So, has this happened to anyone else? I clicked my tapped out app, clicked my “click to log on as _____” without checking what _____ was, since there’s no reason it wouldn’t be for me. I was taken to someone else’s town. I could click on their buildings and presumably could spend their money or donuts, but didn’t test it. When I closed the app and reopened it, it took me back to my town without having to relog in.
Apparently, they got the flags on the Mayflower wrong.
The Great Britain one I can see. But seriously, the flag of England?
Never seen it happen. Are you sure no one else had access to your device. Maybe someone logged on to their own account for a few minutes.
I just started playing, and I couldn’t bring myself to read 34 pages of stuff in here.
But, how do you get extra donuts?
I have the cash. $5000, to be exact, and i’ve tried to buy donuts a number of times. It won’t take my fake money. The only way I can see to get donuts is to pay real money, something I’m not willing to do.
I want this to be something i play for fun, not something i have to cough up $5 for every time I want to build something.
Can someone tell me hoe i can spend money earned within the game to buy donuts?
Thanks!
I have no idea what I’m doing, as i went through the tutorial in auto pilot. I didn’t realize it would be so boring at the beginning.
The only real way to get donuts is to buy them with IRL money. You can get a few donuts here and there from the game, but after playing for 6 or 8 months you’ll probably end up with 20 or 30.
When it comes to donuts my tip is that you never, ever, ever use them to speed things up. Buy a character (ie squeaky voiced teen) or a premium building or car or something like that, but don’t use them to finish a job or get a building built today that’ll be done by tomorrow afternoon, it’s just not worth it.
Also, there’s no way to convert in game cash to donuts. That’s why the game is free. That is, they make their money because people give them actual money for donuts.
And yes, it can be somewhat boring in the beginning. It kinda sucks when you, for example, finally save up enough money for the building it wants you to build but then have to save up for two more days to have enough money to buy the land to put it on.
In the mean time, if you friend all of the people on the above list (and add your name and repost it), there’s enough people there to make you another $1500 a day or so.
Thank you for the info.
I suspected as much. Although i do not understand why the donut store pop-up tells you that if you spend $500 you get 5 donuts, and the cash they show is the same fake cash icon that is used in the game.
I don’t get that. I understand that they want you to buy donuts, as that is the only way to play this game in a decent time. But i don’t care that much about building springfield in a week, so I’ll grind it out for a while.
Ot does take forever, though to do much. I played this last night for fun and the only donut I collected was letting apu work an 8 hour shift. I remember spending a bunch of donuts during the beginning just to speed some relatively short things up. I had no idea earning donuts was so hard.
Thanks again! I’ll see how far I can get on my “no money” strategy.
Maybe I’ve just gotten some good bonuses, but I’m up to 40ish after only playing for a month. Mainly just from level up bonuses.
I don’t know if anyone caught last night’s The Simpsons episode, but The Simpsons: Tapped Out game had a very brief cameo.
This happened to me recently. It was some completely random town. It was very odd.
Universal Studios Orlando just added a couch to their Simpson’s area. You can sit on it and have your picture taken. If you have it taken by one of the park photographers, you can have effects added to the photo. One of the effects is the Tapped Out finger on the welcome screen of the game, so it looks like you are about to be squished.
I just won a $200k dog track jackpot!
You can get pretty far. So far I haven’t spent a dime on the game and my town is pretty nice. It takes longer if you don’t spend real money, and I am now starting to think about spending a few bucks (after playing the game for 9 months) to get some particular premium items, but it’s been lots of fun for me even without the donuts.
I have a co-worker that plays this game and when he was hemming and hawing about putting some real money into game I asked him how much he’d be willing to spend on a ‘regular’ video game that he spent this much time playing (4-5 hours a week for several months at that point). I think he plunked down $40 at that point, seemed reasonable to me.
I’ve bought about $100 or so worth of donuts (and used about half of them), but only because I had some Google gift cards that I didn’t have any other use for. I still stand by not using donuts to speed anything up, but they’re nice for premium characters and buying very specific decorations that multiply how much money/XP you get (I think I’m at 54% right now).
Yeah. I feel like I have very much gotten $20 of value out of the game so far, and am probably going to spend about that much and get a few donuts. Maybe in another 6 months I’ll spend the same again. There are a couple of premium items that I would like, but mostly I am ok with the stuff I have been able to get on my own. The Halloween even bought me the Aztec Theater and I have gotten a couple of premium items in mystery boxes so I don’t have nothing, but I am ok with the little bit I have for now.
Regarding premium items, I was just recently surprised to find that there was an end to how far out you can buy land. In fact, I went bought land as far to the right and as far down as I could and I’m now in the process of filling it out (slowly, while keeping a huge reserve).
Then it dawned on me that if they just let you keep building forever it would start costing them money to have this all saved, BUT, I thought, what if once it got beyond a certain border the land had to be purchased with donuts instead of money. I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought yet, but it might be interesting.
When you kook at the screen, in the bottom right hand corner, there is a few icons that you can press. One looks like a four-way intersection with arrows pointing in a north/south/east/west direction. In yellow, I think.
Anyway, when you press it, you get three choices of things to “blot out” (i don’t really know what it does, but that’s the best I can describe it.). What is the purpose of this exactly? I’ve tried figuring it out, and I can’t find it in the help file.
Also, can i move around and readjust my houses? Like I said, when I started playing, I just pushed the screen and plopped down houses without any thought to where they went. I have houses all over the place in no real order, it looks like a mess. I’d like to re-arrange things now that i understand. I can buy land, or build a road, etc.
Is this possible? Or should I just delete the program and start over from scratch?
When you hit the four way arrow thing, then you can tap on the houses (or anything else for that matter) and move them anywhere else that you want (as long as it’s on the land you’ve purchased).
Those ‘eyes’ will make different things sort of see though. Not that big of a deal now, but as your town gets bigger and busier it makes finding things easier. For example, if you’re trying to move trees and bushes around, it’s helpful to hide the houses. Also, some people will turn all the buildings off to make help make sure they don’t have any characters wandering around all day without jobs. Hiding the buildings sometimes makes it easier to find all the characters.
Ah, thanks! That actually answered my second question, so now I can clean up my town a bit. It looks terrible right now.
I can’t believe I’m actually discussing this game, but what the hell… I’ll play it for a while and see what happens.
I like that it is really passive and just does things on it’s own.
But with that, it’ll also do ‘nothing’ on it’s own if you put everyone on a one hour job at 9:00 at night and then fall asleep. You’ll really kick yourself when you wake up in the morning to find a bunch of thumbs stacked up at the Kwik-E-Mart.
Why so?
If i put everyone on a one hour job, wont that job complete during the night?
I guess before i go to bed, I can set an 8 hour job for everyone that has that ability, or 4 hours. Or whatever. But NOT setting it means nothing will be done, correct?
Truth is, i loaded this game and ran through the demo, and thought it was so boring, I did nothing with it for a month. I only started playing it again yesterday after seeing this thread and noticing it was 30+ pages long. I figured i’d see what I was missing, so i don’t know much of what i’m doing. Any help or tips would be great. All i know is it’s almost impossible to earn donuts, that is by design since they want you to buy them with real dollars (makes sense), and you can build Springfield.
I have only Homer, Lisa, Apu, flanders and cletus walking around, and I just added Cletus today. So, i’m very far behind. I also have two cleveland Brown houses up right next to each other.
It’s an efficiency thing. 1 hour tasks make you less money than 8 hour tasks (or 24 hour tasks, whatever) and so if you set everyone on a 1 hour task before bed you just missed out on a lot of extra cash you could have made overnight, because once that hour is up the characters won’t do anything else unless you tell them to.
That said, the shorter the task the more money it pays by the minute, so eight consecutive hours of 1 hour tasks will make you a fair bit more money than a single eight hour task. So, if you want to maximize you money you want to so the shortest task possible that you will still reasonably be able to check in on when the task expires so you can renew it and keep the cash train rolling.
Also, if you haven’t done it yet, tap on Homer 10 times in a row and make some quick donuts and earn a statue.