Board Thread:Casual Discussion/@comment-24326377-20140207141140/@comment-21519-20140213001719

Halloween featured a very popular prize system. Christmas reused that system and have us a far less popular wheel. Now we've brought back the unpopular element and eliminated the popular one. The wheel claims to be fairer this time, but I don't believe it. I won seven different prizes in my first nine or ten spins, and I've been stuck at seven ever since. Yesterday I did everything I could think of and came up with 1000 hearts in one day. And what did that get me? Fences five straight times. Fences I can't use with regular buildings because they look ridiculous, but I have to find room for them somehow, because they can't be sold or otherwise discarded. Ditto all those stupid fountains and ponds and gazebos, which take up a lot of space. Say what you will about the Christmas wheel, but those boring snowmen needed very little room, and the useless lights needed none at all. And once you'd won a prize it was gone. Imagine being stuck with dozens of Bart snowmen?

Really, not one of these prizes is worth having. At first I thought the train was the one Homer restored for their anniversary while Marge watched Downton Abbey with Seth McFarlane. That would be cool to have, but it's actually a character from a Valentine Lisa sent to Ralph? Who cares? Who would want any of this crap? I suppose it improves your vanity rating, but that's true of almost everything in this game. I've maxed out Vanity ten times over by now, I'm sure.

I would like to have the Tunnel of Love, but with this wheel being as it is, not only do I not believe I'll ever get it, I feel like it's a toy on a string being dangled in front of a cat or something and pulled back as soon as we jump for it. And it's not like I need the Tunnel. Sending Marge to Krustyland would have been helpful when I was still building it and needed everyone to earn tickets; but now that I've finished it, the only person I ever send there is the Squeaky Voiced Teen, and he only when I want everyone doing four-hour jobs. (He doesn't have one in Springfield but does have one there.) If I sent Marge to Krustyland, I'd eventually exchange the tickets she earned for money, so why shouldn't I just leave her in Springfield where she can earn money anyway?

Otherwise, visiting my neighbors is terrible now; the game keeps crashing during a visit. Also, every third town isn't giving out Valentines, and if they're not, I can't even get money from their buildings in the usual way. I do get money when friends visit me, but I've got nothing to spend it on, because the new decorations are all pointless lovey-dovey pieces of nonsense exactly like the prizes I'm already drowning in from the wheel. And all but one of the buildings are premium, and expensive premium at that. I don't have much real-life money these days, and even if I did I wouldn't buy donuts during this event; I refuse to risk encouraging EA to do another one like it.

In fact, I think I'm done with this event altogether. I will not visit my neighbors, and I will not spin the wheel, and I will not chase the Tunnel of Love. Really I should give everyone their longest jobs and not log in till the event's over, but I've played every day since I started back in July and I know I don't have it in me to break my habit that completely.