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
when the event started i rushed brandine (had 20 days left) spent the donuts and freed her up for trash tasks but never saw the kid, now today he pops out of nowhere i also think the cap is kinda lame i bought krusty station the license and lisas recycle mostly for nothing i wanted to surpass the act prizes to get as much track as i wanted to circle both towns also the highlands event is like shoveling against the tide with one using the resources of the other and cant keep up if you dont have disco stew for mats ( most used ) . the only way to get all the stuff is to spam the hell out of it and i dont do that ive seen some lands that are full of parking lots ( the whole all of the land ) or hotels it just ruins the game
sorry coffee is the most used
You have to have patience with Springfield Heights…it’s not meant to be played like an event. You don’t need Disco Stu…right now, I have more mats than I know what to do with, but I wish I could make more coffee cups, because both tablets and pills use them up at an alarming rate! What you’re “short” on changes, depending on where you are in the prices and which types of SH upgrades you’re working on.
Play the SH part of the game when you’re just sitting around watching TV or something (and you may want to even put it on hiatus for a while during this event, as more and more of the characters get pulled into making/collecting event-related stuff…SH isn’t going anywhere, so the limited-time event should take priority).
So when I got on when I got home I got the spuckler kid which I read on your site about that but now I’m confused I got two daily bonus first was blueprints then $100. I also had a quest line start and I placed the recycle plastic building.. I’m not sure if I’m missing a post about this or what’s going on. I also have a task to unlock the rail yard but when I go to do it, I don’t understand what I need to do.
Thanks!
There’s a questline that popped up this morning. I’ve got to play around with it myself…
My negative task finally fixed itself this morning. My annoyance since the last update has been Sabastian’s laziness 🙂 I was behind and catching up nicely until I started hitting the 4500 blueprint limit since the last update. Currently stuck at 62000 until the board resets in 10 hours. I don’t have luxury of hitting every 4hrs for possums and already done friend taps.
Very bad glitch today. After successfully completing the days tasks around 4 hours ago and syncing the game by going to KLand and visiting the neighbours page, just visited and lost all today’s gains, and the extra 5 parts of rail. Not only that but the game is not recognising I have any recycled metal. Contacting EA!
I am an every two hours player, and I turned on my game just now and received a completion of my negative goal, a bonsai, and a Spuckler. The only problem is . . . it gave my 3rd Spuckler and not my second one. Will Brandine’s birth another Spuckler task work still? Will EA fix this and take away my little guy replacing him with the eyepatch guy?
What do you think?
Should still work
Well, just got my “free” spuckler (the 2nd of the 3) but I’m only 7 days away from Brandine giving birth- anyone know if I rush or simply wait it out if I’ll get spuckler #3 or that will just reset the clock so to speak and I’ll have to go through the 90 day task to complete the set. Thanks!
wait it out, my guess is it’ll give you the third one.
That’s my plan- will report back in a few days.
Update- Today is Brandine’s due date and I am happy to report that I did in fact get Spuckler #3. So once they gave me #2 with the across-the-board “fix”, it automatically moved Brandine to the next Spuckler.
Like a few posters here it seems, I’m still having negative issues with side quests and have to be careful with Bart and Milhouse because they have a 24-hour task highlighted. I had no luck with EA giving back missing post-TB donuts so am dreading more contact. Maybe I’ll wait a few days and see if this patch hits…
My negative task has been fixed but I still have not got a Project Board to place. This has been really frustrating for all of the Monorail task as I can’t progress or help my neighbours. It needs fixing.
My negative task has been fixed but I still have not got a Project Board to place. No Spuckler babies either. This has been really frustrating for all of the Monorail task as I can’t progress or help my neighbours. It needs fixing. I do hope EA will either extend Act one or give masses of free stuff to those who have been badly affected in order to bring then up to date.
I’m having a weird Spuckler issue- I haven’t rushed Brandine, as she’s due next week, but I got the “New Spuckler” notice & Cletus dialog yesterday- but the kid is nowhere to be found. AND Brandine is still pregnant!
the kid is an npc, you just gotta look all around your town carefully until you spot it.
I had a weird thing happen yesterday- Brandine is still in a family way, due in about 9 days so I have not rushed it. Yesterday, a notice that a new Spuckler child arrived, with Cletus dialog & award window. He even shows up in the trophy section. But- he’s nowhere to be found in town & Brandine is still pregnant!
Anyone else have this happen?
(Still annoyed about the daily blueprint task limit. I’m finding it difficult to reach the totals for the prizes every day- I barely made it yesterday! At this point, I may not get a shot at any extra tracks!)
The little spuckler might just be roaming around town somewhere. They won’t appear in townhall or your icon in the top left. They’re just there. So it’s possible it’s in there somewhere. r=
Has anyone else noticed that the blueprint payouts for the projects seemed to have dropped drastically?
For the last 2 days and this morning, the payouts are a LOT lower. After maxing them out this morning, I have 3 potential payouts for tomorrow: 2, 8 and 12! Pretty minor considering they were in the low thousands before.
Maybe it’s just a way for EA to slow some players down so they don’t max things out too fast.
No. They rotate. Clear one and another shows. It all depends on WHAT the requirements are. I notice the more Metal needed (cans) the higher the payout.
Cool! And thanks for that info.
I just want to make sure I can get my 14,000 pieces of track before this event is over! 😉
Well, I still have issues with negative tasks, and a missing spuckler/donuts. I also found that Akira’s 12 hr task is stuck on “plant bonsai”. I have contacted EA many times over the last week and they can’t resolve any of the problems. They told me that there will be an update this week that will fix all the issues.
I think the update is hitting at different times. I’d been stuck at -82 for a task for a while, I was going to leave it for a while to see if it sorted itself out as I really couldn’t face contacting EA. This afternoon it suddenly righted itself AND I got a new spukler kid, so everything is fine again. Brandine was only 12 days into her pregnancy when the even hit so I happily saved her to end the task thinking I’d try again afterwards, but now I’ve got the kid, quicker than I would have done if I’d left her pregnant. So, I’m a very happy tapper!
Hi i just played my game and i did get brandines last child but the thing is that i had brandine on the birth another spuckler job and i was only 15 days away so now i have the child but she’s still on the job… What do i do i don’t want to loose the almost 90 days.
Just let her keep going. They did a “fix” across the board so those that forwarded her got the Spuckler they were missing. Gave others one too. So you may just see another one in 15 days… or she may just complete and nothing.
Thanks for the recomendation but i couldn’t help it and i cancelled her job and still have the kid running around but now i have this messege that i have 4650 decorations in my springfield and i should stick around 4500 🙁
if it’s your last one, you can just store brandine in your inventory and bring her back out. that’s what i did (with 32 days left) and i still have all 3 kids, and brandine is now free to do the event stuff. or you can wait out the 15 days left on yours if you want the income/xp, but i highly doubt you’ll receive another child as well if you have all 3 now.
I’ve got a new problem that I haven’t seen mentioned by anyone else yet……
When tapping on the Monorail station to release the possums, they run off in all directions. Well I’ve missed the odd one a couple of times and found it later but I must have missed one and it’s now found it’s way on to the roof of a building.
So this possum is just running round on a roof and I’m just not quick enough to tap the thing because it moves too fast.
I tried storing the building but when I get it back out of storage, the possum is back there running around.
Anyone else seen this ?
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You sure it’s a possum and not the rat on top of Moe’s? 😉
How did you know it was Moe’s ? you must have had the same possum problem too, Alissa ?
Anybody else got a possum stuck on top of their Moe’s ? Go and check now !
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I just can’t help it 🙂
I’ve got ESP-N 😉
I die! This is such funny commentary! Lee are you being serious?
No, but I smile to myself imagining people go check their Moe’s to see if there’s a possum or rat running round on the roof …believe me some will have done it and thought….
“yeah, I got the same problem, it’s too fast to tap, maybe if I store the building” but they won’t admit it 🙂
Alternatively there will be (too) serious people who will just think…
“That Lee guy is soooo stupid”
Either way it provided some people with a whole minute worth of entertainment, and like I said….I just can’t help it (teasing/being silly) 🙂
Did it make you laugh?
Then it was worth my time 🙂
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lol I’m just happy I remembered it was Moe’s 😉
Hi tappereeenos,
Am I the only one who is experiencing serious crashing when going in and out of friends towns?
Usually I can put up with a bit but it’s becoming impossible to collect blueprints from neighbours 😢
Various players are having crash issues at one point or another. First question I have to ask is how old is your device? Do you have a ton of space on it or do you have a bunch of apps?
Hi Alissa!
It’s an iphone 6 plus 64gb running iOS 8.4.1 With 12 gb free.
I’ve also noticed that tsto runs way better on my BFs iPhone 6 with no plus.
Mines slow and choppy and scrolls real bad…. Something to do with the dynamic scaling. (Lots of over head, kills my battery). Wish EA would make a build for us 6+ users. My screen is bigger yet I see less of the playing area than someone on a 5 or 6!
just mentioning it in case there’s a big wheel down at the cracker factory here that can help me out 😀. but yeah not crashing all the time when going into friends towns would be nice. Still an awesome game tho.
Could be the plus. Could also be your connection. I know when I’m at work the Wifi isn’t the greatest and my game gets really choppy/laggy and every so often it’ll crash. When I’m home I’ve got “blazing fast” internet (at least that’s what FiOS calls it, but it is their fastest speed) and I have zero issues.
Suburboy, here’s something to try: go into Settings > Display & Brightness > Display Zoom and set the view to “zoomed”. What this does is use the graphics processor to scale an app’s iPhone 6 assets to iPhone 6 plus size. It will unfortunately make every app zoom, but if it relieves your issues you might be able to go back and forth between zoomed and standard when you play. If you are already running in zoomed mode you might set it back to standard to see if it helps.
Hi Skitch
Tried that the fox logo starts out horribly stretched and then goes nice and small like on the iPhone 6 no plus. Then in the game there is even less play area visible. Pretty certain this is an aspect ratio problem.
Come on! Who wants to complain with me? {silence} Fine. I’ll come back later. Who wants to come back with me! {silence} Fine.
Hi skitch,
On closah inspection putting my 6+ into zoom mode does address some of the choppiness when scrolling. (Less to draw I guess). Still less map area to view. Game still crashing terribly when cycling thru friends to visit.
However the zooming really addressed performance issues in another ea game simcity. The 6+ was really choking on that game when scrolling.
Allisa how much gb free do I need you think? Does iOS use free space as a paging file or something?
Am I the *only* Tappereeno experiencing crashing when visiting friends towns?
I honestly have no idea how the storage works on iOS (i’m team Android) but you need at least 3-4gigs to run everything smoothly…maybe even more.
I still ave negatives. Its the 18th no patch, no updates, no free spuckler. I play on an ipad. Why aren’t the fixes universal? This is quite annoying. I tried rstarting my device and no change.
Contact EA, ask them what’s going on
I’m in the same boat and called EA yesterday. They told me to wait a week for the “fix” to hit my game and call back then if I don’t get the spuckler that I’m owed or see the negative task hanging out there for Milhouse cleared.
This event came at a bad time what with fallout shelter being released on android just androids just as this started. …as much as I enjoy this game my attention has been drawn away too much…..hopefully I can still make the deadline for act one without missing anything
K, so I can’t verify my email for EA because I don’t receive one to my email so I can’t report my Spuckler missing issue or my Moe -104/1 issue. I’ve tried closing out and restarting everything. Ugg…
Didn’t have a problem with my game crashing but didn’t even think about my neighbours! I’ll go hide some stuff now.
Well I’ve still got negative twenty eight times for brandine to watch real house wives.
Doesn’t bother me much.
Expatrie-
Yayayayay! The patch finally came through this evening for me. My SVT no longer has negative tasks and Brandine birthed her baby early (and was still pregnant)! Because my luck was SO good at last, I brought a golden scratcher and won 50 donuts! So, I went ahead and paid to rush Brandine’s last baby for 12 donuts. She’s not pregnant anymore and, thanks to Quimby’s bribe of Monster Truck tickets, won’t be again! (That dialogue was really funny!)
Just caught a glimpse of the monorail station which comes after the mall station. It looks like a filthy dump. I’ll have to put buildings in front of it to cover the ugly up….because EA don’t we have enough rubbish dumps and recycling plants in this update?
FYI, The updates and fixes you described didn’t show up on my iPad 2 or iPhone 6 until this evening (Monday, sometime 5-7pm CT). And I’ve been playing every 2-4 hrs over the weekend and today.
But they’ve showed up! I no longer have to send Grandpa to tell 62 more stories, and I now have my 2nd Spuckler child.
Mine showed up this evening, too! 😀
sorry if this has already been addressed, but I got a new Spuckler even without rushing Brandine. She is still pregnant and I have about 20 days left on that task
It’s something EA did to accommodate for those who spent donuts and didn’t get a kid. So basically everyone that has brandine and doesn’t have all the spucklers got a free spuckler kid
Provided brandine has the 90 day task unlocked. I’m not that far in the quest line, so I have minus twenty eight real house wives episodes to binge watch. Guess brandine has illegal Netflix account, huh?
Expatrie-
Yes, she has to be at least at the point where she can birth a spuckler.
I didnt …
Contact EA then
Is anyone else having game crash issues when trying to clear ‘stink’ off of buildings. The number of buildings having this issues is slowly growing and will, most likely, soon start disrupting game play for this event.
Yes it’s going around. You can try one of 3 things…try storing the buildings, see if that helps. Don’t tap those buildings. Or contact EA.
Already contacted EA and awaiting a reply. It’s hard to avoid tapping one when a new one is added almost daily. :-p I’ll try storing them and see if that sorts it out…I hadn’t thought of that little trick. Thanks
Unfortunately, I haven’t had an update on either game I play over two different devices, and still have negative tasks on both. (I’m not sending Bart and Milhouse on 261 sleepovers…) It looks like I’m not the only one not getting the patch? If EA is reading this (and they SHOULD, because your site is the most comprehensive and helpful one out there!), maybe they’ll send out another update to fix it. Until then, patience is a virtue…
Thanks for all that you do here!
Happy neighbor error yesterday. I tapped and got kicked out of the game, but I got the blueprints added to my total…..then I realized the town I was in still showed three actions. Twice I got double blueprints from getting booted out of the game!
My app store does not have this update and I did not get an update on Sunday. Hence I still have the negative task. Presume this will be fixed for me the next time an update hits.
If you are still having the Brandine/Spuckler problem (didn’t get a Spuckler after rushing her), I got this response from EA support:
It seems that it is an issue known to the studio.
Studio have found a root cause of the issue and have developed a patch to fix it. They are testing it right now.
And the next update of the game should have a hotfix for this issue.
Help. Suddenly when doing monorail related tasks, old characters are not being recognised, for example is saying I need to buy Cletus. When I try and repurchase farm, game crashes. When I restart, he still isn’t there ( and original farm gone:(). Same with Louis. Scared to log back in!
Contact EA. They should be able to restore your game
Further update.. Now missing over 25 characters… ( including premium purchases) Apu apartments, unfinished shed, woosterville hotel, itchy and scratchy studio, quimby compound, etc etc etc…