Hey there Hoppereenos!
Got to love the weekend changes. So much for us Addicts attempting to take the day off, huh? Lol.
I just got back into a service area and am going through to try and pick out all the new changes. I will Update here as I can.
NEGATIVE TASKS
It looks like the -xx issue many of us had is now resolved and the tasks should be working properly again. So those that were stuck should be able to progress normally again.
If you are STILL having this issue, try to restart your device and check App Market to ensure you are fully updated. Then contact EA if still issues.
BRANDINE BIRTHING
Lots of reports from Players that a New Spuckler just joined the game for them. So check to see if you also got yours in your game. (You may have to check inventory storage in the Characters Icon Section.)
If you are STILL having this issue, try to restart your device and check App Market to ensure you are fully updated. Then contact EA if still issues.
Brandine Spuckler: 100 Donuts. For those of you wondering if Brandine is worth 100 Donuts, here is her Original Should I Buy. Add to that her tasks this Event.
KRUSTY STATION
We have 4 New Pieces now to add on to the Krusty Station. These are similar to the Platforms for the Main Monorail Station. They are here for a Limited Time (Less than 12days now on timer).
Drive-Thru Awning: 25 Donuts, +0.25% Bonus to xp & $$$
Drive-Thru Extension: 25 Donuts, +0.25% Bonus to xp & $$$
Drive-Thru Stairs: 50 Donuts. +0.50% Bonus to xp & $$$
Drive-Thru Platform: 10 Donuts, +0.25% Bonus to xp & $$$
PLACE PROJECT BOARD GLITCH
As this glitch did not impact me personally, I am flying blind on that one. For those that had the issue that you could NOT place the Project Board as the “DO IT” Option never even showed up for you, please let us know if this helped to patch the issue. If not, I need to bug EA some more. 😉
CRASHING/LAGGING
I have placed this all over in the comments as well as noted on it since… well… for as long as I can remember, but with this Event there is an additional cause.
Memory Drain. It is a big issue in highly outside animated Events. This is why keeping 4500 items in game helps among other things. Help your device when this hits really hard, like this Event.
- Disable Monorail. Pull the track pieces away from the station to prevent it from moving around your game or when Neighbors Visit.
- Store NPC’S and any other animated items not in use.
- Don’t push the 4500 limit. If you do, expect the game to slow and more “texture” glitches to name a few things
- Keep non essential Characters on indoor tasks or store them in your inventory.
- Play ONLY this App. In other words kill all other Apps that are running BEFORE launching this one. Anything in the background while this is going (Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter, etc) will take Memory away from the app as they fight over the availability.
- Give it space, LOTS of space. Like 2-3GB of empty space on your device. Insane I know, but highly active Events take a lot.
- Run on highest stable internet connection as possible. WiFi usually works best, and also doesn’t wipe out your Data Plan
Remember, if you are having trouble getting in your game… so might your neighbors. Memory Drain impacts more than just you. So help you and your Neighbors or they may not visit if your town crashes their game each time.
Outside of that. EA knows how big this one is pulling on the Memory Drain. Hopefully they can make some cuts to help combat it too. Until then, try the tips to see if it helps. In the meantime, keep reporting to EA the Crash Issues.
There you have it. Some additions to this really cool Event, some patches, and some Spucklers. Lol.
What do you think of the New Items? Are you going to splurge the Pink Sprinklies? How about the Patches? Did it help the issues you ran into?
~Bunny
I’ve got a new bug, I can’t send anyone to work at the SH pharmacy, has anyone else got this?
Do you have the necessary items to send a character on a task? Is your storage maxed?
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/07/29/springfield-heights-101-pharm-er-johns-pharmaceuticals/
I didn’t see any update download on the 16th and my character tasks still show negative numbers….this wasn’t an app store thing or anything, was it?
Nope in game. Try hard closing and restarting your device…
Any news on the storage-trouble for SH?
My town is my zen-garden and i hate those huge buildings. If we arent allowed to store those buildings I will unfortunately give up on this game
Nothing yet.
I dont like those buildings either. Im hoping they can be stored later. I will keep the little cute buildings only.
Personally I don’t mind the look of the buildings, but don’t need each one x10 on land. If we have one of each that can’t be stored, but the other 9 of each one can, I’d be cool with that.
Don’t quit yet, there is no real chance not letting them be stored is permanent.
Expatrie-
I’m not really digging the limitation to the amount of blueprints you can earn from thr board each day. I would’ve thought that beyond the possums and clearing garbage neighbors leave, there would’ve been tasks that characters could perform to gain more blueprints once you’ve maxed out your trash and metal piles. Give me MORE, EA! Lol
Don’t forget the ones you get from visiting neighbors!
Yes, i forgot to mention that, but I’m getting to the point where my neighbors are not having buildings that I can dump trash on. With other events, you could’ve at least had one or two characters that had missions to earn a few of the collectible items and you didn’t have to wait until the next cycle. It adds more frustration to the freezes and crashes. *shrugs*
If you have neighbors who consistently don’t have any buildings left to tap, that means they’re probably not playing now. Check when they last played and, if it was a while ago (you’ll have to arrive at your own personal definition for that), then you might want to consider dumping them and replacing them with more active players.
the newest glitch for me is the native Indian character, his old task quest showed up again, and this time it was “MINUS” 10 so it said “-10/10” but I was able to do all 10 anyway and finish it all over again. But I’ve never seen a minus next to any numbers before lol….
…Apu?
No the casino fella…
Ha-ha….you fell for my ruse!
A native of India, is a native Indian. A native of America is… a native American. It’s a modified bit from one of the Simpsons episodes (Apu says he’s an American Indian, I believe.)
I knew that Pin7 meant “Native American”, the “casino fellow” as you state…. hehe.
Short trains! Not sure if this has been covered – but a couple of my friends have been asking how my Mono has several cars and theirs still only have ONE. Ive found the more track you lay, the longer your train gets. Just FYI in case anyone is seeing longer trains in friends’ towns.
RE: Possums….
I tapped to release them, nailed all the ones that appeared, then later on in another part of my town, I saw one running around, so I’m thinking that the previous ones don’t disappear.
Also, I’m trying to figure out what’s with the Krusty Station. Is that from something? I’ve been ignoring it, but perhaps I shouldn’t….
I’m sure this has been answered somewhere so forgive me if I’m asking again. What happened to the donut bonus for completing projects on the board?
It ends at part 3…
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/08/12/turbo-tappin-the-monorail-act-1/
So far, I’ve been lucky and the only real bug/glitch I’ve encountered is the negative progress one (I need to have Cletus make moonshine -78 times!), which I am more than happy to completely ignore.
And I was going to COMPLETELY ignore anything you were going to write on whether or not to get the Krusty station add-ons since I thought they weren’t worth it. But (sadly) you posted some clear pics of them and now I think they are too cool to NOT buy!! Dang it!
Oh, well. Looks like another month of Ramen noodles.
Now…off to buy more donuts!!
PS: Keep up the great work!!!
If you click on the monorail station to release possums before you’ve collected all the possums from the last time you clicked the station, do the previous possums disappear?
I believe that cap is how many you can have in your town at once, but not 100% sure. They’re so hard to see so it’s hard to tell if the old ones are disappearing.
I think the other possums might wander around. I think you can have more than the 8, or 9th or 10 wandering at once.
the reason I say this is that a few days ago I lost my s we ever connection after only clearing 4 of the 8 possums. When I got back into my game about 5 minutes later, I couldn’t find the 4 I hadn’t yet cleared.
I have taken to counting the blueprint icons as they pop up, since (as you noted) they are so small. So about a day after this, I was clearing a batch of 9 possums, and after clearing the 9th, all of a sudden I saw one more, and when I cleared it, 2 blueprint icons showed up. They were near the main train station, so I speculate that they gravitate back in that direction when a new batch is spawned. Try as I might, I couldn’t find the other 2, but they showed up the next two times that I spawned the new batches.
As to what a cap might be on how many can be wandering around at thw same time, I have no idea. Maybe the cap is 10, which is why all 4 of my missing ones didn’t show up at the same time? I’m not sure.
Can’t say I’ve attempted what happens if you click more possoms with some still active in the town, however I have missed a possum or two, came back to my town and found them a couple hours later. So I don’t believe they expire until the 4 hour timeframe is up at the very least, if they disappear at all.
I thought I remembered someone saying that the possums only have a 4-hour life span, so, by the time you get get new ones, the old ones would have disappeared anyway, regardless of whether you actually tap to get the new ones.
Doubt it, I’ve hit strays and my Project board is in the heights, (along with the dump. Eminent domain haw haw) and my station is in normal Springfield, far south.
I wedged Johnny Fiestas into the heights so I’ll remember to release possums in a timely way.
When I hit strays, they are in the heights by the project board, away from the station. Far away.
Expatrie-
I’m having a different problem: Someone visited my city and put garbage in 3 of my houses. When I tap on those houses, my game freezes and quit with an error message. This happens only in those 3 house visited by one of my friends..
Someone with that problem?!
It’s going around. Right now we have two suggestions…either contact EA or just don’t tap on those buildings. Both options aren’t the greatest but there’s no “quick fix” for them unfortunately.
Thanks Alissa.
I’m a little noob on the blog, how can I contact EA for some help?
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/01/14/troubleshooting-101-contacting-ea/
That post should guide you 🙂
if you can put those buildings into your inventory, do that and bring them back out, and they should be back to normal.
I wonder if that is why a certain neighbor of mine has a whole town full of stinky orange houses.
Or are you stockpiling them for later?
Expatrie-
I got a couple of neighbours with completely stinky towns and nowhere left to dump garbage, I assumed they weren’t playing because they went on holiday, but maybe they can’t play because of crashy issues …… shame but the event could put off newer players
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So I’m still having both problems, missing my second Spuckler child and i still have the negative task issue. I’ve added my name to both EA forums for the issues and just had an online chat with a rep. Unfortunately the online chat was my only option being outside of the US. I talked with James C who whilst not being able to help me, was polite enough. He just said that both are known issues and that he couldn’t help me with either, but that EA is working on a patch that is due to be released later this week.
I guess I will wait and see what happens and contact them again if the patch doesn’t come/doesn’t work.
I’ve also updated my phone and reinstalled the app, and that didn’t work. That’s when I contacted EA.
Sigh. No fix for my Spuckler problem. Restarted but no updates available and no child in my inventory or donuts refunded 🙁 Need to borrow a laptop to get hold of help desk again!
I’ve just got two bugs at the moment. I’ve still got the negative tasks in my list (Cletus 8 hour “De-louse the young-uns) on -189/1. I’ve tried re-starting my device, and checked the app store, but to be honest, I can’t remember having an update since the Monorail event arrived. I’m in the UK, so is it orth me contacting EA? My other bug is one I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else mention… I have mutant bunnies hopping all over my town regardless of the task my bunny is on, or even whether it’s on a task at all.
On the plus side, I hit one billion RE points today, so just unlocked Paris Texan.
I too have mutant bunnies running around my town at all times, even when I’ve chosen the mutate task. I didn’t pay much attention to it till I read your post. So many things running around my town they all blend in after awhile. I’m guessing this will also get fixed at some point.
Bunnies from Easter two years back?
Expatrie-
Noticed that truck by the Krusty station , Is that something forthcoming ? I stuck my Duff truck by the lisa slurry factory but that would match much better 🙂 Wish the Krusty station add ons would have added more possums. They are pretty cool looking
You get extra track pieces with Krusty station. I assume that’s why the truck’s there.
You DON’T get a truck with the Krustyland station, that’s just in the picture to indicate that you get track pieces, (there was a smaller one at the start of the event with the 3 pieces) on the page that shows your amount of blueprints and prizes it has the same trucks (and boxes indicate station parts.) Don’t waste donuts thinking you’ll get a truck !
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Hrmmmm…my son’s third Spuckler suddenly appeared yesterday, and he had rushed Brandine during the birthing-issue. I contacted EA on his behalf and was told he would be given priority-status.
Meanwhile, I’ve contacted EA twice now about this: first time, they gave me the donuts to rush Brandine (no Spuckler) and then was given more donuts. Second time, told it’s being worked on, and oh by the way, here’s some more donuts. And that was after my son got his Spuckler.
Since everyone else is now getting their missing Spuckler (or randomly getting one despite not rushing), looks like I’ll have to contact EA a third time…maybe I’ll get some more donuts 😉
There wasn’t no new spuckler kid. I’ve had brandine and the 3 kids for a long time. Is it not just an offer that was brought back?
You cant have more than three.
And it’s warn’t not wasn’t.
The update yesterday did nothing for my game, except try to sell me more donuts – the one thing EA can always get right. To look on the bright side, having Snake on my task bar with minus 313 jobs does protect me from getting any more random jobs, or at least I hope so. Wonder if they are going to let us store all those unwanted valet parkings?
I had a good glitch, which looking through the comments, no one else had. At the start of the event, once going through the walk through, a donut appeared in the task list. I thought it was strange, so clicked on it, and it was awarding me 2 donuts of every 100 trash cans, and 10 projects submitted. I had an extra 6 donuts, so made up for me rushing brandines birth task 😀 however, with the new patch, it’s gone 😢
Not a glitch. Part of the questline. Only appears 3 times
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/08/12/turbo-tappin-the-monorail-act-1/
That wasn’t a glitch, it was part of Act 1. But you only had three opportunities to do that – after that the donut goes away. So the fact that your donut icon went away when the patch came out was purely coincidental…it really went away because you had earned the maximum 6 donuts from it.
Now what IS a bug is that some folks, myself included, only got two goes at it (4 donuts) before it went away. I could contact EA about it, but, frankly, I don’t feel like dealing with that over 2 donuts, especially since I recently earned a LOT of donuts exploiting the bug they had at the end of the tap ball event. So, sometimes the bug gets you and sometimes you get the bug! 😉
Phooey. No thanks for not sharing that bug, but the way.
Poor old bonuts deficient me.
Expatrie-
Expatrie – I *did* share it at the time, but I only found out about it myself (from someone else’s comments on a post on this site) a few hours before the event ended. Fortunately, it kept working until they forced me to update, so I did get a couple of hard-grinding day’s worth.
I’ve not received the patch on either my iPad Air (a new device lol) or my android phone (also pretty new) I live in the UK could it be that different countries get it at different times?! And yes I’ve tried restarting both devices numerous times and logging in and out etc. Marge still needs to do a task -218 times, no spuckler kid, game crashing especially when visiting neighbours. Hope they sort it out soon. I like this update with the monorail but Springfield heights is too time consuming and so I’ve abandoned it which is a shame. I think it’s going to be a forgotten part of my Springfield.
Honestly not sure. It did seem like an odd time for it to go out. I’d contact EA, let them know.
I am in US. I play on iphone and ipad, and I have not received the update either…. deciding to contact EA or wait…. will likely wait….Good Luck!
Lots of hothead comments about the game, dont they realise you guys give good advice on the game and dont actually write the game, bombard ea if you have a problem not tsto crew, sheesh!! Not rocket science, get a new device, stop playing, if you cant enjoy the game whats the point, chill, personnally I love the game and the new event, even with the frequent problem’s, good work guys some of us appriciate your time and effort.
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I worked my negative down from -20 to 0 and then one more to complete the task. The fun one I’m getting now though is doubled up on bonus tasks. First I got granpa to tell stories and rev lovejoy to give last rites. After those two I’ve got luigi to work at luigis and Cletus to make moonshine. Kinda weird that it gives me two at the same time like that. But hey, bonus xp
Should I make a new monorail station or add on to existing?
Did we get a new female B-list celebrity with the latest update? I have Booberella currently but I seem to be missing a female character. Any ideas who she might be? Thanks you in advance.
Paris Texan, from Springfield Heights. Comes with the Billionaire haven
I edited the tracks while the train was running over it and now I have two trains… I can manipulate there length by moving the track while it’s running over them, haven’t read the comments so sorry if I’m late on this
I have two things:
1: I’m either really lucky or really oblivious because in the time I’ve played (since a bit before the superhero event) I’ve only had one issue (I didn’t get my mystery box daily thing) and it was easily fixed by EA’s chat. They gave me enough doughnuts to buy my own box. I never have any of the problems you guys report. I hope.
2: When I first played I looked up ways to get doughnuts without cheating, and one was EA will give you doughnuts for pretty much anything that I’d actually broken, so just be on the lookout for anything wrong, even if it’s tiny. I don’t know why people are complaining so much about glitches, if be milking them dry for doughnuts I don’t have to work for because someone else messed up (assuming I actually got glitches, that is). It’s not hurting me to have something mess up in game, and it might actually be more beneficial. When I did get my doughnuts I bought SVT instead which I more than likely would not have gotten had the have functioned properly. 🙂
Got another question… Been looking over and getting rid of inactives on my friends list. Some I see aren’t updated in the game for the monorail event but have played in the last few hours. I would hate to delete them but I have to way tell them to update so I can get more visits. So what should I do? We’re about a week or so into the event and they still funny know to update and wonder if I should replace with newer friends?
It’s really up to you. If you feel you don’t want to lose them forever, but need to replace… you can always write down their names and try to add them back later.
It would help if EA would add a heads-up to our game when there is a store update. I can imagine tens of thousands of players tapping away and just assuming updates are automatic. I think that is a fail on EA`s part… Before I cull players I take into account participation in past events as well. I give the monorail event an extra star for allowing back visual identification of neighbor participation. This allows for building a team over time that works together as a family, to benefit all, when EA makes it tough, and us tough get tapping together…
Not sure about this event, but for others if you try to visit a neighbor who has an update but you don’t, the game will tell you that your neighbor has new content and you have to update to visit them. If that is the case here then your neighbor isn’t visiting you. Just something to consider if that’s important to you. It would be nice if we could message our neighbors sometimes, wouldn’t it?
while you can’t visit neighbors that have updated, neighbors who have updated can visit you… pretty sure that’s how it’s worked in past events as well.
Yeah, I was very surprised and confused tonight when Brandine had a premature birth. She had 72 days to go. In fact, she still does. So she must have been carrying twins. I hadn’t rushed it. At first I thought EA was doing it to free her up to do her Monorail tasks, but she’s still got the “bun in the oven” and unable to do anything else in that condition.
Regarding the lag, I have found it very helpful to disable auto-updates on my device (an Android tablet.) Usually, updates are given a high priority, so they will suck away memory, processor time and bandwidth. It hasn’t eliminated the problem, but it has made massive slowdowns less common.
My game was crashing after every one or two neighbors, if I wait to get the popup (congrats you’ve helped all you can), then hit the arrow to next neighbor, it stopped the crashing. Takes longer than just advancing, but don’t have to worry about crashing. (The other tips don’t work for me either)
Also, I stored Brandine, didn’t rush her. But, I was awarded the baby anyway, which was quite generous, but probably easier fix for EA than figuring out who rushed and who stored.
Thanks for the great info