Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Pack those bags and grab your boarding passes because it’s time to go Around the World with The Simpsons! The Around the World Event is in full swing in our pocket-sized Springfields and that can only mean one thing….all new prize tracks to work our way through!
This Event is broken up into 3 Acts, with each Act containing part of the story. To help you move along with the event you’ll get several prizes per Act. Each prize will either be something fun for Springfield or something to help you move along in the event. For the First Act you’re tasked with collecting French Pins (
) to unlock each prize!
The First Act 1 Prize awarded at 2,000 is the Eiffel Tower, because let’s be honest, you can’t have France without it…
So let’s take a closer look at this first prize and just what happens when you unlock it in your Springfield…
Once you’ve collected 2,000 you’ll automatically be awarded the Eiffel Tower and you’ll see this message popup:
And you’ll have the option to place it in your Springfield immediately or store it in your inventory for later. Remember if you store it you’ll have to go back into your inventory to retrieve it.
The Eiffel Tower does come with some an short questline, here’s a look:
The Iron-Alloy Giant Pt. 1
Marge starts
Marge: The Eiffel Tower! It’s so romantic.
Homer: Yeah, it’s just like being in Paris. The beautiful sights, the classy tourists…
Snake: And the pickpockets! Yoink!
Make Springfielders Complain About Crime- x3. 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp Freemoum and $260, 70xp Premium
The Iron-Alloy Giant Pt. 1
Homer starts
Wiggum: Okay, we’ve got crime totally under control around the Eiffel Tower. So enjoy yourselves, people. Lou, how about a nice romantic photo of us in front of the Eiffel Tower?
Lou: Well, that’s a lovely thought, Chief.
Wiggum: Sir, could you take our picture?
Snake: Delighted. Sweet camera, bro… Yoink!
Make Homer Laugh at Police Incompetence- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
The Iron-Alloy Giant Pt. 2
Marge starts
Marge: Come on, Homie, I want to kiss you on the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Quimby: By all means do so. Access to the top is free… …if you climb the stairs. The elevator costs thirty-eight dollars. Per person.
Wiggum: The true crime here is gouging tourists. And like all crimes, it’s one I can’t solve.
Make Homer Climb the Stairs- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
Homer: Well, it took three days and eight resupply missions by Bart, but I made it to the top of the Eiffel Tower. For free. Kiss me, Marge.
Marge: Looks like you stole my heart.
Homer: Mmm, yoink.
Take an Educational Tour
Skinner starts
Make Skinner Take an Educational Tour- 2hrs, Earns $110, 27xp
Here are some quick facts about the Eiffel Tour:
Size: 8×8
Conform-O-Meter: Consumerism +10
Task: Skinner has a permanent 2hr task there, Take an Educational Tour, Earns $110, 27xp.
And there you have it, the details behind the Eiffel Tower, the first Around the World Prize
What’s Next?
Maurice- Awarded at 8,977. This will be the next prize we breakdown in the prize guide post.
So that my friends is the full breakdown of the first Act 1 prize!
What do you think of the Eiffel Tower? Safe to assume you’ve all unlocked it by now? Where have you placed it? Thoughts on the event so far? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
Do I need new neighbors???? Out of the about 95 neighbors I have only 19have things I can tap on the rest never have anything not even money..For example this current task…. Pins…..
Not sure where to post this but I’m a freemium player and I can’t decide which to spend donuts on: Hungry Hun & chocolate chapel or Date night Mystery Box
I’m fine with the Eiffel Tower 👍
I’m not fine with an NPC Donkey named Maurice 👎
(You hear that EA?)
My sky credits building dissapeared!
The rewards center or the prize? If it’s the prize,there is no building with that. It’s just sky credits awarded
I put Maurice into storage and now he’s gone!
🙁
Lucky!
Have you found him yet? I did that to and he showed up in storage 4days later
Do any of you with crystal balls or other powers to see into the future know if there will be more pieces of airport in Acts two and three? I’m hesitant to arrange all the pieces now in case there are more to incorporate.
I’ll be the first to say god bless you. Lol happy covered tappin.
I’m happy with this. At first I thought I’d put it into storage due to the size, but I have it a good home in my casino area to give it more of a Vegas, fake-monument vibe.
Update: just made it through the prize track. There are bonuts. Woo-hoo! (i know there was question about this in earlier posts)
Hey tappers. I unlocked the sky credits building but also finished the luggage box at the same time. It unlocked both and while I placed my new airplane land strip from the luggage box, skycredits disappeared. Can anyone help? Thanks 🙂
I am also missing the Act One, prize #5 – SkyCredits building.
I waited a day or so and it never turned up.
I just submitted a Help ticket to EA Help.
https://help.ea.com/en/
Has anyone else noticed this problem???
Me to! 🙁
Not a building….read what the description says
FYI, they requested my Mayhem ID (even though I had already provided a screen shot with the ID, after they asked for an “alley code” code???).
Waiting on their response after resending the Mayhem ID info (again).
If you ever need to provide a Mayhem ID, here’s how:
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/the-simpsons/the-simpsons-tapped-out/where-is-my-mayhem-id/
It’s quite a long code; which could easily be transcribed in error, which is why I sent a screen print instead. Hopefully their email server will let them access an attachment.
Fortunately for you you can ingore it because there’s nothing wrong with your game. It’s not a building just crafting currency added to your game
Yep, came to that realization just after I gave EA Help my million digit Mayhem ID. Oops!!!
Uh, the prize is 750 SkyCredits not a “SkyCredits building”
The prize wasn’t a building it was just Skycresits (750 I think?) to spend and help move you along the second prize track.
Yes
This game makes me so angry sometimes. I was offline a couple of days so late starting this new storyline. Really want those French characters but been tapping to the max and 8k off Bastille. Impossible to catch up can’t even buy stuff. Also wanted me to go to Greece but character was already in Greece. When he finished I had to do the one character left to another place for 4 hours before a new Greece would spawn. Times like these make me think why do I bother anymore
Make sure you’re sending as many people on flights as you can. Send the first four (NOT all five) then find the 5th character and either store them in your inventory temporarily, or send them on a short task. You should get 5 more flight options available. So every 20 mins you can send another person
I really like that the cobblestone roads look great with the Eiffel Tower and with the regular road they can go under it. The French items do look good with the cobblestone as well. Also at the end of each part of the quest line dialogue for this it always end with the word ‘Yoink!’.
I know this isn’t the right place but it’s the most recent post so I’m wondering:
Is anyone else running into severe lag over the last 24 hours or so? I’m on a Kindle and when I’m tapping to set jobs like the garbage dump, it’s taking a good second for it to process each tap instead of working immediately.
This may not seem like much, but the response time is so slow that instead of having about 10 of those 30-second jobs started in a matter of seconds, the first one is down to about 20 seconds to go by the time the game lets me tap the last person in the list.
I’ve tried restarting the device and that hasn’t improved the laggy response one bit.
Update: for the moment, it’s back to its better responsiveness.
Exactly the same for me. I’m on android. Seems to get slower the longer I’m playing.
When I was placing the hangar, I noticed you could see the airplane inside. Does the hangar open ? Is there a task there ? Also, any idea if the runway sections will be available to craft/purchase after the event ? Apologies if answers already posted somewhere. ( I did search 😉 )
Thanks ! Oh, oops. Mercí !
I’m still on Level 2. Can someone please remind me of what I have to do to level up ;), thank you!
Osaka Level up?
http://tstoaddicts.com/2017/02/02/around-the-world-101-act-1-neighbor-visits-including-osaka-flu-breakdown/
Lol Thanks for the help Alissa but this was meant to go on TOuk (did explain on a reply) but yes I was questioning Osaka Level Up so thanks for the help
I finally found him. I thought he was a stationary figure. I didn’t realize he was able to walk around Springfield. Thanks
Thanks, Christy
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I’ve put a piece of dirt surrounded by roads directly under mine and Stampy is now stuck! 😀
I didn’t get Maurice. I have all act one prizes now, and Maurice is checked off. I checked all inventory, and looked behind buildings. Any ideas? Thanks, Christy
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Off topic, but to anyone who had the issue that you couldn’t finish Football Nelson’s quest because you didn’t have Soccer Lisa and/or Pin Pal Apu, with this morning’s update you can use normal Lisa and normal Apu for those tasks now! Yay!
I think the most interesting thing about the Eiffel Tower is that it can be placed over roads, including the cobblestone roads!
Cool, didn’t even try that.
I suppose it’s too much to ask if they fixed that silly covered bridge…
Nope, covered bridge still can’t go over water. Just tried. Sad!
Cool, I didn’t knew that, I’ll try it as soon as I’m back home ^^