What am I doing wrong this event? HALP!

Something is amiss here. If you're grinding every 4 hours with all available characters you should almost be done with act one.

Have you been placing crafted items by the museum to increase your event currency multiplier? (max 20%)

It was slow going for me for a while too. I now have crafted all required items and enough to level my bonus on the museum to 20% but I'm just working on accumulating crafting currency for the next act, rather than trying to craft a ton of Little Italy buildings. I suspect that there were some people early on who rushed with donuts, as there are a fair number of players with massive multipliers and scads of donuts who can do that. Thus far I only have around 1000 or so crafting currency hoarded.

A question...when you say you started playing immediately, did you find the update in the store before the event started, as some of us did, did you wait for a notification that it was available after the start of the event, or did you wait for the forced update? I only ask for clarification because immediately can mean different things.

Did you buy any of the premium characters?

"bluntcard;c-1934326" wrote:
Did you buy any of the premium characters?

every last one. I had enough donuts to buy every premium item for the event

I've only been able to craft three buildings at this point and one gondola.

Every neighbor I visit has a full currency multiplier by now. Everyone has all the buildings and such crafted

Maybe you're not being awarded the amount of event currency you should be. Audit the list of characters you have for event jobs. Add up the total amount of event currency you should be awarded after a 4 hour cycle and make sure you're getting it.

What currency are you talking about? There are crafting currency that you're not going to see what your neighbors have and then there is prize/story line currency that you will see what your neighbors have. I feel like you are mixing the 2 up. Where are you on your prize/story line currency, the one that unlocks the leaning tower and a couple characters?

Link to LPN’s calendar:
https://forums.ea.com/en/the-simpsons-tapped-out/discussion/217684/the-springfield-jobs-event-calendar/p1

I moved at a decent pace with all premium characters bought until I found out I had Smithers, Snake, Ruth Powers, Molloy and Johnny Tightlips in my storage. While going through my characters storage only Johnny and Molloy had a "Helps with heists!" in their description.

This image comes from a thread somewhere around here but I can't remember which one. https://i.imgur.com/N4j6mDY.png

I feel like I’m in the same boat. I got the characters and still feel like I’m not getting anywhere