Update From Alissa: Sorry guys I was out at a baby appointment this afternoon, which took a few hrs. So I haven’t had a chance to go through this at all yet. Going through it now and will take a look and have some images/details/answers for you soon! 🙂
Hey there Hoppereenos!
We had a feeling it was too quiet around here. Well EA didn’t want to disappoint, so they dumped an IN APP MARKET UPDATE into our silly lil games.
So far, it is in iOS App Market. Will keep an eye out for Android and Amazon. All Markets live now!
Looks like it is going to be some Soccer Fun!
THIS EVENT WILL END JULY 21ST 2015
Back with more details and a rundown in just a bit!
Lisa automatically started to kick it off with the Dialog in my game.
A LOT MORE DETAILS COMING, Please bare with us as both of us are at appointments trying to get all the details compiled for you.
(Bunny’s Favorite Image, makes me Giggle!!)
For the Soccer Mini Event, you will be going through a pretty simple Questline. Meet My Trophy Life. There will be a few parts to this before the Main Items will kick off.
- Part 1 (Instant/Lisa): Lisa & Homer Watch Soccer, Simpsons House, 45 secs.
- Part 2 (Homer): Place the Grass Field and Stadium Entrance.
Grass Field: FREE, 12×12 base
Stadium Entrance: FREE, 3×5 base
- Part 3 (Homer): Homer Pander to Sponsors,Stadium Entrance, 3 mins
- Part 4 (Lisa): Homer Invent More Rules (x4), Stadium Entrance, 6 secs. At this point, you will Unlock the NEW Character Skin for Homer, Referee Homer & the NEW Character Skin for Lisa, Soccer Lisa. They will be part of the “Sporty Simpsons” Character Group.
- Homer again Triggered the next part, which immediately gave me ANOTHER Character Skin,
Pin Pal Apu: FREE, put directly into Inventory.
The Soccer Event will now be in full swing. You will see a lot of New Icons and a lot of New items now added into the game.
The New Questline will now be triggered into your game as well, Balls of Glory.
ENDING IN LESS THAN 10 DAYS
Character/Skins
Balance Beam w/Gymnast Lisa Skin: 75 Donuts, an item back from the past (Whacking Day), 7×3 base
Building
Sportacus: 85 Donuts, $260 & 26XP every 10hrs, 9×6 base, 6sec Build Time, Comes with mini questline. Task for Willie: Buy Sports Equipement, 8hrs, 8 Amateur Bucks & 105XP (one time use for questline).
Decoration
Boxing Ring: 30 Donuts (you can buy more than one). 0.50% Bonus, 6×6 base
ENDING IN 28 DAYS
Character/Skins
Football Neslon: (Unlocks after Balls of Glory 2) 85 Donuts, Skin for Nelson to play Tap Ball.
Decorations
Tennis Court: 50 Donuts, 2.25% Bonus, 4×6 base
More Returning Items
Oscar’s Obstacles Truck- 45 Donuts
Blocko Store- 30 Donuts
EVENT ICONS
Styrofoam Game Finger: Here is where you will see a running total of the Items you collect from Fans to be able to earn and create Event items. Tapping on the ? next to it will take you to the Event Menu Trophy. The Personal Prizes will be listed here.
Mit w/Soccer Ball: You will notice this appear in the Lower Right of the game with an ! on it. Tapping on this will also take you to the Event Menu.
EVENT MENU POP UP
The Event Menu is where you will find a lot of details and game play basics for the Event. It is the Soccer Ball in Mit Icon that gets it to pop up.
Trophy: This is where all your Personal Prizes will be located.
ACT ONE PRIZES
Prize 1: Homertron, 1900 Foam Fingers
Prize 2: Obstacle Tires, 5600 Foam Fingers
Prize 3: Baseball Jasper, 11300 Foam Fingers
Prize 4: Obstacle Wall, 15100 Foam Fingers
Prize 5: Softball Mr. Burns, 19500 Foam Fingers
(Yes Sandra, Calendar coming 😛 )
You will have less than 10 days to earn all of these items.
Flag: This will be the area you can PLAY TAPBALL. You will want to go into the Event Menu and tap on the “Flag” Tab. This will take you to “Flanders House” where you can pick your Teams to start playing. In the top Right corner you will see “PICK” across from Single Player, tap on it to begin picking your team. YOU WILL NEED FLANDERS HOUSE PLACED TO ACCESS THE PLAY MODE. More on this below
Soccer Ball, Mit, Ticket Stubs: This is the Amateur Shop aka the Craftables. You will see the usual breakdown of what amount of each Event Currency you will need for the items inside.
Act One Craftables
Obesotade 4-pack: 400 Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks (you will be required to get one for Balls of Glory Part 2)
Obesotade 6-pack: 600 Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks
Obesotade 12-pack: 1200 Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks
Stadium Fence: 325 Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks
Single Bleachers (when you win Daily Training Day#2 Challenge): 900 Amateur Bucks
UPDATE: Patch 6/24 Added Football Uprights: 750 Amateur Bucks
Scoreboard: This will be your Career Stats aka how many Wins, Losses, and Ties you have had while playing Tapball.
Stop Watch: These are your Daily Training Challenges. This will not Trigger until around Meet My Trophy Life Part 6. See the more detailed info on this below and more to come.
Clip Board: This is where you can LEVEL UP your Players Stars to get better results at Tap Ball.This will not trigger until Meet My Trophy Life Part 6. More info below and more to come.
NEW LAND
For those of you begging for more… we got MORE. Don’t just look along the bottom edge of town as usual, but also next to the side. Starting from the Mountains and going down. WOOHOO LAND!!!
Land Cost from Ocean to Land (Left to Right):
$1,500,000
$900,000
$600,000
$400,000
$300,000
$200,000
$200,000
$200,000
$300,000
$400,000
$500,000
$600,000
$700,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,500,000
Point both meet
$2,000,000
Land Cost from Mountain to Grass (Top to Bottom):
$162,000
$149,000
$149,000
$162,000
$176,000
$191,000
$207,000
$224,000
$242,000
$261,000
$281,000
$302,000
$324,000
$347,000
$371,000
$1,000,000
EVENT CURRENCY
Foam Fingers: These will be your main Event Currency used throughout the Soccer Event to be able to unlock your Personal Prizes.
Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks: These are used to get items in your Craftables Area as well as Leveling Up Characters
Brain & Nerve Tonic : These are used currently to give your Character a 2 Star Boost to help defeat your opponents in Tap Ball, so save them and use them wisely.
Obesotade: This will help to revive your worn out Players immediately so they can Play Tap Ball right away instead of waiting
PLAY TAP BALL
This will unlock during Balls of Glory Part 1. You will want to go into the Event Menu and tap on the “Flag” Tab. This will take you to “Flanders House” where you can pick your Teams to start playing. In the top Right corner you will see “PICK” across from Single Player, tap on it to begin picking your team. YOU WILL NEED FLANDERS HOUSE PLACED TO ACCESS THE PLAY MODE.
Mine started with Pin Pal Apu, Referee Homer, Soccer Lisa, and Workout Ned. Add as many as you want of the Four, then tap “PLAY” to begin. You will want to select the Characters with the HIGHEST Star Rating to Play as they will have a better chance of defeating your Opponents and winning more Awards. The Order you select them will be how they play out during the competition.
You will be then taken to the Grass Field where you will see your “Teams” Ready to Play Tap Ball. Tap on the Flag to start going and play to Win Items for Prizes.
After completing your first “Tap Ball Game”, Balls of Glory Part 2 will begin and you’ll be instructed about letting Players rest between games and using Obesotade to revie them instantly (Revive a Character takes 4hrs). The players will now be grayed out while they rest in the Play Menu.
In the Playing Field of Tap Ball you will see 3 Icons…
Directional Arrows: Tapping on this will swap out your Character in front with the one behind them. You can use this to put a more equal Character against an Opponent. The amount of times you can do this will be noted on the Icon. Winning will help you earn more “Swap” Chances.
Brain & Nerve Tonic: Tapping on this will instantly Level Up ONCE the current Character in Play at the Front. So use it wisely. The amount of times you can do this will be noted on the Icon. Winning will help you earn more along with other items around the game.
Flag: Tapping on this starts the game against the Two Characters in the Center Circle at the Front. Don’t tap on it until you are sure you don’t want to Level them Up or use some Tonic First.
You can Win, Lose, and Tie. There is also a Coin Toss too. It can go anyway.
FANS THAT EARN STUFF
These are the NPC’s that will wander your game during the Event to help you earn MORE items that will help you out with the Currency Items you will need. Attention will be drawn to the “Fans” in the game in Meet My Trophy Life Part 5. You will be able to locate 15 Fans and tap them.
Guy in Jersey Fan: +10 Foam Fingers
Guy in Cape w/blinking Hat Fan: +10 Foam Fingers
Female w/Foam Finger Fan: +10 Foam Fingers
Female w/Flag Fan: +10 Foam Fingers
Once in a while they will also drop other items, like +1 Brain & Nerve Tonic
SPAWN RATE:
At least ONE every 10 minutes
MAX of 30 in your town at a time
(Possible Bank of 30 MAX)
DAILY TRAINING CHALLENGES
This will not unlock until Meet My Trophy Life Part 6. Meet My Trophy Life Part 7 will ask you to Complete it. These tasks will be similar to those in the past. You will have 24hrs to complete specific Challenges in order to get greater Prizes/Awards. You can finish them AFTER 24hrs are up, but you will lose the 24 Hour Timer Bonus (Like Foam Fingers).
You will know when you Triggered the Daily Training Challenges when you see the Stop Watch Icon pop up in the Top Right Corner of your game. Tapping on it will bring you to the Event Menu where you will now see the Stop Watch as an added Icon and the Daily Challenge Task Requirements.
Task Day#1: Make Apu Sell Tap Ball Merchandise (X2), 2hrs.
Reward: Obesotade 4-Pack.
24hr Time Bonus: 800 Foam Fingers.
We will have a LOT more detailed post on this one coming later.
TEAM MANAGEMENT/LEVEL UP CHARACTERS
This will not unlock until Meet My Trophy Life Part 6. You will have the ability to use your Amateur Bucks to Train your Characters for Tap Ball and Level Up their “Stars”. If you watched while you were playing an opponent, you would have noticed that your Opponent has a certain Star Level under each of their Players. The Higher Stars YOUR Character has competing against theirs, the better chance at a win.
Each Star Level will vary in Amateur Bucks costs. You can Level Up half Levels of Stars too. (If you are antsy, you can use Donuts to Level them up, but that is only if it is worth it to YOU.)
In Bunny’s Game, the Breakdown was as Follows (I used Nelson as an Example)
1/2 Star to 1 Star: 26 Amateur Bucks
1 Star to 1 1/2 Stars: 29 Amateur Bucks
1 1/2 Stars to 2 Stars: 32 Amateur Bucks
2 Stars to 2 1/2 Stars: 62 Amateur Bucks
2 1/2 Stars to 3 Stars: 98 Amateur Bucks
3 Stars to 3 1/2 Stars: 140 Amateur Bucks
3 1/2 Stars to 4 Stars: 188 Amateur Bucks
4 Stars to 4 1/2 Stars: 242 Amateur Bucks
4 1/2 Stars to 5 Stars: 302 Amateur Bucks
At this point, your Character will be at MAX LEVEL
NEIGHBOR TAP BALL
The Neighbor Portion will not trigger in the Event until Balls of Glory Part 4. So you have some time to get to this point.
So just how will the “Neighbor” Games work? Well once you trigger Part 4, you will go into the Flag Icon in the Main Event Pop Up and now see MORE Options to Play a game.
Random Opponent: The Game will randomly select any of your Neighbors to battle against. You will have no idea who it is.
**Neighbor’s Name**: You will see a Neighbors Name listed next. It will show you the potential Star Level of Players you will be up against right under it. (From 1-5 Stars.) Though you will not know just how many of their Characters are at that Level. Could be one. Could be all of them.
So the choice is yours to PICK your Player (just don’t pick your nose, at least not with your tapping finger… ewwwwwww).
If your Players are Fatigued and resting, you will see a Pop Up telling you to “GET MORE” aka Revive them with Obesotade or just “CONTINUE” and go visit your Neighbor anyway.
Once in your Neighbors, you will be taken to THEIR Grassy Field. You will see a Flag Icon on it. Tapping on the Flag will pull up your Team Roster. You can also Revive your Characters at this point too.
Select the Characters you want to battle, then “PLAY”. You can do this THREE times, as it is basically your Neighbor Actions. But it will take ALL 3 Actions if you do that and you will not be able to tap any of their Fans. THIS IS ONLY UNTIL YOU UNLOCK THE FANS. Once Fans unlocked (see below), you can have unlimited competitions.
After a Neighbor comes and Plays Tap Ball against YOU, there will be a pop up in your town of the Wins, Ties, Losses totals and YOU will also get a Reward depending on those results.
More coming on this in a separate post.
NEIGHBOR FANS
This triggers right after completion of Balls of Glory Part 4. It will Spark Homer to trigger Fickle Fans. You will be prompted to visit your Neighbors now to Tap on THEIR Fans (like the NPC ones in your town) roaming around.
You will be able to Tap on 3 of them in your Neighbors town to earn Foam Finger, Cash, and XP.
NEIGHBOR HOUSES
You CAN still tap on houses and graffiti your neighbors. With there now being THREE options to choose from to use those Neighbor Taps, use them wisely.
House, Neighbor Fan, or Neighbor Tap Ball.
Still working on the Mechanics to see if there is a MAX Daily Actions like in the past of 90, will update when we confirm.
CHARACTER TASKS
Various characters have tasks that will earn you more Amateur Bucks. Will will cover a complete list in another post, but also know that KBBL has a Amateur Buck Earning task as well, 16hrs.
There are the Basics of the game so far. There is a LOT more to it, but that will require our usually breakdown/more specific posts for you. So keep an eye out, we have about a month of all of this.
What do you think of it so far? Where are YOU in the game? Have you bought any donut items yet? Let us know.
~Bunny
Forgive me if this was already mentioned… Gorgeous Grampa has a task that earns event currency, Prance and Preen (12 hours).
Gorgeous Grandpa has a task for Amateur Bucks, as does the Radio Tower.
Could u do a should I spent donuts on the tennis courts and boxing ring
Don’t I always? 😉 It’ll be a little bit before they go up though, as we’re trying to pump out the basic info first.
didn’t see this mentioned above. upgrading players also revives them. noticed when I upgraded Lisa.
Yeah, I did this after reviving the. And was a little miffed I hadn’t played a game in between.
Does homer fights drederick tatum as a join mission on the ring here’s hoping
Sorry if this question has been asked. I can play ball with my neighbor, and myself. But when I click on random opponent it goes to someone’s land but there is no flag to tap and if I tap the playing field it doesn’t work either. Thanks
If there’s no flag you can’t play them. Happened to me many times before I finally found someone to play. Just keep going to random towns, eventually you’ll find one.
I didn’t know about the 4 hour reset. Did I miss that in the article?
(I thought I’d have to wait 24 hours…)
Section on Play Tap Ball…
After completing your first “Tap Ball Game”, Balls of Glory Part 2 will begin and you’ll be instructed about letting Players rest between games and using Obesotade to revie them instantly (Revive starts out at 4hrs). The players will now be grayed out while they rest in the Play Menu.
FYI: Fitness Milhouse has a 4 hour task (Order Unnecessary Fitness Gadgets) that earns 4 Ticket Stubs!
So much more fun than the other game that shall not be mentioned.
Proud to say my city is hosting the women’s World Cup! Unhappy to admit Lisa is doing next week’s homework til tomorrow evening 🙁
Am I alone in kinda missing the old less complicated events?
I actually was able to figure out the basics of this without the post. It’s a lot better than Terwilligers.
I agree. Not looking to spend a lot of brain power on these games. But then I’m also trying not to want everything and take more of a freemium approach.
Nope. I hate this.
No, I prefer the simpler events too… these ones take up too much time, so although it looks kinda fun, I don’t think I can invest the time on this one. Will give it a try and see how it goes.
Hooray, an update with lots of layers .. Again!! The only problem I’m having so far is tapping on the “fans” I accidentally clear my buildings. Probably cause I play on my phone .. Might have to switch over to tablet view for this one. Still rearranging my town in the process too.
Hi neighbors!!
I’m excited about the semi truck in the store, of all the things for sale so far. Can’t wait to see how this progresses!
as any event, here is my account for those who want another person to tap on. I’ll try to keep up on the event when I can. ****
Tap away. Looks like some good items.
To avoid comments on helpful posts turning into an Add Friend Feed… please keep them on the appropriate place. 🙂
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/06/17/add-friends-and-neighbor-eenos-4/
Is the blocko store being available unrelated?
As the post states… still some updating coming. Just REALLY late here and both of us have put in a very very very long day. Patience. More will come. 😉
Fit Milhouse has a 4h task that earns 4 Amateur Bucks
For the mission where I have to get 4 players to practice tap ball, fit in-house comes up, but that task is greyed out and the requirement is ‘*null’. Can anyone tell me what is going on with that our will I have to bug EA?
*Fit TM Milhouse
Many Characters have to wait to be “unlocked”. (Look at the Daily Challenge Tasks Prizes)
Just go to the options of your phone and tap on “force stop”. That should fix it.
The Blocko Store is also for sale for 30 donuts if you don’t have it and want it. Is it worth buying?
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/04/03/should-i-spend-donuts-on-easter-redux-the-buildings/
Thanks for the info.
Just curios about how often do the fans in our town show up after clearing them all? Are there always only 15 at a time to clear? And then a lapse in time before the next 15 show up?
Still digging through the files for spawn rates etc. Once we know we’ll pass it along..
My ipad isn’t updating with the new content. I get prompted by visiting the neighbours, but it doesn’t actually lead to a download. I also tried signing out and then turning off the ipad and then turning it back on and re-signing in. Will I just have to wait for tomorrow? Any ideas o how to prompt the update?
Did you go to the Apple Market?
Brilliant! That did it. Thanks!
Need tips on how to earn money faster. The most I have ever saved up too is 10 million. I’m down to 4 million now. I play every day, haven’t bought any of the aspirational items and still have several strips of land to buy.
Best advice is here..
http://tstoaddicts.com/2013/10/21/guest-post-so-you-think-you-can-tap-accumulating-doh/
Dang it, I did it again; I sent everyone on jobs (12 hours this time at least) THEN I check this page and find out there’s a new event.
Well I’ll be starting this later tomorrow I guess, haha.
Thanks for the heads up, again. 🙂
That… or store the buildings they came in or the task they are in to kick them out.
Lisa is in the Simpson House for 24 H
hours, and I can’t store it : (
Since I’m a huge soccer fan/player in so excited about this update!!!!
Help! I accidentally swiped and bought fences by mistake, now I dont have the currency to buy the mission items, and I dont know how to get more currency to proceed 🙁
Hmmmmm. See if your Character Tasks are unlocked yet to earn Amateur Bucks.
No, none of them can earn it
Hmmm, you may have to either donut buy it out or Contact EA. Sorry. That or you will have to wait til your Characters revive in 4hrs and try to win so you can get more Amateur Bucks.
Wow. Pretty fun update so far. Not crashing. Not painfully convoluted. I don’t feel pulled in four different directions with my limited resources. I can’t help but feel that others……, some others……, could learn a thing or two from the planning and execution of this event. Yep.
It’s only Day 1. There’s plenty of time for it to get painfully convoluted. 🙂
Is anyone else really sick of events? I’d be happy with just a few level updates in a row without a month long event.
I’m with ya on that one, and aside from the freebie prizes we can get, so far there’s nothing really enticing me to buy donuts. I have enough to buy one or two of the items, but would much rather save to find out what they have in store for July 4th, if anything.
I found a bug: I got 5 orange bucks for 0 donuts
sorry, I wrote o donuts, its 0 donuts
Mine did the exact same thing…It said I didn’t have enough orange bucks to upgrade Homer but it gave me the option to upgrade him for zero donuts…Took it…Nice glitch:)
Homer now requires 1 donut to upgrade if you have no tickets.
Darn – why do I always miss out on these favorable glitches? I never seem to read about them until it’s too late, even though I practically live on this site! 😡
6am PST here and I was still able to upgrade him for 0 donuts. Thanks for the heads up.
How is this bug activated? Where do I buy these “bucks”?
I’ve done it four times now, with Homer x2, Lisa x1 and Ned or Apu x1 (can’t remember which one). Last one was a few hours ago.
Sandra, keep checking, you might eventually get lucky! Just some tips, it’s seems like I can’t do it when I have 0 bucks, and I only seem to be able to upgrade for 0 donuts after I’ve just played a game of tap ball. And don’t just check to upgrade homer, check the others too. 🙂
Oh yeah, this is gonna be a fun event!
Alissa, did your appointment go as planned? Cooperative baby?
Uncooperative baby…apparently this one takes after me and doesn’t sit still! And then when we wanted it to move, it wouldn’t…so I was there for over an hour and a half while they scanned everything and then just waiting for the baby to move to the correct position for the shot they needed. (my mom said the baby’s just PO’d because the Phillies won…which sounds about right 😉 ) In the end we got everything we needed 🙂 Perfect baby, 10 fingers, 10 toes…all the organs are forming just as they’re supposed to. So the long appointment was worth it 🙂 Thanks for asking!
Hooray for a healthy baby! 😃
🙂
KBBL “broadcast sports 16hr” payouts out event instead is cash 😉
So the obstacle tire and wall decorations are 3×3. They mesh perfectly together except they don’t match the grass. My OCD is angry. Why did they do this? Is this a promise of mud and desert to add to our lone pavement? (Also I think it’s fare to note Nelson’s house also bothers me). So far so good though. Thought I’d share.
Also saw someone with a red building with white pillars called Testoster-Zone, while using the Matchmaking Player tool. Took a screenshot of it. How do I share?
Fit Milhouse has a 4 hour job that earn tickets