Not only does the XP counter lose track if you survive getting a bunch of XP over somewhere between 3 and 4 million, where it loses track of at least one round of rewards you earned and it pays you at least one less reward than you are owed, it gets worse . . .At level 939 ( anything lower I've not had the time to test ) then if the game ends up reloading or synchronising for any reason and your XP earned and showing in the counter and the amount you really earned but it hasn't showed you yet is over 2 million XP it will mean all you will get is a counter reset to zero and an apology bonut round.It means if you tap SkyFinger or collect everything yourself and then shut down or head to the friends maps even without the dreaded Bart screen, you will not get all those XP points you worked hard to earn if you played well and earned a lot.If you get the BSOD or choose to reload or pop to neighbours you will lose out.Good news, the cash counter works if you haven't already hit the 4 and a bit billion maximum but the XP is a total wash out until EA can borrow a kid from a nearby coding club to make a working counter.PLAN B - EA count it all and give everyone 3 donuts for every million of the wasted XP and time when the server goes pop or they get fed up of waiting for the What I Collected junk icons floating all over the screen to clear

Yup! It's been doing this to me for ages, I just couldn't figure how to communicate it as clearly as you @1-Graham-S.I'd open my game up in the morning and get a bonut spin & XP bar set to zero and I thought: "Wow! free stuff, the elves must've had enough of making shoes and they've been in my game earning xp while I sleep."Then I went through a spate of Bart attacks so decided to sync the game regularly and I noticed the same thing occurred when I did this, but now that I sync before I shut down I don't get the morning bonuts anymore. I started to suspect then that it wasn't free stuff after all but actually Bart pickpocketing me without actually booting me out.Sure enough, I stopped using the sky finger & cleared my town by a; 4 taps, sync, rinse, repeat method and got about twice the haul of donuts than I had been getting before, but it did take about an hour to do this way. As you said, there's a discrepancy between the rate that the cash drops in compared to the XP, but I can't help but suspect it's deliberate. If it was the coding that couldn't handle the totals then the cash would be affected even worse as those amounts are an order of magnitude higher than the XP.I'm currently waiting for my xp collider to run out, cos I was going to check whether that would cure the issue, if nothing else it should speed up the clearing up of all the crap icons off the screen. I'll report back on my investigations, when I know more.

I can't wait for the "evil & cunning plan".....Does it involve a turnip?I'll probably still let my collider run out just to improve the visuals, my bonus isn't huge but I have 35k spare donuts so I'm not running out any time soon. It's just the principle; I earned 'em, so I want 'em.Really? What's wrong with the word: c u n n I n g?Someone needs to adjust the woke filters.

If you really feel this is spam then go and add a post in the spam threads thread - Here's the link - meanwhile I've got far more interesting things to do than worry about a conveniently large number of spam flags appearing in a very short space of time. Maybe I'll get a new badge ?!? :)

@1-Graham-S Hi neighbour.I for one have found this thread interesting. I have lost a ton of donut boxes to this and it has always seemed such an easy thing to fix. Unfortunately some simple things, like don't flag a post just because you don't like it or the author, are not so easy to fix.

"1-Graham-S;c-2190531" wrote:@Willy9292 thanks.If you can keep the total you earn under 2 mil and wait for rewards. If you can't, say tapping SkyFinger, then collect just enough tasks to tip over and get the counter as low as possible - I aim for under 50k - and than pop to friends towns as a precaution against Bart. You'll end up with a reset counter and one round but it's better than having it happen when you get close, say 999,000, and that all goes to waste !!Very true. I watch and try to get it over the million before collecting large things. Adds a few boxes to the daily haul.

Wonky EA counter - the sequel to the sequel

TheRealTiminato
4 years ago
Yup! It's been doing this to me for ages, I just couldn't figure how to communicate it as clearly as you @1-Graham-S.
I'd open my game up in the morning and get a bonut spin & XP bar set to zero and I thought: "Wow! free stuff, the elves must've had enough of making shoes and they've been in my game earning xp while I sleep."
Then I went through a spate of Bart attacks so decided to sync the game regularly and I noticed the same thing occurred when I did this, but now that I sync before I shut down I don't get the morning bonuts anymore.
I started to suspect then that it wasn't free stuff after all but actually Bart pickpocketing me without actually booting me out.
Sure enough, I stopped using the sky finger & cleared my town by a; 4 taps, sync, rinse, repeat method and got about twice the haul of donuts than I had been getting before, but it did take about an hour to do this way.
As you said, there's a discrepancy between the rate that the cash drops in compared to the XP, but I can't help but suspect it's deliberate. If it was the coding that couldn't handle the totals then the cash would be affected even worse as those amounts are an order of magnitude higher than the XP.
I'm currently waiting for my xp collider to run out, cos I was going to check whether that would cure the issue, if nothing else it should speed up the clearing up of all the crap icons off the screen.
I'll report back on my investigations, when I know more.
TheRealTiminato
4 years ago
I can't wait for the "evil & cunning plan".....

Does it involve a turnip?

I'll probably still let my collider run out just to improve the visuals, my bonus isn't huge but I have 35k spare donuts so I'm not running out any time soon. It's just the principle; I earned 'em, so I want 'em.

Really? What's wrong with the word: c u n n I n g?
Someone needs to adjust the woke filters.
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
If you really feel this is spam then go and add a post in the spam threads thread - Here's the link - meanwhile I've got far more interesting things to do than worry about a conveniently large number of spam flags appearing in a very short space of time. Maybe I'll get a new badge ?!? :)
Willy9292
New Hotshot
4 years ago
@1-Graham-S
Hi neighbour.
I for one have found this thread interesting. I have lost a ton of donut boxes to this and it has always seemed such an easy thing to fix. Unfortunately some simple things, like don't flag a post just because you don't like it or the author, are not so easy to fix.
Willy9292
New Hotshot
4 years ago
"1-Graham-S;c-2190531" wrote:
@Willy9292 thanks.
If you can keep the total you earn under 2 mil and wait for rewards. If you can't, say tapping SkyFinger, then collect just enough tasks to tip over and get the counter as low as possible - I aim for under 50k - and than pop to friends towns as a precaution against Bart. You'll end up with a reset counter and one round but it's better than having it happen when you get close, say 999,000, and that all goes to waste !!

Very true. I watch and try to get it over the million before collecting large things. Adds a few boxes to the daily haul.
TheRealTiminato
4 years ago
Aha! Didn't spot that, I jumped on & gave you a "Me too" to try to get their attention.
11EEvey
Hero+
4 years ago
I doubt they will ever fix this issue. We are lucky they let us farm donuts anyway. Yes it should work correctly but the issue only exists because of farming.
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
@TheRealTiminator - I let my A town Collider run out ages ago, but my bonus is too big.
if I hit Skyfinger and carefully collect just a few tasks until I get a low XP count doesn't help.
Got an insane plan underway that'll hopefully be sorted by summer then I can re-check.
I wish I could see those fabled game files, and I'd be able to make sense of it
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
PS, @TheRealTiminator - you got one those elves used to make shoes for Imelda Marcos ?!? :)
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
Ditto on the principle thing, with a silly amount of sprinkles and counting . . .
Not feeling cheated, that'd be a turnip for the books - if you're cooking books that is !!
( yeah, posted before but it's been a slow few months and not worth a new screenshot yet . . . !! )

Still feel like I've been ripped off when I get a tiny percentage of what I worked for.
If I earned it, I should get it. That's only fair, right ??