I’m working on Stewie and Carter and its taking and will take forever.
I’d list the things that I ‘won’ from the tea party thing, but they were all boring decoration type items.
ETA: Is anyone doing the superhero thing yet and is it any fun? It won’t drop for my android phone until 7/31
I am done. I haven’t been able to get the game to start for about a week and a half, it crashed on the loading screen every time. I emailed the company and they want all this info and don’t tell you how to get it. Then it said something about syncing and changing options on the PC itunes before you sync it. I can’t sync with the PC right now because of unrelated issues that I haven’t gotten around to fixing yet. The hell with it, the game’s going bye bye.
I’m just going to delete it. I downloaded the Simpsons Tapped Out, which honestly doesn’t seem like that much fun and will probably also be deleted.
The Comic-Con update seems to be largely the same as the Pyramid update, just with a different theme. I’ll be curious to see if they make it easier or harder to win out. So far, it’s taking me several days to unlock the first celebrity, but the new outfit for Peter went pretty quickly.
The Comic-Con event is giving out points a bit more freely than the Pyramid. I still think I’m unlikely to get George Takei, but I will probably get the second-highest prize.
Stewie finally unlocked.
Agreed, this event is much better than the pyramid in a lot of ways. I don’t think I’ll make the 100k prize either, but I feel like I definitely could if I was more dedicated. Still two weeks left, too - if they add more mechanics I just may make it.
Besides that though, there’s just so much more going on in this event. The costumes, the characters, the buildings, the nerds, the different mutant stewie incarnations, the car quests… They really almost lost me when they delayed the android start date by a week, but I think for the first time in a long while this is actually seeming like a game and not a grind.
I think I’ll make the 100k. I’m at 87k or something. I really got some good streaks with the harpoons. That made a big difference.
It took me a long time to realize that I could tap on the little minion stewies to keep them in one place before I release a bomb. Made getting 10 at once super easy.
I just really want Felicia Day for some reason…
I’m really geeking here, but I learned of a good way to maximize the return from bombing the minion Stewies.
They spawn on roads, so to control where they spawn, pull up all of your Quahog’s roads, except for a “town square” of four squares of pavement. Bomb out enough Stewies using your previous methods to get your town well below maximum. Leave the game for 30 minutes.
After half an hour, the game will be ready to spawn a new crop of minions. When you sign back in, immediately navigate over to your town square, and center it in the bombsight. Within a few moments, you will see a puff of smoke, indicating the spawning of the new batch of minions – all of them right in your cross hairs. Don’t wait; when you see the smoke, immediately drop a bomb.
Done right, this method will let you bomb 15 Stewies every half hour. As an added bonus, if you still have the Funland nerds wandering around your town, they will all congregate in your town square and otherwise stay out of the way. Also, the Comic-Con nerds will head right for the square, making them easy to find and tap.
Anyone else still playing?
I’m not sure I got much out of this Christmas event as a freemium player. I was nowhere near getting Jesus and will have 95k unused cookies I don’t know what to do with which I assume will disappear in a few minutes.
I still am, but it’s not a very good game. TinyCo needs to stop with the special events, fix their coding, and finish off some of the storylines they’ve left hanging for months.
I am limping along, but I don’t enjoy the game much at all. In fact, my resolution for the new year is to shut this game down, keeping it only for my daughter, who enjoys scrolling around. But playing it on a daily basis (or even every other day) is over. Christmas was the “jump the shark” moment for me.
This is going to sound like a rant, but it isn’t. The game has been more successful than TinyCo. could have possibly dreamed. But for a freemium player, it is a drag if you want most of the items… At least with TSTO, if you are willing to grind it out, a freemium player can do alright. But this game? Open your wallet. Freemium players are wasting their time.
In game cash is virtually useless, and XP’s are too. Hell, I don’t even know what level of the game I am supposed to be on, because I can’t tell. Everything just says MAX. I have some friends, and most of them are at level 50, so I assume that is the top level, but I don’t know. Character levels are also a waste… Why do some continue to climb, while others hit 15 and just MAX out? Except for opening up longer events to put your characters on, it doesn’t matter. No, the only thing that matters to TinyCo is, how many clams can they get you to buy? And this game is not cheap.
I did not care for the “Ghostbusters” theme, but ok… It was something different. But Christmas, with John McClain and Kiss, and all of the other nonsense it became overbearing. The ONLY way to keep your sanity with the game was to spend clams, which is really spending cash… Except for the few hundred clams you may have collected along the way.
So for Christmas, I had one goal… To get Jesus. The only way to get Jesus was to defeat this snow yeti by throwing snow balls at him. To throw snowballs, you needed to build suits for 3 different characters, (Lois, Joe and Mort). And even after all of this work, the only way you could defeat the Yeti to get the amount of items needed to release Jesus was if you bought John McClain, so he too could throw snowballs at the Yeti. Without that purchase, finishing off the Jesus quest was impossible.
There are too many events, too many quests, too few characters who can give you the items you need to do anything to fill out a quest, or create a skin for a character, or collect whatever it is that they want you to collect.
TinyCo has made this into a money-machine. And apparently, this is what is driving the game’s development and its future direction.
Apparently, it would seem that most people who play these games have to complete everything, and get every last outfit, character, building, decoration or whatnot. It is bizarre to me, but I think I am clearly in the minority here.
I am actually curious, so if someone cares to share with us out here, if you DO spend money on this game, how much have you spent?
I did a quick spreadsheet for just one event. I think it was the Halloween event. the clams required to make sure you got everything ran over $500. And god only knows what the cost would be for the Christmas and New Years events. But people seem to be paying up.
I have spent exactly $0.00 on this game, and I don’t care if I get every item. I have no room for it anyway. To me, it was just a nice diversion… A time waster. I had some off-time between the holidays, but that is over.
I wonder how many people buy everything under some delusion that there’s something in it for them at the end - for example, “Whoever has the ‘best’ Quahog gets to attend the Family Guy Movie premiere whenever we get around to making the film - oh, and it’s not the Hollywood premiere, but the one in whatever small Rhode Island town we can get to change its name to Quahog temporarily, so don’t expect very many stars to show up.”
I also wouldn’t be surprised if “I own every possible item in Family Guy: The Quest For Stuff” was used at least once to answer the question, “Why should we let you on (the TV series) Utopia?”
I never thought of that. Maybe there IS a reward at the end of all this… But the question I have is, “When is the end?”
As for “Best Quahog”, mine isn’t winning. I gave up roads long ago when I figured out (quite by accident) that putting a small 4-block area concentrates the generation of items that you are occassionally required to bomb. After that, I stopped trying to lay out a decent-looking town. Then, when all of the crap from the Ghostbusters-themed event came (with what, 5 or 6 different portals, with countless other crap), I completely ran out of room to put anything anywhere in a nice, clean layout.
My town is a dumping ground, with no hope of looking good. And that is ok with me. But apparently, some folks put oodles of time and money into their towns.
I wonder what will happen when (and if) the day comes where these games are no longer supported. TinyCo will come to a point where this game will not be generating the revenue needed to keep a staff, generate new code, fix bugs, etc. Maybe that won’t happen any time soon, but if it does, there will be a lot of upset people. All that money invested in a game that is sitting on a server that could literally be gone forever.
The Simpsons may be able to keep going longer, but they have 2 decades of material to work from. Maybe these types of games WILL be perpetual, but I don’t see it. I am bored to tears with both games now, and when I have a few free moments, I almost always go to the Simpsons to tap around.
TinyCo has soured the freemium experience too much for me. I don’t mind getting every outfit, or every character. In fact, I think people that actually pay real money for these games should have the option to buy a few things that a freemium player cannot. That seems to be a fair incentive. But when you cannot even come close to completing some event or quest, where is the motivation to start it in the first place?
I know this thread doesn’t get nearly the traffic that the Simpsons does, and I think there are a number of obvious reasons. But for the few of you that still stop by and read and are still playing… Do any of you pay to play? If not, do you still enjoy it?
I paid 10 bucks once I think. I’ve put a litle more money into Simpsons. Simpsons is just better designed I think. Although I do appreciate the extra work that goes in to the dialogue for Tapped Out.
Also, at least we just god to do something with all the cookies. Although, it’s not clear to me yet just what use the things I just ‘won’ are. They are certainly not addressing Asterion’s problems of endless special events and neglect of the storylines.
I’m willing to put some money into these games. After all, I’ve spent tons of money over the years on games I’ve wound up barely playing at all, many of them at full price. The hard drive of my PS3 is nearly full, and a lot of that is games and DLC I’ve purchased or downloaded via Playstation Plus that I’ve barely touched. Heck, I’ve bought copies of games I already own through GOG or the like just because it was easier than finding the installation disks and dealing with configuring the emulator myself. (I’ve never found it very easy to use DosBOX in OS X). So I’m okay with putting a little bit of money in from time to time to get something I want.
The biggest problem is that TinyCo is doing everything in the worst way possible. You either buy outright or work hard to get characters (and buildings, decorations, and so on, but mostly characters) that then do absolutely nothing at all while the same four or six characters are used over and over. I have the majority of the characters I have in my town currently sitting in storage because they just get in the way. Since the money is useless, having all those buildings just take up space. As far as I can tell, most have nothing to do with anything actually seen in the show and were made just to make people buy something to have a guaranteed drop of some item that is no longer needed. They’ve gotten a bit better about this, but it’s still pretty terrible.
Plus, the game is a crash-fest. Oddly enough, it works better (and basically never crashes) on my old and rooted Kindle Fire but is massively unstable on my stock Nexus 5. It constantly crashes on all sorts of devices and apparently it’s now not showing up in Google Play for a lot of devices as they’re suddenly “unsupported” with the latest update. There’s obviously problems with too many things going on at once and they keep piling on and making it worse. By the end of the Christmas event I had animated decorations (which, to be fair, I could have removed), a yeti and related snowstorm effect, the characters, and four sets of various things wandering around that had to be tapped on, removed by characters, or bombed. And then, having managed to get everything, completed all the challenges, and so on with a couple days left, the event was totally dead for anything me to do and I suddenly had this massive, apparently pointless influx of special event currency. So I haven’t even booted the game for more than five minutes in the last two days just to see if there was anything new. And typical TinyCo–there is going to be a New Year’s event, but it starts on January 2.
So they’re not getting any more money out of me. The premium stuff is either not very interesting or a blatant money grab.
I gave up on this (again) shortly before Christmas. I’d opened up downtown and gotten the characters from that, and was progressing well on the Christmas update, since I had it running on my PC nearly constantly (using Android emulator Bluestacks). But I was getting seriously bored before I opened up downtown, and when I did open it had enough money saved up that I was able to buy all the land, buildings, and decos, almost instantly.
I don’t know if I’d have been able to get Jesus. I would have had to keep up the same pace of checking it at least every few hours, all day, every day. I even woke up in the middle of the night a few times to set Lois, Mort, and Joe to fight the Yeti. It was just too much work for too little reward, and with only the brewery still left to open, it felt like I was nearing the end of the game’s life cycle anyway. All the events are the same only with different skins. Whether you clear snowmen, Stewie clones, ghosts, or zombies, you attack the Yeti or the marshmallow man, it’s all the same.
So I’m done. I have been using the time I would have wasted on this clickfest to play some of the games in my huge Steam backlog, and having way more fun than I would have with Family Guy Jesus :eek:
I’m still playing the Simpsons one, although not quite as much the last week or two. I don’t need to monitor it constantly like FG to make progress. Plus I feel like at level 44 that there is still a ton of characters, buildings, etc. to get. It’s a much better designed game IMO.
The Family Guy game opened what looks to be a really big Star Trek event today. If you quit playing a while ago, this might be the time to revisit it.
I actually found the STTNG event really fun. With the small extension I should even be able to get Captain Kirk. I just have to keep sending away teams to the borg cube.
Also, after a complete reinstall this game is much, much more stable than before. It used to be almost unplayable due to crash issues.