Talk:Treehouse of Horror XXV Event/@comment-84.198.98.89-20141012140933/@comment-25021853-20141013030757

Just make sure you have 100 neighbors (or more if you get some neighbors via Facebook) play every 3 or 4 hours (the Grem-Aliens give you 2 Probes if you catch them and they only stay for 4 hours after someone leaves one in your Springfield) if you can, and you get a Rigellian (the little Aliens) every 5 minutes and a maximum of 80 in your town, so after 400 minutes (6 hours and 40 minutes) you are losing out on free Probes. But the Rigellian Hunting License if you can, as it doubles the 90 Probes you get while visiting neighbors. Use and Grem-Aliens you get on as many neighbors as you can, sending one per neighbor, preferably as late at night as you can. Sending one per neighbor increases the number of people likely to return the favor and send one to you, and doing it late, just before you go to sleep increases the chance that some of them will go 4 hours without being caught and give you more Probes (if caught then you get 2 instead of 4, but your neighbor who caught it gets 2 Probes).

Thankfully we have 12 days total to get 8050 Probes, so 750 per day, which is close to what you're doing, will get you there in time. I noticed that things went slow at first, but as more people joined in on the Event I started getting more Probes per day. Even if you miss out on getting enough probes for the Donut Torture Machine you can still craft it, as any prize track items not collected via the Event currency will show up in the Make-A-Thing Workshop for crafting.

The last Event lasted way longer than needed for everyone to finish the prize track, while this one feels like it's too short. Hopefully they will extend it once they see that too many are having trouble finishing in time without spending Donuts. Write to EA Games at help@eagames.com and complain, the more of us that do so, the more likely they will be to extend the Event or give us more of the Event currency and Crafting items.