# 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:** 321
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6410 "2022-09-22T15:27:40Z")
The automatic update hadn’t been triggered yet but when I checked later the update was available. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6411 "2022-10-10T21:14:36Z")
Halloween event drops on Wednesday, per TSTO Addicts. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6412 "2022-10-12T13:32:11Z")
Is there a time it’s supposed to go active? I got the update but nothing changed so far. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6413 "2022-10-12T13:39:29Z")
TSTO Addicts says 11:00am EDT ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6414 "2022-10-12T14:18:01Z")
I think it started already. At least, I’m getting some sort of storyline starting. ETA: Looks like the same mechanics. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6415 "2022-10-12T14:41:16Z")
Wow, looks like a ton of stuff to spend donuts on. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6416 "2022-10-12T17:12:09Z")
I got it now. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6417 "2022-10-17T23:57:26Z")
I’m a little disappointed (but not surprised) at the prizes. I can’t even really buy anything or mystery box anything because I have multiples of everything already ---
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6418 "2022-10-24T16:33:36Z")
I have to admit, I do like the toilet papered Flanders house. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6419 "2022-10-29T17:30:16Z")
I pulled a 100 donut prize from the old shack/land deed thing. Other than that, I don’t have much to report. I don’t know how y’all accumulate thousands of donuts. I don’t know that exploit. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6420 "2022-10-29T17:33:56Z")
Activate XP Collider. Buy a bunch of Bloodmobiles or Rat Trap Delivery Trucks. After collecting your donuts, sell trucks back. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6421 "2022-10-29T17:35:50Z")
I do that when I get low. It’s too boring for me to build up thousands. I try to keep a few hundred in the bank. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6422 "2022-10-29T17:38:23Z")
Same. It can certainly get tedious. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6423 "2022-10-29T23:19:41Z")
When we hit the level cap, there was a glitch and I sat on the game for a couple hours just grabbing donut after donut. I just kind of… let the principle stand and play off the interest ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6424 "2022-10-31T20:22:15Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Other than that, I don’t have much to report. I don’t know how y’all accumulate thousands of donuts. I don’t know that exploit. A long long time ago,… when they still had “crafting” during events (you collect currency, then use them to craft items), one Halloween you could craft Wailing Walls. I collected a whole bunch of whatever, then crafted over 100 wailing walls. At 2.5% each (or 2.25%, whatever) added to the cash and experience multiplier, that’s a HUGE bonus. Then, I kept the XP Collider going non-stop. Started KEM farming. At that point, I was getting 36+ donuts every time I finished then sold my KEM farm. If you’re logging in 4 times a day (first get up, noon, dinner, bed), that’s almost 150 donuts every day. Then, I started buying. Any time something is in the vault where the final donut cost per 2% increase is less than 40 donuts, I’ll buy one (or more). So, if you can get the Rocket Bike (at 2.5%) at 40 donuts with a 10 donut rebate (30 donut final price), that’s a great buy - worth 50 donuts, you got for 30. OVER TIME, that builds up. Once I hit 10,000 donuts, I stopped with the XP collider - it slowed my game down, and what the hell do i need with that many donuts anyway? Then I hit the “cash” maximum. Well, got to get rid of the extra cash somehow. So, now when my cash gets close to maximum, I rev up the XP collider and buy a bunch (300? 500?) of rat-trap trucks. I’m now at 70,000 donuts. Every rat trap truck, with the XP collider on, gets me 6+ donuts. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6425 "2022-11-16T20:35:06Z")
Thanksgiving quest just dropped and they have a Black Friday event: If you purchase 2,454 donuts worth of items, you get a donut producing robot. You have to buy them though. I’m currently at 695 donuts and I’ve been buying stuff with them lately. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6426 "2022-12-07T15:37:19Z")
New winter quest just dropped today. I got the Geriatric Snowman and Old Man Winter bundle. I have plenty of bonus skins for Abe Simpson, but I decided to get it for the snowman bonus. The past few weeks I had been making more monorail tracks in order to get the donuts, usually I would get two sets of three per week. I figured that can’t be worth the effort though. I am running the XP booster and I can put those Springfieldites on other tasks. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6427 "2022-12-07T15:52:32Z")
I haven’t played yet, but the required update is HUGE! I’m still downloading to my phone the nearly gigabyte of data it needs. ---
**Author:** ![CorpusNeptune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corpusneptune/32/17561_2.png) [@CorpusNeptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorpusNeptune)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6428 "2022-12-07T15:57:00Z")
Why does it need that much data?! It’s just a dinky mobile game!! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6429 "2022-12-07T16:27:04Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > The past few weeks I had been making more monorail tracks in order to get the donuts, usually I would get two sets of three per week. I figured that can’t be worth the effort though. I am running the XP booster and I can put those Springfieldites on other tasks. You need to do yourself a little farmin’. Kwik-E-Marts have the best experience-to-cost ratio, and if you’ve got that XP booster running, the donuts come quickly. Figure out how much cash you bring in on an average session. Keep one Kwik-E-Mart (Apu comes with the first one you buy); set up a “farm”. The second KEM costs something like $250, and gives you 2000XP when built; the third is like $300; forth is $500; up to $14,000. Build as many as you can pay for in an "average’ session (or if that’s a hellova lot, just build a bunch. I’ve got a 90-building farm). Next time you come in, “harvest” (build) all your KEMs; get the rewards and the donuts, then sell them. Re-build. Lather-rinse-repeat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=320) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=322)