UPDATE 830PM EST: A simple & quick update hit. Hoping it helps those locked out from Daily Reward issue. Let me know.
Hey there Screamereenos!
Bouncing by with some Clarification and help to all the Q&A that keeps repeating in the Comments. Most was already answered in the Main Posts, but I will place them here too to have one point of information.
So take a peek at ALL the info below before asking, and see if it is already answered. 🙂
First up, the Main Post Rundown for Event is HERE
UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE
Yes, this has been disabled and most likely will be for the Event. I assume so it will not interfere with the Event Tasks. So don’t anticipate using it anytime soon unless EA finds an alternate way to put it back into play for the Event.
MISSING S’MORES
Many of you think you are missing S’mores, you are not. There is a very simple explanation to this. You are seeing TWO S’mores Counters.
Main S’mores Counter: This is what you will see as the OVERALL TOTAL of S’mores you have collected so far for Act 1. Lower Left Corner of your game above your XP Meter.
Individual S’mores Counter: So that you are aware of how many S’mores you need per prize, there is an Individual Counter that will show as you reach each and every Prize in the Act 1 Screen.
Example:
Crafting Resources: /180
Spooky Cabin: /360
Pirate Kang: /1620
Model Donut: /2880
Gate to Nowhere: /4230
Now total them up… 180+360+1620+2880+4230 = 9270. The EXACT amount you need for Act 1… Act 1 Calendar HERE.
You are NOT missing any. No worries. Just a way to help you see where you are on earning each item. Nothing more.
SPAWNS NOT ADDING TO CAMPFIRE UPGRADE
This one is a tricky one, but I want to do a quick breakdown on it. First let’s take a quick look at the Basics.
WHAT Nightmare is the Portal Needing? : Look at the Counter on the Upgrade Screen and see WHAT Nightmare Image is next to it. Then make sure you have the Kid tell a Story that triggers that Nightmare to come from the Campfire. You can see in the image below… it asks for the Zombie Nightmare and has a Zombie Icon next to the Counter.
Check for that Icon and see WHAT it matches…
Martin- Unlocks Zombies
Lisa- Unlocks Snakes
Milhouse- Unlocks Bunnies
Bart- Unlocks Skeletons
In short, as you go through the Questline watch the pop up on the Campfire, if the Kid Story swapped the Nightmare to something else… make the appropriate Kid tell their story again to swap it back to WHAT Nightmare you need. It is instant.
GAME LOCKED OUT
I am seeing an influx of reports on the Daily Prizes Pop Up causing an issue in Players games.
Basically you get the Daily Pop Up for coming back to the game for 5 days in a row, for some reason it allows you to collect twice. DO NOT COLLECT TWICE!!
If you have already and are locked up, light up the EA Forum and also contact EA for help.
DAILY NEIGHBOR MAX
Just as with previous Events, you will only get payouts for so many Event Neighbors and then the Event Payouts stop and just Cash & XP return.
I am currently working on this and all the Neighbor Visit info in another post, for now know that if you are hitting Cash & XP… you’re MAXED for the day.
If you don’t see anything to tap in a town, it is a good chance they are not fully updated yet and ready for you… so skip them for now and give them a few days to fully update. Check also Main Neighbor Screen. See where their counters are. That may be a good indication.
LOTS more Neighbor info coming.
NIGHTMARES MAX
I am still working on this one and will Update when I can. There is usually a MAX amount of Nightmares you can have wandering your game at one time. I am verifying it with a few tests in my game, once complete I will let you know the exacts.
SPOOKY HOUSE
The game is requiring those that already have it to craft another Spooky House for the Questline. I hope this is an oops and will be fixed. If not, we still need to let EA know to fix it so we dont wast resources we already went through last year’s Event.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out/ALREADY-HAVE-SPOOKY-HOUSE/m-p/4851274#U4851274
CRASHING AND LAGGING
Another High Impact Event is upon us… that means MAJOR RAM drain for most devices. Help your device handle it all.
Here is our list of Basic Tips to try…
Memory Drain. It is a big issue in highly outside animated Events. This is why keeping 4500 items in game helps among other things. Help your device when this hits really hard, like this Event.
- Disable Monorail. If you played last Event… Pull the track pieces away from the station to prevent it from moving around your game or when Neighbors Visit.
- If this happens while Neighbor tapping… see if it is ONE Neighbor crashing or specific ones, they may be having issues getting in too. So “hide” them and don’t visit them until they can fix it or replace them if concerned about your game play.
- Store NPC’S and any other animated items not in use.
- Don’t push the 4500 limit. If you do, expect the game to slow and more “texture” glitches to name a few things
- Keep non essential Characters on indoor tasks or store them in your inventory.
- Play ONLY this App. In other words kill all other Apps that are running BEFORE launching this one. Anything in the background while this is going (Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter, etc) will take Memory away from the app as they fight over the availability.
- Give it space, LOTS of space. Like 2-3GB of empty space on your device. Insane I know, but highly active Events take a lot and so do the game files.
- Run on highest stable internet connection as possible. WiFi usually works best, and also doesn’t wipe out your Data Plan
Remember, if you are having trouble getting in your game… so might your neighbors. Memory Drain impacts more than just you. So help you and your Neighbors or they may not visit if your town crashes their game each time.
Outside of that. EA knows how big this one is pulling on the Memory Drain. Hopefully they can make some cuts to help combat it too. Until then, try the tips to see if it helps. In the meantime, keep reporting to EA the Crash Issues.
In short, check the site to see if it is a known issue, ask for help if you need it and we will do what we can, outside of that… try the Basic Troubleshooting and reach out to EA if needed.
Contact EA HERE
There you have it. A rundown of some of what is currently going on in the game.
Did this help you? Have any tips to add for other readers? Any help to offer? Let us know
~Bunny
This last update makes easy to new players to hit level 15 (to get Bart).
The level up quests now rewards much more money and XP.
Why put homer on a 24 hour task then a few hours later put him on another task?, got 16 hours before I can put him on that task
EA figures that will get some people to spend donuts to rush the tasks. Be patient or be poorer. 🙂
Question for the TSTO goddesses of this site, Bunny and Alissa. I’ve now been playing this game for a year. Started during THOH 2014. And I love it! I now have nearly 150 characters in my town and even got my wife to start playing! My question is this. There are three characters that I’ve been dying to add to my town, and from what I understand, two of them are usually associated with Halloween. Any indication if the alien Kodos and Maude Flanders’ Ghost will be available this year? The third is Shauna, but she seems to pop up randomly. Thank you for reading and for ALL of your hard work on this site! 🙂
Kodos, I believe we’ll be seeing 😉
Maude, I doubt.
Do the spookys migrate towards the POV “camera”, or should we hunt for them? Also, is there a message that tells us we got all of them?
They migrate
My monorail update came a week later than my friends even though I used the app daily and this meant A LOT of catching up. I still haven’t had this update yet either :/
Any reason for this?
Did you check your app store? Are you consistently checking your app store? When was the last time you restarted your device?
On Android, there’s a setting in the Play Store where you can tell it to automatically install updates ASAP even if you’re using a cellular connection, or only auto-install updates when you’re on WI-Fi, or never install updates until you explicitly visit the Play Store and tap Update. There are also settings about whether to notify you when there’s an update available, whether or not it auto-installs. Maybe your settings in the Play Store (or the equivalent if you’re not using Android) are the issue?
I have a least 6 neighbors with 10,000+ s’mores. I have around 2,000. What am I doing wrong. Is there a way to rack up more s’mores?
They probably used donuts.
Well that is a bummer that the Unemployment Building does not work during the event. It was an easy way to send everyone not on the current story line off to do a task.
How quickly we got spoiled. It was well worth the cost to save the time.
Thanks so much guys for this post it really cleared up a lot. I was really confused with the two s’mores count since they never done anything like that before. So this post really helped.
Now on a side note. Looking at the wiki for upcoming content I noticed that the house of evil (which was a building I wanted since the 2013 Halloween but I didn’t become premium till early 2014 and purchased during the Halloween update in 2014) for 90 donuts but this year is gonna be free???! WTF? I payed 90 donuts for that? And it’s now free? I want a refund. I’m kinda really pissed off at this. Why is not the same 90 donut price again at least?
First…wait and see what happens. Don’t trust spoilers as EA can change their mind.
Second…people paid donuts for Kang in 2012 and then were given him for free in 2013, 2014 and during 4th of July in 2015. It happens sometimes. Especially if it’s now part of a questline they want to run.
You know what would be really awesome…..
Remember the speakers from whacking day event. They should use the “speakers” to draw attention to it from the event zombies, snakes, skeletons,etc….. Just like it was used in whacking day to draw the attention of the snakes……
Mmmmmm…. EA ???? We paid I think 40-50 donuts for those speakers. Let’s put em back to use 😉 please 😉
My portal is asking for bunnies,having Milhouse tell bunny stories for about 12 hours. Tapping away at bunnies furiously. Upgrade counter still stuck on 30 bunnies. There is still something wrong. I’ve synced a couple times thinking it was a sync issue. No joy.
I would contact EA just let them know what’s going on…
The S’mores difference still makes no sense. They’ve never incorporated this gap before in the almost two years since I started playing. It’s really confusing, and frustrating given the 540 S’more gap between the bottom left counter and the Act 1 prize counter.
It’s just a new way of them doing things. The amount doesn’t change, they’re just doing the math for you saying you need x amount of s’mores now to get the next prize.
Pretty dissapointed with the prices so far. No new Character for Donuts so far and no new Characters as price. only costumes. I hope it gets better next act. This act is almost nothing new or special if you played last year. 8(
They’ll release things in stages…more items are to come.
I have a question I haven’t seen answered. Do the costumes in the event store for Lisa, milhouse and Martin do anything or give a bonus of any kind?
Nope. The details will be on the should i buy posts…
I’m sure you have already answered this but I’m going to ask anyway. Is there an easy way to know how many items you have placed or do you just need to count. 4500 is a big number I don’t have that many fingers and toes. Also thanks for answering the question on the nightmares not showing up.
Nope. No way of knowing unless you count or store everything
Thanks guess I’ll never know how many I have. Or maybe I’ll get the intern at my job to count for me.
do we know if the crafting prizes for act 1 will still be available for act 2 or will they be replaced will all new ones? sorry if this was addressed already
I believe new will be added, but none will be replaced.
I thought I was going crazy for a minute. I had Lisa telling stories so I could get snakes then all of a sudden I saw a zombie! Nope, turns out Akira was just doing karate. 😳
Hi Addicts, What happened to the character list??? Did it disappear with this update??? Was wanting to see my collection… It is not in storage IDK???
What character list? The collection? It’s still there…you need to click the gold Homer statue when you’re in the store. (bottom left)
I gave this b4 in the previous post but, don’t see it here. For crashing/freezing try storing the IRS building. The feature it enables was causing issues in my game(IPad user). Once stored my game runs great, just a slight delay when releasing kids from tasks all at once.
Agreed, because of the tap-radius, you’re tapping on ten snakes (or Bunnies) and letting nineteen kids out after their tasks which causes a slooooow down 🎃🐍🐇
I’m learning that dropping a Terror in the neighboring town helps me find the tappable items I’m looking for – so I’m saving the Terrors to hopefully always have one every or every-other neighbor visit. The time between towns is not too bad on my end, but I stored all but one Monorail, and disabled the other – and that’s making life a little easier.
The biggest lag I’m seeing right now is when I open the game after a few hours it takes a few extra seconds to go from which Terrors were collected, then distributing all of the campfire stuff and moving on to the next item in the quest line. Not a big deal.
As a mid-range veteran tapper (1.5 years almost) I am enjoying the pace and set up of this event! it helps I have quite a few more kids than I did last year, and many great neighbors! I’m looking forward to improving and increasing my cabin/farming area with the campfire and all of the add-ons!!!!
I’ve read a few comments about neighbor visits, I’m also spending way too much time finding rabbits, snakes, zombies to tap. I look and look and find I’m more frustrated then anything. There doesn’t seem to be an abundance of them in neighbors towns.
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My advice is, don’t bother trying to find three nightmares per town. Complete waste of time. If I find one nightmare, I tap it and move on.
If I can see more than one on screen, of course I’ll tap them all, but one action is all you need. The visit timer isn’t visible, but it starts counting down. If you’re feeling patient, you can go back and do the actions you skipped.
Since I don’t get resources from every action available to me, this actually allows me to visit more friends and drop more Terrors before I stop getting resources. (Sometimes, in a huge town without readily visible nightmares to tap, I won’t even bother hunting for any. Dropping the Terrors seems more beneficial anyway.)
Thanks for the info. I have noticed the lagging for several weeks now. I did as you suggested. I closed all apps running, my monorail isn’t running, all citizens are on task. I have about 2.5 GB available. Still lagging. It’s not just a few. It’s almost all of them except low level neighbors. I can’t hide them all. Any suggestions?
Get a new device 😉
It just happens sometimes…could be the device could be something else. It’s just one of those things that happens with a game that takes up this much memory.
Short if actually counting, is there any way to find out how many items you have in your Springfield?
Nope.
i noticed that
Snake Stump produces Snakes and the
Freakmobile produces Zombies
Mausoleum produces Skelettons. Is there anything that produces Bunnys?
Pet Cemetery, it’s on the rundown post.
Are these items from a previous event?
Yes. As well as sales along the way.
Nice, I want that Pet Cemetary. I am from Maine, near the REAL Pet Cemetary. I go to Stephen Kings home every year at Halloween. Spooky fun.
Anyone else with gargoyle statues standing up without being tapped? I have 4 of them and it’s pretty neat seeing them repeatedly rise and sit all on their own. I have them around some evil shrine so it’s like they’re worshiping it.
It is fun to see the snakes as I always found it sad to have joined too late to participate in whacking day. I wish we could get the snake with football helmet on, it soo cute
Small question. Should we just hoard the crafting materials until the next act in hopes of a better selection or will they disappear at the end of this act? I understand no answer is absolute, but your best guess would be appreciated.
If there’s something you want craft it, otherwise hoard. However, remember they’ve often added new crafting materials to collect when adding new items in new acts.
I think there issues with snakes and other stuff not showing up quickly enough when you visted your friends list. Ea needs speed this up. I don’t want spend 20 mins visted my friends trying find snakes lol.
Great work providing all the information so quickly, thanks a lot.
In case no one else has noticed this by now: You might want to store the IRS not only because of performance issues but because it may cause the wrong nightmares to spawn. For example, my Pet Cemetery and my Mausoleum are close to each other, and when I tapped the PC as soon as it was ready to spawn bunnies, the Mausoleum (also ready) spawned Skeletons, but the PC no bunnies at all.
So some of my snakes are bluey-grey, and some are orange. Anyone know why? I like the orange ones, they’re easy to see.
Nope…just luck of the draw. Mine have all been green.
Hi Bunny
There is a discrepency between the main counter of marshmallow/chocolate in the main screen and the counter for prizes. I have 1808 on the main one and 1268 on the prize counter, so I can’t yet get Kangs pirate outfit. A real pain. This never happened before, both counter were synchronised. It must be a glitch. Should I contact EA? What is the direct link to contact them please.
Thanks for all your effort in sorting things out.
Not a glitch. Read what the post says:
“Many of you think you are missing S’mores, you are not. There is a very simple explanation to this. You are seeing TWO S’mores Counters.
Main S’mores Counter: This is what you will see as the OVERALL TOTAL of S’mores you have collected so far for Act 1. Lower Left Corner of your game above your XP Meter.
Individual S’mores Counter: So that you are aware of how many S’mores you need per prize, there is an Individual Counter that will show as you reach each and every Prize in the Act 1 Screen.
Example:
Crafting Resources: /180
Spooky Cabin: /360
Pirate Kang: /1620
Model Donut: /2880
Gate to Nowhere: /4230
Now total them up… 180+360+1620+2880+4230 = 9270. The EXACT amount you need for Act 1… Act 1 Calendar HERE.
You are NOT missing any. No worries. Just a way to help you see where you are on earning each item. Nothing more.”