The previous ‘What We Want To See’ on this game was quite a while ago now and we’re pleased as punch to see that some of the wishes have come true.
So, here we push our luck and ask that the rest of the stuff we wanted gets put into the game along with this new list here!
Buildings
Hal Roach Apartment
This building (which is meant to be released with Jacqueline Bouvier (Marge’s mother)) has been sitting in the game files for a long time. It might not be the most exciting building or character, but while we have it downloaded to our devices anyway, we may as well be allowed to use it!
Marvin Monroe’s Family Therapy Center
A setting for one of the earliest episode’s classic sequences with a character who has a lot of scope for tasks around town.
Stonecutters Lodge
It would be great to have Number One voiced. A lot of Springfielders belong to this club, and it might be fun to see a task where Lenny gives commands to Mr Burns. Although, it may be more accurate to call them the ‘The Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers’.
Cockamamie’s
They could still make the mall into an expansion! John is a character who should have appeared in more episodes. His main task has to be to ‘ZZZAAP’ people.
Temple Beth Springfield
And perhaps a few other of the Lower East Side’s Jewish businesses with Rabbi Hyman Krustofski.
Characters
Roy
Whatever happened to Roy?
Coyote
Homer’s spirit guide was as memorable an animal character as Stampy and opens up some pretty far out tasks.
Hell’s Satans
At least Meathook and Ramrod anyway.
Artie Ziff
Marge’s high school sweetheart who never really got over her.
Jacques
Another romantic distraction for Marge.
Sam and Larry
There’s not much these guys can do besides stumble around in a drunken stupor, but at least Barney won’t be so lonely.
Ruth and Laura Powers
The rightful owners of the much misused brown house.
Mr. Bergstrom
Lisa’s fantastic teacher. Although, the running gag that she never sees him again might get ruined.
Chester Lampwick
Another character who deserved more episode appearances. He could come with his solid gold house.
The Nerds
Benjamin, Doug and Gary.
Charlie
Homer’s co-worker who often has runs of bad luck.
Stewart
Another of Homer’s co-workers.
Medicine Woman
One of her tasks would obviously be to point in directions.
Decorations
Volkswagon Beetle
The only car this man could afford. (He should come with it)
Gummi Venus De Milo
As it is in its display case, not stuck to a bum.
Tasks
Evil Homer
As Homer’s grave is now a decoration it just seems mad not to give Homer the task to dance on it.
One hour task for Drederick Tatum
Maybe he could be another of the list of characters who fights with Homer.
Features
Better Character Locator
Is this too cheeky? They gave us a character locator to help us find the people faster, but it’s still not amazing. The biggest fault with it is that it doesn’t include characters that are on task. In one way that’s good, because you can go through everyone and put them on jobs and know that everyone is busy when the button disappears. In another way, it’s hugely frustrating if you want to find a busy character to see how much longer they’ve got until they finish what they are doing. It has become even more frustrating recently as they’ve stopped you from being able to find characters on quests by using the task menu, by replacing the ‘Do it’ button with a donut-spend-and-speed-up one.
An Auto Collector
It might take some of the spirit out of the game to have the money and XP generated by your buildings automatically collected while you’re not playing, but it’s also helpful to those who can only log on once a day.
I’d probably lean towards the idea of keeping the collecting for players actively logging on and making them effort, but to re-use the Christmas idea where tapping on the elves house made the little helpers come out and grab everything for you. It should be a character task for perhaps some of the civil servants to be able to wander around and collect the ‘taxes’ from buildings, saving players from a lot of repetitive tapping in larger towns.
Criminal Activity
There’s a lot of call for Sideshow Bob to become a proper character with tasks in the game. That might mean he needs a character to take his place as the random pop-up criminal. There are a few potential candidates. In the game’s original form it was Snake who was going to take that role until they decided to make him a proper character.
A new feature could be the best of both worlds. Criminals could all be permanent residents in the Penitentiary able to escape either at random times as they currently do, or with a task. While they are free they can perform tasks just like any other character earning cash and XP, but causing the players Righteousness Conformity bonus to drop. To get the conformity back, Wiggum, Lou and Eddie (perhaps Rex Banner too) could have tasks to bring them back in.
If you don’t choose to set them free, they can randomly escape and act just like Sideshow Bob currently does, letting you tap them for cash and capturing them.
