Talk:Clash of Clones 2014 Event/@comment-21519-20140822032604/@comment-21519-20140826163429

Duck Lover, Chester was an outgrowth of Simpsons canon: Hibbert once mentioned that he'd hired his brother-in-law to build a shed and the shed never got finished. So he added to the Simpsons story--which is the hook that the game hangs its hat on.

Anon, I guess the castles will eventually generate cash, and the premium decorations do add to the bonus; but they don't fit in with the game at all. All the prizes are good for this event only, which is an unwelcome departure from earlier prize systems. The Halloween and Christmas prize tracks included buildings and characters which would continue to be useful once the events ended. The Stonecutters prizes were all stonecutter-specific, mostly skins for the various characters; and the decorations we got only added to the Vanity rating, which everyone has maxed out 100 times over. But the decorations look cool, at least, and it is kind of fun to play with the stonecutter skins every now and then; I send them all to eat at the lodge once a week or so. The stonecutters also gave us the Daycare and the Abandoned Store, two new pieces of Springfield to include in our landscapes, and the tube slide, which adds a nice touch to the various playgrounds we've all built behind the elementary school or in a park, etc.

Even the horrible Valentine's Day event gave us the Tunnel of Love to help round out Krustyland, and the still worse Easter event gave us new stores, non-playable characters, and, if you were really lucky or just went to Reddit when it was over like I did, playable characters. It also included Crazy Cat Lady on the side.

But all the prizes in this event are much more specific to the event, and since the event's game play is such a departure from the rest of the game, they're probably not going to be well integrated into the game moving forward at all. The various Simpsons family members will retain their new skins if we want to continue assigning them those tasks, but they all have a ton of skins already; and I don't know about you, but since those skins have never appeared on screen I don't expect to want to revisit them after they're done. So when this event is finally over, its only legacy will be a few buildings that don't really belong anyway.