I've had this since last night. I was moving a lot of my town around & it's that whole section that is now animated. Flags flying, butterflies flying, steel mill lit up. Flags & trees in other parts of town are not animated so I assumed it was because I had moved them? Nice to see the animations. I tried moving the flags in other sections to start them flying but it didn't work :(

I have this in my town every once in a while. It's been going on as long as I can remember.

Is it any specific area of your map? That is, for those who are experiencing this phenomenon (AWESOME, btw) maybe it is the same area on many Springfields. Like, is it near your Landing Zone? Or do you need to move toward the water, or toward the mountains, or toward the corner where the water meets the mountains, or toward the end of the mountains furthest from the water, or ??? Can you describe, in general, where it is happening? I don't see it in my town, but I have no way of knowing whether that's just because I don't have the right decorations in the right, "animated" area.Would love to see it! :)

annettemarc wrote:Is it any specific area of your map? That is, for those who are experiencing this phenomenon (AWESOME, btw) maybe it is the same area on many Springfields. Like, is it near your Landing Zone? Or do you need to move toward the water, or toward the mountains, or toward the corner where the water meets the mountains, or toward the end of the mountains furthest from the water, or ??? Can you describe, in general, where it is happening? I don't see it in my town, but I have no way of knowing whether that's just because I don't have the right decorations in the right, "animated" area.Would love to see it! :)cool detective work, going to look at my town now.

For me it's just random. I assumed everyone has this. I usually notice it when the catapult from CoC is repeatedly firing a cat or the marge tetherball thing is going, but it can be anything with its animation on autopilot. I often have Sequel Stop or the windmills from CoC, anything really.

johncolombo wrote:annettemarc wrote:Is it any specific area of your map? That is, for those who are experiencing this phenomenon (AWESOME, btw) maybe it is the same area on many Springfields. Like, is it near your Landing Zone? Or do you need to move toward the water, or toward the mountains, or toward the corner where the water meets the mountains, or toward the end of the mountains furthest from the water, or ??? Can you describe, in general, where it is happening? I don't see it in my town, but I have no way of knowing whether that's just because I don't have the right decorations in the right, "animated" area.Would love to see it! :)cool detective work, going to look at my town now. Yeah, another possibility is that it's being triggered by a particular structure. Like, everything within a certain radius from the Nuclear whatchamacallit plant or towers. But to find that out, we'd need screencaps of the animated area in a sampling of affected towns, and then play a game of "Where's the aura coming from?" Or maybe EA is testing out something awesome, like keeping our towns animated, but they haven't fully implemented it.

Strange phenomenon in my town....anyone else???

barszap785
10 years ago
Surfcitygal wrote:
I've never seen random animations in my towns either. Wow, the Canyonero lights up :D

For those who have it could it be Android thing? I'm on iOS

Nope. I've only ever played on iOS.
annettemarc
10 years ago
anna22478 wrote:

:oops: only started playing 6 months ago, worked really hard on all events so far & I've got 5 stars & top level/finished quests all fair & square in that time so I don't feel guilty about taking advantage on that event. Wish I could pass them on to people that couldn't get them. Shame the farmers market didn't turn out to be a trading post to sell items to neighbours as they will be going into storage soon.

They were teasing you. Johncolombo undoubtedly could put your collection of Endless Bob booty to shame. He is, like, our Glitch Godfather. He sets the bar to which we all aspire. As you can see from the depiction below, it is a very low bar, and many of us still have trouble reaching it.
suetopia
10 years ago
annettemarc wrote:
anna22478 wrote:

:oops: only started playing 6 months ago, worked really hard on all events so far & I've got 5 stars & top level/finished quests all fair & square in that time so I don't feel guilty about taking advantage on that event. Wish I could pass them on to people that couldn't get them. Shame the farmers market didn't turn out to be a trading post to sell items to neighbours as they will be going into storage soon.

They were teasing you. Johncolombo undoubtedly could put your collection of Endless Bob booty to shame. He is, like, our Glitch Godfather. He sets the bar to which we all aspire. As you can see from the depiction below, it is a very low bar, and many of us still have trouble reaching it.

That's awesome Anna - Annette is right - we were just joking around (we like to be a little silly sometimes) - I think it is great that you like the game and worked hard to get where you are (I should probably mention I have several Gas N Grubs too - mine are just in storage right now due to space restrictions). Nicely done! :D

I really like your set up of the Steel Mill with the parking lot - looks great!
anna22478
10 years ago
suetopia wrote:
annettemarc wrote:
anna22478 wrote:

:oops: only started playing 6 months ago, worked really hard on all events so far & I've got 5 stars & top level/finished quests all fair & square in that time so I don't feel guilty about taking advantage on that event. Wish I could pass them on to people that couldn't get them. Shame the farmers market didn't turn out to be a trading post to sell items to neighbours as they will be going into storage soon.

They were teasing you. Johncolombo undoubtedly could put your collection of Endless Bob booty to shame. He is, like, our Glitch Godfather. He sets the bar to which we all aspire. As you can see from the depiction below, it is a very low bar, and many of us still have trouble reaching it.

That's awesome Anna - Annette is right - we were just joking around (we like to be a little silly sometimes) - I think it is great that you like the game and worked hard to get where you are (I should probably mention I have several Gas N Grubs too - mine are just in storage right now due to space restrictions). Nicely done! :D

I really like your set up of the Steel Mill with the parking lot - looks great!

:D good to know I'm not the only one farming gas & grubs lol that's the only thing I feel a little guilty about as I have got this far without farming. But I do like a glitch :). I managed to get my money mountain completed before the patch & without spending any money on it :).

Love my collection of cars but they are not visiting the steel mill, they are in the DMV car pound after being towed for parking on the pavements & not parking lots or road :) :) :) :) Until I saw the silliness of the forum I was designing my town just to try to look nice, now I put little things in like that to amuse myself. :wink:
uglyduck1ing
10 years ago
I once had a guinea pig running around outside the rescue centre once and have never seen it again. It was really cute. Also, most buildinds have a tell if someone is in there but I've never seen one for the retirement home
zutroy69
10 years ago
anna22478 wrote:
:D good to know I'm not the only one farming gas & grubs lol that's the only thing I feel a little guilty about as I have got this far without farming. But I do like a glitch :). I managed to get my money mountain completed before the patch & without spending any money on it :).

Love my collection of cars but they are not visiting the steel mill, they are in the DMV car pound after being towed for parking on the pavements & not parking lots or road :) :) :) :) Until I saw the silliness of the forum I was designing my town just to try to look nice, now I put little things in like that to amuse myself. :wink:

47 G&Gs, 31 SFMs :mrgreen: Started tapping seriously just as they changed house prices. Wasn't really intending to farm, but the prices jumping sure slowed progress. Figure it was fate that a couple free farms showed up out of the blue.

Won't leave them out forever, but invaluable at the moment for shaping my town.
suetopia
10 years ago
anna22478 wrote:
:D good to know I'm not the only one farming gas & grubs lol that's the only thing I feel a little guilty about as I have got this far without farming. But I do like a glitch :). I managed to get my money mountain completed before the patch & without spending any money on it :).

Love my collection of cars but they are not visiting the steel mill, they are in the DMV car pound after being towed for parking on the pavements & not parking lots or road :) :) :) :) Until I saw the silliness of the forum I was designing my town just to try to look nice, now I put little things in like that to amuse myself. :wink:

:lol: I think I like that they were towed to the DMV even better!
annettemarc
10 years ago
anna22478 wrote:

Love my collection of cars but they are not visiting the steel mill, they are in the DMV car pound after being towed for parking on the pavements & not parking lots or road :) :) :) :) Until I saw the silliness of the forum I was designing my town just to try to look nice, now I put little things in like that to amuse myself. :wink:

Aww. I immediately thought that the wrought iron fence side was an entry gate for the cars, and that the "Pride" sign was actually a walk-through gate that opened on a swivel. So, the factory employees would drive into the lot, park their cars, and walk from the parking lot to their job through that "Pride" sign gate. I thought that was a brilliant use of the Pride sign.

I was wondering how the factory employees managed to park so close together, and that guy parking perpendicular must have been very early to work to get his car into that little cranny. :)

A DMV impound lot is even better. :)
bradyc79
10 years ago
zutroy69 wrote:
anna22478 wrote:
:D good to know I'm not the only one farming gas & grubs lol that's the only thing I feel a little guilty about as I have got this far without farming. But I do like a glitch :). I managed to get my money mountain completed before the patch & without spending any money on it :).

Love my collection of cars but they are not visiting the steel mill, they are in the DMV car pound after being towed for parking on the pavements & not parking lots or road :) :) :) :) Until I saw the silliness of the forum I was designing my town just to try to look nice, now I put little things in like that to amuse myself. :wink:

47 G&Gs, 31 SFMs :mrgreen: Started tapping seriously just as they changed house prices. Wasn't really intending to farm, but the prices jumping sure slowed progress. Figure it was fate that a couple free farms showed up out of the blue.

Won't leave them out forever, but invaluable at the moment for shaping my town.

I don't blame you one bit. Most longer term players either had at one time, or still have but to a reduced extent, a large house farm. I feel bad for the newer players who have that option taken away from them. It makes it impossible to try and catch up over a few months.

So I would use all the Gas N Go's and Farmer's Markets I could to increase my bank if I had the option and the need. I actually really like the Gas N Go's and would place them throughout my town, to give some variety instead of only Kwik-E-Marts, if I had crafted some extras. I focused on cranking out cactus desert plots instead.
zutroy69
10 years ago
bradyc79 wrote:
zutroy69 wrote:
anna22478 wrote:
:D good to know I'm not the only one farming gas & grubs lol that's the only thing I feel a little guilty about as I have got this far without farming. But I do like a glitch :). I managed to get my money mountain completed before the patch & without spending any money on it :).

Love my collection of cars but they are not visiting the steel mill, they are in the DMV car pound after being towed for parking on the pavements & not parking lots or road :) :) :) :) Until I saw the silliness of the forum I was designing my town just to try to look nice, now I put little things in like that to amuse myself. :wink:

47 G&Gs, 31 SFMs :mrgreen: Started tapping seriously just as they changed house prices. Wasn't really intending to farm, but the prices jumping sure slowed progress. Figure it was fate that a couple free farms showed up out of the blue.

Won't leave them out forever, but invaluable at the moment for shaping my town.

I don't blame you one bit. Most longer term players either had at one time, or still have but to a reduced extent, a large house farm. I feel bad for the newer players who have that option taken away from them. It makes it impossible to try and catch up over a few months.

So I would use all the Gas N Go's and Farmer's Markets I could to increase my bank if I had the option and the need. I actually really like the Gas N Go's and would place them throughout my town, to give some variety instead of only Kwik-E-Marts, if I had crafted some extras. I focused on cranking out cactus desert plots instead.

Glad to hear that opinion on limited farming from an early tapper.

Cranked out a a fair number of of the cactus patches and cane fields as well. Had only purchased a relatively small portion of land by the time Bob showed up. Using the income from the G&Gs to create a long highway out to a 5 corners area. Might be a bit more of a party spot than the "actual 5 corners."