It does seem weird. To be honest other than the necessary tasks, I haven't done any of the Christmas ones afterwards. There's no point when you get so many coins from houses and friends. Tying up a character for a whole day for a couple of coins is a waste of time.
I'm only doing the Christmas tasks because they are limited time tasks and I enjoy seeing them. I'll get bored eventually in a week or so and put them back on normal tasks.
It does seem weird. To be honest other than the necessary tasks, I haven't done any of the Christmas ones afterwards. There's no point when you get so many coins from houses and friends. Tying up a character for a whole day for a couple of coins is a waste of time.
That's funny, I'm totally on the other side of the spectrum. I think sitting around mindlessly poking Friends' Springfields is a much bigger waste of my actual time. I'm totally happy with turning the main characters into a coin farm and watching them go than I am sitting for a half hour going through an endless parade of Simpsons Houses.
It does seem weird. To be honest other than the necessary tasks, I haven't done any of the Christmas ones afterwards. There's no point when you get so many coins from houses and friends. Tying up a character for a whole day for a couple of coins is a waste of time.
Same here. I've done some over night, but that's about it. For the most part, I've just been getting coins from friends and sending the coin characters on regular tasks that sync with all of the other characters. If there were 1 hour and 8 hour coin tasks, I'd probably be doing them more often, but with 5, 10, and 16, they just don't match anything else and it throws off the timing for getting through the task chains.
It does seem weird. To be honest other than the necessary tasks, I haven't done any of the Christmas ones afterwards. There's no point when you get so many coins from houses and friends. Tying up a character for a whole day for a couple of coins is a waste of time.
That's funny, I'm totally on the other side of the spectrum. I think sitting around mindlessly poking Friends' Springfields is a much bigger waste of my actual time. I'm totally happy with turning the main characters into a coin farm and watching them go than I am sitting for a half hour going through an endless parade of Simpsons Houses.
Except that, if you go through 100 friends in one go, you can rack up 300 coins and 20K+ cash. Plus you get to peruse your friend's Springfields, which is something I enjoy.
It does seem weird. To be honest other than the necessary tasks, I haven't done any of the Christmas ones afterwards. There's no point when you get so many coins from houses and friends. Tying up a character for a whole day for a couple of coins is a waste of time.
That's funny, I'm totally on the other side of the spectrum. I think sitting around mindlessly poking Friends' Springfields is a much bigger waste of my actual time. I'm totally happy with turning the main characters into a coin farm and watching them go than I am sitting for a half hour going through an endless parade of Simpsons Houses.
Except that, if you go through 100 friends in one go, you can rack up 300 coins and 20K+ cash. Plus you get to peruse your friend's Springfields, which is something I enjoy.
Yeah, I do too. It's just the "100" part. Seems so time consuming.
Except that, if you go through 100 friends in one go, you can rack up 300 coins and 20K+ cash.
You seem to be low-balling the cash value of visiting friends.
I just did the math on this... 100 friends plus other Springfield is 101 total visits. The first earns me $51 ($17x3) and the last earns me $543 ($181x3), so I earn an average of $297 per town. $297x101 is $29,997.
Once the Christmas update is over, I will go back to vandalizing. I was averaging probably 3.5 - 4 taps per neighbor, so that will put the value of visiting neighbors up to between $35k and $40k. Not bad for 1-2 hours of playing!
It does seem weird. To be honest other than the necessary tasks, I haven't done any of the Christmas ones afterwards. There's no point when you get so many coins from houses and friends. Tying up a character for a whole day for a couple of coins is a waste of time.
That's funny, I'm totally on the other side of the spectrum. I think sitting around mindlessly poking Friends' Springfields is a much bigger waste of my actual time. I'm totally happy with turning the main characters into a coin farm and watching them go than I am sitting for a half hour going through an endless parade of Simpsons Houses.
Except that, if you go through 100 friends in one go, you can rack up 300 coins and 20K+ cash. Plus you get to peruse your friend's Springfields, which is something I enjoy.
Yeah, I do too. It's just the "100" part. Seems so time consuming.
I like to put on an audiobook or youtube talk or podcast and go a-tapping through the Springfields.
Since playing this game, I've gotten through the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, every book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, plus numerous talks. It's a nice part of the day.
In an hour's time, I can get [email protected] near 300 coins from my neighbors, while it takes 10 hours to get to what, 18 or so coins from the Simpsons clan? No contest.
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That's funny, I'm totally on the other side of the spectrum. I think sitting around mindlessly poking Friends' Springfields is a much bigger waste of my actual time. I'm totally happy with turning the main characters into a coin farm and watching them go than I am sitting for a half hour going through an endless parade of Simpsons Houses.
Weird Christmas Coin Task Earning Rates
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9159480.page
Same here. I've done some over night, but that's about it. For the most part, I've just been getting coins from friends and sending the coin characters on regular tasks that sync with all of the other characters. If there were 1 hour and 8 hour coin tasks, I'd probably be doing them more often, but with 5, 10, and 16, they just don't match anything else and it throws off the timing for getting through the task chains.
Except that, if you go through 100 friends in one go, you can rack up 300 coins and 20K+ cash. Plus you get to peruse your friend's Springfields, which is something I enjoy.
Yeah, I do too. It's just the "100" part. Seems so time consuming.
I just did the math on this... 100 friends plus other Springfield is 101 total visits. The first earns me $51 ($17x3) and the last earns me $543 ($181x3), so I earn an average of $297 per town. $297x101 is $29,997.
Once the Christmas update is over, I will go back to vandalizing. I was averaging probably 3.5 - 4 taps per neighbor, so that will put the value of visiting neighbors up to between $35k and $40k. Not bad for 1-2 hours of playing!
I like to put on an audiobook or youtube talk or podcast and go a-tapping through the Springfields.
Since playing this game, I've gotten through the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, every book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, plus numerous talks. It's a nice part of the day.