Signed in for the first time in a long time and collected 5yr badge. It seems like it has been longer. I was so confused starting at the end of thoh. Barely saved the cash for the first event building and won all the community prizes. Jackpot.
I have my 7 year badge but started the game the first Christmas when everything was white. It was such a shock to see it all go green in the new year!! I still much prefer the winter snow. My first really memorial event was whacking day. I teamed up with people from around the world so we could drop and whack each others snakes to win prizes. I think I hardly slept the whole event it was such fun!! That is what I remember of the game. The fun we had not like now where it is just tap for prizes. I live in hope the next event brings proper Christmas joy not just tap tap.
I have my November 8-year badge (Forum anniversary) but I’ve played since August 2012. That first Halloween was real Halloween with kids in costume trick-or-treating and zombies generating in the graveyard (and then in a pet graveyard!).
I have my 7 year badge but started the game the first Christmas when everything was white. It was such a shock to see it all go green in the new year!! I still much prefer the winter snow. My first really memorial event was whacking day. I teamed up with people from around the world so we could drop and whack each others snakes to win prizes. I think I hardly slept the whole event it was such fun!! That is what I remember of the game. The fun we had not like now where it is just tap for prizes. I live in hope the next event brings proper Christmas joy not just tap tap.
I had forgotten, this was me too, I had played a bit at the end of the first thanksgiving but when I really got into the game I had not clue what anything looked like without snow on it.
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I started in Winter '15. Frantically trying to keep up with everything and not a clue it was an event I'd landed in the middle of.
Send kids to pile snow - that'll be Lisa then. Upgrade a hot squishee stand - hurry up Lisa, you're needed. Do the regular quests and unlock more characters - damn, need Lisa for that too . . .
I'd just managed to get a lump of snow and pop, end of Act1 - deep joy, can't finish it or store it and didn't have a clue what to do with it. Maybe one day I'll get a chance to finish it off, but I doubt it.
I really miss hunting down random NPCs spawning all over town, and having neighbour actions. Surely they could tweak the old code to include those in this combo mini-event format ??
I started in Winter '15. Frantically trying to keep up with everything and not a clue it was an event I'd landed in the middle of.
Send kids to pile snow - that'll be Lisa then. Upgrade a hot squishee stand - hurry up Lisa, you're needed. Do the regular quests and unlock more characters - damn, need Lisa for that too . . .
I'd just managed to get a lump of snow and pop, end of Act1 - deep joy, can't finish it or store it and didn't have a clue what to do with it. Maybe one day I'll get a chance to finish it off, but I doubt it.
I really miss hunting down random NPCs spawning all over town, and having neighbour actions. Surely they could tweak the old code to include those in this combo mini-event format ??
I managed to fully build the snowman but a few years later got hit by the "Glitch" and it broke my snowman along with many other things, now I'm stuck with a part built version that I can't change.
I managed to fully build the snowman but a few years later got hit by the "Glitch" and it broke my snowman along with many other things, now I'm stuck with a part built version that I can't change.
That'd really ( erm, s'pose I'd better keep it PG ) tick me off !!
I guess you've tried pestering EA to check your old backup data and re-instate the completed snowman - I know I'd keep on at them until they either gave in or lost it with me.
I managed to fully build the snowman but a few years later got hit by the "Glitch" and it broke my snowman along with many other things, now I'm stuck with a part built version that I can't change.
That'd really ( erm, s'pose I'd better keep it PG ) tick me off !!
I guess you've tried pestering EA to check your old backup data and re-instate the completed snowman - I know I'd keep on at them until they either gave in or lost it with me.
I had 3 roll backs loosing items each time, after 4th "Glitch" I gave up and just played around the problem the biggest of those is the loss of the character finder in the top left corner 😞
I downloaded TSTO the day it released for Android and joined the forum in April 2013. Whacking Day was my first full event, and I always think back to those days whenever I see that episode on TV. Memorieeeeeees!
How things have changed in 6 years. I remember spending more time on this forum than I probably should have, it used to be so active and have such a community feel to it. I joined the game at the end of Whacking Day and really became active on the forum around the Halloween event of 2013. Good times.
Will we have snow and Christmas this year? Why games are quite different? I remember that some years ago you had to for example swat alliens or bugs 🐛 on the street or to hunt elves. Now the events are quite different and you have to send people to do whatever with no action or more animation on the screen.
Will we have snow and Christmas this year? Why games are quite different? I remember that some years ago you had to for example swat alliens or bugs 🐛 on the street or to hunt elves. Now the events are quite different and you have to send people to do whatever with no action or more animation on the screen.
Snow will most likely arrive with the "Winter Event Update (coming soon)), the format of events changed a couple of years ago and seems to be following the exact same format (possibly due to it being an old game creating less income so less people working on it) to keep it as, simple as possible to add new content (also there used to be lots of complaints about the old event style) I suspect that we are stuck with the current event system (maybe with minor tweaks) until the end of the game.
I started playing just after Whacking Day. Played pretty much every day since! So what's changed?
Well, I no longer read all the speech bubbles in detail, I stopped doing that when it became a simple game of collecting every 4 hours.
I've stopped designing as I go, and now have a dumping ground for new items which I eventually add into my town design when I get a decent chunk of time to think.
I don't check the forum as often as I did. I was a serial lurker, occasionally posting replies, but now find myself only really here if an event has just begun. The overall feel of the forum is different now I think.
I no longer visit my neighboureenos because there isn't much point, no hiding gifts behind buildings, squishing aliens, arresting criminals, and no rewards for visiting at all ever. I miss that, especially the gifts, that was a good idea as part of the event, having to hunt out the parcels neighbours had left.
Things that haven't changed?
My Simpson House, 1st KwikEMart and 1st Krusty Burger are all in the same place. Never moved them. Never will.
I still get giddy excited about Christmas corn.
I still want all playable characters to have unique 60 min, 4hr, 8hr, 12hr and 24hr jobs, and when a quest is over, that job to go to the bottom of the pile (looking at you "dance at the sweldorado") I bloo-diddly-oodly hate that everyone piles into one building when they could be out doing animated jobs!
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oh god the harp. still hear that sound.
what about when we heard it again
I had forgotten, this was me too, I had played a bit at the end of the first thanksgiving but when I really got into the game I had not clue what anything looked like without snow on it.
Send kids to pile snow - that'll be Lisa then. Upgrade a hot squishee stand - hurry up Lisa, you're needed. Do the regular quests and unlock more characters - damn, need Lisa for that too . . .
I'd just managed to get a lump of snow and pop, end of Act1 - deep joy, can't finish it or store it and didn't have a clue what to do with it. Maybe one day I'll get a chance to finish it off, but I doubt it.
I really miss hunting down random NPCs spawning all over town, and having neighbour actions. Surely they could tweak the old code to include those in this combo mini-event format ??
I managed to fully build the snowman but a few years later got hit by the "Glitch" and it broke my snowman along with many other things, now I'm stuck with a part built version that I can't change.
That'd really ( erm, s'pose I'd better keep it PG ) tick me off !!
I guess you've tried pestering EA to check your old backup data and re-instate the completed snowman - I know I'd keep on at them until they either gave in or lost it with me.
I had 3 roll backs loosing items each time, after 4th "Glitch" I gave up and just played around the problem the biggest of those is the loss of the character finder in the top left corner 😞
This was the first event I started to make any purchasers on.
Snow will most likely arrive with the "Winter Event Update (coming soon)), the format of events changed a couple of years ago and seems to be following the exact same format (possibly due to it being an old game creating less income so less people working on it) to keep it as, simple as possible to add new content (also there used to be lots of complaints about the old event style) I suspect that we are stuck with the current event system (maybe with minor tweaks) until the end of the game.
As in when EA decide to pull the plug which will happen at some point, might be next year, or 10 years from now.
Well, I no longer read all the speech bubbles in detail, I stopped doing that when it became a simple game of collecting every 4 hours.
I've stopped designing as I go, and now have a dumping ground for new items which I eventually add into my town design when I get a decent chunk of time to think.
I don't check the forum as often as I did. I was a serial lurker, occasionally posting replies, but now find myself only really here if an event has just begun. The overall feel of the forum is different now I think.
I no longer visit my neighboureenos because there isn't much point, no hiding gifts behind buildings, squishing aliens, arresting criminals, and no rewards for visiting at all ever. I miss that, especially the gifts, that was a good idea as part of the event, having to hunt out the parcels neighbours had left.
Things that haven't changed?
My Simpson House, 1st KwikEMart and 1st Krusty Burger are all in the same place. Never moved them. Never will.
I still get giddy excited about Christmas corn.
I still want all playable characters to have unique 60 min, 4hr, 8hr, 12hr and 24hr jobs, and when a quest is over, that job to go to the bottom of the pile (looking at you "dance at the sweldorado") I bloo-diddly-oodly hate that everyone piles into one building when they could be out doing animated jobs!