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Event Guide

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Store One Panel.

"The tide of evil has receded and our heroes and villains can finally hang up cape, cowl, and spandex undies. With life returning to normal, what's next for your town? A random set of summer sports? A visit from some D-list celebrities? An invasion by doppelgangers from another dimension? The arrival of a brand-new outlet mall? Only Time will tell! Sorry, I meant Tim, the guy we pay to write this stuff.
New characters, new buildings and new stories are coming soon, so stay tuned!"

―Event teaser on the App Store. The D-List celebrities one is only on Amazon Store.

"Black holes, donut holes and a scientist who rolls!

Professor Stephen Hawking has come to Springfield to take part in the town's greatest scientific discovery since Blinky the three-eyed fish!
Join Professor Hawking as you explore the secrets of black holes, stop an army of robots, and listen to his lecture on string theory... probably shouldn't have ended on that one... Featuring dimensionally different duplicates, futuristic architecture, and more!

Will you be able to save Springfield from science?"

―Event description on the App Store.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out SciFi content update was released on August 16, 2016 and was the one hundred and thirty-third content update. It was teased on August 14 on the game's Facebook page, while its splash screen was featured in an article from EA help site. It features the first ever Special Guest of the game: Stephen Hawking and its an event based on Episodes set in the future. It added 9 new characters, 20 new buildings, 2 new building-character combos, and 38 new decorations.

Characters

Image Character or Skin Cost Unlock Message Notes Stephen Hawking Quest Unlocked after starting Dark Matters Pt. 2. Sgt. Skinner 24,000 Act 1 Prize. Robo Burns Unlocks with Soul Extraction Institute. Mooch Bart 4,600 Act 2 Prize. President Lisa 29,100 Act 2 Prize. LadyBot Unlocked with Frink's Lab + LadyBot or Future-Proofed Home + LadyBot bundles. Doggy Smithers Unlocks with Soul Extraction Institute. Mecha Hawk 8,250 Act 3 Prize. Robot 30 Drone Evil Homer Quest Unlocked after completing Return to Status Quo Pt. 4. Rockstar Maggie Unlocks with Springfield Hyperstadium.

Returning

Image Character or Skin Cost Unlock Message Notes Frink's Robot Dog 60 Returns from Season 24 Yard Sale and Black Friday 2015

Alternate Homers (Temporary)

Image Character or Skin Notes Alternate Barbarian Homer Temporary characters for the event. Unlocked after completing Dark Matters Pt. 4. Alternate Cool Homer Alternate Kingsized Homer Alternate Strongman Homer Alternate Evil Homer

Buildings

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes PolyVac Quest 6s Exploring Horizons Main event building. Unlocked after starting Dark Matters Pt. 1. 3D Printer Printing Happiness Crafting building. Unlocked after starting Do Me a Solid Pt. 1. Skyberdine Systems 1,600 4h Not Preparing For Judgement Day Act 1 Prize. Newfangled Kwik-E-Mart 18,700 Adjusting Prices For Inflation Act 2 Prize. Astro-House 13,800 Income Tax Cryo Stasis Memorial 23,900 Helping Coffin Dodgers Dodge Coffins Big Digi-Ben 115 6s Event: Preparing EMP Blast Post-Event: Installing a 40th Step Destroy robots each hour. Plus, after the event, Big Digi-Ben will display the time of day! Future-Proofed Home 45 Income Tax Also unlocks with Future-Proofed Home + LadyBot bundle. Soul Extraction Institute 100 Rooting Out Gingers Unlocks Robo Burns and Doggy Smithers. Dome-icile 560 4h Income Tax Craftable. Atomic Hula Hoop 1,500 Spinning Right Round Mushroom Office Building 400 Cultivating Productivity Retro Style Townhouse 380 Watching Period Dramas Global Housing 600 Building the Ecumenopolis Tomorrow's Costington's 2,000 Replacing Wages with Vouchers Office Towers 600 Seeking Alignment And Promoting Synergy Homer's Dream House 3,000 Sealing the Windows Elysium Project 110 6s Insuring Against Flood Rewards 100 Event Currency every 12 hours. Rocket to Your Doom 80 Providing Long-Distance Travel Solutions Future Simpson's House 9,200 4h Storing Junk in the Living Room Act 2 Prize. Home of Tomorrow 40 6s Provide Futuristic Entertainment Based on Old Ideas Springfield Hyperstadium 160 Putting on a Rock Band Blitz Unlocks Rockstar Maggie.

Returning

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes Efcot Center 70 6s Making Promises Of A Boring Future Returns from Winter 2015. Super Collider Pointlessly Accelerating Particles Returns from Treehouse of Horror XXIII, Treehouse of Horror XXV and Black Friday 2015. Unlocks Black Hole. Mars Colony 200 Returns from "The Marge-ian Chronicles" episode tie-in. Portal to Rigel 7 75 6s Locking in Chevrons Returns from Treehouse of Horror XXV, Treehouse of Horror 2015 and Deep Space Homer. Re-Neducation Center 80 Re-Neducating the Elite Returns from Treehouse of Horror 2015. Self-Reliant House 35 Snubbing the Energy Grid Returns from Monorail. Ultrahouse 2 90 Ignoring the First Rule of Robotics Returns from Treehouse of Horror XXIV, Yard Sale 2014 and Treehouse of Horror XXV.

Skins

Name Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Mars Colony

Bundles

Image Name Cost Notes Frink's Lab + LadyBot 200 Rebate: 75 Future-Proofed Home + LadyBot 100 Home of Tomorrow & More 160 Rebate: 60 Includes Home of Tomorrow, Rocket Car and Chester Lampwick.

Decorations

Image Name Cost Notes Luminescent Flowers 80 Craftable. Holo Tulips 40 Future Street Lamp 100 Vacation to Venus Sign 180 Teleporter Billboard 500 Future Duff Sign 6,500 Act 1 Prize. Simpson's Hover Car 12,000 Parked Hover Car 500 Craftable. Holo-Theater 18,000 Act 1 Prize. Crazy Plane 5,500 Act 3 Prize. Mech Robot 2,750 Holo-Tree 80 Craftable. Hover Bench 300 Hover Street Sign 260 Parcology 1,500 Fountain Of Tomorrow 360 Mobile Dome 600 Future Monument 35 Give Apes the Vote Billboard 15 Giant Robot 75 Springfield of Tomorrow Sign 35 Teleporter Zeta Unlocks in the Teleporters Zeta and Theta bundle and in the Teleportation Bundle. Teleporter Theta Holo-Flower Hedge 2 Included in the Holo-Bundle (x2). Holo-Large Hedge 1,500 Holo-Small Hedge 500 Holo-Bench Holo-Boardwalk Tree Holo-Exotic Tree Holo-Lamp Post Holo-Rose Bush Holo-Tree Included in the Holo-Bundle.

Returning

Image Name Cost Notes Frinkosonic MHV 35 Returns from Season 24 Yard Sale and Black Friday 2015 Cremo Bot 30 Returns from "Days of Future Future" episode tie-in and Black Friday 2015 Black Hole 10 Returns from Treehouse of Horror XXIII and Treehouse of Horror XXV. Unlocks with Super Collider after completing A Matter of Density Pt. 1. More can be bought afterwards. Hover-copter 70 Returns from Treehouse of Horror XXV and 4th of July 2015. Human Test Subject 15 Returns from Treehouse of Horror XXV. Red Electric Car Returns from "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" episode tie-in. Bundled in the Electric Cars Bundle. Yellow Electric Car Blue Electric Car Teleporter Alpha Bundled in the Teleportation Bundle. Returns from Treehouse of Horror XXV and Black Friday 2015. Teleporter Omega Mechanical Ant Alpha 60 Returns from Monorail. Also bundled together in the Mechanical Ants. Mechanical Ant Beta Mechanical Ant Gamma Mechanical Ant Delta

Bundles

Image Name Cost Holo-Bundle 70 Teleportation Bundle 80 Teleporters Zeta and Theta 40 Mechanical Ants 120 Electric Cars Bundle 80

Consumables

Image Name Cost Robot Salvage License Act 1: 90 Act 2: 60 Act 3: 30 5 Flashes 15 100px Future Buck Conversion Pack: 50 500

Gameplay

Prizes

Act 1

Image Name Cost Skyberdine Systems 1,600 Future Duff Sign 6,500 Simpson's Hover Car 12,000 Holo-Theater 18,000 Sgt. Skinner 24,000

Act 2

Image Name Cost Mooch Bart 4,600 Future Simpson's House 9,200 Astro-House 13,800 Newfangled Kwik-E-Mart 18,700 Cryo Stasis Memorial 23,900 President Lisa 29,100

Act 3

Image Name Cost Mech Robot 2,750 Crazy Plane 5,500 Mecha Hawk 8,250

Crafting

Image Name Cost Required Level Demo Ammount Holo Tulips 40 1 12 Future Street Lamp 100 5 Vacation to Venus Sign 180 3 Hover Street Sign 260 2 2 Dome-icile 560 3 Hover Bench 300 4 4 Atomic Hula Hoop 1,500 5 Unique Holo-Tree 80 6 8 Mushroom Office Building 400 7 3 Luminescent Flowers 80 8 12 Mobile Dome 600 9 2 Fountain Of Tomorrow 360 10 4 Parked Hover Car 500 11 3 Parcology 1,500 12 Unique Retro Style Townhouse 380 13 4 Global Housing 600 14 3 Teleporter Billboard 500 15 4 Tomorrow's Costington's 2,000 16 Unique Office Towers 600 17 3 Homer's Dream House 3,000 18 Unique Future Buck Conversion Pack: 50 500 19 Infinite

Levelling Goals

2 300 3 600 4 700 5 750 6 1,200 7 800 8 850 9 900 10 950 11 1,000 12 1,050 13 1,500 14 1,100 15 1,100 16 1,200 17 1,500 18 1,200 19 1,500

Daily Challenges

Main article: Daily Challenges

Task Location Explanation Assemble a Demo at the 3D Printer 3D Printer Craft an item Get an Item with Future Bucks Craft an item till it completes its demo and you can then craft it with Future Bucks. Collect a Flash Control Building Collect from the Control Building to get one. Make Frank Grimes Prepare High Voltage Defenses Visible Make Alternate Homers Go to the PolyVac [x5] PolyVac Make Alternate Homers Go to the PolyVac [x10] Make Rockstar Maggie Go to the PolyVac Win SciFighter Without Sustaining Damage Play SciFighter Play SciFighter [x3] Destroy Robots in SciFighter [x30] Destroy Robots in SciFighter [x100] Use a Flash during SciFighter After collecting it from Control Building, tap on the top right corner during SciFighter. Win SciFighter Tap Robots [x3] Town Tap Robots [x5] Tap Robots in a Friend's Town [x3] Friend's Town Tap the Anomaly When in a friend town, if an Anomaly is present, it'll take you to it. It looks like this: . Possible prizes: 1,100 / 1,000 / 100 / 250 / 1 / 3

Dates

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Other changes made

August 16th Update (4.22.0; "4_22_SciFi")

• The app icon and splash screen were changed to new ones for the event.
• The town center was moved to the PolyVac.
• The unreleased Rocket to Your Doom and Flower Hedge (as Holo-Flower Hedge) were released.
• Super Collider's build time is now 6 seconds instead of 8 hours.
• A glitch changing the Players Club Tower from the selected skin was fixed.
• A new decorations group, Vehicles, was added, comprehending all vehicles.
• The Funzos were added back to the Funzos character group.
• Daily Challenges were added for the event.
• The Black Hole is no longer unique and now has a 0.25% Bonus $ and XP and placing it yields 10.
• Placing Cremo Bot now yields 30 instead of 300.
• All the Height values of characters have been removed.
• New characters have been added to the Open Air Stage: Mooch Bart and Rockstar Maggie.
• Homer's job Plant Shift now requires Population Control Pt. 6 to be started to appear on his job list.
• Jockey Bart, Toreador Grampa, Tennis Marge, Kung Fu Comic Book Guy and Ballet Ralph's jobs are now all premium.
• A new column of land was added.
• Homer's dialogue in A Rail of One City Pt. 8 "No clue, but I built my own Monorail out of cardboard. If you need me I'll be over here pretending to drive it." was removed.
• The Fracker, The Scout Master, Citizen Solar, Wind Lad and Milo were changed from Regular Characters and Male to Premium Characters and Male character groups.
• Placing Portal to Rigel 7 now yields 75 instead of 100.
• Building Re-Neducation Center yields 80 instead of 200, takes 6 seconds instead of 4 hours and its task is now premium.
• Building Efcot Center now yields 70 instead of 10 and its task is now premium.
• A new button was added to Get Help in the game. Hitting it takes you to the EA help site.
• The Kwik-E-Mart and Kill-E-Mart changed appearance.
• A new icon was added to the friend list screen to manage your account and send friend invites.
• Due to a glitch the price for secondary Kwik-E-Mart is stuck at 220.
• Control Building can't be stored or sold for the duration of the event.

August 18th Update ("4_22_SciFi_Patch1_PostLaunch")

• The decoration limit was raised to 8900.
• Springfield Hyperstadium and Rockstar Maggie's promo picture was resized to be bigger.
• The glitched text causing the price for secondary Kwik-E-Mart getting stuck at 220 was fixed.
• Homer's job Collect Junk at the Springfield Dump now requires A Rail Of One City Pt. 5 or Railing On, instead of just A Rail of One City Pt. 5, fixing it missing.
• The buttons to teleport to Teleport Zeta and Tetha now requires the items to be bought to show up.
• The language for help for Brazilian Portugues was fixed.

August 22nd Update 1 (Server Update)

• The SciFi Campaign was activated.

August 22nd Update 2 ("4_22_SciFi_Patch2_PostLaunch")

• In What's the Matter Pt. 6, Stephen Hawking's task name to Force Hawking Drive His Wheel Chair Up and Down Stairs was changed to Force Hawking to Drive His Wheel Chair Up and Down Stairs.
• Stephen Hawking's job name Create a Simulation of Himself was changed to Wonder if He's a Simulation.
• Big Digi-Ben's price was changed from 110 Donuts to 115.
• Future-Proofed Home's price was changed from 40 Donuts to 45.
• Rocket to Your Doom's price was changed from 70 Donuts to 80.
• Springfield Hyperstadium's price was changed from 150 Donuts to 160.
• Holo-Bundle's price was changed from 60 Donuts to 70.
• Future Monument's price was changed from 30 Donuts to 35.
• Give Apes the Vote Billboard's price was changed from 10 Donuts to 15.
• Elysium Project's job Insuring Against Flood now rewards 100 Event Currency and 15 XP.
• Elysium Project is now available from August 23rd to September 20th instead of from September 13th to September 20th.

August 23rd Update ("4_22_SciFi_Patch3_PostLaunch")

• Holo-Bench, Holo-Boardwalk Tree, Holo-Exotic Tree, Holo-Lamp Post, Holo-Rose Bush and the 8 Holo-Trees included in the Holo-Bundle now has a Bonus $ and XP of 0.05%.
• Springfield Hyperstadium and Rockstar Maggie's Gil Promo now ends on September 3rd instead of August 30th.
• Elysium Project's job Insuring Against Flood can't be rushed anymore.
• Fixed some SciFi quests jobs not available once a certain objective is active.
• The Mooch Who Knew Too Much Pt. 2 is now started by Mooch Bart instead of Bart.

September 1st Update 1 ("4_22_SciFi_Patch4_PostLaunch")

• At the Go-Kart Track, the chances of winning 2-1 was changed from 56.51% to 66.01%, 9-1 from 33.15% to 20%, 19-1 from 7.83% to 10% and 49-1 from 2.52% to 4%.
• The money obtained from winning 49-1 at the Go-Kart Track was changed from 2,500,000 to 250,000.
• The Monorail Tunnels are now not placable one after the other without accessing inventory menu, solving a bug that allowed mountains to be removed.
• The glitch that allowed infinite currency from tapping the Big-Digi Ben on friend towns was fixed.
• Robot Parts and Future Bucks now won't appear in the HUD till one is collected.

September 1st Update 2 (Server Update)

• The event currency reward for SciFighter has changed. The base payout is now 100 instead of 50, the Completion reward is now 45 instead of 30 and the Reward per second is now 5 instead of 3.
• Some characters now interact when both idle, performing some of their visible tasks animations: Maggie and Rockstar Maggie, Bart and Mooch Bart, Lisa and President Lisa, Teddy Roosevelt and Stampy, Barney and Homer, Comic Book Guy and Homer, Ned and Kirk, Gina Vendetti and Marvin Monroe, Snake and Jay, Fat Tony and Luigi, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Krabappal, Mr. Burns and Robo Burns, Michael D'Amico and Luigi, Ralph and Michael D'Amico, Old Jewish Man and Dr. Hibbert, Selma and Patty, Nelson and Otto, Carl and Homer, Paris Texan and Miss Springfield, Smithers and Disco Stu, Space Coyote and Santa's Little Helper, Marge and Mrs. Krabappel, Kang and Kodos, Jasper and Grampa, Willy and Roscoe, Lou and Eddie, Krusty and Handsome Pete, Becky and Otto, Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy, Lugash and Fatov, The Fracker and Charcoal Briquette, Petroleous Rex and Old King Coal, Fruit-Bat-Man and The Scout Master, Squawky and Freedom, Lisa and Dawey Largo, and Ralph and Uter.

September 20th Update (4.22.5; "4_22_SciFi_Takedown")

• The app icon and splash screen were changed back to normal.
• The Daily Challenge's task "Make Cletus Catach A 'Possum" was corrected to "Make Cletus Catch A 'Possum".
• A new character group was added, Krustyland Goers: Sherri and Terri, Bart, Homer, Lisa, Marge, Skinner, Cletus, Krusty, Comic Book Guy, Wiggum, Milhouse, Hans Moleman, Squeaky Voice Teen, Martin, Kearney, Nelson, Mrs. Krabappel, Sideshow Mel, Lenny, Carl, Lou, Eddie, Gina Vendetti and Jessica Lovejoy.
• Grind Pack Values doesn't change after levelling up past Level 60 anymore.
• Mooch Bart and Rockstar Maggie's jobs at the Open Air Stage now requires the character to be unlocked to show in the menu.
• Springfield Heights inventory and store categories no longer shows the Help button, that was over the currency indicators.
• Steven Hawking can now Attend Mensa Meeting.
• The quest-related temporary Ride Krusty's Giant Wheel can now be done only by Krustyland Goers instead of all Springfielders.
• Quest Scratch the Itch now requires Put Up a Parking Lot not to be active or Pave Paradise to be active and Scratchers and New Scracther to not be active.
• Dilapidated Rail Yard is now switched correctly to Rail Yard once the quest is complete instead of having to place the Rail Yard again.
• Evil Homer was removed from the Census.
• SciFi quests' Kill Date was added: October 10th at 7am GMT.
• Mooch Bart and Lenny's job Print 3D Résumés was changed from 2 hours to 3.
• Lampwick's job Watch TV at the Home of Tomorrow is now permanent and lasts 4 hours instead of 8.
• SciFighter is now permanent and rewards XP, and Smart Devices or Junk (if Monorail was started).
• A new text pops up on installing the update, regarding the permanent SciFighter game: "Continue scrapping bots in SciFighter to earn Rewards!".
• If the cap for Smart Devices or Junk is reached, the text "You're at the cap for one or more resources and won't receive rewards for them. Are you sure?" pops up with confirmation buttons below when starting SciFighter.
• Flying Car can't be placed on the ocean anymore.
• Robot and Drone pet were activated in the shop.
• Big Digi-Ben's clock now shows the real life's time and its job was changed to "Installing a 40th Step".
• Elysium Project's job now earns 300 and 30.
• Daily Challenges timer has been readded.

Sources

• Overview at Tapped Out - Update Information