Sideshow Bob

You will nee to tap him and get few bucks and xp. As long as you dont catch him he will run thru your town and brings your righesness down.

You cant assign him tasks, he appears randomly

I do get notifications about Sideshow Bob having escaped. Not often though, and its fairly recent.

spidergirl79 wrote:
I do get notifications about Sideshow Bob having escaped. Not often though, and its fairly recent.

Hmmm, I've gotten such things since I started playing. I wonder if it's one of those features that was on Android, and now they made it across the board? (Like the lack of in-game friend management)

ericborovay wrote:
It's been on iOS platforms too. I have been getting Sideshow Bob in my town a couple of times a week, and in about 4-6 of my neighboring Springfields a day during events.

But have you always gotten a popup telling you he's been spotted in the area?

I'm on iOS and have been getting pop ups. More lately thought he has been appearing with no pop up especially in neighbours towns. When I do get a pop up in another town I can rarely find him.

neuroheart wrote:

ericborovay wrote:
It's been on iOS platforms too. I have been getting Sideshow Bob in my town a couple of times a week, and in about 4-6 of my neighboring Springfields a day during events.

But have you always gotten a popup telling you he's been spotted in the area?

It is the same with me on android.

No, he just sometimes appears without a warning. So far I thought my wife just played and didnt catch him. Guess I have to apologize now :-)

I find it really interesting how certain platforms seem to get Bob less than others. I wonder if this really is the case or if he's just based on an RNG and some people are more (un?)lucky than others.

I personally see Bob incredibly frequently, its not uncommon for me to log on to my game, get a notification about him, capture him, visit my Krustyland, come back to find him again, then do my friends and get him AGAIN. In all honesty, when I first started the game I enjoyed the additional bit of money+XP, but now that neither of those are a factor, I just find him frustrating, especially as my town has grown in size and he becomes even more irritating to track down.

I don't know how some people can keep him as a sort of "NPC" though. Every time I see him wandering around I now instinctively tap him. :P

I will admit (Android player here) that a few months ago his appearance rate did bump up significantly. I'm sure I remember reading something about them increasing his appearance rate because he was one of the few ways of consistently raising Righteousness. Although I think anybody serious about maintaining a 5* conform-o-meter has probably figured out by now that a good bit of stop sign spam will solve that issue almost indefinitely. :roll:

JustHitESC wrote:
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I personally see Bob incredibly frequently, its not uncommon for me to log on to my game, get a notification about him, capture him, visit my Krustyland, come back to find him again, then do my friends and get him AGAIN. In all honesty, when I first started the game I enjoyed the additional bit of money+XP, but now that neither of those are a factor, I just find him frustrating, especially as my town has grown in size and he becomes even more irritating to track down.

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IRRITATING to track him down! You know what would be nice? If we could use that (useless) police dog to track him down! Ive got the dog. That'd be great.

JustHitESC wrote:
I think anybody serious about maintaining a 5* conform-o-meter has probably figured out by now that a good bit of stop sign spam will solve that issue almost indefinitely. :roll:

Stop signs don't raise Righteousness. I do have dozens of them hidden in my town, for Obedience, but the training walls I have surrounding Fat Tony's are what keeps my Righteousness up.

The stop sign raises righteousness is quoted quite often and is wrong. neroheart is correct it only raises obedience.

I get notified of Sideshow bob when I am in other towns. If it tracks to him I tap, If I come across him, I tap but I don't have time to search and destroy him.