It’s part of a quest line and starts with homer getting 8 hours of sleep
Ah. Must be the one I just started with him driving a shift.
…the cap is just on projects, and has been there from the start. You can keep on squishing raccoons or rats or whatever they are and they still add to your total. The daily cap is around 9000-13000 blueprints per day (from the project board) depending on…stuff.
I actually missed the glass factory: there was a quest that I only partially completed with Homer that was hiding away on my taskbar. If you haven’t got the Glass Factory, double check your tasks. It is available in Act 2 so if you don’t have it by now, go check those tasks.
It’s also worth noting that the cap is a running total. Each day the daily limit amount (the 9-13k amount BB mentioned) is added to a running total that you may not exceed by completing projects, including projects from past days. So, in effect, if you don’t hit your cap on a given day, you can make up whatever you miss by grinding harder the next day.
Good info. Thanks!
So about the ants. I know they’re pricey but I really think they’re awesome and wouldn’t mind buying one. But reading about them, it sounds like they are only attacking the school with Bart on a specific task (10 hours?). Is this true? I won’t bother to buy any if that’s the case because a 10-hour task isn’t something I will want to keep doing over and over. Plus he’s busy collecting stuff for monorails right now. If the ants don’t work like a permanent skin, then they’re WAY too pricey.
Well, I should get the rail yard tonight or tomorrow, then (when this event finishes up), maybe take a break - until the Halloween event starts (which should be appx four or five hours after this one ends).
Depending on what the Rail yard can do, I’m torn between one single or multiple smaller monorails.
I’ve got stuff all over my town now - nuking it from orbit might be an option, but there’s a LOT of stuff to place!
Blerg.
I know the feeling. I have a lot of stuff just piled all around that I’d like to make look better. On the other hand, I also have a lot of stuff placed in ways that I really like.
The main thing that stops me from nuking: I would have to rebuild my three castles from their component parts.
As for the Rail Yard, I’ll be lucky if I can get past the 9th item and be able to buy the rail yard with donuts (assuming they don’t something crazy like 300 for it). I’d be more confident if I didn’t have to be away all day on Saturday.
Yeah this new business with the component parts is for the birds. I’m putting extra station parts in storage because I just don’t want them in my town. I may add them when all is said and done but for now most of it is in the box.
They should also make a Y-shaped splitter track.
I don’t even know what to do with half of the expansion pieces. Where do the “awning” pieces go - and, for that matter, why aren’t there any actual awnings? (Or am I missing something?)
How about an X-shaped piece so you can make a figure-8 monorail? It’s not as if you’re going to have two trains run into each other.
“They call it an awning, but I’ve never seen it awn.”
…I’m quite pleased with myself: I just picked up the last rail pack and I’m only two pieces away from joining up the monorail. Planned it nearly to perfection! Just have to earn another couple of pieces that should come quite easily once I get the rail yard in the morning.
Got the rail yard yesterday. It functions like the monorail prize board. Make blueprints out of crap and earn track pieces, though you don’t get as many pieces as you did during the event. The amounts needed to move up the prize tree seem to be pretty high too, the first is 5000 blueprints. Last prize is 5 donuts. We won’t be able to get daily tasks for extra blueprints or the once a week login bonus one though, so that will make it even harder.
So I guess if you’re willing to dedicate yourself to it for a week at a time, you could earn tons of free donuts. Well, not tons but 5 donuts a week is nothing to sneeze at. But thats a lot of time. I think the blueprint bars will be high enough that I’ll probably only do it if I’m a few donuts short of something I really want to buy.
But even if you don’t go for the weekly 5 donut prize it should still be fairly easy to grind out enough monorail pieces to make whatever design you want. I’ll probably just make a big loop around town, spreading my stations out, then stop. The fact that you can build monorails on roads helps a lot with the space issues, but you need to have long straight roads running through your town. The stations take up too much space though, even if you put most or all of the little add-on pieces in storage. The last few things have been too much of a pain in the ass, I hope against hope that they’ll at least give you more payoff for the grinding for the halloween stuff.
…and, thanks in part to the 5000 B&W bonus for playing 5 days in a row, I did manage to not only get past Step 9, but got the rail yard as well last night without having to shell out any donuts. Now to build track…as soon as I pull everybody off of recycling and onto tasks that earn XPs so I can level up and build the Overpass Diner.
Do you know for sure we can go through the rail yard tasks more than once?
I got Cobb yesterday or today and I’m done with the event. Like everyone’s back on 24-hour tasks and I’m not checking my game constantly, taking a few days off from friends visits. I’m sure I could grind out a few more rail pieces, but I need a break more than pieces. I don’t like how we’re going to have to build more after the event. I don’t like how SFH is done for the grinding aspect. I’m now expecting Halloween to not be fun but collecting just tons of stuff over and over and over. I know everyone else hated the wheels, but now we’re stuck in crafting mode all the time.
I hope they give us a break for Halloween, but I doubt it. Halloween is a big deal with the Simpsons.
Not with me, though. i kind of hope the next event isn’t as interesting as the monorail. I don’t know how long they are going to let us create more rail pieces, but assuming it is going to be a while, I might focus on that for a while and limp into the Halloween event.
I am weary of these uber grinding events.
Some of you may find this interesting. I went into my Family Guy game, and they have a couple of features that I would sure like to see in this game. One, they have a vacuum button, that sucks up all the building money and resets them. No more tapping each and every building, which is fantastic. The second is a “skip” button on the dialogue. If you don’t want to read the banter between characters or any storylines, you can just skip it and go.
They have really streamlined the game. All they want the users to be focused on is the events, and spending money. They also have so many things going on at once, I have no idea how people keep it straight. That game is truly designed to empty pockets. Almost everything requires some cash layout. Grinding away without spending real money gets players very little.
I don’t know how popular that game is, but it must be doing pretty well. It’s a space hog, though and if it wasn’t for my daughter (who likes to play with it now and again), I would have deleted it long ago.
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I don’t even know what to do with half of the expansion pieces. Where do the “awning” pieces go - and, for that matter, why aren’t there any actual awnings? (Or am I missing something?)
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If you are looking for ideas for station layouts you can check out mine, all the stations and about 3/4 of my track is finished. The first station I did not get all the pieces for, but the mall-o-rail and tetnatus terminal are fully expanded. Most of my upper half of town is fairly solid, the southern edges (where the Tetnautus terminal is) I am still moving things around. I don’t mind moving things for the monorail though, it will give me a bit of a new look, plus I found some small decorative items I’d stuck behind buildings and forgot about. My id is nutrimat
Yes, there will be a prize track every week. The the notes on the rail yard quest said “earn free track pieces and donuts every week”. I don’t know if they’ll be the same prizes or number of donuts every week, but its supposed to be “permanent”. I’m sure that, like the number of boardwalk pieces, there is a hard limit to how many track pieces you can have. No idea what it is though.
It was a crashapalooza with SFH, then things settled down for a while. Once I got the Rail Yard, it’s a crashfest again. :mad:
One thing I have noticed is that the game really needs a high speed LAN connection. On a hotel wifi last night, it was unplayable and crashed as soon as I tried to tap anything, so I tethered to my phone and it was tolerable, but it’s still best at home.