How Whacking Day Can Be Improved (For Future Reference)

[mitsuhoney]

How do you want EA to improve on Whacking Day for next year? Share your ideas with us here!

Here are some of my thoughts:

Allow Mass Egg Drop: Allow users to enter neighbors town and while in Baton Mode, tap the eggs which would bring a pop up that each user will manually type the number of eggs that they want to give to that neighbor

Allow Egg Drops With Names: Allow users who enter Baton Mode to get a pop up that says, "[Insert name here] has dropped [insert amount here] in your town! Start Whacking!"

Allow Arrows And Shaded Areas In Baton Mode: When you enter Baton Mode, all characters, buildings, decorations will be shaded and small arrows would be placed over each egg and snake that is in your town (eggs will have a small white arrow and snake will have a small orange arrow)

Expand More With The Speakers: Put the Speakers as one of the Whacking Day prizes, but expand on it more as in when you tap them, all the snake in your town will come toward the speakers in a much faster motion such as the way the leprechaun does when you tap him

Offer Easier Snake And Egg Collection As Premium Content: The issue about this event was the amount of tapping that we had to do, so why not have an "Expert Egg Collector License" and "Expert Snake Collector License" as premium content? What do they do? Simply put, the "Expert Egg Collector License" will automatically crack open all the eggs in your town and release the snake or extra eggs from them rather than you having to tap on each one. The "Expert Snake Collector License" will automatically whack all of the snake in your town rather than you having to continuously scroll through your entire town looking for all the annoying pain-in-the-butts...

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I only say this as, thinking back on how annoying this event was, how much better it could be improved especially considering the amount of content we will have by next year (and how more expanded our towns would be) just thought these ideas might help make the event easier for people. So what are your thoughts?

[Coffretdo]

I agree with the mass egg drop and the name label. It would have been nice knowing who came to your town and dropped eggs so that you can reciprocate.

I would understand that EA would not have a licence thatwould allow you to collect everything at once, since this ia a tapping game.

[JustForFunzo]

A couple more:

Make the Expert Whacking License the first prize so that you can start whacking snakes earlier.

Make the Snake Rocks an earlier prize (flip it with Gymnastics Lisa if they don't want to give it second).

Give Bart and Marge WD quests (if they had them at Christmas and Halloween, why not WD?)

A better story line, perhaps? The two memorable ones (to me) have been Halloween and Valentines day (though I was sick for the Christmas one and may have forgotten the story line). I barely even remember the Whacking Day storyline, other than Lisa complaining about it incessantly.

[mitsuhoney]

The Christmas story sucks to me... but I agree they need to add Marge and Bart to more story lines... I feel like EA pushes them to the side so much...

[Pie Man]

one that seems kind of logic for me would be automatically move the egg to the next spot, so that you could just tap the screen and it would go dropping in a line. Clash of Clans does that with walls, it works well and would make egg dropping much easier

[badgerspoon]

In the show, this was an event that EVERYONE in town participated in (except Lisa). It would have been nice for each character to have snake-related task, even the premium ones: Wiggum whacking them with his nightstick, Ralphie burning them with magnifying glass, even Mr. Plow running them down with his plow, etc. certainly would have made for a more inclusive event with a bit more variety.