Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
The switch has happened…Probes are gone & Ray Guns have arrived! We’ll be working through the details of the new phase and have any changes up for you soon…but the basic principle remains the same.
Squish Regillians, stop/send Grem-Aliens, shoot down UFOs & earn Treat Bags to earn enough Ray Guns to earn all the Ray Gun Prizes!
Kang will kick off Phase 2 with a 24hr quest. So make sure he’s free. Homer is not needed just yet, so if you have him on the Donut Torture Device you’re ok 🙂
Ray Gun Prizes include….
Bulldozer-saurus- 4th Prize after 2 silver bags and a gold. Requires 2,825 Ray Guns.
Hover-Copter- Final Prize in the Ray Gun Box. Requires 7,100 Ray Guns
Of course there will be Gold & Silver Treat Bags to win as well!
You may notice a drop in the required number. Since Probes you needed 8,050 for the highest prize & with Ray Guns it’s 7,100. The drop is nice…however you’ll earn less Ray Guns per squish now. For each squish in your own town you’ll earn 2 Ray Guns, instead of 3 like the Probes. (Grem-Aliens still earn at the same rate)
As far as the changes to Make-A-Thing…
If you didn’t win all of the Probe Prizes, you can now craft them at Make-A-Thing!
Mutant Peacock- 500 Gummy Bears, 300 Pumpkins & 500 Rotten Eggs
Donut Torture Device- 500 Chocolate Bars, 200 Broken Fences & 500 Candy Corn.
However, beyond those 2 there is nothing new to craft, at least initially. (I’ll let you know if anything comes up as the questline progresses) Hugo, the Great Pumpkin, Spooky House, Pumpkin House, Test Subject & Spooky Wall are all still there for you to craft.
If you saved Treat Bags to open during phase two, they WILL contain Ray Guns! So you’ll get a nice head start on them 🙂
Premium Items….
The ones that arrived yesterday morning (Witch Marge, Devil Flanders, Snorky, Bad Dream House etc) are still available. However, Suzanne the Witch is now gone.
So my friends, that about covers the quick rundown for Phase 2 and the Ray Guns. Happy squishing!
What do YOU think of the Phase 2 Changes? Are you happy to be collecting a new item? Are you excited for the new prizes? Sound off in the comments below, you know we LOVE hearing from you!
I didn’t get the donut torture device… Is it too late to get it now!?!
Gotta earn it with treats now.Make A Things
Saving up for crafting the Hovercopter in case I don’t reach it naturally. Really REALLY hoping that Phase 3 will re-introduce the Particle Accelerator.
Just wondering, for the board/nail weapon, I’m at level 7 and there doesn’t seem to be any further actions needed. Is it worth upgrading to level 8 and beyond? What do higher levels of this weapon give you for gameplay? Thanks!
It just widens the “squish zone”. So you take out more than one and cover a surrounding area. If you tap near a Rigellion, you will see a “wave” span out. That is your squish zone.
It’s also the only item that uses nails to craft it, so it’s a “no-risk upgrade”. No reason not to upgrade it, really. 🙂
When does Homer show up after Kang does his 24 hr job to unlock next phase?? Mahalo!! 🙂
Next phase automatically starts..
Wowzers! I was clearing out neighbereenos towns today, unloading my payload of anti-air missiles. Lo and behold, i was awarded 30 donuts… then not 5 neighbors later another 30.
My 150 donut ray gun just rebates me 60… fantastic.
I also noticed after I caught up/was ahead that the game started to gift me the test subjects and bushes.. several actually. It’s been awesome.
I do hope a new calendar is put up soon for Ray Guns.
This one? 😉
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/20/rigellian-ray-gun-calendar-phase-2/
Haha oh Bunny. I swear I made this post then thay was posted not 5 minutes afterwards.
Good show!
Bunny reads minds 😉
You are lucky. Four days visiting friends with no spaceships to shoot down. I have had three bushes and a spooky wall plus usual stuff–no human test subjects–for both cycles. Hubby has four of those… I feel left out.
I don’t understand how some f my neighbors can have so many probes/ray guns? I play pretty much everyday, twice a day and visit neighbors and I a less than 4000. Some of then have 8000 or more and one has over 10,000. What am i doing wrong/ missing?
It was dependent on treat bags and Grem-Alien squishing too.
So I know the shrubs and queen haven’t unlocked yet, but I got to shrubs from opening treat bags. Has anyone else? I just find it odd that they dropped before they are availble to craft.
I’m not complaining though lol.
That is how they work. 🙂
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/13/trick-or-treat-bag-goodies/
To clarify: buying the cauldron DOES come with witch Marge skin? The “info” button doesn’t say anything about the character skin, only that the cauldron itself adds to your bonus %. This is a good buy, right, since Witch Marge can speed up crop growth? (I remember that comment from the Valentine’s Day event) 🙂
Correct on all counts. She is most helpful. Takes of 4hours from crop times. She also helps now due to she can Trick or Treat and get you goodie bags. Her skin will go to inventory usually.
Actually, depending on how frequently you play during the day and which crops you want to plant, it may not pay to have Witch Marge do the 4-hour speed-up-the-crops task, rather than have her do her 1-hour task four times. However, an even better thing I found about getting Witch Marge (besides the hefty multiplier from the cauldron) is that her tasks pay out at a much higher rate than “plain” marge does. I just got that combo yesterday, and I’m quite pleased with the purchase (which is saying a lot, since I’m a strictly freemium player and it takes me quite a while to save up those donuts!). In general, if you’re just a freemium player, I think it makes more sense to spend donuts on items that will still have value after the event is over.
Did anyone get the full 12 days” mine seemed to start at 10 days 23 hours. I waited for the event to open so I know I didn’t miss any time so I’m just curious. Also, I forgot to ask if anyone else got the regilian shrub last week?
Nope everyone got 11 days…Shrub still isn’t in Make-A-Thing. However, you can win it in the treat bags
I got 5 of the shrubs last week, so yes.
As usual, you all are rockin’ the blog!!!
****I love the fact that I can go to the Halloween event page to answer all of my questions on the past parts of the event and even search items prior Halloween events for info (bought Witch Marge!!)**** [note: this was a tip]
To give some encouragement to the other addicts. I have over 900 guns so far I should be around 1300 guns by end of day. I saved my grem huevos and only used about 60 eggs today but didn’t save treat bags from the probe phase. I should be able to knock this out in 7 days or so AND am gonna save my grem huevos, ammo and bags after I get the drone helicopter.
Hearing about some of the newer addicts’ woes reminds me of the Stonecutter event that I only participated in for about a week. Ahh…glad I’m now at level 45!
…a little long-winded today.
Lol. Glad you are having fun and enjoying the game.
Grem glitch? After visiting friends and squishing Rigellians my town told me “your grems found 18 Ray guns” but I haven’t used any eggs for a week, I was saving them and my egg total is unchanged. It looks like I might have been credited the 18 but not 100% sure because I didn’t note my total. (90% sure I got those extra Ray guns). I haven’t tried using an egg because I hadn’t been getting the probes for them… I know they fixed that but now I wonder if there’s a new glitch. Or is my town somehow crossed with another?! Also, as someone noted above, I only got 87 from friends, not 90. I shot down 3 ufos, could those have counted as actions?
There is a delay in the pop ups from neighbors to you, so there is that. It could also be EA resolving the issue of them not adding up and the system is now playing catch up for the ones you did not get with the current currency as the reward.
ANY tap will count as an action. This means if you still have a straggle friend not updated that shows $$$ on their buildings and you tap that, it will take away actions. I also think that UFOs may add to that action tap too.
anyone else notice that if you earn prize on one device and then switch to another device, the game will give you the prize again? i seem to be getting rewarded twice for passing the same prize thresholds (can only place items once, but can open two treat bags)
First I’m seeing of this.
I’ve had this happen too, though not every time. I’ve got a few doubles of unique items from the Stonecutters event in my inventory from it. More recently I got an extra tower for the castles in CoC and have had it hit for a couple of the bags in Halloween. If I happen to think of it I do usually try to log in on my other device (iPhone / iPad) after hitting a milestone just to see if it’ll give me an extra one…
What does the doughnut torture device do? I couldn’t get it in the first phase and wondered if it was worth crafting
This should help 🙂
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/15/thoh-probe-prizes-breaking-down-the-donut-torture-device/
So sad!! I bought the frog and dolphin and then went to get suzan- and she was GONE!!!! NoooOooooOoooOoooooo!!! I want her back!!! 🙁
Sorry for my English in advance, I’m Brazilian.
The Rigellian items (tribal hut, shrub and queen) don’t appear to me to be crafted. Are they gonna appear later? They should be available by now? I’m confused 🙁
Not in the game yet. We thought with Phase 2, but they’re not in.
Maybe they show after Kang’s 24 hour task is over?
Nope, I’ve completed the entire phase 2 questline..still didn’t show up
I’ve seen in a Brazilian forum some people saying they already got the Rigellian Queen, and what intrigued me is that was apparently using no hacks. One of them was asking why the Rigellian Queen (as well as the shrub and the tribal hut) had not appeared to be crafted for her husband yet.
My guess is that they did use hacks and are showing off on the forum pretending they didn’t.
ONLY way is a hack. The bush you can win in treat bags, but no way without a hack can you get the Queen. She’s not even released yet.
Any way to buy JUST Devil Flanders? I already have the Heck House from last year ABD he seems very expensive to buy when I already have half the benefit.
Sorry – meant “and he seems very expensive…”
If you have the Heck House you should see an option to just get Devil Flanders…
Figured it out. You need to switch the church the Heck House first and then the purchasing pop-up realizes you own it, and then you can buy Devil Flanders by himself for 50 fewer donuts. I tested this by switching back to plain church and sure enough, the combined Heck House plus Devil Flanders reappears for more donuts. Pretty tricky EA!
I just dumped a neighbor because they look to be cheating on this event with a hack. Thought it was curious that during the probe part, they already had the EBO. I was thinking maybe they got it for shooting down a saucer in a neighor’s springfield. But then today, I noticed they had suddenly went from having 2000 or so points on the leaderboard to nearly 16000! So I looked at their totals in the neighbor screen and they had well over 7000 DNA strands before that part had even come up! I’m all for playing this game with OCD, but to hack and cheat your way to the top. Poor form indeed.
I agree. Right now there’s no way to get the Protein Strings until Phase 3 hits…so if anyone has it prior to that odds are they’re using a modded game..
I, too, am worried about the drop to 2 guns per squish, which is not sufficiently compensated for by the drop in max needed to get all prizes. I Barely made it to the DTD in phase 1, which was a day longer, too….not feeling overly hopeful about getting the final prize for phase 2.
However….is it just my imagination, or has the rate of alien squishes yielding treat bags increased with this phase? It seemed that way for me today so far, but it could just be the natural variation due to randomness that I happen to be seeing…..
i’ve only gotten 88 ray guns from my neighbours, anyone else get that problem? i mean its only 2 ray guns that i’m missing out on a day so its not that big of a deal in the long run (22 total by the end of the phase).
Logged on this morning and my donut torture device and 175 donuts are gone. Searched inventory, even though I know I placed it. Set a case with EA – anyone else having issues like that??
Ea called me back. Spoke to Linda, she was nice 🙂 she said it was probably a rollback since it was so close to the deadline. So I got my device back 🙂
Oh no! I’m glad you got it back though! 🙂
I wish they had set up a way to trade treats with your neighbors. Don’t we all remember doing that as kids? Anyone need some gummi bears in exchange for chocolate bars? I’m choking on the bears but it is taking forever to get enough chocolates to earn the Grand Pumpkin!
Ha that would be nice!
I’m not terribly concerned yet about the Ray Guns, I need 646 per day to reach the goal before it switches, and I already have 668 thanks to not opening a bunch of treat bags until it switched over. I’m more concerned about the drop rates on broken fences. It seems like everything I want requires a large amount of them. Hugo, Spooky House, Rigellian House and Queen total require 1400 of them. As it’s going right now, it’ll be down to the line to see if I make it as I’ve just barely earned about 1/3 of the fences needed. If something were to happen to take away from my earning potential, I’d be out of luck on one of the two Rigellian items. Anyways, just wanted to vent. Thanks!
I am the same. The weekend shop holds no interest for me. I want to buy fences only.
Calander 😀
It’s coming 🙂
Is there going to be a task or way to activate the Bad Dream House?
Help! When I load tapped out, the log in screen shows my sn and level (44), but when the game starts, its back to level one and no progress what so ever!! Am I screwed, or is this just a bug??
Try the usual uninstall reinstall and then log in again. See if that helps. If not, contact EA.
At twelve squishes per hour and 90 ray guns from friends per day (assuming no hunting license) over the eleven days, that’s a total of (2*12*24+90)*11 = 7326 ray guns. That is enough to get both prizes, and it doesn’t include ray guns from bags (which there are a lot), grem-aliens, or from ammo. It seems like this should be achievable without donuts for those who are able to play a lot.
The change from 3 to 2 per squish makes me wonder if stage three might go up to 4. I’ve been saving my eggs and ammo for stage three thinking it would be the toughest, but if it does go up to 4 that means (4*12*24+90)*12 = 14,904, which is just enough to get both prizes (based on the countdowns it appears as though phase three is 12 days). Again, once you add in grem-aliens, bags, and ammo and there are many more to be had. If stage three goes back to 3 per then you’d be about 2,500 short just from squishing, and if it stayed at 2 you’d be almost 6,000 short. At 1 per you’d be 9,500 short.
Uhm…haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere, but only > eleven < days? oO As an addict I will easily make it, but still it's a day less for 'normal' players.
Yea 1 day shorter…they’ve gotta make it harder as it goes on right? 😉
I haven’t triggered the quest for spooky house so I can’t craft it. Should I of by now?
Did you craft Hugo and get to part 5 of his dialog?
Hover copter….at last an aircraft for my airport
Okay I would like to ask my fellow Addicts for some advice I currently have 121 donuts i’ve been trying to save up for 150 to get Luanne and the cracker factory because I’ve heard that not only do you get the character but also a premium her name task for Milhouse his dad and it opens the pita Fleta quest line but now I’m wondering if I should spend 70 donuts to get the cauldron and witch Marge skin I know the skin will help during the event I’d be able to send another character trick-or-treating but in the long run do you think I’ll be happier with Luanne
Well…I am not you. Lol. I would say think about what would make YOU happy to have her. Outside the event, she speeds up crops.