Wandering Workers

annettemarc wrote:
For me, its all instant. Are you reassigning them by re-tapping the chair on top of the building?

Are you waiting for the money to move out of your way? I don't. I tap once on the stacked handshakes, then immediately tap the green chair on top of the byilding TWICE, one right after the other. The first tap lets me tap again which is to open the task list. I don't even think poor Otto makes it all the way out of the building.

Same as me. I have a road in front of the building, but they hardly make it out the door before I reassign them.
I wait until they are all done and then tap the chair on top the building. It autocollects, I think on the next tap, and then I reassign them and they are all immediately on task.

shaygitz wrote:

AOFIGO009 wrote:

shaygitz wrote:
Just makes it tough if you're playing hard for a period of time, tapping everything as soon as it's ready and timing your play. Not a horrible thing as bugs go, just annoying

I've been playing non-stop for hours at a time, and it's no problem. Watch him do it, it's a second or two longer than the rest. Honestly, I do it myself. It doesn't slow you down.

It's as much as 20-25 seconds, depending how far they get. Not so awful for the chairs and the 30-second turnaround, but it really screws myntiming up on the 2-minute coffee tasks

I tried your suggestion of waiting a few seconds before putting them back to work, but it hasn't changed anything for me. I'll keep at it

You don't seem to quite be getting what I'm suggesting, but I'm off to bed now, I need my beauty sleep! ;)
For now, try this:
Tap the completed jobs
Wait for the game to collect your rewards from the job
Or alternatively, wait for all the characters to finish their "victory dance"
Assign jobs.
This should AVOID them going walkies. As what I think you are doing is assigning the jobs before these "victory dances" are finished-Abe, Otto and Louie have longer ones than the rest-which causes them to go walkies before recognising they've been assigned a task.

If you are still not getting it, I'll try making a video or taking pictures tomorrow. In the meantime, I'll ask my mate Neggy to come to this thread and see if he understands what I'm saying and maybe he can explain it better. It's late in my country so I'm probably not being very clear. Don't lose faith though, I'm 100% sure I know what's going on with your characters, because it happened to me, so we'll get it sorted!! Good luck, my friend!! :)

Neglecterino wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
For me, its all instant. Are you reassigning them by re-tapping the chair on top of the building?

Are you waiting for the money to move out of your way? I don't. I tap once on the stacked handshakes, then immediately tap the green chair on top of the byilding TWICE, one right after the other. The first tap lets me tap again which is to open the task list. I don't even think poor Otto makes it all the way out of the building.

Same as me. I have a road in front of the building, but they hardly make it out the door before I reassign them.
I wait until they are all done and then tap the chair on top the building. It autocollects, I think on the next tap, and then I reassign them and they are all immediately on task.

Ah Neggy, you're already here! Are u stalking me?! ;)
I hope you understand what the problem is and can help! I'll be back in the morning to help out more!!

Neglecterino wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
For me, its all instant. Are you reassigning them by re-tapping the chair on top of the building?

Are you waiting for the money to move out of your way? I don't. I tap once on the stacked handshakes, then immediately tap the green chair on top of the byilding TWICE, one right after the other. The first tap lets me tap again which is to open the task list. I don't even think poor Otto makes it all the way out of the building.

Same as me. I have a road in front of the building, but they hardly make it out the door before I reassign them.
I wait until they are all done and then tap the chair on top the building. It autocollects, I think on the next tap, and then I reassign them and they are all immediately on task.

I do exactly as Annette says and have no problems. Otto has never gotten far enough to make a difference. I don't even have a patch of road in front. Tapping on the chair is much quicker than using the character finder. Just remember, 1 tap on the stacked handshakes, then 2 quick ones on the chair.

AOFIGO009 wrote:

Neglecterino wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
For me, its all instant. Are you reassigning them by re-tapping the chair on top of the building?

Are you waiting for the money to move out of your way? I don't. I tap once on the stacked handshakes, then immediately tap the green chair on top of the byilding TWICE, one right after the other. The first tap lets me tap again which is to open the task list. I don't even think poor Otto makes it all the way out of the building.

Same as me. I have a road in front of the building, but they hardly make it out the door before I reassign them.
I wait until they are all done and then tap the chair on top the building. It autocollects, I think on the next tap, and then I reassign them and they are all immediately on task.

Ah Neggy, you're already here! Are u stalking me?! ;)
I hope you understand what the problem is and can help! I'll be back in the morning to help out more!!

I've seen this before outside the SH expansion. It happens in my RTTF town, which is level-26 and not even doing SH, because I only have one little road in the whole town. In that town, if I don't reassign them very quickly then they do their dance and take a walk; even if they are right next to the building. So either

- be really quick about reassigning them, or
- put a road in front of the building, let them do their dance, and then reassign them.

mystery2mi wrote:

Neglecterino wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
For me, its all instant. Are you reassigning them by re-tapping the chair on top of the building?

Are you waiting for the money to move out of your way? I don't. I tap once on the stacked handshakes, then immediately tap the green chair on top of the byilding TWICE, one right after the other. The first tap lets me tap again which is to open the task list. I don't even think poor Otto makes it all the way out of the building.

Same as me. I have a road in front of the building, but they hardly make it out the door before I reassign them.
I wait until they are all done and then tap the chair on top the building. It autocollects, I think on the next tap, and then I reassign them and they are all immediately on task.

I do exactly as Annette says and have no problems. Otto has never gotten far enough to make a difference. I don't even have a patch of road in front. Tapping on the chair is much quicker than using the character finder. Just remember, 1 tap on the stacked handshakes, then 2 quick ones on the chair.

:thumbup:

I'm really surprised none of you are getting what I'm saying. When did I ever talk about the friend finder?! I don't know what is going so wrong in my explanation, but I'm glad the issue is sorted. I might try and make a video just to illustrate what I was saying just in case anybody else has the same problem.

There was a topic about this already. Send Otto on his task last, problem solved.

I had this problem too.

I have no road outside.

Allowing the characters complete their "task completed animation" completely solved it for me. Thanks guys!

Are you folks using the chair in the character finder? I never use that.

I just tap directly on the handshakes and then immediately do a rapid double-tap on the chair that is hovering over the building. Every once in a great while, i need to triple-tap...because the popup doesnt immediately show up. I just tap the hovering chair fast, over and over, until the task list pops up. Then I tap the task list really fast six times. .otto is first on the list. and when it closes the only thing I see is revernd Lovejoy and Luigi fading back into the building. Everybody else is already inside already.

What happens when you do that? At which of those steps is it failing to work for you? I think that's what neggy is doing, too. .since it works for us, we aren't having the same experience as you are. So which of those steps is going wrong in your case?

:(