Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
It’s that time of the week again, time for the Addicts Weekly Open Thread! So, let’s get the conversation going! Oh and remember…just because this is posted here today doesn’t mean you can’t comment on it all week long. This open thread will still be open for comments long after today is over!
Here’s where you can talk about anything you want to talk about…TSTO Related, Simpson’s Related or ANYTHING. Just no Add me requests…those should go here. We’ll give you a few suggestions (like most Sunday’s you can talk about the current episode of the Simpsons) but for the most part you’re free to talk about ANYTHING your little Tapping Fingers desire…just keep it PG.
So…here is your Open Thread. After a week off The Simpsons are back tonight on FOX! What do you think will happen in the new episode? Act 3 hit our games this past week…what are your thoughts so far? Still worried about your Candy Apple count or are you finding you’re comfortably ahead?
The Kansas City Royals won the World Series, what are your thoughts?
Sunday Night Football tonight features the Eagles at the Cowboys. Something you’ll be checking out? Did your team play earlier today? How’d they do?
How was your weekend? Do anything fun and exciting? We’re now into November…anyone gearing of for the Christmas Season?
So chat about the Simpsons, TSTO, Update fun, or anything else you can think of! Can’t wait to chat with you all, you know we love hearing from you!
Have Fun! And happy Sunday!
I recently noticed that my purple spooky walls we’re not in my Springfield that I got from last year Halloween event. So I contacted EA they said that they would take my case and replace my spooky walls , how long should I wait before contacting them?
Usually 48hrs
Should I contact them again?
I would
Heads up, for those that may still want it, but don’t have it, the cauldron is leaving stores in 15 hours (from now, not from when you may read this lol)
I’m having trouble with the Rail Yard. it’s been a few weeks now and I’m never able to reach the final prize of 5 tracks & 5 donuts. I’m not glued to the game but I feel like I’m pretty diligent about it, I’m always recycling and handing in, and pretty much making recycling top priority (even over other events like Halloween) for whatever characters can do it. My wife plays about as often as I do and always gets the final prize so I’m stumped. Is there a “secret” to it that I haven’t figured out? Should I hand things in as soon as I can, or is it better to save them up to hand in for more blueprints? I’d appreciate any advice or tips. Thanks.
No official strategy, but my “way”:
Try to get the big one (rightmost) when you can, which does mean some saving up, but you also don’t want to get stuck only turning in one material, so you might need to turn in smaller projects so you can also turn in glass and metal and plastic. The more characters on jobs the better.
I’ve noticed that the middle project can have just as good of a payout as the large. I don’t think that’s true for the small.
I don’t know the secret to getting done early. I usually finish with a day or two left. Less during this event.
Hmph! At least you have the Rail Yard! I failed at every single Monorail act and have no Rail Yard. Just three stations with unfinished rails. 🙁
A reasonably useful tip is; maximise storage in each recycling depot when you have fallow time.
This for me is usually a Monday before the weekly reset, but could also be overnight.
What I mean by maximise is – take advantage of the fact that the depot will accommodate all proceeds of live tasks, even if they ‘bust their published limit’. This means sending characters out selectively such that you don’t end up precisely on the maximum.
Example with glass recycling, maximum 70 glass. Imagine you have six characters who can collect glass, and 35 glass left over after the last task handed in. In this circumstance I would only send three of the six characters the first time, so as to end up on 65, just below the limit. Then send out all six, and I will end up with 125 glass even though only 70 should in theory fit!
Main value of this is; it will give you a significant head start on the Tuesday and you may find yourself at approximately 20,000 after one day only. Much easier to top 70,000 in the remaining six days then. Try it!
I do this, and for example I ended up with 6958 blueprints just on what I had in inventory at the start of this week’s build. That is past the 1st weekly prize and almost halfway to the second within five minutes of starting the week.
Good morning ladies and gentle-wookie…
Today I noted end of event is 17 days at shopkeeper, but prizes end in 7 days.
Has there been a change, have I been inobservant all along, or is there a conspiracy theory I should subscribe to involving turkeys?
Official end date is the 17th. Wondering if it got extended or they’re indicated the kill date…
Maybe we might get a act 4 like the superheroes
Hi, I know I’m going through old threads…but today I noticed that the event end date is on target – telling me 2 days X hours. Though, the shopkeeper end date is 12 days (like mentioned above). I hope we get a turkey day themed extension!
Usual glitch every Event. 17th is end
Aw taw taw, but good to know. I’m looking forward to a new event anyhow. 🙂
Help! I seem to have a problem with database! He is my only character apart from bart who spawns skeletons but he is giving me zombies instead!! I just confirmed this by sending him to a seperate brown house. Is anyone else having this problem?
Try hard closing and restarting, might just need to be resynced
I did and no more skeletons appeared also there were no nightmares before so the two zombies were clearly from database…
you can either wait until tomorrow (usually they’ll spawn the next day) or contact EA
Sounds like a good idea, if my counter still doesn’t work tomorrow I’ll do that 👍
Hello again just a quick update, Thinking about what you said I’ve just cleared my town then used 2 donuts to complete Barts task. No skeletons appeared, I did however notice 4 bunnies had materialised.
I’ve just tried with no luck. I’m sure they will sort it soon 😊
I’ve hard-booted a few times…and my Database is only spawning zombies, as well. So, I have no one spawning skeletons (besides Bart, who is usually fighting).
you can either wait until tomorrow (usually they’ll spawn the next day) or contact EA
My Database also gives only zombies, and that’s two days now. No way I can do the Shopkeepers challenge this way.
You can either wait and see what happens tomorrow…or contact EA. If you wait and they’re still not giving you skeletons tomorrow, contact EA
Ok, not a moan but an observation. My skeleton count was on 1, I went to a neighbour and squished 3, went back to my town my count was on 7. Thought that was strange so I visited 3 other towns, squashed 9 skeletons and my count is still on 7. Surely there must be a glitch today. I also squashed some from my gate and still they haven’t counted. Can’t be an error like the other week (when it asked for bunnies instead of skeletons) as I’ve squashed plenty of the other nightmares also.
Its skeletons, my counter works, but how are you finding skeletons in neighbor towns if they don’t spawn anymore? That’s one problem I’m having, I got two characters that spawn skeletons, and the Mausoleum, but when I go into friends towns all I see there is mini munthsters.
Not all my neighbours are spawning star spawns. I can only assume the ones with nightmares haven’t started the sandwich task or act 3??
yup
Maybe.. just maybe is like in hubby town, because time framing of the 15th hours to fight Cthulhu , he hasn’t finished the first fight in the campfire, so his town is spreading skeletons, that was the last nightmare that he was doing with part/act 2
Ahh right yeah that could do it. Just know I’m having a bugger of a time finding them from my neighbors lol. Have to wait for the brown houses to finish up, or the Gate to Nowhere, and hope they spawn.
My mausoleum spawned only 4 skeletons and the rest were star spawn. They spawned right in front of my view, so there was no mistake. My brown house with all the charecters who spawn skeletons also produced a mix of skeletons and star spawn.
Heh. In Krustyland, the info box for the Getting Wood task says “-39 / 5” for me, in Springfield it’s normal.
Well…the event doesn’t apply in Krustyland, so that’s probably why.
Looks like I won’t be making the Challenge today — no way I get 30 skeletons when I can only get 4 every 4 hours (Bart, Database) and the few from the gate…
You have ALLLLLLLLLLLL week to get the 30 skeletons. It’s complete all the challenges within a week, not 1 each day. If you don’t complete today’s today, you can still finish it tomorrow AND tomorrow’s task will sill unlock for you tomorrow…
Oh my god!!
I swore I had to complete the task within the day and that’s how I’ve been playing, you have enlightened me!! 🙂 Thank you, cause I only have Bart yielding skeletons and already went through half of my neighbors and there are only star spawns.
Plus you can get them from your neighbours towns
UGH! I knew today was the skeleton squish day, so I didn’t touch my mausoleum when I checked in at 6am.
8am rolls around, I click the mausoleum…and then forgot to go to the House of Evil tab to “officially” start the squishing. So the skeletons I just squished did not get counted!!! I guess I get to wait 12 hours until they reset…
Shopkeepers challenge finally got me! I knew it was too good to last. Squish 30 skeletons? Are you kidding me? I get like 8 skeletons per day.
You have all week to complete it. You’ll be fine
Ooh I thought you had to complete 1 task every day! It’s completing all 5 challenges within 5 days? I had no idea. lol
Yup all 5 in the week…not even 5 days. You have until next monday to finish
LOL I HAD NO CLUE!!! I don’t know how I missed that in the other posts… I think seeing “Daily Challenge” has us thrown off. Thanks so much! That’s the best news I’ve heard this week. 😉
Gonna be interesting if in the last couple days of the week they give something similar to this again. lol Your comments to moderate will be lit up Alissa.
lol my only hope is i’ll be in the hospital 😉
We best hope that hospital has Wi-Fi 😀
lol no. no we don’t. I fully intend to NOT be around. Some things in life are WAY more important than this game….
Lol – you figure even labor pains will be less painful than having to deal with that? 😉
I’m looking forward to the “Vacation” 😉
The hospital is not a safety zone. Don`t be surprised when you are in the middle of your labor and your doctor asks, “About those skeletons…”
lol i’d be slightly concerned if my dr starts talking about skeletons while in labor…the two just dont go 😉
I can see the word “skeleton” making its way into a discussion with your doctor, but I think it would be far more disconcerting if “zombie” or “snake” did! 😉
I’d be more worried if the dr started saying bunny…lol
It’s boring as hell in the hospital. Tsto was my go to activity when my Son was born.
Yes playing TSTO. “Working” on this site…is not something that’ll go over well. 😉
“Some things in life are WAY more important than this game….”
*Spoken in a way that only a new mother could understand…*
It has only been just over 3 weeks but it feels like forever since there’s been a level update. I really thought they would chuck one in during act 2 or 3 to makes things harder. I
Any else having issues with skeletons not showing up?
The daily task is to squish skeletons, and since 8 am this morning (more than 6 hours ago), i have squished zero …… None to find in neighbours towns either
I have only had 1 Skelton even though I should have had 8 pop up. I have been sending my characters to different brown houses too so not to have over 20 nightmares in my town at once.
So feeling your pain!
Yep me too….
I am having trouble with this too! I’ve tried sending sending skeleton nightmare spawning kids at different times and to different houses. It’s the only nightmare that isn’t spawning every time.
I’ve been through these posts and haven’t seen the answer so my apologies if I’m not looking properly, with regards to the heights bonus, is this just the main building or do all the extras need to be on?
Main
Well I’m glad of that. Those buildings get quite big with all the attachments. Can’t work out how the modern apartment goes together either lol
Anyone having issues with skeletons not showing up? It kind of an issue because of the challenge today.
Yes, it’s been happening for a few days and with other characters as well, last week it took for ever to upgrade the camp because there were no bunnies… Anyway, hope this is fixed soon.
Arrgh been tapping all sunday now I see I need 30 skeletons for the daily play but can only get 4 every 4 hours means 32 hours to get them if I play when I should be sleeping 🙂
I hope some come via the Gate to Nowhere as all 64 of my friends are spawning star spawns not a nightmare in sight :sigh
Oh just realised Bart is not fighting M’nthster so make that 2 skeletons every 4 hours.
Spent 150 donuts on the outfits for Lisa and Milhouse just to get the fight to 4 hours so we’ll see how it goes can’t see me getting 5000K apples in 7 days so might have to spend a few donuts to get the final prize just hope I’m not too far away.
I was way ahead all through the first 2 acts. I completed all assigned tasks, and am playing several times a day, but I just was another thread on a different forum where people are saying they have over 4,500 apples already. I’m only at 2396. I don’t see how I’ve fallen this far behind.
Currently I’m showing to have 5244 already myself. But think it makes a huge difference if you bought the other items that spawn nightmares, like the Mausoleum, the Snake Log, and the car. So I don’t think you are that far behind, just would have been further ahead if you have had those items. I mean, I could be wrong, anyone else want to weigh in on this?
I don’t have any of the items that are also spawning, I have over 4500 apples right now. I’m not doing anything special, kids fighting for four hours until he’s defeated and sending kids to hunt nightmares every four hours. I have a few premiums characters but that’s it. I just pop in and make sure to send kids on their tasks every four hours. I collect no apples from the star spawns, not one has fallen out. I get none from tapping neighbours either…..so it’s possible to get to the allotted apples needed, I’m pretty sure I’ll be able too without all the extra items.
Personally I have seen apples drop from the star spawns, but it is VERY rare as it doesn’t happen in every 10-20 or whatever, but randomly, like a donut popping out when clearing trash with Homer. I’ve never received any from neighbor star spawns either, so not sure if that is even possible. So far sounds like you are on the right track though.
As I was staring at my collection of wailing walls , seeking inspiration as to how best to place them , a thought crossed my mind . We have names for groups of animals , such as “a murder of crows” and “a patliament of rooks” or my favoutite “a crash of rhinos” . So what could we call the wailing walls ?
A cacophony of wailing walls ? Or if yours are particularly loud , a banshee of wailing walls ? My favourite is a siren of wailing walls . Calling to you from the craftables menu , trying to lure you into spending more of those hard earned brains ” buy me , buy me , buy me” Can’t you hear them ? luring , enticing , trying to bewitch you …
What about the rest of the materials and crafting resources?
A head of Jack-o-Lanterns ? A float of Halloween balloons ? A virus of biohazard walls and towers ? A suspension of spooky trees ? A dilapidation of spooky houses ? How about a rampart of spooky walls , a tremble of spooky groves or a decay of dead trees?
So that just leaves a shuffle of zombies, a slither of snakes, a bounce of bunnys . Then I guess it could be a rattle of skeletons , but I prefer a xylophone of ribcages , an imagination of brains, a medicine of snake eggs ( Isn’t that where snake oil comes from?) and last but not least an audience of bunny ears….. 🙂
Where they assist with earning income, I prefer to think of them as a Ka-Ching of Wailing Walls 😀
Lol , yup that’s certainly what I think each time I craft one , along with “get in” or “yeah baby , yeah” 🙂
How about a Keen of Wailing Walls?
Or a mewl ? 🙂
How about a “block of wailing walls?”
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eoiiyxdu6ilabsl/5031F9D4-E62F-4E9F-A464-DA1B52E5F945L0001.jpg?dl=0
What does that look like when there is cash ready to collect
It looks like this…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dtweyagi4c5sdn3/22B582EF-3EA6-402E-B226-983F193AFB31L0001.jpg?dl=0
Then it looks like this…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kum0ekocyumu7ua/AF9C0BEF-2D26-4DC1-B964-0BD1AADE077AL0001.jpg?dl=0
Admittedly this is no great design but one tap earns over 100k and that looks alright to me.
Looks like tunnels leading into the mountains , I like it….. 🙂
Either the daily task of squishing 30 Skeletons is wrong, or my Hunt Nightmares is not working correctly. After 2nd round of Hunting Nightmares I still have 0 Skeletons, I have a lot of kids and at least some of them should generate Skeletons…
Send the kids that generate skeletons to one house.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/11/05/thoh-quick-tip-making-the-most-of-the-hunting-nightmares-task/
I have split the kids on 3 brown houses, it has been carefully calculated. Still no Skeletons. And it seems I am not the only one having this problem…
Did you remember to tap the Do It button first?
This week’s first task is to squish 30 skeletons. With bart being busy in fighting m’nster, it leaves only database for freemium players, that generates 2 skeletons every four hours. How are we gonna complete this task then? Even neighbours dont have skeletons now.
Very carefully. You have all week to finish it. And when the M’nthster leaves the fire for the water Bart can go back to doing that for 3 turns through. You’ll get it..just not in one day.
We have all week to finish it? I thought the daily tasks had to be completed on the day they were set
Nope you have all week.
Look at you, growing a baby and easing Addicts minds at the same time. You go, girl! lol
I’ve told players…this kid isn’t coming out until the event is over because you guys need me too much lol
Currently I find it really difficult to complete the new weekly challenges task to squish skeletons, how am I supposed to get skeletons now? I can’t spawn them at the campfire anymore and as a freemium player, the only characters that generate skeletons are Bart and Database and even that takes 4 hours each time and only spawns 2 skeletons (so total 4 per 4 hours).
As for the Gate to Nowhere, out of the random nightmares that it spawns, (currently in my game) it only generates 3 skeletons (damn you randomness!).
Also I’ve tried looking in my friends towns but out of 100 friends, only 1 neighbor have skeletons. To add insult to injury, squishing skeletons in neighbors town does NOT register the skeleton count for this task!
Yes I know I have to a week to complete this task but let’s be honest, a certain degree of motivation is needed to complete the whole weekly task and today’s task is not one of them…
You know what’s been bugging me lately?
Krusty Land.
I wish they would start doing something with it again. I will literally forget about it for months at a time now. Is this what happened? Did the people at EA forget too?
I hate that something that I had once looked forward to unlocking so badly is now basically just a decoration in my town.
“Stale” is the word that comes to mind to describe Krusty Land.
Am I the only one out there that wishes that they’d start giving us KL missions again? Anything new would be exciting and welcomed in my opinion.
Ahhh… So anyway, I feel so much better now.
Thanks guys!
End rant.
This morning none of my kids gave me skeletons which was rather annoying since today’s shopkeeper’s challenge is to squish skeletons. Really weird. I even have Sherri & Terri who are supposed to yield 8 skeletons and NONE appeared.
I also spread out my kids among different brown houses so I’m only harvesting a smaller group of kids each time. Bizarre.
I’m not panicking because I’ve still got 7 days to do this, but just wondered if anyone else is having this problem?
Yep. I am. Today is the first day that the stuff spawning from my kids was not what it should be…I got the normal amount of Snakes & Bunnies, and a LOT of Zombies, but NO Skeletons. Weird.
Ok,long post but necessary!
i dislike the event for the following reasons:
Very glitchy and slow. On my iPad I keep missing points, images( kirk does NOT appear on the first TO screen), but on iphone is fast and normal ( too bad the screen is small);
Skeletons, really? How can only 2 free characters give them out and the majority is premium?
I’ve had it with the dead trees, jack o lanterns… Dont like the prizes that much.
The deal with 4 brown houses is ridiculous, if it wasnt for this blog I wouldn’t have known it ( in fact i lost 2 days worth of nightmares)
The monster is so boring to defeat…
All the scary buildings from act 2 are completely useless now…
When you visit friends you no longer find nightmares to tap but those monster thingies which do NOT give you any candy apple, or count as nightmares ( whats the point then? Extra resources? Have enough already thanx).
Last i really hated those monsters you leave on your friends town, especially squishing them is a pain ( remeber the game on ipad makes things slow and painful!)…
I DO LIKE THE EVENT BECAUSE OF:
Mr burns as the alien… Love when he says ” don’t be afraid “( i feel it’s the only “outfit” with a -different- voice than the characters…)
Donuts, donuts, donuts!!! Amazing event ( with the great monorail) to get extra donuts. I do spend money on the game but a freebie never hurts;
Spooky and wailing walls.. I like the idea of sweating for resources to get not just decorations;
Homer always cracks me up and overall i’m so addicted that iforgive the lame halloween special. Have fun everyone!
Thank you for blogging and reading!
tenta Corp building:
is it just me or does the tenta Corp building look just like the skyscraper from the new James Bond movie?
How do I submit a complaint about the game? I’m sure you have already covered this but Fairy Kodos is stuck in a loop with the task flirt with human males. Because of this trying to get the him to complete the task it keeps using my doughnuts. Please help. Trying to get this address so it stops before I’m out of doughnuts. 😳 Thank you.
Change the facade to the Simpson House and scroll away from it. Then come back to it should be able to tap.
If not connect ea
Dozens upon dozens of wailing walls in my town now. Gonna be one helluva challenge to figure out how to hide them or do something with them once the event is over. Hopefully I’ll figure it out by January when I blow up my town and start from scratch.
Is there a work around for Gate to Nowhere’s payout? Since it produces 24 nightmares, we lose 4 each time we tap on it.
Nope
I only get 16 from it most days. Good thing I don’t count on it for anything useful.
I’m having the same issue as tippie tippie. I’m at getting wood part 6 and can’t figure out how to send the kids to generate the snakes to reach level 26. Homer is on festiween part 4. Any advice is appreciated.
Follow the questline
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/11/04/turbo-tappin-thoh-2015-act-3/
And getting wood means nothing for the questline. It’s just side tasks..ie busy work.
Thank you Alissa! It was the sandwich quest… Finished it, and now am happily hunting nightmares!
Is there a definitive number of items the screen will allow..how about inventory?
I’m surprised that EA didn’t give us anything for National Donut Day on Thursday.