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
Yippee for the new land, I bought it all and could still use more. I hate seeing my money total under $50 million though! 😖
KBBL radio station has a 16 hour task “KBBL Sports” for 16 Amateur Bucks.
I haven’t visited yet. Are going to get items from our neighbors?
Yup if you see in the post, you can play them and get Foam Fingers from them for tapping their fans.
I am not seeing their fans.
Disregard the above statement. My Balls of Glory part 4 didn’t start and Lisa is free.
This looks to be a fun event unlike the Terwilliger event was.
I have to say that I LOVE the name of the ballpark. Lol The “stupid Flanders” part makes me giggle.
The electronic billboard in my stadium entrance that used to side scroll & said “stupid Flanders” at the end is now dead.
It only shows the scrolling stadium title when someone’s using the stadium. Think of it like any other building animation.
What’s the best strategy in terms of upgrading the stars on the characters? Is it better to get one up to 4 or 5 or upgrade then equally?
Also, is it worth using the tickets on energy boosts or just on upgrading their stars?
Still playing around with it honestly. Once we break it down we’ll go over all of it for you guys..
Hmm I didn’t see anyone ask, so I will:
Does Sporty Nelson earn the same as Regular Nelson? (I know Sporty Nelson earns tickets, but does his non-ticket tasks equal that of his original skin?) Meaning after the event, would it be a waste of donuts?
If Sporty Nelson earned more than the original I would consider it more, but if it is only an event advantage then I think I’ll skip.
I have to dig into the files more…right now I would assume he’d earn at a premium rate. Once I break it down it’ll be on the SIB post.
Lol I just speed up a level up for 0 donuts. Savedmea few bucks
Had that too. Was like… Eh, sure, why not. Rude not to.
FYI…kbbl has a 16 hour task to earn tickets too.
I noticed that when you set Flanders to do “Lunges” for 4 hours for Bucks, all he does is stand there staring, isn’t he supposed to do more than that?
At least you still get the bucks.
Could be that the coding isn’t in properly, like with Cecil.
Hopefully they will fix this, at least I see I’m not the only one having this problem.
an in-game update is already available that fixes ned’s lunges. you can also craft football uprights now.
Mine does the same. I assumed it was a glitch, too.
I think this event havê a little bit related to the soccer (im brazzilian) . call it any name you want… Except soccer
Best Quote ever (eh, Alissa? ;-)) :
Lisa: Baseball is the least important thing in the universe to me
lol no…but it is Lisa, so only makes sense.
Actually, I thought that quote was a little out of character…football or hockey I could understand, but I would think that, as team sports go, baseball would have a greater appeal to Lisa than most. It’s relatively pastoral and non-violent and nerds (I say that with affection) often like the statistics part of it. I’m not saying that I’d think that baseball would be a major thing in Lisa’s life (though women’s softball is getting pretty popular these days, I think), but I still don’t think it would be the “least important thing in the universe” (or even the least important sport) to her.
As a “Nerd” myself… Baseball is kind of Meh to me (though I have played and my Mom has hundreds of trophies from her teams). I actually enjoyed watching Football, but more so watching and playing Hockey. Maybe because both are a contact sport. Like Lisa Playing Hockey… you can crash into and whack your opponent. Get some of that aggression out. Can’t really do that with a baseball bat or the cops may get called. 😉
I think overall it is more a “bottled up frustrations of Nerd life” that have her liking the contact sports better. 😉
I guess since Lisa is my favorite character and I semi-identify with her (except the vegetarian and Buddhist things), I was projecting my own preferences onto her. I’ve never really understood the appeal of watching a bunch of people running into each other on purpose (American football) or liked the violent nature of hockey.
I think that George Carlin captured why I prefer baseball to football perfectly in his classic routine – if anyone here hadn’t seen it before, here’s a somewhat updated version I hadn’t heard before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXacL0Uny0 (I looked for the old, original one from the 60s/70s?, but couldn’t find a clip farther back than the first ep of SNL, which I didn’t think was his best version…)
I quite like this event, I guess it is because there is a lot of different things to do and if looks like it will be slightly more manageable than the last event, I didn’t get to craft a lot of things that I wanted. The Blocko Store is back for 30 donuts. I see that Drederick Tatum, Lugash and the Crazy Cat Lady are all daily prizes. Perhaps they are only unlocked to play Tap Ball. Maybe they will be unlocked in the games for free, but without their buildings, and presumably then at a normal payout rate instead of the bonus. I want to craft several fences for the stadium, but I think I will wait until the end of the event. I’ll spend more on upgrading and bringing back players, then when I have unlocked the other decorations I will be able to tell how many I need.
And having said that, I doubt I will now, it looks as though I probably won’t be able to afford to make all of the items. Oh well, it’s still very early in. I may add some donuts for premium skins or characters if they can help and are fairly cheap.
I thought I would wait and see if I could get any donuts in my mystery box as I should have two attempts before the Blocko store goes. Then I remembered that the daily bonuses are currently the foam hands. I also spent a few donuts I had saved earlier, if I hadn’t, I could have just added a dozen. Ugh, bad choices. :/ Oh well, I thought that I might add some clams to FGTQFS, maybe I’ll add a couple more donuts and keep the rest for other things.
Are there really flags and community prizes again!!!
It’s going to be a wait and see game. Stuff is indicated in the files, but as we’ve seen in the past not everything comes to light.
Are the players actions in the Tap Ball game independent of their characters in Springfield? Another way to put this, when the characters in SF are on earning tasks can you play the corresponding players in Tap Ball when the players are ready? Also it appears that the roster must be full in order to play. You can’t just send 1 player to play. Is this correct?
Yes, they can be on actions and play tap ball at the same time.
Radio station sports broadcast earns tickets too. Channel 6 stil on long broadcast so not sure.
Gorgeous grandpa has a task too earn tickets too 🙂
Sorry – nothing for Channel 6, only KBBL.
10 minutes into this event and again I am not too thrilled with it.
Give it a chance 😁
Way to give it a fair chance there!
Just got the Homertron:) Alot larger then I expected it to be though. Also if you try to upgrade your players but don’t have enough amateur bucks still click on it…If you’re close it will give you an option to spend zero donuts. I’ve done this a few times now…It saves you time and amateur bucks in the long run. Hope this helps!:)
On the daily training menu, there are premium characters shown. DO we unlock them, or are they just skins and we still have to buy the character (even though they don’t look like different skins)
For the prizes? For the prizes you just get the skin for that character, if you don’t have the character it’ll go into your inventory until you get that character. But you won’t unlock the character as a prize. As far as the daily task ones, I’m going to have to do some digging to see what unfolds…give us some time we’ll break it all down 🙂
Found a cool bug. I was looking at upgrading Nelson to level 2.5, which is a cost of 62 stubs. But I only had 56 stubs so I clicked to see what the Donut upgrade cost was, and the answer was zero! So I got that upgrade for 6 stubs less than list for free. Not sure if it applies to all levels or where the cut off is, but worth checking to save your stubs!
I just upgraded Ned the same way. (0 donuts) Cool!
NnnnnnooooooooOooooooOOOOOOOOO!
WARGH! (meep, and other non-sensicals)
????????
Probably my favourite event so far and I’m working 10 hour days, with no ability to tap at anytime during. …
Whimper ;(
I went a bit crazy and upgraded Lisa and Homer to max levels straight away.
2 of the task requirements for Meet My Trophy Life Pt. 6 are to upgrade Lisa & Homer. As they are maxed out I can’t upgrade them so I’m now stuck!
Just a warning to others to be careful about this! Maybe it will be fixed in an update?
I would contact EA to let them know what happened.
LOL! (sorry) I guess they did not see that one coming. I feel your pain.
Hi all,
Didn’t finish my money mountain ( spent my money on new buildings) and now am a bit scared to apply the update.
Could I update and continue the money mountain still?
Thanks a lot
Yup, no issues. Money Mountain is a permanent addition to the game, so updates won’t impact it.
there is some kinda bug where you can rush upgrade you players for 0 donuts for less than the required amount of tickets. i was able to rush upgrade 1-star lisa and ned with 17 and 16 amateur bucks respectively, and the total amount said 0 donuts required for both.
KBBL Radio has a 16 hour task that earns 16 amateur bucks.
Just a short notice I did not find in the article – you can send your team to play (after they rested long enough) even when they are on task. At least in my game. So you can keep them on their Amateru bucks earning quests and still use them for Tap Ball.
Yeah, I saw that too. It seems to be completely separate from the regular in game activities.
My game is always crashing after the logos of the game companys(ea fox ect) does someone have the same problem qnd how do i fix it
Try an uninstall and reinstall, could be a bad file.
my first thought when I began reading the post was……..forget soccer, is Alissa OK? can’t believe nobody else mentioned that….
Hopefully Alissa’s appointment was routine, now I won’t know till America wakes up
(soccer is rubbish anyway, in England we get bombarded with it every news bulletin, every hour, for ten months of the year )
⚾💝⚾💝. 🚅
Oh yea, everything’s good 🙂 Just a routine baby appointment, just took a while because they were doing a scan of the baby’s organs etc, so had to wait till the baby cooperated. But everything’s perfect 🙂 Thanks for asking!
Thanks for the infos, you guys are amazing. 🙂 One question: what happen if I get a skin but don’t on the character? I don’t on Jasper for example. Will the skin also be available if I get ihm after the event?
Generally it’ll store in your inventory and once you purchase Jasper, if you decide to, you’ll be able to use it. Even after the event is over.
KBBL radio has a sports broadcast for currency.