Hey there Lil Rigellions. 🙂
I see a lot of players panicking that they just don’t seem to keep up with the totals. So I am hoppin on in here with a breakdown of ways you can earn the Ray Guns available in your game each day.
So you want those new Phase 2 Personal Prizes? Not sure how though? Let’s break this down a bit.
LIL RIGELLIAN ALIENS
These lil aliens are running, giggling, and possessing people all over your town. So what do you do to make the most of them? You play at a pace that suits YOU.
The Lil Rigellians spawn 1 every 5 minutes in your town for a MAX of 50.
That is 12 Lil Rigellian Aliens every hour.
Every 4 hrs and 10 mins, your town will MAX at 50.
30 more can still be earned in overflow, so in 2 1/2 hours the “bank” will be full. EA took away this option for whatever reason. Sorry. Still possible though to hit the numbers by going in every 4 hrs.
What on earth does this all mean? Well, it means that you really can wait up to just over 6 1/2 hours before returning to your game to squish Rigellians, and still get the full impact of the 80 Squishes. (You just got to give the game a few moments to sync up after clearing the 50 before it will release the 30 from the “bank”)
Each Squish gives you 2 Ray Guns each. So 140 Ray Guns every 6hrs and 40 mins
To make it a lil easier on Math…let’s just say you go in every 6 hours. So 72 Rigellians every 6 hours, which translates into 288 Rigellians a day, which will in turn give you 576 Ray Guns daily.
NEIGHBOR LIL RIGELLIAN RAY GUNS
Every 24 hours you are allotted 90 actions (or taps if you will) in your neighbors. This tap will be subtracted from every time you squish a Lil Rigellian, Shoot down a UFO, or happen to cross a non updated neighbor and tap their $$ icons. So make sure you use them wisely and to the best of your ability. ONLY squish Rigellians first. Once you have all 90, then go ahead and get those UFO’s and other items.
90 actions daily that award you ONE Ray Gun each. So 90 Ray Guns daily from just visiting your neighbors.
So those are your basics of earning potential for the game. A total of 666 Ray Guns Daily. You would think Devil Flanders had a part in that total. Lol. (You only need 645 to make the daily limits to reach the goal.)
Now I am sure many of you still panic you are behind or prefer to be safer than sorry when it comes close to the deadline. So what else can you do? This part will depend a lil more on YOU and YOUR neighbors.
TRICK OR TREAT BAG RAY GUNS
Many of you have noticed that you can win Ray Guns in the Treat Bags (Similar to the Probes). These will vary depending how many you get to pop out from Rigellian squishes, neighbor visits, Spooky House (if you have it), and the UFO’s. These extra bumps to your Daily Total can really help you get there faster, but not all required. There is a really good chance you will get some Ray Guns from each bag you collect. So send all kids (and Witch Marge if you have her) Trick or Treating to get those baggies.
| Character | Trick or Treating | Treat Bag |
| Lisa, Bart, Martin, Milhouse, Nelson, Ralph, Rod, Todd, Dolph, Database (inside) | 8hrs | 1 Bronze OR 1 Silver OR 1 Gold |
| Jimbo, Kearny, Shauna, Sherri & Terri, SVT, Uter (inside), Greta (inside), Witch Marge | 16hrs | 1 Silver OR 1 Gold |
As you can see, the odds of getting MORE Ray Guns will increase if you send the 8 hour task Trick or Treaters out 2 to 3 times a day and the 16 hours at least once a day if you have them.
GREM-ALIEN RAY GUNS
Those odd hybrids of creatures running a million miles around your town can stir up quite an annoyance. Trying to catch them scurrying off can be quite the chore, but if you DO catch them…you split the winnings with yourself and the Neighbor that sent them. If you let them run til they fade out in 4 hours, you get nothing from them. I personally say to tap the Grem-Aliens and share in the profits with your Neighbor. 2 Ray Guns each.
UFO RAY GUNS
If you are lucky, you can nab an extra 50 Ray Guns from one of the Rigellian UFO’s. There are also many more awesome prizes you can get from them, the Ray Guns are just a nice boost if you get them now and then.
RIGELLIAN HUNTING LICENSE RAY GUNS
For those that want to spend a lil extra money, turn over 90 of your Pink Sprinklies and pick up the Rigellian Hunting License. What will it do? It will double your payouts on Neighbor Ray Guns. So instead of 1 per 90 actions, you will earn 2 per 90 actions. So 180 Ray Guns a day. That is 90 more Ray Guns Daily added to your total.
PORTAL RIGEL 7 RAY GUNS
This is also another alternative for those that do not mind spending 100 Pink Sprinklies to boost the amount of Lil Rigellians in your town with the Portal to Rigel 7. This lil stargate will offer up an additional 6 Rigellians into your town every 8 hours. You will need to make sure your town has room first before releasing them. 36 extra Ray Guns Daily might not be worth it to everyone, but it is another option to boost your counts daily.
So there you have it. MANY ways to easily hit the daily targets and earn the Personal Prizes for Phase 2. Even if you do not play but a few times a day. Where are YOU on the Ray Gun count? Earn any items just yet? Did this help you out to not worry so much? Let us know.
~Bunny
Is everyone getting treat bags from the neighbour taps? All I ever get is just the 3 ray guns….just want to make sure its not a glitch….I’m finding it hard to come across the treat bags, as I’m only getting them from kids trick or treating and occasional one from squishing in my town. At this rate, I wont be able to craft many items ( still waiting for hugo)!
No treat bags from neighbors…just from shooting down UFOs
Do the Lil Rigellians your neighbors tap take away from the number you have available to tap?
Nope. They are a complete separate entitity. 🙂
Is there a limit on how many treat bags you can store?
I decided early that I would save my bags and go after as many long protein strings in the final part of the event, since it is likely to be the most difficult. Based on my collecting history I might just hit 999 bronze bags before Oct 30 (likely a long shot though).
Do I need to worry about the bags resetting to 0 if I go over 999 bags?
We honestly do not know. I can only say watch your counts, when you get close…see if they stop adding up…if they do, open some or lose some
I’m doing the same thing because frankly I very much dislike the prizes in phase 2. I’ll be storing that ugly looking dinosaur thing if I earn it. But I am storing my bags like crazy because a glowing Mr. Burns is a MUST HAVE!
So with storing all the gift bags, are you still on course to win all the phase two prizes? And what about the builds? How are you getting eggs, fences, pumpkins, etc?
Personally I’ve decided to only open 10 treat bags every time I get the trick or treat quest, to keep playing it and getting rewards, and I’ll hold on to the rest of my bags. I’m not on track to get the prizes, but that’s part of why I decided to save up for next phase… I really should have held on to everything once I got enough probes for the donut machine in the fight phase!
How about Hugo and the Giant Pumpkin and all those. Without opening the bags…?
I got Hugo in phase 1 and I already had a pumpkin house from last year. I only need fences for the spooky house so every time I get the quest for bags I open ten bronze treat bags and get at least ten fences. It’s not super fast but I’m pretty confident I’ll get it before the end of phase 2. At any rate, the bags aren’t lost. People are just opening them later. They’ll still get all the ingredients and be able to craft the same amount of things, it will just happen during phase 3 instead of right now.
I got Hugo in phase 1. I’m on track to earn only 1 of the phase 2 rewards. I’m not getting anything from my treat bags by holding them but I have pumpkin house from last year, so once phase 3 opens up I’m close to building spooky house. Then I hope to have enough for grand pumpkin or the doughnut torture device that I missed. I do admit it’s been a bit of torture not opening treat bags, but I really really want glowing Mr. Burns without spending doughnuts.
Hi All – just looking for opinions and didn’t know the best place to post. I have enough items to craft the spooky house (don’t have one already), but I also want the Grand pumpkin. I already have one Pumpkin house from last year, so I don’t need that. Should I craft the spooky house first, or should I wait until I have enough items to craft the grand pumpkin and then make the spooky house a goal?
It depends on how fast you are getting the items and which one you want the most. I personally like the house more, but that is me. 😉
The payout from the stargates is pathetic. But there is no way I cannot have these in my town, so I bought two of them. I’d buy more if I was made of money (donations welcome). I just wish when this halloween period was over they could be used as a shortcut to Krustyland!
Are we expecting an extra bonus on Halloween day itself?
Dunno yet. We will see. 😉
My strategy is basically a “do not sleep” plan to get all the Ray guns that I want. The phase 1 ha e turned into phase 2 on 5 a.m. in my country, so I waited awake to get as many guns as I can 🙂 now I’m trying to get the personal prizes without opening the bags, ’cause I’m a freemium player and I’m very worried about the phase 3 :/
I must say that in general EA gives freemium players more change to complete tasks than the family guy game. Since I played that I never get any even task done as freemium player. I thought I wouldn’t get phase 1, but I had 1 day to spare.
So I have no worries for phase 3 from TSTO. Looking forward to it.
Awesome Ray Gun banking strategy or glitch???
SEA CAPTAIN people!
Hmmm…I have not seen this posted so I’ll offer it up here, perhaps it’s my own personal glitch, but may work for others:)
SO-> When I tap on the Sea Captain(he has a Rigelian stuck on his head) I get 2 Ray Guns. Then he raises his pipe for a puff and winks at me, then another Rigelian jumps on his head. This cycle takes about 2 seconds which means I can bank (30 taps/min X 2 ray guns per tap) about 60 ray guns per minute and it has always re spawned every 2 seconds without fail. I easily got the donut torture device and have already gotten the bulldozasaurus and well on way to hovercraft! I’ve also collected 100-200 treat bags and 200-300 grem eggs.
Give it a shot. Hope it works for everyone!
Cheers
bb
I’m going to try this! I’ll report back with results later.
Check your Sea Captain’s tasks. We have a similar glitch where he has a second skin/costume with an alien on his head. Tap that one, and the task gives 2 ray guns. Seemingly unlimited as the skin hasn’t disappeared!
How can we send a screenshot?
You can email it to TSTOAddictsblog@gmail.com
When I tap on the sea captain, I cannot get his task list to pop up, only squishes the alien and re spawns in 2 seconds repeatedly.
If yours presents as a second skin in the tasks list, then that would not seem to be a glitch.
I can’t undo it if I wanted to. If I click on the little sea captain character icon in the top left corner, it takes me to the sea captain, but then it will not allow any tap on the screen until I first tap on the THOH prizes icon(other icons may work also). THEN I can tap anywhere on the screen again and start tapping on the sea captain to bank ray guns.
Rats, I’m glitch-free.
I’ve had this happen with Homer in my B game. It stopped after closing and restarting the game. Seems more like a glitch to me.
I didn’t know tapping in neighbor towns without the update affects my overall 90 taps so thanks! I’m actually a bit ahead this time around and I do also think that has a lot to do with the Ray guns in treat bags I’ve been averaging about 4 every 2-3 bags which is more than with the probes round.
I don’t know about anyone else but I have scored over 90 doughnuts shooting down the UFO in my neighbors towns. I hit the 30 doughnuts 3 times and I have squished at least 5 single doughnuts out of the little green men. I don’t see anyone else saying they have gotten these.
OH! That’s why I didn’t seem to get the full 90 doodads when visiting neighbors. I usually have at least one ammo when I visit friends, and I was always shooting the UFO when I saw it, no matter where I was in the collecting-from-friends process. I thought it was just a minor bug and since I only seemed to be missing one per day, I didn’t think it was worth reporting. Now that I know, I’ll avoid the UFOs until my 90 actions run out. Thanks!
I do not like the prizes from this phase of the game alot…
What happens if I save up all treat bags now and open them in phase 3? Will they be lost or will I have more DNA-strands?
More DNA strands
Excellent article. I love how you break down the details. I’m forwarding this link to some friends of mine who have been concerned at how “impossible” it is to get the prizes.
Personally, I’m trucking along with no problems. After this morning’s friend visits, I have nearly 2900 Ray Guns already. Yes, I have the Hunting License and one Portal. I visit my town regularly throughout the day, and I started Wave Two opening about 100 treat bags and eggs saved from Wave One. I’ve already got 30 bags set aside towards Wave Three. Yay!
I got the bulldozersaurus after my daily rollover this morning and was highly disappointed. I tapped extremely diligently and used all my gremaliens I’d been saving for the third round only to get something with less actions than the lizards. If I didn’t want the copter, I’d quit until next week.
Well, until after the new update. A new update, woohoo!
Copter is kinda disappointing as well…just FYI. It flies, but barely…and no one uses it.
I thank you for sharing that tip. I’ll probably just save my treatbags and might make it if I have enough after I’m done with everything else.
At least the second round brought this hilarious “Probe Homer” task. I am dying everytime I catch it in the corner of my screen.
Oooh, you got the copter! Is it large, like the helicopter, or is it toy sized?
It’s a decent size. Rundown on it coming soon 🙂
I’m seeing a marked increase in face-jumpers today. Gotta luv those little critters.
Is it just me?
No. Not just you. I love ’em, too! 🙂
Regarding the banking, has anyone had personal experience actually counting the Rigellians? I ask because I apparently don’t have a bank. And I’m wondering if the bank actually exists, or it’s just assumed from looking at the game files.
If I spend 8 hours away from the game and then count Rigellians squished (I did this yesterday), I got exactly 51. I think the extra 1 is just a new one that spawned while I was squishing the others. I waited a few minutes – no new Rigellians. I visited Krustyland and came back – no new Rigellians. I exited the game and came back in – 1 new Rigellian (again, probably newly spawned).
I’d love to hear from others who have done an actual count of Rigellians squished. Anyone?
I also don’t see any banking. In the mornings, after 8 hours of last logging in I only have 50 aliens even after waiting a few minutes.
I haven’t counted, but I did have my suspicions. I’ll keep a closer eye on it in future
I’m in the same boat as you. I’ve counted while I squish (or do the math from the number of ray guns) and always come up with 50 aliens. If I come back 15 minutes later, I have 3…not however many should have been in the bank.
So you let it sit for 6+ hrs then go back? Or what times are you checking?
Alissa – I wait 8 hours and still only get 100 ray guns in the morning when I wake up. If I check it again 15 minutes later, I’ll only have 3 Rigellians.
Hi, I also have this problem, I can’t play at work as don’t get any phone signal and I have never got more Rigellians spawning after I have tapped the ones already in my town. I haven’t actually counted them but it does not seem like any more than 50 (if that). I was considering contacting EA about this
I’m the same as you. I checked my ray gun count, and it goes up by 102 to 106 on the first squishing of the day.
Nice to have some company, although I wish banking worked. Does anyone have any personal experience with actually verifying that they have 80 Rigellians after 6+ hours of inactivity? So far, all I’m seeing is people confirming that banking DOESN’T work for them.
In other words, is this a bug for us, or is banking not working for anyone?
How long are you waiting to go back into your game?
When I sleep at night, typically 6 to 8 hours. The max of 50 is reached around 4 hours, I believe.
I realised I was having the same problem from the start of phase 2. I contacted EA (through their live chat) but the guy couldn’t help me, so he said the specialist team will contact me via email and then added 7 donuts to my account.This was 2 days ago and nothing has changed. And yes, I only get 50 gremaliens in my town even after 8+ hours away
I can only get 50 max also, after 7 hours between login. Don’t seems to see any from the bank.
Posted on EA. Two people responded that for this event, there is no bank. Max is 50, and that is all:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out/Rigellian-Bank-not-working/m-p/3821613
The bank was there for phase 1 (in the files and tested). It seems EA pulled it out for Phase 2 for whatever reason. It could have been glitchy or causing glitches…but it was there and now it’s gone.
Sorry for posting this here just got an update, a clampitheatre and a prepatory school.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/22/level-46-like-so-mature/
I am absolutely lost. Help! I squish and trick or treat to the limit but I’m not winning anything. How come? Is it because I play on an iPad ? I also don’t seem to be able to add friends. I went to the section where ppl say they want friends but I can’t seem to make that happens? I never even saw a hint of the donut machine. How do I get a gun to shoot down the ufo’s? .
Has nothing to do with your device…when you say you’re not winning anything are ray guns popping out? If so you’ll need to log in ever 4-6 hrs 3-4 times/day and clear out your town. Basically do as this post says and that should help you.
As far as adding friends…here’s a post on how to do that:
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/02/07/origin-cha-cha-cha-changes-turn-and-face-your-neighbor/
You can add your Origin ID to our friends list and many tappers will add you…or you can add tappers from the list:
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/20/add-friends-for-halloween-tricks-and-treats-part-2/
As far as shooting down the UFOs in your neighbors town, you’ll need Ammo:
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/13/hunting-for-regillian-ufos/
New level!!! XD
BUT sadly, the number of XP I need to get more donuts went from 700k to 1.5M :(((
I think that my biggest hurdle is simply my job. I have a 30-45 minute commute each way and work 8 hours a day. My schedule is random so I will go to work at different times each day. For some reason our wifi at work refuses to allow this game to connect to the server (yet Family Guy is fine, go figure). I am ok this week since I am on vacation, but after this it will be VERY tough to keep up. I need a new job.
There’s also getting the item from shooting down spaceships. I had been saving ammo aftrer I got the DTD, and have gotten about 500 from that. Of course I wish some of those had been chocolates, but there you go…
I’m at 1040+, close to the silver treat bag right before the dinosaur. Let’s see if this time I can make it to the hover copter, since I didn’t get the donut torture device… i’d be good if i could get some more neighbours.
all great ways to earn although had to to the 6.5 hours 3 times a day unless sleep less than 6.5 hours or get up in night to squash the aliens.
It’s fair to assume that phase 3 will be even harder to meet the quota. If (and it’s a big ‘if’) you are ahead in phase 2, plan to leave a town full of aliens that you can squish as soon as phase 3 starts. So, stop squishing about 6h40m before the deadline. It’ll give you a head start.
Not necessarily harder. What if the drop rate changes again to be 4 protein strands per alien? That’s what I’m hoping for anyway.
Thanks for the info! I’m already around 2000 Ray guns, and the only Halloween donut purchase has been on one portal. Seems like I’m getting a LOT more ray guns in the treat bags than I did probes. I do have Witch Marge from last year and every premium kid except Uter ( waiting for Gil) and level 45 so that helps too.
Hi, thanks for this, it’s very helpful! 😀
Doing well so far in this phase-I’m slightly ahead, and not opening my treat bags as want to get a boost in phase 3.
I’m not sure if I have a good glitch (or you have a bad one 😳) but tapping UFOs in my neighbours’ Springfields doesn’t count towards my three actions, so in some neighbourhoods I get four actions. I can tap them after I’ve finished squishing (and the countdown clock says 23h59m before I can squish again) and still get them. Ive also tapped a UFO before squishing and still have three taps left.
I had the bad glitch last time for missing probes, so just wondering if this whole event is a tad more buggy than usual?
Not that i’m noticing. Each event has it’s own set of various bugs. These haven’t been too bad, compared to some others…
Yeah, the UFO doesn’t count as an action in mine either. I often tap an alien, see the UFO, tap it, then tap two more aliens. All four taps count.
i don’t think that’s a glitch, i think that UFOs just do not count toward your allotted three actions in an individual springfield. they do, however, count on your allotted 90 actions that provide ray guns. at least that’s what i’m seeing?
It may be that it counts as an action for the 90 for the day, but NOT for the 3 for the town. Because I’ve noticed sometimes when I’ve shot down one UFO that the last alien I squish in the 30th town doesn’t give me an event item.
I agree with Katelyn and Skydude – I had no problem squishing 3 aliens in a town, but I would only get doodads with 2 on that last town. I don’t think there’s been any day where I didn’t have ammo on hand, so I had been using them as I got them.
Aloha!!! I have 2078 Ray Guns as of past midnite on the 22nd of Oct . !
A question that I “threaded” to u abt 24 or more hrs ago and I may have not wrote it clearly! The ? Is:
Do the 90 taps include the taps we do in our own towns for these Lil Slimey friends or are a seperate count for our neighbors only? Mahalo!! So glad to see your explanation that u just sent, so will re read again if needs be! 🙂 aloha..stepingstair. 🙂
No 90 is just for neighbor taps.
Mahalo !!!!!! 🙂
Woke up this morning to find an iOS App Store update. Loaded it, but nothing changed. Am assuming it’s bug fixes. Just surprised that it required an App Store update rather than in game update.
Bug fixes that were specific to iOS. In game update would not repair them. 9 times out of 10 bug fixes for apps do require a full app store update.
My iPad hasn’t exited out of TSTO since I downloaded the iOS update yesterday. It was happening multiple times a day. Fingers crossed it stays this way with today’s game update. 🙂
You guys forgot to say that sending grem aliens will provide ray guns too, not only tapping the ones in our sprg. Ig you did, sorry I missed.
I think it’s because you can’t bank on how much you’ll get from those…it’s either 2 or 4 so hard to calculate it in. But those would just be icing on the cake after the rest of the numbers 🙂
I’ve started dropping the max of 10 grem aliens in Other Springfield every day because no one is there to tap them and clear them out. The others I spread out among friends and since I tend to do my neighbor visits late in the evening, most people aren’t playing to clear them out so I am reliably getting 4 ray guns for every egg dropped. Not sure it would work for everyone, but it’s been working for me!
It’s there. Right under trick or Treaters. Also has link with full detail on them too within the paragraph. 😉
The numbers are a little high, as some of us need to sleep/work etc.
But being able to hit in at 8am, 1pm, 6pm, 11pm should be doable for most people, which should get you just over 500 from your own town. With the 90 you get from other towns you’re still short by about 50 ray guns a day to hit the minimum so you’ve gotta hope that you get lucky with treat bags, UFOs and Grems.
Not really if you think about it. The top just shows if you ONLY tap Rigellians. So…If you have to cut time from taps, just substitute one of the MANY other earning options below. It still can be done without being in the game much.
My A game I go in once maybe twice a day. I’m on track just fine. 🙂
This all assumes you don’t have job and sleep for less than 6 hours a day.
Personally, I’m considering saving my eggs, missiles and treat bags to maximize my chances on the next phase of getting the U.B.O. which I think is far more desirable than a hover drone.
I have a job (and no a job beyond this blog. So really 2 jobs) and I manage to tap when I wake up at 6, at 12 for lunch, at 6 when i’m home and again at 12 just before I go to bed. I just know during events you have to be super active several times a day if you want all the prizes. Otherwise normal tapping is once, maybe twice a day.
You guys are the best. You have jobs other than tending to us all day, a website which you guys always have up to date where you respond quickly, running on 6 hours of sleep (if your lucky)…how do you guys do it?!?! You guys need a contraption much like the donut torture device for your meals. No hands so you can type and tap away. 🙂
Aw well thank you! 🙂
We do it with a little pixie dust (and a LOT of caffeine) 😉 A little magic never hurt anyone right?
Dust away Alissa. I knew there was something going on…of course…magic…how else could you work with two furry creatures that have the ability to type and tap. 😉
I’m at 1700+ right now, ahead of the amount on the calendar. Can’t WAIT to get the dinosaur and hover copter.