Does anyone know why the bats and raccoons do not show up when I try to find and collect the things in the different rooms in those houses where you go to get the coins and points and coffee energy?

I have the same lag with the Animal Rescue jobs... Where the arrow points me to go, the animals do not show up.
The only advice I can give you is to do the other jobs...

I have the same issue with most of my job categories. There is only one category that works anymore, and even that one only works sometimes.

HI tony welcome to the fourms bvg is aware of this it due to the tranfress from zynga!

here it goes... and I am not an expert so ... sorry if you have trouble understanding me.

When BVG got the game it was not in a fully playable state. They got it sort of chopped up because Zynga took out proprietary code before it sold the game to BVG. BVG had to piece meal it back to functioning and some of what they acquired is still being fixed. It is a HUGE process and some of the items and functions that use to work under Zynga will not work now because the code that made them function properly was removed. Now... many things have been patched and retrofitted to work and some just need total recode to run properly. BVG is a small group so searching through Massive amounts of code doesn't happen quickly. The jobs is something they know we want. And they do plan at some point to revamp the jobs system.

Short answer is ... Zynga left jobs sort of broken and BVG did what they could but they can't do it all without breaking something else . Because it is like rubber band balls with gorilla glue holding pieces together Mixed with silly string and chewing gum.

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