Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Well, the new mini-event teased yesterday has launched in Springfield. It’s now Poochie’s chance to shine!
If you haven’t already done so, be sure to download the newest update from your App Store….
Itchy & Scratchy kick things off with some dialogue about going on strike! This will be followed by a 6s task for Krusty and 5 Springfielders. Once you’ve completed that task you’ll launch the Poochie’s Dog Dayz mini-event! Let’s take a look….
This is set up like your standard mini-event. Follow the special questline (in this case it’s called Poorly Working Title) to unlock a series of prizes. Plus, there’s a bunch of new premium content in stores.
This mini-event will run for 2 weeks, ending on July 25th (which is when I suspect we’ll see the next major event. As that sets us up for a good 6-week cycle + a mini event and then Halloween). Remember, mini-events are pretty easy to complete. You shouldn’t need the full 2 weeks to complete it. So consider the next two weeks your downtime, with a little something to do in the game.
So first up, let’s talk about the free prizes with this one…
Audience Research Table + Animation for Kids (Bart, Lisa, Milhouse, Nelson and Ralph will all have a task here)
Network Headquarters
Ramp + Poochie (a full character)
Land Token
Poochie’s Car
I’ll have a turbo tappin’ post up later today that explains how you unlock each prize. But they’re listed in order they’re unlocked, just follow the questline to complete…
Now onto the new premiums in store….
Mrs. Scratchy and the Picnic Spot- 165 Donuts. Earns 4.5% bonus on cash and XP.
Roy & Reality Channel Van- 150 Donuts. Earns 4% bonus on cash and XP
Disapproving Squirrel- 65 Donuts. Full Character and has a hilarious task with Marge…
All 3 characters will have a task to earn scripts (event currency)…
The Reality Channel- 55 Donuts. Earns event currency/4hrs
Fireworks Factory- 45 Donuts. Earns $200, 22xp/8hrs
Returning…
Cartoon Set- 300 Donuts with Scratchy, 350 Donuts with Itchy and Scratchy
Rebated Items…
Lurleen and the Beer -N- Brawl- 140 Donuts, 35 Donut rebate, NET 105 Donuts
Miss Springfield and the Sleep Eazy- 225 Donuts, 50 Donut rebate, NET 175 Donuts.
And finally…to celebrate the 636th episode of the Simpsons you’ll be awarded a special task for Maggie…
The task is to Make Maggie Celebrate Like It’s 1879….
And that’s it my friends, all there is to today’s mini-event update! Have fun and remember you have 2 weeks…no rush. Enjoy the slower pace of TSTO….
What are your thoughts on Poochie’s Dog Dayz? Prizes? Premium items you’ll be picking up? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
Thanks for all the great info, After updating I can no longer get into my game. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the game on both ipad and iphone. Updated software. I’m not sure what else to do. It says im logged into an other device, but I say continue, then it starts to load, but the spinning donut freezes and then it kicks me out of the app. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Try going to EA’s website…log in and then log out. Sometimes the game gets glitchy with logins…hopefully you will be able to log in to your game after visiting their site.
I have the same thing happening 🙁 I tried logging in and out at EA and it didn’t help sadly. How frustrating!
(Non)Update on this, I tried force quit, logout/login, restart phone, reinstall, no dice.
Called EA, they had no idea what to do, their Hail Mary suggestion was for me to reset my router??? Even though I told them I had tried on THREE different WiFi connections. Super frustrating.
My Poochie store is now empty – woohoo ! I really like …. everything! EA removed Penelope’s duplicate KL task to Play the Acoustic Guitar, but they didn’t add her 1 hour $ task back in … she’s the only character left when I use the Unemployment Office to send all on 1 hour tasks. I hope someone eventually notices and fixes it.
I’ve been pretty good about not getting glitches. Of course, I got the new one, LOL. For anyone else, when you try to collect on the first job of the update, I kept getting this glitch where it was stuck on one character lit up in the left hand corner, and I could not get the 0/5 job, of the first task, to complete. What I discovered is that after collecting all the done people for Homer and the 0/200 task, that resetting the 5 people for the 0/5 task, (use characters you don’t care if they burn up another 3 hours) helped the task to release and then it went into the second phase. Was easy to fix, once you know the key!
Love it. Really glad the main event is over. I actually had to spend doughnuts to get the final crafting prize.oh well. And dang that’s a lot of premium items. I had 150 doughnuts. I no longer KEM farm. I build rat trap trucks as needed. That was a lot of rat trap trucks. But love all the content. So again we get one land token for at least 2 sections worth of content. EA always finds a way to screw it up.
Nice little event! Bought Mrs. Scratchy. The others will have to wait till next week.
Looking forward to a re-design now that I&SL event is over. Will be moving that giant roller coaster out onto the water first thing.
Get the squirrel – HE-larry-us.
It would be great to get rid of items in your inventory you don’t want, some things are sellable but so much is not.
Hi guys im level 14 ihave springfielders amd krusty a itchy i have newest version and maggie but nothing help pls
Good Chance you are too low of a level quite yet. You need a few characters to progress the story properly. Keep plugging away on pushing your level up and it may kick in before the event ends.
Help How? How to get through questlines? Earn more XP? Design tips? Find neighbors? There’s a lot of great info on this website, just tap items on the main menu to get the pull down menus or use the search function for real specifics.
Hi Dide…I think you may have to reach level 16 to trigger the event. Alissa will post a rundown of characters needed for the event, probably tomorrow, so you’ll be all set if the event triggers in the next week. Good luck😄
You need to be at least on level 20 to start this mini event since mini events usually require you to be on level 20 or 15.
The mini-events have been much better than the major events. They don’t bother me too much since they are short although they have the same formula: send a group of 5-10 characters on the same task every 3 hrs. (adding optional 6hr, 9hr, 12hr, etc tasks would be helpful). For each freemium character, every 6 hrs gains 10 event currency, 9 hrs gains every 15 currency, 12 hrs gains 20 event currency and so on. For premium characters it would be extra currency.
Instantly got Roy & the Marge Squirrel. Sadly I have to pass on Scratchy (still too expensive) even though I have 300+ donuts. Would have been better if Ms. Springfield & Lurleen helped with the event (already have them in my Springfield, BTW).
Agree with Keith1Roon991’s comment about the “Send All Springfielders to…” tasks. The EA programmers need to do something about those.
FWIW, I happened to find SVT, Kearney and Moleman in storage in both my games without recalling storing them. Might be worth checking in your games as well.
Yeah. happened to me when Krustyland was nuked.
THANKS YOU SWEET BABY CHEEZUS for the small footprint new items.. Appreciate it EA.
I like this mini event, wish EA would fix the employment office to send characters that aren’t needed for a task, would need to send 187 characters in the 4 hour task when only 5 needed?
Some tappers get a kick out of sending tbe whole town to one spot. They like seeing all the thumbs lined up after the task and the amusement of watching them all spill out at once and interact.
I am one of those tappers. Lately though, I don’t know if it’s because there are so many characters (how many are there now?) but when I release them they don’t fan out after the task. They tend to just mingle around the same area
Hey, you’re all just minglin’ around the same area!
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I do that. I enjoy the cascading thumbs.
I’m actually really enjoying the dialogue so far for this one! 😂 If any of y’all still bother to read that…
Always
Some good stuff in this mini event. I will have to pick up the station and van.
Nice percentage bonus to entice those of us trying to get that percentage up (191% myself yielding 2-3 donuts with zero net change to cash per KEM cycle). 4% for the van can then be seen as 38 donuts off the price to those buying mystery boxes to bolster that number, which currently yield 1% per 9.5 donuts spent (google chart on mystery box cycle- it is not random.).
I also have a good place for the trailer.
it’s been almost 2 months but – congratulations!
Thank you,
I wish the trailer was available for in game cash, I want one for my camping area, one for my militia area, one for my Outlands, one for my Tailgaters, a couple for my county fair and Burning man festival…You get the idea.
Me too…I keep seeing another smaller trailer in some of my neighbors towns, but can’t remember where it was from. I’m thinking it was for Milhouse?
It is Millhouses trailer from the Superhero event.
Thanks, wish they’d bring it back…never seen it for sale in any of the boxes.
Maybe one day they’ll have a complete blow out sale hahah.
How many KEMs per cycle, on average ?
So, it’s a continuation of the least compelling event I’ve ever stopped playing. Super.
What is a compelling event to you? serious question.
Stonecutters is my go-to, easily the most fun I’ve had with this game. The first superheroes was great. The spy and travel events were good, had good mechanics and decent prizes. Halloween 2013 was super fun, though to be fair that was my first event. Winter is almost always enjoyable, though I think special mention goes to the one that unlocked Maggie for the first time, can’t remember what year that was.
Also, I’ve never just stopped playing any event before. Always enjoyed them enough or wanted the prizes enough to keep playing til the end. Itchy and Scratchy I literally just gave up on a week or two before it ended because I wasn’t having any fun and thought 90% of the prizes were useless. It’s literally all in storage except the characters I managed to unlock before giving up.
I feel the same about the Stonecutters event – it’s my all time favourite. It was an exceptionally fun and well designed format, offered Excellent prizes overall, and really honoured the episode with story and prizeline.
I enjoyed the Casino event and the Travel event too for similar reasons, but to a lesser degree, that I loved Stonecutters; the diversity of side tasks and in-game mini-games kept the event from being boring in the long run. It’s a shame they didn’t keep at least some of the most fun casino mini-games.
I hope someone keeps a task to continue to illuminate the Sequel Stop billboard as it is mostly dark.
I’ve been complaining about this for years. When they introduced Homer’s 3 dorm mates would have been a perfect opportunity for tasks there- but nooo…
Does LT Smash activate it? I know he’s the only one who goes into the Laser Tag building.
Thanks for clarifying that, ebron; I’m curious to see the Laser Tag animation. LT Smash has a great 12 task “craft subliminal messaging” – an excellent building animation at Classified Records.
The Weird Al character’s 12 hour “get inspiration” task will also work in the Sequel Stop. He’s been working there in my town, non-stop, for months.
It’s a shame that some animated buildings are used by multiple people while many of the best animated buildings have few, if any, characters who use them. Sequel Stop is an excellent example of that problem.
It would be great if EA designed more characters who can animate just about any building, just as Wise Guy does. If they programmed that for him why not offer multiple others with that ability?
Please refrain from tasting the knob……
Lol
I was just watching Ralphie in the new task…now I get it🤔.
Before…I was thinking…well, you know what I was thinking…😉😆.
Yay!! Act 4 of Itchy and Scratchy land event and no crafting required.
I’m very optimistic about this event, so far I like it. (maybe I’m just thankful ISLand is over) 😂 I’m happy I did the update yesterday, it made for a smooth start this morning. It would be great if they did this for the end of every event. 😁
Thank you for the hard work you guys do, I would have never played this long without all your help 😁😁😁
I haven’t updated yet, I’m not a big donut spender but all the new stuff looks good and reasonably priced
Do Springfielders stay in their premium costumes when we send them to do a “Send Springfielders to __________” task? Otherwise I absolutely hate this kind of task as it makes me have to do it individually so I can keep the Stonecutters, Burns, CBG, Lisa, Marge, etc in their moneymaker outfits.
They never have in the past. That’s always been a pet peeve of mine. 😐 EA could be awesome & change that for us 😁
No they don’t… So, when done, you need to cycle through everyone and put them back in costume…
I try to avoid sending them to that task and then I send them manually to their premium skin task. Probably a bit quicker than having to go through all characters after the task to change these back to the premium skin. But it requires remembering who has a premium skin. Well, I skip even for non-premium skins that I particulary like.
And sometimes I dont bother and just send the required number of characters to the Springfileds do ___, and leave rest of my characters free for the duration…
I honestly don’t know what skins earn premium. I dress to impress
I do the same…you get to a point where the money really isn’t an issue, so I send the required number (not in skins) and let the rest wander for a couple hours. Everybody gets to socialize for a couple hours😄👍.
Do you know how many scripts you need to unlock each prize? I know that the first prize requires 200 scripts.
It’ll be on the walkthrough post. I have to run the questline myself. But according to the files, it’s 200, 200, 400, 300, 500…I’ll verify in game a little later when I have a chance to put together the Turbo post.
Cool, thanks Alissa for taking the time to give me an answer. Those numbers sound very achievable to gain. Hopefully it will be easy to complete this event within a week. 🙂
The mini events these days are better than the big events. More content for less work..
SILLYBOY – Yes I look forward to the minis more than the majors (could happily see the back of those). Endless grinding for tonterias. All of which I have dumped in cesspit that is my inventory.
Some of the newer skins do stay in place. Older ones definitely don’t
This mini event looks really cool tbh – Love a lot of the items so look forward to the next few weeks of designing but also having something chill and cool to do in the background 😊 – great job EA! 👌
I already love this mini event and have bought every item from the store for it. Bart is currently inside the fireworks factory which I really like the building animation for.
I got Disapproving Squirrel and Mrs. Scratchy instantly. I’m not sure about Roy yet. Mainly because I was still trying to recover from the event and save some donuts. I know I won’t need him for the mini event, so I can wait for a SIB. I’m actually really happy about this mini event!
Now that the I&S event is over I can relax and move things around and take it easy. Wait! What! Now! Back to the grind. But on the plus side characters with bonus % items.
all the premium characters are GREAT!!!
I grabbed all three premium characters instantly. With the cheap squirrel and the bonus percentage on the other two, they were no-brainers for me. Couldn’t be happier. Now I’m grinding for Poochie. Bring it on!
Ka-ching! Love it … ALL OF IT! ❤😊
Why did the fourth bundle leave early? I had one more president to get-I had gotten everything in the Fourth of July bundle and was waiting to buy the last president this morn before it went away. There should have been several hrs left-I checked last night before I went to bed-but this morning it was gone.
Other people are reporting that you prematurely lost the 4th of July box if you updated early (which could have happened without you noticing if you have auto update), leaving only the Krustyland box. The update apparently was available yesterday although it didn’t end the event until today. So it must have been a glitch and you might mention it to EA.
I don’t have auto update enabled, and never saw anything about it but hadn’t checked for manual updates in the App Store (iPhone). So I was able to get the last item in my box (the Presidential Estate) with just five hours to spare. Or maybe 1 hour to spare, can’t remember. Whew. I had to have a last-minute planting of KEMs in every square millimeter of empty space to harvest the donuts to do it…. But that tells you that you weren’t imagining things, the 4th of July box really was supposed to stay until the Itchy&Scratchy Land event itself ended this morning (EDT).
Sorry for your loss…. Maybe what you are missing will come back in another box.
I’d contact EA, i had this problem with easter or st pattys day items leaving early and they brought them back for an extra week.
As for them returning in a new box, they will more than likely be back, but not untill next 4h of July.
~MIB🕵️