The Simpsons: Tapped Out Superheroes content update

The Simpsons: Tapped Out Superheroes content update was released on February 18, 2015, under a new app version 4.13.0. This event follows on from the hint players were receiving Fallout Boy in. There are four prize tracks in this event. The event is split into four issues. There is also crafting enabled at the Android's Dungeon, and Personal Prizes for each issue. The event ended on April 1, 2015.

The premise of the event is Criminals invading Springfield. Issue One of the event began February 17, 2015 at 8am (GMT). Issue Two began February 24 at 8am, Issue Three begun March 10 at 8am, Issue Four begun March 24 at 8am, and the event ended April 1 upon releasing of a Store update.

Carbon Rods, Pie Bombs, Freeze Rays and Radioactive Girders are the event currency. Also changed in this event is the fact there is a new dialogue format and ambient music. This event also adds the first (non-permanent, however) cutscene since the game's launch.

Event features
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Upgrading
The Superior Squad HQ can be upgraded for larger task payouts and a larger Criminal-tap radius. You can use Arbitrarium, which can be collected in various ways after "A New Hero Rises Pt. 1". Upgrading is not necessary, but is to complete both quests in the mini-questline "Superior-ior Squad HQ". Fireworks and a brief soundtrack happen when levelling up.

Superior Squad HQ rewards
At Level 0, the reward is every 4 hours. Then, once you level up to 1, it is every 4 hours. Every time you upgrade, there are more rewarded every 4 hours. For example, at Level 7 you have every 4 hours.

Friend Actions
In a friends' town, you can do SIX daily actions, as opposed to the usual three. Three of them are tapping Criminals, while the other are reporting crimes, which can be done by tapping on the phone icon above all buildings. Only the latter rewards cash, while all reward Carbon Rods.

After tapping on Spied-on Buildings, the yellow logo will disappear and a message will pop up saying "Spied by [player name]". Spied-on Buildings will also have their animations running while the yellow logo is above it.

Device notifications

 * "Hurry! [player name] has reported a crime in your Springfield! Heed the call to action quickly and earn more rewards!" when a friend does the "Reporting Crimes" action on a building in your town.

Criminals
Criminals first appear in towns during the quest "A New Hero Rises Pt. 1". You tap on them to collect event currency, and have a chance to dispense of Arbitrarium, which is used to level up Superior Squad HQ.

Note: Criminals from a phase previous to the one that is currently active will drop the current phase currency.

Felons
Felons are like Criminals, but can only be cleared using Superhero costumes for characters/Fallout Boy obtained in the event during the quest: "Montgomery Burns State Prison Pt. 2". Burns State Prison spawns 1 Felon every 8 hours, and one upon building. Felons also have three hearts, meaning the task must be done three times on one Felon to defeat it. Only 6 Felons can be in one town at a time.

It costs to rush the reward.

"Montgomery Burns State Prison Pt. 2" unlocks most of the Felon's features. After the quest pops up in the taskbook:

When the task "In Battle" by a Felon is finished, the game will send a notification to the device reading "Felon has finished In Battle." After one heart is depleted, an animation of a breaking heart will appear above the Felon's head.

There is also a Glitch involving the questline and the felons.

Crafting
After starting The Collector Pt. 3, Crafting is enabled by tapping on the Android's Dungeon. Crafting items can be collected by defeating Felons and capturing Criminals. At first, one can only craft the Botanical Garden, but after crafting it, you can craft Zenith City buildings, multiple times (except for the Zenith City Times which is unique).

Attacking The Radioactive Man Statue
During the quests "Monumental Battle Pt. 1", "Monumental Battle Pt. 3", "Monumental Battle Pt. 6" and "Monumental Battle Pt. 8", Heroes must attack the Radioactive Man Statue to weaken it. Heroes from the event can be used to weaken it, but 4 additional characters' skins can be used. After completing "Conclusion", the user unlocks the ability to choose Radioactive Man Statue's skin and the 10h job for the heroes Train For Future Conflict. Only Bartman, The Collector, Fallout Boy, Pie Man, Clownface, Fruit-Bat-Man and Plopper can do this job.

Criminals
Criminals appear in towns again during the quests "Monumental Battle Pt. 2", "Monumental Battle Pt. 4" and "Monumental Battle Pt. 7". You tap on them to complete the quest. No event currency is gained from defeating them. The 30 required criminals will spawn immediately upon starting the quest. Only 30 criminals are needed to complete the quests.

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Gameplay
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Conclusion
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Issue 1
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Super Bonus
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Issue 2
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Super Bonus
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Issue 3
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Duelling Honchos
This quest activates only if the user has unlocked Hank Scorpio after completing Death Mountain.

Duelling Honchos Pt. 4
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Issue 4
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Epilogue Pt. 2
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Quest Failed Videos
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Glitches

 * Icons in the character locator can flicker.
 * If you exit the game during the dialogue that appears after the first Felon spawns, when you re-log a second will have spawned. You can get more by letting the dialogue advance one more and exit the game and re-log. It can be done up to 5 felons, the limit of Felons in your town at the same time.

February 18 update (v4_13_SUPERHEROES_Patch1_Prelaunch)

 * Freddy Quimby and Fruit-Bat-Man got renewed animations.
 * All tree-hugging decorations got resigned with better graphics and shadows.
 * Deleted any reference to Santa's tasks.
 * Can't exchange KrustyLand Tickets for Money anymore in some towns.
 * In Edit mode, after storing a decoration, the game autoselects the next decoration of the same type next to it.
 * A new background music is implemented.
 * A new font for the game is implemented, similar to Comic Sans.
 * Some System Messages now appear on the top left in a new text area.
 * A White border was added around the screen while reading quest texts and the text boxes for the event quests are now comic book-like.
 * The icon to access the friend's town screen changed and now shows Sidekick Milhouse and Bartman.
 * The Task book has been changed to a Comic Book theme.
 * Fruit-Bat-Man is moved to the Vigilantes Character Collection.
 * Selma and Skinner's Dine at the Revolving Restaurant is in order, instead of at the top of their task list.
 * The glitch where the "Walk Mr. Teeny" task gets stuck in the Task List is fixed.
 * Daily Play Combo is changed to earn Event currency.
 * In the Census, when tapping a character assigned to a visual job next to a building or decoration, it'll now open the character's task window instead of the item's task window.
 * Ned's and Duffman's good and bad jobs sound was reversed. Now it's fixed.
 * If you tap Arnie Pye in the air by mistake from anywhere in your town the screen automatically redirects to Channel 6 and reveals his “In Task” time/rush meter.
 * The Friend Points prize issue that many players faced where the prizes won were sometimes not awarded at all or wrongly awarded has been rectified.
 * Placing Fruit-Bat-Signal now yelds instead of.
 * Fruit-Bat-Signal now yelds 10 decoration points instead of 100.
 * Added chain placement to the Fruit-Bat-Signal.
 * Crazy Cat Lady is changed from RegularCharacters and RegularFemale groups to PremiumCharacters and PremiumFemale groups.
 * Mindy and Homer's Eat At Madame Chao's now yelds premium payout.
 * Homer's Book a Reservation now yelds premium payout.
 * Giuseppe is changed from RegularCharacters group to PremiumCharacters group.
 * Giuseppe and George Washington now pays premium payout.
 * Fixed a bug where Princess Penelope couldn't visit Krustyland.
 * Removed cost of Krustyland debris (was 0 Krustyland tickets).
 * Removed one strip of unprogrammed land.
 * Changed Fruit-Bat-Man's questline dialogue to appear in comic format.
 * Changed Tutorial's Other Frink to use scripted movement.
 * Changed Strongman Idle animation to the correct one.
 * Removed the requirement of quest Free Hugs Pt. 3 from the Make a Thing Shop.
 * Mr. Constington and The Yes Guy are changed from RegularCharacters and RegularMale groups to PremiumCharacters and PremiumMale groups.
 * Fixed a possible glitch in Ebenezer Burns' Money Fight.
 * Fat Tony, Louie and Legs have a new 16h job: Run Smuggling Operation at Burns State Prison.

February 24 update (v4_13_2; Android Play Store Update)

 * On Android, when the game is closed (without force closing) and reopened, the game will, most of the times, continue where it left off without restarting.

February 26 update (v4_13_SUPERHEROES_Patch2_Postlaunch)

 * The landing site was moved to the Superior Squad HQ.Tapped Out Superheroes Friends Guide.pngTapped Out Air Fortress.pngTapped Out Air Fortress New.png
 * The unreleased "Air Fortress" was released as "Radstation Air Fortress" and was redesigned to show the missiles on top and have different tubes connecting the rotating stations.
 * A new permanent job was added for Fallout Boy with the Radstation Air Fortress, Endure Air Sea-sickness (16h).
 * The questline activated once the Superior Squad Membership is bought was expanded.
 * When tapping on the Question mark on friend's screen near the currency on bottom left a guide was added.
 * Krustyland Entrance was removed from being reportable. This fixed the inability to exchange KrustyLand Tickets for Money.
 * Text for spied buildings was changed from "Spied by (username)" to "Reported by (username)".

March 5 update (v4_13_2; Itunes Update)

 * Added on iOS the ability Android got on February 24th update: when the game is closed (without force closing) and reopened the game will, most of the times, continue where it left off without restarting.

March 11 and 12 updates (v4_13_The Homer + Patch 1 + Patch 2)

 * (v4_13_TheHomer)
 * (v4_13_TheHomer_Patch1_PostLaunch)
 * (v4_13_TheHomer_Patch2_PostLaunch)

March 23 update (v4_13_SuperheroesBossFight)

 * Changed end dates for St. Patrick's 2015 to 2014 to disable them.
 * Added the previously unreleased Construction Site (now named Radioactive Man Statue), Kane Manor, Beach House, Radioactive Man and Rad Mobile to the game.
 * Changed Beach House design.
 * Sidekick Milhouse, Bartman Cave and Radstation Air Fortress are being reoffered at the end of Issue 4.
 * Removed the requirement quest O'Flan-again Pt. 1 and 2 for some of St. Patrick's Day 2015 quests.
 * Wrecked Brown House can now be sold.
 * Radstation Air Fortress now can be placed on shoreline.
 * Sound has been added to the Radstation Air Fortress and Bartman Cave.
 * Changed all quests for Superheroes event from Sidequest to Eventquest type.
 * Requirements for Radstation Air Fortress and Bartman Cave changed from A New Hero Rises Pt. 1 completed to having started the event.
 * Added the new currency Radioactive Girders.
 * Sidekick Milhouse now costs once rereleased and his jobs now yelds Premium payout.
 * River's water returned blue.
 * A new ambience music has been added.
 * Storefront returned to Superheroes'.
 * Added a job for Bartman, The Collector, Fallout Boy, Pie man, Clownface, Fruit-Bat-Man and Plopper to Train For Future Conflict at the Radioactive Man Statue once the Issue 4 Quests are completed. During Issue 4 the job is Fight Final Boss.
 * Superior Squad HQ now has a payout of and.

March 25 update (v4_13_SuperheroesBossFight_Patch1)

 * Changed the duration of the work for Fallout Boy "Research The Statue" for "Monumental Battle Pt. 5" from 12h to 1h.
 * Fixed bugs resetting to Issue 1 or making criminals not appear for Issue 4 quests.
 * Fruit-Bat-Signal is now permanent in the Civic section of the store and no longer limited time.