Question about Gold and upgrade

Well I just used gold to upgrade barbarian homer and my gold count went down. I was 200 away from marge on the prize list now I'm much farther away............

luckyzl230 wrote:
Well I just used gold to upgrade barbarian homer and my gold count went down. I was 200 away from marge on the prize list now I'm much farther away............

You should contact EA for that would be a bug.

luckyzl230 wrote:
Well I just used gold to upgrade barbarian homer and my gold count went down. I was 200 away from marge on the prize list now I'm much farther away............

Same for me and my wife. I am now over 2000 gold away from unlocking the Marge skin. If my gold total keeps dropping then unlocking all the prizes shall be nigh on impossible.

mpwarner wrote:
No- your gold total will not decrease. Gold is cumulative and cannot go down

I don't think that's right. You can either accumulate gold or cash it in to upgrade Barbarian Homer/Archer Lisa/Goblin Bart.

jedgeco wrote:

mpwarner wrote:
No- your gold total will not decrease. Gold is cumulative and cannot go down

I don't think that's right. You can either accumulate gold or cash it in to upgrade Barbarian Homer/Archer Lisa/Goblin Bart.

No. You only accumulate gold, you don't actually spend it. Upgrading the characters does not decrease your gold in the slightest. Don't be afraid to upgrade your characters.

roshigoth1 wrote:

jedgeco wrote:

mpwarner wrote:
No- your gold total will not decrease. Gold is cumulative and cannot go down

I don't think that's right. You can either accumulate gold or cash it in to upgrade Barbarian Homer/Archer Lisa/Goblin Bart.

No. You only accumulate gold, you don't actually spend it. Upgrading the characters does not decrease your gold in the slightest. Don't be afraid to upgrade your characters.

Explain to me how after upgrading Babarian Homer my gold depleted. If possible use small words and type really slowly.

It takes 4000 gold to unlock Boxingham Palace (which has now been built), yet on every single menu that shows my gold totals I have way less than this as I upgraded Homer!

Linkster79 wrote:

Explain to me how after upgrading Babarian Homer my gold depleted. If possible use small words and type really slowly.

It takes 4000 gold to unlock Boxingham Palace (which has now been built), yet on every single menu that shows my gold totals I have way less than this as I upgraded Homer!

Simple, it only costs 1400 gold to unlock Boxingham. You just misread it.

The easy way to figure it out is look at your gold level, hit "upgrade", and see if it reduced your gold. Do it now since it's early and if it does deplete (I promise it won't) you'll have plenty of time to get it back. Besides, the upgrades are part of the quest line, so you'll have to do them anyway if you want to progress.

I contacted EA about my gold depleting after upgrading, and this is what I was told.

Costumer Service Rep
Thanks for contacting EA Customer Experience, my name is *******. How may I assist you today?

you
hello

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I see that you've been waiting for some time in the queue. Please accept my apologies for such an unusually prolonged hold time. We are experiencing high chat inflow today.

you
I was reading the forum and it stated that upgrading homer, lisa, bart and marge does not take away from your gold supply. is that correct

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I'll do my best to address your concern.


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Could you please allow me some time while I get the relevant information for you

you
sure

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Thanks for waiting.

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Gold was the currency used to earn prizes during the Clash of Clones 2014 Event. Gold was earned by defending buildings in your town from attacks. Gold could also be used to upgrade characters. These upgrades did not lower the amount of gold that the player had.

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For more information please visit this link http://simpsonstappedout.wikia.com/wiki/Gold

you
My problem is is that my gold is being taken for the upgrades

Costumer Service Rep
I see, let me check

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Thank you

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Would you mind holding the chat for couple of minutes while I am looking into it now?

you
sure

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Thanks for waiting.

Costumer Service Rep
If you check this link http://simpsonstappedout.wikia.com/wiki/Gold

Costumer Service Rep
once you reach these gold amounts you get a prize for that quest, that gold does not go down it is total gold earned.

Costumer Service Rep
However you can spend gold to upgrade homer and other things, while these drains the gold you have it does not lower the gold collected for the quest.

Costumer Service Rep
So if you need 800 for the cheaters 20 and have 700 but then spend 200 upgrading homer your gane will say you have 500 gold but as soon as you reach 600 your quest for 800 will be done as you had 700 total collected

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Is there anything else I may assist you with today?

you
ok I understand that. My problem is is that i upgraded homer to lvl 3 and lisa to lvl 2, which is 1950 gold. So i should have that amount stored toward the 5000 gold to earn marge, but I did not get marge until my gold total on my gold was 5000 after i spent the 1950.

Costumer Service Rep
The gold are being used up in upgrading the homer and lisa.

Costumer Service Rep
for the wizard Marge, you need to earn gold again

Costumer Service Rep
through normal game play

you
Does upgrading take away from the total earned for the prizes like wizard marge and the catapult?

Costumer Service Rep
Upgrading using the gold will pull down from the total gold count

Costumer Service Rep
However, the amount to earn Marge will remain the same.

Costumer Service Rep
So in order to get the Marge, you will need to keep playing to collect gold.

you
what your telling me is that if marge is 5000 gold and i have 4500 gold and spend spend 500 gold i have to make up that 500 that i spent plus the last 500? effectively making marge 5500 gold.

Costumer Service Rep
Yes.

Costumer Service Rep
Correctly understood.

huh, upgrading has not taken away any of my gold...in fact I've been able to to upgrade both Homer and Lisa at the same time after reaching the needed amount of golf for one upgrade (i.e. I reach 3000 gold, Homer and Lisa can both be upgraded at 3000 gold each, and I successfully upgrade both with no gold depletion).

Same here. I've done multiple upgrades on all four characters and never lost any gold. The gold total just unlocks the ability to upgrade and is not actually spent.