The Simpsons: Tapped Out 4th July 2015 content update

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The Simpsons: Tapped Out 4th July 2015 content update was released on June 30, 2015, and introduces 1 new building-character combo, 1 new building and 1 new decoration.

Characters

Image Name Unlock message Notes Richard Nixon Unlocked with the Scandal-gate Hotel.

Returning

Image Name Unlock message Notes George Washington Unlocked with the Ye Olde Cherry Tree. Giuseppe Granfinali Unlocked with Giuseppe’s Workshop. Abraham Lincoln Unlocked with Lincoln’s Cabin. Rex Banner Unlocked with Nighthawk Diner. Kang Unlocked upon completing Monetization Liberation Pt. 2.

Skins

Image Name Cost Unlock message Notes All-American Apu 30

Buildings

Image Name Building time Costs Task Character(s) unlocked when built Scandal-gate Hotel 6s 150 Richard Nixon Presidential Estate 6s 85

Returning

Image Name Building time Costs Task Character(s) unlocked when built Giuseppe's Workshop 6s 95 Giuseppe Nighthawk Diner 6s 90 Rex Banner Lincoln's Cabin 6s 150 Abraham Lincoln

Decorations

Image Name Cost Notes Patriotic Box of Fireworks 5,600 1 is awarded for free after completing Monetization Liberation Pt. 7.

Returning

Image Name Cost Notes Lincoln Memorial 100,000 Fireworks Barge 80 American Flag 5,600 Pinwheel Firework 40 Box of Fireworks 60 Ye Olde Cherry Tree 180 Unlocks George Washington. Liberty Bell 50,000 Lisa Statue of Liberty 75 Holo-Flag 15 Changes flag every time it's tapped. Each Holo-Flag can be set to have a different flag: Bart's Pirate Flag, U.S. Flag and Starfleet Federation Flag! Hover-copter 70

Gameplay

Monetization Liberation

Monetization Liberation Pt. 1

After the user logs in on June 30th: It's the 4th of July! Time to grab my secret stash of illegal fireworks from their hiding place! You kept a box of fireworks hidden behind the basement furnace? Yes, but, see, I put this this heavy can of gasoline on top of the box, so that if any ka-booms happened, the explodey parts wouldn't be able to get out. Safe! You're a nuclear safety engineer, right? ...*Long Pause* Yes. You had to think about that a long time. I did. Anyway, time to “inspect” some of these little guys in the backyard! Ka-boom! Task: Make Homer “Safety Inspect” Fireworks (4h) You're not really “inspecting” those fireworks so much as you are “lighting them with a match held in your teeth.” That's how the pros do it. Anyway, the only way to properly test fireworks is to set off so many the sky shines like a beacon! ...a beacon that is easily noticeable by any Class IX Rigellian Battle Cruisers that happen to be passing through your pathetic solar system! Quest reward: 100 and 10

Monetization Liberation Pt. 2

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark: Kodos! It's Kang! Not all Rigellians look alike, you know. That's super-insulting. Super-duper-times-infinity insulting, oh tiny human intellect! Sorry. Kind of sensitive about that, aren't you? Silence! *Long Pause* Please. Just because your vile species is about to be death-rayed out of existence, that's no reason for me to be rude. So, please be silent, you insignificant worm. You're going to destroy our planet? Why? That series of explosions you just sent up is Intergalactic Signal Light Morse Code for “please obliterate my irrelevant planet immediately.” We take it back! Dad, tell the nice alien we take it back! Dad? Task: Make Lisa Try to Solve the Latest Crisis (4h, Simpson Home) Task: Make Homer Play Happy Little Elves (4h) Quest reward: 100 and 10

Monetization Liberation Pt. 3

After tapping on Kang's exclamation mark: Dad! Huh? Oh, sorry, sweetie. I was just playing the “Happy Little Elves” game on my phone. It's super-addictive. I know, right? So good... I didn't realize aliens played it too! It just came out in the Palm O.S. app store two days ago. For some reason, we always get stuff late. Uh, maybe because nobody still uses Palm phones. All on Rigel use Palm! Palm is the superior form of mobile telephony! All hail Palm! Now I must use my Palm to program in the coordinates for the death ray strike! Prepare to perish! Task: Make Kang Activate the Death Ray (4h) Quest reward: 100 and 10

Monetization Liberation Pt. 4

After tapping on Kang's exclamation mark: Okay, Kang. Time to program that death ray. Work, work, work. Hmm... maybe just a few minutes with the Happy Little Elves game first. Just a quick visit to my town. Then, I'll get some serious work done. Look at Kang's town! He's been playing just two days, and it's already way cooler than mine! He must be spending a fortune! And spending lots of money to rush builds is a form of cheating. Er, but not when you do it, Sky Finger. Go on splashing that cash. Task: Make Homer Trash Talk a Fellow Gamer (12h) What's this? A message from a fellow Happy Little Elves player? Wow. That is... a whole lot of misspelled profanity. Quest reward: 100 and 10

Monetization Liberation Pt. 5

After tapping on Kang's exclamation mark: How dare you question my spending habits, human spendthrift! Now I will program my death ray to wipe your kind from the galaxy! Weren't you supposed to do that hours ago? I know! But this holiday event demands the constant attention of my vastly superior intelligence! Blast these mobile games! Hey! If we're elf-friends we can gift each other berries to get through the event faster! I can't seem to buy them anymore. I had to put the parental locks on. You kept maxing out the credit cards! Task: Make Homer Friend Request Kang (2h) Look, Lisa! Kang friended me! You remember Kang, right? Big green guy? About to murder you and everyone you love? Great glayvin! If Kang friended Homer, there may be a way to use the connection to hack into the Rigellian Master Computer! You mean, like they did in “Independence Day?” Wasn't that the dumbest plot point in an already-dumb movie? It certainly was! I hope it works as implausibly for us as it did for them! Quest reward: 100 and 10

Monetization Liberation Pt. 6

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark: Good news! I have cloned Homer's account to every mobile device in Springfield! And loaded them all with elf berries. If we all spam Kang's phone with elf berries, we can crash the alien computer network! Quick, everyone! Execute this idiotic plan that was devised by lazy writers who have absolutely no clue how computers work! They're unwillingness to come up with a more believable twist to this story may just save us all! Task: Make Springfielders Send Kang Elf Berries [x10] (4h, Brown House) On job start: What's this? An influx of elf berries! I'll use them to buy more gold, usurious exchange rate be damned! Quest reward: 100 and 10

Monetization Liberation Pt. 7

After tapping on Kang's exclamation mark: Great Krandor's tentacles! The influx of elf berries has overloaded my entire system! Not that that makes any sense whatsoever! Look, Kang's UFO is falling from the sky! Woo-hoo! We did it! Now to do the only thing Americans still do well: channel all our rage at illegal aliens. Hold on, now. There's some paperwork involved in kicking aliens out of the country. Shouldn't require more than fifteen years or so. Foolish humans! It was my plan all along to get trapped here by your painfully slow bureaucracy. Also, I'm going to take all your jobs! We Rigellians work cheap! And with all these elf berries, I shall dominate your Happy Little Elf leaderboards for all time!!!! Task: Make Kang 8-Hour Evil Laugh (8h) System Message For saving Springfield, have a Patriotic Box of Fireworks on the house. Quest reward: 100 and 10

Happy Indipendence Day!

After the user logs in on July 4th: System Message Happy Independence Day! Please enjoy these 13 commemorative donuts in honor of the original colonies. Colonies? I thought America was made of states? Do you not care AT ALL about the history of this great country my friends and I fought so hard to create? Yes, and that I DIED for? There you go again. Always gotta work the assassination thing into every conversation. Well it's true! Okay, we get it! Quest reward: 13

Premium Gameplay

Gil Deal

After tapping Gil's US Flag 's mark Ol' Gil has returned to Springfield with something both amazing and physics-defying. With the power of my non-patented snake oiled time machine, I give you everyone's... eh... "favorite" Commander-In-Chief! ...shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President- WHAT THE -- WHAT IS THIS PLACE? WHERE DID THE OVAL OFFICE GO? AND WHY IS EVERYONE GLARING AND HISSING AT DICK NIXON? It must be that time of year again. Another ex-President has somehow appeared in Springfield. President Nixon, welcome to the year 2015. It's an honor to... that is to say, it's nice to... er, it's actually not that great to meet you. WHY DO YOU SAY THAT? TELL ME, AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT -- IS NIXON REMEMBERED AS AMERICA'S MOST ABHORRENT POLITICAL SCOUNDREL? Well, uh... kinda. AND ALL BLAME FOR THE SCANDAL THAT ENDED MY PRESIDENCY RESTS ON DICK NICKSON'S SHOULDERS? Pretty much. Then the plan worked. And America is safe. Thank God Almighty for that. Wait... plan? What plan? DICK NICKSON HAS SAID TOO MUCH! DICK NICKSON WILL SAY NO MORE! What plan is former President Nixon referring to? What's the real story behind America's worst political scandal? And what do George Washington and Abraham Lincoln think of our most reviled President? Build the Scandal-gate Hotel to find out! If the user denies: What kind of a patriot doesn’t purchase Richard Nixon on the Fourth of July? He’s America’s forty-fourth most beloved President! To be honest, I get it. I really do. I tried to get ANYONE but Nixon. Called up Jefferson, Grant, both Roosevelts.... But their royalty fees are too high. It’s hard to get the prestigious ones. They're not as desperate. I did manage to sell six Nixons, at least. I hope ol’ Gil can live off that income for an entire year.... If the user accepts: The Scandal-gate Hotel. What a groovy old crib. Make sure to order the Continental breakfast. It's far out. Gee, I wouldn't expect you to remember this place so fondly, Mr. President. Dick Nixon tries not to live in the past. The great karmic wheel turns ever onward, carrying us where it will. Just sit back and dig the ride, little sister. "Dig the ride?" Are you, like, doing a character right now? This is the real Nixon, baby. The "character" was the stuffed-shirt phony you knew as your President. That was all an act to keep "The Man" off Dick Nixon's back. So this is how you actually talk? It's seriously not a joke? Now that I'm out of the political game, I can finally let my freak flag fly. Right on. Right. On. It's actually pretty annoying. If you don't mind my saying so. Hey, you gotta speak your truth. Now let's go get some beers. I'm an eight-year-old girl! Nixon got a Presidential pardon. That means Nixon and all his good buddies can do whatever they want. That's not how that works. Whatever. Politics are dumb. I'm Audi 5000.

Conform-o-meter impact

Building or Item Rating Points Scandal-gate Hotel Indolence 10 Presidential Estate Lincoln's Cabin Giuseppe's Workshop None None Nighthawk Diner Gluttony 10 Patriotic Box of Fireworks Vanity 600 Lincoln Memorial 870 American Flag 450 Holo-Flag 250 Ye Olde Cherry Tree Indolence Bonus $ and XP 10 2.75% Firework Barge Vanity Bonus $ and XP 800 2.75% Pinwheel Firework Vanity Bonus $ and XP 400 2% Box of Fireworks Vanity Bonus $ and XP 600 2.25% Liberty Bell Obedience 10 Hover-Copter Lisa Statue of Liberty Obedience Bonus $ and XP 10 2.75%

Other changes made

June 30 update ("4_15_4thofJuly2015")

• All Youngsters are excluding from Beat Homer With Unused Instruments, Beat Homer in the Church, Drink at Beer-N-Brawl, Drink Craft Beer and Invest in Ziffcorp instead of individual exclusions.
• Museum of Natural History now gives 10 points to Obedience instead of Indolence.
• Teach Homer About Easter, Pretend to Listen, Play the Blues, Shop for Good Friday Sales, Watch Easter Films, Think About Converting to Judaism and Prepare for Passover won't show up anymore, now requiring Easter 2015 to be active.
• Beach Chair now will appear in the shop locked at Level 5 instead of Level 4, and will be buyable at Level 15 instead of Level 11.
• Holo-Flag was removed from the Civic inventory category.
• Building Giuseppe's Workshop now yelds 95 instead of 300.
• Failure To Launch quest now starts with Pt. 1's text and skips to Pt. 2. All quests names were moved back by 1.
• The Dungeon Keeper Pt. 1 now doesn't require Death by Squishee to be completed.
• Completing July 4th character set now yelds 1,250 and 25 instead of 1,000 and 20.
• The Rainbow Tree changed appearance.

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  Old Rainbow Tree.

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  New Rainbow Tree.

Sources

• Overview at Tapped Out - Update Information
• Template:TSTOTopix

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