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!
Act three arrived earlier today, with a whole new questline to work our way through!
As was mentioned on the rundown post Act 3 runs until September 20th, and you’ll need Hawking free to get things started.
Remember, the questline is there to guide you. So when you get stuck on something, or haven’t unlocked something, just follow along with the questline and it’ll take you through everything you need to do to complete the Act and unlock everything you need in order to play properly.
So let’s take a look at the questline to see just what you need to do to close the black hole and FINALLY restore order to Springfield…
Judgement Day Pt. 1
Hawking starts
Fend Off Mecha Hawk with the PolyVac- Play (and win) the Sci Fighter game at the PolyVac
A Matter of Fact
Hawking starts
Make Stephen Hawking Heave Antimatter into the Black Hole- 4hrs, Earns 33
, 45xp
Judgement Day Pt. 2
Homer starts
Collect Antimatter- 1,500
Make Alternate Homers Throw Antimatter into the Black Hole- x4. 4hrs, Earns 33, 45xp Each. (You cannot prestart this. The quest for the Alternate Homers will only appear once you’ve triggered Judgement Day pt.2 )
Use the PolyVac to Fend Off Mecha Hawk
Judgement Day Pt. 3
Hawking starts
Collect Antimatter- 2,750
Use the PolyVac to Fend Off Mecha Hawk Yet Again
Judgement Day Pt. 4
Hawking starts
Collect Antimatter- 5,500
Use the PolyVac to Fend Off Mecha Hawk….AGAIN!
Judgement Day Pt. 5
Homer starts
Collect Antimatter- 8,250
Use the PolyVac to Defeat Mecha Hawk Once and For All
Judgement Day Pt. 6
Homer starts
Make Stephen Hawking Ponder a Solution- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Return to the Status Quo Pt. 1
Hawking starts
Make Alternate Cool Homer Line Up at the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate King Size Homer Line Up at the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate Barbarian Homer Line Up at the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate Strongman Homer Line Up at the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Evil Homer Line Up at the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Return to the Status Quo Pt. 2
Hawking starts
Make Alternate Cool Homer March Towards the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate King Size Homer March Towards the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate Barbarian Homer March Towards the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate Strongman Homer March Towards the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Evil Homer Sneak Away- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Return to the Status Quo Pt. 3
Hawking starts
Make Alternate Cool Homer Jump into the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate King Size Jump into the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate Barbarian Homer Jump into the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Alternate Strongman Homer Jump into the Black Hole- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Make Evil Homer Obtain an Electric Shaver- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Return to the Status Quo Pt. 4
Homer starts
Make One of the Identical Homers Fall in the Wormhole- 8hrs, Earns $550, 140xp (this is animated, and hilarious)
And there you have it my friends…the exciting conclusion of the Sci-Fi Event! Now you heard the man…BACK TO WORK!!!! 😉
What are your thoughts on Act 3? Happy it’s short? Ready for what’s next? Excited for any of the Act 3 prizes in your Springfield? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
This will be tricky. Judgment day 6 + return to status quo will be 40 hours to get evil homer. But it will also mean I lose almost two days of earning event currency for bonuts. Hmm.
Otoh it may be sufficient to start return 1 just minutes before the event ends.
Hmmm
Can almost count on a required store update to remove the event, so you may have time.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of EA doing an end-around the bonuts system by making us choose between the storyline and maximizing bonuts. I hope this isn’t a trend.
What the heck???
Lady bot no longer earns event currency when you get to Status Quo Pt. 1?
Nope, she just goes about her tasks lookin’ pretty 😂 I know, I was hoping she’d earn until the event was over too.
I am not going to complain with the end of act III and how EA is doing away with bonut harvesting, but if I buy a premium character that is supposed to earn event currency, then it should earn until the end of the event.
Matthew, are you telling me I won’t be able to farm KEM’s any more? Dang, I guess it’s back to panhandling for iTunes cards again, it was fun while it lasted 😁
No, I did not say that. Just won’t be able to get bonus at the end of an event.
Whew, you scared me for a moment. I’ve been enjoying the ability to buy premium items I was never able to afford before. I wouldn’t have been able to get even half of what I bought this event, even with the cash out of pocket I still spent😊
Spending money on donuts? Reach for me on twitter… @Morty
Thank you for the help Morty, but I have no social media accounts other than this one 😊
Return to status Quo Part 3 is only 4hrs. Yeah!
Does return to the status quo pt. 4 require Homer? I see the payout looks to be for two characters.
Yes.
Thanks. Now I can plan ahead for a relatively tap-free weekend. 🙂
Ugh – after two years, you’d think I’d know better than to do anything in the game before advancing the questline (or checking this post) to see what’s next! I played the mini-gabe as soon as I got into my game this morning, so as to restart its clock as soon as possible, not realizing that I needed to do that for the questline, once I had Homer free. So, now I’m four hours further behind than I needed to be. 🙁
On the other hand, the burning buildings are fun… Who knew you could step into the burning rubble of a Kwik-E-Mart to still get an Itchy and Scratchy lottery ticket? 😉
Did I miss buying evil Homer?
He’s not for sale. He’s an NPC that comes free at the very end of this questline
Sooo, if you haven’t Finished part 4 / started part 5 yet and you will be getting a Maggie search in the near future, get Maggie first. She’s a might bit difficult to find on a burning roof.
(hopefully she has her flame resistant nighty on.)
I think the flames will go away while you play the Maggie search minigame.
They do not.
Nope, they don’t…I posted a picture on another thread of my rescuing Maggie from a burning building.
Do the robots keep appearing until the end of the event? Will we be able to do scifighter throughout? I’d like to complete demos for all the craft able buildings and I need another 1500 robot parts or so.
Yes. The only thing you can’t do once the questline is over is send the Homer’s on their tasks.
so is it a good idea to not complete the final part till the last day, enabling you to carry on earning for bonuts. Just a thought
No.
Once you defeat the Mecha Hawk and unlock the last prize your Homer’s lose the ability to earn Anti Matter. No matter what. And odds are, unless you lose at the sci fighter game every time, you’ll have this happen automatically.
Actually, this is not entirely accurate. I’m at Judgment Day Pt. 6, I have earned the Mecha Hawk, and I can still send the Homers get Anti Matter. The problem is I have already sent Hawking to Ponder a Solution, and I fear the Homers won’t get any Anti Matter after Hawking is done with this task. I should not have sent Hawking do this. I suggest others avoid this until close to the end of the event to earn more bonuts.
My only caution with that is…you may run the risk of not getting Evil Homer if you don’t trigger that questline.
OK Thanks Alissa. Homer hanging on for grim death right now. Love the trousers. Got to say you and the team do a great job
As a PP mentioned, I have MechaHawk & am still able to send AlternaHomers (& Hawking; not sure if LadyBot’s still there) to huck antimatter. I, however, have NOT sent Hawking to ‘ponder a solution’ yet.
It appears it’ll take 40hrs to complete the rest of the questline to earn the “Evil Homer” NPC (*ahem* Dastardly! This is NOT Evil Homer! He should be named Dastardly Homer or something along those lines! *rofl*).
As there are still 4 days left to the Event, I figure it couldn’t hurt to delay beginning the ending (…?!) by 24-48hrs, thus increasing my chances of bonuts. Yes, there IS a small risk that I’ll muck it up & not get…the NPC Homer in the end, but it is a risk I, personally, am willing to make at this time.
Finished the Mooch Bart quest yesterday, the Chester Lampwick quest this morning, & I think President Lisa’s will be done by the end of the day.
BRING ON THE BONUTS!!! 😀😆😉
Wow, I must not have read something right. I thought when you hit max level on the printer you could change future bucks for robot parts. Just found out its the other way around. So I got 15,000 useless future bucks and might not get the two crafting items I wanted the most
Ugh, really? That’s what I thought too. We’re earning future bucks, which are difficult to use regularly, while spending robot parts all over the place. This was super ill thought out.
I’m in the same boat, now I’m bummed out.
Yeah future bucks are the most pointless idea ever in the game.
I spent my robot parts on crafting the items I want, since spending robot parts on crafting also advances the crafting level. I’m not quite to the top level yet, but I’ve finished demoing almost all the items I want to craft, so I can only craft them using future bucks anyway.
Surprise there is fire in Springfield.
Yeah, what the heck! I’m assuming it won’t ruin my town since I JUST used the polyvac right before the fires started….
Got the first two prizes for Act three, put both in inventory. Wish we could have gotten Future Marge or something like that. Will see how the last prize is. Looking forward to some down time.
The last prize is rather blah as well – it’s just the Mecha Hawk you see in Act 3’s SciFighter battles, floating around your town as a NPC. :-\
Might have been more interesting if they’d made it a skin for Hawking instead. Oh well.
Morning Tappers.
Hey, Alissa! And Bunny!, since this request is calendar related. Anywho, I was wondering how difficult or time consuming it would be to add completing the quest line to the calendar, or to this or another post. Since it looks like it’s a squeeze to complete the line, it would be helpful to have a ruler against which we could measure our progress in finishing it by the end of the event. Just asking. Thanks.
It’s hard to judge the questline, because it depends on how many characters you have/what you’re doing to earn anti matter. I can tell you I’ll likely have the last prize tomorrow and start the final part of the questline then. Others may not have it until Saturday…so it’s hard to line it up.
Looking at this Turbo Tappin’ post though, and some of the comments, the time frame needed to complete the quest line is tight. Oh well…make me do math, dern you!
lol it’s so hard because everyone’s going to be at different places…
I’m ambivalent about the Sci-Fi event. Bart in the mech-suit, some of the more funky looking buildings and moments of the dialogue have made it interesting; however, like too many of the recent events, it gets samey after Act 1 and a lot of the crafting/prizes aren’t things I’d choose to add to my town. It is only the fact that I am a completist that makes me want to continue.
However, the best thing about the Sci-Fi event is that when it ends we get the HALLOWEEN event.
Best EVENT ever 🎃
From your fingers to EA’s eyes…
Let’s hope they have some fun new stuff in store for Halloween!
I have high hopes for the Halloween event – my yellow fingers are crossed!
Amen to that…
Lots and lots of new stuff….
And Boobarella’s return.
plEAse?
Mmmmmmm….boobs.
Why did you just sound like homer?
😳😂
For me the holiday events like Halloween are the events where I get the most amount of things I end up putting in storage. For the simple fact that they are seasonal. It feels odd having Halloween stuff in my town during winter or summer. Maybe I’m weird but I liked most of the items we got in this event and will be keeping them up all year long.
Steven, I understand your point about the more generic items having more relevance across the year; however, I personally like Halloween, thus the things for that event always appeal to me.
One thing I do feel strongly about – and it ties in with your comment – is that we should be able to save different versions of our towns. This option would allow you to re-design your town, based on the season, and save it. You could then change your town and revert back to previous designs as and when you wanted to. At the moment, ‘nuking’ the town is a daunting process and, imho, most people avoid it because it is all or nothing!
I wish EA would add a save function.
I’m hoping the Halloween event has some neighbor interaction. I like when I can help out my neighbors and know which ones are reciprocating visits. You also have an advantage when you have more than one town. Are you listening EA?
Can someone tell me what the “Anomoly” is? I need to tap it in my neighbors town for the Daily challenge. Thanx kids 😊
http://tstoaddicts.com/2016/08/18/sci-fi-springfield-101-act-1-neighbor-visits/
Sandy, love your Emily avatar – superb film and one of my favourites.
Thanx!!! Its that time of year again!!! 🎃👻🎃👻🎃 one of the best tim burton flicks!!!
Agreed on both points. Halloween is my favourite holiday and Corpse Bride is brilliant.
I have fended off Mechanical Hawk lots of times but it’s not triggering the script. It’s stuck on that task. Anyone with the same issue? Is there a secret trick?
It’s not enough to just beat him you have to win the scifighter game in the process
I have had to tap DO IT in the task list to get it to register a win.
See I don’t have to do that in my game…very odd.
I haven’t had to do that in the earlier acts, but this time, it’s the only way it sees it is done.
Thanks – doing that via the task prompt instead of just playing the game got me through. Far out, so often the process you have to follow to get something triggered is more challenging than the game itself.
This game is getting so lame. I have $21,000,000 in cash now and nothing to spend it on except land. The only thing I’m playing for is free donuts but even that’s getting kinda ho-hum….but I CAN’T STOP PLAYING. I think I have a problem…
Are you an…….ADDICT?
Any body remember the episode on Star Trek TNG where the crew gets addicted to a mobile game played on a tablet (Season 5 Episode 6)? I wonder if it was TSTO.
I thought that game was played via a headset, not a tablet…unless I’m thinking if a different episode…. But, yes – I’ve thought about the addiction similarity before, lol!
You may be right. It may have been on a headset.
https://imgur.com/a/8ppEl
The sooner this sci-fi is over the better, its so boring and who on earth came up with this idea? I mean Stephen Hawking really, scraping the bottom of the barrel if you ask me! There are so many more characters that are regular or semi-regular that have not been added yet. I dread to think whos next, Rupert Murdoch and Fox probably!!
Wow, this event is same-o, same-o
I am happy it is only one week
Hi! Dont understand how to ” Use the PolyVac to Fend Off Mecha Hawk”. Thanks for helping!!!
Just do the mini game. He will show up. Tap him ten times fast when you see him.
i’m at judgement day pt 4 got to collect 5500 antimatter to move on.
never saw a mecha hawk but did get a notice thet he lost one arm :). is this a glitch or am i missing something?
Part of the game design…
So then… what about the Evil Homer it shows in the ‘Interdimensional Travelers’ character collection??
It’s too bad that we can’t keep the alternate Homers or at least the skins if we don’t already have them.
Wow, that’s a lot of 8 hour tasks! I’ve got Bart on task riding around in the robot right now, and it’s so cool!
Most of the 8 hour tasks run simultaneously i.e. the alternative Homers.
Oh, I thought you had to complete one set of 8 hour tasks, finish, then start the next which would take a full day as I counted three of them.
You’re correct, LynnZ – it’s the entire collection of AlterHomers doing an 8hr task, and the do an 8hr task 3 separate times (taking just over 24hrs if you were able to tap exactly the moment each is completed). 🙂
I have sooo many future bucks and I can’t use them because I need robot parts to unlock the items first. I’m on level 19 but now I don’t know if I’ll have time to craft all the buildings on time. It’s also hard to find robots now.
All you literally have to do to get the robot parts is click on the PolyVac every 4 hours. It instantly clears out ALL the robots in the town AND the “bank”. Thus 80 parts every 4 hours/time you play the mini-game. It’s been like this for the entire event.
I do that 4 times a day and 1800 away from Homers future house. Haven’t crafted hardly anything because they are so stingy with robot parts and I have 17k future bucks that will be worthless because event will be over and never enough robot parts to unlock all the craftables. They really are stupid sometimes
Hi there! Did you know that using those robot parts to craft items counts towards your upgrade level on the 3D printer? Just craft items and how ever many robo parts it took to craft that item, will count towards the upgrade for the 3D printer
kiwivillan, how are you 1800 away from Homer’s house if you haven’t unlocked all the craftables? It’s the second to last craftable to unlock. It’s late, maybe I’m too sleepy to be reading. Lol. But when you craft, those parts go towards leveling up. How did you get so far without crafting anything? I’ve crafted nearly all the demos. But at least one of everything, since it levels you up as you craft. I hope you’re not spending robot parts just to level up. 😕 if you are, stop! Craft things. It works the same way towards unlocking everything.
Oh well too late. I only upgraded to unlock levels :’-(
I think they mean they have not completed all the demos required to purchase the items with future bucks. I have a similar problem, and there are only so many vacation to Venus billboards one town needs, but I chase over 17000 future bucks as well.
Darn it! I’m sorry. I would have been doing the same thing if i hadn’t read the crafting post here. Since that is how EA usually does it. Bummer. 😕
I was lucky and only wasted 40 robot partson level upgrading. Regardless, I also have 18k in future bucks but I have hardly completed all the demos.
I am 430 robot parts into Homer’s house. I wish I coukd trade future bucks for robot parts, not the other way around.
If you press the PolyVac you lose any robots remaining in your town. You lose out on any robot parts. You only get 5 parts for each category. You should really try to get all the robots walking in your town before you press the PolyVac.
Not true… the polyvac just does the collecting for you. I get the currency and robot parts for 80 robots every time I do the Sci Fighter.
Incorrect. You get 1 Robot Part per Robot manually tapped. Not 5. Thus the payout of 80 Robot Parts when you start the mini-game is the same payout with a lot less time and effort looking for and tapping the robots. I even double checked this by finding and tapping a robot in my town just now before clearing using the PolyVac.
Dissapointed in the lack of Supreme Court Justice Bart. Can’t believe they left him out.
Also: I would love the chance to get Futurama characters back again…
Now that we have Mooch Bart, I hope we get Supreme Court Justice Bart as a skin for him. He can have all of Bart’s adult roles … but tbh, it looks like The Simpsons are trying to standardize the ‘canon’ future now which includes Bart marrying Jenda, Lisa+Milhouse+her bratty daughter, Homer and Marge getting divorced before he goes underwater, etc. All future episodes seem to follow this storyline now, which sucks because … well, its an awful storyline. I want them to go back to every future episode being completely different.
WE NEED BENDER!!!!
Somethings wonky in my game. Nothing kicked off, yes everyone was free. Hawking never had a quest at all. When my four hours were up, I had 2 robots in total instead of 80.
Help?
Did you finish the Act 2 questline?
Yes, finished questline.
I’d try contacting EA then…
Okay, I’ll contact them. What’s odd is after 4 hours I had 2 robots…somethings off. I was locked out for quite a few hours but I see I’m not the only one…once I was able to log back in things went wonky.
Looking over this, is there going to be enough time to complete the quest line? Since it basically doesn’t move forward until you unlock all of the prize track and you need 40 hours after that. I can see how it will be really tight for some folks.
It is doable…just tight
So, now I’m thinking that I can’t go to bed until I can make up for screwing up when I jumped the gun and sent the alternate Homers to plunder, before I triggered the questline. It’s already after midnight and I’m giving a big(ish) presentation tomorrow…I need sleep! Ugh. 🙁
I did the same thing. I sent them to plunder, to make sure to get that out of the way. Then I see what they want me to do, and I’m all “d’oh”!! Hope you got some sleep!
Definitely not enough (I did stay up to tap and then I had trouble falling asleep anyway…nervous about a presentation I had to do today, I think…), but I’m more hopeful for tonight! 🙂
not gonna lie, i don’t care about ANY of the prizes in Act 3. Maybe Bart’s robot at most. I don’t mind skipping out on this last bit tbh.
I’m glad you do the walk throughs, it helps me a lot since I tend to jump the gun and send the wrong people on tasks when I’ll need them 😂
Thank you! 😊
lol anything for you 🙂
At least we get to use the alternate timeline Homers to get all the act 3 prizes before we send them back. 🙂
I wonder why Act III is so short. Are they planning something else in those 2 weeks? hmmm….
As i said during Addicts live…my guess is next Wednesday we’ll see an episode tie-in for the Season Premiere and then the following week we may see the start of Halloween..or we may just get a little break lol
Ahhh… I didn’t see your Addicts Live segment. So, maybe some big happenings are on the horizon. Sounds good to me! Thanks, Alissa. 🙂
Its any way to see your addicts live on demand? Hehehe 😏
lol well you can watch what we recorded…but if you want to just watch me live ala truman show, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be that entertaining lol
I know it won’t be the same thing 🙁 , sometimes it can be hard with home-schedule , but I promise, I will watch at least one live show 🙂
Made me laugh Alissa. Imagine, EA giving us a break, that means a break from them earning money from our donut purchases also in their minds.
If I don’t complete status quo at all would I keep the alternate Homers
No. When the event ends they’ll disappear. And there’s a chance you may not get Evil Homer if you don’t finish out the questline
Too bad