# The Simpsons: Tapped Out **URL:** \ **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:** 176
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3504 "2014-09-03T01:07:35Z")
I’ve been done for a day or two. I know I played more than most people, but I didn’t grind on purpose (played because it was fun and I had the time) and I didn’t spend donuts to speed it up. It’s going to be a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong month. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3505 "2014-09-03T02:36:46Z")
I have every character in the game and I currently have all of them doing an outdoor, visible activity. If anyone cares. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3506 "2014-09-03T03:01:26Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I have every character in the game and I currently have all of them doing an outdoor, visible activity. If anyone cares. Cool, I checked it out. I love your town 🙂 I am jealous of everything having a nice big yard. All my land is picked tight. My fave of your characters right now is Hans Moleman. He is just trying to take a photograph and he keeps getting hit in the nuts with a frisbee! I got startled by the random giant grasshoppers 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3507 "2014-09-03T07:25:40Z")
How are some people getting so much gold? I’m playing pretty frequently. I always place five individual raiders on other springfield, use d20s on non friend castles, scatter a number of individual raiders through friend and non friend cities apart from early morning here (between midnight and 4 am in the us) when I attack non friend castles with enough nerds to take it out in 4 hours. Seemed like a decent way to play but I only have 11k gold compared to some of my friends with over 30k! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3508 "2014-09-03T11:53:58Z")
I think the non-friend castles pay out more, so die-killing those is better. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3509 "2014-09-03T14:54:40Z")
I also feel like when this is over in a week or two, I’m going to be left with a LOT of space taken up by castles that seem an odd fit in the town and otherwise are just kinda there. They won’t yield anything special long-term. Like the pet cemeteries and ice sculptures and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![ekweizn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7c8e57/32.png) [@ekweizn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekweizn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3510 "2014-09-03T16:23:42Z")
> [@ColdPhoenix](#): > > How are some people getting so much gold? > > …when I attack non friend castles with enough nerds to take it out in 4 hours… I think this is your problem. Just attack with one and you’re likely to have many more nerds to spread around. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3511 "2014-09-03T17:43:27Z")
> [@Apocalypso](#): > > Looking at other people’s level 43 towns and parks, how long does it take (roughly) to get that high? 6 months? A year? more? The amount of stuff you get by level 43 is pretty impressive but the limited interaction has me wondering how long I can sustain it. I’ve played games like this before and I tend to go maybe 3-4 months at most before it starts to feel too much like work. I got to Level 43 while playing between the end of March and beginning of September. I didn’t have any friends until June, though. Turns out having a bunch of friends helps, at least in the beginning because clicking through friends every day can get you a lot of money. Later on, the amount of money it brings in isn’t significant but then you can get donuts from clicking. Also you can click on friends’ Krustylands to get tickets (instead of their towns) and it helps build up Krustyland - which is what you can do when not building up your town. Or in tandem with it. I didn’t really build my Krustyland up until July or August. But when these special scenarios come up, like the Clash of Clans thing here, you’d better have friends or the game doesn’t hardly even make sense (although they are being good about giving people “invaders” to play against even if you don’t have friends). Anyway, in 3-4 months if you grind a bit and have friends and do all the work, you can get pretty far. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3512 "2014-09-04T00:59:36Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > I also feel like when this is over in a week or two You might be done in a week or two, but the event goes until October 7th. Not sure if that’s what you meant, but I thought I’d clarify ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3513 "2014-09-04T19:26:15Z")
They added a bunch of new items purchasable with elixirs. Damn them, because I just spent 3500 elixirs on a meaningless castle upgrade. But oh well, it won’t take long to get more. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3514 "2014-09-05T00:56:07Z")
Per the TSTO official FB page, level 44 is coming soon. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3515 "2014-09-05T04:41:51Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > They added a bunch of new items purchasable with elixirs. Damn them, because I just spent 3500 elixirs on a meaningless castle upgrade. But oh well, it won’t take long to get more. Meaningless?!? Haven’t you been paying attention to the Simpsons’ dialogue? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3516 "2014-09-05T11:05:24Z")
> [@ekweizn](#): > > I think this is your problem. Just attack with one and you’re likely to have many more nerds to spread around. Thanks, that did it. I guess most people must play a lot less than me as a surprising amount of the attacks are succeeding. Up to 11k now! ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3517 "2014-09-05T12:18:48Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > Per the TSTO official FB page, level 44 is coming soon. Shit, I’m like 20k XP away from getting some donuts, I better step it up. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3518 "2014-09-05T19:45:00Z")
Since this latest update my game locks up at other people’s Springfields. It appears to be mostly others who have not yet been updated, but I’m not 100% certain on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3519 "2014-09-08T20:19:25Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Yeah, I’m already tired of this event. I have spent enough elixir to buy all the walls, towers, banners, hay carts and stockades I really want but it seems pointless to keep upgrading my castles for more and more nerds when I can barely spend them all already. It’ll be nice to get the last couple of prizes for gold, I suppose, but it doesn’t seem like this event needs to go until October. I must not be playing optimally, because I have _miles_ to go. I’m not earning elixir or gold fast enough. I need till October. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3520 "2014-09-08T21:41:10Z")
I have obtained all of the prizes associated with the Clash of Clones storyline. Henceforth, other than my castles, my properties will generally be left undefended, except to the extent they come up in other quests (and except to the extent I forget my promise and start tapping on everything indiscriminately). Have at them. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3521 "2014-09-09T01:19:30Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > I must not be playing optimally, because I have _miles_ to go. I’m not earning elixir or gold fast enough. I need till October. Same here. During events, I try to get into the game about twice a day, between events once a day. In both, some days I don’t meet my goal. Some of us don’t set a timer so we click our castle every two hours. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3522 "2014-09-09T15:14:50Z")
Today’s [Real Life](http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=september-8-2014) discusses TSTO strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/3523 "2014-09-09T16:19:33Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Today’s [Real Life](http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=september-8-2014) discusses TSTO strategy. Is the hamburger a metaphor for something about the game? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=175) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=177)