Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
The nerds have invaded Springfield! Ok just one nerd, and he’s not all that bad. And only in Springfield can Professor Frink, with the help of Homer, open up a black hole that transports doppelgangers, robots and Stephen Hawking (!) to our pocket sized Springfields!
One fun new element to this event is the introduction of the SciFighter Mini Game. In it’s simplest form it’s Insanity Mode from Homer’s Chiliad…but WAYYYY easier. (and you get to make Robots blow up…that’s always fun lol)
So let’s break down this SciFighter Mini Game…including how to play, what happens if you lose and how to use those Flashes (Cameras)…
So because somethings are just better when visually explained…I went ahead and did a video explanation for the SciFighter Mini Game for y’all to watch. In it you’ll see what happens when you win the game, what happens when you lose…and when happens when I try to do math. (Spoiler..it’s not pretty) So enjoy!
If you’re having trouble viewing the video here, you can find it via the dropbox link here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmc9jqfu3ezjska/mobizen_20160817_114749.mp4?dl=0
For those at work, or those who just can’t watch the video, here’s a quick breakdown:
-PolyVac Resets for the mini game every 4hrs
-You’ll unlock Flash bulbs (Cameras) when you start Photo Sensitive Deficiency task. (starts prior to your second battle). You get 5 for free, after that 1/day for free from the power plant
-Object is to clear as many robots in 20 seconds as you can, while defending your PolyVac. Up to 5 Robots can hit your PolyVac before it’s destroyed. (5th on destroys it) Only destroyed for 4hrs, then it resets.
-Better to win the game, than lose. You’ll earn more
-And I suck at math lol
And for those who want to take on the math challenge…here’s some screen grabs of the various runs of the game:
Wins:
Losses:
What are your thoughts on the mini game? Enjoying it so far? Are you able to figure out the math that I can’t? Thoughts on the Sci-Fi Event in general? What are you most looking forward with this event? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
For the third robot image look under Interdimensional Travelers
And the second robot and first robot are under robots
I’m pretty sure they are going to be NPC’s but will be unlockable
The video freezes for me after 7:54 (the audio keeps going but the video is just stuck). Tried refreshing the page, switching HD on, same results. Weird…
might be the word press video try the dropbox link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1i1v8a454m7h4rk/mobizen_20160817_114749.mp4?dl=0
Still not working. The original link freezes after half a minute for me. Is there any possible way for me to find info on the flashes without watching the video? I appreciate the effort, really I do. But, first of all, it’s 15 minutes long. Secondly, it won’t play.
Thanks.
Not to be a pain in the rear but it’s a lot of info to type out. I know it’s a 15 minute video but with visuals etc it would have taken over an hr to write. Try this link, it’s a different Dropbox that I moved it to
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmc9jqfu3ezjska/mobizen_20160817_114749.mp4?dl=0
Beyond that there’s basic info in the post.
If it still doesn’t work and you still can’t get the video to work let me know specifically what you gave questions on and I’ll try to answer them. But I’m not going to write out a full blown post on it.
Love it!
Thanks for the informative video Alissa!
The pattern seems to be something like:
Lose (parts & dollars): Number of seconds survived + defeated robots + 20
Lose (Black Matter): not sure about this one
Win (parts & dollars): Defeated robots + number of seconds survived (always 20) + 20 *
Win (Dark Matter): Defeated robots + number of seconds survived (always 20) + 90
*since win is always the full 20 seconds it amounts to a +40, just like you mentioned, but it looks like the seconds play a part in the calculations..
posted some of the calcs earlier, loss matter seems to be something like:
50 base + 3 per Sec + 1 per robo
That actually works for wins as well as losses. If you win it is:
50 + 3*20s + 1 per robot, or 110 + 1 per robot
Robot parts & future bucks are:
20 + 1 per sec + 1 per robo
Addendum: in the cases where only matter or matter and robot parts dropped, the base for matter is higher, 80 instead of 50, the rest holds true. Although to be sure, I would need to see losses for that case too.
This should help with the Maths. 😜
https://imgur.com/gljM7c6
It tells me i’ve taken a wrong turn…
Oops guess that was the link I deleted. It didn’t save on Imgur as a gif for some reason so I tried again. Let’s see if it shows up on the site as a gif or pic…
https://imgur.com/p74rPGH
Did it help? That’s my go-to song for any math problems. 😂
“2 + 2 is FOUR…”
lol
My favorite math statement is,
“There are 10 kinds of people that understand binary. Those that do and …”
Or you could just ask me 🤓
I wonder if this “Keep Away Attack Mode” is going to be reused for future Events … I&S land? 📸📺🐱🤖⚒📺🐭🤖📸
I like this one…mostly cause I don’t have to search my town for the stupid things to tap lol
Thank you for the video, it really helped so much. FYI the video buffers really slow unless you use the link you provided to take us to Dropbox. Have a great one!
Thank you for all the info. I have a question. Does playing the sci-fi game also clear the robots from your town? I play two Springfields, in the first i went through and tapped all the robots, then played the game. In the second, I played the game and then there were no robots to tap outside of the sci-fi game.
It appears so.
How do we use the Flash bulbs? I have a task to use one during a Scifighter but am unsure how to do it. Nothing comes up when I battle at the Poly Vac. And when I click on do it, it just brings me back to the Poly Vac and I’ll do a battle but no option for using flash. Loving this event so far though! Thank you!
If you watch the video it explains exactly how to do it, with visual aids 🙂
My video kept freezing, however, I played the Scifighter again and finally looked elsewhere while fighting and saw the icon in the corner…I was a little too focused on killing robots the first couple times…lol! Thanks again!
Visual aids?… hehehe
Sorry Alissa, I am getting help 😂😂😂
I really enjoy the visials but gor some reason this one just won’t play for me. It just keeps stopping. Oh well☹️X
You can try directly via dropbox…but fair warning this probably will be deleted from my dropbox in a couple of days
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1i1v8a454m7h4rk/mobizen_20160817_114749.mp4?dl=0
ALISSA- Thanks very much for this link. I was able to watch it from Dropbox. Hopefully I can fare a little better now. Much appreciated. 👍🏽…..💜X
It wouldn’t play for me as well..
Having a great time playing, love the SciFi theme and Smithers the robo dog, would like to have had a change of background music for this event something spacy and epic or a bit Futurama-ish, noticed a box on top of my niebours names with Crystals totals and also Cubes and what looks like Spheres as well I’m assuming this will show how many of each your niebour as accumulated. Is this correct?
I didn’t know you could lose! Guess I’m just good at that game, lol!
No, it’s super easy lol. I had no idea that you could “lose”. I always get at least 40, and a max of 52 when using a flash in the last second or 2 of the game because a bunch rush you at the end. I can only assume it will get harder each act with a new bot attacking you.
For those of you that are asking were are my robots
At the start of the mini game it sends out a flash
That will destroy all current robots
This is why there is dark matter and robot parts (and future bucks) when you start the mini game
SO STOP PELTING ALISSA WITH THE SAME QUESTIONS!!!!!
lol it’s ok I’m wearing my suit of armor today…aka Pat’s been answering the comments lol
Love the mini game, but was expecting more, a bridge to Manhattan island, were we could build a future superhero world, maybe am playing the wrong game, no homer task and Bart’s task didn’t start, sorry for repeats, but we all like a sequel, haha, heart not in this one “to be continued” #persevered
What did I just read?
Ah. Others noticed too.
It’s been really fun this time. I’m happy to get all new items, skins and characters. They must be listening, eh Wookie?
Is it my imagination or do all the walking robots disappear with the attacking robots after the mini game at the machine? I’ve started tapping all the walking robots before playing.
Same thing happening with me. Best to tap all the robots you can before playing SciFighter.
Yes. I posted something about this yesterday in the crafting post. Tap all the robots you can before starting the game.
My game glitched and ran the storyline portion that give you the flash bulbs twice so I got ten total 🙂 first time a glitch has ever worked in my favor 🙂
Me too!
Mine did the same. It has been running the dialogs twice for a while but this was the first time there was a benefit!
I was wondering why I had 10! My game often does the double dialog too but I’ve never benefitted from it before so didn’t put 2 and 2 together. Lol
Mine often does that for some reason! For example, I got two Suspicious Dirt Piles from the Michael D’Amico quest and two Golden Calf Idols from Weekend Dad.
Ditto. Never normally happens to me. I’m not averaging many that’s why I’m gutted I can’t wTch the bideo this time b
Me too.
Try via dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1i1v8a454m7h4rk/mobizen_20160817_114749.mp4?dl=0
Me too😜
Is it true, that starting the SciFighter game immediately kills all other robots roaming Springfield? Because it seems to me, that after the game I see no robots left to tap…
I see a bunch of robot parts and matter dropping whenever I start this game, so I guess all roaming robots get ‘auto-tapped’ and drop their stuff at the PolyVac.
There is a debate about this. Yes. At the start of the game all of the robots in the vicinity of sci fighter building get zapped, but I don’t know if this kills ALL of the robots in your town, or just the robots near the sci fighter building.
Love the new event, when is the “should i spend donuts” coming?
Thx Deb
Soon. They (well, mostly just Alissa) usually focus on getting out the event mechanics posts, first.
I think most of the “basics” are out at this point. So we’ll probably start SIBs today (with everyone’s favorite event SIB 😉 ) and then continue to post them in order of importance. 🙂
Great video Alissa 😊
I love this event! The whole theme of it and the design blew me away.
I noticed in your 2 year ‘ask the addicts’ Q&A you mentioned, Alissa, that you really wanted an event based on future episodes! You happy? I have to agree, the future episodes are some of the best!
Looks like something like: 140 Mater, 40 parts base, +1 of each for each robot on a win. Not enough information about the losses for me to see a pattern for matter; although the parts/cash may be 20 + 1 per robot, +1 per sec survived.
Loss Mater looks like: 50 base + 3 per Sec + 1 per robot
After you unlock future bux it looks like the baseline for matter drops to 110 + taps. I tried it on mine this morning, explains why the last is lower
I love the event thus far, but had a quick question. My daily challange is to tap the Anomaly, and when I click “Go To”, it takes me to the “My Friends” page. For 1100 of gems (or whatever those crystals are), I’d rather not skip it. Any assistance would be wonderful!
I had that today and it took me a few moments to figure out. You need to tap the cube (Frinkohedron, I think?) that sometimes shows up when visiting neighbors. If it does show up, the screen will automatically move to it when you enter that friend’s town, so keep an eye out for that. Also, if it’s your first time coming across it, there will be some quick dialog with Otto & Homer about it.
Tapping that cube counts as one of your friend actions for that town, so the same as tapping a robot right now, but it does pay out extra matter if it’s part of your first 90 friend actions for the day (otherwise it just pays money.)
Hope that helps you find it quickly! It did take me about 15-20 neighbors to find one this time around, and could likely take less or more, so just keep tapping and be patient.
When you visit friends towns, occasionally it will pop up an “anomaly” and take you there. It’s a small glowing blue solid. Just tap it to clear the anomaly.
After the mini game I tried to clean up the robots running around Springfield and there weren’t any. I let that happen twice, now I tap all the robots before I play and still win the same amount in the mini game. Was I imagining things?
I like this theme. I’m putting iit next to the western stuff for a Westworld/Futureworld vacation spot.
Yep I’m old, I remember when those movies came out. As a kid tho.
I wrote that in my reply (few replies down). At the beginning of the battle, robot parts, dark matter and future money drop from the generator. It seems that generator wipes all the robot in the town and gives you drop from them. If I did not collect robots prior to minigame, I received 80,80,80, if I did, I received on 7,7,7 (suppose 7 robots were somewhere in the town).
Same here
Mine ended up behind Westworld as that is where I bought some new land!
That’s what I was planning to do! I just bought some land near my western area to put the future stuff there, but I’m gonna hold of moving that stuff over there until after the event is over, because the spot it’s in now is more open and easier to tap in. In the meantime, I’ll build KEMs in the future future site.
I guess if we wanted to really do it right, we’d move the Roman stuff we got during the casino event over there, too, for Roman World, but I’m way too fond of my casino area to break it up!
Is anyone having trouble when trying to zoom out the game? On my it so so zoomed in, that it is annoying to play.
One best mini game ever really fun
Loved the video ♡
Thanks Alissa 🙂
Seems to me that starting the battle clears all the robots in town (when I came after 4 hours, it gave me 80 dark matter and 80 robot parts, when I was tapping robots during next 4 hours, it gave me only 7 dark matter and 7 robot parts – looks like from remaining robots in town).
So if you lose can you still send the Homers on their missions or is it broken and unusable for 4 hours?
You can still send them. The mini game has no impact on that. They can be in there even if the game is going on
Hi Alissa, your video won’t play pass 25 secs for me (using iPhone).
Thanks for all your help!
MELONJM- It wouldn’t play for me either on iPhone. I mentioned it in the comments and Alissa has very kindly posted a link to the video via her Dropbox. It played perfectly for me. Just scan the later comments and you should see it posted at least twice….💜X
I love the sci fri theme. Makes me enjoy the game again because I don’t care for the mini train challenges and I’m never gonna get billionaires mansion in SH. Lol
Never say never