Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
As I predicted yesterday, the Thanksgiving mini update has arrived!
Note: If you have not yet downloaded the Halloween Removal Update from the App Store (which arrived yesterday), you will need to do that before you can see the Thanksgiving event…
Things get started in Springfield with some Auto-Dialogue from Brockman followed by a series of tasks (6s) to get things going. Task order is Homer; Cletus (and Homer); Flanders, Cletus & Apu…this will then kick things off for you.
I‘ll be back with more in a bit…BUT you will be awarded a bunch of tress for free to set the stage for the Hunt, after you’ve completed the initial series of 6s tasks…. (It does not appear that you’ll need to place these to move on.)
More details below…
Event Ends November 30th. Which likely means we’ll see Christmas December 1st…of course they can still wait till the following week as well. Just my speculation…
So as I mentioned above you’ll need to complete a series of 6 second tasks in order to get the event started. But once started you’ll launch the event questline, and the new items in the store.
This event is laid out like the previous mini events we’ve seen over the last year + (Most recently Springfield Games and the 2016 Season Premiere Tie-In). Where you follow a series of tasks to unlock prizes. The prizes could be items, they could be cahracters or they could just be animated tasks for existing characters. We’ll cover the rundown of how you unlock each prize in the Turbo Tappin’ Post. First, let’s get started with the new items that appear in the store…
Let’s start with the new items in the store…
Maple Tree- $675
Willow Tree- $4,500
Ancient Ornamental Pond- $2,500
Springfield Hunting Supplies- 135 Donuts. Comes with Grant Connor, and will help you earn pelts (the material need to unlock the prizes) faster. Yes, a should I Buy is coming…
Improvised Snare- 60 Donuts. Offers a 2.5% bonus on all cash and XP. Also produces pelts. And yes, a Should I Buy is coming…
Also, as mentioned above, you’ll get a tree bundle (25 Trees, including 1 Willow and 1 Maple Tree) for free before you trigger the Most Dangerous Game Questline.
Returning Items at a Discount..well a rebate
Bear Cave- 100 Donuts, with a 50 donut Rebate. So Net 50 Donuts. Offers a .75% bonus on all cash and XP Should I Buy (Not actually covered in snow. The file image I have is from last Christmas, showing the snow)
Hot Springs- 45 Donuts, with a 15 Donut Rebate. So Net 30 Donuts. Offers a 2.25% bonus on all cash and XP. Should I Buy
Fever Cabin- 30 Donuts, with a 10 Donut Rebate. So Net 20 Donuts. Offers a .25% bonus on all cash and XP. Should I Buy
Springfield Falls- 90 Donuts, with a 30 Donut Rebate. So Net 60 Donuts. Should I Buy
Wild West Film Set & Buck McCoy- 150 Donuts, with a 50 Donut Rebate. So net 100 Donuts. Should I Buy (And yes, 100 donuts for character/building combo is usually a buy in my book) This will not appear until AFTER you’ve completed The Most Dangerous Game Pt. 2, Buck McCoy returns to the store. You can purchase him to help with the 
earning.
So before you ask….
Yes, it does appear that there will be Black Friday Deals. Black Friday starts Friday November 25th (the day after the US Thanksgiving). It also appears that there will be a special new item offered for Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday is the Monday after Thanksgiving in the US, so Monday November 28th. Which means you can review the offerings for both days BEFORE this event ends. Which will allow you to make a premium decision on the new items…without worrying you’ll miss something.
Now let’s talk about the prizes…. (and again I’ll have the breakdown on how to get each one in the Turbo Tappin’ post, which will be up later today)
Camping Tent- Awarded at 60
Crappy RV- Awarded at 90
Wildlife Sanctuary- 190
BBQ Pig- 120
At this point you’ll unlock the two mystery animations. I won’t reveal them yet. But I’ll let you know how many are needed for each…
Animation- 230
Animation- 250
How do I earn ?
Much like every other mini event you’ll earn the (event currency) by completing character tasks via the prizetrack/questline. (the key characters are Homer, Apu, Lisa, Moe, Flanders & Cletus. Some others will join and leave, but those are the main ones to be sure and keep free) However with this event, once you’ve completed the Most Dangerous Game Pt. 2 you’ll also be able to earn by tapping Wild Animals you may find in Springfield..
And that’s it my friends! Once you’ve completed the questline, as has been the theme with various other events, there will be a little game to play where you can earn Cash, XP or the chance for Pharmaceuticals (for SH) up to 3 times/day. I’ll cover that in the Turbo Tappin’ post. For now you’ve got all of the details you’ll need to move through the event.
Remember the event ends on November 30th (2 weeks).
What are your thoughts on the Thanksgiving/Hunting event? Thoughts on the prizes? Plans to create a hunting ground? Or a camp ground? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
Doh. Buck McCoy is the first time I’ve been burned by a donut rebate that I had previously purchased at full price. Can’t complain too much given how much I’ve saved on the other deals they offered.
Bought the snare: Animation alone is totally worth it.
I wasn’t offered Buck McCoy (just as well, since I have zero interest in him) but was offered the Fever Cabin instead.
also not offered buck…. is he further in the questline? (not offered the cabin on my end)
Guys…read the post. Please 🙂
It says…”AFTER you’ve completed The Most Dangerous Game Pt. 4, Buck McCoy returns to the store.” Right above Buck McCoy’s image and info in my post…
and now i see the note of him returning at part 4… would help if i fully read things the first time.
Ancient Ornamental Pond and Springfield Falls are also offered in the store
Do you mean Ancient Ornamental Falls are in your store now or after completing Part 4?
I don’t know but the Ancient Ornamental Pond is just in my store. Lol😊
Please elaborate Alissa. I think it is just in the store from the beginning of triggering the event (prizes pop up)
Interesting… I had left my characters finishing off the tasks needed for one last “borrowed time” round of Halloween bonuts this morning, and when I saw your post I figured that just blew that round away, since I’d need to do the Halloween removal update to get back into the game — but surprisingly, that was not the case. The game opened normally and let me collect my last round, after which I happily updated to get into the Thanksgiving event. I don’t know if that was an accident or an intentional flexing of the usual “rules” of the game… but I like it, either way. 🙂
I have lost my ability to buy donuts. The buy donuts link just sends me to “buy currency with donuts” page. Anyone else get this. Thoughts?
Try hard closing and restarting. If that doesn’t work try and uninstall/reinstall.
I had that happen and it was a bad password in Google (updated on-line but not on my tablet).
well crap. i sent everyone on a 24hr task because i figured they’d give us an extra day to recover. but nooooooo.
What does the Dresden refer to?
Jim Butcher novel series about a Private Investigator wizard in Chicago. really good series to read.
Reeeaaalllyyy Good Series!! Wish he was writing more, but they are few and far between lately. His forays into fantasy worlds are never as good, but he seems to prefer writing them.
Grant Connor’s payout in event currency (pelts this time) is only 8 every 3 hours. Regular freemium characters pay out 5. So it’s not double the rate for a premium character this time. The snare trap pays out only 5 every 3 hours. Seems a bit stingy; I’m used to premium characters paying out double in ecent currency.
Yeah, the premium trick or treating kids didn’t even 1.5x in event currency, nevermind double.
Although different, it does make sense for premium to earn 8 vs freemium 5, as it’s 1.5x the regular rate.
I’m just still trying to understand why my plum trees were completely without leaves when Halloween started, but quickly reverted back to lush, green, fruit-laden trees…lol
Springfield Falls is also offered for a 30 donut rebate.
Can you send me a Screenshot? TSTOAddictsblog@gmail.com
Sent
Thanks for sending that to Alissa, I would not have been able to because I bought it as soon as I saw it.
Offered to me as well. Alissa, which is the best way to send you a screen shot?
Ugh, I told myself I wasn’t going to spend any donuts til Christmas and then I see Springfield Falls back in the store. I’ve been waiting for this to come back for a while since my town doesn’t have many nature decorations. The donut rebate made it a no brainer.
There are 3 new characters
1 A robotic turkey in Robots
2 A mutant turkey in Mutants
3 The guy that comes with Hunting Supplies store in Sporty Tough Guys
Glad to see the Thanksgiving event. Looks like fun content.
I’m pretty sure some old item was rebranded as premium with a bonus percentage, because I think my bonus went up a bit with the update. Nothing showed up in the store (like the windmill last week) so I don’t know what it was. If there actually was such a change hopefully somebody can figure it out and let everybody know so people can take it out of storage.
“Apu’s apocalypse jeep” now has a 2.25% bonus $ and XP.
Thanks! Hopefully everyone sees this and takes it out of storage if they have it.
Awesome update, got cool character and item from season 1. 🙂
At least all the startup tasks were 6s! Now for Bigclaw…
That’s a great change EA made to the mini events.
They’ve been doing that a lot lately, and I like it, too. 🙂
After the rebate, the hot springs has an even better bonus percentage value (2.25% for net 30 donuts) than the jet engine bike! Unfortunately, though, it appears you can only buy one.
I bought the snare just for the animation.
(there’s something wrong with me liking to do bad things to bunnies)
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!! Does it have a bunny fling animation? I sooo will buy that if it does.
It’s a freaking bunny launcher !!!!!!!! BUY BUY BUY !!!!
Shut up and take my donuts EA!! Just got it and I am laughing my butt off! Thanks Matthew 🙂
First event I have ever passed on, but afraid hunting is a big NO-NO for me. See you for the Christmas event.
But you were ok to squash rat/bird/cow things from the Halloween task?
There was no theme of hunting, collecting pelts or such in the Halloween event, if there was I would have passed on that event also. It’s the hunting theme and ited we are collecting that is the issue for me. For others I’m sure it doesn’t bother them, everyone has and is entitled to their own views and choices and I’m fine with that.
The nice thing is no animals were harmed in the making of this TSTO Event. 🙂 And everyone is allowed to do as they please…play and event or not.
Lol, and they only had to go give a prize I would love in this, an Animal Sanctuary. EA are toying with me… 😀
like i said..the good news is no animals will actually be hurt. So if there’s something you like you mine as well go for it. Who knows you may end up enjoying the dialogue 😉
SOOOOOO very excited about this update!! Our family loves camping!!!! And looking at the prizes I am thrilled to see a camper and tent and all this really cool stuff!! YAY!!! So very happy to have a section of my Springfield devoted to this!! SO AWESOME!!
I want more of those fall trees!! Gimme!! Also I hope one of those mystery prizes at the end is a giant turkey (not the one in the cage).
The are available for in-game cash after you finish the initial quest line.
Okay, I want to be able to buy turkeys, deer, a canoe and rowboat (or two) that can go on Water, a blind, maybe an automatic turkey feeder, tents (again), single story outhouse (although re-offering the two story would be okay too) and I could go on but I’ll let others chime in.
I just hope EA doesn’t do acts again for Christmas. Please do something different
I am really hoping for an advent calendar type event with different things each day, but I suspect we will get acts.
yes, like the tasks for Stonecutter’s. Loved those!
I will take the acts over the pinwheel of screwing you from a few years ago. But something different would be nice
yes something different. I didn’t mind the wheel as I got everything. But if I didn’t then yes I would hate the wheel 😉
When you get to the part in the quest when Flanders, Cletus & Apu are assigned tasks to complete, you don’t actually need all three to be free and complete the assigned task. I was waiting for Flanders and Cletus to finish their Monorail tasks but then I found out I could just send Apu to do his assigned task three times.
I did not get an update yet. I have an IPhone.
Anyone else???
Did you download the Halloween Removal from the App Store yesterday?
Try to force installing updates (bottom right icon in AppStore) this solved my issue on iphone
Do I have to place the trees to do this event? I’ve gone through the upfront tasks and am up to the part where I have to start sending characters to correct whatever this event’s currency is (sorry…half asleep when I did the first part). Just netted to get all my characters going on their first tasks of the day and trying to figure out whether I can just send Homer, Ned, etc. on their hunt now, or whether I first have to deal with placing trees somewhere.
I was able to progress without them. I think they’re just for fun..
Must get one more round of bonuts!
Same… I’m a mere 90 away from my last bonus round… please don’t force the update, EA!
CAUTION – AT LEAST FOR ME, THE CONFIRM DONUT SPENT CHANGED FROM YES TO NO. You may want to check yours.
I am going to fill my rail yard supplies before I start. So, at this point only Homer is working to obtain pelts.
This has happened to me multiple times now. My game update and/or crashes and it turns off the donut confirm button. I accidentally bought a dog race last time. I contacted ea and they gave me 15 donuts but I don’t think they really understood the issue. They just told me to turn the button on which really wasn’t the problem. Oh well
GREATEST UPDATE EVER!!!
I’ve been pushing for a hunting update forever now and I’m so excited. I will be spending money for donuts on This update for sure. Thank you EA
Heh heh, this one’s gonna be divisive.
There are also some rebate items in the store for me. Bear Cave 100 donuts (.75% bonus) with a 50 donut rebate, Fever Cabin 30 donuts (.25% bonus) 10 donut rebate, Hot Springs 45 donuts (2.25%) with 15 donuts back, and Springfield Falls 90 donuts (1.5%) with 30 donut rebate.
%$#@!
So much for the downtime
It’s pretty typical. Thanksgiving is in just about a week from now…
The event schedule is getting too typical !!!
Hey EA, don’t make me go Angry Dad !!
Ugh! Tell me about it, last night I just sent Homer on a very long job to do the donut torture device task. Thank God I could store it to clear Homer for this event. Loving the mini event despite the no event downtime though.