Hey Howdy Hey Super Tappers!
The Superhero Event is upon us and Springfield has been invaded with Superheros, creeping Criminals & a whole new Comic Book look! In the first Issue of the Superhero Event, you’ll see action (SPOILER Radioactive Man dies..), crime & pie! Lots and lots of pie!
So now that we’ve got ourselves a new event going on, you know what that means right? Time for another Turbo Tappin’! Here’s your guide for who to keep free, and for how long, as the game guides you through what to do during Issue 1 of the Superhero Event!
The Death of a Hero Pt. 1
Auto-start
Make Homer Fling Pies Indoors- 30m, Earns $40, 10xp
The Death of a Hero Pt. 2
Homer starts
Make Pie Man Fling Indiscriminate Pies at Springfielders- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
The Death of a Hero Pt. 3
Lisa starts
Build the Superior Squad HQ- $500, 4hr Build
The Death of a Hero Pt. 4
Fallout Boy starts
Make Fallout Boy Destroy the Mind Control Ray- 6s, Earns $35, 1xp
Make Sure NOTHING Bad Happens! This isn’t really a task…it’ll auto complete once you finish the first part.
A New Hero Rises Pt. 1
Fallout Boy starts
Tap on Criminals to Arrest Them- x20. Tap 20 Criminals, to earn Carbon Rods and progress in the story-line.
A New Hero Rises Pt. 2
Fallout Boy starts
Arrest Criminals in a Friend’s Town- x3. Tap 3 Criminals in a neighbor’s town.
Report Crimes in a Friend’s Town- x3. Tap 3 Red Phones in a neighbor’s town.
A New Hero Rises Pt. 3
Fallout Boy starts
Make Fallout Boy Devise New Exclamations- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Fallout Boy Practice His Moves- 4hrs, Earns 10 Carbon Rods, 45xp
Unlock Arbitrarium
Auto start
Unlock Arbitrarium- Collect 400 Carbon Rods to Unlock the Arbitrarium.
Superior-ior Squad HQ Pt. 1
Auto start after unlocking Arbitrarium
Upgrade Your Superior Squad HQ- x1. Collect 4 Arbitrarium to upgrade your HQ from level 0 to level 1.
Once upgraded above level 0 your HQ will start to earn Carbon Rods/4hrs. Each level you increase (that we’ve found so far) your Carbon Rod amount earned will increase by 10. So that’s 10 more Carbon Rods that will pay out from the HQ every 4 hrs with each upgrade.
Superior-ior Squad HQ Pt. 2
Auto start
Upgrade your Superior Squad HQ to Level 5
Unlock Burns State Prison
Auto start
Collect 7,000 Carbon Rods to Unlock Burns State Prison
Montgomery Burns State Prison Pt. 1
Auto start once you unlock the State Prison
Place the Burns State Prison- 4s Build
Montgomery Burns State Prison Pt. 2
Fallout Boy starts
Send a Super Hero to Attack a Felon- You can send characters to attack the Felon. You can send Spider Pig, Fallout Boy, Pie Man and Fruit Batman to attack. This takes 4hrs per attack and you can only send 1 character at a time to attack. (Note: Spider Pig will take 3hrs to complete it…perk of buying a premium character).
It’ll take approx 3 hits (at least for the first one) to defeat the felon. So you’ll have to send a character to attack for 4hrs each time. Again, you can only send 1 character at a time. This will pay out Carbon Rods as the reward. We will have a full detailed post about this up soon.
Note the Prision will Spawn more Felons at a rate of 1 Felon every 8hrs
Montgomery Burns State Prison Pt. 3
Auto start
Defeat Felons- x3. Remember Felons will Spawn from the Prison every 8hrs. You’ll see 1 appear every 8hrs.
Unlock Clownface
Auto start
Unlock Clownface- Earn 18,500 Carbon Rods to unlock Clownface
Origin Story Pt. 1
Auto start once you’ve unlocked Krusty
Reach Level 7 and Build the Krusty Burger
Make Krusty Wear the Clownface Outfit- You’ll find it in your inventory
Origin Story Pt. 2
Clownface starts
Make Clownface Swap Real Diamond With a Fake- 6s, Earns $35, 1xp
Super Bonus
Auto start once you’ve unlocked all of the Carbon Prizes
Collect Carbon Rods- 3,000 Rods required. For every 3,000 Rods collected you’ll have a shot to earn more DONUTS! Just like the bonus level ups! (and other bonus games) for every 3,000 Carbon Rods you’ll have a shot for 1, 2 or 3 donuts in the prize boxes.
Whew and that concludes all of the available details for Issue 1 of the Superhero Event!
As you can see this first stage is basically giving you the basics. What you need to do, how you earn more Carbon Rods & various ways to use the prizes you’ve won! More details will be available when Issue 2 hits on February 24th!
What do you think of the Superhero Event? Any prizes with issue one that you’re excited about? How are you doing with earning Carbon Rods? What do you think will happen as the story progresses? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
anyone know how many donuts it takes to advance the burns prison? I accidentally clicked on it and they need me to tell them how many I lost
It depends how many rods you were at when it happened. Right now I am at 5000 in a test game and the cost to reach 7000 is 80 donuts… that may help.
I’m not able to tap on any phones in any of my neighbours Springfields. None of them have the thing to say how many carbon rods they have – how do I get this part of the task to start? I have 1400 rods. Thanks.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/02/19/how-to-visit-neighbors-superheroes-edition/
How do I earn more arbitrarium to improve my headquarters?
Criminals.
Looks like EA didn’t really work out their animation of Fruit Bat-Man fighting the felons. At first I couldn’t even see him as he fought the the felon, now he stands in one place, punches and then stops to breath heavily (ie: the “Practice Punching Out a Crook” task) while the felon wanders around the screen nowhere near him, occasionally falling back like he’s been hit or like he’s dodging a hit, not even remotely in sync with Fruit Bat-Man’s punches. I’m not disappointed that I have the extra hero (funny as it is that this “hero” is the one who released the felon in the first place), I guess I was hoping for a little more from the task.
I had a similar problem with Pie Man fighting the felon… They started off fighting together, but, at some point, the got separated across town from one another. (Actually, the weirdest party was that Homer (err…I mean Pie Man) ended up in a wooded part town out that I’ve never seen a single character go to before (there aren’t any roads there – it’s a clearing in the forest with one of the minnow fishing ponds and not much else)!
I was really hoping Lou & Eddie would actually be involved in this with their 4 hr pursue criminals tasks. And maybe Fat Tony’s crew too getting in a turf war with these new criminals.
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I understand you can only send one superhero at a time to fight a felon, and it will take a few fights to defeat a felon. But what if you have more than one felon, can you use a superhero for each felon? I have 3.5 hrs. left on a fight, but will get a new felon in 2 hrs. Thanks.
You can have multiple felon attacks going, yes. So if you have 2 felons you can have say Pie Man attacking one and Fallout Boy the other.
What exactly is the hand of justice?
You. According to Fallout Boy that’s the nickname he’s giving you “sky finger”.
Which characters earn carbon rods?
Right now…Pie Man, Fallout Boy, Plopper, Petroleus Rex & Clown Face. So basically all the superhero type characters. They each only have 1 task that earns it though
Anyone else having problems with the game crashing since the update? I’m playing on a Nexus 7 2014 version and I can only play for 60 secooonds or so before the screen goes blank and resets to the desktop.
Another reader who uses a nexus 7 responded to your other post with this
“I use the Nexus 7 and had a similar situation. For me, it was a memory drain. I turn off the device and rebooted. Haven’t had any problems since.”
Thanks, Zap Rowsdower for answering! 🙂
Thanks guys! It worked
I hope they give us a carousel for krusty land. Krusty and his skin should be able to ride it Like in the show.
Anyone else getting a no signal Bart screen?
I’m may unlock the Burns State Prison tonight, or definitely tomorrow. I think it was very important to read this article in order to learn what I will need to do to send a Hero against a Felon that gets generated from the Burns State Prison. I hope to read an update on the rest of the Quest which will be generated. 🙂
Forgive me if this has been addressed already, but has the ability to turn Krustyland tickets into cash been turned off during this event?
Seems like it’s going around. We’re digging further into it with EA.
My game started over after it updated. I tried logging out and back in again, but I’m back at the beginning.
This happens from time to time (it’s happened to me too), don’t worry your game is still safe (as long as you have an Origin account) 🙂
See if you can borrow someones device and log into your TSTO town from their device, it’ll restore it and should bring it back on your phone. IF you don’t have this option, try an uninstall/reinstall of TSTO. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t. If you’re still at the start contact EA and let them know what happened. But I know for me, logging on from another device did the trick
I’m having a lot of fun with this event! So hilarious!
Thanks addicts for all the info – it’s really fun to come here for event tips & tricks!
I unlocked the prison tonight and thought Id get the mr burns skin with it but didn’t. Does that come at a later date? I thought it came with the prison as you can send him to fight felons
Which skin?
Isn’t he the fruit bat man? It says you can use fruit bat man to fight felons but in my game it’s nowhere in sight I checked the store to see if I can buy it
Fruit Bat Man has NOT been brought into this event. So unless you are a REALLY seasoned player and had TSTO in early 2013 and got him… you will NOT have the option for him unless they launch him again in this event. 😉
If I were a betting man, I’d put money on Part 4 including some type of time travel at the very end where we go back and redo The Death of a Hero Part 4 with “Make Sure NOTHING Bad Happens!” being a doable task that culminates with us receiving Radioactive Man as a permanent (what with his death not occurring if nothing bad happens).
Think Zutroy at Xmas with completing all Elf Tunnels, but instead it’s Radioactive Man in this event for completing all issues.
Time travel isn’t a trend I care for in comic books, but both Marvel and DC beat time travel (and multiverses for that matter) like a dead horse, so seeing it unfold in a superhero-themed event wouldn’t surprise me in the least bit.
Of course, I may just be hoping against hope that I’m spot on with this theory as I don’t want to have a permanent Fallout Boy without having a permanent Radioactive Man. (I also would love to see Rainier get a superhero costume like Milhouse, so we don’t have a fake Fallout Boy without a fake Radioactive Man).
There is only one problem, and that is he is not in any of the character collections.
Doesn’t matter. A patch will have to be sent anyway for the ? prizes. He may be added in at that point too. 😉
I was looking at a few character categorys for the event and there were a few characters that are not in the store, or in any of the event prize categorys. Just saying 😊
Anything in he files regarding the introduction of Dr Crab
or will he just remain in the captions and dialogue balloons?
So far just seeing the dialogue images
i’m probably a total dolt, but i don’t understand the “capture criminals” in my friends’ towns? every time i click on a tip-toe-ing guy, all he does is stand up straight, but the little counter in the upper left doesn’t show 1/3. it always says 0/3. what am i doing wrong?
i’m really sorry for asking something that should be totally obvious 🙁
also, why do i get handshakes on some buildings and atomic signs on others? this even is confusing me…and i started late to boot
double 🙁
wait–i just thought of something…i’m maxed out on FP–could that be the reason clicking on criminals in my neighbors’ townd doesn’t do anything?
scratch that–my son ays he gets money and XP when he clicks on criminals–i don’t…why is that?
sorry for the flood of emails
Ok so…is it happening in ALL towns you visit or just some? It most likely means your neighbor hasn’t updated far enough yet. OR you’re out of taps for the day.
Same deal with the handshakes vs Radioactive Icons. Handshakes are probably from before you updated OR your neighbor hasn’t updated yet 😉
This happened to me also, but it fixed itself when neighbor visits reset I was able to tap criminals & they would pay out in carbon rods and cash. Hopefully yours will fix itself when your neighbor visit clock resets. good luck!
i ended up just visiting my neighbors, even though i couldn’t tap their criminals, at least i could tap the cash registers, and for some very odd reason, instead of saying come back in 24 hours, it said come back in 24 MINUTES–which i did, and lo and behold, not only could i tap on criminals but i could also tap on cash registers again! I have no idea how this happened, but i’m not complaining! 🙂
If I tap and hold on a building, the game switches to the mode for moving buildings around, and selects the building I long-tapped so I can move it. I never noticed this before. Is it new behavior with this update? (It doesn’t work for Krustyland or Squidport buildings.)
That’s a new feature that was introduced back over the summer.
Some addicts may have to patient with their neighboreeno’s, I was down all day yesterday with the Bart red screen, my daughter’s game has reset twice, we’re only now starting the quest line. We’ll be there ASAP we promise- you know how glitchy these updates can get. So far I have no Superhero store, is that automatic or does that come somewhere in the quest line? Really enjoying Pieman indiscriminately hit Springfielders, got them all on their outdoor tasks, my favorite was Pieman vs Hank and his blowtorch. Point goes to Hank Scorpio.
Not til after you blow up Radioactive man
Interesting. Since the update I can no longer exchange Krustyland tickets for real fake money. Anyone else seeing this? Is a different exchange coming or perhaps a new Superhero theme ride in this event?
It appears to be a glitch, few others reporting it as well. We’re digging further into it…
SPIDER PIG IS PLAYABLE!!!!!!!! i am spider pig 🙂
Tu es Spider Pig?!
I’m really enjoying this whole event so far! I don’t have enough donuts for Spiderpig but I’m very tempted to spend some real currency in order to get him. Unrelated: has anyone else noticed that when you’re in edit mode and you click on a feature that is repeated (eg fence, wall, etc) that if you store one it automatically jumps to the next one in line instead of making you tap on it? Not sure when that started but I thought that was pretty cool and way easier than it was previously.
Is it possible to collect all the rods before the first issue is done? Right now I only have 4,600 with 4 days and some hours left?
It is possible…but requires very little sleep. Here’s the theory…and from what we’re seeing. You’re required to get Clownface before you can start issue 2 (he’s required for the questline). So it appears that you have the entire event to get the prizes for Issue 1, but you can move onto other issues until you clear issue 1. So the longer it takes you the less time you’ll have for the others. So the idea is to clear it when the next one opens, but you don’t have to. Since you’re required to have Clownface for Issue 2. 🙂
Need clarification on something…
When someone visits my town, will they only see telephones on buildings that are “ripe”? In other words, should I stop collecting money/XP A from my “ripe”buildings, to make sure that there are as many possible telephones available for visitors?
Neighbor post up in about 6 mins. Keep an eye on the site. 😉
Anyone know if there will be any female super heroes?
EA seems to forget that women actually exist too. 😉
So far not seeing anything. But they’ve got the details for Issue 4 very well hidden, so we’ll have to see 🙂
Thanks Alissa.
It’d be nice to see something for Lisa, Marge or Patty/Selma – it’s a cloud, it’s a fog, no, it’s Laramie Girl!
Or maybe Bernice as Fall-All-Over-Herself Woman. 🙂
Is anybody else noticing that the amount of carbon rods isn’t increasing when upgrading the HQ?
Same goes for the HQ payout, I’m at level 4 now and should be 65 rods but I only got 25.
Hmmm it definately should be increasing. Is it listed as not paying more, or showing 65 and your count is only increasing by 25? In either case…try going to Krustyland and then back to Springfield, often times that helps to reset any issues.
It’s showing it should be 65 but when theu drop it’s only 25.
Does the payout per tab increase? I still only get 15 per intruder. I guess that should be more reading the description I got for the upgrade of the HQ.
Are you watching the payout amounts as they drop? Each rod will show a different amount. If they collect fast, you may miss one. Just watch your main counts. Criminal payouts will NOT increase.
I see Fruit Batman in the character collection and the Fruit Bat Signal in the store, but where is Fruit Batman? Is he getting re-released?
Hard to say. So far I haven’t seen him, but they’ve got the details for Issue 4 very well under wraps, so it could mean he’s coming later.
Fruit Batman was a skin for Mr.burns and that was available last year I believe. Select Mr. Burns and you should see it there
lol 2 years ago..and yup I know. Part of an episode tie-in. However, the question is…is he coming back for those that don’t have him. The answer is…we don’t know at the moment.
I had that skin two years ago, but it just disappeared a few months ago… Anyone else have this problem?
Check your Inventory Menu…
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/11/17/tappers-101-navigating-the-new-inventory-menu/
Check Mr Burns by scrolling through his costumes… if still not there… alert EA.
So, when I visit other places, I get carbon rods from all the buildings I can tap, for all my friends, BUT* at a point when I am visiting friends, the Fellons STOP giving our rods, and only give out Money and XP. this happend also in the Xmas stuff.
Yup, you get 90 actions per day for Criminal taps (doesn’t apply to phones). So once you hit those 90 actions (30 friends at 3 Criminals each), you’ll no longer get Carbon Rods from tapping Criminals.