The Simpsons: Tapped Out

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Fun fact about the Springfield Heights specialty buildings (Luxury condos, valet parking, business centers):

Once you’ve upgraded a building all the way and gotten your points for them, you can go ahead and store them. They don’t make you any money and the luxury condos at least are godawful looking, so tall they interfere with gameplay, and take up most of a square by themselves. Horrible things.

That said - once I get done with all that and get most/all of my land opened up, I’m gonna make Springfield Heights my actual millionaire’s row. It’s gonna be nice.

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n/m. People posted and answered my question.

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Grind, grind, grind…

You need furnitures and coffees to make blackberries or whatever they are, and at the start it’s a stop and start pain as you can only make and “store” ten or twenty before having millions of real estate points…

If you do it at your leisure, this could take months, or you can plod along making chairs five or six at a time every 30 seconds.

Good to know that the upgradeable things can be stored once you hit their max, and there’s no real benefit to having multiples, although I wonder if that might be a hit to Vanity.

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I wish we could sell them. We’re only allowed so many of each of the upgradable buildings and I want to keep versions of them. Like have a level 1 condo, level 2, level 3, etc, but I also have to upgrade them unless I want to wait forever for Cookie to give me a small amount of Real Estate money every 8 hours.

I’ve unlocked all five places to build stuff. I’m so sick of this game though. I know I can stop playing, but I’d really rather have had a couple weeks of downtime. Remember the good old days where it was months between any kind of new content?

Ha ha, no, not really. That sucked too.

But a full week or two before things and not having levels drop during events would be fantastic.

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And fortunately for me, I already had Otto and Squeaky Voiced Teen - otherwise those furnitures and lattes would have taken God’s own number of forevers as well

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I keep thinking I’m going to blow everything away and rebuild. It’s not like I need all the buildings and things, other than to show off just how long I’ve been playing the game. Do you guys think now is a reasonable time, or is there going to be another timed event soon?

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I broke down and bought some donuts. Purchased Frink since he seems interesting, and has been in a couple events and hopefully will be in more. I am also thinking about getting the Cracker Factory and Luanne. Or maybe another character/building with an interesting storyline, any suggestions?

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I love Otto’s animations. I bought him half price from Gil once upon a time. Frink is okay, and both get a “building” as well. SVT is popular because he’s cheap, but his base jobs are kind of crappy (no 4 hour in Springfield without spending more donuts). I found Bumblebee Man disappointing as well (his animations are mostly the extremely short jobs). But he gives you a 24 hour Channel 6 station. I don’t have the Texan but he does seem to have some lines here, I don’t know if he becomes relevant otherwise to the questline.

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I kind of like the fully upgraded luxury towers. They’re ridiculously Richie Rich. And I definitely prefer them to the jigsaw-puzzle mansions. It’s cool in theory that you can place the pieces to customize each one, but it’s distracting to see them in the Springfields of people who don’t pay any attention to making the lighting consistent, or who leave windows and features half exposed and half covered by an add-on piece. And they really need to snap together somehow so that I can treat the building as a unit once built – having to move five or more pieces in order to move a single building is tedious.

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I’m just leaving the mansion “add ons” in storage. I’ll leave one fully tricked out mansion, but the others just look “stock” (but are actually leveled up). Once they get the full treatment, off to storage - until I get all the land worked out.

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Getting alll the currency I need is a bit of a grind. The lattes in particular are hard to stay ahead of because of their timing and their use by other currencies. That being said, I think I have found a strategy that works for me. While the lattes and other currencies grind away, I hop over to Springfield proper and rearrange things. I throw stuff into storage and move buildings and roads. I was really hesitant about blowing everything away because I am absurdly attached to my hedge maze. I have already move it once and expanded it twice. This event/expansion may be just what the doctor ordered for me.

I am still not collecting money on buidlings, so it should be visitor friendly. I also stopped putting people on jobs. Makes it super simple when a task pops up for them.

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You mean I’m not the only one that has spent the past two days pretty much glued to Springfield Heights, clicking on the coffee shop every two minutes, because if I skip one, I use up the ones I previously got making cellphones?

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Last night I saw a commercial for Tapped Out but they were promoting Tapped Ball and showed the characters in their Tapped Ball costumes.

I finally unlocked all the jobs for all the Springfield Heights currencies. Now to continue upgrading buildings and expanding.

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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.

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Fenris, if Springfield Heights is an expansion and not an event, then you have all the time in the world to do this. I played pretty obsessively for the first 2-3 days and wound up #3 out of all my friends (which are mostly people from here). But work and real life called, so after that I just focused on collecting and building in my regular Springfield.

I would say to focus on unlocking all the characters you can first, then set them all on their tasks to make coffee/smart devices/carpets/etc. I mostly played while watching television, so it wasn’t a big deal to look down during the commercials and get everyone set on their short tasks, then go back to my show. Put your “producing” buildings (furniture store, coffee shop, etc) close together so you can see them all at once.
I also decided that since you can have 10 of each building, and it gets harder to level them up the further they go, I may as well build 10 of each. It takes 8 hours to complete each building, but really pumps up your real estate value very quickly. The downside is, you need a good bit of land expansions and my Heights looks like shit with buildings crammed in everywhere.
You can also try to just build one or two of everything, and focus on upgrading those until they’re complete, then store them and build new ones. Rinse and repeat. I don’t know if this is easier or faster than my strategy.
It helped that I already had Otto and Squeaky Voiced Teen from way back, and decided to get Frink because he seemed interesting and has been used in some past events. The premium characters produce 2 items instead of one. But I don’t think it’s necessary.

Good luck!

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You play the game properly by having no life and doing nothing but play the game.

Seriously though what I do is in the evening when I’m all done with everything and just watching tv until bedtime I do the coffee shop thing every commercial break. I’ll not do the other things that require it for a day and just do coffee shop and build up a nice stock pile and then that’ll last me for a couple of days doing the coffee shop and other currencies. Then when the coffees run out I’ll spend another evening just doing coffees.

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My biggest complaint is having to wait for some of the characters to come back from their little “walks” after they complete their short “tasks”.

Don’t know if everyone experiences this, but for example, for the coffee shop, Grandpa walks away from the building. So his task starts a few seconds behind everyone else. That doesn’t sound like a big deal, but if you are sitting there trying to quickly reset all characters, you will see all the thumbs pop up, tap on it, and try to clear and reset, only to have Grandpa’s task end 5 seconds later.

Otto does the same thing for me at the furniture store. This is just a pain in the ass, and is something they didn’t have to put into the game. It makes a tedious task even more so.

Same with putting characters who earn things on arbitrary tasks. Right now, Homer is on a 24-hour monkey trama marathon… Why? To keep him from the furniture store? Yeah, that is annoying and unnecessary.

I can appreciate that there doesn’t seem to be any time limit, but why make it as painful as possible?

Plus, everything so far is either too big when completed, like the condos and parking garages, or has too many pieces, like the houses. Too much effort to move them around. If I ever complete these things, I will probably toss them all in storage.

They could have made this a lot better. But hey, it’s just a game. I am starting to understand that people are really addicted to these “games”, and the developers can do pretty much anything and most people will put up with it.

I never look at anyone’s town anymore, because I don’t have the time. I get in and out as quickly as possible. My town is a mess, and I don’t have the time (or desire, frankly) to clean it up. I don’t like the way it looks, but it doesn’t really matter…

I am glad I never downloaded the Futurama game!

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The condos I put in the very back. I can’t even see the top of them. As for the extra pieces for the stuff I don’t even take those out of storage once I get them.

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I’ve decided to focus on land first and get that. But of course I do need real-estate value so I’ve gotten all the condos and mansions I can. I’m leaving the mansions un-upgraded because of your complaints about moving them around (sounds ghastly!) So once I get all my land I will spread everything out and start adding pieces on to the mansions.

So far, so good. It seems to take FOREVER just to get yoga mats, tho. It’s going slow.

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This annoyed me too, but after getting over the notion that their absentmindedness was due to Otto being a stoner and Grandpa being senile, I think I figured out what happens. Both Otto and Grandpa have little animations that they do when they complete a task – Grandpa does a little surprised head shake thing, and Otto waves his hands in the air. If you assign them a task while they’re in the middle of those animations, they seem not to notice for a few seconds, and wander around until they do. The trick that works for me is to wait until everything auto-collects before putting everyone back to work. You might still be annoyed at having to wait a second to get them going again, but to me, that’s far less annoying than having them get out of sync.