Guide to Glitches (Tiles, Stage, Farm, TV6)

[brettolmsted]

brettolmsted ‘s Guide to Glitches (Tiles, Stage, Farm, TV6)


Okay, since we have witnessed the advent of “Tile-gate"), which has many of us frantically tapping each other’s SP tiles, staggering our neighbor visits, and pm-ing each other in order to ensure we maximize our profit, I thought I would explore other possible glitches for buildings in the past that just did not make any sense to tap on (this also comes with a big heads up from @ray):

- SP Tile
- Open Air Stage
- Cletus Farm (yes I know you could revive a dead crop)
- Channel 6

Here is how it works to ensure you get the maximum number of XP, etc:

With Tiles:
If you enter a friends SF and tap on your friends tile,
then they enter their SF and collect that tile,
if you go back to their SF and then tap the tile again
THEN your friend gets a second tile then they collect

Of course that pattern can be repeated a third time as well for a total of 3 tiles

If you just were to tap, leave, tap, leave, tap you would get more XP, but would only be giving your neighbor 1 tile (and 1 is still good), whereas if you stagger your visits (visit in the morning, afternoon, and at night) it gives them an opportunity to log in and clear their tile (hence why many are pm-ing each other).


However, this also works for the Open Air Stage. For example, I had Moleman doing his 24 hour musical and used a feeder town of mine to tap on his completed task head. I then exited from my feeder town and then also resynced my main town (I had two iPads side by side). I then reentered from my feeder town, tapped, and excited – then resynced my main town, and repeated for a third time. (Note: I did not tap the handshake to clear it, I only resynced). Here is what I got:




That is a whole of lot of XP I will be collecting meaning that I will get the “Bonus Level” quicker and that means 3 Free Donuts!

Since @ray told me that, I decided to try it with Cletus’ Farm using the same pattern:



Then I saw @ray did it also for Channel 6:


So what does this all mean? Here is my advice:

1) If you can stagger your visits to help your friends (or pm them) to maximize the tile glitch, then that is probably the most beneficial as tiles take so long to make
2) However, if you can only visit one time per day to your friends then I recommend that you make sure you use your 3 taps to TAP these four buildings
3) That means that we need to not clear our buildings so friends can tap (no word yet on if the farm crop will expire, but if people are constantly tapping it, then it should not die – CAN YOU IMAGINE THE EXTRA XP ON A CORN CROP HARVEST!?!

Note: The tapper only get the usual minimum Cash/XP when tapping the farm/channel 6/stage, but it is a great benefit to your friends.

[Granny]

So now I tap tile, farm, channel 6, open air stage? Got it.

[A Bad Example]

Having played with this a bit I am not sure it is worth the effort unless you have real time communication with your neighbors.

Someone taps, you synch, see one handshake
Someone taps, you have to synch to see a second; and get a handshake from a third. And so on.

If you have multiple towns, or can coordinate with someone, great. Otherwise, not so good.

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Open Air Stage ready in my town!

[gkpiggy]

So, tiles seem to give a big XP boost for the tapper. Tapping the other ones, though, seem to give the usual small amount. Am I incorrect here? I'm tapping tiles always first then the others if no tile available.

[brettolmsted]

Nov 10, 2013 21:34:47 GMT -5 gkpiggy said:

So, tiles seem to give a big XP boost for the tapper. Tapping the other ones, though, seem to give the usual small amount. Am I incorrect here? I'm tapping tiles always first then the others if no tile available.

yes you are correct, tapping the tile give the tapper huge XP and is therefore more beneficial them the tapper. The other 3 help the receiver more so

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Nov 10, 2013 13:05:36 GMT -5 @tdpreys said:

Open Air Stage ready in my town!

And tapped my handshake...
24hours! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!
Thank u Brett and piggy for tapping it and two other members I forgot their names.
Next channel 6 and hopefully before they fix it open Air stage and in 17 days my corrn...

[tom7363]

Nov 11, 2013 0:00:17 GMT -5 @tdpreys said:

Next channel 6 and hopefully before they fix it open Air stage and in 17 days my corrn...

Do you think that using this glitch after building the corn can be a legal replacement
of the housefarming for those who use it :
Less space and should generate same money and XP

Would be a positive side effect

I still hope that it's not a bug but a feature and no fix is planned by EA.

[brettolmsted]

Nov 11, 2013 17:06:49 GMT -5 tom7363 said:

Nov 11, 2013 0:00:17 GMT -5 @tdpreys said:

Next channel 6 and hopefully before they fix it open Air stage and in 17 days my corrn...

Do you think that using this glitch after building the corn can be a legal replacement
of the housefarming for those who use it :
Less space and should generate same money and XP

Would be a positive side effect

I still hope that it's not a bug but a feature and no fix is planned by EA.

that would be great and would definitely help alleviate house farming, I just do not know if EA will continue to allow this

[tom7363]

Just cleared my channel 6 by tapping around

Did anyone check if some krusty land building is equipped with the same feature?

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Nov 13, 2013 23:55:01 GMT -5 tom7363 said:

Just cleared my channel 6 by tapping around

Did anyone check if some krusty land building is equipped with the same feature?

I think it doesn't work for buildings with normal payouts, only for buildings with “jobs“.

[tom7363]

Nov 14, 2013 0:18:48 GMT -5 @tdpreys said:

I think it doesn't work for buildings with normal payouts, only for buildings with “jobs“.

This makes sense.
Never thought about this, but indeed exist 3 different types of buildings :
a) buildings that give you something each some hours (normal buildings)
b) buildings where you can trigger a task after some hours (e.g. Sideshow you)
c) and building where you trigger something with a task (e.g. Channel 6)

E-Mart would be a mix-up of a and b.
Friends could only tap on type a and c.
and finally the EA feature works only for type c.

Understood now.

And finally i killed my aquidport tile again, so lets wait 3 days now

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An ea feature, lol

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This glitch just doesn't work right. For the most part, I now only get one tap from neighbors. Channel 6 and the stage registered a whole 5 taps yesterday. And channel 6 would only ever show one tap. So many neighbors visited and only a single tap to show they were there. I asked some of my neighbors what they saw from me yesterday and it was 0-1 tap. (My tile is gone and I'm growing corn. ) So I'm done. I've missed out on 2 taps per neighbor and it really adds up. I'll either constantly clear the stage and channel 6 or not put anyone on stage/start channel 6. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

[brettolmsted]

Nov 14, 2013 4:59:40 GMT -5 @ray said:

This glitch just doesn't work right. For the most part, I now only get one tap from neighbors. Channel 6 and the stage registered a whole 5 taps yesterday. And channel 6 would only ever show one tap. So many neighbors visited and only a single tap to show they were there. I asked some of my neighbors what they saw from me yesterday and it was 0-1 tap. (My tile is gone and I'm growing corn. ) So I'm done. I've missed out on 2 taps per neighbor and it really adds up. I'll either constantly clear the stage and channel 6 or not put anyone on stage/start channel 6. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

I saw you had posted this and I agree that the glitch is nowhere as good as the tile glitch, but even that glitch for many people exhibited the same tendencies wherein they could not accumulate more than two handshakes. The issue with the farm/6/stage glitch you are describing is pretty accurate with me as well. However, since I have 5 low-level feeder towns (I had started them before I knew about the forums and inviting lots of neighbors and when I created them they were my, and my wife's, only friends) I can follow my guide and sit down easily exploit this glitch (I also use 2 iPads and 1 iPhone). I just enter my main towns tap them and resync all devices. I did it last night and my wife got $45,000 (which is good, as she only has $450,000 total). I did not even collect after each visit, just resynced, and the handshakes stacked up.

So it does work, but you have to be constantly checking your SF to not "miss" any handshakes. And again, everyone's towns seem to be acting differently.

[tom7363]

In fact now i was loosing taps overnight.

Got some strange behaviour for cletus farm. Moonshine was ready.
The taps added up and (for the moment) i learnt my lesson to keep always the last 2 handshakes to not tap away by accident. Thanks for the advice rollo1986
Worked well, sometimes 3 taps or 4 taps there i clicked down to 2 and so on.

Now i left my town last night both, channel 6 and cletus farm, with 2 taps on each.
And back in the morning i had on channel 6 totally 3 taps, that's normal thing, but on the farm was only 1 tap left, so in fact i was loosing taps when going out of my town and in again after some hours.
And i am sure that i didnt tap it away.

Did anyone else notice loosing of handshakes, i only read of problems with not adding up and accidentally cleaning of the last tile (and did it too).

Please can one of my neighbours tap my farm and sent me a PM to see if the handshakes got frozen at 1 tap or growing up again.
Will give a update then.

Update :
Just got some new tap on the farm and the count of taps is now 2. So it seems only a tap was lost and no new growing of the moonshine required.

Thats EA, even a bug they can program it right

[brettolmsted]

Nov 15, 2013 0:30:28 GMT -5 tom7363 said:

In fact now i was loosing taps overnight.

Got some strange behaviour for cletus farm. Moonshine was ready.
The taps added up and (for the moment) i learnt my lesson to keep always the last 2 handshakes to not tap away by accident. Thanks for the advice rollo1986
Worked well, sometimes 3 taps or 4 taps there i clicked down to 2 and so on.

Now i left my town last night both, channel 6 and cletus farm, with 2 taps on each.
And back in the morning i had on channel 6 totally 3 taps, that's normal thing, but on the farm was only 1 tap left, so in fact i was loosing taps when going out of my town and in again after some hours.
And i am sure that i didnt tap it away.

Did anyone else notice loosing of handshakes, i only read of problems with not adding up and accidentally cleaning of the last tile (and did it too).

Please can one of my neighbours tap my farm and sent me a PM to see if the handshakes got frozen at 1 tap or growing up again.
Will give a update then.

Update :
Just got some new tap on the farm and the count of taps is now 2. So it seems only a tap was lost and no new growing of the moonshine required.

Thats EA, even a bug they can program it right

What happened with your farm was the crop spoiled and therefore you lost the two taps. Then someone someone came along and must've tapped it to revive it giving you your one handshake back. This is what most likely happened

[Fraggle]

I discovered the spoiled crop issue a couple days ago. I think I lost three handshakes based on the other buildings. As of this morning I am moving my farm to it's new permanent home. I like this glitch on some level for the convenience of not having to remember to set these items, however with the low visitation rate since we are in between major events it's not really worth it at this point.

I was mostly using it for the XP to get doughnuts between levels. I don't need the cash and I think it's probably requires too much monitoring for the amount of XP I get from it.

[brettolmsted]

Nov 15, 2013 11:04:57 GMT -5 Fraggle said:

I discovered the spoiled crop issue a couple days ago. I think I lost three handshakes based on the other buildings. As of this morning I am moving my farm to it's new permanent home. I like this glitch on some level for the convenience of not having to remember to set these items, however with the low visitation rate since we are in between major events it's not really worth it at this point.

I was mostly using it for the XP to get doughnuts between levels. I don't need the cash and I think it's probably requires too much monitoring for the amount of XP I get from it.

I completely understand and I moved my items back to their permanent locations as well. If I get handshakes, i welcome them, but if not, I do not stress about it. I do not need the money, but like the XP. I also just log into my feeder towns once a day now and use them to tap my buildings so if I want to continue to do that, I can guarantee some taps. It's a cool "glitch" but it requires a lot of extra work for a couple of donuts. But if you are cash-straped, it's a great glitch

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Dark, tapped your corn. Did it work? How much payout?

[Dark]

Just checked and I didn't see your tap.

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Nov 20, 2013 13:28:47 GMT -5 Dark said:

Just checked and I didn't see your tap.

Not a single handshake?

[Dark]

The only tap showing was another neighbor.

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Nov 20, 2013 13:51:44 GMT -5 Dark said:

The only tap showing was another neighbor.

That's probably me.

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Guess who tapped his channel 6...