I agree. As long as i need characters actively recycling, i can't build enough orange yoga mats to assign the entire group of ad makers. Over 70 characters in this game, there's no reason to use the same characters for recycling duties as SH duties. Once again, EA devs have cursed us with this multi level crafting nonsense. I hate them and this reinforces my determination that i will never give them real money.

TimeHorse wrote:If you need to build both pills and magazines at the same time you will never have any towels. The production rate for towels cannot keep up with building both of those objects at the same time. I'm stuck! Why did they have to design it so poorly?Towels? When did they add those?

GamerGD3 wrote:TimeHorse wrote:If you need to build both pills and magazines at the same time you will never have any towels. The production rate for towels cannot keep up with building both of those objects at the same time. I'm stuck! Why did they have to design it so poorly?Towels? When did they add those? I think towers

GamerGD3 wrote:TimeHorse wrote:If you need to build both pills and magazines at the same time you will never have any towels. The production rate for towels cannot keep up with building both of those objects at the same time. I'm stuck! Why did they have to design it so poorly?Towels? When did they add those? I think they mean yoga mats.(as a possible troll the marketing center even has giant image of an orange mat on the side of the building like,'hahahah you need a ton of these!!!!!')

The best advice is to pace yourself. Since there is no time limit on the SH stuff, do it as you feel like it. Get a bunch of yoga mats and unlock all the jobs at the ad agency. Go back and do the railroad for a while. Then get more yoga mats for the ads. Do it as you feel like it instead of stressing on doing it all at once. It was probably their intention to give you options to do what you want as you want to, not make you mad.

TriplicateGirl wrote:It's unfortunate that they use 2 yoga mats. I have the Blue Haired Lawyer, but not Disco Stu - so I need 12 yoga mats every 16 minutes, but can only make 10 in that time span. And that's if I create more yoga mats right at the 8 minute mark.THIS truly is salt in the wound, for those of us who wanted Stu but missed their window of opportunity.I hate them so much sometimes. I can easily imagine choking some EA planning exec while screaming at them, "Why? Why couldn't all items be available through the whole sale? Why must you be such dooshbag sadists??" :evil:

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GamerGD3
9 years ago
TimeHorse wrote:
If you need to build both pills and magazines at the same time you will never have any towels. The production rate for towels cannot keep up with building both of those objects at the same time. I'm stuck! Why did they have to design it so poorly?

Towels? When did they add those?
yasj_84
9 years ago
GamerGD3 wrote:
TimeHorse wrote:
If you need to build both pills and magazines at the same time you will never have any towels. The production rate for towels cannot keep up with building both of those objects at the same time. I'm stuck! Why did they have to design it so poorly?

Towels? When did they add those?

I think towers
jukan00
New Spectator
9 years ago
GamerGD3 wrote:
TimeHorse wrote:
If you need to build both pills and magazines at the same time you will never have any towels. The production rate for towels cannot keep up with building both of those objects at the same time. I'm stuck! Why did they have to design it so poorly?

Towels? When did they add those?

I think they mean yoga mats.

(as a possible troll the marketing center even has giant image of an orange mat on the side of the building like,
'hahahah you need a ton of these!!!!!')
epolng
9 years ago
The best advice is to pace yourself. Since there is no time limit on the SH stuff, do it as you feel like it. Get a bunch of yoga mats and unlock all the jobs at the ad agency. Go back and do the railroad for a while. Then get more yoga mats for the ads. Do it as you feel like it instead of stressing on doing it all at once. It was probably their intention to give you options to do what you want as you want to, not make you mad.
4junk3000
New Spectator
9 years ago
TriplicateGirl wrote:
It's unfortunate that they use 2 yoga mats. I have the Blue Haired Lawyer, but not Disco Stu - so I need 12 yoga mats every 16 minutes, but can only make 10 in that time span. And that's if I create more yoga mats right at the 8 minute mark.

THIS truly is salt in the wound, for those of us who wanted Stu but missed their window of opportunity.

I hate them so much sometimes. I can easily imagine choking some EA planning exec while screaming at them, "Why? Why couldn't all items be available through the whole sale? Why must you be such dooshbag sadists??" :evil:
ZennGlenn
Rising Newcomer
9 years ago
4junk3000 wrote:
TriplicateGirl wrote:
It's unfortunate that they use 2 yoga mats. I have the Blue Haired Lawyer, but not Disco Stu - so I need 12 yoga mats every 16 minutes, but can only make 10 in that time span. And that's if I create more yoga mats right at the 8 minute mark.

THIS truly is salt in the wound, for those of us who wanted Stu but missed their window of opportunity.

I hate them so much sometimes. I can easily imagine choking some EA planning exec while screaming at them, "Why? Why couldn't all items be available through the whole sale? Why must you be such dooshbag sadists??" :evil:

:twisted: Perfectly stated :twisted:
cjryder625
9 years ago
4junk3000 wrote:
TriplicateGirl wrote:
It's unfortunate that they use 2 yoga mats. I have the Blue Haired Lawyer, but not Disco Stu - so I need 12 yoga mats every 16 minutes, but can only make 10 in that time span. And that's if I create more yoga mats right at the 8 minute mark.

THIS truly is salt in the wound, for those of us who wanted Stu but missed their window of opportunity.

I hate them so much sometimes. I can easily imagine choking some EA planning exec while screaming at them, "Why? Why couldn't all items be available through the whole sale? Why must you be such dooshbag sadists??" :evil:

totally agree. I missed out too because of timing. EA will not get real money out of me when they behave like this.
xblheretic
9 years ago
4junk3000 wrote:
TriplicateGirl wrote:
It's unfortunate that they use 2 yoga mats. I have the Blue Haired Lawyer, but not Disco Stu - so I need 12 yoga mats every 16 minutes, but can only make 10 in that time span. And that's if I create more yoga mats right at the 8 minute mark.

THIS truly is salt in the wound, for those of us who wanted Stu but missed their window of opportunity.

I hate them so much sometimes. I can easily imagine choking some EA planning exec while screaming at them, "Why? Why couldn't all items be available through the whole sale? Why must you be such dooshbag sadists??" :evil:

So seriously, how do you really feel? :mrgreen:

It's frustrating as h-e-double-hockey-sticks when they use the same characters for different concurrently-running events. I have every character released, and I still can't be working on collecting both recycling and SH At the same time. I agree this is probably a tactic used by the product and/or planning teams to influence/drive sprinkle sales, so we should string up the planning exec just to make our point!

HEY EA! I get allowing just X characters for a given SH or Monorail Recycling task, but let us choose which characters we want to use! Don't keep using mostly the same characters - let us select which characters we want to use every time we start a recycling or SH job!
anaquarind
New Spectator
9 years ago
I am fortunate enough to have both Disco Stu and Blue Haired Lawyer, but for those of you who only have the Blue Haired Lawyer, he is more useful than you think.

Try concentrating on Yoga mats and ONLY having BHL convert into Ads. It's all about efficient use of resources.

Let's say you need a given number of Ads, say... 350

If you only had Stu and no BHL:
In theory, Stu would contribute 1+1(bonus) Yoga Mat per round (eg. 7 mats instead of 5 for each round). If you need 350 Ads, you will need 700 Yoga Mats. Stu gets you there sooner (100 rounds of Yoga Mat production as opposed to 140 rounds). So 350 Ads takes 140 rounds of Yoga Mat grinding.

If you had BHL and no Stu:
If you only had BHL working the Marketing Agency, you would only need 350 Yoga Mats since he makes Ads at a 1:1 ratio (ie 2 Ads for 2 Mats). Since you can make 5 mats each round, you can make the same number of Ads in just 70 rounds. So 350 Ads takes 70 rounds of Yoga Mat grinding - this is HALF the time compared to having Disco Stu!

Now I realize in the latter scenario there will be a buildup of Mats waiting for BHL. Depending on your playing style, you may need to use the other Marketing Agency characters once you reach the 200 Ad bottleneck, but you can think about siphoning off Yoga Mats for upgrades/Trophies (this would make more efficient use of your mats in the long run).... I mean, who can't use extra Yoga Mats now?

Now I know that nobody will be able to use up all their Mats with JUST BHL, and I'm not suggesting you do this. But this is just to let you know that not having Stu, but having BHL (which many of us got for free from the Mystery Box) can be just as good (if not better) than Disco Stu, as long as you try to use just BHL as much as possible.
EvaMohlin
9 years ago
epolng wrote:
The best advice is to pace yourself. Since there is no time limit on the SH stuff, do it as you feel like it. Get a bunch of yoga mats and unlock all the jobs at the ad agency. Go back and do the railroad for a while. Then get more yoga mats for the ads. Do it as you feel like it instead of stressing on doing it all at once. It was probably their intention to give you options to do what you want as you want to, not make you mad.

So totally agree!
This is not an event. Relax, work for it, you cannot have everything at once.