# 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:** 228
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4544 "2015-07-30T16:55:15Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > So how exactly are you supposed to get to two hundred million real estate points? The coffee shop seems to be the biggest logjam–it’s needed to power two other currencies as well as buy stuff, but there are a bunch of other logjam areas. > > This is taking for-fucking-ever. I wish you could use something (oscars?) to buy extra coffee (and other) shops. Top level business centers add quite a bit. $200 million for the lake, the prize after that requires $500 million. I assume the last prize requires $1 billion. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4545 "2015-07-31T12:30:12Z")
How do I increase the storage amount for the pills? I’m stuck at 10 (and I’m tired of buying vineyards, which are the only things you can buy with pills at that small amount.) Is it just that I have to get my real estate value up? ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4546 "2015-07-31T14:28:43Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > How do I increase the storage amount for the pills? I’m stuck at 10 (and I’m tired of buying vineyards, which are the only things you can buy with pills at that small amount.) Is it just that I have to get my real estate value up? you need to unlock more character tasks once you hit certain $ marks, they become available ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4547 "2015-07-31T15:52:57Z")
Yeah just keep going and building. As you unlock more and more characters the game does speed up but the prices for stuff goes up as well. You max out at 200 storage possible for each currency. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4548 "2015-07-31T15:59:34Z")
My Fat Tony lost his job. The mat icon still comes up when he’s free, but there’s no way to put him on it. Add that to all my upgrade jobs autocompleting and Stonecutter portraits being messed up and it’s a buggy update. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4549 "2015-07-31T16:47:32Z")
Yeah, Snake’s doing the job that Fat Tony used to do, now, for me. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4550 "2015-08-05T21:12:27Z")
**Kyrie** how do you have $700mm in real estate?! I expected to see a much more exciting-looking town 😉 I am having a horrible time getting and keeping pills to spend. Twelve minutes is like a lifetime. And then they deplete my yoga mats too. It wouldn’t be so bad if the game didn’t turn itself off after 2 minutes or whatever (at least on iPod Touch it does) so I have to keep engaging with the game if I want to collect some stuff. I did start designing my Heights, though. I saw something online about clever ways to configure your mansions, so instead of 10 classic mansions I am going to have 2 huge houses. All those free decorations, and decorations I am buying just to use up beanbag chairs. My inventory is bursting! ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4551 "2015-08-06T00:19:14Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > **Kyrie** how do you have $700mm in real estate?! I expected to see a much more exciting-looking town 😉 Too much time on my hands. Mostly, I leave the game running and tap everyone back to work every once in a while when I’m doing other things. I also got lucky: Although I don’t have a lot of premium characters, I happened to have four of the five that do Heights tasks. I’m missing Disco Stu, and man, are yoga mats in short supply as a result. I started by trying to organize a nice neighborhood, but when I realized that even when fully upgraded, the buildings don’t do much, and that I was going to be building a whole lot of them, I gave up, started building everything wherever it would fit, and tucked each back into storage when done. Once I had all ten of each building, I started bringing them back out and upgrading them. Fully upgraded ones go back to inventory for now. Almost all of my real estate points are from building upgrades. Other than the items the quests made me buy, I’ve only bought three or four things. Once I hit a billion, I suppose I’ll figure out what I want to do with all the new buildings. I’m tempted just to leave all but one or two in storage, and let East Springfield sprawl into West. Also, strangely, I have more buildings than I should. I currently have 15 classic mansions, 13 business centers, 12 deluxe condos, and 11 modern mansions. No clue how or when the extra showed up, but having those additional low-level cheap upgrades available has been helpful. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4552 "2015-08-06T18:40:55Z")
What was so badly broken that EA gave everyone 15 donuts today? ---
**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:** [August 7, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4553 "2015-08-07T00:10:56Z")
Some people couldn’t play at all without crashing, or had limited play ability, like unable to visit friends. A new level dropped, for anyone taking a break, and that’s where the donuts partially come into play. I can’t play the new level as I spent all my cash on buying up all the land. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4554 "2015-08-07T00:34:17Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > What was so badly broken that EA gave everyone 15 donuts today? Before I mentioned that Fat Tony couldn’t do his SH job even though it said he was ready. Now they completely made him unable to do the job. So I guess it’s fixed, for the same reason that the crime rate was effectively zero in Hiroshima at 8:16 8/6/1945 :dubious: (I had no idea it was the anniversary today or any reason to think of the event until I looked it up!). Stonecutter graphics still messed up. One change I noticed: if a building has two pickups, like someone finishing a job and the building’s payout at the same time, you only have to tap once now instead of twice. I’m not sure if it was changed with the update or I just didn’t notice it before. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4555 "2015-08-07T00:59:52Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Before I mentioned that Fat Tony couldn’t do his SH job even though it said he was ready. Now they completely made him unable to do the job. So I guess it’s fixed, for the same reason that the crime rate was effectively zero in Hiroshima at 8:16 8/6/1945 :dubious: (I had no idea it was the anniversary today or any reason to think of the event until I looked it up!). > > Stonecutter graphics still messed up. > > One change I noticed: if a building has two pickups, like someone finishing a job and the building’s payout at the same time, you only have to tap once now instead of twice. I’m not sure if it was changed with the update or I just didn’t notice it before. That’s just been in place since the last update. I like it, makes it easier to collect. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4556 "2015-08-07T01:08:48Z")
Nice, free donuts and I wasn’t having any issues playing. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4557 "2015-08-07T16:00:36Z")
Free donuts, and I just recently won the dog race on a 99-1 bet! Everything’s coming up Milhouse! ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4558 "2015-08-08T12:53:50Z")
Can anyone tell me why some friend handshakes give me a FP when I clear it, but others do not? ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4559 "2015-08-09T15:37:50Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Free donuts, and I just recently won the dog race on a 99-1 bet! Everything’s coming up Milhouse! Thursday was great. XP leveled up. Three donuts Level 56 hit. Two more donuts Fifteen donuts for the mystery glitch Mystery box. Thirty donuts ! Milhouse indeed ! ---
**Author:** ![ekweizn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7c8e57/32.png) [@ekweizn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekweizn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4560 "2015-08-11T19:38:26Z")
Monorail, monorail, monorail… ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4561 "2015-08-12T02:22:36Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Can anyone tell me why some friend handshakes give me a FP when I clear it, but others do not? I am going to ask this again, because I realize it may have been missed, especially with the new event starting. As to the event, I am wondering about the ultimate grind event, Springfield Heights. I just hit the $500MM mark, and I am wondering if I will have the stomach or desire to grind out another $500MM to get one last prize. Also, I read somewhere that there was a glitch in the software that permitted you to put a level 5 condo, house, parking garage or office building into storage, but you couldn’t get it back out and it was “lost”. Anyone know if this is the case, or can you get items stored back out if you want? I really dislike those massive buildings, and they are cluttering up my town right now because I don’t want to accidentally lose them. Now with the Monorail, I suspect I will not only need the space, but I may finally nuke my town and start over. I have no idea how big the monorail will be, but I suspect it will be fairly large. I hope we can put roads, etc. under the rail if we need to. I think I may finally be hitting my saturation point with this game. I dislike these types of events immensely, and with the Burns money mountain, Springfield Heights and now the monorail all using the same sort of grind-it-out blueprint, I don’t like the new trend. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4562 "2015-08-12T21:46:34Z")
…well crap. Now I’m finding myself logging in every hour just to collect metal. GRRRRR. Also I’m considering fundamentally redesigning Springfield to accommodate the new monorail. Has anyone done the maths to see how big this thing will get by the end of the event? Need to know when to start turning it around so each end meet! ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/4563 "2015-08-12T22:28:02Z")
Did anybody else get a task that makes the mayor collect bribes 50 times? I feel like that’s probably an error, because even as this game goes that’s awfully redundant, not much fun, and a ridiculous amount of time. I also wonder why they launched this new monorail thing so close to the Springfield Heights update. You think they would’ve let one of them just stand for a while and assume would be busy enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=227) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=229)