Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Well the jocks have left, bring on the nerds! It’s time for the Sci-Fi Event! EA teased it a few days ago and now it’s here! So buckle up, hunker down, and get out your app store to download the Sci-Fi Event!
Right now this is live on iOS, Android and Kindle users you know the drill…
Remember this is a APP STORE update. So you’ve got to go into your Google Play, Apple App or Kindle Store to see it. If you don’t see it appear on the “update list” try searching for Tapped Out and see if an update is available. If you STILL don’t see it, try hard closing the store and restarting your device.
Also remember, a few weeks ago we let you know that TSTO was no longer going to be compatible on older devices. So if you’re having issues getting the download to work, or seeing compatibility issues, that could be why. Check out this post for more details.
This will AUTO START for you with some dialogue from Fink and Homer (Lisa too), and you’ll be tasked with building the PolyVac (Free). You’ll then need Homer free for a 6s Task, followed by another 6s task & another 6s task. This will start a little more dialogue and eventually the main event stuff will kick in.
Back with more as I play through it… 🙂
So lots of twists and turns with this one guys. As always the BEST way to figure something out is to play through it. And remember, we’ll have full posts breaking down the ins, outs, ups, downs and what the heck am I doing wrongs as we move through the event. For now let’s quickly talk about the basics.
Act 1 Ends August 30th 7:00 GMT (3am EDT)
Event Ends September 20th
We’ll start with that’s in the store…
LOTS of premium offerings. Here’s a look at what’s available..
Freemium:
Holo-Large Hedge- $1500
Holo-Small Hedge- $500
Premium:
Black Hole- 10 Donuts (will not appear unless you already have the Super Collider)
Soul Extraction Institute- 100 Dounts. Earns $200, 22xp. Comes with Roboburns and Doggie Smithers.
Giant Robot- 75 Donuts. Earns 3% Bonus on all cash and XP
Springfield of Tomorrow Sign- 35 Donuts. Earns 1% Bonus on all cash and XP.
Robot Salvage License- 90 Donuts. Doubles rewards from neighbor Actions (tapping Robots). Does not unlock in store until you’ve unlocked friend actions, see below.
Freebies You’ll Get Via the Questline
PolyVac- Free, instant Build. Unlocks via part 1 of the main Act 1 Questline
Stephen Hawking- Character unlocks for free during Part 1 of the Act 1 Questline.
3D Printer- Free with part 1 of the Build Me A Solid questline. (it’s MASSIVE..9×11). This is where crafting is based out of.
Prizes…
As the normal trend, this event is broken up into Acts. 3 total Acts. For Act 1 you’ll need to collect Dark Matter…
Here are the breakdowns…
Skyberdine Systems- 1600
Future Duff Sign- 6,500
Simpson’s Hover Car- 12,000
Holo-Theater- 18,000
Sgt. Skinner- 24,000
How Do I Earn Dark Matter?
You can earn it by tapping Robots
Each Robot tapped yields 1 .
Here’s a reader tip from Echo006 in the comments on how to collect Robots Faster:
Hey Alissa!
I have found an easy and quick way to find all the robots roaming around your town!
1. Open the 3D Printer Crafting Screen
2. Click the button to level up with robot parts.
3. If you don’t have enough, click “Go to” and you will be sent the closest robot for you to tap!Hope this helps, please share it in the post so people find out about it early so they aren’t frantically searching for robots in their overcrowded towns!😀
And here’s a little video I quickly did demo’ing Echo’s comment, for those who are still confused:
ROBOT SPAWN RATE: Robots Spawn at a rate of 1/3 minutes. You can have a max of 30 in your town at once, with a bank of 50.
Tasks at the PolyVac. Various other Homers can perform tasks there, as well as Frank Grimes. Earns 33 for the Homers (each) and 66 for Frank (if you have him. He is premium).
Questline Completions. You’ll earn 25 for every part of the main questline you complete.
Friend Actions. Once unlocked you’ll earn 2 for every Robot you tap in a friend’s town. (unless you have the Salvage Card, in which case you’ll earn 4. Friend actions will not unlock until you’ve completed Dark Matters Part 7.
Various questline tasks. Various tasks in the questline will have a reward of attached to them. For Example, in What’s the Matter Pt. 2, both Ned and Hawking can earn instead of cash for their tasks.
SciFighter Minigame. Tap as many Robots as you can in 20 seconds and earn as the payout.
Neighbor Actions
You can Tap Robots in Neighbors towns
This unlocks after Dark Matters Part 7. Via Across the Multiverse. And From what I saw Other Springfield Does Not Have Robots to Tap.
You’ll earn 2 for every Robot Tapped in a Friend’s town. They are hard to see…so look closely. Your neighbor DOES NOT have to be at this point in the questline for you to see them in their town.
If you purchase the Salvage License, it’ll earn you 4 for every Robot Tapped in a Friend’s Town. Salvage License will appear in your store after you’ve completed the Across the Multiverse Questline.
New Land!
A new strip of land was added to the far right of our games. It’ll run from the mountain range down. (opposite end of the ocean)
Crafting
So the 3D Printer controls crafting. You’ve got to move through the questline to unlock it, fortunately it unlocks fairly early on.
Similar to the Casino Event you’ve got to unlock Levels to unlock more items to craft.
Crafting Currency for Act 1 
I’ve got to fully play around with crafting to fully breakdown the ins and outs of demoing and what Future Bucks do. Also to breakdown the level requirements. As you’ve guessed, i’ll have a full breakdown post on this…But for now here’s a breakdown of what you can craft at Level 1:
Holo Tulips- 40
Future Street Lamp- 100
Vacation to Venus Sign- 180
Those three are the only three currently unlocked, at Level 1.
SciFighter Mini Game
This is a fun little game to play, and a great way to earn more Dark Matter. Every 4hrs your PolyVac will reset and you can play this mini game. You’ll have to protect the PolyVac from the incoming robots.
So tap as many as you can in 20 seconds to save it.
As you may have guessed…we’ll have a full breakdown on this game in another post. But that’s enough to get you going for now.
Oh and these guys 
are Flash Blubs. You can earn 1/ day via the Power Plant, you’ll get 5 to start via the questline, and you can buy a pack in the store for donuts.
5 Flashes– 15 Donuts
Flashes will kill all of the robots in the area, during the mini game only, when used. A handy tool if you can’t keep up with the incoming Robots.
New Feature
There’s now a “Get Help” Button in our games to directly connect you with EA, should you need help in your game. Just find the Get Help icon (in your Store Menu is the easiest place to find it) and tap it:
And no, this won’t call 9-1-1 for you. So if you’re in an actual emergency….don’t use this feature 😉
This will bring up the EA Help Screen:
And if you hit Contact Us it’ll give you more options for getting in touch with EA:
Neat little feature, so now you don’t have to navigate their website to contact them. 🙂
And that’s it my friends..the full rundown on Act 1 of the Sci-Fi Event!
And before you ask here’s a list of what’s coming…
-Walkthrough Act 1, Turbo Tappin’ Version
-Calendar Act 1
-Should I Buys on all the premium content, even the Robot Card
-Crafting Breakdown
-PolyVac Game Breakdown
-And Much, Much More!
Sit tight, enjoy the game…and we’ll get back to you with more information once we’ve got it ready! 🙂
What are your thoughts on the Sci-Fi Event? Excited to have Stephen Hawking in the game? How about the robot battles? Excited for some futuristic content? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
Upgrade or craft?
It’s the same – every time you craft an item for robot parts, the amount is added to the level-up bar at the top. You don’t have to choose, keep crafting and the leveling up is taken care of automatically 🙂
Once the currency switches to future bucks, it does no longer count, though.
Not too sure how I’m supposed to complete “do me a solid part 4” : Complete all required demos for an item?? Am I supposed to craft one of each item that’s able to be crafted or is there a specific amount of each I need to craft?
Each item has a set number of demos (maximum craftable i think).
The tuilips are 12. So craft 12 holo tulips, for example.
Not sure what happens thereafter as ive not got that far yet.
Two queries I’m certain that you will address:
I ‘taint crafting, instead I’m moving up the craft ladder – good idea or bad?
I’m getting about 37 robots tapped during the mini game – good number or bad (should I flash light ’em instead of tapping?)
Y’all continue to be an inspiration- well three if you do 😇,
Let the accusations, incriminations, self doubt and finger pointing commence 😂😂
Post coming on the first, video on the second lol
The robot parts used to craft items seem to contribute toward the total required to level up so looks like crafting is the way to go.
My experience appears to yield the following:
600 (?) parts required to move from Level 1 to Level 2
I accumulated 600 parts.
I tapped to Level Up
I Leveled Up with zero parts in my account.
Leads me to conclude that it is best to Level Up and THEN craft.
But, other than opening more options on what to craft, what does Level Up achieve?
Our hosts will (soon) tell us.
Oops, just discovered…
If you need 600 to level up, and you have 350 (so you are 150 short of level up) and you spend 250..
You are left with 100 ( naurally)
But now the goal has been reduced to 350. So craft away!
Huh? You spent 600 robot parts to level out, not 0!
The reason it’s better to craft than to pay robot parts to level up is that you’ll level up while crafting (and get the crafted items), but you don’t get anything for the robot parts you spend to level up, other than leveling up.
Unfortunately, I’ve been using the “not enough parts to level up ‘Do It'” thing to find robots in my town and, twice now, I wasn’t paying attention and DID have enough to level up and wasted all of those precious robot parts! The first time wasn’t so bad…I only spend 100 or so, but the second time I think I spent WAY more than that (like 600)! OUCH! I hope I don’t make that mistake again…I’m gonna try to pay more attention for now on…
Help! I’m not getting any Black Matter from my friends towns! Just the regular Cash/FP/XP! ><
You probably maxed out your neighbor actions for the day
All hail our new robot overlords!
I also don’t have the option to buy a black hole. Is the super collider required? I looked in the store but couldn’t find it. I can’t remember buying a black hole and i have checked my inventory and my town to be sure. Sorry for asking the same thing as a lot of other people!
I think you need the super Collider
Thanks Alissa! Was the collider only available for a limited time?
Usually comes out at Christmas.
Ok thanks Alissa 😃
It’s available again, was added to the store just today.
what are future bucks i have to get an item with futu er bucks have crafted venus sign no good tulips no good. cannot work out what i need to purchase please help
Post is coming. I have to figure it out myself
How do you make it flash in the robot mini-game?
Tap the camera on the top right. If you don’t see the camera you’re not at that point in the questlines
Love the science stuff but somebody promised me more heights, tapball and Shelbyville. Where are they? ☺
First daily task: Play SciFighter, Reward: 1100 Dark Matter. Looks like the challenges will be a handy source of currency.
There are new daily tasks as well, paying out event currency: at the moment I have one for 100 robo-parts (make a demo), and one for 250 future dollars (play the mini game).
Thank you for the info!
Stephen Hawking!!! Still can’t believe he’s in the game lol wonder if ea pays the man for using him? >o<
Frink robo-wife will be avaible just look in robot section of characters,also the most hated characters have their own section.
I just got a weird dialog box when I visited Cube.
It basically said, “What is that odd shape?” and went on to say it was a Cube. Then the dialog boxes closed. Was this special programming just for those that visit cube3dex?
It is just me or Frink isnt in the store?
Not just you
Homer just went through the dialogue about the flash bulbs twice, and gave me five of them both times. Nice glitch 🙂
Same here! It’s basically 15 donuts free!
That happened to me, too! I like to think of it as a kind of reward for having to put up with that mildly annoying little glitch for the past few months. 😉
Had to buy the Montgomery Burns Institute with robotic Burns and dog Smithers right away. There are many reasons to:
a) Head in a jar reminds me of Futurama
b) 2 premium characters, each with full set of tasks
c) 100 donuts is good price for 2 characters and building
d) Opens new collection of robots (there will be more, including the one from Ex-Machina).
So Robo-Burns and Doggie Smithers are separate characters and not just skins???
That’s correct.
Yep. And each with full set of tasks (only the 4h one is together, rest of tasks is separate).
I suppose also older versions of Skinner, Bart, Lisa and Maggie will be full characters and not just skins.
There is a cube that appears on your friend’s neighborhood. Is that once a day or should I be searching for it in every neighbor’s Springfield? I was surprised to not have seen anything about it here.
So I figured out the cube comes up randomly in any neighbor’s Springfield. If your neighbor has one the game will direct you to it. It gives you matter and robot parts (act 1 currency)…
Also i was glad to see that EA extended the matter you can get from Neighbors. I was able to click on 89 robots to get matter
Krustyland haters might hate me for saying this- but while I appreciate the originality of this event and I relish creating a whole Simpson’s multiverse, I don’t want it in my regular Springfield, more than happy to jump through a wormhole to create another.
PS. There have been a few healthy conversations about the episode of Simpsons where Homer travels back in time and the butterfly effect on the future. During donut day there were observations that the donut rain produced by the boat would be pure ephemera, I just want to say- even though it was HARD to part with that many donuts for an animation, I appreciated the laugh that you had to pay boatload for the icons they represented. Regardless, despite predictions of instant entropy by some players, I X my boat many times daily, I tap it every time. I revel in my donut rain every time still. Get what makes you happy. 😘
I agree completely: I like having separate “worlds” instead of continually cramming more into my main town. The only real problem with Krustyland is that they’ve abandoned it.
How come kwik-E-mark look different
I noticed that too. Plus, the cost of the Kwik-Mart doesn’t fluctuate anymore like it used to. It seems to stay at one cheap price now no matter how many you own.
I was also able to visit 4-5 friends without my game crashing. I hope that’s fixed for good. Seems like I can’t zoom out to see my town as far as I used to though.
Loving the event so far! This one is definitely my kind of event. Hooray! 🎉😍🎉 RachelS
I think I’m most excited about that new strip of land; I’ve been waiting for it to open up forever, so of course I spent all my money on it and now am not sure what to put there LOL Almost my casino stuff is in storage so maybe I can make it look decent over there.
I love tapping the robots! And the polyvac looks so cool with the black hole above it sucking in the poor birds.
teleporter problems, it asks with hemisphere to go to and if you pick something different it says to get it from storage. are they supposed be there ?? i didnt see any in the store. There great to move around
we’ll be getting a couple more later in the event.
I am *so* happy about this! I LOVE my teleporters and, now that my Springfield has been growing by leaps and bounds, it can definitely use more of them. I just hope they’re not *too* expensive… (I’ll probably get them no matter what, though…well, unless they want 200 donuts apiece or something insane like that….)
looks like they’ll actually be a bit cheaper than the alpha and omega pack we bought during the cyber monday 2015 promotion (before the rebate).
Not sure I ever care about the “before rebate” price (especially now that I have a good store of donuts), but, hopefully they’re not more expensive than the “after rebate” price was. 🙂
after rebate the teleporters were 30 donuts… the new ones won’t be quite that cheap.
🙁
But I’ll probably get them anyway…sooo handy! 🙂
I’m biting at the bit for them to release them again. I really hope they aren’t too expensive, I want everything lol
we need a future monorail station since were all chasing the 20 donuts too bad its once a week im working on the 20 now and have a surplus of track and alot of characters can still make track. Also we need more straight track or better yet the ability to choose the track itself . Im reluctant to move the monorail after ive built around it and updates and events are coming quicker. im building quite the storage
I’m not buying robot guard yet u can even buythayt after the event but I bought to new character of burn and smithers
My % multiplier ticked up 3% with the game update, and I don’t know why. Anyone else notice anything like this? I’m not complaining. I’m very happy for the boost.
do you have 6 of those human test subjects out? those have a 0.5% bonus multiplier now (gonna be released later in the event, so probably for donuts).
TAPEBELT- WOW! Thanks for this info. I have 10+ just sitting in storage. Thanks for sharing this info. One of the many reasons why I just love this site & community😎….💜X
Nice spot Tapebelt, I had forgotten about them and have just got them out of storage and they fit right in. I’ve also put my Re-Neducation Center in with my robot area and finally I think it has a place to live.
I lined them up on the beach. I had 50 in my inventory I made with that dupe glitch a while back, so I got a 25% bonus.
AWESOME! Thank you! I also had mine in storage (only4, but I’ll take it!)
How did you figure that out? Thanks.
i’m not spoiler averse… i looked at the list of event dates, and noticed the human test subjects were gonna be rereleased for donuts (arguably should’ve been given a higher bonus for what it will cost). i had all six of mine in storage, so when i clicked on the info button for it in the inventory, i noticed the description now said it had a 0.5% bonus.
Are you sure they haven’t always had a multiplier attached to them? I’m trying to think of why I’ve always kept mine out in my town, even though space was tight when I got them and they didn’t really fit in, design-wise. It’s possible it was just a Conform-o-Meter thing, perhaps, since, back then, I was still working hard to try and boost that…
pretty sure i had all but two of mine stored in my inventory because they didn’t have any bonus attached to them. my brother didn’t recall them having a bonus before either. then there’s the fact that if dapimp made the effort to dupe a bunch of them, surely he would’ve had them out if they had a bonus attached to them at that time, right?
Okay, you win, lol! I really want sure either way…as I said, I got them early enough in my game that it’s quite likely I needed their Conform-o-Meter effect (I think it might be conformity, which wasn’t one of the easiest ones to get.)
I specifically remember keeping them out because they added a bonus (HTS). Don’t ask me to remember which event it was from, I’ve had to delete some data because my brain was reaching max capacity (it’s an Apple product) 😳😂
they were from the halloween 2014 event. you could craft them, plus there was a small chance of getting them from a treat bag. the only crafting item that had a bonus attached to it that event was the spooky wall (0.05%).
Oh – you mean those things in the tall purple(?) cylinders we got for some event a long time ago (in game time)? Cool! I have at least a couple of those (more?).
I just found a funny easter egg…
Once you have the four different Homers, tap on Homer and try to cycle through his available skins…
Your welcome.
I tried it,but it doesnt happend anything eastereegish.What is the easter egg about?
I wouldn’t call it an “Easter egg”. It’s cute and funny, but there’s no prize (unless I’m missing something?).
I “bot” 5 Flashes, and says I will find in my Inventory!! I have checked very carefully, and I do not see them in my Inventory!! Where R they??
They appear in the top right when you play the mini game.
Kwik-E-Marts are only $220 a piece. If you’re a 24/7Collider player or just want to get some sprinkles, farm them now!
Update just hit and prices on KEM are up again 😩
Who’s the “evil homer” I’m seeing in character collections? I thought it was guy incognito at first but I guess I was wrong XD
This event doesn’t suck, While sucking 😀