Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Out with the old and in with the new! Yesterday morning Springfield Jobs left with a quick exit and by yesterday afternoon we had a new mini-event to work our way through! Yes, it’s time for another round of Who Shot Mr. Burns? (the answer may surprise you!)
Of course, as with all events, a questline comes with it to help move us through the ins and outs of the event…and unlock all of the prizes. As was mentioned on the rundown post this mini event is similar to the previous mini-events (like Homer the Heretic and the Most Dangerous Game before it), in that you’ve got to complete various tasks to unlock the prizes.
So let’s take a look at the questline to see just how to unlock all the evil prizes…
Crypto-Cool
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Make Martin Repeatedly Mention “Blockchain” Without Defining It- 6s, Earns $35, 1xp
Make Youngsters Mine Bitcoin- x3. 6s. Earns $35,1xp Freemium and $50, 2xp Premium
Crypto-Crap
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Make Adults Mine Ethereum- x3. 6s, Earns $35, 1xp Freemium and $50, 2xp Premium
Make Kids Mine Prognosticoin, the Next Big Thing- x3. 6s, Earns $35, 1xp Freemium and $50, 2xp Premium
Event launch
Note: My Mine Burnscoin costs may differ from yours. I’m only reporting what I saw in my game
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Three) Pt. 1
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Make Homer Convert Everything to Burnscoins- 3hrs, COSTS $72, EARNS 10
,35xp
Make Burns Invest in the School- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Mine Burnscoins- x200. 3hrs. Here’s the list of who you can send and the cost to send them:
Homer: COSTS $53, EARNS 10, 35xp
Marge: COSTS $77, EARNS 10, 35xp
Willie:COSTS $77, EARNS 10, 35xp
Moe: COSTS $78, EARNS 10, 35xp
Wiggum: COSTS $86, EARNS 10, 35xp
CBG: COSTS $77, EARNS 10, 35xp
Scorpio: COSTS $16, EARNS 15, 35xp
Jay G: COSTS $78, EARNS 15, 35xp
Dave Shutton: COSTS $80, EARNS 15, 35xp
Completed Task Earns Springfield Elementary Crypto-farm
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Three) Pt. 2
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Make Skinner Buy Computers for the School- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Make Skinner Buy Gloves to Cover His Finger Scars- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Mine Burnscoins- x400. 3hrs. Here’s the list of who you can send and the cost to send them:
Homer: COSTS $1, EARNS 10, 35xp
Marge: COSTS $12, EARNS 10, 35xp
Willie:COSTS $23, EARNS 10, 35xp
Moe: COSTS $38, EARNS 10, 35xp
Wiggum: COSTS $6, EARNS 10, 35xp
CBG: COSTS $8, EARNS 10, 35xp
Scorpio: COSTS $33, EARNS 15, 35xp
Jay G: COSTS $38, EARNS 15, 35xp
Dave Shutton: COSTS $94, EARNS 15, 35xp
Completed task earns Springfield Scale Model
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Three) Pt. 3
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Make Hibbert Deny Patients MRIs to Mine Burnscoins- 3hrs, COSTS $39, EARNS 10, 35xp
Make Smithers Snoop Around- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Mine Burnscoins- x400. 3hrs. Here’s the list of who you can send and the cost to send them:
Homer: COSTS $66, EARNS 10, 35xp
Marge: COSTS $95, EARNS 10, 35xp
Willie:COSTS $40, EARNS 10, 35xp
Moe: COSTS $54, EARNS 10, 35xp
Wiggum: COSTS $67, EARNS 10, 35xp
CBG: COSTS $52, EARNS 10, 35xp
Scorpio: COSTS $11, EARNS 15, 35xp
Jay G: COSTS $54, EARNS 15, 35xp
Dave Shutton: COSTS $35, EARNS 15, 35xp
You can also resend Hibbert to earn coins via his personal task list
Completed task earns Burns’ animation to Destroy Springfield
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Three) Pt. 4
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Make Burns Destroy Springfield- 1hr, Earns $70, 17xp
Mine Burnscoins- x400. 3hrs. Here’s the list of who you can send and the cost to send them:
Homer: COSTS $96, EARNS 10, 35xp
Marge: COSTS $36, EARNS 10, 35xp
Willie:COSTS $33, EARNS 10, 35xp
Moe: COSTS $34, EARNS 10, 35xp
Wiggum: COSTS $5, EARNS 10, 35xp
CBG: COSTS $61, EARNS 10, 35xp
Scorpio: COSTS $44, EARNS 15, 35xp
Jay G: COSTS $34, EARNS 15, 35xp
Dave Shutton: COSTS $25, EARNS 15, 35xp
Completed task earns Sunblocker 2
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Three) Pt. 5
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Make Burns Absorb Solar Power With the Sun Blocker- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Make Homer Try Not to Bump Into Things While Wearing Sunglasses- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Mine Burnscoins- x400. 3hrs. Here’s the list of who you can send and the cost to send them:
Homer: COSTS $31, EARNS 10, 35xp
Marge: COSTS $96, EARNS 10, 35xp
Willie:COSTS $56, EARNS 10, 35xp
Moe: COSTS $84, EARNS 10, 35xp
Wiggum: COSTS $10, EARNS 10, 35xp
CBG: COSTS $31, EARNS 10, 35xp
Scorpio: COSTS $67, EARNS 15, 35xp
Jay G: COSTS $84, EARNS 15, 35xp
Dave Shutton: COSTS $6, EARNS 15, 35xp
Completed task earns Burns’ Animation “Pilfer Sweets from Infant”
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Three) Pt. 6
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Make Pilfer Sweets from Infant- 4hrs, Earns $350, 90xp
Mine Burnscoins- x400. 3hrs. Here’s the list of who you can send and the cost to send them:
Homer: COSTS $66, EARNS 10, 35xp
Marge: COSTS $16, EARNS 10, 35xp
Willie:COSTS $43, EARNS 10, 35xp
Moe: COSTS $89, EARNS 10, 35xp
Wiggum: COSTS $29, EARNS 10, 35xp
CBG: COSTS $12, EARNS 10, 35xp
Scorpio: COSTS $75, EARNS 15, 35xp
Jay G: COSTS $89, EARNS 15, 35xp
Dave Shutton: COSTS $85, EARNS 15, 35xp
Completed Task Earns Sundial & Burns “Get Shot” Animation
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Four) Pt. 1
Wiggum starts
Make Burns Collapse on Sundial- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Make Maggie Hang Out at the Crime Scene- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Four) Pt. 2
Wiggum starts
Make Wiggum Interrogate Maggie- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Make Smithers Unsuccessfully Try to Confess- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Four) Pt. 3
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Make Dr. Hibbert Go Over Burns’ Medical Chart- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
Make Dave Shutton Correct Headlines to Read “Who SHOCKED Mr. Burns?”- 3hrs, Earns $200, 55xp
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Four) Pt. 4
Mr. Burns starts
Make Burns Undo All the Good He Did- 3hrs, Earns $135, 35xp
And that’s it my friends! One more strange mystery solved….
What are your thoughts on the Mini Event? Any prizes you’re looking forward to getting? Plans to work these prizes into the design of your Springfield? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
To be honest. I’m glad this is just a bunch of animations i won’t ever use and nothing special decorations (in my opinion).
Burns is always recycling metal for my monorail tracks and free doughnuts.
And no free land tokens so.. Meh..
I’m still 15 -20 chunks of land from having it all and only used a couple tokens on the ones that costed money.
Have fun with this one guys
Two questions.
1) In the mini-Springfield, what is the domed mountain supposed to be? Maybe it’s obvious, but I don’t recognize it.
2) What buildings produce Burnscoins? Chez Guevara, but any others?
Thanks!
Model Springfield is getting a lot of attention…😄
https://imgur.com/a/Sek3raP
Consider it stolen. Soon to be found in my Springfield. Thank you, Ebron for another great idea. 😄
It’s even more fun when Mr Burns is up stomping on all the houses😆…enjoy!
Sorry, screwed up the link…
https://imgur.com/a/yTBI2VK
I still haven’t been able to even access the new mini game
Tapped out has been updating since late Wednesday night
It updated and now it’s updating again
Pretty sure I am going to miss out on new event
Who took the “pointed finger” from the splash screen? 😄
(it’s just a shadow) 🤓
I’m baffled as to why the cost of sending characters to collect bitcoins varies. For myself it doesn’t matter, but I wonder about the lower level players.
I believe it represents the volatility of the crypto currencies.
I’ll accept that logic 😊
Liking the dialogue in this one.
“Buying fake money with fake money. That’s good investing!”
“This volatility is worse than the pog days”
I’ll admit it brought back memories of monies wasted 😂😂😂 Trying to remember the name of the collection we had. There were flowers, animals, & more, and they were shiny.
Is anyone else not able to log in? I’ve deleted and downloaded multiple times, but keep getting a message that an error occurred and to try again.
I am not able to either and Im not sure what to do at this point :/
What finally worked for me was changing the password.
Alissa…in Who Shot Mr Burns (part 4) part 3… seems odd that Dave Shutton is part of the quest line. What happens if you didn’t buy the building/character combo with the Shopper?
You don’t get that quest. Just the first one
Well, i got him in my alt, so i half got him?
Mystery solved…thanks😄
Note: My Mine Burnscoin costs may differ from yours. I’m only reporting what I saw in my game
I’m seeing LOWER costs than you are. Why are the costs different? How do they decide how much to charge?
No idea. Maybe it’s a formula based in ingame cash and level?
Maybe it’s just random?
Personally think this is fun and hoping we’ll get a Part 4 Mini event where we can hunt for clues and at the end place a bet on whodunnit! Maybe I’ve got too high expectations for some fun new format changes to make it interactive for something that’s just a money grabbing interval whilst EA work on something bigger 😊.
But it’s a laid back event and I’m happy – recently nuked and really wanting to start rebuilding as last time I nuked, I never rebuilt fully.
Happy Tapping!
With this new event and update my game in one of my towns is lagging and can’t move across the screen .
Fix one problem and 10 more show up .
🎬🎥🐒 . Wish you were here . See ya bye . 👽
tsto update = lagggg. *bleh every tap just freezes the screen.
So it’s not just me…
Ditto .
🎬🎥🐒 . Wish you were here . See ya bye . 👽
little off: foreign cops @ robbers bundle: just walking around or making money? thanks
NPCs
Just doing a bit of redesigning and I took some candy cane fences out of storage to put round an area. It didn’t appeal so I tried to put them back into storage and it said I couldn’t store these items, nor could I sell them. So now I have to find a home for 35 candy cane fences somewhere in my Springfield!
Odds are, you bought or crafted those fences and placed them straight into storage. So, the first time you place them, you have to exit out of design mode (and accrue any XP) before you can store them again. Hope that helps!
It’s a little odd that they took one of the most classic Simpsons storylines and made it into a “mini” event.
But the potential of the “Bart on the Road” event has me interested.
I agree that this could have been nicely expanded into a standard Event and provided an avenue to bring a lot of interesting content, particularly SNPP-related, but I will take what I can get, and I love the stuff that belongs in Springfield — the classic items and images. (Then again, it seems I may be one of the few who immediately pulled the trigger on the anachronistic reporter — “Who are you? What do you do?.”)
Of course, it was not, but I almost feel like they pulled this straight from my wish list:
https://thesimpsonstappedoutproject.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/the-journey-begins/
Thanks, EA! 😉
Me too, on my alt. I want every character!
Wow – that wish list must have taken a looooong time!
If you mean the prizes in this Event are so minor they must be at the bottom of a long list, or you reviewed the project and saw how large it became, then yes. 😁
I’m in the government sector. I found the time.
This “lag” is ridiculously annoying! I have gotten to the point that I simply cannot play. I cannot move through my town. I cannot (and I don’t mean it’s slow, it actually will not let me) scroll down in ANY menu. I log out, I uninstall, I travel to friends and Krustyland… all to no avail. This is 2 days now. Any sign of a fix? I sent an email to EA and they are reviewing it…
What kind of device are you playing on? That is, what OS? Apple (iOS), Android (Android), or an Amazon Fire tablet (FireOS)?
Also, are you current on your OS updates? And how much free space do you have on your hard drive?
I’m on an iPad Air 2 (not updated to the latest version of iOS). When my free space gets below 1gb (on a 64gb hard drive), I have a bad time… lags, crashes, etc.
If it ever becomes unbearable for me, the first thing I’m doing is deleting a whole bunch of crap. And the second thing I’m doing is (backing up my iPad and) upgrading to the latest version of iOS.
I don’t know if this is helpful or not, but when I first started this new event I wanted to send all of my characters possible to do the 6 second tasks. At that time I was experiencing serious lag too. I would tap to send a character and wait 6 seconds then it would let me tap another. This was quite a pain when I want to send 150 or so characters on the task. After sending about 50 adults and all the kids on the second set of tasks I logged out, shut down my Kindle Fire and rebooted. This didn’t seem to help at all, then after sending another 50 adults on the task at 6-8 second wait times each I left the list of people to send, went to the Haunted House where they were going and watched them all come to the house. They would walk a tiny bit then freeze for about 3 seconds, the walk a tiny bit further and freeze. I watched for about 15 minutes until everyone I had sent made it to the house. When the last person went “into” the house things started moving normally again. I went back in to the “send” list for the task and send the rest of the adults with only about a 2 second freeze/lag on each one. Again I watched them all show up as described above with moving/freezing. Once they were all there everything moved normally again. After completing all of the 6 seconds tasks and collecting XP and $ I have not had any problem at all. In fact I think my town in moving faster than it was previously. Scolling through town no longer shows even the little bit of lag it has always showed.
Seems really weird that things would suddenly get so bad then not only better, but better than ever.
need lots of friends. atjohn137 thanks
I like this event. Never got the security sign out thingy though. I have noticed a lottttt of lag since this mini event hit so that has been a little frustrating but I’ll take it over the roll back glitch–hope that never happens again–I live in fear everyday of it. Thanks Addicts for all you do!! Happy tapping everybody and have a lovely day! : )
I like these prizes, but I wonder how big the miniature Springfield is (all my Mr. Burns related buildings are pretty set without much room to grow)…and I’m hoping I can squeeze in the sun dial out in front of (but off to the side of) my town hall
It’s not very big, 6×5, and not very tall. Easily gets lost in Springfield….
I am deeply and profoundly disappointed with this event. It doesn’t seem particularly welcoming to new players, either; yeah, those are small amounts of money to us, but what if someone just picked up the game? I also have philosophical issues with paying, even minuscule amounts of imaginary in-game cash, for an event. I’ll probably still play through, because it’s easier than not doing so, but I don’t have to like it.
If they just picked up the game odds are they wouldn’t see the mini event. Trigger level is level 20, and they have to have Martin. So generally by the time you’re at that point you have some cash built up. But yes, it is annoying when you’re a newer player and you don’t have millions.
Well, I’m locked out and have figure out where I hid my password. This could take awhile…
There are a couple of great premium character deals if you don’t already have them. Rich Texan & Scorpio/Volcanic Lair have pretty awesome “donuts back” deals. I think Scorpio is usually 200 d and you get 100 back!
Since the update the game is unplayable for me. Its lagging super hard and i cant barely do anything. When i see the comments on play store ea seems to mess up alot with the update…
Same here Riko. Sometimes game starts out fine, but is lagging badly by the time I finish a collection session. Other times it’s laggy the whole time. I usually play on a Samsung Galaxy Tab A. Tried it on my iPhone 5s today and it was also laggy. Trips to Krustyland or playing any mini games makes the lag go away for that trip or game, but once I leave Krustyland or the mini-games it’s back to the lag.
I also have a glitch, again for the 3d time.
EA is aware of the problems but is not able to solve this for now. It seems this event will pass me by. I am a player for 5,5 years and this never happened before. What to do I’m not ready to stop because it gave me so much joy in the past grrr.
This is the first mini event that I will not participate. The prizes are nothing I want. I will continue with the Railyard instead — I need a break!
Wise choice…
Question about the FANTASTIC new storage system…
… anyone nuking anytime soon or have a multiple town they don’t mind nuking?
Touk was wondering if anyone would know, or could test something:
If you group-store some areas, and then nuke what remains of the town, will your inventory still save the grouped areas as stored, or will it split it apart in your inventory?
Thanks 🖒
Full disclosure – I have NOT tried it. But I did see on the TSTO subreddit that if you group store and nuke the parts that you group stored stay grouped in your inventory.
Thank you 😙
i could possibly check…
Please do. 😙
Had it confirmed by a friend on EA forums…
“I nuked my side town to check this out. The group inventory does stay together. I now plan on using the feature in my main town. I will keep the areas group that I want to save and then will nuke the rest and be able to rebuild quicker.”
AWESOMENESS 😁🖒
NUKESVILLE 🇬🇧
I think the costs increase exponentially as you send/resend characters on tasks.
I have yet to see the update
meme2234, it is in your respective App Store and you have to initiate the update, if you do not have “auto-update” turned on in your mobile device.
I think the costs to send characters on mine coin tasks are random; mine didn’t match yours