Arachnophobia redemption ending soon

 Don't forget to go through all your requests and make sure you've accepted all spiders that were sent to you, and cash 'em in.

That will leave us with the Against All Odds mission event. What will you be doing with your suddenly- extra time and extra requests to send? I've been sending a lot more mystery bags, and I've been able to return more gifts that are sent to me, and it was nice not to have to pick through spider requests in my gift queue. I'm finding that I have more time to help out on operations, and maybe I'll finally get around to looking at some of the missions. Or hell, maybe I'll just ice some peeps. It's nice to have options on how to spend my game time for once, instead of always just barely being able to keep up with everything!

Arachnophobia ends

I just realized, the Arachnophobia "event" has ended, and they're giving players a few days to cash in on the spiders that they collected.

This leaves me wondering what will be thrown at us next, and your guess is as good as mine.

Yesterday, images of new inventory items surfaced and one of the items refers to an event called "Death and Taxes". Well, here in America at least, the deadline for people to file their annual taxes was this past Monday, but since our taxes are now well behind us, it's hard to say what Zynga has in mind for these items. I guess we shall wait and see...chances are, we won't have to wait long.

Harmless Spiders? little more to it than that...

It seems that what appears to us as yet another annoying gifting spam event, Zynga defines as a loot drop event, as the items come from jobs and fighting, and not solely from gifting. While the explanation still brought a ::facekeyboard:: moment on my part, it was rather what I suspected. The different format of this event from the normal Collect Three Little Piggies gifting events caused Zynga to not recognize this as a "gifting event".

Irksome. But let me proceed.
They call this a loot drop event??

But this is not an event, this is a royal P.I.T.A. How many times have we complained about getting these annoying pop-ups during fights? How many ices have we lost? I've seen more than a few people complaining about it during the current Battle of the Sexes community mock war. This goes back to the first time we saw this gifting format, back at Valentine's Day. It was a dud then, and it's a dud now. It's not exciting, it's not fun.

 

These are nothing short of disrupting to game play. I don't care a bit about asking for spiders, of which I'm already getting too many, while in the middle of fighting, most especially during a mock war.

In the background, once we've closed the giant, annoying pop-up that we've found another frikken spider, is yet another notification of it. Of course, that doesn't mean you got two spiders, Zynga was just making sure you got the first message.

In reality, if the image immediately above were the only notification I received of a spider or special item dropping, that's fine, that's perfectly adequate, and does not interrupt game play.Be it from fighting or jobbing, how's about just a regular loot drop notification like the above image shows? I wonder how much that would lesson my level of annoyance with some of these events.