I FINALLY FIGURED OUT RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! Sort of...

wifeypoobeck

wifeypoobeck wrote:

Caps were intentional, as I've been baffled by the 'righteousness' section of the Conformometer for months now.

Maybe I'm late to this party, but none of the forums I've read on this subject have ever pointed this out unless its buried deep, so, my apologies if this is a repeat.

Here's what I've discovered (and tested): When your Righteousness goes down, you can bring it back up by going to neighbors' Springfields and CLEANING UP THEIR GRAFFITI. As far as I can tell, it's not your own graffiti, nor does it have anything to do with tasks. The only item I know of that you can purchase to boost your Righteousness rating is the very recently added Training Wall (level 33).

It still is not clear to me as to how or why your Righteousness goes down in the first place, though. It seems inconsistent with Sideshow Bob's appearances. But I know for a fact that cleaning up graffiti in neighboring Springfields IS a solution. It gives you back half of a star for every building you "clean".

Also, I found an easy way to tell who might be most likely to have graffiti to clean up (many of you have about a gazillion neighbors, which takes a lot of time to scan through and find graffitied bldgs) thanks to a fairly recent update; when you step out of your own Springfield and see your neighbor list (so to speak), you'll see now it shows how developed their town is, whether or not they have Krustlyland, Squidport, etc. chances are, if they don't have SP and/or KL, they probably haven't played in a while. Which means, they are the most likely to have graffiti that needs cleaning.

So there you have it, friends. Hope that helps ease some of the pain that comes with suddenly losing your 5-star rating due to something we used to believe was out of our control - now it's not

Please feel free to offer up any (preferably legitimately tested) theories on why the Righteousness dip happens in the first place. Chances are I won't see it, bc I'm not on here that often, but maybe it will help others.

Interesting....

datasurgeon

I could be mistaken but I dropped to 1 righteousness from 5, I put the boys and fat tony in jail. I stopped vandalizeing my neighbors and wen back to 5. I believe if you clean your neighbors vandalized building you keep them from getting XP and Money

Indys2nd

datasurgeon wrote:

I could be mistaken but I dropped to 1 righteousness from 5, I put the boys and fat tony in jail. I stopped vandalizeing my neighbors and wen back to 5. I believe if you clean your neighbors vandalized building you keep them from getting XP and Money

+ 1 I never clean neighbors graffiti. If you do, they don't benefit from it. If you have a good number of neighbors, the problem usually fixes itself in about a day.

Righteousness seems to fall and rise for no reason. Some days I get a lot of graffiti and it doesn't change my rating. Usually it only makes half a star difference anyway.

NeoSEC28

Righteousness is the one star rating i have never completely understood

various121

I've had a 5 star rating for a while by:

1) always keeping Legs and Louie playing poker (24hr task)
2) always keeping Herman, Snake and Fat Tony in jail (24hr task)

I literally don't do anything else, such as cleaning or spraying graffiti.

Burnin_TODI

Isn't this solved now with the new training wall??

Jesfer72

I've had no problems with it for months now. Everybody walks around including sideshow bob. I don't even visit neighbors anymore unless it goes down then all I do is clean graffiti from friends towns that's it.

hasanmohamma

^ The training wall looks so odd, and its hard to fit in my town while trying to make it look good.

Burnin_TODI

hasanmohamma wrote:

^ The training wall looks so odd, and its hard to fit in my town while trying to make it look good.

I fit four behind one building alone....pretty easy to hide them..... :twisted:

Sev3nthSamurai

You can graffiti once in your friends town , leave, go back and clean it and it counts for cleaning up.

Barbabela77

various121 wrote:

I've had a 5 star rating for a while by:

1) always keeping Legs and Louie playing poker (24hr task)
2) always keeping Herman, Snake and Fat Tony in jail (24hr task)

I literally don't do anything else, such as cleaning or spraying graffiti.

Same for me. Never dropped again since I started this combo a couple of months ago.

amuck10

You get points for snake being in jail or line up. As far as i can tell he is the onlyncrimminal you need to keep off the streets. Legs and Louie do nothing for me that I can tell so I have them do the 12hr visible task. You get points for cleaning up graffiti in your own town or a friends. Also nail sideshow when he shows up. I'm normally a 5 except when bobs around or I have snake doing other tasks. I guess you could lock up the arms dealer but I don't know if that would help.

wifeypoobeck

indys2nd wrote:

+ 1 I never clean neighbors graffiti. If you do, they don't benefit from it. If you have a good number of neighbors, the problem usually fixes itself in about a day.

Righteousness seems to fall and rise for no reason. Some days I get a lot of graffiti and it doesn't change my rating. Usually it only makes half a star difference anyway.

That's what I thought, too! And it's true, but I'm just saying, try it if your rating goes down. It works, I promise.

Also, my Righteousness is nearly never fixed in a day or so. Probably because I could never figure out how to get it back up. I'd have everyone go to church, put ppl in jail, etc. it never worked. The rating seemed to just go up randomly on its own after a few days to a week. Once I went about a week and a half before it went back up.

Then one day, SSBob showed up. I caught him. Went to a neighbors' Springfield, he showed up again, I caught him. Went back to my Springfield, my Righteousness had gone down to half a star. Within minutes! Ugh. So I tested my theory and it worked. My Righteousness was back to full stars within another few minutes that it took me to visit neighbors and find graffiti to clean.

bradadougl685

I don't understand any of this. For one, I have snake robbing places pretty much 24 7 and it never changes my rating. The only time it changes is when I clean graffiti off my own buildings( I've never had the option to clean my neighbors buildings, don't know what you guys are talking about) or when it randomly drops down to half a star.

brookesaywhatx

bradadougl685 wrote:

I don't understand any of this. For one, I have snake robbing places pretty much 24 7 and it never changes my rating. The only time it changes is when I clean graffiti off my own buildings( I've never had the option to clean my neighbors buildings, don't know what you guys are talking about) or when it randomly drops down to half a star.

You used to be able to clean neighbors graffiti. Put up about 20 training walls and you'll never have to worry about righteous again.

mr_skeltal_80

I Dont think snake has got anything to do with the rating. It's just a task. Nothing more. Like Brookesaywhatx said, put up a lot of training walls and youll be fine. You can hide them behind other buildings If you Dont want to see them.

chippers29775

bradadougl685 wrote:

I don't understand any of this. For one, I have snake robbing places pretty much 24 7 and it never changes my rating. The only time it changes is when I clean graffiti off my own buildings( I've never had the option to clean my neighbors buildings, don't know what you guys are talking about) or when it randomly drops down to half a star.

That's because you're responding to a thread 8 months old... :P

rwvolture

I hid training walls when we got them and I haven't had my rating drop since. Not sure why people still bring this issue up

brucegcan

OK. Silly question but how do you clean up a neighbors graffiti? I've tried tapping etc. but nothing.

MuleHeadJoe

brucegcan wrote:

OK. Silly question but how do you clean up a neighbors graffiti? I've tried tapping etc. but nothing.

That 'feature' is no longer available in the game, it was removed several updates ago.

stingray1122

Wow old thread :shock:

Burnin_TODI wrote:

Isn't this solved now with the new training wall??

Yes. If you buy a ton of training walls you should be able to keep your righteousness at 5 stars (even if you don't catch sideshow bob all the time)