Monorail is Live! (Updated and Complete)

Update: A Patch just game through (around 5:30pm EDT) that fixes the Conductor Homer Glitch.  So you should be able to tap away without issue (ie crashing) now. Note: HOMER CRASH ISSUE…..DO NOT TAP ON HOMER ONCE YOU UNLOCK CONDUCTOR HOMER.  You MUST complete more tasks before Homer will work.  So again DO NOT TAP ON HOMER ONCE YOU UNLOCK CONDUCTOR HOMER. (i.e Do not do the Train of Fools Task)  If you do your game will crash…just be patient and wait….the game will guide you, it always does.  I’m working through it myself as fast as I can with super slow internet at work…thankfully it’s on Android now so I hopefully can move a little faster. See below…

Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!

It’s FINALLY here!  After over a year and a half of waiting (remember Homer teased it way back in Jan of 2014) it’s finally Monorail time in Springfield! monorailappstore This is an APP STORE UPDATE so remember to check your App Store/Google Play Store to download, as it will NOT automatically download in your game for you.

As of 12:20pm EDT it’s currently live on iOS, we’ll update when we see it on other devices.

As of 1:05pm EDT it’s currently live on Android.

As of 1:50pm EDT it’s currently live on Kindle Back with more in a bit…just needs to download on my super slow work internet 😉

Homer should auto start things with a task to build the Springfield Dump (which is Free)…after the Dump is placed nothing else will appear in the store until you complete Same As It Ever Was (which comes after A Rail of One City Pt. 4)

2015-08-11 17.12.37 Oh and there’s NEW LAND Available (thanks for pointing it out Tapebelt!) two new strips!  Details are below…. So first let’s look at what you can pickup in the Store.. springfielddump01_menuSpringfield Dump- FREE. 8×9 in size.  Instant build

After you build the Dump you won’t see anything new in your store until you complete Same As It Ever Was (which comes after A Rail of One City Pt. 4)..then you’ll see this stuff:

garbagepile_menuGarbage Pile- $500

recyclingbin_menuRecycling Bin- $1,000

Premium

unlock_jessegrassJesse Grass- 100 Donuts.  Helps collect Junk littlelisarecyclingplant_menuLittle Lisa’s Recycling Plant- 200 Donuts. krustystation_menuKrusty’s Drive-Thru Station- 150 Donuts. More items will unlock at a Rail of One City Pt. 8


Now let’s get into the details of the event… 2015-08-11 17.16.44 Conductor Homer

Update: A Patch just game through (around 5:30pm EDT) that fixes the Conductor Homer Glitch.  So you should be able to tap away without issue (ie crashing) now. unlock_homer_conductor You’ll be awarded Conductor Homer (for FREE) early in the questline.  However, DO NOT start his task immediately after earning him.  If you do your game will crash.  Instead you’ll need to build the Monorail station, which is the first prize.  (we’ll cover it below in a minute) You WILL be able to do this task crash free once you get enough Blueprints to unlock the Monorail Station (and place it in your Springfield).


“Acts”/Prizesico_mhub_mono15_prizetrack1 Much like the past two events this one is also broken up into different releases, or “Acts”.

There are three total Acts for the Monorail Event, with each Act having a different currency/set of prizes.

Act 1 runs for just over 11 days, and ends on 8/23 (which is when Act 2 will start).


Act 1 Currency

The prize currency for Act 1 is Blueprints ico_mono15_blueprints_lgHow do you earn Blueprints?

Well you do tasks for Junk at the Dump (more details below in a minute) and then you trade the Junk in at the Project Board for Blue Prints.

You can also earn them via Friend Actions (6 each tap)

And you can earn them by tapping possums in your town (10 each tap) Details on all of these will be below…


Act 1 Prizes

Here’s the rundown of the prizes available during Act 1:

standardstation_menuMonorail Station- 3,000 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg

3 Track Pieces- 7,300 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg

3 Track Pieces- 13,650 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg

standardstationmodule3_menu standardstationmodule1se_menu standardstationextension_menuStation Piece Pack- 24,850 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg These are pieces to expand your station

5 Track Pieces- 32,650 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg

standardstationmodule3_menu standardstationmodule1se_menu standardstationextension_menuStation Piece Pack- 43,850 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg These are pieces to expand your station

5 Track Pieces- 52,650 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg

standardstationmodule3_menu standardstationmodule1se_menu standardstationextension_menuStation Piece Pack- 63,850 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg These are pieces to expand your station

5 Track Pieces- 73,600 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg

unlock_raypattersonRay Patterson- 89,350 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg


Neighbor Actions

Neighbor Actions unlock at Part 8 of A Rail of One City.  Once unlocked you’ll be able to Dump Garbage on Friends.

You’ll see floating garbage over their buildings, simply tap on it to complete the action:ico_mono15_friendsaction_lg

For every one you tap you’ll be awarded 6 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg.

Clearing the actions in your town…you’ll see green coming from the buildings (meant to have that odor look to them) will earn you 1 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg.

At this point you’ll also unlock the dumping permit…which will allow you to earn double currency from neighbors towns:

ico_mono15_dumpingpermit 90 Donuts- Earns 12 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg instead of 6 for Friend Actions.


The Dump 

This is one of the first buildings you’ll earn for free once you start up the Monorail Event. springfielddump01_menu The Dump is one of the keys to the entire event, as it controls how you get Junk to collect pieces for the Monorail.  That Junk is turned into Blue Prints (for Act 1) to earn the Monorail Act 1 Prizes.

The Dump works much like Springfield Heights buildings.  You tap on it to send characters to to short 30 second tasks (like the Furniture Shop) to earn Junk. Your storage starts at 2,000 ico_mono15_junk_lg. As it says above each task is 30 seconds long, so you move pretty quick with it.

You will earn 50 ico_mono15_junk_lg for every Freemium character you send there and 75 ico_mono15_junk_lg for every Premium Character you send there.

Here’s a list of who can go:

Homer (50 ico_mono15_junk_lg)
Lisa (50 ico_mono15_junk_lg)
Milhouse (50 ico_mono15_junk_lg)
Flanders (50 ico_mono15_junk_lg)
Quimby (50 ico_mono15_junk_lg)
Cletus (50 ico_mono15_junk_lg)
Willie (50 ico_mono15_junk_lg)
Uter (75 ico_mono15_junk_lg)
Brandine (75 ico_mono15_junk_lg)*
Dewey Largo (75 ico_mono15_junk_lg)

*Some of you are asking if it’s worth Rushing Brandine’s Birth a Spuckler task.  Honestly that’s up to you…if you’re close the rush rate isn’t so bad.  But I can’t make that call for you.


Project Board projectboard_menu The Project Board is where you turn junk (and other items) into currency for prizes!

2015-08-11 17.41.42 By tapping on the Project Board (which unlocks at A rail of One City Pt. 6) you’ll bring up the requirements to earn Blueprints, as well as the daily challenge requirement.

Here’s how it looked today: 2015-08-11 17.41.50 As you can see if you turn in 50 ico_mono15_junk_lg you’ll earn 1 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg150 ico_mono15_junk_lg earns you 4 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg,  and 250 ico_mono15_junk_lg earns you 8 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg.

These will change out as you complete them…so just watch to see how many you need to turn in to earn Blueprints.

And if you complete the Daily Challenge (listed at the bottom) you’ll earn a bonus 1200 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg!

Today’s Daily Challenge is to hand in 2 more projects and earn 1200 Blue prints. So to earn those blueprints you’ll have to grind out the junk tasks…


Metal Depot metaldepot_menu The Metal Depot is similar to the Dump in that you send characters on tasks to earn you items.  Although in this case you’re earning metal: ico_mono15_metal_lg

This is a little more complicated than the Dump because in order to send characters on tasks here you’ll need Junk from the Dump.

Each character you want to send on a task will require 100 ico_mono15_junk_lg. In turn each task takes 1hr to complete, and doesn’t earn nearly as much metal as it does Junk.

You’ll earn 10 ico_mono15_metal_lg for every Freemium character and 15 ico_mono15_metal_lg for every Premium character.

Here’s a list of the characters you can send:

Lisa (10ico_mono15_metal_lg)
Flanders  (10ico_mono15_metal_lg)
Krusty  (10ico_mono15_metal_lg)
Mr. Burns  (10ico_mono15_metal_lg)
Rev. Lovejoy  (10ico_mono15_metal_lg)
Brandine  (15ico_mono15_metal_lg)
Jesse  (15ico_mono15_metal_lg)

Metal can also be turned into the Project Board for Blueprints…


Monorail Stationstandardstation_menu

The very first prize of the event is the Monorail Station, it’s unlocked at 3,000 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg

Unlocking the Monorail Station is key to several things in the event…first it prevents the game from crashing when you use Conductor Homer (which I know is something a lot of you are experiencing). Second, it’s where the Monorail is! Once you place the station you’ll see the Monorail is on top of it, ready to go!

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You’ll be able to place Monorail pieces on your track to get it moving… trackstraight4x2_menu trackstraight2x2_menu trackscurvese_menu trackcurvese_menu

The pieces are FREE and you’ll find them in your move menu.  BUT you’ll only get so many at a time.  To unlock more you’ll need to earn more Blueprints to unlock Daily Prizes.  But your Monorail WILL move along the tracks that you place.

And finally, with the Monorail station you’ll unlock the ability to tap on Possums which will run throughout your town:

possum03 possum02 possum01

Each possum you tap will earn you 10 ico_mono15_blueprints_lg.

They will spawn every 4hrs from the Station and if you add more tracks you’ll increase the amount in your town.  (there is a formula to figure out how many you’ll get based on track amounts, buildings, etc…but really if you add more tracks etc you’ll get more that’s the basic info.  And they spawn every 4hrs no matter what).


Ride the Monorail

When you tap on the Monorail Station you’ll notice there’s a action to “Ride”.  You can take a Scenic Tour of your Monorail.  In order to do this you’ll need to unlock more train tracks…4 more than the initial 3 you’ll get. Once you unlock enough tracks it’ll basically just take you on a ride along with your Monorail.


Lyle Lanley  lylelanley_victory_pose_image_5Sadly, and not surprising, Lyle is NOT a permanent addition to our games. Just like he *poof* disappears in the episode, he *poof* disappears in the game. He’ll disappear after you complete A Rail of One City Pt. 4 and start Same as it Ever Was.


New LAND!!

Two new strips of Land were added to the game…similar locations to Tap Ball (ugh my account still isn’t caught up from that Land Addition).

You’ve got 1 strip on the bottom (across from the mountains) and 1 strip to the right (across from the water)…here’s the price breakouts:

Bottom: From Water to the 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; $2,000,000

Right: From Mountains Down: $176,000; $162,000; $162,000; $176,000; $191,000; $207,000; $224,000; $242,000; $261,000; $281,000; $303,000; $326,000; $350,000; $375,000; $401,000; $428,000; $1,250,000

Part where the land to the right and land to the bottom meet: $2,500,000

So 35 new sections of land for you to play around with!  Coupled with the 35 sections added during Tap Ball AND the Springfield Heights land…it should be a while before you run out of room….


And that’s it for now my friends!  All of the details behind the Monorail.  We’ll breakdown the details in more extensive posts, but this should give you a good overview/rundown to get you started.

What are your thoughts on the Monorail update?  Are you excited about how it’s playing out so far?  Excited to build your own unique Monorail?  How about the prizes?  Excited to get Ray Patterson?  Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!

767 responses to “Monorail is Live! (Updated and Complete)

  1. I was having constant freezing problems with my game. I disconnected my rails from the monorail station and now my game runs perfectly.

  2. Should I buy little Lisa’s recycling plant ?

  3. Is it just me or do the pieces to make your Monorail station larger just not fit or look good? They just don’t seem to fit anywhere

  4. Off topic ….. Over 700 now,…… Is this the most comments on one post ? and if not what was the post about, that got the most comments 🙂

  5. Charlotte Thaarup

    Fyi: If you have filled up the dump before reaching part 6, you get stucked. I do not now of any way to get tid of the trash there is already there, and you have to collect 150 pieces of trash before being able to continue.
    If anybody know any workaround, please reply so I can continue the gameplay and build the monorail.

  6. How do I get more storage for the dump ect plz 🙂

  7. I’m really curious to know how many monorail track pieces there will be once this is all over… Will it be able to go the full way around Springfield? Half way? 50 or 100 pieces?? Any ideas anyone?

    Also an FYI for everyone, not only can the monorail tracks go over road but water too!!!

  8. Has anyone else noticed that the baby for Cletus’ 30 sec dump task (put the newest Spuckler to work) is massively hydrocephalic?

    tonflo1

  9. Craig (ibuylow2014)

    So, last night I started having my game freeze. Today, I have been trying to figure out what I am doing to cause the freeze. This is what I have found.
    First – I closed the game, turned by ipad 1 off and then after restarting, did a hard reboot of my ipad.
    That did not have any affect on the freezing.
    Second – I deleted the game from my ipad and then added it from the App Store. That did not have any affect on the freezing.
    HOWEVER, not all is lost.
    Lastly – I slowed the tapping rate when I am going through the SH production shops/buildings. I found that if I go slow enough and let the item I tap completely clear (number float away and disappear) before I tap again, I have greatly reduced the number of freezes I suffer. I still get one (sometimes I think it is because I went too fast), But, the rate has dropped off markedly.
    Just my observation 🙂

    • Highly active Event. LOTS going on pulling that memory drain.

      Suggestions…
      Disable your monorail by unlinking the tracks from the station. Keep all non essential Characters on indoor task or store them. Put away NPC’s. Store animated Buildings and Decorations that you don’t need right now.

      Help cut down on the memory drain.

      • Craig (ibuylow2014)

        So long Springy! See you on the next bounce.
        This kinda makes me think that EA and Apple are in Kahoots to get me to upgrade the old ipad 1 to the new one with much more memory.
        Hmmmmm…

    • My game was freezing constantly so the stopped the monorail from moving. Just disconnect the rails. My works perfectly now!! 😊

  10. Is there a way for the monorail to cross from classic Springfield to Springfield Heights?
    Also, I’ve been seeing Brandine used for many events lately, but I can never find her in the store. Does EA have a schedule for when Premium characters rotate in and out of the store?

    • No the mountains stop it unfortunately. Not sure if they’ll correct it in the future.

      On the premiums..no. Brandine is a limited-time character. Usually only appears with Valentine’s day.

  11. So I have my hands full of required items to make blue prints and the project board won’t let me cash out any. I just don’t know how I’m going to be able to acquire all my track pieces for act one before the time limit runs out. I working on #4. Is this a glitch. Cause this looks impossible??

  12. Brandine was made available before I started the game last year. Since she is part of the trash and metal tasks, do you think she will be made available again?

  13. Do we need to leave buildings untapped for out neighbors to hit with this event?

  14. Question about those possums.. I’ve added tracks to the monorail but I haven’t seen any increase in blueprint amount when tapping them. I still only get 8 possums worth 10 blueprints each every 4 hours.. Or is the increase just how many possums you can have active wandering around in springfield at the same time? 🙂

    • I think it’s an increase in how many payout, but I haven’t had a chance to test this all just yet. I do think you need to add a bunch more to the monorail station in order to get them though (not just a few tracks). This is next on my list to investigate in game… 🙂

  15. How big is the monorail station?

  16. Saw someone else had this too but I can’t find any SH items for purchase in the build menu since the update. Am I missing something? Where the heck did they go? I’m maxed out on the buildings but I can’t find any decos at all. Looking for my beloved jet skis.

  17. Simpsons crazed dude

    I’m done with the Heights. I didn’t cheat and I still get penalized for the cheaters. I don’t want 10 out of proportion parking garages stuck in my town. Especially since they do nothing once completed.

    • How are you being penalized? It most likely is not permanent. Just a way to stop the multi buys for now til a patch is made. Just wait and see. 😉

      • Simpsons crazed dude

        I hope that’s the case. I posted this to let my feelings about it be seen. The penalty is that I don’t want any of the 10/10 buildings in my town. They are too big. My plan was to move all of the regular mansions, estates, etc. to the Heights once I’ve finished the build out for real estate value. I wish there will be a way to permanently destroy all the junk from the Heights.

        • I don’t think any of use want them ALL in our towns. That is like 50 extra Buildings. Lot of prime real estate. I doubt it will be because I will personally harass them until they can be stored again. 😉

    • I’m not sure who you think are the cheaters in case of SH storage issues. If there is a glitch, that’s not cheating. Then, if someone takes advantage of that glitch, then it’s only on EA to patch it quickly or let it happen. I only agree with you that it’s very inconvenient to lock it down when it’s not a bad glitch, and lots of people are avoiding using their storage and not trying to take advantage of it anyways. I wasn’t…. yet.

  18. This comment section was a monster. I “skimmed” nearly every comment (except for some sub-comments)…but I think I blacked out at one point.

    A lot of people had problems with crashes on Conductor Homer, Brandine’s missing Spuckler children, negative number tasks completed, SH glitches, and a few more about the event’s game mechanics. Some of the comments were even unique. 😉

    How did you do it, admin-team? You must care A LOT!

    633 comments on 6 pages, at the moment! If you don’t mind, I’m going to rest on your behalf. \*flop\*

    • Oi!… Don’t take away my Bunny Flop… it is MINE!! 😛

      • I had to look “bunny flop” up, just to be sure. I didn’t even know this was a thing that bunnies did. That’s pretty cool/cute.

        I’m sure you’re much cuter doing it than I, so I won’t try to take that from you. Here ya go: *gives flop back to Bunny*

    • Julie (Jsander321)

      You just reminded I have “Conductor Homer” skin still in storage since I won it last night!

      I bounce all over the comments looking around 👀 and find all kinds of useful info on a daily basis! 👍

      • How do you put a skin in storage? Or do you just mean that you were avoiding switching skins because of the glitch? If the second, you’re welcome.

      • Sometimes when you unlock them they go straight to inventory and are easy to forget about!

      • Julie (Jsander321)

        Yep, it was totally the latter of what you said. Sorry, meant to say on separate task after I won him, not storage. I didn’t want to use him while the glitch was going around. I totally forgot he had his skin for Conductor to switch over to.

        I’ve had a bunch of phone glitches, besides the ones in game, that I’m a little behind and have been avoiding tasks just to not have more complications. I’ve had to reset more than my game last few days .. 😜

  19. Thank you Alissa! One less worry is good among all other game’s headaches! ;))

  20. Julie (Jsander321)

    We all have stinky towns! 😷🚚♻️
    (I LOVE the smelly gas graphic) when neighbors visit. I realized today that’s what that was from 😉 Hi neighbors!

    I’ve rushed the possums once, just to get a better look at them. To me they look like teeny tiny rats, though I am playing on my phone right now and they are TINY!

    I’m leaving Brandine alone since she has over a month left before I get another Spuckler. Especially since I’ve read about all the issues with her.

    So far this is a fun quest and can’t wait to build more pieces of the monorail. I’m still plugging away at my Heights when the dump is full. I should move the dump and recycling plant closer together .. Just watched all my characters make a hike between both to collect junk then go recycle it. I hope we get to keep one of those tasks when the event is over .. Maybe for Lisa since it seems to be her kind of gig.

    Thanks to all the moderators for the info on this update. I’ve gained a lot of info for the event so far!!

    • I got a message saying that it smelled in my town and someone had dumped garbage. I’m like “what?” and I couldn’t find anything. This was before I knew there was an update in the app store. What a way to be informed, hm? lol

      The image is pretty cool. Kinda funny how it clashes with some people’s desire to not be graffitied. “Don’t like graffiti? Here, have some garbage instead.”

      I love my little possums. I really hope I can get them as NPC at event end. I just wish I could know if that was going to happen (it didn’t happen with Tap Ball fans). I only have 60 donuts so far, so I will be sad if they cost 90 or the like. I’d like to have all 3 (right?). I like how they play dead (no…we don’t kill them…). As NPC they won’t disappear, so it will be like I’m tickling their bellies!

      My last reply will be about them walking to the recycle plant. It’s funny, the way I have it set up, that the best route for them is apparently to walk straight through SH Mountain (that’s what I’m calling it. I also claim “Westside Mountain”.), not the tunnel mind you. Mr. Burns does it. But, he doesn’t even have anything in his hands… I don’t understand it at all.

      • Julie (Jsander321)

        Hi 👋
        I got the same message yesterday about my town smelling like garbage and only found handshakes .. So confusing till I read here in the blog what to expect!!
        No graffiti- just litter! Everywhere! Trashy neighbors😉

        I know people are one way or another regarding NPC in our game. I personally like them wandering my town. A little possum would be cute, even if attached to a building. I still have a hard time finding them. I’ve even seen 2 up in my Heights neighborhood!

        Ooh, “Westside Mountain”. 😃. I just may keep that in my head from now on. I’m of the same train of thought of Wookie, from his post a few days back, I see the ocean as more West .. Like it is in real life to me. The mountains more North.

        I did notice Mr. Burns doesn’t carry anything in his hands when he’s transporting junk back and forth. Where’s Smithers when he really needs him?? Perhaps even one measley piece of junk would slow down his stride? I just may have to rearrange my buildings just to see him walk thru mountains. I’ll sneak a peek when I visit again tomorrow.

        • I’ve always thought the mountains were west, because maps are usually oriented with North being “up.” I rationalize the water issue by not thinking of it as the ocean (if it were, as an east coaster, the mountains would be south!), but rather as some other kind of large body of water, like one of the Great Lakes, or it could be an ocean bay (if you’re down on Provincetown on Cape Cod, there would be a bay to the west).

      • Well, I’m on the west coast…so that’s it, no more mountains. But, I just go with what the game says, and I’d think that Cookie Kwan would claim them, too, hence “Westside”.

        @Sandra, I had always thought up was the mountains, left/west was the sea. I don’t imagine the ever expanding right side to be up/north. Oh, but there ya go…it is.

  21. Any idea on how many pieces you need to get more possums? Ive unlocked the first few prizes and it still only gives out 8 every 4hrs.

  22. Argh. Project Management, where you turn in projects and earn 2 donuts…does not count all of the projects turned in. I finished a couple projects (they were cheap) right after the pop up tells me I got 2 donuts, but I’m still in the projects dialogue box. After I exit, it starts Project Mangement: Metal (something) Pt. 2, but it’s at 0.

    So, lesson is, do everything one at a time, as much as possible, close dialogues and let the game tell you to start your next thing or the game won’t count it. 🙁

    • Same with the Bonus Rounds each event. It won’t add it as it does not “exist” in the game as a requirement until you get the pop up. So try to trigger it first… then clear and watch your counts. If you are close… slow down or stop to ensure nothing goes to waste.

      • Thanks. I know that now. I did what you’re saying with the bonus rounds last time.

        I recall some things in the game keeping track of my progress and giving credit anyways. I know that if you had a character task going overnight and woke up to a new daily task on Tap Ball, that as soon as you accept the job well done it counted, even though it was started before the day started. A little different, but things like that…sorry no other examples are in my head right now.

        But, my new mantra is to let the game tell me what to do at the start of every event. I’m only a fool twice. Freedom is cool and all, but if it doesn’t get me donuts, then lock me up, EA.

  23. barleecreations (canid88)

    Anyone else seeing the game freeze? Ever since the update as I’m tapping around my town the game freezes. I can’t tell you how many times its done that to me just today alone.

  24. I’ve just noticed another glitch – maybe related to the others, maybe new? – Monorail Station Part 2 is missing from my task list. I only have the original three tracks that came with the station and the three tracks from the first track prize pack, so I don’t have enough tracks to have cleared it but the task has vanished. And Part 3 has not shown up so I can’t have moved past it yet. It was there when I unlocked the last prize pack but has vanished sometime between this morning and now.

    I’m hoping the locked project board, the negative task values, and this are related somehow and its a simple fix or EA. I guess we’ll have to wait and see at this point. Without a fix I’m at a standstill with this event until my project board opens up tomorrow and I’ll be lucky to make it halfway through Act 1 prizes 🙁

  25. “Springfield Heights upgradable buildings are no longer storable temporarily due to a glitch that allowed duplication and reset their level to 1.”

    that’s straight from the files, so it should be a temporary thing until they figure out how to fix the glitch.

    • lol so what i’ve been saying for the last day or so? 😉

      • well with respect, you weren’t saying until recently that you THINK it is temporary, and there seemed to be confusion in others’ posts about it. so rather than reply to one specific post, i thought i’d just post a general reply with what it says straight from the files. only trying to help… 😉

        • lol I’ve been saying since yesterday that I don’t know if it’s temporary but my guess is it’s to fix the glitch that causes buildings to disappear when stored.

          I appreciate the help…i’m just teasing. Always makes me giggle when EA repeats what i say.. 😉

  26. I’m so disappointed to not have Lyle as a permanent character. I thought this might be the first of all of Phil Hartman’s wonderful characters to come.

    Does the show think it would be disrespectful to the late great Phil Hartman? Or maybe his estate did not authorize the rights? Please answer if you know.

    Personally, I don’t feel it’s disrespectful to have his wonderful characters as part of the game. They still bring joy to so many people. If Fox still airs his episodes, then why can’t his characters be a part of the game? As far as I’m concerned, Lyle MADE the monorail episode, so this event largely without him feels hollow.

    • Remember, this is NOT FOX or the Simpsons per say. This is EA. So not the same abilities or legal rights to the TV series assets. Whatever the reason is, EA is not sharing the “why”.

  27. when I dump trash on neighbors I am not receiving my 6 blueprints, but when I click on buildings that that my neighbors have dumped trash on I receive 1 blueprint. I don’t think I have maxed out my daily blueprints and I have only visited 4 or 5 of my neighbors today

    • If you are not sure where you are on your 90 daily Neighbor Actions, tap on the ? in the lower left corner while you are in your neighbors towns. It will tell you where you are on the Daily actions. How many you have left.

  28. Really loving this update. I’m thinking that Jesse Grass looks worth the donuts, even if I’m only a freemium player, but I’d be curious to know if he helps make more than just metal in the future. Anyone know?

    • If you tap on the Metal Depot you’ll see it says he earns extra Junk, Metal, Plastic and Glass

    • Jesse also has a hilarious (only one hour, unfortunately) task where he dances on top of the Krusty Burger dressed in a cow costume protesting eating meat. There is a large sign draping down the side of the building that says: Krusty Burger = Earth Murder. That alone was worth his donut price for me….
      http://bit.ly/1DOxW9T

  29. So beyond frustrated with these updates. After the SH update, my entire town was screwed up — sidewalks on the beach sand, everything moved over slightly which screws up all my roads, pavement, etc.

    I nuked my entire town and was able to fix the problem on the beach by removing every piece of road in the town before I could remove the pavement on the sand. I rebuilt everything from scratch — took several days and by yesterday I was almost finished rebuilding.

    Today I load the new monorail update and log in — the entire town is screwed up again in the same way. Everything moved over, roads out of place, pavement on the sand. There’s no way in hell I’m redoing my town again. It’s just become a chore to play this game and fix all of the issues!

    • that is not what is supposed to happen upon updating. instead of nuking, why didn’t you try contacting ea support to try to get them to fix it for you?? can’t believe you rebuilt everything from scratch…….. no way would i do that, haha.

  30. Anyone know if you nuke your Springfield, if it will store all of SH buildings? If so I’ll delay nuking until all SH maxed.

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