why such a long event?

I think EA may have under-estimated how long it would take people to get to the end without using donuts. Also some of the glitches haven't helped.

dmog45 wrote:
Nope I'm at 5600 gold and I check my game every few hours. I'm finding it really hard to get a lot of elixir and gold from nerd attacks.

Well maybe your strategy is wrong. Best way i've found is send 1 nerd to one castle or house on each random. I woke up this morning with 6600 Exilir alone from one nights attacks.

I will probably make it for my b town, but am struggling in my a town. I think a lot of people benefitted from the fake win bug without even realizing it. Sadly I am not one of them, so now I'm hoping they don't fix this before I have a chance to catch up.

Many are doing well because of a bug that causes losses to pay at win rates. This can happen to you without you being aware. See

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/10153960.page

leeana69 wrote:
I will probably make it for my b town, but am struggling in my a town. I think a lot of people benefitted from the fake win bug without even realizing it. Sadly I am not one of them, so now I'm hoping they don't fix this before I have a chance to catch up.

It was not fixed in yesterday's update. I hope you get to take advantage of it.

I'll be finished early but I'm glad the event is running into Oct. For me it will be better then having nothing going on in the game

I still think the event is so long because they are going to start adding stuff as the event goes on, like FGTQFS. There is stuff in the files that hasn't been released yet, i.e. Princess Kashmir and Twonicorn from Lisa the Drama Queen are "speculated" to be in the files

EA didn't expect that glitch giving you tons of gold by not logging in. If they fix it, with the lowered failure and defense payout and the increase in town defense, getting gold will be a nightmare.