Talk:Santa's Tasks/@comment-25599560-20141213152343/@comment-25021853-20141214055616

Elk950: good point, I have most of the Premium Characters, but many players will have none. I counted and there are 9 regular (non-Premium) characters available (7 unlocked during the tunnels, plus Homer and Lisa) so only very low level characters will need 3 shifts, and even then it's 17 hours total (13 hours if you have all 9 regular characters, 9 hours if extra characters not listed yet get unlocked in time to make 17 or more characters who can make toys), longer than most Tunnels, but still gives a 7 hour margin to finish in time, 11 hours if you have at least 9 you making characters.

Undeguy:  sorry, didn't mean to imply that you hadn't read ahead, just wanted to use it as an opportunity to share some advice. We all make mistakes, I was late getting the update for this Event, so once I finally got the Elf Cave I started all the unlocked Tunnels at the same time, so I wound up spending Donuts to finish some in time. If I had taken a second I would have realized that the countdown timer for the 100 Presents bonus wouldn't start till I started the first task in each Tunnel. On the upside, I did get a bunch of Elves quickly and all the bonus Presents, which helped make up for starting the Event late (I was waiting for an automatic update, not expecting that I would have to go to my app store for a manual update).