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.
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
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!
I think the non-friend castles pay out more, so die-killing those is better.
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.
I think this is your problem. Just attack with one and you’re likely to have many more nerds to spread around.
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.
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
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.
Per the TSTO official FB page, level 44 is coming soon.
Meaningless?!? Haven’t you been paying attention to the Simpsons’ dialogue? 
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!
Shit, I’m like 20k XP away from getting some donuts, I better step it up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today’s Real Life discusses TSTO strategy.
Is the hamburger a metaphor for something about the game? 