What’s Old is New and Other Around the World Info

Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!

So a few things happened in TSTO between yesterday afternoon and this morning (and more over the weekend).

So let’s breakdown the details, should I buys and returning items in the stores….

First, ICYMI yesterday EA gave everyone 2,000  and 500 

This is in direct response to the outage almost all of us experienced on Wednesday, from Amazon Web Services going down.  Many of you expressed concern about the outage causing you to miss out on the prizes because you  were losing valuable time to collect pins and sky credits.

So instead of extending the event a day, which I think would have made a lot of people groan, they made up for it by giving currency, more than what many of you would have missed out of during the outage.  So, I want to take a minute to applaud EA for this move.  Good on them for being attentive to customer service.  It goes a long way in keeping the faith in EA, at least over correcting issues (at least with the Addicts staff, I know some readers will forget this move in 2 days).

I know several of you expressed a desire for it to be donuts instead, but donuts wouldn’t have made up for missing several hours of tapping time with this event.  And there are so many ways to earn free donuts in the game as it is.  So this was a good move, despite some of your objections to it being event currency.

Second, what’s old is new again!

Every item from Around the World AND Lunar New Year, that had a timer on it, has returned to the stores.  So if you missed out on something you can pick it up once again in the stores!

All of these items will leave March 7th (when the event ends).  So don’t miss out again!

If you want to check out the should I buy posts for these items you can check out our Around the World Event Page and the Lunar New Year Event Page (you’ll have to scroll down the Lunar New Year page, as it shows every post we wrote about Lunar New Year)

Third, and finally, there are several items from Events past returning to our stores this weekend (at least according to the files).

The Farmer’s Market has already returned.  In addition to that, the Plane Bot, Spotlights (from Casino Event) the Banana Dictatorship are all scheduled to come back tomorrow (March 4th).

Here are the quick links to each of them, for more details:

Farmer’s Market (70 donuts)

Banana Dictatorship (30 donuts)

Spotlights (Price range from cash to 5-10 donuts)

Personally, these were all originally free items.  Not a huge fan of paying donuts for them.  Out of the list the only one i’d consider buying is the Banana Dictatorship. It’s inexpensive, character tasks are there and it gives you REV points for Springfield Heights.  Beyond that save your donuts.

Also arriving tomorrow will be a new premium item.  I’ll have a Should I Buy post for that up on Monday. (it’ll be a 1 day decision on it, but it’s not anything that will help with the event or anything else)

Again, aside from the Farmer’s Market these are all just items the files indicate are coming tomorrow.  Won’t know for sure until they hit.

Oh and one more quick note….

Norbert’s plane and the Golden Train should both be achievable today (March 3rd) via his Daily Tasks (if you’ve been doing them every day).  The plane is earned via the Daily Tasks and the Train is earned when you complete the questline after you’ve unlocked the plane.  And yes, Uncle Norbert comes with his plane as a playable character. (I’ll have more details on this up later today (with the questline)

There has been indications of a glitch occurring for some people that allowed them to already get Norbert’s plane and the train.  Glitches are not uncommon in TSTO, as we all know.

And that’s it my friends….

What are your thoughts on EA making good on the lock out?  How about bringing back ALL of the Around the World items? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!