TSTO Race to the Finish. The Race is ON! (Wish us luck.)

LEVEL 58+
XP 780978/158314
Questline level 57
Money 16210
Donuts 2
Star Rate Bonus% 3.5 stars 69.05% bonus  
FP Level (FP / ) 20 Maxed out
Number of Neighbors 100  

HOUSES (Total) Please say 0 if you have not yet built any or 1 if you have only built the quest one. Same as last week  
Brown 7  
Blue 3  
Pink 1  
Purple 2  
White 2  
Orange 1  

Multi Buildings (Total) Same as last week  
KEM 5  
Krusty Burger 4  

MB one offs We are all doing well on these so we will soon be able to stop posting these.  
Tire Fire y  
Lemon Tree y  
BHL y  
SVT y  
Kearney y  

MB Multiples Totals I am only collecting info on these 3 as they are premium  
I&S Billboards 10
News Van 7 
Lard Lad 6

Plots of Land (might get difficult later on but could be useful info for early stages)  
43? land + 3 water (Springfield only) 

What is Left
Overpass diner 1,062,600
Money Mountain-1,125,000

The convention center is the only building that I haven't built, because there was a quest to build it. (Besides the Overpass diner) I believe that was the rule we agreed on.

SquirrelLadd wrote:
Out most of yesterday at a wedding...so posting stats today.


Weird occurence this morning in my main town.....my MM auto levelled. It's now on level 10, the last level and I was only about halfway through level 9. I didnt even have Burns throwing money onto it...he was busy flying around as a bat. Very odd..but not complaining :D
Sadly it didnt happen in RTTF :roll:

I also think I had something weird happen with MM. When I completed the last amount of money for level 10, I clicked on MM and it leveled but I don't think it cost me anything. I am not positive this occurred, but I also didn't receive any XP.

That is amazing Monster! Congratulations. I don't think any of us really thought that we would be finished by the end of the year and now we have somebody done before Halloween.

LEVEL 58+
XP 1407874/1585314
Questline level 57
Money 975119
Donuts 4
Star Rate Bonus% 4 stars 92.15% bonus  
FP Level (FP / ) 20 Maxed out
Number of Neighbors 100  

HOUSES (Total) Please say 0 if you have not yet built any or 1 if you have only built the quest one. Same as last week  
Brown 7  
Blue 3  
Pink 1  
Purple 2  
White 2  
Orange 1  

Multi Buildings (Total) Same as last week  
KEM 5  
Krusty Burger 4  

MB one offs We are all doing well on these so we will soon be able to stop posting these.  
Tire Fire y  
Lemon Tree y  
BHL y  
SVT y  
Kearney y  

MB Multiples Totals I am only collecting info on these 3 as they are premium  
I&S Billboards 10
News Van 7 
Lard Lad 6

Plots of Land (might get difficult later on but could be useful info for early stages)  
43? land + 3 water (Springfield only) 

What is Left
Overpass diner 1,062,600-I should start building today.

I have also finished MM. I am about 3 days away from finishing challenge 1.

I have finished challenge 1. I will probably not be playing my RTTF town much in the future. Work and real life are busy during November and December. I will try to clear handshakes, so people have something to tap after the event, but feel free to drop.

Phinnea, I also had no idea what an oxbow lake was, but I found your video helpful. :)

@Monster-I didn't complete the level 2 challenge. I quit playing after completing the level 1 challenge.

Phinnea wrote:
My timing, or really, level 31's timing was even worse than I thought. I'm now stuck on the make Marge walk Maggie task which is no longer available. According to LPN, it will be back, but probably not until Act Maggie starts.

Where's the sobbing hysterically emoticon when you need it?

Another thread said that if you store Maggie, you will be able to put Marge on the task to walk Maggie.

aidx1054 wrote:
Oh God if I knew I was going to be the first to vote I wouldn't have picked that one

:lol: :lol: :lol:



Ramblings:
Don't use donuts in forced tutorial,
Jebediah,
Perfection -- 45s task -- need to tap immediately after it finishes, or it dies.
XP Farming (e.g., weather stations, bloodmobiles)
Donut Confirmation -- check after every update (even small ones)
Store building to release character.
Store KEM if accidentally send Apu on 7-day task
Store farm if accidentally "grow corn"
Warn: Cannot store Homer or Lisa if they're in Simpson House, or on exterior task that doesn't 'link' them to another person/object that's storable. (Good luck making this one coherent, Annette.)
Crop revival
Hide training walls
Burning bushes
Plot prices ... Offer old chart?









FINAL DECISION: There will be no use of glitches in competition towns. If you discover one, you can obviously use it in your MAIN town, but not in this competition town.

If it seems too good to be true, and we aren't reasonably certain that it will be a permanent thing, I will disallow it. If we think to ourselves "brother, we hope EA doesn't find out about this and patch it", I'm going to disallow it. If you come across something and are not sure, feel free to PM me. Even if it IS talked about openly on the forum, please wait before using it.

Here's why: This "race" -- at its core -- is an attempt to build a valuable resource for people coming to the forum looking for help earning money the most efficient way. I would like us to share creative ideas for doing that, and learn the ropes from one another as we discover things (like not spending those donuts to rush things even though Lisa tells you to!).

What I do NOT want is to play through this game in a way that uses temporary advantages. For instance, in lower levels, I was lucky to be around during the "stacked handshake" glitch. Whew. I made hundreds of thousands of ingame dollars, and it changed the face of the game for me. I did NOT have to struggle through, saving for the next level's buildings and wait months to buy land.

So far, when a new player comes to ask how to earn/save money to progress through levels, the best I can really do is say "Boy, I don't know how I would have done it without that stackable handshake glitch." They're asking for help. I'm giving them nostalgia. THAT is what I want this game to avoid. I want us to share and build up a resource of HELPFUL advice for people who come along at a time the game is "normal" and ask for advice. I don't want them to get nostalgia. I want them to get clever solutions.

Our "challenge", from the start, was to "get down in the trenches". That, to me, is much more important than finishing by the end of the year.





RELOCATING THESE FIRST-POST INSTRUCTIONS TEMPORARILY, until I'm sure we won't need them anymore ...STARTING YOUR NEW ORIGIN ACCOUNT:
Use the same name as your Forum ID, BUT with prefix “00_” (ForumID annettemarc, so town is “00_annettemarc”)
1. On Origin website, click REGISTER in the top menubar.
2. Enter your new username followed by @live.com
3. Next screen, enter new ID in top field (NOT the whole email address)
4. Complete that page. On the next screen, click “SKIP”
VOILA! Your Origin Account for your new town is created!


GETTING YOUR TOWN READY FOR COMPETITION DAY:
Before the competition starts, play until you reach the "Level Up" screen for Level 7.
Here are some special tips. Read carefully. They involve donuts.
1. When you are told to Build the Kwik-E-Mart (4 hours build time.) Lisa will tell you it’s a great idea to use donuts to rush building the KEM. You can choose to wait the 4-hours, and SAVE those donuts! When I first played this game, I thought it was required to rush it. Live and learn.
2. After your visit to "Other Springfield", you'll come back to the Daily Play Combo. Bad news: The Mystery Box costs 6 donuts. Good News: You’ll win THIRTY donuts.
3. When you send Lisa to the Kwik-E-Mart, you’ll be encouraged to spend donuts to rush. Remember! You can choose to wait an hour instead.
4. You will be forced to spend 5 donuts on Homer’s Hammock. No way around it that I could see.
5. Lisa will start the “I Choo-Choo-Choos You” quest, with a 5-donut button on it. You CAN add friends WITHOUT it. Close that popup. Go to your add-friends screen and add people that way. (Edited to remove information that was incorrect.)

At some point, you're prompted to build the purple house.
You may get the Level Up at any point after that. You will need to accrue enough XP to level up. After building the purple house, look at your XP meter to see how far you need to go. To accrue the XP, you'll need to collect some rents and set your characters on unscheduled tasks. And maybe visit some friends. As soon as you get the Level Up screen with Chief Wiggum on it, that's where you begin Level 7. (At least, it was Chief Wiggum in the picture I found online.) :)