Most of the initial Christmas tasks are the same as last years.
I find the lag connecting to my friends to be so tedious as to make it not worth my time to play. I have to wait 40-60 seconds between visiting friends, which isn’t too long until you consider that with almost 100 friends, that’s almost an hour and half of waiting. I’m thinking I may not even partake unless those load times speed up.
Does scrolling between towns help? I’ve found that I really like that feature though it’s kind of quirky and if you go back to the main friend’s screen, it send you back to where you started from as opposed to where you ended.
Hint to all:
Since the visiting towns open on the drop zone, when visiting, if you’re going to drop a gift box, do it BEFORE you move around tapping gift cards.
If you’re in the middle of the town, when you hit the gift box it will drop right where you are (presumably in the center of the screen)
I found gift boxes in the water by my Squidport today, and dropped a gift box into a packed row of houses as well where it promptly disappeared.
Indeed it does do that. Annoying.
And I suggest everyone move their gift-receiving-thing to the an open area with a few houses around it to encourage others to click those houses for gift cards and move on.
It will keep your gifts centralized, visible, and make everyone’s trip through the town quick.
I’ve read (not confirmed) that supposedly once we max out on individual goals with gift cards, we get a coin for every x amount of gift cards. I really hope that’s true. I got one coin so far from my egg nog bar, but I haven’t found any more. Some people are finding lots of them. I guess I lucked out in Halloween, where I found many, many donuts. I don’t know if people are finding them in presents or gift bags, but there might be coins in them.
The coins are cool. You can buy them, earn them, or find them. You then get to spin a wheel with premium and exclusive stuff. I got a Marge snowwoman. It doesn’t have a bonus, but it looks cute.
I’ll get the elf house tonight. I’m hoping that somehow they’ll generate more gift bags to give, as I am still not getting that many.
I rebuilt my brown house farm. I learned my lesson: storage, not selling. While I was at it, I got a couple extra Kwik E Marts, a Krusty Burger, and a Gulp N Blow. It moved me up to 4.5 conformity. Something else I got this week must have had a multiplier because instead of my bonus being 14.5 (rounding up to 15), it was over 20.
Nope, I love the new feature, but it still takes me at least 30 seconds to go from friends town to friends town.
Anyone else get the string of lights in their task bar? It says i have 3 tasks to do, but I have no idea what it wants. All it says is “Have types of decorated houses”
WTF does that mean?
Also, re: the coins. I only have received one so far, same initial one as everyone else, i imagine. How/where do they turn up? Randomly? In presents? When you visit friends?
You have to win house decorations lights in the spin wheel. Three of them. Or if you have Frink’s lab and the Volcano Lair, you can buy those lights straight up. It looks like the last group prize are SNPP lights.
The coins I explained a couple posts up.
Wow, those little elves were a blessing.
I let them loose, and the cards started rolling in, as well as a coin!
Those little Legolases kick ass !
Anyone else tired of the pointless lottery ticket from the kwikimart?
It’s just a pain. Not worth the $350 dollars or whatever. I hope they remove this sometime in the near future, and if they keep it, just stop making us scrape off the ticket.
On the positive side, my one wheel spin gave me a Lisa snowman, which was a nice surprise.
I’m still stuck on the decorate the houses task but I don’t have any decorations. I just finished Apu’s task at the Kwik E Mart. Is there something that prompts me getting the house decorations?
OK I read the answer upthread. Ugh.
And so far I’ve won the Marge snowman and the Maggie snowman. I covet the Mr. Plow Jacket.
Those of us that were in it last Christmas had all the decorations. Looks like the wheel gives out a bunch of prized I already have.
I won Barney’s mr plow costume on my only spin of the wheel so far. Pretty lucky.
I’ve won the Helter Shelter and the Marge snowman. I want that Mr Plow Jacket !!!
I remember having the snowmen last year but I guess since then they’ve completely melted away ???
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I remember having the snowmen last year but I guess since then they’ve completely melted away ???
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My snowfamily came back to life.
As for the gift depot or whatever they call it, I put mine in an otherwise empty grid square to cut down on presents being hidden behind other things.
They melted down to almost nothing but didn’t disappear. Maybe you put them away when they melted. Did you look in your inventory?
Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s a bug, or maybe it’s a planned feature fr everyone, but when I go from town to town collecting gift cards, I have to collect the card itself. If I just tap three houses and move to my next friend, it does NOT add the gift cards to my collection.
Anyone else?
Me too. I think someone said upthread that once you get back to your town, they do all end up being accounted for. But i haven’t been brave enough to try yet…
Hey all,
I just started playing. Dunno what the etiquette is for finding friends but I’m signed in as innersticker as they apparently have a 15 character limit.