DerekRx

I sent Lisa three times already and each time just stuck with Other Springfield. I sent eggs last night to Joey Ray, Robb, and Elissa, and today to Salady. I should get my Whacking license by the end of today or tomorrow afternoon, so when I visit towns I'll see who needs eggs and send them out that way, like 3-5 eggs to every town that seems active and not overpopulated with them.

It sounds confusing, but even scarier that I actually understand what they're talking about once the whacking commensed. I made my town center, which I always tried to make the Jebediah Springfield statue plaza, into a Whacking Day celebration with a stump hidden behind him for visitors to spot and help me out while I'm actually working. I still don't like how the neighbor order changed from alphabetical to whatever it is now and you cannot tell who left you eggs to return the favor, but I'm gunning for a sports complex section of my Springfield with a trashy motel and a slutty pageant queen for good measure!

My Level 28 XP goal is 243606 and I'm at 53839 right now. The prizes from snakes (or donuts if you don't want to wait). Other new items are with donuts only (like the gym or the snake that has eaten a few school children)

After Homer and Lisa finish their first 24 hour tasks (Lisa Homework, Homer walking around with club) all the Whacking Day stuff will be unlocked, including new tasks for Willie, Skinner, Flanders, and Milhouse. Most of the new items will be bought with snakes, though a few can be bought with donuts (like snake decorations to make more snakes show up or easier to catch, kind of like the mausoleum made zombies arrive quicker). Eggs can be placed in neighbors towns and I guess they'll hatch into snakes after a few hours once that player has unlocked Whacking Day, sort of like how toilet papering neighbors houses ended up giving them candy after they cleaned it up. Guess everyone will be visiting other towns more frequently starting tomorrow!

In anticipation of tomorrow's event I was going to make sure every character was free at lunchtime tomorrow, so I went and made everyone do stuff today that will last until well into late late tonight! Friggin EA! Nice to see Sideshow Bob randomly showed up in my town again, he hasn't done that since I first started playing back in October.

I figured an update would be coming soon, but I thought it would be on Thursday, so Lisa still has 6 hours left in her 12 hour task. I hope Thursday ends up being a big update, like the proposed Whacking Day challenge, giving reason to visit other towns again.

Yeah, I don't like it when they take away places from the list of tasks, like the mini golf course, Butterfats, florist, El Chemistri, etc. at least Tom can still go to his pub though! Hopefully they give people a good reason to visit other towns again soon, as I've really slowed down in doing that.

Yeah, done with this special event, which seemed pretty simplistic considering all the other things they could have done (had the leprechaun hide his pot of gold in neighbors towns, shamrock bucks and more decorations, etc). I didn't bother buying the wishing well, may do so if there's a discount from Gil coming up, but I'm glad we got another character and building in the pub. At least it was better than the Thanksgiving stuff! Not sure if they'll do Easter or not considering they're running out of time with Easter less than 3 weeks away this year. I'm bored, ready for the next update and to move on to Level 27, saving up for Magnifying Glass and then Popsicle Stick Skyscraper, and reorganizing my downtown while I wait.

Yay, another pub, and giant magnifying glass! Looks like I'll pass on the Popsicle stick skyscraper for now and go right for the magnifying glass.

^It was just the disappearance of Gill with that really terrible deal of his.

I was able to get in on the iPhone with no issues after the download (I know, amazing!) and was immediately leveled up to 26, and my XP goal changed down to 111120. My iPhone was the last device I played on this morning before the update came out, so I'll close out the game on the ipad when I get home. Wiggum's house is being constructed now, so much for getting the escalator started today!

I tried earlier today to play, but got the same message about not being able to connect. Over 33 hours after the initial problem from leveling up, I'm back on for now though it seems to have taken me back down a lit; less money, hearts, and XP than I had but with 24 extra donuts for some odd reason and at least I'm back on...for now! We'll see what happens when I re-level up tomorrow. I can connect to server, I love this screen!

^Better than my situation. I leveled up today and in doing so the glitch I had resurfaced and I was put at Level 26, which still doesn't exist so it kicked me out and now I keep getting the "man I hate this screen" error message. Wish I could just level up like normal people!

As long as it holds true when it's actually released, when I got bumped to Level 26 and had Wiggum's House unlocked it was in $ not hearts, and was like $175,000 total. I can't recall if it was either Quimby or Wiggum who needed to be free in order to unlock it, it was something about people complaining about seeing Wiggum walk around without pants on because he had no place to live. Didn't see how much Chemistri cost

In order to get Valentines from other towns, the neighbor's characters must be currently involved in an activity, not just standing around. Each character is allowed 1 Valentine per visit until that town's owner collects the Valentine, freeing up the character to receive another one. So it doesn't really matter if you send your character on a 30 minute activity or a 24 hour activity, it all depends on how often you and your neighbors visit their own town to collect the Valentines others have left for them, freeing up the characters for other neighbors to card while the characters are doing a task. Basically, everyone should have their characters all doing stuff and visiting their towns often to collect the Valentines left for them.

I managed to sell the swing set in the short amount of time I had after deleting and reinstalling and then it downloaded some update and let me in again. I still have the task to build the Wiggum home, but the home is no longer available, nor are the swing set, police car, tether ball, or Chemistri restaurant.

I was able to get into my town during lunchtime at work today; collect cards, visit towns, build florist and start mini golf, but as soon as I got home and got the newest update again now I'm back to not even being able to get into my own town for more than 30 seconds, and everything I do just resets...except all the cards I collected are gone and the hearts not in my bank. Maybe I have the magical EA Groundhog Day version. If I didn't already hate Valentine's Day, EA would have just made me. Edit: turns out I have the Level 26 bug, as yesterday I was bumped up to Level 26, got the task to build Wiggum's house and unlock Ralph, and then bought a swing set for the school, which EA mistakenly released for a few hours to those who were online and with enough XP to get it. After they realized their error they turned it off, but the server doesn't like those of us with this glitch. Leave it to EA and Ralph to mess up the game!

I got lots of cards recently too, but every one of them I couldn't reciprocate. I managed to get into a few towns, but then it kicked me out and now I can't even connect to the server. If EA ever tries their hand at a car that drives itself, remind me to relocate onto an island in the middle of a large lake

What I read from a post on another forum sounds so true: I managed to only get into like 5 towns so far, the most recent was someone who just friended me.

I also reset ipad and logged out of origin and still couldn't visit your town, Chris.

Most likely something at Six Flags Mexico, probably Medusa or Superman

Here's my Top 50 and Bottom 20 COASTER NAME PARK LOC <-LEAVE Favorite Wood Coaster Any Park Anywhere **,y,y,1 Expedition GeForce Holiday Park DE,y,y,2 Nemesis Alton Towers UK,y,n,3 Kumba Busch Gardens Tamp FL,y,y,4 Intimidator 305 Kings Dominion VA,y,y,5 Skyrush Hersheypark PA,y,y,6 Montu Busch Gardens Tamp FL,y,y,7 Kawasemi Tobu Zoo JP,y,n,8 iSpeed Mirabilandia IT,y,n,9 Maverick Cedar Point OH,y,n,10 Goliath Walibi Holland NL,y,n,11 Katun Mirabilandia IT,y,n,12 Bizarro SF New England MA,y,n,13 Blue Fire Megacoaster Europa Park DE,y,y,14 Behemoth Canadas Wonderland ON,y,n,15 Space Mountain Disneyland CA,y,n,16 Goliath Six Flags Over Geo GA,y,y,17 Winjas - Fear Phantasialand DE,y,y,18 Euro-Mir Europa-Park DE,y,y,19 Manta SeaWorld Orlando FL,y,y,20 Shockwave Six Flags Over Tex TX,y,n,21 Winjas - Force Phantasialand DE,y,y,22 Nitro Six Flags Great Ad NJ,y,y,23 Powder Keg Silver Dollar City MO,y,n,24 Dragon's Fury Chessington UK,y,n,25 Phantom's Revenge Kennywood Park PA,y,n,26 Storm Runner Hersheypark PA,y,y,27 Revenge of the Mummy Universal Studios FL,y,y,28 California Screamin' Disney CA Adventur CA,y,n,29 Apollo's Chariot Busch Gardens Will VA,y,y,30 Batman The Ride/Clone SF & Other Parks **,y,y,31 Kraken SeaWorld Orlando FL,y,y,32 Olympia Looping Traveling DE,y,n,33 Incredible Hulk Islands of Adventu FL,y,n,34 Mindbender Six Flags Over Geo GA,y,y,35 Superman:Krypton Cstr Six Flags Fiesta T TX,y,n,36 Lisebergbanan Liseberg SE,y,n,37 Wicked Lagoon UT,y,n,38 Medusa SF Discovery Kingd CA,y,n,39 Millennium Force Cedar Point OH,y,n,40 Afterburn Carowinds NC,y,n,41 SheiKra Busch Gardens Tamp FL,y,y,42 XCelerator Knott's Berry Farm CA,y,n,43 Tornado Sarkanniemi FI,y,n,44 Krake Heide Park DE,y,y,45 Chinese Fireball Islands of Adventu FL,y,n,46 Leviathan Canadas Wonderland ON,y,y,47 Ride of Steel Darien Lake NY,y,n,48 Intimidator Carowinds NC,y,n,49 Gemini Cedar Point OH,y,n,50 Indiana Jones et le t Disneyland Paris FR,y,n,237 Roller Soaker Hersheypark PA,y,y,238 Scandia Screamer Scandia Family Fun CA,y,n,239 Tulireki Linnanmaki FI,y,n,240 Hamu-Hamu Ouko Fujikyu HighLands JP,y,n,241 Fav Mack Supersplash Any Park Anywhere **,y,y,242 Excalibur Valleyfair! MN,y,n,243 Pirates Hideaway Casino Pier NJ,y,n,244 Ninja Six Flags St. Loui MO,y,n,245 Fav Vekoma Corkscrew Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,246 Fav Zamperla Volare Any Park Anywhere **,y,y,247 Fav Chance Toboggan Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,248 G Force Drayton Manor UK,y,n,249 Anaconda Kings Dominion VA,y,n,250 Fav RC40/50 Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,251 Ultimate Lightwater Valley UK,y,n,252 Sequoia Adventure Gardaland IT,y,n,253 Ninja Six Flags Over Geo GA,y,n,254 Roller Coaster New York New York NV,y,n,255 Goudurix Parc Asterix FR,y,y,256

My last Mystery Box was for $250, whoopdeedoo!

Finally got the chance to update mine and submit it. Here's my top and bottom rankings. Phoenix Knoebel's PA,y,y,1 El Toro SFGAd NJ,y,n,2 Balder Liseberg SE,y,n,3 My Favorite Steel Anypark Anywhere **,y,y,4 Boulder Dash Lake Compounce CT,y,n,5 Ravine Flyer II Waldameer PA,y,n,6 Raven Holiday World IN,y,n,7 Ozark Wildcat(SBNO) Celebration City MO,y,n,8 Dania Bch Hurr (S) Dania Beach FL,y,n,9 Colossos Heide Park DE,y,y,10 Thunderhead Dollywood TN,y,y,11 Wild Mouse Blackpool UK,y,n,12 The Voyage Holiday World IN,y,n,13 Loup Garou Walibi Belgium BE,y,n,14 Mean Streak Cedar Point OH,y,n,128 Boardwalk Bullet Kemah Boardwalk TX,y,n,129 M.Can.Mine Buster Canada's Wonderland ON,y,n,130 Wolverine Wildcat Michigan's Adventure MI,y,n,131 Twister II Elitch Gardens CO,y,n,132 Anaconda Walygator Parc FR,y,y,133 Rattler Fiesta Texas TX,y,n,134 White Canyon Yomiuriland JP,y,n,135 Predator Darien Lake NY,y,n,136 The Grizzly Great America CA,y,n,137 The Bandit Movie Park DE,y,y,138 Son of Beast (SBNO) Kings Island OH,y,n,139

I loved Adventure Mountain on my visit this year. Pretty rare attraction and included in park admission it was lots of fun, a good way to kill some time, and quite a workout. I guess the ride could be a bit of a problem for maintenance as well as the amount of staffing required, but it definitely seemed popular. I wish they'd be able to save it and move it elsewhere in the park or even over to the waterpark, but I doubt it. Glad I had a chance to experience it when I did.