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Advanced KEM Farming – Should I always go for 3 donuts?

Posted on January 3, 2019 by | 292 comments

Salutations Stats & Strategy Specialists

(Today’s post is sponsored by the letter ‘S’)

 

A couple years ago, I wrote a post about KEM farming (which can be found here) and how it yields donuts. Since that time, many of you like myself have gone on to grow your KEM farms to over 100 KEMs, earning over 100 donuts every 4 hours, as you have raised your XP bonus percentage into the thousands.

At this point, some of you may wonder is it worth always going for 3 donuts when you fill an XP bar? Or are you better spending that money on additional KEMs?

Let’s take a look and see…

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Super Safi’s Stats & Strategy Special: Minigames – Scratch-R!

Posted on November 10, 2017 by | 22 comments

Salutations Senors, Senoras, Senoritas, Statisticians & Strategists,

(Today’s post is sponsored by the letter ‘S’)

Hi, I’m Super Safi and you may remember me from such stats and strategy posts as KEM Farming and the advanced losing-to-win Superheroes battle strategy.

What better way to spend your time than talking math. So from time-to-time, I’ll come to you with a post that delves into the wonderful world of numbers, stats, and/or strategies.

While we’ve previously discussed Springfield Downs and the Go Kart Track a couple months ago, over the next few weeks, we’ll continue to look at most of the Minigames found within our game. After discussing Claw Machine yesterday, we continue our journey today with the Scratch-R!

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Random Changes Christmas Is Over

Posted on January 15, 2015 by | 129 comments

No more snow, no more Elves, no more… snowmen. Christmas is gone and with it many changes I am sure you are all noticing in your game.

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Diary of a Wookiee: Krustyland in Hollywood

Posted on January 6, 2014 by | 6 comments

What’s up friends?

So, I don’t know how it happened, but it seems like I suddenly have become the theme park correspondent of this site.  Some awesome coincidences (what I like to think of as blessings) have given me the opportunity to visit not only Springfield at Universal Studios Orlando but also the version in Hollywood.  (for my post about Orlando, click here) Continue reading →

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Do More Kwik-E-Marts=More Scratch-Rs?

Posted on August 20, 2013 by | Leave a comment

While I’m sure you’d love it if I said ‘Absolutely’, unfortunately you’re going to be a bit disappointed. No matter how much you want the answer to be ‘Yes’, the answer is ‘No’. You only get one Scratch-R card every 6 hours, no matter how many Kwik-E-Mart’s your Springfield is currently While initially Itchy and Scratchy will appear over all of the Kwik-E-Marts in you town, as soon as you’ve played one the Scratch-R icon disappears from all of them.

However, having more than one Kwik-E-Mart is still a good idea. It helps your consumerism (on your Conform-O-Meter) reach 5 Stars, which is extremely important if you’re looking to get the maximum Conform-O-Meter bonus. And in the end the Conform-o-meter bonus-multiplier could be worth much more than the Scratch-R pay out.

 

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Tapped Out Walkthrough: Power Plant-Gilded Truffle (Levels 11-16)

Posted on August 15, 2013 by | 52 comments

Missed a Previous Walkthrough? 
Levels 1-5 here
Levels 5-10 here
The Walkthroughs Last Left Off with the Building of Springfield Elementary and Willie raking leaves (Completion of level 10).  The Walkthrough continues with Level 11 and the Nuclear Power Plant…

Level 11-16 (Power Plant-Gilded Truffle)

It’s Pronounced Nu-cular Part 1 Build the Cooling Towers at the Nuclear Power Plant (Apu prompts $15,000 and 24 hours)
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New Character Unlock!
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It’s Pronounced Nu-cular Part 2 Build the Power Plant Reactor Core (Mr.Burns prompts, 18,500 and 24 hours – keep Burns free as it finishes)

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It’s Pronounced Nu-Cular Part 3 Build the Power Plant Control Building (Mr. Burns Prompts, $15,000 and 24 hours – keep Burns and Homer free as it finishes)

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It’s Pronounced Nu-Cular Part 3 Send Homer to Do a Plant Shift (Mr. Burns Prompts, 24 hours)

A Little Light Reading Make Mr. Burns read from Neocronomicon (4hrs)
Release the Hounds Make Mr. Burns walk the hounds (12 hours)
Quicky at the Kwik-E Lisa shops at the Kwik-E-Mart (1 hour)
It’s Either This or a Bath Cletus de-louses the young-uns (4 hours)

Bart Crusoe Pt. 1 Make Lisa and Milhouse go to School (Milhouse Prompts, 6hours)
Bart Crusoe Pt.2 Build Bart’s Treehouse (Lisa Prompts, $25,000 instant build)

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New Character Unlock!

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Bart Crusoe Pt. 3 Make Bart Go Skateboard (Bart Prompts, 4hours)

Skipping Rocks Make Bart Skip School (Bart Prompts, 8hours)

A Real Maverick Make Milhouse Fly His Scale Model Perfectly Level (Bart Prompts, 4hours)

Sanctus Arx Nerdarium Build Springfield Library (Skinner Prompts, $20,500 and 24hours)

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New Character Unlock!

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My Glorious Return! Place Snapdragons ($270) Make martin Smell the Roses (Martin Prompts, 10 minutes)

Allies At Last! Pt. 1 Make Martin Ride a Bike (Martin Prompts, 8hours)

Allies At Last! Pt. 2 Make Martin and Bart Study All Night for a Meaningless Test (Bart Prompts, 24hours)

Fun At Your Expense Make Bart and Martin Paintball in the Brown House (Bart Prompts, 2hours)

The Dungeon Keeper Pt. 1 Make Bart Go to School (Skinner Prompts, 6hours)

The Dungeon Keeper Pt. 2 Build Android’s Dungeon (Bart Prompts, $30,000 and 24hours)

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New Character Unlock!

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The New Evergreen Terrace Pt. 8 Build the Orange House (Lisa Prompts, $24,500 24hours)

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Death by Squishee Make Bart and Milhouse Shop at the Kwik-E-Mart (Bart Prompts, 1 hour)

The Dungeon Keeper Pt. 3 Make Bart Loiter at Android’s Dungeon (Milhouse Prompts, 30 minutes)

Passion of the Flanders Pt.1 Build the First Church of Springfield (Flanders Prompts, $32,500 and 24hours)

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New Character Unlock!

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The Mysterious Brown House Pt. 3 Make Bart and Milhouse Paintball in the Brown House (Milhouse Prompts, 2 hours)

An Apu’s Work is Never Done Make Apu work a 24hr Shift (Apu Prompts, 24hours)

Passion of the Flanders Pt. 2 Make Homer and Flanders Attend Church.  Make Lovejoy give Sermon (12 hours, Flanders Prompts)

Passion of the Flanders Pt. 3 Make Bart, Lisa and Milhouse go to Sunday School (Flanders Prompts, 12 hours)

One in Every Flock Make Reverend Lovejoy Walk the Dog (Lovejoy prompts, 1hr)

They Have Internet on Computers Now? Pt. 1 Build a Java Server (Comic Book Guy Prompts, $26,500 and 24hours)

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They Have Internet on Computers Now? Pt. 2 Make Comic Book Guy Visit Java Server (Comic Book Guy Prompts, 8hours)

Is There an Al Coholic Here Pt. 1 Build Moe’s Tavern (Homer Prompts, $32,000 and 24hours)

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New Character Unlock!

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New Character Unlock!

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Is There an Al Coholic Here Pt. 2 Make Homer Drink at Moe’s (Homer Prompts, 8hours)

Double Down on She’s a Loser Pt. 1 Build the Springfield Downs (Homer Prompts, $34,500 and 24hours)

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Double Down on She’s a Loser Pt. 2 Place a bet at Springfield Downs ($5,000)

Teamwork!  Make Milhouse Go to School (6 hours) Make Bart Skip School (8hours) (Bart Prompts)

Once You’ve Gone Organic Make Marge Shop at Kwik-E-Mart (Marge Prompts, 60 minutes)

I’m Stalking on Sunshine! Have a Shrub and Make Moe Spy on Midge (Moe prompts, 12hours)

What’s in the Back Room? Make Moe Smuggle Engendered Species (Moe Prompts, 8hours)

Free Band-Aids with Every Cut Pt. 1 Build Jake’s Unisex Hair Palace (Marge Prompts, $29,000 and 24hours)

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Free Band-Aids with Every Cut Pt. 2 Make Marge Visit Jake’s Unisex Hair Salon (Marge Prompts, 4hours)

Truffle Surprise Pt. 1 Send Homer to Visit the Track (3 hours, Marge Prompts)

Time to Clean House Make Marge Clean the House (3hours)

Truffle Surprise Pt. 2 Send Homer to Shop at Kwik-E-Mart (1hr)

Truffle Surprise Pt. 3 Build the Gilded Truffle (Marge Prompts, $31,000 and 24hours)

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Truffle Surprise Pt. 4 Make Homer and Marge Dine at the Truffle (Marge Prompts, 2hours)

Continue the walkthroughs with Levels 17 through 22 here

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Tapped Out Walkthrough: Tutorial (Game Start-Level 5)

Posted on August 15, 2013 by | 4 comments


Quests start right after the video of Homer blowing up Springfield Ends
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All dialogue spoke by Homer here:
“Hello, anybody here? Huh.  I guess it’s true what they say about atomic blasts—the safest place to be is ground zero. I wonder where my loving family is…and Bart.  Task book is then highlighted.  Whoa, whoa – if there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s when you open books, bad things happen”
Prompted to build the Simpson House, 6 seconds.
     

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Must build the house within the shaded box.  If not Homer says “I think I should place it where the computer tells me”

Character Unlock!
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Level up!

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Homer: “Lisa!  Thank God you’re here to guide me through this tutorial.”
Lisa: “ What happened?”
Homer: “Difficult to say sweetie.  The town blew up, I built our house and you showed up.  All we know for sure is, I’m completely blameless.”
Lisa: “Hmm.  Maybe if we keep building things, Mom and Bart will show up too.”
Homer: “I’m sure they will.  This thing would be way too sad if they didn’t”
Lisa: “Then let’s do it.  But first, we should clean this place up a bit.”
Homer: “You’re joking right?”

Springfield Cleaners Pt. 1 Despite his objections, Homer cleans up some of the debris left by the explosion (6 seconds – don’t make him clean up everything – just one piece is enough for this stage.)

Springfield Cleaners Pt. 2 Lisa joins in the Springfield clean up (6 seconds, Lisa finds a donut)

Lisa: “Hey, I found a donut!”
Homer: “It looks like one of the donuts from the break room.”
Lisa: “It must have been irradiated when the plant blew up.  Now it has the power to locally speed up time…as well as to buy things, for some reason.”

The New Evergreen Terrace Pt. 1 Build a road (prompted by Lisa)

Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart Build the Kwik-E-Mart (prompted by Homer.  Note: you’re asked to use some of your donuts to speed this up)

Character Unlock!
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Level Up!

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The Others Frink appears from the Other Springfield and tells you to pay a visit there.  Visit the other Springfield by following what Frink says.  You’ll collect some extra cash and XP.

The Box, The Box! Starts with the Daily Play Combo appearing.  Homer wants to speed it up to get to the Mystery box.  You’ll have to spend 6 donuts to get a Mystery Box.  Mystery box contains 10 donuts.

Level up!

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Soylent Bean Lisa goes shopping at the Kwik-E-Mart (Prompted by Lisa 1hour)

Thank Ganesh Apu prays to Ganesh (45 seconds)

Working Hard Homer or Lisa need to clean up Springfield a bit more (if you’ve cleaned all of your debris, you’ll need to buy more land)

The New Evergreen Terrace Pt. 2 Build the Brown House (prompted by Lisa)

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The Mysterious Brown House Pt. 1 Homer breaks into the Brown House and watches TV

The Taxman Cometh Collect money from houses

Level Up!

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The New Evergreen Terrace Pt. 3 Move the Kwik-E-Mart because it doesn’t really belong next to the Simpsons’ house.  You’ll then be prompted to build the Flanders House (90 seconds)

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Character Unlock!

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Shopaholic Collect money from shops (just the Kwik-E-Mart at this point)

Green Thumb Plant trees (Lisa initiates this task, so make sure she’s free.  You’ll need to plant at least 3 trees in order for this quest to be complete)

Donut-denominated Decorations Place Homer’s Hammock

That Ain’t Right Ned condemns science (45 seconds)

Hardly Working Place the kiddie pool (it costs $100)

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Property Values Buy a land expansion

At this point the tutorial ends and you should be on level 5. 

Continue the walkthrough here with levels 5 through 10.

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