Update: Building actions are back, which means vandalism is back as well. Be careful when tapping in a neighbor’s town and only tap the bears. Tapping buildings will count against your daily actions for the day…
Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
New Year, new act. Out with the old, in with the new! Christmas is over…bring on Maggie and the fun!
Gone are the Merry Makers, collection of Mistletoe, daily challenges & crafting. Here are Imaginary Bears, pacifiers, babies & Play Dough.
Act 3 is upon us!
Remember…this is an automatic change in your game. Nothing to download, it should just start up in your game..
If you don’t own Maggie Moe will start things for you. If you do own Maggie, Marge will start things for you. If you don’t have Maggie you’ll have several extra steps to complete before you start the main Act 3 stuff….
Just what does Act 3 have in store for us? Let’s take a look…
New Prize Currency for Act 3..
Pacifiers
Pacifiers can be earned by tapping Imaginary Bears (Imaginary Friends Pt. 2 trigger them in your town…it’ll be a little bit before you see them (especially if you don’t have Maggie yet)
-You’ll earn 8 
for every bear you tap in your town
-You’ll also earn them via tapping bears in a friend’s town. You’ll earn 1 for every bear you tap in a friend’s town. (first 9 actions, at least for me, paid 3 each)
– can also be earned via the Daily Combo…
Imaginary Bears
The bears will start spawning once you’ve reached Imaginary Friends Pt. 2…they’ll spawn at the same rate as the Merrymakers, 1 every 5 minutes. You can have a max of 40 in your town at once, with a bank of 20.
Act 3 Personal Prizes
Kearny’s Other Son- 2,700
Mrs. Sinclair- 9,600
Wall E Weasels- 17,800
Baby Gerald- 27,400
Once you’ve earned all the prizes you’ll have a chance for Bonus Donuts by collecting more Pacifiers.
Act 1 & 2 Prizes
IF you didn’t collect them all… you can still access them by tapping on the “ACT ONE PRIZES” tab in the Personal Prizes area. As you can no longer collect items for them, your only option now is to pay donuts to outright by each one left at the point you left off at. (just like every other event)
New Items in the Store
Freemium
Slide- $8,500
Premium
Slide Factory- 1oo Donuts
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers- 120 Donuts, Comes with the Babysitter Bandit
Returning
Blocko Store- 30 Donuts Should I Buy
It’s A Wonderful Knife- 150 Donuts, Comes with Gino Terwilliger Should I Buy
Fort Sensible- 65 Donuts Should I Buy
Stonecutter’s Daycare Center- $250,000
I won’t be doing new Should I Buy posts on the returning items. Check out the older posts for details on them. If there’s no should I buy for it, check out the rundown post and details…that’ll explain what it is/does and help you make a decision.
How Do I Get Maggie?
If you did not get Maggie during Act 2 you’ll have the chance to get her in Act 3. In fact you’ll have to unlock her before you can continue with the progress of Act 3. If you did not start the You Better Not Cry questline, you’ll start Seems to Be the Hardest Word. Here you’ll have to basically have Moe, Krusty, Cletus and CBG all clean up the vandalism…you’ll then have a couple more tasks and you’ll unlock Maggie.
Once Maggie is unlocked you’ll be able to start the main Act 3 stuff.
Questline Buildings
You’ll unlock two buildings by playing the questline…
Play Dough Factory
Ayn Rand School for Tots
Again, these unlock via the questline. So don’t go crazy looking for them immediately, you won’t find them unless you play the questline.
Act 3 is pretty cool as far as the questline goes. Take your time and read the dialogue, it’s pretty fun! As far as the basics of Act 3, well it’s just like everything else…collect to earn prizes…pretty simple 🙂
And as always…when in doubt PLAY THE QUESTLINE!!!! I can’t tell you how many times you guys tell me something didn’t happen and it’s because you’ve stopped playing the questline. So follow along with the main questline (Turbo Tappin’ will be up later) and stick to it. You’ll unlock everything you should unlock if you stick with the questline…
What are you’re thoughts on Act 3? Excited about the prizes? How about the new items? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
To be fair I misread the event ends thinking it meant act 2. Plus I didn’t check on here yesterday but I’m not too fussed about it. Does anyone have an idea what the mini game could be at the end of maggies quest line?
I need donuts for the premium items
Then i suggest you buy some or get to tapping to see if you can earn free ones.
Amazing Christmas/Winter event!! It’s my second Christmas with TSTO & this is freaking crazy! So many buildings, characters, crafting prizes…..loving it🤗
I splurged on the Snow Monster last night right before act 2 ended. So happy with him! Now it’s a toss up between the slide factory or the babysitter bandit. Hmmmmm. This might be a time when I actually buy donuts to get both. We shall see!
Thanks to all the Addicts for the speedy info😀
PS- so sorry to the neighboureeno who’s police station I accidentally vandalized trying to tap a bear!!!!! I think it was Pguin & I promise it wasn’t on purpose!
Omg. This is the icing on top of the Xmas cookie! I’ve loved the Xmas event and now we have one that is all about Maggie?! SQUEEEEEEE!
What the h***, no warning everything would disappear!? !? I had lots saved up for crafting in case I wanted the new items in act 3. I would have spent what I saved had I known the crafting was going bye bye. Not liking the way EA is running things in their Christmas mode. And I still don’t have my Cletus farm decorations
There was a warning…the timer in your game. It said…Event Ends, with the timer counting down to today.
Yeah I was surprised to see everything go as well… I had saved up a ton of crafting material… all for nothing
Haaa-haaaaa
🙂
Is there a reason I’m not getting pacifiers when I tap bears in my friends town.
Did you already max out your friend actions? If you tapped Merrymakers yesterday for Mistletoe that counts towards today. You still have to wait the full 24hrs before friend actions reset
Ok, gotcha!! I did visit yesterday but only went to half of my friends. So I must have been tapping into the ones I skipped.
THANK YOU!!
Whenever I visit my neighbours, the one building they had that I wanted was the Blocko store. I’m so happy that I’m finally able to buy it and at only 30 donuts !!!
I got festivus CBG a couple of days before the last event ended, but he never appeared in my inventory. I thought maybe I had to wait, but should I contact EA?
Contact EA
Or check your inventory box? That’s where I found him earlier today.
I vandalized a neighbor just now, went to tap on a brown bear and I sprayed their Police Station! Eeeexcellent if you read these feeds, please know I’m sooooo sorry.
I can see this is going to possibly be an issue with Act 3 as I tapped a brown bear and a house was tapped also. I would have thought EA would have had players just tap the bears and not have the buildings up for grabs also…..
Two of my neighbors already have >>27,000 pacifiers. How is that even possible, with the act just starting?
Donuts
So strange to see a Season One-stylized character (from easily the most poorly animated episode ever) in the context of all these modern-Simpsons visuals. Awesome animation for her 60s task though.
On an unrelated note, did you know that Festivus was actually “invented” in 1966 by a writer for Reader’s Digest? The family celebrated it annually, and it did indeed feature the Airing of Grievances and the Feats of Strength. Instead of a pole though, the father put a clock in a bag and nailed it to the wall. The family inquired as to the significance of that, but the father refused to explain.
OK, already loving this act so much more than the previous two because the bears are SO MUCH EASIER to find in neighbors towns than the stupid party goers. Actually visiting all my neighbors again instead of bailing as soon as the event currency was no longer dropping
So far act three is great… Except for the fact that I am not getting pacifiers want to visit friends towns. 😟
Did you do your neighbor visits less than 24 hours ago? You just need to let it reset 🙂
I got 3 pacifiers each bear in the first 3 towns, then 1 pacifier for 10 towns and after that no pacifiers when I tap a bear. Is that the normal rate? It’s not what I’m used to from events.
Yup.
I placed the play dough factory but it doesn’t do anything yet, when I click on it I just get the title of the factory and nothing else and it doesn’t produce cash or event currency. Does it unlock further as the quest line progresses?
Just keep playing. 🙂
Woo hoo. I missed Blocko and Banana Dictatorship when they first came out and last time Blocko was for sale it was 50 donuts. 30 donutes after a few weeks of 20 free donuts for completing daily tasks, Sold. Now just need Banana Dictatorship for 30 more.
My SH leaderboard on the friends home page has gone missing.
lee3472: Just wanted to let you know you have seriously made my day. I needed a good giggle and your posts provided big time! 😂😂😂
I did warn them yesterday that I was going to do that, so now I have to carry it through,
it gives me no pleasure to see these people all shocked and surprised that their 3,000 baubles and bows are now useless,
to be fair…they didn’t miss anything fantastic this time
🙂
I dunno about that…I had really enjoyed sending my 27 Snow Lisas to have some fun around the town! 😉
27!!? Awe, I missed three?
1st of all I want to say sorry to awesomeous maximus I tagged a building by mistake, I was aiming for the bear.
Act 3 is looking great, I love having Maggie, especially when she travels by balloon to do a task and the bears are really cool to tap. One thing about tapping neighbours is be careful, some of my neighbours have bears and buildings to tap, other neighbours it’s just the Bears so for some of my taps, I missed the bear and tapped a building so I missed out on collecting pacifiers on a few taps.
Love it ♡
Loving it ♡♡
Looooooove it!!!! ♡♡♡♡♡
I know you do,
but what do you think of act 3 ?
💚 💛 💙 🍸 🙂
We’re here!
We’re queer!
We don’t want any more bears!
I’m here!
I’m queer!
I love bears!
Anybody else having an issue with the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers building where it doesn’t show up where the green guide placement box on the grid indicates it’s supposed to?
Yes, count me in. So awkward!
For some odd reason, I sent Maggie on a 24 hour task last night, which happens to be at the Simpson house, which you can’t store. So now I must wait all day to get act 3 started…doh!
Yes, you’re in *deep* “d’oh” now!
I’m in the same boat 🙁
I am absolutely loving the Babysitter Bandit character!!!!
They way that she walks alone is freakin hilarious!
So far I’ve only seen her 1 hour task, but it is great as well!
And it love the slide factory building. Can’t wait to see what these other 3 new characters do!
Did anyone notice that the Springfield Heights real estate value rankings has disappeared? I hope this is just a ‘glitch’ and that EA will reinstate the rankings.
Oh, you’re right! I, too, hope they bring it back, not so much because I care about seeing the rankings themselves, but because I found it a very useful navigation tool. I’m hoping that they just made a mistake when they took down the bows ranking and took the whole functionality down by accident.
Same as Sandra. 👯
LeaderBoards = Best. Teleporters. Ever. 😈
Does the play dough factory do anything? I tapped it to see if it earned anything, and a box pops up, but all it says is “play dough factory”, with nothing below. Purely decorative buildings don’t have pop up boxes.
When Maggie does a 4 hour task there it extrudes play dough from the side into the walkway in front.
Very early days yet Meg, there could be a whole stack of stuff we haven’t seen yet
🙂
It says something about a mini game, but mine also has no other info like money or game currency earned, if any, and what the mini game is all about, how to play it (assuming it’s something we can play), etc. Kind of irritating because I don’t know if that’s how the building is supposed to be or if it’s a glitch.
Did some sleuthing and it looks like we have to wait until later to play the mini game at the Playdough Factory.
Mini game will NOT trigger until you go through the Questline… like 20+ parts.
This sucks… I know it’s not your fault but they should not have put Maggie’s quest as part of the Christmas quests. I had plenty of items to craft too. I thought with that part 3 coming up they would have added more stuff to craft. Guess not!!
Love it so far but it is definitely not a third act…with crafting gone it it just a new event now. EA did say act 2 was ending with timer but they also said that about act 1 and also the thoh…still was able to do final crafting…no crying just wish they would figure out one approach and be consistent or really put different warnings out there…in the words of Homer…D’OH!!
The timer for Act 1 was counting down to the end of the event…so when Act 2 hit there were still 2 weeks left on the timer, which is why everyone complained when Act 2 hit and Act 1 crafting items disappeared. Yesterday the timer showed 1 day left…
I am SO excited about this act! I was very happy to build the Stonecutter Daycare since I missed it. I want ALL the prizes omg. I hope we get to keep one of the bears.
I built the playdough factory but it’s not doing anything, not even earning currency. I’m guessing it has something to do with the mini game mentioned at the end of the questline…
got lucille today because she seemed a good deal. Now the big question is whether to get ling bouvier /Gino terwilliger /Shauna as can only afford one of them. I’m thinking Gino because he’s cute with his little knife. Anyone have any thoughts?!
I’d wait for the to-buy on Ling Bouvier. Gino is cute though and he has a building as well, I’m really considering him myself, but might end up with Ling once I see what the animations/tasks are.
I got Shauna when she was on sale in the “End of School Promotion 2015” for 60 donuts, good deal. I might not have bought her for full price, even though I like having her and she rounded up my toughies collection.
I don’t have Ling, so I can’t answer on that one, but as far as Gino vs Shauna, it all depends on what you’re looking for. I’ve got both, and I enjoy both for different reasons.
I’m a big fan of all things Terwilliger, so Gino running around with his knife cracks me up. Plus, he comes with a building, so you get currency every 2 hours (if that’s a factor for you).
Shauna, on the other hand, is a stand-alone character (so no building), but she does have a couple of great visual tasks. She also tends to be more useful during events. Not all events (and definitely not this one, so far anyway), but some, at least.
All I can say is, I don’t regret either purchase, I’m hoping Gino will get some more tasks during this event (since it IS baby-centric), and if you haven’t done so already, check out the SIBs on these characters. 🙂 Good luck in your decision!!
My game is starting again with level 1. Do you know how to solve it. I was already level 55 and my amount of donuts stay the same.
Hard close and restart TSTO, then make sure you’re logged in. If that doesn’t work uninstall/reinstall TSTO..and again make sure you’re logged in. If you’re still not back, contact EA.