My Characters don't walk around Town

mishved · November 28, 2012 1:23PM

So what do they do? Just stand around?

Have you tried storing the buildings that they came with and then un-storing them?

jasonicus321 · November 28, 2012 1:56PM

Maybe they are just tired...

dromtsul · November 28, 2012 1:57PM

Do you have any roads?

Warpt1 · November 28, 2012 1:58PM

Whenever I get weirdness on the game, I just log out and reboot the device. It helps a lot of the time.

mishved · November 28, 2012 2:09PM

i play an an itouch and have logged off many times...in fact when my son visits my town on his iphone my characters still don't move...it was perfect for at least a month then they stopped wakling...thanks for the suggestions

chaiguy1337 · November 28, 2012 2:11PM

I think this will happen if you don't have any roads.

mishved · November 28, 2012 2:11PM

i do have roads...the characters walked perfectly well for a month until last weekend

mishved · November 28, 2012 2:14PM

i can still play but it's not as fun and its a bummer to see the 100 friend characters walking in srringfield

dromtsul · November 28, 2012 2:17PM

Can you post a few screen shots?

DohMoe · November 28, 2012 2:18PM

Either a bug, or you messed it up by taking out all of your streets.

KrustyBrand · November 28, 2012 2:25PM

mishved wrote:

my characters have stopped walking around my town ...they will walk to a task but thats it....help appreciated

Sorry to dense, but I'm still not sure I completely understand the problem. They walk to a specific location in order to perform a task, okay. What about tasks that involve moving around the town, such as Ned's power walk or when Burns walks his hounds? -- do they move around the town in those cases? Is it only when they are not engaged in a task that they aren't moving? As someone else suggested, some pics might help to clarify.

mishved · November 28, 2012 2:25PM

i never took away my streets...i'd have to ask my kid about a screen shot but it is exactly as described they only walk when i send them on a task to the school as an example...flander powerwalk it the same spot the entire duration of 4 hours

mishved · November 28, 2012 2:28PM

they will walk to the school or a store or a house or clean trash but when they complete the task i collect the $ and they do not move at all until i give another task the baloons move as does the school flag....no one has heard of this before my situation?

mishved · November 28, 2012 2:40PM

i don't think it can be a device problem because my son visits my town on his iphone and my people are not walking around

heavy liquid · November 28, 2012 2:54PM

So you're saying they just stand still in place unless they're assigned a task?

I might not mind that myself. My guys are always running and hiding behind buildings and trees when I'm trying to assign them jobs. :P

mishved · November 28, 2012 11:45PM

Yes that's exactly what they do any suggestions?

didemlale · November 29, 2012 5:53AM

I might not mind that myself. My guys are always running and hiding behind buildings and trees when I'm trying to assign them jobs. :P [/quote]

My characters are also running and hiding after they finish their tasks, and I sometimes need to count while assigning them tasks.

mike_bornste wrote:

Have you tried storing the buildings that they came with and then un-storing them?

Mishved, have you tried storing and putting the buildings back? I am curious, it's a weird situation.

dcline414 · November 29, 2012 6:04AM

didemlale wrote:

heavy liquid wrote:

I might not mind that myself. My guys are always running and hiding behind buildings and trees when I'm trying to assign them jobs. :P

My characters are also running and hiding after they finish their tasks, and I sometimes need to count while assigning them tasks.

Mine do that too... Now that I have 25 characters running around it is all too easy to miss some, especially the kids. I have to double-check that I got them all by going into move mode and making houses and decorations transparent.

didemlale · November 29, 2012 6:23AM

Mine do that too... Now that I have 25 characters running around it is all too easy to miss some, especially the kids. I have to double-check that I got them all by going into move mode and making houses and decorations transparent.[/quote]

I generally miss one, if I don't double-check and you're right it is too easy to miss the kids (ex. yesterday I had missed one kid for 12 hour task). This double-checking, counting thing might be painful for me when I assign one hour task for hours. After 6 hours, my eyes feel strange because of running after over 30 characters.

mishved · November 29, 2012 9:37AM

Ok...i changed my roads to curbless roads AKA pavement last week thinking it looked "better'....turns out that is the reason my people would not walk ...now i changed to proper road surface and I'm good again...thanks for the efforts guys

dcline414 · November 29, 2012 10:07AM

mishved wrote:

Ok...i changed my roads to curbless roads AKA pavement last week thinking it looked "better'....turns out that is the reason my people would not walk ...now i changed to proper road surface and I'm good again...thanks for the efforts guys

I started to ask about that when you first posted, but didn't. I guess I thought it was obvious to everyone since I have a mix in my town and can clearly see that the characters never leave the road and walk on the pavement.

This is a helpful thing to consider doing intentionally for those of us losing characters though. If I replace my "suburb" and "neighborhood" roads with pavement then I can keep all my characters in the middle of town where all the shops and buildings are.

Glad you found the solution to your problem!

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