Rant

"oldmanmcd425;c-1628526" wrote:

"simp7fan;c-1628518" wrote:
It's been improved by being able to assign from a list. We used to have to select one character at a time and assign one character at a time, 100 times. I would have agreed with you then. EA has diminished my enthusiasm for a rant here....

BTW, you can edit your post.

Yes, but I can't send all my characters on a one hour task when there is a 4 hour task mandated by the game. I have to send each character individually, just like in the old days before the unemployment office.

I get that. Just that I've tried to be okay with it. If you have to send 5 characters on 4h tasks that you wanted to send on 12h tasks, then those 5 are still misaligned. So instead of 5, why not 100? When the questlines are over then business as usual.

Everytime I have all those thumbs I'm always worried my town will crash when I tap it. Lol

The time this really annoys me is when sending the characters on that task takes them out of their premium-earning skin. So you just say fine, I'll just put them all on that task - but then once it clears you have to go through and re-skin everyone into their best skin. Not sure if that still happens though? I don't risk it and send the skinned characters individually.

"TheJuiceLoosener;c-1628609" wrote:

"frosted1414;c-1628515" wrote:
I just sent the whole town. I like when there are 100+ thumbs-up over one building.

Me too. I love to see all those characters clown car-ing out of one building when you clear it.

I've mentioned this before, but it did happen again today, landed in a neighbours town who had the workbench next to the excavation site landing point and there was like 200 people just pouring out the place, you know straight away that said neighbour was doing the task, but I've since found out that it could've been one of at least two parts of the quest line... Was fun to pause and watch for it a minute

As other people mention though, I love to see all my people clear en masse, but today and tomorrow I've go the luxury of being able to log in every hour and it's frustrating trying to make money while I can but then having to wait while five of them clear the task.... doing the trick tonight like sjsebayacc131 of sending five on task and 8hr for the rest... so I can do 60m tasks tomorrow...

Apart from Cecil....twice when I've got my rhythm going and setting everyone on tasks I've caught his 'Spend $1m' by accident.... He's either gonna end up in storage for a while or on a 24hr task..... My own fault for not using the employment centre I suppose, but i'm so stingy I feel that the 1,200-1,300 IGC could be saved for other things and I've got time to task my 100 or so people anyway, so why not...

"simp7fan;c-1628640" wrote:
So instead of 5, why not 100?

Because then the people with only a handful of characters might have to do the task 8, 9, or 10 times.
You were a new player once too, ya know. :*

I think you misunderstood me....heh. The requirement would still be 5 characters. I was talking about sending extras beyond the 5. If OP was a newbie with only a dozen characters there would be little pain in assigning everyone else manually. The pain only really comes when there's like 100 to assign, to scroll.

"airbornepork;c-1628671" wrote:
The time this really annoys me is when sending the characters on that task takes them out of their premium-earning skin. So you just say fine, I'll just put them all on that task - but then once it clears you have to go through and re-skin everyone into their best skin. Not sure if that still happens though? I don't risk it and send the skinned characters individually.

It's still happening and still very annoying. I had to go through and skin ally premium skin characters this morning.

Agreed!
It's a bee-itch to go through 100 plus characters, when the unemployment office is supposed to set tasks for you. someonewashere, had a post covering the same topic, wondering why EA can't just make the dumb thing able to assign other tasks after the "make Springfielders do xyz" stuff is fulfilled by manually entering tasks. Or conversely, why can't the unemployment just assign all Springfielders to the one task, instead of none? I guess it's not possible or just not a priority to fix. I hate getting the "make Springfielders do xyz" tasks now, because it is such a pain.

"frosted1414;c-1628515" wrote:
I just sent the whole town. I like when there are 100+ thumbs-up over one building.

I do this as well, only thing it freed my arnie from permanent stonecutter duties. I seen his annoying copter

Yeah, this bothers me too. Getting those "send Springfielders" tasks on daily challenges are bad because I end up assigning most of my town on 24 h tasks. And while I do enjoy the 100+ thumbs up over a single building as much as the other guy, I avoid this because it just ends up resetting all my my premium skins to regulars