Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Just a quick post about a couple of changes we made/issues we’re seeing from you guys in the comments….
First on the Osaka Flu
I’ve updated the post to correct my mistake about the payouts when you level up..Now that I’ve had this (leveling up) happen to me, and leveled up, I can tell you that when you level up you’ll add an additional Osaka Virus to your town. So you can end up with a total of 5 Osaka Viruses roaming your town…
Now on the Plane Ticket Timer..
Many of you are noting that your Timer isn’t working. You leave the game and it doesn’t continue to count down from the 20m mark. Instead it restarts at 20m when you go back into your game.
Of course you should contact EA with any bugs you’re experiencing in your game, you can contact them here.
But an Addicts Reader has posted a solution that’s worked for them (I also put this at the top of the Norbert post):
On kindle hard close kindle. Start again. Open tsto. Keep game open until first 20 min cycle completes. Stay in your Springfield. Keep it active . Do not visit krusty land. Do not visit neighbors. This fixed it permanently for me. Only have a Kindle to check it on though.
Although they state this works for Kindles, try it on other devices as well if you’re having a problem. See if that helps. If not, contact EA.
And finally on missing Cleatus…
A few of you are reporting you’ve stored him initially and he’s disappeared. I would remind you to check your entire inventory for him (not just the character section), as there are times when new characters (and items) aren’t categorized yet.
If you’ve checked your entire inventory and you still can’t find him than contact EA, you can contact them here.
And that’s it my friends. A few notes about issues we’re seeing!
I’ll be back in a bit with some more pressing Should I Buy posts…including the returning items that are leaving our games shortly…
I’ve hit a snag with the airport but not what has been reported so far. Kumiko (unpurchased) has the required destination to complete my third daily task. I overlooked the issue when my 4hr refresh was due and thought the required destination would appear after clearing the other characters.
How do I advance without buying her?
Oh and there’s now new things in the event store – sugarloaf mountain (100, 3.00% bonus), la belle frottage (185, vandalisable building with 4h $135 15xp), and wooden barrels (30, vanity).
Has anyone else noticed that donuts are now more expensive? (£)
I’m in the U.S. and the prices have not changed. Others have also commented on this and it has been suggested the difference is due to the value changes of the US $ against the £ & €.
Bonjour! On my master list of friends I can normally see how much event currency they have. Along with the calendar this is really useful for tracking my own pace. For this event everyone is still showing zero. Is this happening to anyone else?
And yeah, despite reading these plane ticket posts and comments I still can’t figure it out: what will be, will be!
Yes from the beginning of the event all my neighbors currency has been at zero & still is.
Same here.
Just sent a poor character to Mordor, New Zealand!
I think I have this timer thing figured out. Been working 3 games this morning, and trying different combos of sending people on planes, other tasks, and using up (or leaving) a ticket.
The timer is the timer. From what I can see, it’s always ticking away in the background in 20min chunks. When I’ve got 3 tix it doesn’t show, as soon as I use one it appears at whatever point in the 20m countdown its at.
And as long as at least one char is free, you can keep sending people on flights. As long as any chars are free, if you send one of the flight queue on a task — any task – you get a new queue of 5. But, once all your people are busy, the flight queue locks til the Norbert destination finishes.
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Good description. Mine seems to be the same. Still researching but it seems like as long as I log in roughly once an hour to manage flights I can maximize flights without wasting too much time logging in every 20 min
Yep, that’s the way to go. Been doing this since the start. I’m way ahead and should pick up the two characters (forget their names) sometime today.
No timer countdown this morning…5 flyers waiting at the airport and no tickets or 20 min countdowns…I wonder how EA “fixed things ” now ?
Maybe it would be best if the airport just generated 3 tickets each time a batch of flyers returned…3 flyers return, 3 tickets generated, 3 flyers go out…nah…probably too simple.
By the time I got back to the game, there were now 3 tickets at the airport…talk about speedy tech support! 😆
When the event started, I could send 5 people flying. Now I can send 3 and only 3. Is there a secret to making sure you have plenty of people to send on a trip? Or is this a glitch? The timer doesn’t matter, because I can only send three at a time anyway.
I found that Cleatus is the very last thing, at the bottom of my inventory. It may work….
**It also still works if you have one passenger left, you send him on a normal game task, then when you go back to the airport you will another 4-5 passengers waiting for their ticket.**
This is totally working for me right now! Good stuff!
Yep i figured this one out last night, keep ONE ticket at all times and you should be ok…… this one is a bit of a bugfest though lol
I have to say, after a poor late 2016 EA is really stepping up this new year. Last year we had mediocre sci-if event, a botched and somewhat lackluster Halloween event (with a short-lived and much hated 10m Xp bonus round) and a very controversial Holiday update; but so far the Homer the Heretic, Great Phatsby, Lunar New Year, and Around the World have all been very enjoyable. The Shelbyville premium item setup was somewhat unpopular and there were a few minor glitches recently, but so far it has all been quite great. Tons of great new content, very well done buildings and popular characters (Rabbi K, Jay G) fresh original themes, and I was even very impressed with the free, fully playable and very cool Fox NFL robot Cleatus. The Around the World event is very fun and unique and there is so much amazing content. I am very impressed and delighted and really enjoying the current event. It seems the developers have listened to the fans and players and really hit their stride.
Dare I say that EA has made TSTO Great Again?
After the last update my airport ticket timer has disappeared. I’ve tried all the suggested fixes and nothing works. Will have to report it to EA I guess. It was working fine up to that point.
I don’t know if this was already mentioned… You can locate where the Osaka flu is in your town by opening the flu tab and pressing the flu symbol under the map. As you level up, you will need to press on each of the flu symbols to locate each instance of it. Sometimes it’s on a tourist and sometimes it’s just floating, but it is an easy way to find it to see if you can get a payout!
Woohoo, finally got tourists in my town tonight for the first time since the event started! Was about to ask if they were a collectible in this event for something other than the Osaka flu.
Anyone find Robot cleatus after storing him? I checked everywhere can’t find him?
Yeah, open your inventory and start scrolling to the far right. Don’t press the left arrow thing first and don’t press any of the icons on the left. Just scroll through the big list and he should be right at the end (or just before the locked & krustyland-only items)
Look at the end of your inventory. I found him there
Fyi friends, you might want to check your settings after the latest in game update. I found out the hard way that my confirm donut spend was turned OFF! grrr! Long time players know this used to happen often with updates and I used to check regularly but EA quit doing it a couple years ago or so. I hope they aren’t going to start doing it again because it’s very annoying! Thanks for all you do Addicts, love this site!
I get a ticket after 15 minutes at times, after 2 minutes some other times and 20 minutes! It’s all over the place! It’s really bad for the 4 hours play, this is not very good! To level up to 5 with the virus you need to go from 300 to a 1000! So keep visiting friends!
Whatever that update did, looks like it just gave you 3 tickets. Because it’s still happening to me. Grrrrr.
Downloaded the update, Airport had 3 tickets so I’m like sweet it’s fixed. After I use the 3 tickets I exit the game to test it and guess what… Back to 20 minutes. WTF!!!!!!
I noticed a small updated downloaded when i launched the game. I believe this fixed the glitch EA created when they upped the ticket timer from 2 min to 20 min where many were never getting a new ticket at the end of the 20 min timer.
Now there is a NEW glitch with the fix for the glitch the issued to fix the first glitch! BUT this time it is back in our favor! Somewhere between the 2-3 min mark of the time, I get a new ticket. Then when if i assign it to a passenger before the timer runs out, I get a second tick at the end of the timer like I was supposed to.
So now I am getting 2 tickets for each 20 minute count down!!!!! =)
This is hilarious to watch. Needless to say…I won’t be changing my “Math” post for a couple of days until the dust settles….
I just got 2 tickets at the 2-3 minute range, and then another ticket at the end of the timer. So this last time I got 3 tickets with one 20 minute cycle.
So now I have 12 passengers flying at the same time!
It also still works if you have one passenger left, you send him on a normal game task, then when you go back to the airport you will another 4-5 passengers waiting for their ticket.
**It also still works if you have one passenger left, you send him on a normal game task, then when you go back to the airport you will another 4-5 passengers waiting for their ticket.**
This is totally working for me right now! Good stuff!
So THAT’s the trick. Just worked for me also.
I’m struck now.
Daily Quest says find a raging bull from Southern Europe. I’ve sent all the characters to the regions that are from Europe….
But quest didn’t cleared.
Do you think I’ve messed up the quest by keeping 1 ticket and then periodically sent other characters with available tickets?
Please help! 🙁 I’m so near in collecting all the missing puzzles… at 5/7 now
Maybe one of those already sent flying is actually doing the quest in Pamplona, Spain.
I know this might seem random, given the focus on the tickets, but does anyone know how to redeem the free land token? I unlocked it as a prize today (yay!!), pressed OK, but got nothing after that… And when I looked at the land, they are the money prize on them.
When you buy a new piece of land, it will show up as an option…either game cash, or your token.
Thank you!!!!! 😁
To anyone else who is still not able to collect plane tickets (mine do not regenerate and the timer restarts every time I close/open the game), this link should allow you to add “me too” to the report of this bug to EA:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out/Why-am-i-not-getting-any-plane-tickets-in-the-simpsons-tapped/m-p/5858802#U5858802
Let’s light it up so this issue gets resolved more quickly.
Update: I just opened the game again and a patch downloaded that fixed my timer. It didn’t happen immediately but after I collected a couple tasks, it showed 3 available tickets and the timer started counting down again.
Exit the game to test it. I did and the timer went back to 20 minutes still. Even after I used the 3 tickets. (timer was at 15 mins when I exited)
I am level 3 on Osaka flu. I used the “map” to clear the 3 flu clouds on tourists, however I did also notice 2 other tourists walking round with the flu, that weren’t picked up when I clicked on the flu icon through the menu. Not sure this was a one off or happens regularly
I am so angry right now…
Thank you, all you exploiters without the patience to participate in this event in the usual manor. Thanks to your blatant misuse of a ill thought game mechanic, EA “fixed” the ticket timer. Thank you for now making it virtually impossible for the rest of us to complete the prize track. Thank you.
I am a freemium player, and have never failed to complete any act in every event. Streak broken. Thank you.
I’m confused but I don’t think it’s that bad. How is the current 20 minute cycle really any different than the way that the game was originally designed? So in the beginning, you could put 5 people on planes, and then had to wait for 4 hours. I assume you meant that is the “non-exploiter” way. Granted you started with 3 tickets, then had to wait 6 more minutes to put 2 additional travelers on planes. Then you had to wait 3:54 minutes to use them again. NOW you put 3 travelers on planes. You wait 20 minutes for 2 more, and then you wait 3:40 minutes to use them again. I don’t think that’s going to make it virtually impossible for anyone to complete if it was possible in their original intention. The 20 minute wait isn’t that big of a penalty. The difference is you have to go back to the airport a couple times with a between airport wait of 40 minutes. The real difference now is that you can’t put 20 characters on the plane per hour. But with the 1500 Norbert badge daily challenges, (and daily challenges that have been 1250) I’m already at over 21,000 badges.
You are correct…and incorrect…but it is moot now. The Glitch allowed you to keep getting tickets every 2 minutes…AND if you sent everyone but one character on a flight, and then sent THAT character on a different task…you got a bunch more characters. In a couple of hours of doing this, you you could have up to 65 characters all in the air with a ticket. By extending the timer for tickets…it limited how many you could have in the air, just because it took so long to get enough tickets. Before…30 per hour…reduced to 3 per hour. Got it?
No need to be angry.
This shouldn’t put you at that much of a disadvantage. It really doesn’t change the fact that if you’re logging in regularly (say, every 4 hours..) you will get all the prizes. Try to relax and enjoy the game.
(I didn’t “take advantage” of the glitch like others were able to, but I don’t fault them for it. In the end, there are bigger fish to fry. They’re going to be bored with all the extra time they now have in the event, anyway! 🙂 )
The fix worked for me as well apple device-as always you guys are the best!
It wasn’t a fix, it was a workaround. Not the same thing. And many of us don’t have 40 minutes to try and keep TSTO open. And now the patch that wasn’t.
To clarify, I didn’t use the exploit. So, tonight I log in, have 3 tickets waiting, but 5 toons to send on flights. I sent the first 3, and waited 20 min for the next ticket. And only one of the characters was able to be sent. The fifth dropped off the waiting list.
Yes, it’s only a game. I get that. But it chaps my hide when a few greedy people screw with the rest of us. For not being a “social” game, other players still have an inordinate influence on game play.
The ONLY reason i don’t support Tapped Out by buying donuts is that they refuse to do anything about the cheaters and blatent hackers. Thats all.
Been playing since 2012
Ha sorry actually 2013.
Did you know that if you open the flu virus tab and click on the virus icon at the bottom, it will bring you to the infected tourist…?
So, easy to find them that way.
I haven’t been able to get into the game since early this morning. I don’t see anyone else posting about this so I guess it’s just me. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn’t work. Neighbour’s, I’ll be back and visiting as soon as possible.
The fix that was recommended worked for me! Thanks!
Have the plane ticket timer issue only in my C game, haven’t gotten a ticket all day. Will try the fix above on an apple device and see how it goes.
Thanks
Its working on Apple device for me.
Many, Many Thanks! 🙂
I didn’t see this mentioned anywhere, so I thought I’d mention it. Taking into account the 20-minute airport timer, it’s possible to send 3 characters on flights every 60 minutes, regardless of how many characters it says you can send on flights. What I’ve found is that if you send one of the characters on the flight list on a non-flight task, the flight list resets itself. For example, I’ll send 3 characters on flights out of the 5 characters on my list. 1 hour later, I can come back, send one of the remaining 2 characters on a 1-hour task, come back to the airport, and find there are now 5 characters available to send on flights, plus the 3 that are already flying from an hour earlier. It’s a nice way to earn another 100 pins/hour.
My game was working fine until the last set of 3 passengers finished their flight…now I have 3 tickets ready, but no new potential flyers showing up at the airport. Did a hard close…nothing changed, still have 3 tickets and no flyers. Will wait to see if the next set of flyers finishing will reset the airport. What fun….
Have you figured out the maximum number of travelers who can fly at any given time? The maximum number of fliers I’ve had traveling at once is 20. After that my 1st traveler is done before I can send a 21st.
I have tried doing this since day 1 and it has never worked for me. If I send people on the flight list to do other tasks while I’m waiting for the timer, they never come back to the list nor do any other characters get added to the list. I’ve come to just “skip” over them when I’m delving out non flight tasks. It takes a little longer bc I can’t use the unemployment office but I really want the extra pins. Has this happened to anyone else??