OldJJman

Wow. The stealing of snakes by Lisa seems to be effective. I was up to 178, and felt like I was cruising along, come back an hour later, and I'm down to 155. I don't think that it's a glitch, but it kind of sucks.

Ok, I've decided I can live with the XP glitch for now, since there appears to be no level 28 at this point in time anyway. If we get an update that fixes it before the end of the whacking day celebration, I'm just going to sell off the wind socks and rebuild them. With each one giving over 2800XP instantly, I think that's a good trade-off. Besides, my crapload of houses has generated more than $12mil for me. I LIKE THIS UPDATE. Its made the game more interesting again, and It really encourages gameplay to get all of the bonus items. (And I have no life!) I've already started building Fort Sensible (24hr), and the next item at 400 snakes is the whacking license, so I can start collecting snakes from friends' towns. And, with all the items available, I'll have to start selling off my slums, which will make Elissa happy.

Once you get your "wacking license" you can get 5 snakes from every town. 10, if you pay the 50 donut upgrade.

Ok. I think I've got this figured out. BUT.... I'm kinda mad right now. I'm turning my town center into whacking central. The windsock was giving over 2800XP for each one, so I figured "just put up a bunch." I put in 34, and had 160,000+XP. I go to visit someone's town, come back and I'm at almost 41,000 again. CRAPOLA!!!!! My level up is still at 1.5mil+. I'm screwed. Edit: Yeah. My XP resets EVERY time. I come back to my town at 40,460. Yeah. Screwed.

Now I'm curious. Does anyone know where I can find (and watch) the whacking episode??

I have 2 eggs, and two hours to go. Go figure.

^Thanks! What about the XP factor I mentioned?

I visited your town, maybe that's the eggs?? The first 2 whacking day tasks (after Homer/Lisa dialog) were 24hrs for Homer and Lisa. Homer goes on a snake hunt, and Lisa does next weeks homework. By reading the App Store update, we GET up to 10 extra things. I'm assuming by tasks. I mean - Homer is on a snake hunt, but I have NO snakes anywhere. I also see nothing else to buy as of yet. BUT, (and this is HUGE) does everyone (or anyone) notice that level 28 requires a butt load of XP?? Mine says 1,508,733. I'm hoping that's a glitch. Another glitch that I've noticed was in place of one of my Krusty Burgers was a "piece-of-crap-car"' the next time it loaded, it was a blue dumpster, now it's a Krusty Burger again. My major concern is that XP. Hope some of you have something different, preferably MUCH less!! I'm kind of wondering if this is a two-part update, that would finish tomorrow. Esp after Elissa said something about the servers possibly being down sometime tonight.

Sh!t. As E would say to Jewy: DIE!! (In my best Nelson impersonation) "HAHA!"

Sh!t. As E would say to Jewy: DIE!!

Already am. Set some things for 24 at 6am today, the rest I plan on having their tasks end in the middle of the night, so every one/thing is free when (and if) the update arrives.

Yeah, I thought the dialogue was pretty cool. The sushi place is 90 donuts. I've only rolled my XP over 13 times since the last update which left me with 39, so I now have 78. It would normally take me about 10-11 days to roll over the next 4 times to get to 90. Won't happen now with the new assigned tasks. (I'm now sitting on 11.7mil now though!!) Basically, $$ isn't an issue. Donuts are. And like Elissa, I started a 12hr task for Lisa, 20 minutes before the update. Ugh.

Ask, and Ye shall receive.

Just started building the "Adult Education Annex". It's 182,000 and a 36hr build. I got it right after both Carl and Lenny finished their 16hr plant shift. Tonight I'm gonna build up my Buddhist temple!! (Yeah. I lead the exciting life.)

I just tried experimenting with some fence pieces I have in storage. Just stack them on adjacent squares, starting with a corner, and play with the height to get your own desired effect. Pretty much gives an "M. C. Escher"-esque effect, on a forced, false perspective, in 2D. On a side note - the person whose Springfield that I took the screen shots of, caused me to crash when I visited sometimes. That kind of ties in to when my Springfield caused me (and others) to crash as well. According to the EA boards (I went there to see why mine was crashing. Verdict - building too many things at the same time.), some people have way too many trees, or in this case, fence pieces, and that somehow eats into the available memory. So when I do try this effect, I plan on doing it in moderation. It will probably take quite a bit of time for me as well, as I am very artistically challenged.

Here are the faux hill pics I was talking about:

I'll do it tonight when I get home. I took a few, as I thought it looked cool and I'd want to do it someday. The temple is perfect for that!!

I also got Mt. Carlmore and started the temple. Down to 39 donuts. I'm going to put the temple on a faux hill (I've seen a few people do it - looks cool) and make a garden of rabbits.

^ Thanks! I guess I'll have to wait to find out, as all my characters are on 12hr duty till 5pm. Ah - The joys of "Hurry up and wait"!!

^Ditto! Level 27 with the Buddhist temple (quest), the adult education annex (quest) and Mt. Carlmore (120 donuts). Mt. Carlmore also gives 3.5% bonus on $$ and XP. At least it's something new. Edit: The Buddhist temple also gives you Lenny and Carl.

I completely understand. I'm just trying to make a crapload of $$, so I'll be ready for whatever updates await us in the future. When I do something cool (Like Joey's boxing ring, his Try-n-Save, his beachfront resort, Derek's Burns Manor etc...) I'll post a screen shot. For me, most likely it'll huge Burns Manor project that I still have in mind.

Try again now. It was my fault for the massive house building I was doing. It seems to be fine now. I just need to replace/upgrade my blue houses in smaller groups. (About 30 at a time vs. 200+) As a side note - with the additional white houses, I harvested 202k this morning!

Ok. Lesson learned. Do NOT attempt to try and build 240 houses simultaneously!!! In my efforts today after reading possible/probable causes, I deleted all my non-TPR friends (incl Amy by mistake!!) trying to free up the memory, to no avail. Anway, I'm back into the game now with no problems. Once the 24hr build period was over for a majority of the houses, apparently it freed up the memory, and the game has played smoothly ever since. I took down about 220 (of 852) blue houses, and put up 174 white houses, and 64 orange ones. Reason being - whenever I turn on the game, I want to harvest houses. Yeah, it cost a crapload, but the money does come fast! (About 450k+ per day) I was just tired of trying to harvest all the blue houses every 8hrs, as it takes about 25-30mins to harvest all that. That's just too much time to spend anymore. Before this fiasco, I was at 5.6mil (on my way to 10mil+) and decided to change gears. I spent 40 donuts on a second cop car for the extra 2%. But, I've added 15 donuts back by rolling over 5 times in an hour (and paying for 3 donuts when I didn't get it). I don't remember what the XP was for the white houses after the build was complete, but the orange houses were 3752 XP, per house!! So now, I'm going to slowly convert blue houses to orange and white ones to get a good mix as the $$ builds up (about 30 at a time). This "downtime" between updates still keeps it kind of interesting for me. JJ

Anyone else having a hard time logging in today? I can't log in at all, but I do think it's my fault. Due to my not playing as much, I tore down a bunch of my blue houses (250 or so), and filled all the empty spaces with white and orange houses. They are all 24hr builds, ending tonight about 7pm. I think I overloaded the memory.

^ Have patience in the money flow. Harvest as often as possible. What I've ended up doing is cramming a lot of my stuff together for now. Every time I had enough money to buy a new piece of land, I did. Then I filled it with 8 blue houses. You can harvest them every 8 hours. With the % bonuses, I'm now getting $219/house, every 8 hours. I have now (as of last saturday) bought every piece of land available. I was down to $46. Today (6 days later) I have over 3.7mil. That's harvesting and doing mostly 12hr tasks in the am, then about 9pm, I set everyone for 8hr tasks. (Granted that's 852 blue houses, and about 100 others.) So I now generate about 600k+ every day, along with about 45k of XP. That helps me rollover about every 2.5 days, and I still can't get the damned "HARP OF DEATH"!! Next on my list is the magnifying glass (3mil), but I want to get a stockpile of cash (10mil) before I go back and start making the rest of my town look nice. For reference, I've only been playing since mid-November.