toddpygensky wrote:I'm posting for the first time, though I have lurked for a while.I have a problem....I was playing my TSTO game when my 4 year old saw that I had a scratch-R available, she loves to play my game, though has often caused damage to it. Well, I only had one donut left so I got up and let her play with the Ipad while I did some work, figuring it would be no big deal if she spent the one donut. I came back 10 minutes later to find my donuts in the negative (is that even possible?) and virtually every premium item the game has to offer sitting in my Springfield!!!!!!Does anybody know what happened? I know she could not have bought the items since every purchase is password protected, though I did confirm the lack of purchases with the credit card company.I am at a loss. I freaked out and hid what I could in my inventory! Should I be worried? Did my 4 year old somehow circumvent EA's programming and hack me those items? I dont want my game disabled or something, is EA likely to retaliate or just take back the items?Dont know what to do, it's cool to have everything, but I know I didnt pay for it and I dont want to lose all the work I have put in to my town, not to mention the legitimate donuts I have spent, enough for Frink's lab, Dr. Nick, Krustylu Studios and a TV Truck.Am I worried for nothing?Sounds like she lucked into the 'Negative Donut glitch'. It happens if you do some things with 2 or 1 donuts or something. I don't think EA will be beating down your door to bust you, though. You're probably safe :)

Short answer... Find out what your 4 year old programmer did and keep going! You can only buy donuts via EA game purchases so unless u see $$$$on your itunes receipt you are good. Congrats. Now... Will be interesting to see if you buy 10 donuts will it give you 10... Or will it just take it off the nagative. :mrgreen:

So, this is a known glitch? Surprised EA hasn't put an end to it. Thanks, I admit I was concerned, but glad to hear I am unlikely to have any negative consequences.BTW, I am no longer negative for donuts, I went back to what I had before, 1 donut.

toddpygensky wrote:So, this is a known glitch? Surprised EA hasn't put an end to it. Thanks, I admit I was concerned, but glad to hear I am unlikely to have any negative consequences.BTW, I am no longer negative for donuts, I went back to what I had before, 1 donut.From what I can tell, it's a glitch that came about when they started offering the scratch-rs. Something about being able to speed something up and before its done speed up the scratch-r. When you come back from the scratch-r screen you are in negative donuts. Edit.....I've only heard about it in the last couple of days to a week. So it's a relatively new glitch.

baylensmom wrote:Todd, can I borrow your 4 year old? Lol! or better yet, Maybe if I let my six year old play he will find this amazing glitch :)LOL! I asked her how she did it and she just got a mischievous look on her face and ran off. Later I asked again and she said she just "pressed it". Wish I knew how it happened, but even if I did, I'm not sure I'd wanna repeat it. At this point, I have everything that is currently available, even that last Funzo, which I can't stand.Had no intention of ever getting that Funzo, or Shauna for that matter, but I'm not complaining now that I have it.Believe me, at first I thought she somehow figured out my iTunes password, and I was not a happy Daddy, considering all that stuff would be over $100

toddpygensky wrote:baylensmom wrote:Todd, can I borrow your 4 year old? Lol! or better yet, Maybe if I let my six year old play he will find this amazing glitch :)LOL! I asked her how she did it and she just got a mischievous look on her face and ran off. Later I asked again and she said she just "pressed it". Wish I knew how it happened, but even if I did, I'm not sure I'd wanna repeat it. At this point, I have everything that is currently available, even that last Funzo, which I can't stand.Had no intention of ever getting that Funzo, or Shauna for that matter, but I'm not complaining now that I have it.Believe me, at first I thought she somehow figured out my iTunes password, and I was not a happy Daddy, considering all that stuff would be over $100I was never going to get Shauna, until I got the Harp Freeze donut bonus, then I was like, "Why not?" I still haven't got the funzo, though...

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battyguy
12 years ago
Short answer... Find out what your 4 year old programmer did and keep going!
You can only buy donuts via EA game purchases so unless u see $$$$on your itunes receipt you are good.

Congrats.

Now... Will be interesting to see if you buy 10 donuts will it give you 10... Or will it just take it off the nagative.
:mrgreen:
toddpygensky
12 years ago
So, this is a known glitch? Surprised EA hasn't put an end to it.

Thanks, I admit I was concerned, but glad to hear I am unlikely to have any negative consequences.

BTW, I am no longer negative for donuts, I went back to what I had before, 1 donut.
sherryt07
12 years ago
toddpygensky wrote:
So, this is a known glitch? Surprised EA hasn't put an end to it.

Thanks, I admit I was concerned, but glad to hear I am unlikely to have any negative consequences.

BTW, I am no longer negative for donuts, I went back to what I had before, 1 donut.

From what I can tell, it's a glitch that came about when they started offering the scratch-rs. Something about being able to speed something up and before its done speed up the scratch-r. When you come back from the scratch-r screen you are in negative donuts.

Edit.....I've only heard about it in the last couple of days to a week. So it's a relatively new glitch.
toddpygensky
12 years ago
baylensmom wrote:
Todd, can I borrow your 4 year old? Lol! or better yet, Maybe if I let my six year old play he will find this amazing glitch :)

LOL! I asked her how she did it and she just got a mischievous look on her face and ran off. Later I asked again and she said she just "pressed it".

Wish I knew how it happened, but even if I did, I'm not sure I'd wanna repeat it. At this point, I have everything that is currently available, even that last Funzo, which I can't stand.Had no intention of ever getting that Funzo, or Shauna for that matter, but I'm not complaining now that I have it.

Believe me, at first I thought she somehow figured out my iTunes password, and I was not a happy Daddy, considering all that stuff would be over $100
mwdalton
New Spectator
12 years ago
toddpygensky wrote:
baylensmom wrote:
Todd, can I borrow your 4 year old? Lol! or better yet, Maybe if I let my six year old play he will find this amazing glitch :)

LOL! I asked her how she did it and she just got a mischievous look on her face and ran off. Later I asked again and she said she just "pressed it".

Wish I knew how it happened, but even if I did, I'm not sure I'd wanna repeat it. At this point, I have everything that is currently available, even that last Funzo, which I can't stand.Had no intention of ever getting that Funzo, or Shauna for that matter, but I'm not complaining now that I have it.

Believe me, at first I thought she somehow figured out my iTunes password, and I was not a happy Daddy, considering all that stuff would be over $100

I was never going to get Shauna, until I got the Harp Freeze donut bonus, then I was like, "Why not?" I still haven't got the funzo, though...
toddpygensky
12 years ago
mwdalton wrote:
toddpygensky wrote:
baylensmom wrote:
Todd, can I borrow your 4 year old? Lol! or better yet, Maybe if I let my six year old play he will find this amazing glitch :)

LOL! I asked her how she did it and she just got a mischievous look on her face and ran off. Later I asked again and she said she just "pressed it".

Wish I knew how it happened, but even if I did, I'm not sure I'd wanna repeat it. At this point, I have everything that is currently available, even that last Funzo, which I can't stand.Had no intention of ever getting that Funzo, or Shauna for that matter, but I'm not complaining now that I have it.

Believe me, at first I thought she somehow figured out my iTunes password, and I was not a happy Daddy, considering all that stuff would be over $100

I was never going to get Shauna, until I got the Harp Freeze donut bonus, then I was like, "Why not?" I still haven't got the funzo, though...

Now I have heard of that glitch, I even had it happen where I made about 90 donuts leveling up, though I have never had trouble getting back into my game.
vvinzent
12 years ago
lol, so there's 2 donuts glitch in this game now, one makes you get loaded with donuts and other can buy premium items with donuts in negative.. i don't know but i'm feeling stupid now purchasing about 30$ worth of donut when this glitch came all over the place..

but i think it's better to get the harp+donut glitch though, the negative one makes you have a heart attack as what going on in your SF...

yeah after you got glitch use it wild !
toddpygensky
12 years ago
ruslanyuki wrote:
Here the link to a video: www.youtu.be/VY9_YW9rE08
It say you have to be exactly level 17 for it to work. Is this true? I feel so stupid after buying $25 worth of donuts like a week ago :(

I am Level 26
mdelliott13
12 years ago
I know what may have happened because I've seen my buddy do it. First you pick a dog from the dog race and as soon as you do jump over to play a scratchy ticket, rub off the squares but do not hit the collect button. When the race is over it resets the scratchy ticket again. Scratch the ticket again and then hit collect. When back to the normal screen you will have -3 donuts. Now bring up the golden homer Buddha, click on it and it will give a premium item. You will then have -18 donuts. One time he was able to go negative for hundreds of donuts before it stopped. He logged off and then back in and the donut counter was reset to zero again. Note this only works when you have 1 or zero donuts.
sherryt07
12 years ago
chelsea0790 wrote:
ruslanyuki wrote:
Here the link to a video: www.youtu.be/VY9_YW9rE08
It say you have to be exactly level 17 for it to work. Is this true? I feel so stupid after buying $25 worth of donuts like a week ago :(

You interpreted it wrong, he is saying 17 because thats around the level you get springfield downs (which you can actually get at 16)

*edit, its weird that I have been promoted on this forum and still cant quote people. Maybe they demoted me, fk knows :S

If you quote someone who isn't promoted, you have to remember to uncheck Disable BBCode at the bottom of the post.