Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
So the Springfield Heights Expansion arrived in our games a couple of months ago and it introduced a whole new area of extended play for Tappers. Remember, Springfield Heights is NOT an event. Instead it’s an expansion. It’s designed to take some time to complete…so there’s no rush to finish it. It’s not going anywhere.
Anywho…as I was saying, Springfield Heights arrived and brought a whole new area of play for us. In addition to purchasing land and items you can also earn Real Estate Points, and those points will turn into 5 exclusive Springfield Heights Prizes. Let’s take a look at the first four Springfield Heights Prizes and breakdown what they do, how big they are & how you earn them…
First Up the Montessori School…
Building Name: Montessori School
Awarded At: 1,000,000 
Build Time: 4hrs
Size: 5×11
Conform-O-Meter: Obedience +10
Earns: $200, 20xp/12hrs
What Does it Do?: Just another building to sit there and look pretty…
Now let’s tackle prize number 2…the Flying Car:
Item Name: Flying Car
Awarded At: 25,000,000
Size: 5×4
Conform-O-Meter: Vanity+10
Earns: Nothing, just a decoration (non premium)
What Does it Do?: Nada. Has no animation when tapped. Just sits there and “looks pretty”….
Onto number 3…Springfield Lake
Item Name: Springfield Lake
Awarded At: 200,000,000
Size: 14×18
Conform-O-Meter: Vanity+10
Earns: Nothing, just a decoration (non premium)
What Does it Do?: Has some constant animation to it, the lake ripples and the dock bounces up and down slightly. Basically a pretty looking lake…
And the final stop of this prize tour…Prize Number Four, Ziff Mansion…
Building Name: Ziff Mansion
Awarded At: 500,000,000
Build Time: 4hrs
Size: 18×12
Conform-O-Meter: Indolence+10
Earns: $75, 7xp/3hrs
What Does it Do?: Nada. Just another unused building for town…
And that my friends concludes the basic rundown of the first four Real Estate Prizes. The fifth prize? Well at 1 billion that’s Paris Texan and Billionaire Haven. Paris comes with her own questline, so we’ll cover her in a different post.
What are your thoughts on the first four Real Estate Prizes? Which ones have you unlocked so far? Where have you placed them? Thoughts on Springfield Heights? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
I took a relaxed view of SH from the start, but have kept working on it and have made it to 710M. With the Glass Recycling center now open, things in SH have slowed a lot, but I still do what I can.
A survey of my friends on the board shows only 4 have made it to a billion, the 5th just got to 900M yesterday. 6 and 7 are in the 800M range, and 8 and 9 (me) are in the 700M. 10 and 11 are in the 500M. By 20 it is in the 300M, and 30 it is in the 200M. 40 is in 100M and 50 and below are under 100M. Before the monorail event hit, I was just below 500M and only the top friend had a billion.
I take from this small sample that most have not finished and aren’t even close, so I shouldn’t focus on how far away I am from the goal. I will continue to work on it when I can and see if I can get to a billion by the end of the year.
Oh ye of little grinding. Grumblest thou as thy may but Springfield Heights is here to stay. Waiting for more 6 second tasks – JUST KIDDING EA!! (I’ve been coming back to the grinding after setting up my 1, 2 and 3 hour monorail tasks.)
I wish the SH buildings, once leveled up, could switch back to an earlier level. (Kind of like the radioactive man statue, having different skins). I don’t want 10 giant hotels, but instead like the little Havana style of level 1. Same for the business centers. I’m not upgrading all my buildings till this option is available. I’m okay with not getting the mansion or billionaire haven, but it would be nice to get Paris Texan one day.
On a positive note, I really like all the SH shops, even the Pharmaceutical company. They blend nice together. The tasks are good to do while waiting for my workers at the Springfield dump too!
+1 for that, I’d also like SH buildings to be revertable 🙂
I agree about the building levels. I haven’t added any more in that section because I hate seeing the level upgrade icon over the building. If I could have the buidling without the icon when it’s ready for an upgrade, that would be great. I’ve used some of the upgrade structures as separate buildings themselves. Really hoping the next level upgrade or event gives up more land in the Heights section.
I’m at $ 660m. It’s quite nice having a second task during the event. I’m hoping for some SH expansion until getting the haven. And to put Burns Manor including money pool and mountain to the Heights and creating a wood-and-cabin area with the lake somewhere in the mountain area of Springfield.
I grinded until I got the lake, but the next prize seems so far away that now I’m taking it slower, plus I’m busy with the monorail event.
I know I’ll get all the prizes in the end, but it may take a loooong time.
I’m 40.000 short of the Ziff mansion, so hoping to get it soon. I do want to earn all the prizes, but as it has been quite a struggle to get this far, I think it will take me ages to get the final prize. I don’t want to upgrade everything so it will be a bit of a search to figure out how to get there without doing so. For now, I’m focussed on the classic and modern mansions as they don’t change their looks.
I’m still working towards the Ziff Mansion, have passed the 300 million mark this week so there’s some way to go. The flying car is one of my favourite prizes, I’ve got ‘Chitty’ parked on the beach 🙂
I’ve made a start on the design of my SH area but haven’t moved any of the mansions across yet. I am still hoping they’ll let us move the tunnel entrance.
I’m almost at 500 million but have a feeling I’ll stop there as I’m not that interested in the haven for how much further I have to go. I’m looking forward to another mansion but after that I might only use SH for unlocking the last of the land and getting any decorations that need these items.
I finished upgrading everything. I have “Grindfield” written with jetskis in my harbour. EA still hasn’t restored my missing Modern Mansions.
If you go to the Other Springfield you see something like a club house , trees , and a field with a fence .
Is this something that comes after billionaire havens ?
I wish there was more land, probably will be later on.
See ya bye . 🌞 💎 .
It’s stuff that’s not in the game yet…
Thank you .
See ya bye . 🌞 💎 .
I unlocked the land, don’t care about the prizes ….maybe when there’s no event …it will give players something to do, …..I keep Cookie on the 8 hour task and I did wonder how long it would take to get a billion by herself 🙂
$1 billion ÷ $1,000 = $1 million. Then assume you do it perfectly 3 times a day (every 8 hours)… $1 million ÷ 3 = 333,333 days… or 913 years. 🙂
That’s funny .
I bet that the Simpsons show will still be running.
See ya bye . 🌞 💎 .
8 million hours 🙁
I completed SH in my A game just the day before the Monorail arrived. It definitely was a serious grind I don’t hope to have to do again soon. Only one building of each type is staying in SH now. I stored all duplicates before the Monorail update disabled doing it. Now they seem to be back at lower levels again, judging from the inventory labels. I don’t care enough to place them back in SH just to check, though.
In my B game I upgraded one building of each type just in order to clear those tasks off my task book. Now, at about 125 mil, I have just “upgrade to 500 mil” sitting there. I can live with not having Springfield Lake, Ziff Mansion and Billionaire Haven in the B game.
I’ve even fully stocked them in both games at the end just to disable the hovering symbols over the “production buildings” in SH.
I got the billionaire haven mostly for the status symbol of it all. I like having a new character (Paris Texan) and I am still cranking out pills and awards to finish upgrading my business centers, just not as fast now. The XP bonus is really nice too.
Note about the flying car, it doesn’t technically do “nothing” when tapped. Sure there’s no animation, but it does A-Ooo-Gah horn sound.
I’m at about $770 million. The school and the car are in SH. Ziff Mansion and the lake are in Springfield. I’m actually waiting impatiently for more SH land to open up because all of the buildings plus expansions don’t fit in SH and I refuse to move Burns Manor out of SH to put in Ziff Mansion. The lake will stay in Springfield with the Spruce Caboose and cabins close by in the woods. I hope they fix the “locking SH buildings in inventory” thing soon because I have far too many SH buildings in Springfield simply for the sake of leveling them up.
There was a glitch at the beginning… I have
15 valet parkings
12 modern mansions
13 deluxe condos
14 classic mansions
The max is 10 on all of them. At the beginning you were able to store the buildings. When I did the upgrade for the property, I imediately stored the building before the payout for the building was added to the real estate worth. It caused the building to not be upgraded even though you got the property value added. They patched that by not letting you store the buildings for a while, until the newest update are you allowed to store any of the 4 buildings above.
I managed to get the lake, but frankly the amount of grinding required to get that point makes me question whether I’ll ever get the other two.
SH is such a grind for so little reward… Come on EA this was such an ill conceived idea with so many BUGS, surely you can do better, no wonder I’ve given up at 500mil.
Fun fact about the flying car, it can be placed on water
Also Paris texan uses the lake for her four hour task but it’s not visual unfortunately, and it’s disappointing that Artie has no tasks with his mansion but whatever at least it looks nice.
Really? I am so doing that!!! 😀 At least that’s something cool about it!
But the prizes are way too grindy to get, I wouldn’t mind if they had longer task lengths but they’re way too short!
I’m glad to have the distraction during slow times in the game, I’m just tired of the cues for the SH tasks when I’m not focused there. The monorail is much cooler, but I’m sure I’ll at least get the lake before I give up!!
Thanks for the article. SH mystifies me. Just a bunch of stuff to take up a huge swath of space and look pretty? The Montessori School at least pays something. I got up to the Ziff Mansion, and then quit SH. It looks nice, but that’s about it.
Yeah, all the 10s of buildings don’t even pay out SH income!?
I honestly wish it’d been an event so it’d go away, please EA, add longer reasonable lengths, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 24h tasks please!
Although I do like the two new characters, if I’ll ever get Paris
Paris, Texas or Paris, France? 😉
I was pretty stoked to get Chitty Chitty Bang Bang but disappointed that the so-called flying car did nothing of the sort. Love the lake, just wish they’d put out Plopper’s poop silo in the store.
Billionaire’s Haven looks good with a 3D hedge mountain, animations are good and Paris Texan gets to hang out there. The rest I could do without but they earn and look okay so whatever.
Pretty tired of the icons popping up every time I clear a character like Moe – he ain’t earning no more yoga mats, dag nabbit!
I enjoyed this up to a point, then it became quite tedious to acquire items and buildings past a certain mark.
I love the look of the buildings, car and lake. Especially the lake. It’s so pretty. I typically don’t mind if there is no animation that comes with an item, so I’m happyl
I stopped at 500 million, the amount of effort to get the last 500 million is ridiculous. Hoping for changes at some point.
I just unlocked Ziff yesterday… it’s big, but fits SH very well. I’m happy with it.
The Lake is cool, gives something nice to put in camping areas with the cabins and/or Kamp Krusty.
Montessori and the car are bleh, they’ll stay out but nothing special for me. But I already have my place ready for the last prize to continue to grind I shall.
I’m up to 108mil and I’ve basically stalled there. I don’t have the patience to do SH during an event. I’m kinda sick of it to be honest. I really want the lake and the haven but SH has just become a giant dump of buildings at this point.
I was hoping, actually, expecting that Arnie would have a couple of tasks at his mansion. Not rushing to get it.
Wow you are either a brave girl, or well rested, inviting a sound of on SH lol! I myself haven’t had problems with it, work on it when tapping away on quick monorail tasks. I’m getting close to mansion, but have slowed down as focusing on monorail as like u said this is here to stay & when you are done with it, it will be like Krusty Land. I love the extra space especially as has mountains & beach front yahoo. I put the lake in Springfield with my camping area & fits real cool, also where monorail starts so my peps can hop monorail & go to lake & hopefully monorail will go all way around back & side to beach!
So my two cents worth, thought I would start this out on positive note and others will follow!
So happy to have you back! (Wookiee & Bunny please don’t take any offense to that comment love you all)!
lol just finishing up some of the older posts that got stalled because of Monorail…
This blog seems to kinda lowkey hating Springfield Heights expansion
Some people like it some people hate it. Just like everything else…
I’m really surprised by the lack of animations or character interactions in the prizes. Seems like such a long run for such a “bleh” prize.