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What episode is the Devil Donuts Cart from and what rating does it contribute to?

By TSTO Tips
May 19, 2013 //
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The Devil Donuts Cart is from episode 7 of season 24 “The Day the Earth Stood Cool“. It’s the third promotional item from this episode – the two others, the Cool Brown House and Cool Homer, were released just before that episode in November last year and were only available for a few days. Both those items were free.

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In that episode, the Simpsons family gets new cool neighbors Terrence and Emily from Portland – and the Devil Donuts business is how Terence earns his money, at least for the time being. Here are a couple of screen shots from the episode showing the Cart parked outside the Cool Brown House, and showing Homer and Terence enjoying a beer outside the Cart when it’s parked downtown:

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Strangely, the Cart improves your Vanity rating rather than your Gluttony rating (in the same way that the Laramie Vending Machine adds to your Vanity rating rather than your Consumerism rating).
But that can be forgiven just because it’s a great new decoration for your town that costs game dollars rather than donuts! And it also gives you 520XP when you place it in your town.

As a bonus, here’s a video from the ANIMATION on FOX YouTube channel of Homer trying to be cool to fit in with his cool neighbors:

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Categories Conform-o-meter, Cool Brown House, Cool Homer, Devil Donuts Truck, Episode promotions, Homer, Limited time, Vanity rating, Yard Sale

What happened at the end of Whacking Day?

By TSTO Tips
May 17, 2013 //
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As expected, Whacking Day ended without a countdown or fanfare – just an App Store/Google Play update that hit at about 4pm Central. By 5pm Central, the whacking was at an end. Here’s a summary of what happened to the Whacking Day characters, tasks and decorations at the end of Whacking Day:

  • The Snake Rocks, Snake Logs and Hollow Snake Trunks still have the snake appearing out of them, but no longer produce snakes. Instead, the bonus that has always been there is now clearly identified (when you store them) as 2%, 2.5% and 2.75% respectively, all adding to your bonus multiplier. (By the way, if there is still a handshake icon over any of these and the game crashes when you tap on them, just store them and replace them, then everything should be fine),
  • Characters doing Whacking Day tasks just stopped doing them and the tasks disappeared.
  • All the snakes and eggs simply disappeared, too.
  • Lumpy the School Snake is no longer available.
  • The Duff Stadium, Tatum and the Coliseum, and Miss Springfield and the Sleep-Eazy Motel are now available in the premium store for 90 donuts, 190 donuts, and 225 donuts respectively. They are permanent items, not limited time. However, the tasks for Tatum and Miss Springfield pay the regular rate rather than the premium rate.
  • Ninja Homer can still do all his tasks, but they now pay out in game dollars at the premium rate, rather than in snakes.
  • Bare-chested Willie can still wrestle snakes, but now earns cash for it!

And if you’re having trouble updating the game because your device is telling you that the App is “not available in your country”, don’t believe a word it says. Try deleting and reinstalling – but remember to go and check that that your “Confirm Donut Spend” option is turned on if you’ve had to do this.

Now to go and relax my Whacking finger.

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Categories Events, Gameplay, Miss Springfield, Ninja Homer, snake eggs, Snake Rocks, Snake Statue, Snake Stump, snakes, Tatum, Whacking Day

Should I spend my donuts on speeding up my snake count?

By TSTO Tips
May 6, 2013 //
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With only a couple of days to go, this is a question that many people who haven’t managed to whack their way to all the prizes are asking. Before I answer it, though, let’s look at how many donuts you would need to go from the Snake Statue to Miss Springfield):

Prize Level Prize Snakes Donuts
6 Duff Stadium 4250 125
7 Pet Snake 5500 125
8 Bare-chested Willie 7500 200
9 Tatum / Springfield Coliseum 10000 250
10 Miss Springfield / Sleep-Eazy Motel 12500 250

This means that if you only managed to whack your way to the Snake Statue, but you really want Miss Springfield, you’re going to need 950 donuts to get all the way to the end. And if your question is “should you?”, it all really depends on what you can afford, whether it’s actually worth that much to you to get these limited time items – and that means deciding whether they’re really worth 50 real world dollars.

Of course, with an Elite Whacking License, 100 friends, an egg buddy, and some time over the next couple of days, it is possible to bring yourself closer to the top of the prize range. But, really, at this stage, if you’re at the Snake Statue or the Duff Stadium and want Tatum or Miss Springfield, it may be that the only way to get yourself within reach of either of them will be to use some donuts.

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Donuts, Duff Stadium, Miss Springfield, Pet Snake, prizes, Sleep-Eazy Motel, snakes, Springfield Coliseum, Tatum, Whacking Day

Poll Results: Will you be buying (or have you bought) Ninja Homer?

By TSTO Tips
May 6, 2013 //
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Looking at my list of things to write about, I think I may have said just about all there is to say about Whacking Day. There’ll be a repost or two this week and possibly one or two new Whacking Day-related posts, but with only a few days to go, it’s almost time to go back to business as usual. And that makes me a bit happy, because I’ve been dreaming snakes and snakes eggs for a couple of weeks now!

One of the things that’s been missed in the Whacking Day deluge is reporting on poll results, so it’s time to catch up. In a poll a week or so ago, I asked whether you would be buying or had bought Ninja Homer, and the results surprised me a little given how much everyone had been looking forward to this costume for Homer before the event:

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73.08% of the readers of this blog decided that the price for Ninja Homer was just too high at 120 donuts – and only 26.92% had made a decision to buy him or had already bought him. While his snake-earning powers were considered useful, there were also many premium items that produced far more snakes per donut spent. Perhaps there are some pricing lessons in this for EA – even Fruit-Bat-Man at 90 donuts had more support than this.

Remember, though, if you’ve been thinking about buying Ninja Homer, you’ll only be able to do so until the end of Whacking Day on May 9. And for those who have him, Ninja Homer’s snake-earning powers will disappear with the snakes. Like Mr. Plow and Santa Homer, Ninja Homer will then become another costume for Homer that lets him earn at a premium rate.

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Categories Donuts, EA, Ninja Homer, snakes, Whacking Day

Outsiders’ Musings VIII

By rcsprinter
May 4, 2013 //
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Time for OM 8..

It’s hard to believe its been eight weeks since the first edition of Outsiders’ Musings back in March. Thanks for your support and readership; it’s been amazing. Still, I suppose I had better muse and give tips for this week.

Whacking Day has been a large and fruitful event for many; the number of prizes has been far greater than those for any past event. But with it all ending on 9th May, those who are trying to get the prize they are aiming for will be frantically tapping every snake and egg they see, to collect those precious snakes in exchange for prizes. But here’s the thing: Whacking Day has been much more of an “earning” event. This has come from EA in response to the Hearts during Valentine’s which had a low value and could be collected in scores with the prizes not really costing very much. Here, you’ve had to really work at getting the snakes, or you won’t get the prizes. I don’t have a donut budget, so even with a hundred friends I’m haven’t got Bare-Chested Willie yet. However, the first few prizes don’t cost cash and require a relatively low number of snakes to get, so at least nobody has missed out if they aren’t getting the eggs they need.

And on a different note, please continue to send your arty snaps of unique town planning or weird screenshots of borked texture glitch buildings in through the comments section below – and you can keep a picture of your whole Springfield using the guide here. So long, and happy whacking!

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Cash, Events, Hearts, Money, Outsiders' Musings, prizes, snakes, Whacking Day

What does the Limo have to do with Respectable Moe?

By TSTO Tips
May 4, 2013 //
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If you’re wondering what the Limo has to do with Respectable Moe, you’re going to have to watch Sunday night’s episode, Whiskey Business.

In the meantime, though, this clip from the episode on the ANIMATIONonFOX YouTube Channel gives you a hint:

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Categories Episode promotions, Limited time, Limo, Moe, Respectable Moe

What happens in Respectable Moe’s quest (complete)?

By TSTO Tips
May 4, 2013 //
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There are only four tasks that make up Respectable Moe’s quest – but, as many of you will already have discovered, the length of a couple of the tasks means that it all takes at least 3 days to play in real time. So, here’s what happens once you get the message that Moe has a new suit and you can find it in your Inventory:

1. Moe’s New Suit Part 1 Once you put the suit on Moe, his quest begins (no other characters need to be free at this stage):
Moe: What’s this? A suit! And in my thin-shouldered hunch-backed Quasimodo size!
Homer: Wow Moe! When you wear it, it looks like you’re standing up straight!
Moe: That’s because I AM standing up straight. For the first time in my life I’ve got self-loathing!
Homer: You mean “self-confidence”?
Moe: Yeah, that one. I’m just so used to saying the other.
Feeling unusually good, Respectable Moe spends the next 12 hours strutting in the suit. Keep Homer and Marge free for the next part.

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2. Moe’s New Suit Part 2 Homer really notices the difference in Moe:

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Marge: I’m just glad to see him doing something other than leering at me from a bush.
Homer: Hey Moe! Marge and I were thinking of going out for a bite. Normally we wouldn’t invite you on account of you being unpleasant and unpresentable and… well, you, know, you. But now you’ve got that suit, we don’t mind being seen with you in public.
Moe: That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.
Homer: So what do you say we grab dinner at Luigi’s?
Moe: Screw that! Let’s go someplace fancy!
Homer: Um… okay.
Moe: And we’ll get drinks and appetizers and entrees and desserts!
Homer: I don’t know…
Moe: And the whole dinner will be your treat!
Homer: Maybe this isn’t such a good idea.
Moe: Too late! I already called ahead and ordered one of everything on the menu.
Now, if you already have the Gilded Truffle, you can continue with the quest. If you don’t, you’re going to have to get to it in your regular game (limited-time quests never let you jump ahead to the buildings you need). Once you have it, though, you’ll be able to send Homer, Marge and Respectable Moe to dine there for 2 hours at Homer’s expense.

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3. Moe’s New Suit Part 3 Moe enjoyed himself…

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Marge: You’re more than welcome Moe. It’s so nice to see you looking so slick. Is there “someone special” we don’t know about?
Moe: No. This suit can do a lot of things, but even it can’t make me attractive to dames.
Marge suggests that if Moe stopped referring to women as dames, that might help a little bit. And that it also might be an idea to clean up his bar because it looks like a pigsty.
So, Moe takes Marge’s advice and spends the next 2 days doing just that (2 days! With the task that’s part of the Rich Texan’s quest, this seems to be a something new to make shorter quests go for a little longer – and given its placement on the task list, it seems to be a permanent task!)

The conversation when the clean-up is over is one of my favorites of the game:

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Moe: Yeah, but I still haven’t met anyone. Where are all the women in this town?
Homer: I hear you, buddy – it took me 15 levels to find Marge!
Moe: *sigh* It’s like I’m trapped in a world created by a bunch of writers who don’t know anything about women.

4. Moe’s New Suit Part 4 Moe is resigned to the fact that the town is short on female characters and, therefore, a potential love interest:

Moe: There’s a saying – unlucky at love, lucky at getting drunk. I’m going to distil some 15-year-old whiskey. Let’s hope it doesn’t actually take 15 years, like that growing corm at Cletus’ Farm job.
Luckily, it only takes 24 hours!

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Ands that’s where Respectable Moe’s quest ends. If you’re in the US, be sure to watch Sunday night’s episode, Whiskey Business, to find out what it all means!

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Categories Episode promotions, Gameplay, Homer, Limited time, Marge, Moe, Moe's New Suit, Moe's Tavern, Respectable Moe, Tasks, The Gilded Truffle, Walkthrough

What does the Limo look like and what does it do?

By TSTO Tips
May 3, 2013 //
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The Limo is a 40-donut premium item that comes as part of the Respectable Moe episode promotion. As I mentioned in the update post, as with many other decorations, it gives you a 2% bonus on all the cash and XP you collect from rent as well as jobs – and you’ll only be able to add it to your game until Monday US at the latest.

Buying it also gives you a 60 minute task for Moe. A little bit unusually for a task involving a premium item, though, Moe’s “Fun in the Limo” task only pays the standard rate of $70 and 17XP.

It looks great outside Fat Tony’s Compound, though.

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And it looks even better when Moe is doing his “Fun in the Limo” task:

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Categories Donuts, Episode promotions, Limited time, Limo, Moe, Respectable Moe, Update

The Respectable Moe update is here!

By TSTO Tips
May 2, 2013 //
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Check into your game now – Respectable Moe has arrived as an in-game update!

The best part of it is that Moe’s new costume is free and it also comes with a whole lot of new tasks and a quest for Moe. You’ll find it in your Inventory (the cardboard box in the left-hand corner of your build menu, as shown in the screenshots.)

And there’s a Limo available as a premium item, too. The Limo gives a 2% bonus on the money and XP you collect (just like the Police Car, the Burns Limo, and the Channel 6 News Van).

If you’ve just joined the game and don’t have Moe yet, his Respectable Moe costume (and the quest that comes with it) will stay in your Inventory until you get him. As usual, all you need to do is open his task menu and swipe the picture of Moe to switch between his regular clothes and his new suit.

Respectable Moe and the Limo are limited-time items to promote Sunday night’s new episode of The Simpsons. Both items will only be available for a few days – expect them to be no longer available by the end of Monday.

Of course, now you have them, they’re yours to keep!

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Categories Episode promotions, Free, Limited time, Limo, Moe, Respectable Moe, Update

Lisa and Willie have costumes now – what other characters have them (or will have them)?

By TSTO Tips
May 1, 2013 //
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This is an update of a post from early last month, that also answers the questions about costumes for Carl and Chief Wiggum that keep coming up…

For many players, particularly those that joined the game very recently, Gymnastic Lisa and Bare-Chested Wllie are their first costumes (or “skins”, to use the term that serious gamers prefer). And while they’re Lisa and Willie’s first costume, they’re certainly not the first in the game.

Since October 2012, a few other characters have also been given costumes:

Homer – He’s acquired the most costumes so far with Mayan Homer (from Halloween 2012), Cool Homer (a free costume to promote an episode in November 2012), Santa Homer (from Christmas 2012), Mr Plow (a premium costume from Winter 2013) and now Ninja Homer (his premium Whacking Day costume). When Homer wears his premium costumes, he earns money from his jobs at a premium rate.

Marge – She only has one costume so far and that’s Witch Marge from Halloween 2012. This premium costume gives her the power to speed up crops.

Ned Flanders – He only has one costume, too, and that’s Devil Flanders, also from Halloween 2012.

Grampa Simpson – His Gorgeous Grampa costume came as the free element of a promotion for the Season 24 episode Gorgeous Grampa in early March 2013

Mr. Burns – He acquired his Fruit-Bat-Man costume as a premium purchase with the promotion for the Season 24 episode Dark Night Court in mid-March 2013. When he wears it, he acts like a premium character.

All of these costumes were limited time items and all of them are no longer available. However, like Gymnastic Lisa and Bare-Chested Willie, once you have a costume, it’s yours to keep. And if the information in the files comes to pass, it looks like Moe will have one, too, before the week is out!

But what about Carl’s Viking costume and Chief Wiggum’s female impersonation? They don these outfits for their 24-hour tasks, Carl to celebrate his Icelandic heritage, and Wiggum to go undercover.

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Burns, Carl, Chief Wiggum, Cool Homer, Costume, Fruit-Bat-Man, Gameplay, Gorgeous Grampa, Grampa Simpson, Groundskeeper Willie, Gymnastic Lisa, Homer, Marge, Moe, Ned Flanders, Ninja Homer, Respectable Moe, Witch Marge

Where do I need to be now to get other prizes by May 9?

By TSTO Tips
April 30, 2013 //
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With the snake requirements for the prizes set so high, winning Miss Springfield is an impossible dream for many readers of this blog as the results of a poll that’s still running show (you can see it here). So, what’s your daily snake requirement if you’ve started late, been on vacation, or simply don’t have that much time to whack and your final goal is a lower level prize?

Duff Stadium – if this is what you’re aiming for, you need to be collecting about 146 snakes every day. Right now, you should have 2,744 of them.
Pet Snake – to earn “Whacky” (as one reader as named him), you’ll need to collect about 190 snakes every day. As of today, you should have 3,610 in your inventory.
Bare-chested Willie – you’ll need to be collecting about 259 snakes to get the chance to see Willie wrestle a snake. By now, you should have around 4,921.
Springfield Coliseum and Tatum – to be on track for Tatum and his his tiger, you’ll need to be adding about 345 snakes a day to your inventory. At this stage you should have collected around 6,555 of them.

Remember that even if you’re behind, though, getting an egg buddy or buying snake-generating premium items can help you catch up. And if you don’t mind spending donuts, you can also use them to bosst yourself up a prize level.But if you want to keep the prizes free, the numbers above show you where you need to be.

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Duff Stadium, Pet Snake, prizes, snakes, Springfield Coliseum, Tatum, Whacking Day

Poll: Will you be buying (or have you bought) Ninja Homer?

By TSTO Tips
April 28, 2013 //
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Yesterday, I posted a new poll on how long it took you to get to the top level of the game (here). But as only those at the top level can vote on that one, here’s one everyone can play.

With Lugash now apparently a permanent character, Ninja Homer is the only limited time character/costume left. Although he costs a cool 120 donuts, his snake-earning power makes him an atrractive purchase (and there are other reasons too, as you can see in this post).

So have you bought him or will you be buying him before Whacking Day is over on May 9, after which you may never have the chance again? Vote and see whether you’re with the majority or the minority in your donut-using decision-making!

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Categories Costume, Donuts, Ninja Homer, Polls, snakes, Whacking Day

It’s April 27 in the US – how many snakes should I have by the end of the day to get all the prizes by May 9?

By TSTO Tips
April 27, 2013 //
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The weekend is time to do a bit of catching up on numbers of snakes in your inventory. April 27 is Day 17, and here’s where you need to be by end of the day in the US:

To get all the 10 prizes: you’ll need to have put 7,327 snakes in your inventory – you should get Bare-chested Willie very soon.
To get all the prizes and all 10 Whack Boxes: you’ll need to have put 13,175 snakes in your inventory – and that will be enough to get Miss Springfield.

If you want to see the basis for these numbers, take a look at Friday’s post, here.

Still to come for the weekend – the final part of the Fat Tony walkthrough and some buying advice on the Rich Texan, as well as updates on some bugs and glitches and some tips from readers on both giving and receiving eggs and on whacking snakes. There’ll also be a little look at something new that we may well see this week. And I’m now down to the last 40 of the questions that have built up this week, so I hope to have answers for them all by the end of the weekend!

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Gameplay, Miss Springfield, prizes, snakes, Whack Boxes, Whacking Day

What happens in Bare-chested Willie’s quest?

By TSTO Tips
April 27, 2013 //
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Bare-chested Willie is the eighth prize in the Whacking Day event, and while this Willie costume doesn’t earn you premium amounts of cash and XP, it gives some really nice variety to the tasks you can set Willie doing (as well as a 1-hour wrestle-a-snake task that earns you 1 snake). It also comes with a short quest, and here it is:

1. Getting All Tarzan Milhouse needs help (although only Willie needs to be free) so Bare-chested Willie comes to the rescue. His first task is spend an hour wrestling a snake, an animation I like so much that I’m showing the screenshot again:

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2. Fit as a Butcher’s Dog Bare-chested Willie thanks the snake for the work-out and continues it on his own by doing one-fingered push-ups for the next 12 hours outside his shack:

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3. Stomaching the Chore Skinner (who doesn’t need to be free) notices something:
Skinner: Willie, I noticed that you’re only half-dressed.
Willie: Aye.
Skinner: Do you think it’s appropriate attire for a school?
Willie: With wash-board abs like this, I don’t have to think.
Skinner: Hmm, wash-board abs. And today is laundry day… Go ahead and keep your shirt off, Willie. I’ve got a job for you!
And that job is for Willie to use his wash-board abs to do Skinner’s laundry – which will take 24 hours.

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4. Warming the Belly Bare-chested Willie returns Skinner’s laundry to him:
Willie: Here’s yer smalls.
Skinner: Thank you Willie. And you even got the stains out! Perhaps later I can get you a load of darks.
Willie: *sigh* I’ll be in my shack.
Which is exactly where he goes to spend 8 hours out of sight enjoying a wee shot of Highland moonshine.

That’s where the quest ends. And it’s just a personal opinion, but I think the new tasks and animations for Willie make this a prize worth winning.

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Groundskeeper Willie, Milhouse, prizes, Walkthrough, Whacking Day

What does Bare-chested Willie do – and is it a premium costume?

By TSTO Tips
April 26, 2013 //
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The Bare-chested Willie costume is the eighth Whacking Day prize and, to earn it, you need to have collected 7500 snakes in your snake inventory (and probably have actually whacked more than 10,000!). As it’s a prize, like Gymnastic Lisa, it’s not a premium costume. Willie earns exactly the same amount for his tasks whether he is bare-chested or not – with one exception.

Bare-chested Willie has one task (and only one) that earns you any snakes. You can send him off to wrestle snakes for 1 hour and he’ll earn you exactly 1 snake. That’s all. But it’s certainly better than the 5 snakes for the 12-hour task that he earns when he’s wearing a shirt and injecting himself with snake venom.

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So, here’s Bare-chested Willie’s task list:

Task Length Snakes XP
Wrestle a snake 60 minutes 1 snake 17XP
Attend Janitors Anonymous 4 hours $175 45XP
Enjot a wee shot of highland moonshine 8 hours $275 70XP
One-finger push ups 12 hours $420 100XP
Use washboard abs 24 hours $600 150XP

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Gameplay, Groundskeeper Willie, prizes, snakes, Whacking Day

Will the side-quests still be there after Whacking Day?

By TSTO Tips
April 23, 2013 //
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As part of the Whacking Day event, Lisa, Willie and Homer all have side-quests that take them away from their snake-generating tasks. Many readers are asking whether it’s worth doing these and whether they’ll still be there once Whacking Day is over.

Honestly, that’s hard to say. In the past, event quests have disappeared once the event is finished. The only exception is for Barney – a Christmas character that became a premium character. His quest was still available once the Christmas event was done, but possibly only because he stayed around. In recent times, the Valentine’s and St. Patrick’s Day quests have all come to a halt at the end of the event, even if you have all the necessary buildings and participants.

At the moment, there’s no way of telling what will happen at the end of the Whacking Day event. Certainly, you’ll still have all Gymnastic Lisa and Bare-chested Willie’s tasks to play, but whether or not you’ll still be able to carry out their quests is another question altogether. Given the Whacking Day references for these two in particular, it seems unlikely. It really may depend on whether they’re still available for donuts at the end of the event, and that’s just not clear at this stage.

My advice, though: if you’re only just on or behind the snake collecting target, keep them in snake-earning tasks for now – it won’t affect the progress of your game. Only send them off to their side-quests once you’re closer to your target prize level.

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Gameplay, Groundskeeper Willie, Gymnastic Lisa, Homer, Lisa, prizes, snakes, Whacking Day

What happens in the Gymnastic Lisa quest (the Lugash version)?

By TSTO Tips
April 20, 2013 //
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As I mentioned here, the Gymnastic Lisa quest comes in two varieties – a short version and a longer version involving Lugash. Now, you don’t need to have Lugash to complete the quest – if you haven’t bought him yet, the quest finishes with Lisa’s dream of getting an “A” in gym class coming true. In the Lugash version, however, something a little different happens after her dream and there are a few extra steps she needs to go through before she gets that top grade.

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Lugash: To be great takes total dedication. All time invested in training. Until when mind think of losing, it also think “I AM DYING! THIS IS DEATH!”
Homer: If you’re promising to take up all of my daughter’s time with grueling psychological torments, then I think we have a deal.

Here, then, is a walkthrough of the additional parts that Lugash brings to Lisa’s quest:

1. Little Girl in the Big Ten Part 5 Lisa wants to talk to Lugash, but he cuts her off mid-sentence:

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Lisa: I just wanted you to sign my petition against Whacking Day.
Lugash: Petition cannot stop Whacking Day – only gymnastics can stop it. By celebrating it! By doing gymnastics!
Taking his advice, Lisa goes to spend the next four hours training at Lugash’s Gym while Lugash trains children.

2. Little Girl in the Big Ten Part 6 Lisa doesn’t find training with Lugash a totally positive learning environment:

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Homer: Sorry, we already paid for the lessons.
Lisa: But I saw a girl set her own broken leg in the middle of a somersault.
Homer: Wow. Next time that happens, film it and put it on YouTube. I’m tired of watching videos of cats.
So Lisa goes back again to spend another four hours in training and Lugash spends another four hours training children.

3. Little Girl in the Big Ten Part 7 Surprisingly, Lugash is impressed:

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Lisa: Thanks Lugash. I still hate this, but thanks. So you think I can get an A in gym class?
Lugash: If gym class is balance beam, yes. God gave you greatest gift. Big head. Like beach ball made of bone. Give you perfect balance. Go home now. Rest your giant head. You will now pass gym examinations. I am certain of this. I am Lugash!
Lisa is so happy, she spends an hour doing cartwheels.

And it seems to have all worked:

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Homer: Woohoo! Wait, I mean D’oh! Now what will distract you from getting all moral and judgement-y about Whacking Day? There must be more quests to keep you busy.It’s not like we constantly have nothing to do as we wait for another set of tasks to fill up our time.

So, Lugash adds an other layer to the Little Girl in the Big Ten storyline, which may make it worth you spending your donuts on him. It’s worth remembering, though, that if you want to keep Lisa in snake-earning tasks, you should be able to save this quest until later on in the Whacking Day event, although whether or not it will be available after Whacking Day is another question altogether.

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Categories Gameplay, Gymnastic Lisa, Homer, Lisa, Little Girl in the Big Ten, Lugash, Lugash's Gym, Quests, Tasks, Walkthrough, Whacking Day

What happens in the Gymnastic Lisa quest (the short version)?

By TSTO Tips
April 19, 2013 //
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As you gain the buildings and characters that come as prizes, there are also quests that come with them. Some of them are short and some are long and most of them don’t give you opportunities to earn extra snakes. The Gymnastic Lisa quest is one of those.

The Gymnastic Lisa quest comes in two versions – a short version and a long version. You’ll only get the long version if you’ve bought Lugash, though, and not having him won’t affect your ability to complete the quest in any way – he just makes it a little more fun.

In this post, I’ll walk you through the short version which involves Homer and Lisa, although only Lisa needs to be free.

1. Little Girl in the Big Ten Part 1 Whack 1000 snakes and win Gymnastic Lisa and the Balance Beam.

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2. Little Girl in the Big Ten Part 2 Lisa is pretty happy about the new outfit and the Balance Beam, but Homer had an ulterior motive in getting it for her:

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Place the Balance Beam anyhere you like.

3. Little Girl in the Big Ten Part 3 Lisa doesn’t really care – the Balance Beam will help her pull up her grades in gym class and that will mean perfect grades. With that thought as inspiration, she spends a good 12 hours walking the Beam.

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4. Little Girl in the Big Ten Part 4 Homer’s impressed, but Lisa thinks that his genes are stopping her from doing as well as she needs to. And that means the only way she’ll pass gym glass is to dream that she will. So, off she goes to spend 24 hours dreaming of success.

In the short version of the quest, this is enough for her to get the grade she wants. But in the long version, she needs the help of Lugash – and I’ll post on that tomorrow.

Note: If you prefer to keep Lisa releasing snakes from the Other Springfield, it’s quite okay to save this quest until later.

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Categories Gameplay, Gymnastic Lisa, Homer, Lisa, Little Girl in the Big Ten, prizes, snakes, Walkthrough, Whacking Day

What’s the point of non-premium costumes?

By TSTO Tips
April 18, 2013 //
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A few people have asked this question, and the point is a very, very simple one – it’s all about variety and a bit of fun! The prizes add to that fun by giving you Gymnastics Lisa as the third prize and Bare-Chested Willie as the eighth prize.

In those long gaps between levels and events where nothing much new happens in the game, it’s nice to be able to send characters off on different tasks of the same length rather than sending them on the same ones over and over again. Even after Whacking Day is over, you’ll still be able to make Lisa walk the Balance Beam or Willie wrestle snakes and bring a little bit of variety to their otherwise fairly monotonous routines. They’re not premium costumes because they didn’t cost you donuts – but they do give your characters something a little different to do even after Whacking Day is over.

And as a side note, while Lisa’s costume doesn’t earn you snakes, Willie’s does!

P.S.: Just in case you missed it, there may be one more costume appearing soon – a new suit for Moe for promote the episode Whiskey Business, currently scheduled to air on May 5!

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Categories Bare-Chested Willie, Characters, Costume, Groundskeeper Willie, Gymnastic Lisa, Lisa, prizes, Tasks, Whacking Day

What happens in Ninja Homer’s quest?

By TSTO Tips
April 16, 2013 //
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After sitting in the files for many, many months, Ninja Homer finally joins the game as part of the Whacking Day event. Unfortunately, as he’s a premium character, that means some of you won’t be adding him (although you can take a look at this post on the pros and cons of buying him if you’re still thinking about it).

But whether you’ve bought him or not, here’s a walkthrough of his quest. Lisa begins it all by raising some of her deeper concerns over Whacking Day…

1. Wing Chung for Dummies Homer may be her dad, but he’s probably the last one in Springfield that she should share any of her Whacking Day concerns with:

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Homer: Yes honey
Lisa: Then what should I do?
Homer: Just squeeze your rage into a bitter little ball and release it an appropriate time. Like I did that day I hit the referee with a whiskey bottle. Remember that?
Lisa: Yeah…
And off Homer goes to spend an hour fake-whacking pretend snakes in preparation for the big day. When he finishes, though, there’s a conversation between Lisa and Homer to prompt you to buy him more practice snakles at 10 donuts each. Resist.

2. Getting Carried Away Part 1 Homer thinks that the time has come to step it up a bit… and so he heads off to smash up Flanders’ House for 4 hours. Unfortunately, as he does all the smashing indoors, so you don’t get to see him do any of it. (The windows on Flander’s House shatter at the start of this task!)

3. Getting Carried Away Part 2 Ned is horrified by all the damage to his house:

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Homer: Ummm…no…Although I did see some snakes loitering outside your house. I think they were in a snake gang.
Ned: Looks like those snakes are getting too big for their boots. It’s time to take action.
Homer: Yay! I’ll rally the troops.
Homer goes off to steer the mob in wise directions – although as this takes 8 hours inside the Simpsons’ House, that wise direction is probably the sofa.

4. I am Bruce Lee and the Snakes are my Check Norris Now, convinved that all fake snakes fake fear the power of the ninja, Homer spends the next 12 hours twirling his whacking stick outside his house. However, he doesn’t seem to be in as good a shape as he’ll need to be for all the Whacking Day exertions to come:

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5. Oh Whacking Day To finish off the quest, Homer, full of emotion, sings the Whacking Day song, then goes inside to spend 24 hours polishing his whacking stick!

And that’s where his quest ends.

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