# The Simpsons: Tapped Out
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** video-games-e-games
**Created:** [December 6, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231 "2012-12-06T21:08:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 15
### Author:  [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/281 "2013-03-14T23:26:55Z")
> [@minionkat](#):
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> I tried to play after work today and it is telling me I need to update. Then the update takes me to Apple’s website and says I need iTunes for this update. I am playing on my Android phone ☹
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> I checked the Google Play store, nothing. I searched the forums, others are having this issue, but no resolution.
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> This is a bummer.
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> I was doing so well, and not buying donuts. I know everyone has finished their tasks, I timed them to be ready for me when I got home from work. I wanted to try out a few things that I read about…
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> Oh well, perhaps there will be a fix soon. Or not, based on what I’ve read.
Weird. I’m playing on Android and I got the update just fine. Got an episode related item.
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### Author:  [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/282 "2013-03-15T02:17:57Z")
I tried again after an hour and it was fine. So strange.
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### Author:  [@Just1Lurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just1Lurk)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/283 "2013-03-16T19:20:47Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#):
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> The donuts seem insanely expensive to me. I mean, if I pay $10 I’d expect to get a nice variety of bonuses, right? $10 lets you buy 132 donuts, which is like ONE special building. Sorry, I’m not going to spend $10 so I can build freaking Lard Lad donuts.
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> But I won’t deny I am slightly tempted by the Golden Scratch-R’s. Anyone buying those?
Yeah, I’ve been buying 1 a week. The payouts have been split pretty much 50/50 between 6 and 9 donuts. My biggest win so far was 30.
Today I bought a ticket, then the game crashed before I could scratch it. When I got back on and played my ticket, I got another one. I’ll let you know later if I got charged twice or if I got a twofer.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/284 "2013-03-17T03:49:46Z")
Two questions and I apologize if they were asked and answered in this thread already.
1. Does it matter what I click on when I visit my friends towns? Should I hunt for “big money” items, or does it more or less give me the same reward no matter what I click on?
2. What exactly triggers the quests? I am above level for several buildings, but their quests have not been triggered. For example, I’m at level 15 and haven’t had the quests to build the church, moe’s, the Java house, the orange house, or even Android’s dungeon.
What kicks off these quests? Can we find out exactly what is required to start certain quests?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/285 "2013-03-17T04:46:50Z")
When you visit friends you need to vandalize the school, Moe’s tavern, the police station or the town hall. If they have a mop symbol, you can clean them. This will raise your Righteousness rating. The five stars in your info bar show you your Conform-O-Meter. Five stars will get you and additional 5% bonus to money and XP.
This info is null and void for special events like we had for Halloween, Christmas and Valentines where clicking on a particular thing in your friend’s towns was the goal.
The game progresses according to quest completions, not your level. Just keep completing the tasks. Sometimes a certain character needs to be free (not on a job) to trigger a task. I usually set all of my characters to work the same length job so when they finish I have them all free at one time.
There is also a [forum](http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/categories/show/233.page) for the game and a [FAQ](https://help.ea.com/article/the-simpsons-tapped-out-faq)by EA that is very helpful.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/286 "2013-03-17T14:07:42Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Two questions and I apologize if they were asked and answered in this thread already.
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> 1. Does it matter what I click on when I visit my friends towns? Should I hunt for “big money” items, or does it more or less give me the same reward no matter what I click on?
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> 2. What exactly triggers the quests? I am above level for several buildings, but their quests have not been triggered. For example, I’m at level 15 and haven’t had the quests to build the church, moe’s, the Java house, the orange house, or even Android’s dungeon.
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> What kicks off these quests? Can we find out exactly what is required to start certain quests?
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> Thanks!
In the forum this thread has all the requirements for each building.
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> Welcome to EA Forums, where you can chat about games with other players, help each other out, share feedback, and report issues you’re having with EA games.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/287 "2013-03-20T14:02:58Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#):
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> Lol go to my town and look at O’Flanagan (by his pub on the NW side)
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> Warning – extremely juvenile
If you do the same with Duffman at the brewery it is even more juvenile. I’m so ashamed.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/288 "2013-03-20T14:38:02Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> In the forum this thread has all the requirements for each building.
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> [http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9043283.page](http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9043283.page)
Thanks for that link. I’ve used it and added a couple buildings.
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/289 "2013-03-22T15:41:59Z")
Update !
Woohoo !
Lenny & Carl !!
…And a Buddhist Temple - just in time for Easter !
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/290 "2013-03-22T15:45:10Z")
I got my tablet back today and I have to start all over again. Wah wah…
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### Author:  [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/291 "2013-03-25T19:54:58Z")
Bah, I just learned about this glitch that allowed you to have infinite donuts… but of course, they’ve already fixed it about a week ago. It involved running a race at the dog track and then doing a Scratch-R while the dogs are running. This would glitch your donuts total into negative numbers, allowing you to buy any premium items you wanted.
If anyone on here hears about other glitches, please share the info! 🙂
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/292 "2013-03-25T22:31:17Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#):
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> Bah, I just learned about this glitch that allowed you to have infinite donuts… but of course, they’ve already fixed it about a week ago. It involved running a race at the dog track and then doing a Scratch-R while the dogs are running. This would glitch your donuts total into negative numbers, allowing you to buy any premium items you wanted.
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> If anyone on here hears about other glitches, please share the info! 🙂
Darn it!!! I was waiting to get to Level 16 to be able to do that. I’m halfway up Level 15 now. Grr…
BTW, love what you did with the stairway/escalator 🙂
ETA: But wait a sec, if you didn’t take advantage of that glitch, how in the heck did you get the stairway? Isn’t it like a gazillion dollars?
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### Author:  [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/293 "2013-03-26T04:51:09Z")
It’s only $1 million. 🙂
Once your town gets bigger and you can build a butt load of houses, a million isn’t all that much. I think it took me about a week to save up for the escalator.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/294 "2013-03-26T13:18:52Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#):
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> It’s only $1 million. 🙂
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> Once your town gets bigger and you can build a butt load of houses, a million isn’t all that much. I think it took me about a week to save up for the escalator.
Yeah, I noticed some people have “slums” comprised of house stacked together really tightly. My feng shui just won’t allow that. I have to at least put a street in between each row of houses.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/295 "2013-03-26T18:59:43Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Yeah, I noticed some people have “slums” comprised of house stacked together really tightly. My feng shui just won’t allow that. I have to at least put a street in between each row of houses.
I agree. I hate the look of house farms. I’ve deleted friends with them just because they look ugly.
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### Author:  [@Just1Lurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just1Lurk)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/296 "2013-03-30T15:30:59Z")
Whoo-Hoo! I just bought my weekly golden lottery ticket, and not only did I get the twofer glitch again, on the bonus ticket I won 50 donuts!
Not only that, I finally saved up enough money to buy the toothpick skyscraper!
And I hate the look of house farms, too.
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### Author:  [@notipping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notipping)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2013, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/297 "2013-03-31T11:22:50Z")
resting666, and i’m up to level 15.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/298 "2013-03-31T16:53:05Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> I agree. I hate the look of house farms. I’ve deleted friends with them just because they look ugly.
I kind of need them(I put them in the southern section of town) so I can reach the high levels and so forth. Once I do, they will be reduced and the town will be re-zoned.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/299 "2013-03-31T22:14:25Z")
Rumors are the next special event will be for Whacking Day (May 10).
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/300 "2013-04-01T17:51:03Z")
I have one area where two brown houses and a white house are all in a small area, but I don’t want to do the house farms either as much as I can help it. I think I’ll replace houses with the other buildings as my Springfield gets bigger and I get more buildings. When I travel to the neighboring Springfield, a lot of the space is used up with the street – the Cletus farm is completely surrounded by street for instance. It looks nice, but it’s also a lot of street.
I did have a thought to make one street and have it spiral all around. It would be fun to try, but it also seems obnoxious if a character is way at one end and has to reach a destination on the other.
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