Remember when the game was FUN?
Any one in the game designers' ear? I have a suggestion, and I'm sure i'm not the only one...
They need to bring back the 'fun' in the game.
I miss the way the game used to be. Actually Tapping.
It's all "send X amount of characters to do this job" now. I'm in and out of the game in less than 5 mins.
What happened to having something to actually DO?
I remember Christmas events where you can hide presents in friends' towns, and finding ones they left for you. Same with Easter Eggs. Prisoners/bandits on the loose to 'catch' and snakes running around on Whacking Day.
Not to mention we are STILL waiting for the Road to Riches "coming soon" to finally update.
*sigh* I really enjoyed playing Tapped Out.. but now its just boring.
They need to bring back the 'fun' in the game.
I miss the way the game used to be. Actually Tapping.
It's all "send X amount of characters to do this job" now. I'm in and out of the game in less than 5 mins.
What happened to having something to actually DO?
I remember Christmas events where you can hide presents in friends' towns, and finding ones they left for you. Same with Easter Eggs. Prisoners/bandits on the loose to 'catch' and snakes running around on Whacking Day.
Not to mention we are STILL waiting for the Road to Riches "coming soon" to finally update.
*sigh* I really enjoyed playing Tapped Out.. but now its just boring.
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im too scared to nuke my town lol there is just so much effort in it.
sometimes i do rearrange sections, especially when a new building or deco is released
(halloween zone, medical zone etc) but never all at once
hopefully a dev sees this! Defiantly need tapping events again.
Honestly it's been long enough they could re-release any previous event style now and it would seem new.
I suspect there's a bigger reason behind the lack of diversity in new events, but it's just speculation.
I have made my best effort to find "fun" in my game anyway. Even though my town is 99% finished, I still like to "play" in my town every day, by resetting my favorite visual tasks for certain characters that I find hilarious or cute. The rest of the characters I reset daily on 24hr cycle just for donut rounds.
I've also hidden my IRS building, and returned to individually tapping all the rent money collections. I do use the Skyfinger once daily. But yeah there is something satisfying about tapping again.
We have to be a little more imaginative these days, but im still doing it; and still having fun!
So that's about those events. But then there were these build your own part of Springfiekd events where you earned "money" to spend on what decorations you wanted to buy and those were fun.
Now you have to pay donuts to get walls for coralling what ever the event gives you. No new walls this christmas event but then again mostlly no new buildings & decorations either. Had a entrance to last years christmas enclosure so bought some walls and created extra large christmas enclosure. Will move all christmasy things in there when ground is not snowy anymore.
I also think they need to do SOMETHING about Road to Riches, and friend point levels too. If they have abandoned the ideas, at least update the wording so it doesn’t say “coming soon” or “so far.” Just tell me I’ve completed it and I can adjust my expectations. They can always add more to it later and alert players with dialogue or a kick-off quest.
Without friend events or updates to friend points, the only game driven reason to visit friends is to maintain 5 star socialism. I personally love seeing how other people are designing their towns, but that isn’t reason enough to visit on a daily basis. Definitely opportunity for improvement there.
When it comes to tapping, I find myself trying to avoid using the unemployment office when I have time. It’s nice to have the option in a pinch, but I hate it when I use it to send everyone on a 4hr task and 75% my characters are in Smooches on the Beach (or Chez Guevara for 8hrs). I’d rather manually pick the tasks so I can display the variety of animations. I also challenge myself by trying find every character to send on tasks without the quick finder. I can usually get about 450 of the 475 characters I have on my own, before giving in and quick finding the last few. Takes a lot more than 5 minutes to reset it all and is much more satisfying.
The grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence. You don't know what you had until it's gone, etc. etc.
I do agree that the game is boring, but c'mon the game's been going on for a decade now (which is a helluva long time for a mobile game), and The Simpsons have 30+ years of material (which is also a helluva long time).
We should even be thankful that they still give us new content, they could easily pull the plug on the game and not even give us the time of day.
I don't like the overemphasis on mini-events in between the big, main events. They all blur together to me.
We need something to do between events.
I'd like that also. I listened to their quarterly call to see if they made any mention of it. But no there was no mention. I'd really like to hear the standing of the game and it's performance on the market.
Remember when the game was FUN?
A: Yes. And I think the game is still fun. I always liked the crafting portion of events. Which was actually a pretty good implementation. Tap npcs for currency. Use currency for new stuff. The dig sites were ok. I really like the polyvac mini game. I still find the game very enjoyable. It has good days and bad days. But the game as a whole remains the great cartoon prodigy. I love playing and have moments of enjoyment when popping in. The game is still fun. I think they will do something intricate again. May not be a event. But it could be something like the polyvac.
The game is still FUN!
Speaking of which, I hate to say it but the moment I reached the point where I could acquire unlimited donuts and therefore purchase pretty much any item I wanted, that’s really when the game started getting boring for me. There’s something to be said about working hard to earn donuts (clicking on friends’ towns, looking for Maggie, completing Day Tasks) and having just enough to purchase one or two items each event. I kind of liked going into friends’ towns to see what items they got from the current event. Now it seems most people have everything and most friends don’t bother decorating their town or just gave up long ago.
Anyway, I still think it’s fun but I definitely don’t invest as much time as I used to because I really don’t need to. Decorating is what I now find fun but I’ll be honest, I get tired of all the buildings and wish we get more decorations.
However, there are things id like see get added and re-visited.
Things like Friendship Prizes. That will give everyone a reason to visit their neighbors and interact with their towns while at the same time try and unlock new prizes.
Road to Riches is another thing they could bring back to invest all our hard earned cash towards while earning new prizes.
Episode Tie-Ins could return with a new prize and small quest line like they used to
lol, yeah. I get where you're coming from. But, like, I feel this particular thing has been just beaten to death. We all know it's been like this for a long time. And yeah, a change of pace from what we've had would be nice. But, we'd probably be complaining about the change sooner, rather than later.
I do enough complaining at work. XD
People complained before and they'll complain again. Just try to enjoy it for what it is.