town visitor task is terrible now. quitting game

I dont know why you thought this town visitor change was a good idea but making it a specific visitor needing to be served was just dumb. As an actual gamer I play this game to have a little casual fun in my down time but I play it like a gamer. I have my town full of 42 people full served waiting for the derby to start. well this derby i fully served 42 town visitors and only have 2/8 completion on the derby task.

its basically taking one of the faster derby tasks to now being one of the longest since you have to wait on several hours long train cool downs just to get visitors to your town and even then you wont get enough of the right visitors. so now this task is not only useless but there will be many more derby tasks popping up on the board since there will be one for each individual visitor. basically this change is a derby killed and a way of trying to force people to spend diamonds on rushing trains so they will give you more real money. its disgusting.

No old tasks were removed, or changed. :) We added 9 new production tasks, and the one new visitor task. Nothing has changed, only more options.

Cheers,

Nick

I like it. Will be funny to collect right people from neighbourhood farm :D

The head icon looked kind of spooky on the board. ;) We've had only one so far, it was the old man, and I removed it because it was low value. I'm looking forward to doing this task.

I just did a regular 320 Town Task.

I like the new tasks and gasped the first time I saw the floating heads on the task board. Way cool, dude!

It will surely take long serving just one character, but it's good and tricky choosing the right one to serve. Check your neighbors availability before grabbing one. I didn't and I will have to wait for more.. But that's OK. It's a game and we are not yet used to changes, but we will! :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by myso

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Oh my gosh, how unfortunate! :o

So does it have to be the visitor pictured? I have completed several town tasks, but Derby is not updating that I have done so...

Be aware that townies are already ordering new products so you could find yourself stuck if you have x amount of a certain character and they want something you can't make on their second or last stop.

Just came on to give this same warning.half my townies asking for new products. I should have waited before taking town task

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Originally Posted by Blahblahbla

I like the new tasks and gasped the first time I saw the floating heads on the task board. Way cool, dude!

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I like it as well, the floating heads are really funny, BIG thumbs up for this one

If you still want to prep ahead of time, it is possible, though more time consuming, to curate your Town's visitors to end on certain buildings. So you could try to have only one type of visitor in each building when they are done.

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Originally Posted by superfanboy666

I dont know why you thought this town visitor change was a good idea but making it a specific visitor needing to be served was just dumb. As an actual gamer I play this game to have a little casual fun in my down time but I play it like a gamer. I have my town full of 42 people full served waiting for the derby to start. well this derby i fully served 42 town visitors and only have 2/8 completion on the derby task.

its basically taking one of the faster derby tasks to now being one of the longest since you have to wait on several hours long train cool downs just to get visitors to your town and even then you wont get enough of the right visitors. so now this task is not only useless but there will be many more derby tasks popping up on the board since there will be one for each individual visitor. basically this change is a derby killed and a way of trying to force people to spend diamonds on rushing trains so they will give you more real money. its disgusting.

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It WILL require a different strategy from the old "stuff town and wait" task strategy, but that's what players were asking for :)

All former tasks are still in the mix, so if you don't like the "new" town task, wait for the "old." :)

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Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo

If you still want to prep ahead of time, it is possible, though more time consuming, to curate your Town's visitors to end on certain buildings. So you could try to have only one type of visitor in each building when they are done.

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Ohh!! So smart!!! I love it. Thanks for sharing. I'll try this with my next batch of townies :)

As long as peaches, oranges, onions and tea are "missing" or "rare", and mexican cooking and tea shop are under construction, derby town, truck, (boat) tasks will be hell.
We just need to be patient to fully enjoy all the features of this new update !:)

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Originally Posted by Nick[Supercell]

No old tasks were removed, or changed. :) We added 9 new production tasks, and the one new visitor task. Nothing has changed, only more options.

Cheers,

Nick

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I asked this question in Ranger's thread about the new task, but didn't get a response- Will Greg be offering more townies for those of us in a NH of 1 or 2? Thanks!

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Originally Posted by matig

As long as peaches, oranges, onions and tea are "missing" or "rare", and mexican cooking and tea shop are under construction, derby town, truck, (boat) tasks will be hell.

We just need to be patient to fully enjoy all the features of this new update !:)

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AND we need to be patient about any bugs/issues caused by the update. Everyone is working hard. Let's be calm, Hay Dayers. :) it will all be zen farming again soon.

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Originally Posted by badevilkitty

I asked this question in Ranger's thread about the new task, but didn't get a response- Will Greg be offering more townies for those of us in a NH of 1 or 2? Thanks!

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I am not aware of any changes to Greg's town visitor operation.

He DID get a newly redesigned farm, though :)

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Originally Posted by matig

As long as peaches, oranges, onions and tea are "missing" or "rare", and mexican cooking and tea shop are under construction, derby town, truck, (boat) tasks will be hell.
We just need to be patient to fully enjoy all the features of this new update !:)

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We are given 3 days until 24th june before getting any boats for new building products and peach/orange stuff :)

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Originally Posted by Lovecats

It will surely take long serving just one character, but it's good and tricky choosing the right one to serve. Check your neighbors availability before grabbing one. I didn't and I will have to wait for more.. But that's OK. It's a game and we are not yet used to changes, but we will! :thumbsup:

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Agree with your comments completely. I took one of these ( I need 9 Dancers for 320 pts) then realised I only had 2 dancers in my town and no one in my hood have any waiting to be picked up... ho hum.

But it`s no big problem, as you are not up against the clock on these tasks. I love the fact I am having to think about a derby task and work out new strategies which make it work for me.

maybe. but there are already onion and tea boats

I think the new town task looks like a lot of fun.:) It will require a completely different tactic. :smirk:
Of course, this week it will be much more tricky because of the new products we don't have yet.

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

I am not aware of any changes to Greg's town visitor operation.

He DID get a newly redesigned farm, though :)

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Ha. I'll check it out next time I visit. Thanks. ;)

Update- Greg only gave me one visitor (sometimes I get two...), but I did get some MUCH needed nails from a treasure chest in the water, so...that's cool. I guess. *sigh*

New task sucks, just reminds us we don't have a real town. We have a town with a lackluster amount of artworks so there are duplicates running around everywhere.

Thanks for reminding us your creative department only did half a job with the town SuperCell.

Worst part of the update this stupid new derby task. The town needs new life, new artworks, new buildings. Not a 'serve 10 of the same artwork because we are too lazy to do any proper work on the town' update...

Edit: FYI I love everything else in the update; but this really annoys me. Not to mention their heads look soooo out of place on the derby board.

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Originally Posted by myso

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myso, are you suggesting the above for a new Townie? :)

Well if that change is made to train town task then why not make it interesting for boat player tasks by saying you need to fill your boat tasks for a specific product... That's how insane this NEW variation has become in this circumstance. Just glad I gave up on the derby ages ago.

Case of can't please all the people all the time. If you don't like new town task don't pick it. Original town task still there. Seriously SC can't do right for doing wrong. They have made us an amazing game and we always get little things that need tweeked after an update. No need to use diamonds for anything. The only thing you need is a bit of patience and to relax!

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Originally Posted by Bazlol

Case of can't please all the people all the time. If you don't like new town task don't pick it. Original town task still there. Seriously SC can't do right for doing wrong. They have made us an amazing game and we always get little things that need tweeked after an update. No need to use diamonds for anything. The only thing you need is a bit of patience and to relax!

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Agree..........

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Originally Posted by Bazlol

Case of can't please all the people all the time. If you don't like new town task don't pick it. Original town task still there. Seriously SC can't do right for doing wrong. They have made us an amazing game and we always get little things that need tweeked after an update. No need to use diamonds for anything. The only thing you need is a bit of patience and to relax!

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Thanks for stating the obvious. What people are suggesting is for variety but not insanity :saywhat:

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Thanks for stating the obvious. What people are suggesting is for variety but not insanity :saywhat:

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Unfortunately not obvious to some!

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Originally Posted by Nick[Supercell]

No old tasks were removed, or changed. :) We added 9 new production tasks, and the one new visitor task. Nothing has changed, only more options.

Cheers,

Nick

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That isn't true at all, everything has changed, just nobody will admit they truly screwed the pooch with this idiotic new task.

You have added 9 new production tasks, great, you also added this stupid task and this is coming from a player in myself who has never taken a town task in derby history. What you have done us create massive clutter. You say they added 9 production tasks + this incoherent serve sane character task to hit 10 new tasks.

Now you need to realize you have added close to 120+ new tasks and I'm probably short changing that #. Each task has X amount of non 320's and those will pop up to create a mess and the true reality behind this character task is to force players to use diamonds to speed up their personal trains to finish this crackbaby task that is now rivaling strawberries & collecting goats milk. You have also removed a large portion of 320 tasks for NH's bc they will be forced to delete 100's and 100's of this stupid character town task.

I havebt seen (1) 320 old school town task yet but I have seen (7) 320 character town task, which have all been deleted. It's simple math, adding 10 new tasks with massive variances on the point values was going to cause major issues, so let's not try and pretend "nothing has changed". I can't even begin to think what SC is going to do in September - November when millions & millions of players hit 40 weeks in Champ League and are done with Derby all together. That's going to be a massive hit to the bottom line when those diamond sales plummet because players won't be forced to buying as many in order to get tasks done.

I can't even begin to think what SC is going to do in September - November when millions & millions of players hit 40 weeks in Champ League and are done with Derby all together. That's going to be a massive hit to the bottom line when those diamond sales plummet because players won't be forced to buying as many in order to get tasks done.[/QUOTE]

Shh!!! Also, I am OK with the update given that the "old" task still is around.

HATE the new town task! I usually do several town tasks every derby and enjoy them. This time I picked the townie for 320. O.m.g. I had to use diamonds to get trains faster and even then I didn't always get a townie. I got at most one and sometimes zero out of eleven passengers! It could take a whole week to do one task if I didn't use diamonds. Wow. I do love the orange trees though. Lol

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That isn't true at all, everything has changed, just nobody will admit they truly screwed the pooch with this idiotic new task.

You have added 9 new production tasks, great, you also added this stupid task and this is coming from a player in myself who has never taken a town task in derby history. What you have done us create massive clutter. You say they added 9 production tasks + this incoherent serve sane character task to hit 10 new tasks.

Now you need to realize you have added close to 120+ new tasks and I'm probably short changing that #. Each task has X amount of non 320's and those will pop up to create a mess and the true reality behind this character task is to force players to use diamonds to speed up their personal trains to finish this crackbaby task that is now rivaling strawberries & collecting goats milk. You have also removed a large portion of 320 tasks for NH's bc they will be forced to delete 100's and 100's of this stupid character town task.

I havebt seen (1) 320 old school town task yet but I have seen (7) 320 character town task, which have all been deleted. It's simple math, adding 10 new tasks with massive variances on the point values was going to cause major issues, so let's not try and pretend "nothing has changed". I can't even begin to think what SC is going to do in September - November when millions & millions of players hit 40 weeks in Champ League and are done with Derby all together. That's going to be a massive hit to the bottom line when those diamond sales plummet because players won't be forced to buying as many in order to get tasks done.

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In a long way you made the precise point.

By adding more other random tasks, the chances of getting decent tasks naturally decreases. The new town task is garbage. I've seen much less 'proper' town tasks now this and the other ones have been introduced.

That means EVEN MORE trashing, yeah; like we didn't need to do that enough already in derby. :rolleyes:

I really hope enough derby players boycott derby diamond spending as a result of these new additions; just makes derby even more painful if your trying to win. And the win rewards aren't anywhere near good enough for the spending required.

I idiotically said I'd do two. So I was trying to stack 18 visitors without knocking any of them out when collecting the first set. Let's just say NEVER AGAIN. It would be 'OK' if you don't like playing town (so happiky send all others away) or in an NH where you can take your time over tasks, but in a 2 person NH where there's only one neighbour to pick up from and time pressure, it'll be a long time before I do two again. One maybe.

I like the concept though, BUT for it to work you need to be able to choose who to release from your building and not play HD Roulette

I have done this task two times now and find it OK. I do have to say though that I am in a reasonably active neighbourhood where some of the members like myself basically exclusively do townies (i.e. never do boats, never do trucks, never do the sheeple that come to the door) and I have my personal train levelled out so I can use it frequently...

It's certainly no reason to quit the game... hang in there, give it a chance, or take other tasks....

I did one of thd new ones. Fun to do, except for asking for stuff not yet opened. Took longer than i would have liked because of tgat. Next week should be fine. I usually do 2 regular town tasks a week, but never stack townies. Since i am constantly working town, i constantly have fully served townies.

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Originally Posted by haydayforum

Just came on to give this same warning.half my townies asking for new products. I should have waited before taking town task

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It is taking forever for me to finish my truck deliveries because everyone wants stuff I can't make yet. Was Supercell short-sighted or devious?

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Originally Posted by ScottietheDog

I havebt seen (1) 320 old school town task yet but I have seen (7) 320 character town task, which have all been deleted.

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I have definitely seen the old 320 "old school" town task you mention so it's absolutely still there... Presumably given the wider range of tasks now it just doesn't come up as much?

We don't mind the new town task. We coordinate so the one who has the most of the required townie takes it and the others release the townies required for the task as soon as we can. We all have our personal trains down to an hour and a half and that helps with picking up the ones that are available.

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It is taking forever for me to finish my truck deliveries because everyone wants stuff I can't make yet. Was Supercell short-sighted or devious?

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Neither. They are not perfect.

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Originally Posted by ScottietheDog

That isn't true at all, everything has changed, just nobody will admit they truly screwed the pooch with this idiotic new task.

You have added 9 new production tasks, great, you also added this stupid task and this is coming from a player in myself who has never taken a town task in derby history. What you have done us create massive clutter. You say they added 9 production tasks + this incoherent serve sane character task to hit 10 new tasks.

Now you need to realize you have added close to 120+ new tasks and I'm probably short changing that #. Each task has X amount of non 320's and those will pop up to create a mess and the true reality behind this character task is to force players to use diamonds to speed up their personal trains to finish this crackbaby task that is now rivaling strawberries & collecting goats milk. You have also removed a large portion of 320 tasks for NH's bc they will be forced to delete 100's and 100's of this stupid character town task.

I havebt seen (1) 320 old school town task yet but I have seen (7) 320 character town task, which have all been deleted. It's simple math, adding 10 new tasks with massive variances on the point values was going to cause major issues, so let's not try and pretend "nothing has changed". I can't even begin to think what SC is going to do in September - November when millions & millions of players hit 40 weeks in Champ League and are done with Derby all together. That's going to be a massive hit to the bottom line when those diamond sales plummet because players won't be forced to buying as many in order to get tasks done.

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You are SO correct. This new task stinks big time. I love the folks who say its OK because it doesn't expire! Great, so we spend all week trying to get one task done! Last week the old 320 train task came up multiple times. Its now Thursday, and it hasn't popped up even once, but the new Creepy Character task has come up over and over and over and .....

If this task-from-hell is going to stay it needs SERIOUS revamping. Don't you guys actually test anyof this stuff before you dump it on us, your customers?

I am currently on this task and frustrated. It's serving the local guy with orange hair. I've used gems to bring in 2 trains and not a single guy was on either of them.

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That isn't true at all, everything has changed, just nobody will admit they truly screwed the pooch with this idiotic new task.

You have added 9 new production tasks, great, you also added this stupid task and this is coming from a player in myself who has never taken a town task in derby history. What you have done us create massive clutter. You say they added 9 production tasks + this incoherent serve sane character task to hit 10 new tasks.

Now you need to realize you have added close to 120+ new tasks and I'm probably short changing that #. Each task has X amount of non 320's and those will pop up to create a mess and the true reality behind this character task is to force players to use diamonds to speed up their personal trains to finish this crackbaby task that is now rivaling strawberries & collecting goats milk. You have also removed a large portion of 320 tasks for NH's bc they will be forced to delete 100's and 100's of this stupid character town task.

I havebt seen (1) 320 old school town task yet but I have seen (7) 320 character town task, which have all been deleted. It's simple math, adding 10 new tasks with massive variances on the point values was going to cause major issues, so let's not try and pretend "nothing has changed". I can't even begin to think what SC is going to do in September - November when millions & millions of players hit 40 weeks in Champ League and are done with Derby all together. That's going to be a massive hit to the bottom line when those diamond sales plummet because players won't be forced to buying as many in order to get tasks done.

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ScottietheDog, YaY! Bravo! Yes! You are absolutely correct on all points!:thumbsup:

I happen to like the new task....perhaps it's just the way I play the game and center it around the derby tasks. It really isn't that bad. May have to change your gameplay some.

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You are SO correct. This new task stinks big time. I love the folks who say its OK because it doesn't expire! Great, so we spend all week trying to get one task done! Last week the old 320 train task came up multiple times. Its now Thursday, and it hasn't popped up even once, but the new Creepy Character task has come up over and over and over and .....

If this task-from-hell is going to stay it needs SERIOUS revamping. Don't you guys actually test any of this stuff before you dump it on us, your customers?

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It took me about 15 hours to serve 9/12 teachers -- maybe less because I slept in there, and when I woke up 4 were ready and the task was done.

The worst part of this task was having to set free the 23 served townies I had stacked, and there was 1 teacher in those. One! GRRRR! But I did it because I wanted to try something new, and see if I could find a way to make this task work for my game.

Is this the blazing-fast 320 DPs/23 townies task we all prepare for, wait for, and love when it pops up?? No. It's not something you can prepare all the way for in advance, and just pick 'em up and move on to the next Derby task.

The specific townie task IS a challenge. It IS a new derby task. It IS something new to do in the town, and it IS achievable in less time than it takes to do some other production or crop tasks. All these things were asked for repeatedly in this update.

Others have rightly pointed out that being in a large NH helps, and having a fully-expanded personal train helps (for maintenance time, not so much for seats). So does having all the machines and products available at your level (an issue for me with tea house and taco stuff while the machines build).

But I was able to complete my teacher task in a reasonable time without a lot of angst by varying my play in a couple of ways:

(1) I Got a Little Help From My Friends: By concentrating on teachers not townies. I used my PT once to pick up 1 teacher, twice to pick up 2, and once to pick up THREE!! Wooo hooo jackpot of educators!! I had 3 teachers in town already, so that's more than I needed for the task. I am not including 3 I pitched from my Eggspress train for wanting 3 buildings and asking for tea and taco things I could not make yet while my machines are building.

(2) I Saw the Light: The way to do the specific townie task is to concentrate on single-stop selected townies.

(3) To Everything (Turn Turn Turn) There Is a Season: I filled my first PTs with as many townies as I could plus the selected teachers, BUT I only SERVED the teachers. This let me pile up salesmen and actresses and ladies and Cowboys. I'll do the next specific character task wih a stable of that character already in town, ready to be selected.

BIG CAVEAT: I do have a fully expanded town hall and personal train, but I don't play the town that much. Mostly I hoard 1-stop served townies for the 320DP/23 townie task and I kick all my Eggspress train visitors out empty handed a few times a day for my neighbors to pick up. So my method won't work for someone who plays the town a lot or who plays it differently from me.

So -- just play with this task if it interests you, trash it if it doesn't. The 320DP/23 townies tasks will come along.

For my game I think I will get ready to do a few of these specific townie tasks for the next derby and see how my plan holds up. :)

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...(2) I Saw the Light: The way to do the specific townie task is to concentrate on single-stop selected townies...

BIG CAVEAT: I do have a fully expanded town hall and personal train...:)

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Thank you Perky for the tips.

I will skip this task because my PT isn't fully maxed out yet; it can pick up ten visitors, but the maintenance time is still 2.5hrs.

With a little strategy the new tasks are entirely possible, I was able to complete 4 during the derby and one of them only took 3 hrs

Agreed it does take a bit of strategy, I am in a neighbourhood where only 2 are active derby players, I completed 3 of these tasks and my hood mate 1, also as said above I do have a maxed PT and we only do the one stop visitors or those that need two short stops, such as grocery store and gift shop etc. I however did have to send a few away as they asked for products I did not have, this was indeed frustrating.

Waaaahhhh....I'm taking my ball and going home. Every time there a change, people come on here, whine and threaten to quit. Nobody cares!

I barely started the town, so I didn't try a clone task. My neighbor who is a bit ahead of me in the town did try one. She had fun trying out how to figure out the best strategy, while the rest of us in the NH kept a lookout for the clones of her selected townie to send to the platform so she could pick them up.

One good point - it added a lot more 320 point tasks to the board
Corresponding bad point - one task for each character makes for a lot more deleted tasks if no one wants to do them

Overall this is the only truly new task. The others are the same tasks with different ingredients. I say thanks SC.

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Why you have to quit the game? Just do not choose it and let other hoodies do it, or delete it if you are in a hood of one :facepalm:. Like me and boat task 320 DPs.

I found this tasks really easy. I recommend this tasks to all player in large neighborhoods of 20+ people, and also have a maxed out personal train. If you're lower lever this just skip it or scrap it

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Originally Posted by pilothaggard

You are SO correct. This new task stinks big time. I love the folks who say its OK because it doesn't expire! Great, so we spend all week trying to get one task done! Last week the old 320 train task came up multiple times. Its now Thursday, and it hasn't popped up even once, but the new Creepy Character task has come up over and over and over and .....

If this task-from-hell is going to stay it needs SERIOUS revamping. Don't you guys actually test anyof this stuff before you dump it on us, your customers?

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Creepy character. LoL. I call them "the floating heads". I have done a few and they are real hard to get done in a timely manner unless you are asking in your nh for a certain shopper to be put on the platform for you. Then there is still the chance you can't accommodate their requests. Not saying I won't do them again but it is a challenge. Some love them, some not so much.

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I found this tasks really easy. I recommend this tasks to all player in large neighborhoods of 20+ people, and also have a maxed out personal train. If you're lower lever this just skip it or scrap it

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I have a decent train, 7 passangers at 1 hr 30 mins; in a large hood.

I still think the task it absolute ♥♥♥♥ and will never do it.

Let's say you pick the mechanic task.

You can pick up 7 visitors from 1 neighbor, and they have 2 mechanics.
You can pick up 5 visitors from another neighbor, they have 3 mechanics.

If your doing mechanics your going to pick the 5 aren't you? Bloody stupid task promoting inefficiency.

I like to have an active town, I'm not letting this stupid task get in the way of that.

I still love the traditional town task, and will jump at the chance to do a 307 or 320 one of those. :)

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Originally Posted by superfanboy666

I dont know why you thought this town visitor change was a good idea but making it a specific visitor needing to be served was just dumb. As an actual gamer I play this game to have a little casual fun in my down time but I play it like a gamer. I have my town full of 42 people full served waiting for the derby to start. well this derby i fully served 42 town visitors and only have 2/8 completion on the derby task.

its basically taking one of the faster derby tasks to now being one of the longest since you have to wait on several hours long train cool downs just to get visitors to your town and even then you wont get enough of the right visitors. so now this task is not only useless but there will be many more derby tasks popping up on the board since there will be one for each individual visitor. basically this change is a derby killed and a way of trying to force people to spend diamonds on rushing trains so they will give you more real money. its disgusting.

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We trash the townspeople from the derby. It's an easy solution.

Still like them

My first 8 tasks this week