IMPORTANT: DO NOT HARD CLOSE YOUR GAME (meaning shut down the app)! Hard closing impacts the Monster Timer…hopefully EA fixes this soon…
Note: ALL of the Halloween Event Posts Can Be Found On the Halloween Event Page Here.
NOTICE #2– this one from Patric–
There is a patch coming from a mini-update that will return your XP % Back to Pre-Glitch levels. Close and restart, if you haven’t seen it. Post here.
Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
I get it…a lot of you are angry. Your frustrated. Your game isn’t working right. You feel cheated. You’re mad as hell and you’re not going to take it anymore. I get it, I really do. I’m angry too. I even wore my Angry socks today…
Hopefully that at least made you crack a smile..or even a little laugh…(and yes, those are the socks I’m wearing today…those are indeed my feet lol)
Issues/Bugs/Glitches/Problems/Lack of Game to download….are not new issues for this game. And if you’ve been playing as long as I (or Wookiee, or Bunny, Or Patric) have, you’ll know we see them all the time. And well..
They suck.
It sucks when it happens. We hate when y’all are impacted by them…even more we hate when we’re impacted by them. (Wookiee’s currently experiencing one of his own…again)
So let’s compile a list of all the issues and tackle some of your burning (get it..because of the angry socks hahaha) questions and see if we can put our colletive minds at ease. (as well as hold EA’s feet to the fire to fix some of these bugs…)
Included in this post are…
-Game Lockout (your ID/Password doesn’t work)
-Missing Acorn Kirk
-Monster Timer Issue
-Downloaded the update, don’t see any changes
-Missing from Kindle markets
-Spawn rates
-Neighbor actions
And more!
I’m Locked Out Of My Game! My Password and User ID Keep Coming Up As Invalid! What the heck?!
So this is something that happened a couple of weeks ago as well….this time it doesn’t seem to be as widespread, but it is impacting our very own Wookiee. We first covered this last month in this post. At the moment, if this is happening to you the only thing I can tell you to do is contact EA. They need to know who’s impacted so they can work to fix it. You can contact EA here:
I’ve Downloaded the Update from the App Store, but I’m Not seeing Anything! No dialogue, no changes..nothing. What do I do? All of my characters are free!
So we saw this one a few times last night and a couple more this morning. It sounds like something didn’t fully download for you. Thanks to a few readers who offered of this piece of advice to fix the issue:
Turn off your Wifi and then open Tapped Out. An in-app update will start downloading. Then exit Tapped Out, turned on your Wifi again, and it should be working
We’ve had many reports that this solved their issue…so if you’re experiencing this problem, give this method a try.
I Purchased the Pumpkin Mystery Box and I won Acorn Kirk, but I can’t find him anywhere! He’s not in my inventory and not in my game, what do I do?
Seeing this a few times too. First thing I’m going to tell you is to double check your ENTIRE inventory..not just the character icon. Look through the list that pops up when you first go into your inventory (don’t hit any icons) and see if you see it.
If it’s for sure not in your inventory…Contact EA. Let them know what happened and that it’s gone missing. I will tell you the first thing they’re going to tell you to do is uninstall/reinstall your game..just a heads up.
My Giant Monster Timer Is Broken! It Keeps Resetting back to Four hours and never Spawns a New Giant Monster!
It appears for many of you there’s a glitch where your Giant Monster Timer counts down for a period of time and then before it gets to 0 (and a Monster spawns) it resets back to four hours.
There is no quick fix for this..other than the usual Uninstall/resinstall (and remember when you do this, clear your cache first, then uninstall, then restart your device and then redownload TSTO). So beyond that my answer is…
Also, know that you’re not alone there are others experiencing the same issue…
Update: Addicts reader Shan has suggested this “I moved the MAG Office to a different location, without storing, and it seems to have fixed the monster timer glitch”
IMPORTANT: DO NOT HARD CLOSE YOUR GAME (meaning shut down the app)! Hard closing impacts the Monster Timer…hopefully EA fixes this soon…
I Still Don’t Have the Update In My App Store! I’m on Kindle…
So for whatever reason the update has not hit Kindle stores outside of the US. I know for sure it’s not in the UK, not sure about other countries. It has hit the Kindle markets in the US…so I don’t know what the hold up is.
I can tell you it was released to Amazon, but for whatever reason Amazon UK (and maybe others) are taking longer to approve it. I don’t know what…and I’m with you it’s absurd you don’t have it yet. All I can suggest doing is contacting Amazon and asking where it is. Let them know it’s hit the Amazon US market…so why don’t you have it yet?
Hideaway Bonus % Changed!
Yes, in a NOT COOL EA! move they changed the Bonus % with the Hideaway. (we wrote a whole post about it here) Some are reporting it’s a glitch, others saying it’s a permanent change.
Here’s what we know….the EA reps are all giving different stories. When you contact them, some will give you all of your donuts back. Others will give you 40 donuts back (which seems to be the common stance we’re seeing from most of you). And still some are saying they won’t do anything, the studio is working on it and it’ll be fixed eventually…
Come on guys…get your act together! At least have a consistent message about the change and making it right. Either give everyone that contacts you 40 donuts, all their donuts…or no donuts. Don’t have different reps give different amounts. It looks bad…and isn’t right.
And either it’s being fixed…or it’s not. But be honest with the players. Everyone feels cheated by this in some capacity or another…so step up, be honest and make it right in one way or another.
XP Requirement Changed After Level 939
Yes, we wrote a whole post about it here. Once you reach Level 939 the XP requirement jumped from 1 million to 10 million.
Honestly, that’s a fair game change by EA. So many players were taking advantage and bragging about how they had 10s of thousands of donuts from that…it only makes sense that they made the adjustment.
Does it stink? Sure. But it’s not something to feel swindled over. If this change makes you want to quit the game then you need to take a good hard look at why you started playing this game in the first place. Because likely you’ve become more obsessed with collecting donuts than actually playing the game…and at that point, maybe you should stop playing.
Remember…before the end of level updates hit it was a LOT harder to earn donuts via XP. And the counter changed every time you maxed it out. Yes, every time a new level hit it reset..but there were MONTHS (nearly a year) between levels….
Plus there are still loads of ways to earn free donuts in the game (Rail Yard, Daily Tasks, Where’s Maggie…Bonuts from the prize tracks after events). No other game gives away that much premium currency.
So I’m sorry, it’s hard (at least for me) to get upset over this issue.
And I’m fully aware that some of you will yell at me and call me an EA apologist over this. Go ahead….if it makes you feel better yell at me. But at the end of the day, it’s a game. They didn’t take away the donuts you already earned. So if you want to yell about your time wasted with XP…it wasn’t. You still have all the donuts you earned from the old way. It’s just a new way going forward….
And while we’re on the subject of game changes….
So this update brought a few changes to the game….
-The cost and your donut total are now visible when placing a premium item (it also shows your cash total and cash cost when placing a freemium item)
-The Number of items you have in storage is now visible when placing an item from storage
-The costume/skin icons for characters has changed. Now it shows their unlock/character set image instead of their idol image.
-Building prices for Googolplex, Prison Bus and more were lowered..
-And the XP requirement from Levels 60 and below were changed…lowered
-Also a VERY ANNOYING…sleep timer was added to the game if the game was left untouched for a period of time your screen goes off. On my device it seems that period of time is 30 seconds and it’s VERY ANNOYING!!!! (Seriously EA, change this back to how it was…)
Now let’s tackle the event itself….
Giant Monster Spawn Rates?
So here’s the deal…the Giant Monsters are supposed to spawn at a rate of 2 every 4hrs, for a max of 10 in your game at one time.
And they will continually spawn, even when you don’t see the timer. So if you leave your game for several hours (like I did) you’ll find multiples in your town and once you clear those you’ll see the timer was still running.
There is no bank on these, so 10 is the max allowed at once time. So they’ll max out in 20hrs…
We’ll have a post up breaking this down in more detail…
Feral Monster Spawn Rates?
So these guys have max of 40 in your town at once, with a bank of 40. (so 80 max) The files indicate that the spawn rate is every 20 minutes…now here’s what’s a little more confusing, the number that spawn every 20 minutes.
It appears to me, based on how i’m interpreting things that it’s NOT 1 every 20 minutes (and that’s based just on what i see in my game..these things are everywhere!). It looks like it’s a rate of 4/20 minutes that spawn. That’s how i’m interpreting what I see in the files…I could be wrong, but that’s how it looks to me.
Additional Character Tasks to Earn Currency…
Some characters from previous THOH Events can also earn Event Currency with 4hr tasks, to “Set Up Training Exercises”. These tasks earn 50 
every 4hrs. Here’s a list of who I have that can go..
-Booberella
-Suzanne the Witch
-Count Burns
-The Space Mutant
If you see anyone else that can, please let me know and I’ll add them to the list
How Do I Get More Characters To Trick-Or-Treat? Only Bart (and Squeaky Voiced Teen, if you have him) is currently Unlocked!
So Trick-Or-Treating is probably one of the favorite THOH Tasks for the kids in the game! Every year it’s a popular request…everyone loves it. And with this year’s game you can send the kids Trick-Or-Treating once again!
To unlock Trick-Or-Treating abilities you first must complete Monster Candy (which unlocks via the main questline, check out the Turbo Tappin’ post for more). Once you’ve done that you’ll unlock TWO Trick-Or-Treating tasks…for Bart and Squeaky Voiced Teen (if you have it).
In order to unlock MORE Trick-Or-Treating Tasks you must earn MAG points. Various MAG points collected will unlock MAG prizes…and a vast majority of those for Act 1 are…Trick-Or-Treating Tasks…
So How Do I Earn MAG Points?
You earn MAG points by crafting (and placing) items that award them, unlocking prizes and buying premium items. We’ll have a detailed post on MAG points as well…since it’s a lot to cover.
But for now the quickest way is to craft (and place) items. But make sure they say “Earn MAG Points for ___ amount, when Placed”
Like the Iron Wall Does..
How Do I Unlock Neighbor Actions? What Can I Tap In A Neighbors Town? Does Anything Benefit Me?
So neighbor actions unlock via the main questline and Where Wild Things Aren’t Questline (which triggers after Part 2 of Lost in la Monstra).
When visiting a neighbor you can tap on the Cameras on their buildings
3 Actions/town, and the payout is 5 /camera you tap.
There are a MAX of 90 actions/day (so 3/town for 30 towns). And this is evident if you tap the little i icon next to your film count. This popup will come up telling you how many actions you have left…
This was after I already tapped 2 buildings in a neighbor’s town…so 90 total actions available.
So what happens with those cameras? Well when you return to your town, you may see this…
They’re left by your neighbors..and clearing them will award you 1 for every one cleared.
So a benefit to your neighbor and a benefit to you…
Which makes neighbor actions worth it this go-round!
So I think that covers most of the major glitches/issues and questions! (at least I hope it does)
Remember, we’ll have more detailed posts breaking out a lot of different elements of this update…so take a deep breath and don’t panic. (and yes, we’ll have Should I Buy posts for the premium items…)
Do you have any of the glitches/bugs mentioned above? Were your burning questions answered? Enjoying the event so far? Anything your excited about seeing/getting? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
When some neighbors visit you get the hand holding picture yet we both have thoh and when you click on it you get no film. Not sure if anyone else is having this issue but I hadn’t seen a post about it.
It is not everybody that have upgade yet. Those one still show hand while those that have done the quest are showing camera
I know what you mean, the same thing happened to me, but once they completed the task “drop cameras in a neighbours town” then it worked and it showed as the camera film. It’s possible your neighbours are just behind in the task/s due to the update starting at different times for different devices.🌸🌟🐱
Feral Monster Spawn Rates – c’mon we had Zombies & Ghouls spawn faster in the past (just fix it EA, or release an update that works 100%!)
Neighboreenos – no point visiting until that Task pops up (let’s see how Alyssa / Bunny have calculated what Tappers need to earn daily!)
They come in batches of four…instead of every couple of minutes.
Does the foggy swamp come with the Iguana Lady? I’ve seen it in a few friend’s towns but it doesn’t show up in my game as an item to craft or buy. Not sure if I’m missing something.
Skin for Crazy Cat Lady
Thanks
The sleep timer for the screen is really annoying. I thought I had changed a setting on my phone and it was driving me crazy looking just for a fix. At least I know it was intentional. Now please switch it back, EA. Thanks. ☺️
HI 🙂
Would you make a post about the items that can be obtained through the mystery pumpkin (I keep forgetting the name) and if they are worth the try, individually? Thanks!
Yup it’s on my list
One other thing, bring Halloween back to the dark. I remember the year there were gremlins everywhere and yr town was so dark they were hard to see. The bad dream house was constantly light up. So much more atmosphere. It seems to get brighter every year. It took over an hour before I noticed the very subtle cloud shadows. I thought all they did was darken the water and color the trees.
So far I love it. The glitches were minor and expected. Not real excited about the returning crafting items but the new ones look very interesting.
Am a little upset with the increase in XP, more so at the timing of it. My justification in buying all 5 beach hideaways was that I’d farm Rat Trap trucks when Halloween hit. I had about $15 million with a 615% bonus. I thought about doing my farming Monday night but decided to wait until the event. Oops. I bought well over 40 trucks and got 3 doughnuts. Not only did I not have enough doughnuts, which I would have had if I didn’t get 4 extra hideaways I didn’t really want. So the (now fixed) bonus missing was like a double slap. Have no more use for in game cash, I went to buy the new strip of land. Didn’t have enough money, I just spent over $8 million on worthless rat traps. So for the first time in years I don’t have everything. Yet. Still about 30 doughnuts from the island. I swear if Gil shows up, yr condos and book store didn’t help the situation.
I did not read anywhere about the squidport tile change. The time has change on my next tile to buy so I think we might get them faster
I can only seem to get 2 characters attacking the giant worm monsters. How do I get more to attack please?
There’s another change I’ve not seen mentioned anywhere – the land tiles in Krustyland have dropped in price by about 50%.
Always. When is the uk getting the uodate
I have 3 trick or treaters to start, Teen, Bart and Milhouse.
The character that came with the Googleplex theatre lights up the Bad dream house,the wise guy and its his 12 hour task,check the plumbing.
Thanks!
This is not true! He does not light up the dream house, hes doesnt even go into it.
It’s true but he has to be closest to it. Same with the babysitter bandit for her 24 hour job. She’s not left the bad dream house in my town for many moons
I firgured it out last night, but thank you for your help! Who is the baby-sitter bandit?
As a character she’s from Season 1.I’m really not sure how I got her in the game, she might be listed under Lucille Botz
http://tstoaddicts.com/2016/07/28/totboxs-throwback-thursday-s1-e13-some-enchanted-evening/
http://tstoaddicts.com/2016/01/18/where-did-that-come-from-lucille-botzcowski/
This is getting beyond a joke still waiting here in uk nothing on Amazon could 24 to 48 hours in says in the forum please can anyone help !!!!😥😥😥😥😥
Nothin you can or anyone else can do, but they lack of info from Amazon is disgraceful.
I won’t give the game a bad review as its not their fault.
But I will put a very poor review the Kindle fire and Amazon’s support of it, on their own website in the hope that it puts some people off buying it.
I know lots of people already said that, but I think it’s good to report when a solution comes 🙂
The in game update gave me back my Beach Hideway %xp and fixed the timer on monster battles and as many others I got no characters to fight the monsters because their on jobs… ¬¬ I can wait for the half an hour tho
Sigh… I haven’t installed anything new since I upgraded to THoH, still there is no room for the patch. I’ve cleared cache and temporary files and I have checked if there were any apps that needed to be moved to the SD card (none). I guess I will have to uninstall even more to be able to continue playing, soon there will be nothing more than the OS and TSTO on my tablet if this trend continue.
EA, if you read this: You really need to do something about this. Please, it’s really annoying.
There is 1.2 gb free on my device, still I can’t download the patch. I bet that when I finally manage it will be about 5mb to download.
I seem to be experiencing the monster timing glitch. On an unrelated note….totally jumped the gun on crazy cat lady iguana skin with the foggy swamp. Thought for sure there would be a percentage boost on the swamp-NOPE. It’s ok I guess…I usually wait on the SIB…what was I thinking?!!
While the patch restoring the hideaway bonus was coming through, I was on the phone with EA complaining about the issue.
I asked them for 150 donuts back (75% of the cost of 5 hideaways to compensate for 75% of the once-lost bonus).
The EA rep told me they’d restored the bonus but were still refunding the purchase price of those hideaways. And just like that, I got 200 donuts back.
If you haven’t contacted EA yet, it may still be worth a try to get compensated for your half-day “loss” of the cash/XP bonus. 😀 Do eeeeet !!! And good luck!
BE CAREFUL WITH INVENTORY PLACEMENTS.
Not sure if it is an issue or a “feature”, but while putting out my old Spooky Houses from the last THOH, I knew I had 3 in my inventory. Curious about the impact on MAG points, I placed all three out. It then showed a fourth ready to be placed, which confused me to no end, but I clicked and it placed, but it placed a plot with a build timer.
TURNS OUT: it went from my inventory placement DIRECTLY to the crafting feature, with no seam in between or major notice. I spent 30 Obols on something I didn’t want another of by accident. So now I have to wait and grind some more to replace those Obols. Past THOH items that are available to craft AND in your inventory may do this. Just want to let you guys know to keep it from happening to anybody else!
(The new little number by the placement buttons may have switched from “in inventory” to “Obols” but I’m not sure. I didn’t honestly notice.)
Interesting. that happened to me as well with a KEM. I placed it in my inventory to release Bart and to place him on the TOT task. But when I went to return the KEM in my game, I noticed I had an additional mart to place and the same thing happened as well. It also went to game currency to place it as well. Not I have to sell it back because it’s messing up my zen.
I agree with Bunny, I love Halloween too, and this event is hitting all my buttons! Just wanted to drop a note to say it looks like Monster Fight thing has been fixed, and now I have four available whereas yesterday I had three, so woohoo! More film!
Do we have to refrain from collecting income from our buildings in order for our neighbors to have cameras to tap in our Springfields?
Or, by the power of the Simpsons IRS, can we just go wild and tap everything in our SFs without depriving our neighbors of opportunities to tap?
Nope..tap away
Thank you! 🙂
Just got my Beach Hideaway Bonus back! Plus, an EA rep gave me 150 donuts compensation so I got 100% bonus for 50 donuts! 😀
Are we supposed to be able to send more than one fighter to fight a monster? So far all I’ve gotten is the blue and yellow monster and it only allows me to send one person to each monster. I thought we were supposed to be able to send multiple fighters at once for prizes?
One at a time for now
Hideaway bonus% is back! Yeah
Do you you know who next to be unlocked for trick or treating after milhouse yet?
Martin is after Milhouse. 🙂
Martin is next.
Great stuff thanks peeps
YES! The bonus is back!!! I really was not expecting this. I guess those who received full refunds were the first ones to report and the advisors did not know that the issue will be fixed. I have to say, this is a pleasant surprise.
I contacted EA 3 hours ago, and without even asking they gave me a full refund.
I JUST got an in app update, looks like Monster timer was fixed… the FIGHT fist showed up on building and it let me in to choose my people to go (of course I put them on OTHER things because I was still ‘waiting’ for new monsters to spawn but things appear normal regarding the Monster Battles… I only can pick 2 battles though (yesterday I thought I had 4 battles?)
Yea. That’s what I’m confused on too? Only 2 battles today. Yesterday was 4 of 4. Now only shows 2 out of 2. Any ideas?? Positive note : glad they fixed the hideaway xp bonus. Thanks E.A.
I just downloaded an update, looks like I have my bonus % from the beach hideaways back.
I just had a in game update hopefully it sorts the issues out
Is anyone else having a problem finding the hell hounds (feral whatever) in their Springfield? I may get two or three of them around my Halloween area, at a time. My son gets them in droves. I wish, like the Sci-fi event, that you could push a button to take you to them like the robots did.
One of the issues is that they are jet black with little contrast. Even with turning off my buildings and decorations it’s hard to hunt them down. Thoughts?
And the hounds are short and don’t move much, makes them very difficult when they are parked near other items.
I just wait around where the MAG Office is located. All the monsters eventually converge towards that area. It doesn’t take too long… those suckers run pretty fast and then stop when they get to the front door,