Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Just a quick reminder that at 0800 GMT (3am EDT) Act 2 will officially end. And the end of Act 2 will also see the end of Crafting AND the Daily Challenges. So collect those final mistletoe, craft those prizes and complete this week’s Daily Challenges BEFORE 0800 GMT tomorrow morning (1/2/16)…or it will be too late!
Act 3 will start tomorrow…BUT Act 3 is completely different than Act 2. As in…everything we’ve been doing for Acts 1 and 2 will completely change. So don’t expect anything in Act 2 to continue beyond tomorrow morning.
Again…for those who don’t really like to read…the bullet points:
–CRAFTING WILL END TOMORROW 0800 GMT 1/2/16 (so craft what you want before it’s too late)
–ACT 2 WILL END TOMORROW 0800 GMT 1/2/16 (this means ALL of the prizes and ability to upgrade the buildings…)
–DAILY CHALLENGES WILL END TOMORROW 1/2/16 ( either at 0800 GMT or 5am YOUR local time so finish this week’s challenges BEFORE tomorrow morning, or you’ll miss out on this week’s donuts)
If you didn’t yet get Maggie…don’t worry. She’s an important part of Act 3, and required for most of it, so you WILL be able to get her in Act 3 if you weren’t able to get her during Act 2…so don’t panic about Maggie.
Also, remember the items in the store will be leaving with Act 2 as well…so check out your stores and buy anything/everything you’ve been wanting (this includes the freemium items in the store as well…pay attention to your timers).
Have fun and we’ll see you tomorrow for the start of Act 3….
What are your thoughts on Act 2? Did you enjoy it? Earn all the prizes? Almost there? Did you unlock Maggie? Which items did you craft/purchase? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
Seriously EA or whoever is in charge, your audience is addicted to The Simpsons! How exactly *on top* of things are we supposed to be? You don’t hesitate to make it very plain, clear and obvious when there’s a sale item for donuts but we’re supposed to pick up these tiny clues and put the new mystery together that THIS TIME act 3 would not include crafting? Really? Wow.
There was a timer, right there on the crafting screen, so I think EA played fair on this one. Not sure how this qualifies as a “tiny clue to a mystery….”
Also, about a zillion people asked about it in the comments sections for various posts on this site for the past week and the moderators have been quite clear that the crafting would stop at the end of Act 2.
I’m sorry if you missed out on some crafting, but you really need to own the responsibility for that and not try to blame it on EA or anyone else. Hopefully, next time, you’ll remember to check the timer! 😉
I see I’m not the only one who was caught by surprise and did not craft all my items. In my opinion we should not have to get this type of information from a website. It should be in the game for everyone to see as they are playing the game. I have been playing for years! but the fun is gone right now. I’ll wait a a few days to see if I want to continue playing.
It was in the game. This happens all the time and everyone gets pissed. The timers are your in game message. Every timer in the game counted down to this morning…what did you think would happen when it hit 0?
Didn’t act 1 count down and carry over to act 2? It did in my game. So why should I expect act 3 to be different?
Act 1 said New Prizes added….
Act 2 said Event Ending…
That’s the difference.
Haaa-haaaaa
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Waste of time and resources. Its unrealistic to reach goals without donughts.Deleting this game.
I never spend. Always reach the goals. Dont Blame the game.
This!
I reached all goals without spending any donuts. But whatever…hope you find a game that’s more to your liking!
This game does require time. It doesn’t require donuts. But if you have donuts…you then don’t need time. You choose. EA hopes you choose the latter.
If you don’t have the time or you don’t have the money then this game might not be for you.
I meant to say “…no donuts AND no time…”
Bye bye, Barb,
We’ll miss your input around here,
🐻 🍩 🐻 🙂 ……..
Oh, and ……in the style of Nelson Muntz……
Haaa-haaaaa 🙂
Act 2 was a total joke i got to one one where i only needed 3 more misitoe to collect to recieve the next pruze and i waited over an hour and never was able to get any. Also the daily prize part 5 finally opened at the bottom it said i had 6 days left to complete but in actuality i only got less the 2 hrs to complete and i was ONE bbow from obtaining my 20 donuts.
Well I am so annoyed. I have worked and worked and saved bows etc for weeks and now act three starts and they have all disappeared. No warning, no nothing. I have put up with such a buggy Halloween and now this. I am so over it.
The timer said event ending and counted down to today…that’s your warning from the game.
What did I say yesterday?
Haaa-haaaaa
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not all of us are checking this forum every day. This event was changed from others even though it appeared not to be. This act 3 has zero to do with anything else that came before it. If it was just for maggie and her quest line and the other babies, they could have made it a separate event like they have done before.
The Haaa-haaaaa is aimed at the people who as you say, “Aren’t checking this forum everyday”
but can get here quick enough to complain that they didn’t realise crafting would end and now they lost their bows and baubles
Can’t have it both ways, …keep informed, …..or miss out
but if they miss out….it’s NOT Alissa’s fault
🎈 🐻 🍩 🐻 🎈 😛 😉 B-) 😉 😂 😅 😝 😜 😎 🙂
I reached all goals without donuts and was well aware when event was changing read bottom of box stating when act 2 ended!
Also EA is not obligated to give us free stuff, kind of nice of them to do so!
Haven’t run across many games that give you free stuff just for playing!
I also didn’t see that crafting would be ending. I must have been on here too early yesterday. I was saving to see what would pop up in act 3…D’OH…oh well. 🙁
Haaa-haaaaa
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There was a timer right on the crafting screen that indicated when the crafting would end.
So cross I missed crafting. I didn’t see this until it was too late. I don’t think it was made very clear that you wouldn’t be able to continue crafting. I contacted ea on live chat and was told to post on the forum, which I can’t seem to do……
The timer in the crafting menu said event ending And was counting down to today. That’s your in game warning…
Haaa-haaaaa
🙂
So glad I don’t have to see anymore of these merrymakers! The new town roamers are much cuter :).
Just noticed that the things unnecessary shop has no payout! Hope they change that in a future update!!
Agreed.
Pacifiers!? I think they mean dummy’s
Nope, those are definitely pacifiers.
I think you mean “dummies.” But what are you referring to?
They’re called pacifiers here in the states. Or binkies.
In England we call pacifiers dummies, but everything in the game and on this site is called by the U.S. name 🙂
Not in the U.S….they’re called pacifiers here. 🙂
Also nipples… 😉
Oh, is that just me?
http://rlv.zcache.com/i_love_crash_test_dummies_pacifier-r4f6599084b674b84ae1f60fc2baff6f3_8byvd_8byvr_324.jpg
going completely bezerk. i literally crafted one item that was required to complete the daily challenges and everything was lost. what a waste of all my resources. they messed up big time changes the end of crafting to act 2 instead of act 3. how about notifying us when you’re making that kind of change after YEARS worth of events. EA, it looks like you may have lost this premium player forever
Agreed! Not impressed!
Haaa-haaaaa
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Im not just “not impressed”. I’m furious that I have almost every building and character in the game and now I missed out on some buildings because I was waiting till the end of the event like I have done at every single event so far so I can maximize the items I am getting. I slept on it and I can’t get over the fact. I am done with this game. What a waste of all the money I spent.
Bye!
They did notify us: Every menu said quite clearly when the event would be ending, and the Addicts warned us repeatedly that crafting and daily challenges would most likely not continue into Act 3.
I respectfully disagree. A count down timer means just that, when the act finishes. EA could easily put a pop up warning in the game telling us what is going to happen rather than springing out on us. I think it is poor of the developer to take all those resources away without any advanced warning. Suggestions from the Addicts, who do a great job, were just guesswork. We should have been told by EA.
The crafting menu distinctly said “Event Ends” on its timer. That should be clear enough. Sure, a popup warning window would’ve been helpful for anyone who didn’t see the existing warnings -and extensive discussions on this and probably other sites- but it’s not EA’s fault if so many people insist on being spoon-fed everything.
There was a timer?
Yes…act 2 crafting post as a screenshot of the crafting menu that says event ending and counting down to today
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/12/22/christmas-2015-101-crafting-act-2/
It’s not EA’s fault if people can’t/don’t/won’t see the messages, timers, and suchlike that they put in the game. If folks were more observant, there’d be fewer complaints.
If people were more observant would they even need this site?
Notice how people are saying they didn’t see the timers in the game? Some have said they didn’t see the post on this site also warning them… I believe they just want a pop-up alert warning flashing in red, in the game and ringing their phone, telling them this information. That it’s been there the whole time…just means it must not be very important. Too easy to ignore.
Alissa, please stop pretending that a couple days weren’t cut off the times at one shot (probably yesterday). I noticed the one for the daily challenges cut off 2 days out of nowhere and i assumed it was because of the 20 donuts they made the challenge a little harder to complete.
Here’s an idea… DON’T come to our site and complain or take out aggression on us. You have an issue with EA… GO TO EA WITH IT!! I find it disrespectful and insulting that you go to a Players Help Site ran by Players on their own time and own dime to complain as if we own and operate the game. Don’t use us as your punching bag for frustrations with EA.
We are here to help, so be respectful of that help or don’t bother to come here at all. Just sayin!
Nope, all the timers ran out EXACTLY when they were supposed to.
Actually Alissa warned everyone in very clear English that you wouldn’t have the full week I feel bad for you if reading is hard but never insult the moderators.
Alissa has a lot better things to do with her life right now (like taking care of a newborn, for example) then to bother to play “pretend” with you! It’s one thing to be upset with something in the game, but it’s quite another to basically accuse one of our wonderful moderators of lying!
Maybe this isn’t the best site for you….there are several others you can check out — why don’t you go see if they have better/more accurate info? I think we can muddle along without you.
I don’t follow the TSTO site as often as I should (I rarely have time to read things here nowadays), but I didn’t see the need to in order to know exactly what was happening in the game. There were timers in several different places, and they were pretty accurate.
Haaa-haaaaa
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They DID notify us…there was a timer right on the crafting screen!
Bye!
AMG! it just popped up… i love the bears and little suckie thingys………hhhhhnnnnnnggggggg………and baby characters….. oh so not mad about the other thing anymore.
well that was dumb. i had over 5k bows and baubles. i was waiting for Act 3 to buy new stuff. otherwise i could have bought 5 or 6 more of those ski chalets. … i don’t normally check online for updates, but would rather see them posted in-game (too much to ask for, i think not). XP. i was online early yesterday morning and their should have been some notification: ALERT!!! ACT 2: being removed: ACT 3: ALL NEW currency. srsly tho. those little numbers that are ticking of tell me nothing but ticktockticktock….. rant ended. Question: is the new ACT 3 downloaded from the site? i don’t see it starting up.
It auto starts.
The numbers (for the most part) mean something….
This seems to be a common sort of thing these days… a general lack of reading comprehension. Or a general laziness, whatever. It’s really baffling.
In the style of Nelson Muntz…..
Haaa-haaaaa
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There was a timer in the crafting window….
It was pretty obvious it was ended, that is if you read under the craft & eveny boxes!
I hate it when you end up with partially completed things which earn nothing and can’t be stored!
Assuming that this event works like all of the others, it/they should be storable once the event ends.
Yet again the Addicts prove their worth! Fool of a Took that I am, I didn’t check the site today and missed this information and didn’t pick up in-game that the craftables would be leaving. Fortunately I had all the things I wanted – but with plenty of bows and ribbons (that I was keeping ‘in case’ for Act 3, I could have made more. I hope no one missed out on things they wanted badly.
I did check the site around 9 or 10 am EST. This post was no up so I assumed act 3 would continue like all prior acts… I lost tons 🙁
EA reallly screwed up this season. I’m still only able to play on a borrowed tablet as those idiots have marked it incomparable on all other tablets, so I can’t install it.
No YOU screwed up
Haaa-haaaaa
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If you say haha again you are irritating
No, …..what’s irritating is people who don’t pay attention for a week,
but come here in a second to complain like it’s everyone else’s fault but their own,
If they didn’t complain I wouldn’t need to say it 🙂
🐻 🎈 🍩 🎈 🐻 🍩 🙂
Okay, it’s been about an hour since I started act three, and I’m already starting to get a twinge of guilt every time I tap one of those cute bears. They’re just minding their own business, enjoying their pacifiers, and I’m supposed to steal those pacifiers! For my own gain! I can actually see the moments their little bear hearts break, right before they disappear. Even knowing that it’s a game, and even within the game they’re imaginary bears… I just feel so bad. Once I get Gerald I’m going to stop tapping them, even if there’s bonus donuts. I just hope there are other ways to generate pacifiers so I can steal from fewer bears.
Oh, great – now I’m gonna feel bad, too! 🙁
Wow, crafting ending before Act 3! That’s a new twist from EA (or is it???, don’t remember). Anyway, I really dropped the ball on that one. Thousands of balls and toes all into the drain. Thanks to Tstoaddicts for making this game a lot easier to play successfully, but this warning reached me a few hours late I’m afraid!
Had the spinny donut for a bit while starting act 3. I had to complete tapping 10 bears twice before it counted because of not connecting to the servers. Every time I tried to visit a friend to tap 3 bears I got kicked out. But it finally started working so I got an 8 hour block for rest now.
And I got everything from the first two acts…crafted a boat load of candy canes, three ski chalets, three outdoor fireplaces two igloos…wanted one more igloo but was a little short…hence all the candy canes.
Bring on act three…trying to decide what to spend all these free donuts on…I’m up to 270
Soooo sad I read this an hour late…. So many items I didn’t get to craft in time 🙁
Ikr I was waiting as well.!!!
Haaa-haaaaa
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Anyone else’s Bart’s treehouse is still in “Xmas” mode, no option to switch off, even with the anti-Xmas-switch???
Checked mine and it’s that way too… weird… probably will just switch off with winter.
Ta Wookie, good to know I am not going crazy, or more so 😉
Can’t quite remember if Bart’s Treehouse had the option to individually select the skin like other houses…
It doesn’t. Acrually it is considered a decoration, not a building. So it will stay decorated until the snow goes away just like certain trees, fences, and hedges.
Tapping the imaginary Bears and nothing happens! They’re still walking around without a care in the world and I can’t progress any!
Have you finished Imaginary Friends Part II where it asks you to tap them? Hoping this has cleared up for you.
How does act 3 start? I’ve completed act 2 and today I don’t see anything of the third act.
Auto start.
Ugh! As of 2:59am eastern time I had all my daily challenges done except for the 100 merrymakers. I had 90 and had run out of merry makers to tap, but it said I had 2 hours left to finish it so I came back about 3:30 and all the merry makers and daily tasks were gone!! I’m so mad! 🙁
If you tap the crafting menu right after act 3 starts and flip through the tabs, your game may crash. Just restart your game (may take some time due to server stress) and follow the quest line. Latest when the 8h task starts it will have been fixed automatically.
So it said I had an hour and half to complete the daily task. I had 15 merrymakers left to tap then boom gone! Seriously annoyed with this game at this point. The last few updates have been nothing but the exact same thing with just new “prizes” I think I’m done with this game.
Anyone else lose Act 3? There is nothing there! No previous Act 1 or 2 data. It’s all gone, was that supposed to happen? Is some type of update required?
It auto starts with Marge and Maggie tasks… should be there for you.
The update loaded while I was trying to get the last couple hundred mistletoes. I had to lol about that. I was so close to the bonus; It was my first 4000. Shame there are server issues with Act 3. But good news the payout is higher, 8 pacifiers per tap. I won’t be able to do the friends visits till tomorrow though. I went and tapped them all and got two bonuts before the change. I’m excited for these prizes.
Didn’t even consider making it to Festivus CBG, I was never too desperate and missed a lot due to Christmas and limited internet access on holidays, but only ended 180 odd short! Quite surprised by that.
Anyway, while I’m waiting for the game to figure itself out and build the first building. Has anyone ever been in game for the change of acts? It gives a strange little note and re loads, like in the start of the game when you finish the tutorial, if anyone else was curious. Also, before my game crashed, I spotted the stonecutter daycare centre in store for $250k! I did start in that event, though only as a little patch, then again in Christmas last year, and starting properly halfway through terwilligers. I’ll be buying that straight away. Also, all the attractions have stopped giving event currency (the KB truck stopped, so I assumed all of them did), so I stored all of them to make a bit of room and I’ll bring them back out when I blow up my town after the event.
Anyway, that’s my rambling done, I’ll have another go now.
p.s. I’m pretty sure my game didn’t actually crash, and I was just having connection issues, so don’t worry (yet) 😛
You weren’t kidding about 3am as the cutoff. I checked in just before 3am EST Jan 2 and the game opened to the usual things for Act II. I clicked on the prize icon at the bottom of the screen and then the crafting icon to see if there was anything left to buy (I already went on a spending spree earlier), it opened briefly, and poof – everything was gone! The store, the event prize icon at the bottom of the screen, the holly icon in the task list, the challenge icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen. All vanished! Hot Squishies still open for upgrading, though, so something tappable may be still coming. The abruptness was rather unnerving- I even checked the App Store to see if there was an upgrade! (There wasn’t.) I wondered if I broke my game. Usually I launch the game well after a change and so just see new stuff downloaded before it will launch.
I swear it said I had more time to finish challenges, that’s why I took my time tapping those 100 merrymakers…. So now that I apparently can’t get those 20 bonus donuts, I’m gonna spend this 10 dollar Google Play credit I have on Chrono Trigger instead of the obvious premium Baby Sitter Bandit they have coming up soon.
I’m truly curious. With Act 2 scheduled to end at 8:00 GMT, where did you think you would find more Merry Makers to tap?
It did. That’s the gamble we take. I took a chance to and lost. Said I had 30 minutes for part two, and 3 1/2 hours for daily challenges. I checked it again half an hour later and low and behold… :\
Nothing wrong with that. Those are good games, too. Is this a new CT or a port?