Tom

I have seen many opinions scattered out over many threads but it's so spread out I wanted to ask in one thread. I should have done a poll I guess. But...

Do you prefer Tom to stay the way he is now always bringing 9 items and having to wait 2 hours if you don't take his options.

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Do do you want him fixed to the way he operated before the update.

I like always having 9 items but personally I prefer the way he was before the update. I liked the 2 minute wait as I often change my mind after the initial send off. Especially since it takes him so long to make the run. To much time to reconsider my original request I guess. The chance on him coming back with 7 items doesn't outweigh a 2 minute wait for me.

I prefer the 9 item Tom. I am more likely to purchase him now, knowing it won't be a HUGE time waster every time he brings back 7....

He's much better now. I can't understand why the lower offers are even offered. Who would want to take less of an item they are after?

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Originally Posted by VickyD

He's much better now. I can't understand why the lower offers are even offered. Who would want to take less of an item they are after?

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I like him now.

i think when I was a new farmer, I could only afford the fewer amounts, so I would take the lower offers. Or, I did not know any better.

I have a baby farm going on my old phone for refreshing my memory on things like this, but I am not at the free Tom trial level yet.

I'll go with something in between...just 8 or 9 offered, no 7. I would always take the 8, but never the 7.

I so much prefer the way he brings 9 of an item now.
I don't even have to check. Box #3 has 9 items. Not 8, not 7
If I wanted lesser items I could choose one of the other 2 options.

And If I have paid diamonds for him I certainly want as much as he can bring.

The Tom we have now -- DEFINITELY!!

At this point in the evolution of the game, I see no reason to have Tom offer anything other than 9 items. I imagine that when SC first developed him, the options made sense. (Do I remember him offering as few as 4 items a long while back?) Originally, the options may have been a meaningful part of the resource management model rewarding those who paid attention to detail and logged in frequently.

As I read it, here are the excuses for offering less than the maximum:

• New farmers who may not have been able to afford 9 of the item
• Those of us who didn't pay attention to item price and hadn't figured out that buying things from Tom was always a bargain (same folks who maybe assumed that the Daily Deal in the newspaper really is a bargain)
• Encourage sticking around--or coming back every two minutes--to get a better offer

At this point, there are plenty of other features that require decision-making. Dealing with Tom's options is just annoying. There is plenty of drama and adrenaline involved in trying to get the most out of the time he on the payroll.

For those who change their minds after sending him on his initial run, he could still come back and offer a choice of accepting or rejecting what he brought.

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

The Tom we have now -- DEFINITELY!!

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Plus one 👍🏻👍🏻

I prefer 9 item tom

9 items tom ❤

why choose 9 items or sleep for 2 minutes if we still have one other option? I vote for the next update Tom always bring 9 items and sleep for 2 minutes if we change our mind

i prefer 9 item tom. i had to train myself to make a decision and stick to it, and sometimes i do wait a few minutes until for instance new orders load to the truck board - but it's worth the trade off to me.

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

At this point in the evolution of the game, I see no reason to have Tom offer anything other than 9 items. I imagine that when SC first developed him, the options made sense. (Do I remember him offering as few as 4 items a long while back?) Originally, the options may have been a meaningful part of the resource management model rewarding those who paid attention to detail and logged in frequently.

As I read it, here are the excuses for offering less than the maximum:

• New farmers who may not have been able to afford 9 of the items
• Those of us who didn't pay attention to item price and hadn't figured out that buying things from Tom was always a bargain (same folks who maybe assumed that the Daily Deal in the newspaper really is a bargain)
• Encourage sticking around--or coming back every two minutes--to get a better offer

At this point, there are plenty of other features that require decision-making. Dealing with Tom's options is just annoying. There is plenty of drama and adrenaline involved in trying to get the most out of the time he on the payroll.

For those who change their minds after sending him on his initial run, he could still come back and offer a choice of accepting or rejecting what he brought.

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YES, you do :( Who is going to buy Tom and take 4 things, duh!!

I agree that the game has changed, and that Tom should ALWAYS offer 9. It is a real pain in the buttered popcorn to hire him and send him off repeatedly for the same thing, because he only offers 7 items. And ditto on his next run, and the next -- NO THANK YOU!!

With a farm and a town and a fishing area and more machines to manage, it is easier for me to make or buy the stuff myself than chase the elusive 9-items fetch with Tom! So for me, having to reject offers of 7/8 and wait for Tom was a HUGE discouragement to hire him, and I didn't hire him at all on my farm for about a year.

After Tom was reptigrammed to bring 9 items every time, I have hired him many times on my farm at my own expense -- several times for 10 days.

If Tom goes back to his old stingy ways, I will probably only get him if I have a free booster.

Tom as he is now.

It's not difficult to decide what you want him to bring.

Mixing it up involves SC doing some work on it. Leaving it as it is doesn't. Let's just leave it as it is. Better still, stop doing threads on it & they'll forget about it :saywhat::facepalm:

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Originally Posted by SmallChange

Tom as he is now.

It's not difficult to decide what you want him to bring.

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Ditto!

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Originally Posted by SmallChange

Mixing it up involves SC doing some work on it. Leaving it as it is doesn't. Let's just leave it as it is. Better still, stop doing threads on it & they'll forget about it :saywhat::facepalm:

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LOL. But they probably won't forget, haha. :)

Actually, supercell did modify some glitches in the past and turned them into enhancements, perhaps based on user feedback. An example is the movie ticket glitch that's now become a regular daily reward.

Hopefully SC can change Tom to a permanent 9 diamond max and just remove the option for none of them. That would be ideal, IMO. They could still leave 3/5/9 or whatever the low end choices are, as long as there isn't an option for none.

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Originally Posted by shepherdgirl

Hopefully SC can change Tom to a permanent 9 diamond max and just remove the option for none of them. That would be ideal, IMO. They could still leave 3/5/9 or whatever the low end choices are, as long as there isn't an option for none.

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That makes sense to me. When I first started playing I was afraid to tap that "none of them button.

And the only time I have ever requested something different from my original ask was when Tom kept coming back with lowball offers for the same thing. It seemed to wake him up a bit and often he would come back with 9 of the new requested item right away.

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Originally Posted by xaimaster

why choose 9 items or sleep for 2 minutes if we still have one other option? I vote for the next update Tom always bring 9 items and sleep for 2 minutes if we change our mind

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Well this would be the perfect Tom!

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Originally Posted by GpoppyZ

Well this would be the perfect Tom!

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The PERFECT Tom would not twitch and twerk :P

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

The PERFECT Tom would not twitch and twerk :P

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Haha very good Perky :)

The present tom. 100%

I want to keep the current Tom, where he always fetches 9 items. I've hired Tom a lot more ever since that change. And by hire Tom I mean by paying him Diamonds, not the free Tom cards.

I'm paying him more than I ever have before. Get me some Blankets Tom, go!