So you have a few odd things going on in your game you just can’t figure out. Trying to make heads or tails of it. Well, here are some items we are seeing over and over again we wanted to touch on.
Let’s break the issues down…
MISSING NEIGBHOR/FRIEND ACTIONS
I am noticing more and more now players stating they are not getting all of their 90 Neighbor Actions. Some how the 90 action limit is being impacted and they do not know why. Well I am here to tell you why. For the last few days I have been playing around with these lil flying saucers trying to figure them out. This is the main thing I have been seeing, these Rigellian UFO’s ARE counting towards those limited 90 taps you get during each 24 hours. This just started for me after Phase 2 launched. This is definitely a glitch.
I have tested this over and over and over. Each and every time, the Rigellian UFO’s will take one hit from the 90 MAX allowed every 24hrs. No worries though, they still keep showing up after those 90 taps.
So here is my suggestion, go through as many neighbors as you can first and try to squish as many Lil Rigellians as you can til you max that 90 and stop getting Ray Guns. Then pass back through those neighbors again and then the rest for UFO hunting cuz you never know when or where one will show up. AVOID any $$$ or other symbols on buildings. Those will take away actions too. ONLY Lil Rigellians to get the most out of your 90.
In the meantime, if YOU ran into this issue…please report it to EA. I made a thread for it for anyone else having this issue to report on in the EA help forum. I also did call and speak with the rep at EA and they said a patch is coming for several glitches with the Ray Guns and this one may be fixed with them.
Again, this is ONLY for those losing actions from UFO’s. If you are tapping other symbols in a town like the $, menu, or others…that WILL take away your action and you can’t get it back. It still is considered a Friend Visit Action. So watch out for those that have not updated to the Halloween event and go to the next town.
MOOG MOE’S TASK NOT CLEARING OUT OF TASK BAR
You collected all the items for Moog Moe, tapped on the Simpsons House, went to the Attic and answered the Trivia, and have Moog Moe in your town now. However, the task(s) to get his clothes still seem stuck in your task bar menu. The rep I spoke with stated this was not reported as of yet, so I created a forum link for those having this issue to report it on the EA Help Forums.
Please also report this to EA.
NO DATES ON LIMITED TIME ITEMS
I spoke with the EA rep to see if ANYWHERE within the EA realm the exact end dates of the “Limited Time Items” were posted. The rep ran into same thing I did. No clear dates posted anywhere of when these items are leaving the game. So once again, I made an EA Help Forum link asking if dates can be listed on these items so that players wanting them have the proper time to acquire donuts and purchase them before they’re gone. If you want to join in this, please add to the forum link below so we can get their attention on it. I think end dates need to be posted.
You are welcome to call in on this one too if you’d like.
There you have it. Some items we are seeing a lot of in the comments. Was this helpful? Were you aware of the Daily 90 Actions while visiting Neighbors? Did you notice the UFO’s changing the counts? Did you miss items you wanted to purchase due to no end dates? Give us your thoughts below.
~Bunny
There was an in game update today (new level) but then there was an update through the App Store. What was that one about?
Patch. Nothing more.
Wow, Bunny… A very thorough post here. I’m not experiencing problems with friends/neighbors actions counts, because I only have about 15 neighbors, so even a UFO appeared in each (which never happens) and I squished 3 Rigellians in each, it only adds up up to 60 actions as I count it. I’m assuming planting Grem-Aliens don’t count as actions though, but I don’t know.
Speaking of Grem-Aliens, that is the only glitch I’m still experiencing now pertaining to the Halloween event. Sometimes I will have several Grem-Aliens in my town in which when I squish them, it doesn’t state which of my friends planted them. I would still get the 2 probes or ray guns, but no indication of who was responsible for unleashing them in my town. It’s not a biggie, but I like to reciprocate if I can by giving those friends more Grem-Aliens when I visit their towns, but I can’t if I don’t know who is responsible.
Many will state who planted them when I squish them, but maybe 35-40% of the times when I squish them it doesn’t let me know.
To follow up on my own glitch report here, I believe I narrowed the problem down. First, know that I play TSTO on multiple devices. The credit-less Grem-Alien squishes glitch seems to be limited to my old iPad. It’s an original iPad model which can’t run anything after iOS 5.x on it. Which means the Facebook app on that device is older, because the newer versions require a later iOS. So I believe what is happening is that it is affecting how TSTO hooks into the FB app to see who your friends are and allows you to add them into your network of neighbors. Since it is having trouble doing that on this device, when I squish a Grem-Alien from a friend that originated from FB instead of the Origin network, it doesn’t display the names.
I’m now playing on a newer iPad and I don’t see the same glitch. It’s running iOS 8.1 and the FB app is up to date. Anyway, I’m posting this in case others are experiencing the same issue, this may offer some insight on why.
I had a strange thing happen. I purchased the Springfield something (can’t remember but it was like a Coliseum that just appeared today). It took my donuts, and the item poofed, nowhere to be found. This event is majorly glitchy.
The Clam? Check your inventory to make sure it’s not there. If it’s not, contact EA they’ll refund your donuts or put the item in your town.
All the germ-aliens I just squished had no name connected with them. I still got the Ray guns, just don’t know who left them in my town. Weird…
I’ve been noticing that more and more as well…wondering if they’re “Frink” generated
I’m wondering if the spawn rate varies person to person or at different times of day because, nevermind the whole bank issue, sometimes I just don’t get aliens period.
I would leave my springfield up while doing other things irl, but they didn’t seem to be spawning. I thought maybe they’re just shy and don’t spawn when you’re watching. So I visit neighbors or krustyland or leave game entirely for at least 30 min to an hour or more, but when I return, my town contains only 1 or 2 rigellians, if Any.
If they spawn every 5 minutes I should have at least 6 when I return. So I search around wondering if they’re hiding or attacking someone, but there’s just none to be found. I wait several minutes to see if they come out from behind a building or if the game’s just lagging, and usually a new one spawns but the missing rigellians never appear.
I’m on the darn thing constantly for this event, even saved up some treat bags and eggs from the last phase, but in this phase I seem to get only 1 egg a day if I’m lucky and I’ve entirely given up on the hope of getting ammo altogether.
I have 6 toons that can trick or treat, and are doing so non-stop. I’m on par with the calendar but just Barely keeping up. As I read through comments in other sections and see that some people have over 2k or 3k rayguns as of several hours ago then look at my game’s current 1.7k, I have to ask myself am I really that unlucky or am I glitching?
Is anyone else experiencing the missing rigellians (not connected to the failed banking system)?
Am i the only one havons issue with the task about getting 10 candy bag and asking to kids to trick or treat? I have to do it again and again and again……. ptiteminique 🙂
It’s supposed to happen that way…
I didn’t understand the Moes clothes thing. It kept saying zap the aliens to get more clothes, I did that but I never got the last set of clothes and the task was never in the bar. I heard about the click on the house thing and that worked, but who would know to do that? Also wasn’t Homer supposed to go to Moes after you got the clothes? Never got a quest for that either.
If you got Moog his questline will send Homer to Moe’s. The Simpsons Attic…which is what’s at the Simpson House…was indicated in the dialogue of the questline to get the pieces.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/20/halloween-walkthrough-moog/
Not convinced I’m getting the stored 30 rigellians. I left my game all day while at work. When I came back to it I counted 50 rigellians tapped. Then I waited. Over the next 10 minutes I got at most 8 or 9 more rigellians.
We are testing it again to see if something has changed.
I seem to have completed the one good son tasks but haven’t got the house that comes with Hugo, is there any way to force it to trigger or have I missed something?
Won’t pop up till part 5 of that questline..and the you’ll have to craft it.
While I enjoy this halloween event there has been a lot of glitches… I don’t mind the glitches but I wish when they come out with a patch to fix it, that it won’t take up extra memory..
Anyone have an idea when we’ll have more item to craf…?
Seems to be taking really long for new ones to appear.
No idea if they will bring more outside the ones rolling over from Personal Prizes.
Haven’t had any ammo through trick or treat bags since phase 2 started. Anyone else?
I got into this event pretty late but I felt like I had the same problem. Anyway I thought I wasn’t getting any ammo at all so I picked up the Ray Gun to get at least 4 a day. After that I’ve got a few from the bags as well, I don’t know if it has anything to do with it, probably just luck. I remember the chance to get ammo from bags is about 2%.
I’ve noticed the same thing. I got ONE ammo bomb today in a trick or treat bag. Ammo has greatly diminished.
Yep – I got one from a bag this morning after 4 days without.
I saw some people saying they got 20 donuts at the end of round 1 and was wondering if that was an actual thing because i never got 20 donuts?
End of round one? Can you be a bit more specific? Was there a task name? Dialog? Character that was on this task?
I’m not sure if this is what JM meant but I read someone else’s post mentioning something to the effect of being excited about the end of phase 2 because that meant 20 more donuts. I thought maybe they heard a spoiler or a rumor.
I purchased Greta and the Prep school and twice it disappeared from my Springfield. Anyone else having this issue?
No, that is odd. Did it bounce into inventory? Or just…gone? If gone completely, report it right away to EA.
I just got a free donut torture machine when I logged in, didn’t take any o my candy either.
Sounds like a good glitch. 😉
For previous limited time halloween items to purchase with donuts i had heck house and old witch with gingerbread house from last years game to purchase this year, now it’s gone. Can you post this issue to see if anyone else has had some of their halloween items to purchase just erase from the limited time lineup? Mine we’re gone after the second to last update and hoped they would be back with the current update but nothing.
As we point out in this very post you are commenting on, many items are coming and going…no date of expiration…just Limited Time. All you can do is contact EA and post on the links we posted.
Has anyone else had a disappearing Homer issue? I put him in the donut torture device and the next time I went to my Springfield he was gone. Missing from the chair and the character list in City Hall. I reported it to EA, but I was wondering if it’s happening to anyone else. Thanks.
I wonder if it is an image thing. Did you try storing the device to see if it kicks him out suddenly?
Yes, I’ve tried that. No good. Guess I just have to wait till EA gets back to me.
Just wanted to let you know that I contacted EA through their site again tonight. They called me up less than 2 minutes later and helped me through the issue. The rep said he’d never seen Homer go totally missing before. Weird. Anyway, I just wanted to share in case anyone else has a similar problem. Thanks for your support!
I am glad they are staying on top of it. Silly thing…it HAS happened before. Our own Wookiee had it happen…funny enough…last Halloween. Lol.
They got him fixed up, I am sure they can take care of you too. 🙂
Here are my observations from the last two days with regards to the ray guns. I have exactly 30 neighbors (all updated to Halloween) so I should be getting a gun for every action. Two days ago I shot down three or four ufos and before my last neighbor I checked and it said I will get a ray gun for my next three actions. I tapped one Rigellian and got one gun. Then I hit two at the same time and got none. Yesterday I made sure to NOT hit any ufos and again I checked before my last visit and again it said I will get a ray gun for my next three actions. This time I hit a two-fer right away and got two guns but on my next tap no gun. So 88 then 89. I’m not sweating one or two guns and I’m ahead of schedule but something’s not adding up. Maybe I’ll try for a three-fer see if I get three guns today.
Thanks for the info.
The dates on limited time items seems so natural, I wonder why they don’t have it. It would be nice to let people think about managing their donuts as you mention, but even from EA’s point of view having it would only increase profits. If the first batch of graveyards and such had a countdown timer there surely would have been some people who’d have bought them before they expired, but I can’t imagine such a timer changing anybody’s mind from buy to not buy.
Your theory definitely applies to me ! I was going to buy the pet graveyard and was just waiting for some extra money to get more donuts, still have a space carved out in my town and everything. by the time i got the donuts (which was only a couple days later) all grave stuff and that whole batch of LE stuff had rolled over and the new batch was in, I was pretty upset 🙁 if I knew how quickly they were gone I would have acted more quickly!
if I tap 2 rigellians at one time, will that count as 1 action or 2?
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I missed out on Count Burns because he had no end date. I figured he was until the end of the event.
My wife has commented more than once about how poor EA’s in game communication is. Most of the special events are barely explained, if at all. If it were not for this site explaining everything I really don’t think we would have hung around the game.
Thank you! I knew *something* was messing up my friend action count but hadn’t figured out it was the UFOs. 🙂
The ol’ in & out has to be tapped 12 times to clear the task.
(It confused me at first, too.)
Thanks Bunny for all your help. You save us all of many frustrations. Great we work my bunny friend! Your wonderful!
I can’t go back to my towns after the 90 taps for UFOs. None appear once I have hit 90. This has been for both phases. Sometimes I get a laser in a gift bag and think, “I’ll go back and check my neighboreenos”. But then no UFOs are there. Once I’m tappable, then I have many, plenty, of UFOs.
That is odd. All 3 test games of mine had UFOs a plenty long after hitting that 90. Have been for me since Halloween hit and I could shoot them down.
Same for me, once I’m done helping all my neighbors, ufo’s are missing until the 24 hours is up and I can help my friends again. But while I’m helping them out, every other town has a ufo.
I keep reading that we should use our friend taps to squish aliens and not collect $ but from the start of the Halloween event I only have the option to squish or shoot UFOs or drop eggs. All normal $ and other friend actions went away, is this a glitch on mine? Also, does it show you were you are at in your 90 daily actions somewhere? I don’t want to waste my daily 3 friend actions if I am not getting ray guns from them.
Some players, like me…still have neighbors that have not updated for Halloween. Many I keep as they’ve been there since I started and always come back to their game eventually. Those players won’t have anything Halloween in their game and all you will see is the standard $, menus, etc. THOSE you gotta watch out for. If all your neighbors are updated, you got no worries. 🙂
90 actions…main neighbor screen where you see the towns. Lil i icon at the right next to the Halloween icons on the lower left side.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/09/visiting-friends-halloween-style/
Thanks so much for your work on these frustrating issues. I really appreciate the information.
Don’t want to knit pick, but when you refer to “menu” are you talking about the folder above the eateries when it’s time to collect $ and XP, & not things like task menus? The folders above resturants have the word “check” on them so I think they’re severs books or check folders rather than food items menus. When I read menu I was thinking in game information menus & couldn’t understand why tapping those would count as an action.
They refer to them as menus. I know what in real life they are. 🙂
Oooopppps, sorry.
Lol. No worries. 🙂
Thanks for the explanation!
Thank you for looking out for us bunny these links are awesome!
End dates would be terrific. I missed out on ghost Marge and zombie cemeteries because those had no end date and I thought they’d be here through the end of the event, especially since Count Burns was clearly marked with an end date – and I did snap that up.
I have not noticed counting glitches, but I don’t have maxed-out friends so maybe it doesn’t come up.
I got the Grand Pumpkin and had Milhouse spend time with it, but no further quest line is coming up so I can get to building the Pumpkin House. I have searched and can’t find the quest line for that?
THANK GOODNESS for this site – you guys are the BEST!
I think I have the best glitch ever for the PORTAL RIGEL 7 it gives me 6 Rigellians every hour, sometimes it even glitches to 2 lots in a half hour period, my town doesn’t have any banked so it can’t be from that
correction this happens if i leave the game then come back or visit a friend then come back again, its pretty handy really
Mine does the same thing. I bought a second portal and currently have 16,538 ray guns.
accidently stored it and now its not producing them on demand, ha oh well was fun whilst it lasted
My game updated this morning. Now speaking characters sometimes say multiple things when they are tapped to complete a mission.
For example, stupid Flanders said, “My name’s Ned Flanders!” and “Allrighty, then” simultaneously.
Not game-breaking, just odd. I mostly wanted to see if anyone else experienced this today or recently. I’ll check back if it continues to occur or if I have any more details.
I can’t reproduce the issue, so it was probably just a one-time thing.
I’ve had that happen in the past, comes and goes. Sometimes it plays the same clip but there is just a tiny lag and it sounds a little weird.
I’ve had the character “double speak” issue off and on since the Stonecutter update. It seems to do it for a few hours (a day at most) at a time and then resolve itself. Now that you mention it, I haven’t noticed this happening since Halloween hit though. Hopefully yours will work itself out too!