DIrishB wrote:While I'm loving every other aspect of the Christmas update, the Spinner Wheel is a sickening ripoff. I bought 20 tokens for 100 donuts, and received 1 Lisa snowman (which I already had from last year), 1 Helter Shelter (which was nice), and 18 times I got $1,000 cash.Seriously? According to the wheel, there's a 30% chance to get cash (since it occupies 3 of 10 spaces), yet I got cash 90% of the time.Even worse, as the wheel was slowing down, it would seem to slightly brake on cash to ensure that was the prize, and NOT do so on the characters or buildings.Obviously programmed to give the wanted items (buildings, alternate skins, characters) at a ridiculously small percent, while wasting people's donuts for cash the vast majority of the time. Just let me pay donuts for the stuff I want, forget this chance/lottery crap, since it's blatantly fixed beyond the supposed 10% chance for each wheel space. That's obviously not the case, so at least stop promoting it that way.Yea man I feel the same way every time I'm about to get that one building it feels like all of a sudden it goes faster and skips it to cash

its just luck,i bought extreme amount of tokens before i got claus co. like alot alot. like over 150 i think

porkpiesteve wrote:DIrishB wrote:While I'm loving every other aspect of the Christmas update, the Spinner Wheel is a sickening ripoff. I bought 20 tokens for 100 donuts, and received 1 Lisa snowman (which I already had from last year), 1 Helter Shelter (which was nice), and 18 times I got $1,000 cash.Seriously? According to the wheel, there's a 30% chance to get cash (since it occupies 3 of 10 spaces), yet I got cash 90% of the time.Even worse, as the wheel was slowing down, it would seem to slightly brake on cash to ensure that was the prize, and NOT do so on the characters or buildings.Obviously programmed to give the wanted items (buildings, alternate skins, characters) at a ridiculously small percent, while wasting people's donuts for cash the vast majority of the time. Just let me pay donuts for the stuff I want, forget this chance/lottery crap, since it's blatantly fixed beyond the supposed 10% chance for each wheel space. That's obviously not the case, so at least stop promoting it that way.You get a spin a day, thats 27 spins or more, y spend donuts?If you have 100 friends and visit them daily you will clock up the 30,000 gift cards for all the individual prizes in under 10 days.From there every 1000 gift cards you get more spin tokens (not sure how many)Even if it's just one for every extra 1000 gift cards, you could easily get 3 per day from visiting 100 friends, so for the last ~18 days of the event that's 54 free spins, plus the 27 from one per day is 81 free spins... So yeah I won't be spending donuts on tokens

toratorauk wrote:I disagree, I won 4 good prizes with 10 spins (Plough King, Helter Shelter, Xmas Krabbapel building and Xmas Skinner house). One more spin after that got the skyscraper. It's luck, y'know?The lights last year were bought with coins aka they were free... You spent donuts on them now thats not what Id call a good prize. Old players want the new stuff. Some of them might even be available after the event for donuts but right now I had 3 skins that last year I didnt get because I didnt want them. A great update but this wheel better give me something that I didnt pass last year. They could do that much for people who play this game for over 14 months!

porkpiesteve wrote:You get a spin a day, thats 27 spins or more, y spend donuts?I agree with you. I'll go as long as possible before I spend real money on the wheel.

toratorauk wrote:I disagree, I won 4 good prizes with 10 spins (Plough King, Helter Shelter, Xmas Krabbapel building and Xmas Skinner house). One more spin after that got the skyscraper. It's luck, y'know?I know it comes down to luck, but it kind of screws over those of us who've spent donuts on stuff from last year's Christmas items, for instance the snowmen. I'd already had the snowmen from last year, and wasted several spins to get things I already had.Also, luck is one thing, but the chance of getting cash (that really no high level, long term players need), is crap, merely because the chance is so ludicrously high, despite it appearing as only a 30% chance. It's dishonest, simply put. The honest approach, at least given my experience with the wheel, would be to place 8 cash prizes, 1 gift card prize, and 1 actually wanted prize (the buildings, character, skins).porkpiesteve wrote:You get a spin a day, thats 27 spins or more, y spend donuts?Because I assure you, 27 spins won't be anywhere near enough chances to get what I wanted, which were the Plow King Barney skin, the Ice Goddess decoration, the Skinner Christmas House skin, and the Helter Shelter and Clausco buildings. I literally needed 84 spins to land on those. The vast majority were useless cash prizes, and about 15-20% were gift card prizes, with a few landing on snowmen of the Simpsons family I already had.shootout4 wrote:RNG isn't it? I'm very limited on donuts tho, so I'm going to (TRY) to hold off spending any for spins and use my 1 free one per day and hope I get good stuff out of that.Good luck, I hope you have much better luck than I did.just_glyding wrote: If you have 100 friends and visit them daily you will clock up the 30,000 gift cards for all the individual prizes in under 10 days.From there every 1000 gift cards you get more spin tokens (not sure how many)Even if it's just one for every extra 1000 gift cards, you could easily get 3 per day from visiting 100 friends, so for the last ~18 days of the event that's 54 free spins, plus the 27 from one per day is 81 free spins... So yeah I won't be spending donuts on tokensGood luck, but personally I don't have either the time or patience to visit 100 friends everyday for the next 27 days.

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isetfire
11 years ago
I have spun 22 times (11 on each account) and not gotten cash yet. The wheel is awesome!
Aiddann86
11 years ago
Oh I still like the wheel just I don't have much luck plus once you start getting all prizes and when there is only 2 or 3 left I assume will be even harder lol. Still think it a nice idea though.
Edurican
11 years ago
What happens to the snowmen and ice sculptures after the christmas update? do they melt? does their bonus xp and $ still work after?
DIrishB
11 years ago
i_set_fire wrote:
I have spun 22 times (11 on each account) and not gotten cash yet. The wheel is awesome!

Just guessing, but I assume you didn't already have any snowmen or alternate skins with Christmas lights from last year going into the update. Thats what makes it more infuriating. For those of us who have spent money on donuts for some of those things, or acquired them through Santa coins from last year's event, we have a much lesser chance of getting something we need. Not a very good way to approach rewarding your long time players and donut purchasers.

wxjunkie wrote:
I haven't even had a chance to spin yet. I'm over 3000 gift cards, never received a coin and I never received the option to spin the wheel. My game on iOS was crashing all day so that might be the cause.

It's been said numerous times on the boards and a few times in this thread itself: you have to finish building the Egg Nog building and wait 24 hours. That building generates one coin for the spinner wheel every 24 hours. Once you've built that, and given it a day to make the first coin, you'll be able to spin the wheel.

Edurican wrote:
What happens to the snowmen and ice sculptures after the christmas update? do they melt? does their bonus xp and $ still work after?

Yeah they melt. Their bodies melt but their heads are still visible after the snow goes away.

spl3ndidsplint3r wrote:
Well, OP, think of the wheel this way. If you spend 100 donuts on coins, you will get 20 spins. If during those 20 spins, you just win a snowman and Mr. Plow (if you didn't already have him), those two alone are worth 110 donuts. So the wheel is actually a pretty good deal if you buy the correct amounts of coins.

Considering I had to spend 400 donuts for the 5 items I needed, it's quite steep. I'm not complaining about the cost or the crappy cash prizes, I'm complaining about the dishonest approach. It's presented as a spin wheel with 10 different prizes, presumably each with an equal chance of coming up. There are 3 cash prizes out of the ten on the wheel. Yet those came up 80-90% of the time. I seriously doubt that's merely only bad luck or coincidence, and instead is likely a dishonest approach on behalf of the programmers. In other words, it's done by design, essentially a con job.
AmtrakQuebec
11 years ago
So, even those all these other people on the boards give you lots of examples of how the wheel gives them many good prizes, you still insist that it is dishonest. It seems you have made up your mind and no amount of proof will change it... That is sad.
shannontj
11 years ago
I bought 10 coins and got ClausCo, 2 snowmen, and lights for 7 different houses. I guess I was lucky, but no cash here... What drives me crazy is that it always takes several tries to get it to spin properly, but I can't complain about the prizes! I'm sure your luck will change...
leepierce
11 years ago
just_glyding wrote:

If you have 100 friends and visit them daily you will clock up the 30,000 gift cards for all the individual prizes in under 10 days.

From there every 1000 gift cards you get more spin tokens (not sure how many)

Even if it's just one for every extra 1000 gift cards, you could easily get 3 per day from visiting 100 friends, so for the last ~18 days of the event that's 54 free spins, plus the 27 from one per day is 81 free spins... So yeah I won't be spending donuts on tokens

You get spin tokens for getting 1,000 gift cards? How? I have 3,000 gift cards so far and have only gotten one spin token, and that was for speeding up the egg nog bar...
justglyding
11 years ago
leepierce wrote:
just_glyding wrote:

If you have 100 friends and visit them daily you will clock up the 30,000 gift cards for all the individual prizes in under 10 days.

From there every 1000 gift cards you get more spin tokens (not sure how many)

Even if it's just one for every extra 1000 gift cards, you could easily get 3 per day from visiting 100 friends, so for the last ~18 days of the event that's 54 free spins, plus the 27 from one per day is 81 free spins... So yeah I won't be spending donuts on tokens

You get spin tokens for getting 1,000 gift cards? How? I have 3,000 gift cards so far and have only gotten one spin token, and that was for speeding up the egg nog bar...

Once you have accrued 30,000 gift cards and all the individual prizes, each additional 1000 earns you token(s)
DIrishB
11 years ago
AmtrakQuebec wrote:
So, even those all these other people on the boards give you lots of examples of how the wheel gives them many good prizes, you still insist that it is dishonest. It seems you have made up your mind and no amount of proof will change it... That is sad.

Even more sad is you refuse to look at the bigger picture and initially resort to attacks. I guarantee all those people didn't already own the snowmen and various Christmas skins from last year like I did. I already mentioned this a few times: the long time players and donut spenders kind of got screwed in terms of the wheel, either due to getting doubles of snowmen decorations we already owned, or facing the tougher odds from the get go.

Stop assuming everyone's game is the same.

As I said multiple times, and which is true, is that the wheel gives long term players and donut spenders short shrift. And again, given the supposed 30% odds for cash, yet it coming up 80-90% of the time for me, that indicates my theory about the programming not being far off. I'd like to hear feedback from long term players and heavy donut spenders like myself and see how they fared, not just newer players or non donut buyers who had a great chance of getting something due to not previously buying the stuff.

shannontj wrote:
I bought 10 coins and got ClausCo, 2 snowmen, and lights for 7 different houses. I guess I was lucky, but no cash here... What drives me crazy is that it always takes several tries to get it to spin properly, but I can't complain about the prizes! I'm sure your luck will change...

I'm happy for you, but it's apparent you didn't already have the lights and snowmen from last year. Those of us who did had much less likely odds of getting anything worthwhile, instead getting mostly cash or gift cards, with very small odds of getting something needed like King Plow or Clausco, etc.

I'm glad newer players have a chance to get some of the stuff from last year with the wheel. But for long term players who've played last year's Christmas event and already had the snowmen and alternate Christmas skins for the houses, we got much less odds of not getting cash, apparently.

Some newer players seem to not realize that.
andrealeeste
11 years ago
Bought two lots of ten coins ie 100 donuts. Mr Plow, King Plow, assorted snowmen and house skins. Two gift token cards. I'll stop now :)