How you are losing snakes: Explained by testing engineer
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I figured it out (barring any glitches).
If you visit a town in which someone has sent Lisa to, you will lose 5 snakes for every person that has sent Lisa there, during that task's duration.
So if you lose 10 snakes, its because 2 of the town's friends sent their Lisa tasks there.
If you visit a town in which someone has sent Lisa to, you will lose 5 snakes for every person that has sent Lisa there, during that task's duration.
So if you lose 10 snakes, its because 2 of the town's friends sent their Lisa tasks there.
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This almost makes sense.
I've gone into towns where I could only find 3 snakes to whack. I've gone into others where I've whacked 10 snakes and they all added to my total.
But....explain why the license states you are only allowed to whack 5 snakes per town?
So going off your theory, if we notice a drop in our snake number in a town then that is the town (perhaps even the person who sent Lisa to our town????) where our missing snakes are and we should stick around to find them?
I'm going to test this.
I've also discovered that if I do not click on any buildings but just whack snakes? I don't lose any.
This is also my experience. But want to add 1 thing...
don't just pay attention when entering / leaving. Pay attention the whole time. I had my snake count drop WHILE I was in the town. Whacked snake number 4 and after collecting, instead of incrementing up by 1, my count went down by 7.
There were 8 (7 it went down +1 that I didn't get credit for) more snakes in that town for me to whack though (for a total of 13 whacked in that town, during 1 visit)
I've been testing and experimenting with this...
you can only whack 5 snakes in a town, unless you lose snakes while there.
I think that some of your snakes get released while you're there, and you don't get dinged for collecting them back. I've noticed that my total number of snakes whacked has not gone above Total Lost + 5.
To add - that did happen once, but it was before I noticed that you could lose them while you were there, not just upon entry. So I'm assuming I lost some on entry and others during whacking.
I'm going to have to test the "don't collect from buildings theory". It's what I've been using to mark which towns I've visited today (as there is no snakes whacked counter).
only sometimes.
The highest I've gone is 17 towns visited without snake loss, but I've also lost in 4 straight visits.
and not used lisa in any way. during that i lost 10 snakes. So there is something not right.
The license puts 5 or 10 snakes into the town, depending on the license. When you release snakes, think of it like license + x = snakes in that town, where x is the amount of snakes you release.
Dude.
I think you are on to something here.
So what does it mean when I went into a town and lost 30 snakes the second I went in? I was able to get them all back but it took forever. Does it mean that this person has sent Lisa to my town to release snakes that many times? *frowns*
I don't think it's broken.
I think we don't understand how to use it.
It seems to me that we are on the cusp with this post on finally understanding it.
If I'm connecting the dots correctly, Lisa is sent into your town to release snakes. That release shows up when you go into the neighbors town and suddenly lose snakes. You have to go and find those snakes. That is why you have to watch your snake number.
I tried this out and it happened in two towns. The first I lost 20 snakes, got them back. The second I lost 30 snakes, got them back.
I have no idea why snakes are disappearing from our own towns unless we have to go out and find the snakes in our neighbors towns. So evidently we lose snakes two ways (and it is still not clear if Lisa has anything to do with this).
But I do know that I was able to get my snakes back....however....be careful though because if you overwhack? You will lose extra snakes....grrr....
Again, not broken....we just don't have a full understanding of how to play the whacking game.
Also I think the Snake loss Glitch and Lisa's task are not related as some are speculating. Lisa's tasks take 5 snakes from the town you chose and releases them back into that same town, so the owner of that town will have 5 less count but 5 more roaming. While it is not theft it still sucks because you are not guaranteed to get them back as snakes, you may get eggs.
The Glitch if it s a glitch and not programmed by EA is just unfortunate and any tie in to friends that may have done the Lisa task against you is mere coincidence. IMO
But to add to something you mentioned, yes....we don't know any of these details because EA doesn't share these with us. I wish they would, as it would help a lot! I wish they'd open more communications between us, even if it's between a mod to share.
Not really.
If you lost 10 snakes then you need to go find the other snakes, did you also account for any eggs?
Somebody do the math, it's in there but my head is starting to hurt.
Not if they selected my town every single time. I don't think it's random but we need more testing.
I do think you are onto the answer now and figuring out how to play this event.
Did you pay attention to your snake count before, during and after the town visit?
Seems to be about right with my experience. The annoying thing about it though is that it takes you much longer after your visits. I just spent 3 hours visiting friends and gained 72 snakes, I lost 53 snakes but gained 65 eggs.