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Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
IT’S CHRISTMAS!!!!!! Snow is falling in Springfield and snowmen are being built, Gingerbread is cooking and IT’S CHRISTMAS! May be less enthused about other holidays but Christmas is my favorite! Favorite at home and favorite in TSTO!
What does all this mean? Share the joy with your Neighbors of course. In this post I will be going over some details on visiting your Neighbors during the Event….including the number 1 asked question “How do I get more presents to drop..” (Spoiler alert…you can’t.)
Let’s get to it, shall we?
When Are Neighbor Actions Unlocked?
First you want to make sure THEY have the Christmas Update and are able to give you Christmas items when you go there to tap. A good way to tell if they’ve updated is the Main Neighbor Screen, check it out and see if they have a Santa Hat counter above 1 showing. If they don’t there’s a good chance they’re not updated yet…so just give them some time to update and get to the point in the questline where they start the Christmas Event and hat collecting.
You’ll also need to be updated to and to the right part of the questline. Neighbor actions start to unlock at Gonna Find Out Who’s Naughty or Nice questline. However, with this event they unlock in two waves. The first, and early on is the present dropping via the Naughty or Nice questline. The second is the ability to tap the Merrymakers in a neighbor’s town unlocks later in the questline until White Elephant in the Room Pt. 4. You can check out the questline details here.
If you haven’t hit either of those questlines you won’t unlock the actions. So if you can’t see actions in when visiting, check out to see what quest you’re on. When it doubt…play the questlines.
How Many Neighbor Actions Do I Get Per Day?
As with all Events, there will be a limit to how many Neighbors you can visit and tap on to earn Event Items within a 24hr period. So if you tapped on some within last 24hrs before starting the Event, you may have already used those Actions up and need to wait for the Reset.
If you are JUST now tapping for the first time in 24hrs, you will get the full Daily Actions before swapping back to $$$ & XP.
DAILY NEIGHBOR ACTIONS MAX: 90, This means 30 Active Neighbors x 3 Actions each.
For Naughty or Nice Presents…you are limited to FIVE gifts to drop per 24hr period. Just like the actions it’s a full 24hrs you have to wait to get your next set of 5 gifts.
What to Tap When Visiting?
Once you’ve reached White Elephant in the Room Pt. 4 and unlocked the ability to tap Merrymakers, you can tap Merrymakers in friend’s towns. You’ll be able to tap 90/day (remember..that’s a 24hr period). The first 90 actions will yield 1 Santa Hat and 1 ornament for each tap. HOWEVER…if you’ve tapped any buildings they will count towards your 90 actions. So if you’re not getting 90 actions for the day wait. Don’t tap anything in neighbor’s towns for a full 24hrs. Let everything reset and try again. Only tapping Merrymakers (avoid those houses!) and see if that allows to count to increase. 9 times out of 10 this will work. The other time…it’s something you’ll have to contact EA for.
Merrymaker tapping…
You’ll see the three different Merrymakers when visiting friends….as long as you’ve reached White Elephant in the Room Pt. 4. Tapping them when visiting will yield:
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Naughty or Nice
Once you’ve completed Level 1 of the Pile of Snow you’ll start the task to unlock Naughty or Nice actions. Naughty/Nice will help you earn Bows, bows are part of the crafting currency.
To leave gifts in a neighbors town (the neighbor action), simply tap on the Present in the top right corner of their screen…
This year you’ll have to choose when leaving presents for your neighbors if you want to be Naughty or Nice..you’ll see this popup when you go to leave a gift in a neighbor’s town..
Click on Naughty if you want to keep all of the rewards for yourself and Nice if you want to share with your neighbor.
When you (or your neighbor) find a present in your town you’ll see the same popup. There you’re basically trying to guess if your neighbor was Naughty or Nice to you. Select whichever one you think.
So what’s the deal with the rewards for this? First of all you only earn Bows with this. Which is a crafting currency. You WILL NOT earn Santa Hats for prizes via naughty or nice. So keep that in mind. Second, here’s the breakout provided by EA for Naughty or Nice:
Here’s how it works…it’s basically a matching game. You both have to match to get the max benefits for each…although naughty is better if you don’t match. Here’s a better breakdown:
If you select naughty and your neighbor picks nice (Whether it’s in your town or your neighbors town) whomever picked Nice will get 1 Bow, whomever picked Naughty will get 25 Bows.
If you both picked Nice you’ll each get 15 Bows
And if you both picked Naughty you’ll each get 5 Bows.
Again you can ONLY earn Bows, crafting currency, via the Naughty/Nice. This is not for the Santa Hats for the main prizes.
A summary will appear after gifts have been opened by your neighbors..
Leaving Gifts…
Really important…so PAY ATTENTION TO THIS, cause I know y’all will still ask..so just read:
YOU ONLY GET FIVE (yes, just FIVE) gifts to leave neighbors PER DAY! That’s in a 24hr period. Five total gifts to drop/day.
So if you’ve run out, you have to wait until the 24hr clock resets. It’s a FULL 24hrs from when you dropped the first gift that they will reset.
To leave gifts in a neighbors town (the neighbor action), simply tap on the Present in the top right corner of their screen…
Just like you an max out your gifts/day your neighbors can max out the number they can get per day. When that happens you’ll see this message:
If you see it, just move onto the next neighbor.
Again…You Only Get FIVE Presents to leave neighbors in a 24hr period. The clock starts once you drop the first present.
Finding Gifts In Your Town
So once you go back to your town you’ll have to hunt to find gifts in your own town. Sometimes you’ll get a message that a neighbor left them for you…however a lot of times that message is delayed and arrives well after you’ve already collected that present. So the best thing to do is just search your town for the presents.
Typically they’ll appear right around the Simpson House. However, I’ve seen them out by the beach and other areas away from the Simpson House. So honestly, you really have to search for them.
A good way to do this is utilize the “hide buildings” option from the move menu. To do this go to the 4 way arrows on your screen and tap the Simpson House:
Once you tap on that the buildings will become transparent and you’ll be able to see if anything is hiding behind them…
Now once you’ve found the present simply remember where it is, tap the back arrow (top left) and tap in that location.
And there you have it my friends…the guide to neighbor actions/visits for the Christmas 2015 Event!
What are your thoughts on the neighbor actions? Liking naughty or nice? How about the ability to earn prize currency from visits again (unlike Halloween)? Thoughts on the event overall so far? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!