then I carefully tapped through it (Premium town is slightly larger than the Freemium town)... I counted about 60.

So there is some sort of bank.

I tried to count on my Freemium town, but I kept hitting multiple criminals.

Here are the numbers:
11920 - 10086 = 1834
11286 - 9579 = 1707

Of course I tapped out 32 neighbor taps in Freemium and 18 neighbor taps in Premium. Plus 2 Felons in each town at ? pies each...

I've thought about starting a third town just to do some criminal counts at various times, but there's no way I know of to delete it so it just doesn't feel right.

What I've found about timing is this ... It takes 2.5 hours to generate 30 criminals. At 3 hours, I'm still finding only 30. At 4 hours, I'm still getting 30. It's not until I get OVER the 5-hour marker that I get that bank to trigger. That's why I never have found, say, 45 criminals. There's a "dead zone" between 30 and 60. At least, that's what I'm seeing.

I try to visit my town approximately every 4 hours to reset felon-fighting and clear atomic whatchamacallits from buildings. But I'm no longer clearing out my criminals at those times. If I cleared out my criminals at 4 hour intervals, I would lose out on 18 criminals. And if I clear it out 1 minute before that 5-hour marker hits, I'll lose 30. :(

If anyone else is experiencing anything differently, I hope they'll post it, because if this information is unique to me, I don't want others following it. :oops:

NOTE: There WOULD be times that you'd find more than 30 in your town, if you were in your town while new ones were spawning. If you start tapping a few criminals (and keeping count), then you take more than 5 minutes setting all your characters on task, clearing off buildings, and finish squishing criminals, another criminal will generate while you're in there.

ndeeka wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
I'm almost 65 years old, and I'm staying awake until freakin' midnight (which is at least 3 hours after my bedtime), to be sure I get the maximum number of pretend pie bombs because I no longer need pretend rods, and I want to be able to get as many pretend prizes as possible for my pretend town.

Please. Save me.

I'll be happy to add you as my neighbour. :)
(if that's what your looking for/asking)

edit, I love your consistent use of the word pretend, because lets face it, that's is exactly what it is. http://www.motor-forum.nl/global/smileys/schater.gif

AND IN THE BEGGINING OF THE GAME HOMER SAYS SIMILER STUFF. SORRY GAY * CAPS ON ACIDENT AND TOO LAZY TO FIX :oops:

annettemarc wrote:
What I've found about timing is this ... It takes 2.5 hours to generate 30 criminals. At 3 hours, I'm still finding only 30. At 4 hours, I'm still getting 30. It's not until I get OVER the 5-hour marker that I get that bank to trigger. That's why I never have found, say, 45 criminals. There's a "dead zone" between 30 and 60. At least, that's what I'm seeing.

I try to visit my town approximately every 4 hours to reset felon-fighting and clear atomic whatchamacallits from buildings. But I'm no longer clearing out my criminals at those times. If I cleared out my criminals at 4 hour intervals, I would lose out on 18 criminals. And if I clear it out 1 minute before that 5-hour marker hits, I'll lose 30. :(

Ok, I'm caught up enough to look at the forum again... And now I'm sitting here waiting for the in-game update to finish loading (taking FOREVER! Try again. Try again. Try again...)

Thanks so much for this information. Yesterday we went on our weekly shopping trip. It took a little longer than usual because we had to do stuff like get my wedding ring resized...

We got back just short of 5 hours after I'd taped my last criminal, so I waited a few minutes... And got 60 criminals to tap. At least I must have since my pie total went up almost as much as it did overnight.

I would try checking criminal counts at various times, but I'm getting farther and farther behind where I should be thanks to all of my neighbors who are NOT visiting my town and tapping. I've made a check list and will be dumping the non-tappers soon...