# 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:** 73
**Author:** ![djoelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@djoelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djoelie)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1444 "2013-10-09T11:17:23Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Also, here’s a tip I found for myself. I try to set gremlins out as late as I can. No point in putting them in someone’s Springfield if you know they’re going to just click on them in 10 seconds. For example, I know one of my co-workers goes to bed at 10pm so I can go to his town at 11pm and set 10 gremlins out and they’ll have the run of the town until he wakes up in the morning. That’s a lot of GOO. He also read somewhere (and I haven’t verified it myself) that they don’t ‘take’ GOO from the city you leave it in, but you get X (4?) GOO per hour that they are in a city. On the one hand, it doesn’t make sense, because then there’s no point it cleaning them up, I might as well let them keep running around, OTOH, I’ve never seen them ‘take’ GOO or hurt me in any way. I thought the game told me that you get 4 GOO when they aren’t tapped on for 4 hours, but if you tap them, the ‘tapper’ gets 2 GOO and the ‘releaser’ gets 2 GOO. As far as I have seen, they don’t actually steal GOO. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1445 "2013-10-09T11:52:15Z")
Yeah, they don’t steal goo, but they leave the town after 4 hours. So if you don’t click on them you don’t get any goo, but they don’t hurt you. You only get 4 goo per gremlin though. ---
**Author:** ![haleynlenysmommy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@haleynlenysmommy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haleynlenysmommy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1446 "2013-10-09T14:59:42Z")
When will they post the next THOH question??? If you haven’t already done so PLEASE ADD haleynlenysmommy & anotherguy839 We both need more friends as we both are VERY AVID players(we are both addicted to this game lol) & neither of us have very many friends in the game.Please & thank you! It would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED & I would REALLY LIKE TO KNOW when they will post the next THOH question for us to answer. Happy Hauntings everyone & have a happy hump day filled with humping!!! Lol ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1447 "2013-10-09T15:52:01Z")
> [@haleynlenysmommy](#): > > When will they post the next THOH question??? If you haven’t already done so PLEASE ADD haleynlenysmommy & anotherguy839 We both need more friends as we both are VERY AVID players(we are both addicted to this game lol) & neither of us have very many friends in the game.Please & thank you! It would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED & I would REALLY LIKE TO KNOW when they will post the next THOH question for us to answer. Happy Hauntings everyone & have a happy hump day filled with humping!!! Lol Hey there. I know you’re new here. But you’ve come in here **seven times** now in the last **three days** to ask us to add you in the game. Please, stop. Those of us who are playing this game are adding people from the player lists - which you are now on. Continuing to pester us to add you is not going to win you any friends here. If this message board has not supplied you with a sufficient number of Simpsons Tapped Out buddies to meet your needs, then I suggest you look elsewhere. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1448 "2013-10-09T17:24:28Z")
Also, there was only one trivia question as far as any of us know. ---
**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 9, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1449 "2013-10-09T17:37:34Z")
I just got an update about an hour ago. This seems to have killed the “get extra ghosts with quick tapping” that was pointed out earlier. The places in my town that were haunted now say they were haunted by ghosts as opposed to by username, but I assume that it was because they were haunted before the update and the player didn’t have the update. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1450 "2013-10-09T17:47:01Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I just got an update about an hour ago. This seems to have killed the “get extra ghosts with quick tapping” that was pointed out earlier. The places in my town that were haunted now say they were haunted by ghosts as opposed to by username, but I assume that it was because they were haunted before the update and the player didn’t have the update. I sometimes see “Haunted by Ghosts” when I’m tapping already haunted places in other towns (pre update). ---
**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 9, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1451 "2013-10-09T19:04:31Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I sometimes see “Haunted by Ghosts” when I’m tapping already haunted places in other towns (pre update). According to the message board if you tap already haunted buildings you get double goo but screw the other guy out of any he would get. So tapping on a haunted building in someone’s else’s town is unneighborly. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1452 "2013-10-09T21:05:35Z")
I assumed the “Haunted by Ghosts” was some sort of NPC haunting; I had several buildings haunted that way before I started collecting GOO. But yes, I always try to haunt un-haunted buildings whenever possible. Yesterday, it was letting me place gremlins in excess of the number I owned; the gremlin count in the lower left would go to negative numbers, then reset to zero at the next town. No idea if it was costing me GOO or something. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1453 "2013-10-09T21:49:13Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > Yesterday, it was letting me place gremlins in excess of the number I owned; the gremlin count in the lower left would go to negative numbers, then reset to zero at the next town. No idea if it was costing me GOO or something. Nah - if you’ve found gremlins in the town you’re in, it doesn’t increment the counter until you tap on them or when they auto-collect. But it’ll let you deploy them immediately. BTW -\> Mocker000 ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1454 "2013-10-10T02:06:40Z")
Did anyone buy the ray gun for the flying saucer floating over Springfid? What’s that about? 150 donuts is pretty steep. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1455 "2013-10-10T02:23:28Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > Did anyone buy the ray gun for the flying saucer floating over Springfid? What’s that about? 150 donuts is pretty steep. You get either King or Kodos with it, apparently. 150 donuts is too rich for me to find out first hand. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1456 "2013-10-10T10:33:46Z")
Okay, why is _every single new quest line_ all about Homer? I only have one Homer, you guys! But the Dolphin King is pretty adorable, so I’ll put up with it. I’m up to about 200 donuts and I’m trying to decide what to add to my little town. ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1457 "2013-10-10T13:28:25Z")
I can’t scroll down far enough on my iPad to view pending friend requests. I think there are 2, but it appears off the bottom of the screen and attempting to expand/open the “pending” section doesn’t work. ☹ ---
**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, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1458 "2013-10-10T14:46:04Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > Okay, why is _every single new quest line_ all about Homer? I only have one Homer, you guys! But the Dolphin King is pretty adorable, so I’ll put up with it. > > I’m up to about 200 donuts and I’m trying to decide what to add to my little town. No kidding, he’s got quests for the Church of Lard Lard, the Pumpkin House, the House of the Future, and the main Halloween questline as well, if not more. There are a few bonus buildings that I really like, Barney with the Bowl-O-Rama, the pet store with Jub Jub, and Professor Frink and his lab are three in particular. Anyone know if we hold off on quests (like Bart on the new ride in Krustyland) until after Halloween if we’ll be OK? I can’t imagine the quests actually going away until we perform them. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1459 "2013-10-10T17:39:44Z")
> [@malaka](#): > > I can’t scroll down far enough on my iPad to view pending friend requests. I think there are 2, but it appears off the bottom of the screen and attempting to expand/open the “pending” section doesn’t work. ☹ I can’t expand/contract that list myself, but you don’t need to: to approve pending friend requests…(grr…can’t connect to the server to check)…anyway, I think it’s under “news.” Anyway, it’s in a non-intuitive location. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1460 "2013-10-10T21:10:01Z")
Ha! My son just figured out a way to get unlimited donuts. Unfortunately, it only works if your Springfield is glitched like his is. Somehow his cash went negative one time, and he is able to buy whatever he likes and it just sends his cash more and more negative. He just realized he can buy and sell the cubic zirconia for $10 million and earn a ton of XP, quickly getting to the level up donut bonus. (he buys/sells it about 5x and then gets 3 donuts) So in case anyone else out there has unlimited cash, there’s your way to turn it into 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:** [October 10, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1461 "2013-10-10T21:11:47Z")
So how do we get unlimited cash? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1462 "2013-10-10T21:17:13Z")
I wish I knew… he used to play his game on both android and iOS devices… maybe that had something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/1463 "2013-10-10T22:57:46Z")
Yep, approving friend requests is under the news tab, not the friends tab. And I’m going to have to turn in my geek-cred card. I _just_ realized what Homer’s ghost-hunting animation is referencing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=74)