By the time you have 20+ friends, you’re going to just want to go to someone’s town and click the first 3 clickable things and move on. Anything else makes visiting feel like it takes FOREVER.
Anyone know how far you should upgrade the buildings?
I am never going to get the Springfield Farmer’s Market at this rate. Not that I desperately need it, but if I am collecting all this stuff, should I upgrade the building, and if so,mto what level? I read somewhere that the building upgrades never top out, so there must be a level that maximizes the benefit of spending all the fertilizer each time you collect some.
The other thing that is upgradeable has something to do with increasing DNA (I think) and also increasing the kill zone around the cloned Bob’s. Each upgrade makes the kill area slightly bigger, so you don’t have to tap as much.
That’s not a good enough reason to upgrade, for me anyway. But I feel like a hampster on a wheel right now. Hey, you have an upgrade available! <click> there goes all my fertilizer and corn (fertilzer is the killer)
Level 20 for Monsarno and 15 for the sprayer are the last “unique” levels.
I’m about to give up on this event. The farmers market is unreachable and seems lame. Gas n grub is probably the only thing I could get. Oh and Dr Robert (which keeps reminding me of the Beatles song).
I’ve stopped upgrading the lab and the sprayer to see if I can get the other two things that I’m missing.
I noticed the one and two hour tasks aren’t highlighted for my characters any more. Gotta be careful, I sent a couple characters on non-lab tasks because I was jamming through quickly. My lab is at level 15 and the herbicide squirter is at level 3. I don’t see any reason to upgrade the squirter either. I have 3950 DNA strands so I’m chugging along on those, but this is a grind.
I’m looking at this like it’s just more levels as opposed to a big event. Though I can’t quite completely convince myself it’s not an event because time is ticking on this. Meh, anyway, I hope for the gas and grub and anything else after that is gravy.
The non-highligting tasks is driving me bonkers too. I am hoping once my Opera stage is built it’ll fix itself, as one of the tasks triggers it to go buggy, I guess.
I got the Farmers’ Market yesterday. Got myself a cane field today. I’ve seen Untappable Bob in other people’s towns, so I know the option for him is looming. (I think he’s premium and I’ll spend the donuts).
So I think I will get everything, or close to it, but I am tapped out. We need a long break after this.
I got Sideshow Bob! It’s the quest.
I am doing pretty well grinding through this event, unlike the last 2 or 3 events where I just wasn’t making the time. Of course there have been a couple days when I just plain missed playing for 8 or 12 hours at a time. Yay me for having a life? (since when??)
I stopped upgrading my Mansaro at 12 and the blaster at 3 so I can work towards the farmer’s market. I have just under 8000 fertilizer.
Bob’s Rake task is awesome. I bought 3 more rakes just to spread it out. If you want to check it out its just a little southwest of my Monsarno building
Once this is over he will continually be on this task, along with:
Mindy tanning
Plopper doing whatever a spider can
Maude Flanders haunting Springfield
Number 51 singing the Stonecutters song
Anyone else have 'perpetual tasks" for certain characters?
BTW does anyone who plays still watch The Simpsons? I do and I get the feeling that the people running the show are throwing game elements into the show for fun. Of course that’s stupid because really you can’t have elements in the game without them having been in the show already. But like last Sunday I saw Bernice Hibbert and the Aztec Theater. Seems like every week I see stuff in the show that I only recognize from the game.
But I am wondering if it is just some sort of confirmation bias and they have always thrown old random Springfield people and places in to episodes, and I am just noticing now because of the game.
Anyone else notice this?
Watching reruns on FXX, I’m noticing all sorts of stuff I have in my game.
I really think they missed an opportunity with this event, though.
The Gas n’ Grub should’ve been Sneed’s Feed 'n Seed (Formerly Chuck’s).
That and the Triffids - I wanted Triffids !!!
Sneed’s Feed 'n Seed (Formerly Chuck’s) was the single funniest thing I remember seeing in the background that still, to this day, makes me laugh out loud.
I know it is juvenile, Jr. High-level locker room humor, but I don’t care! I love that sign, and if I had a Feed and Seed business, I would work that into my signage.
For this event, does anything happen when you buy the Springfield Farmer’s Market?
It is just sitting in my task column, and I am tired of looking at it. If I buy it, does anything happen, or do you just get the SFM and the task goes away?
I don’t really want it.
Confirmation bias. The Tapped Out Wiki gives episode references. The Aztec has been around forever. And Bernice has been shrewing up the show, mostly in the background (along with Helen she is one of my least favorite game characters because her jobs suck, and is stuck on 24 hours). I think a very few number of things weren’t in the show (were Triffids? Yes I realize the source).
Mister Burns swimming in the money pool and Nelson playing the guitar are two of my favorites, but the length of those tasks doesn’t fit my playing schedule – too short.
ETA: Slave Labor Willie generating electricity, though, is perfect.
…watching Bob step on a rake will never ever grow old. I followed him around for a while yesterday watching him stand on a rake and I think I giggled each and every time.
I often send Lenny and Carl away for extended vacations in Krustyland. I’ll start them on a ride, then send them to get something to eat, then let them spend days on the Viking Ride, then something else to eat, then I’ll send them back to work for a few hours, then back to Krustyland.
I’m easily amused.
I got the farmer’s market. It only took a few days, starting with essentially 0 fertilizer and plenty of corn. I upgraded Monsarno fully and it really seemed to help. With a minimally upgraded building it seemed like I’d never reach the goal. I really should’ve started paid better attention and put some of the fertilizer people on DNA duty, as that’s behind now. Thankfully, this event starts you right at Monsarno and most jobs take place in the building, so I can quickly log in, finish the jobs and start new ones, then quit without spending hours playing.
One of my favorite things about Slave Willie churning the thing is that he screams “SCREW YOU” at me about 40% of the time.
Burns swimming in the money pool is one of my favorites and I also think it’s too short. Same with shooting Mel from the cannon and Bumbleman’s Nada Es Bueno
But there is no real benefit to having the farmers market, other than actually having it (and removing that one task from the task bar, of course?)
As to my favorite character actions, I have a few.
My dauter loves Maggie, so Marge carries her permanently in my game unless Marge specifically has something to do. The nice thing about that is, as long as she isn’t tapped, she always holds Maggie. The great thing is, every time I tap Marge, she literally jumps in the air with her arms stretched out, like the most relieved mother in the world who gets a break from carrying a child.
But then, alas, I put Maggie right back into Marge’s poor arms.
Homer being force fed donuts is a favorite, but it takes a day and a half, and I can rarely afford to put Homer on something that long during an event. It seems like evrry time I put him on the donut machine, he gets an assigned task. Not a huge deal, but I hate waiting a day or so to complete Homer’s donuts, because I’ll forget and it will turn into 2 days or longer.
I also love making Ralph Wiggum do anything, but I especially like making him run around in the circle, playing Wiggly Puppy.
Having Dolph (I think) loiter with an adult magazine is funny.
Finally, Barney. My absolute favorite thing is to make Barney sleep in the gutter. I try to make him collapes in a place that makes him visible for his time, which is usually on the boardwalk.
I was visiting neighbors, and I saw something I have never seen before in anyone’s town.
It was a large, what looked like ice, castle.
It has a big footprint, and I have never seen it before.
I suspect it was a special event item, that required a ton of donuts, but usually, I see a few people have rare items… This thing, I’ve seen once.
I confess that my visiting time gets less and less as I go, so perhaps others have it. Once I tap my 3 items and drop some seed pods, I am usually not hanging around exploring. So if you have an ice castle and/or can tell me how you got it, thanks in advance!