The Simpsons: Tapped Out Level 48 content update

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The Simpsons: Tapped Out Level 48 content update was released on December 16, 2014. It was a 12.3MB in-game update.

Level Up Message

The level-up message is said by Kirk:

Level Up Message

Characters

Image Character Costs Unlock message Notes Janey - Unlocked with the Gold Navy. Lurleen - Unlocked with the Beer-N-Brawl

Buildings

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes Gold Navy 724,000 24h Re-refolding Sweaters Requires Level 48. Unlocks Janey. Beer -N- Brawl 140 6s Covering Floor in Sawdust Unlocks Lurleen. Krusty Burger Oil Rig 8,000,000 0s - Requires Level 48.

Decorations

Image Name Cost Notes Barbecue Pit 100,000 Requires Level 48.

Conform-O-Meter 5 Stars Requirement Changes

Category Points Increase Indolence 550 10 Obedience 330 0 Consumerism 348 Gluttony 381 Tree-hugging 35275 1650 Vanity 52370 2250 Righteousness 271 10 Socialism 2766 126

Conform-O-Meter Items Impact

Buildings Base Cost Category Points Gold Navy 181,000 Consumerism 10 Krusty Burger Oil Rig 8,000,000 Vanity 200 Barbecue Pit 100,000 Vanity 2000 Beer-N-Brawl 140 Gluttony 10

Gameplay

Smells Like Mean Spirit

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 1

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark: School is ridiculous! Today, Miss Hoover made us play Hide 'n' Hide until the day was over. Yeah, it's like no one cares if we even go to school. It's paradise! I can't allow the young minds of Springfield to grow as soft as the middle-aged butts of Springfield. I must take this to the Internet! No one will care. Especially not the Internet... ...unless you put it into list form, or write it on a photo of a cat. My friends will care... What friends? You're right, I need some friends! But where do you meet friends outside of school? The library? Volunteering at a retirement home? Come on, Lisa, don't think like yourself. You hate yourself. Think like a vapid tween. Task: Build Gold Navy (12h,724,000) You can't spell fair-weather friend without friend! Quest reward: 100 and 10

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 2

After tapping on Janey's exclamation mark: Oh it's you, Lisa. My ninth friend I'm most excited to see! Congrats on finally making it to my top ten. How about we switch and I'll keep the "Best" part of the "Best Friends" necklace I just gave you? I appreciate that. I don't want to exclude anyone better who might come around. Too bad they don't make "Best Acquaintance" necklaces. Janey, I wanted to see if you'd star in a series about school reform on ViewTube. You had me at star and then lost me at school reform, but got me back at ViewTube. I'm in! First we need a name for our channel. We're devil-may-care women taking on the academic establishment, so maybe "Naughty School Girls". Type it in. *gasp* Not that. How about something more innocent, like Sparkle Pony Squad? *gasp* The Internet is a filthy place. Task: Make Janey Set Up a ViewTube Account on her Laptop (8h, Bench) and Make Lisa Record a School Awareness Video (8h, Springfield Elementary) Quest reward: 100 and 10

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 3

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark: I registered a complaint with ViewTube. Clearly they didn't release our video properly -- we don't have a single view! You didn't watch your own video? I thought it would be unethical, like voting for yourself or eating meat or trick or treating for anyone other than UNICEF. It's boring stuff like that that's made our video unwatchable. Our videos need more jazz, more pizzazz, more razzmatazz – more z's in general! I suppose even the most prestigious news organizations still add little bits of flair to keep people interested. Like 60 Minutes' ticking clock or Kent Brockman's topless weather updates. Tune in for Nipples on the Nines. Great! So next step is to get your cat, Lisa. Snowball II? But why? If we put a cat in our video, everyone from the poorly parented toddler to the bored office worker to the-- MWABLAHAHAHAHAAH! ...clinically insane will watch our videos. Everyone loves watching cats! Task: Make Janey Work on a Cat Video (8h, Simpsons Home) and Make Lisa Work on a Cat Video (8h, Simpsons Home) Quest reward: 100 and 10

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 4

After tapping on Janey's exclamation mark: Our video has over 9,000 views and the comments have dissolved into an Anti-Semitic shouting match! We're a hit! But it has nothing to do with the promotion of education! It's all about cats, jewelry, and make-up. How does this help our cause? It's simple. We get enough views to get an endorsement deal, then a small part on a sitcom, then a movie career, then we win an Oscar. And then we start a charity to reform pools. You mean schools? Whatever. Plus look, your original video has 97 views! It benefits just from being on the same channel as this video. Just like you benefit from being friends with me. I hardly think being invited to one roller skating birthday party is enough to sacrifice my beliefs. I'll throw in the sleepover afterwards. Very exclusive, only five other girls will be there. If I can get a written contract that states my hand will not be placed in a cup of warm water, it's a deal. Task: Make Lisa Pre-Plan a New Video (12h, Springfield Library) and Make Janey Plan, Record, and Post Several Videos (12h, Springfield Library) Quest reward: 100 and 10 Janey, it has come to my attention that you and Lisa have started a popular ViewTube channel, and I must admit I've grown intrigued. Well I'm posting a video about how to French braid your Malibu Stacy doll later today. Make sure to check it out! Let's just say I'm less interested in participating as a viewer, and more interested in expanding your audience base by shifting the paradigm. Excuse me? I want in. With your sense of lame girlie things, my sense of awesome boy things, and Lisa's sense of... ...owning a camera, we could be famous! You had me at girl, lost me at boy, and got me back at famous!

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 5

After tapping on Janey's exclamation mark: What part of the ViewTube team do you want to play? We'll have an opening for boom operator once the tape unsticks and the mic falls. Janey, please. I'm clearly an on-air talent. I'm proposing a channel chock-full of pranks bound to bring in the most influential, widely coveted, and simple-minded market there is -- young boys! Think of the money we could make. Swimming pools full! Assuming that the swimming pool is small and the money novelty size. Our parents are never going to let us make money off the Internet. My dad always said it isn't money if you didn't make it yourself. But he's also a known counterfeiter, so maybe we shouldn't listen to him. Wake up, Janey. There are no adults on the Internet. Just children with their parents' credit cards. My dad's not allowed to have a credit card... on account of being wanted for counterfeiting. It's why I've had so many last names. Leave the credit card to me. I know just the idiot for the job. Bart, did you just say my name? I got some guac in my ear and tried to clean it out with a cheese puff and, long story short, the living room is now full of seagulls. Task: Make Bart Put Ads on the ViewTube Account (24h, Simpsons Home) Quest reward: 100 and 10 I want to expand our channel into the dating scene. As an eight-year-old girl, I think I have wisdom to share. So, Bart, I set you up on a blind date with one of my friends. WHAT? I don't do dates. Neither the fruit nor the activity. If you don't go on this date, I'm prepared to spread a rumor that you've got… A gluten allergy! NOOOOOO! Popularity demands gluten. Alright, who am I going on a date with? Me! Demon! I mean – De'monday sound good, mon?

Double Trouble!

This quest only appears if the user has Sherri and Terri.

After tapping on Bart's exclamation mark: You wanted to see me, Sherri… Or is it Terri? Bart Simpson! You can't joke your way out of our date! Oh yes, our date. First lets start with the romantic French tradition of stating our full names and then writing our first initials on our hands. That's hilarious, Bart. Of course, I know your name. And, of course, you know mine. I love the way you say my name. Say it now, why don't you. She... Ter… How about I give you a fun first date nickname instead? Let's settle for ‘erri, just to be safe. But what are you going to call me? Surprise, my sister is going to be our chaperone! Isn't that fun? It's like you're going out with a mirror. Now, how about getting a sweet for your sweet? Task: Make Bart Attempt to Discern Who he is Dating (12h, Krusty Burger) and Make Sherri & Terri Go on a Date (12h, Krusty Burger) Quest reward: 100 and 10 They keep switching places! I'll never figure out who's who. What if I give the sundae to the wrong twin? I'll be the laughing stock of the playground. I know, I'll buy two! Bart, sometimes you really are a genius. Not genius enough to distinguish between two different people, but genius all the same.

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 6

After tapping on Janey's exclamation mark: I'm sorry, Lisa, we took a vote and we're kicking you off the Viewtube channel. The tally was actually 3 to 0, even though you voted. I told you – I can't vote for myself. But this channel was my idea! I haven't been stabbed in the back like this since I played Julius Caesar in the school play. I got betrayed by my understudy. Your videos are dragging us down. No one has even bothered to comment "First" on them. They are THAT unpopular. We were going to change the world, one five-minute video at a time. Now you're just adding to the clutter. Excuse me, sounds like someone hasn't seen my video on clearing out closet clutter. I did watch that video. What does it mean to organize your clothes by nationality? If you can't spot horrendous Canadian fashion from a mile away, then you shouldn't be allowed to wear clothes at all! Abandoned again by my own creation. It's like my Self Sufficiency Robot all over again. Task: Make Janey Create a School Fashion Video (6h, Gold Navy), Make Lisa Cry (6h, SimpsonHome) and Make Bart Record a Video of Lisa Crying (6h, SimpsonHome) Quest reward: 100 and 10 You ruined this for me, Bart. And you turned my closest quasi-friend against me! They say keep your friends close but your enemies closer, so by that logic, you two should be closer than ever. You're welcome! Listen, Lisa, we're just trying to run a business here. That was the whole point. No, the whole point of this was to bring awareness to issues plaguing our school system! Maybe I need to go tell Mom and Dad what you've done. Puh-leez. Do you really think Mom and Dad will be mad at me after I tell them I've made enough money to dine at a restaurant and not dash. You know how much Homer hates to dash. Almost as much as he hates being humiliated for profit and not getting a cut. *GULP*

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 7

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark: You used my personal information to open a website thingy to try and make money off of shaming me? Nobody exploits anyone in this family for monetary gain but ME, boy! You're grounded for a week! Take that Bart! Lisa! Nobody likes a snitch! You're grounded for a month. That's unfair! You wouldn't have even known about this Internet scheme if I hadn't told you. That's right. And in return I'm teaching you a valuable life lesson. Trust no one. Task: Make Bart Go to his Room (6h, Simpsons Home) and Make Lisa Go to her Room (6h, Simpsons Home) Quest reward: 100 and 10

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 8

After tapping on Janey's exclamation mark: My videos are nothing but down-votes! This is worse than when Gold Navy ended their three pants for three dollars made by three child laborers sale. There's no such thing as bad publicity, dollface. A down-vote is still a view and each view means more money, money, money! I don't care about the money. I want out. These comments are so mean and poorly spelled. I'm starting to think there might be a seamy underbelly to the Internet. That's enough! I had to suffer through a 6 hour grounding for this. But now the money's rolling in and this machine can't be stopped. We're too big to fail! Wait, where have I heard that before? Young man, you're under arrest for credit card fraud. Has he gotten to where he tells you that you have the right to an attorney? Ahhh, best part of my job – arresting kids. Now come on, fellas. I'm sure we can settle this like men. Specifically men who accept bribes. Did someone say my name? Task: Make Bart Try to Bribe the Establishment (6h, Court House) and Make Wiggum Charge Bart with Fraud and Attempted Bribery (6h, Court House) Quest reward: 100 and 10

Smells Like Mean Spirit Pt. 9

After tapping on Janey's exclamation mark: How did the trial go? I got young Mr. Simpson off on a technicality. What technicality? RUN! Chief, that kid we arrested is running away. Good for him. You know we've got a squad car. And a radio. And a whole police force, and... ...Chief, you sleeping standing up again? *panting* So what video should we record next? I stole a taser from Wiggum's belt. Wanna test it on Milhouse? Task: Make Janey Shut Down the ViewTube Channel Count (6h, Bench) Quest reward: 100 and 10

Premium Gameplay

Country on the Inside

Country on the Inside Pt. 1

After tapping on Lurleen's exclamation mark: There was a time when singing at the Beer-N-Brawl was the highlight of my day. Now I'm just hoping one of those beer bottles being thrown at my head will knock me out of this funk. Less talkin', more singin'! I'm too depressed to sing the blues. If only there was an even sadder way to express myself. How about poetry? Those guys seem pretty depressed. Probably from their lack of job prospects and general public disrespect. Nah, Jewel has said all there needs to be said in verse. Hey, what about grunge music? It makes you frown just by saying it. Grunge. Grunge. Makes me feel like an unclean toilet. I guess the nineties are having a comeback. Plus you can keep wearing all your plaid shirts from your country days. Then it's settled. I'm starting a grunge band. But first I need to find some band mates. How you fixin' to do that? Simple – Craigslist. I'll post an ad for a barbecue pit, buy it, throw a barbecue, and hope some potential band mates show up. It's fool proof! Task: Build Barbecue Pit and Make Lurleen Barbecue Some Roadkill (24h, Barbecue Pit) Quest reward: 100 and 10 Boy, Lurleen. This is some of the best grilled mystery meat I've ever had. And I buy my meat from the Kwik-E-Mart. Our meat is 100% accounted for, 90% of the time. Homer, it's so good to see you. With this new band starting up, it would be great to have a manager again. I DO have experience in both the fields of band management and grunge music. Wow! You are as qualified as you are handsome. Are you sure Marge will be OK with it? Of COURSE she'll be OK with it. Long hours on the road, tearful soulful music driving us together... what could she possibly complain about? Grrrrr... I'd love to play percussion in your ensemble, as long as it doesn't interfere with my job. I work 9am to 9am. Room for one more? I've always had a wee soft spot for grunge. Willie ain't an open book. Sounds like you've got yourself a band! I'm so happy! But you're also out of potato salad, so I don't really know how to feel.

Country on the Inside Pt. 2

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark: Grunge band? Check. Ace manager? Check. Sexy lead singer? Check. Franz Kafka's nationality? Czech! So what do we do now, Homer? First order of business – free beer at the Beer-N-Brawl! And the band will play? Oh, right. You should probably play a show as well. I'm sure we can squeeze you in somewhere. Task: Make Lurleen Perform a Gig (12h, Beer-N-Brawl) and Make Springfielders Drink at Beer-N-Brawl (x10) (6h, Beer-N-Brawl) Quest reward: 100 and 10 Great news – I've brought your band into the twenty first century! With what? A social media campaign? ViewTube videos? Viral marketing? Even better. I strapped a megaphone to the roof of my car. Listen up! Everyone get to the Beer-N-Brawl for free beer! Uh, and to listen to my new grunge band: Forever Alone! Please don't interrupt me when I'm megaphoning. Free beer!

Country on the Inside Pt. 3

After tapping on Marge's exclamation mark: Homer, I don't want to seem like the jealous wife – But please stop spending time with women other than me. Is this about Princess Kashmir and her proposed blimp trip? What? No! Well then forget I said that. Also, on an unrelated note, do you have any spare helium or hydrogen? It's about Lurleen – I don't want you hanging around with that trollop. Marge, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's just me, music, women, money, endless booze, and a live-like-there's-no-tomorrow attitude. If you won't listen to reason, I'll have to confront Lurleen directly…by writing an anonymous article that attacks her character. Mention that there's free beer at the Beer-N-Brawl. Task: Make Marge Write a Smear Article (24h, Simpsons House) Quest reward: 100 and 10 This article in Smear magazine says my songs were stolen from Sadgasm! Hey, that's my old band! I didn't know anyone still remembered us. No one did on the VH1 special "Try Not To Remember The 1990's". This is Kent Brockman ambushing you live from a bush. How does it feel to be a fraud? We're not frauds! We didn't steal ANY songs! I dunno, that's not what this article quotes me as saying... Please don't fight without the cameras rolling, otherwise we're just going to make you do it again. We're not fighting! I didn't do anything wrong. That's what they all say. But then we edit, edit, edit and bingo: guilty confession!

Country on the Inside Pt. 4

After tapping on Marge's exclamation mark: That article was supposed to make Lurleen LESS popular. Now the press is all over her and there's talk of a Sadgasm reunion tour. I need a stiff drink! One cranberry juice please. Homer can't wear flannel nowadays! Whenever he lies down, ants attack him thinking he's a picnic blanket. Could also be the bits of sandwich he's always got stuck to his cheeks. God I miss Homer. Without those sandwich bits, the rats have started to go after the smaller customers. I lost three kids with fake IDs that way. Well, if the printed page didn't destroy her career, what will? You're thinking too small! We need to make a slanderous documentary that exposes all of Lurleen Lumpkins's dark secrets. I've been going through her trash so I know a few of them already. But we just came up with this idea now! How did you know to start going through her trash? Look, do you want Lurleen's dark secrets or not? I want them. I want them strewn all over town like dirty laundry. Which reminds me I've got a flannel shirt covered in ants I have to wash. Task: Make Moe do a Slanderous Documentary on Lurleen (1d 12h, Channel 6) and Make Marge Do a Load of Laundry (1d 12h, Simpsons Home) Quest reward: 100 and 10 Wow. I had no idea you had such a dark and twisted past, Lurleen! I do not! That movie was full of lies and slander! It's like Hollywood doesn't have any respect for the truth! You take that back about Hollywood. My cousin was the pig from Babe. Homer, that bit about my previous managers all dying of mysterious causes was completely false. I just marry them and then they leave me. By way of coffin. You have to believe me. I don't know. That movie might not have had facts, or accurate sources, or evidence, but it did have a CG robot!

Country on the Inside Pt. 5

After tapping on Lurleen's exclamation mark: This grunge business isn't getting me out of my depression like I thought it would. Apparently being sad all the time doesn't make you happy. I miss the country lifestyle – the cowboy boots hiding switch blades, the big trucks, the starry skies, the women with large hairdos hiding switchblades. But you're a grunge natural! It's like every crowd's energy is lower than the last. I can't live like this. I need open air, belt buckles in the shape of states, and jello being counted as a salad. I'm going back to singing country songs all alone. Does that mean no more free beer at the Beer -N- Brawl...? I quit! Task: Make Lurleen Play Country Guitar (12h) Quest reward: 100 and 10 I'm sorry Lurleen. I realize now that I was just being a jealous housewife. I spread all those lies so that you'd fall from grace. Oh, your jealousy was very much justified. I made several passes at Homer, but he didn't understand a single one of them. She kept wanting me to go back to her hotel room, but why eat out of a mini-fridge when you can eat out of a normal fridge? I guess I lost a man I never had, and a career I never fully understood. I also lost thirty-five cents the other day. Lurleen, that's the makings of a great country song! About the thirty-five cents? I know. Well, is there anything we can do to help? Buy my CD? Ummm… no.

Notifications

The notification.

• At 12am GMT on December 19, 2014, this device notification was pushed out: "Sun Tzu said keep friends close but keep tween girlfriends closer. Janey Powell joins lisa at level 48 in a scheme for fame, fun and...education reform?".

Other changes made

December 16 update ("v4_12_Janey")

Sourced partly from Reddit - Tapped Out - Level 48 Update Details and TSTOTopix - What Changed with the Level 48 update?.

• Writers Building's task has changed from "Making Magic Happen" to "Writing for All the Characters".
• A glitch with the Writers Building is now whenever you exit the game, go to Krustyland or the friend screen and re-enter your town, the Writers Building will reward you wish cash every time irrespective of the timer to when it should be available.
• A 12 hour task at the Open Air Stage was added for Lurleen (if you have her). The Lurleen’s Country Music Show costs 150 to start and pays 800 and 200. It uses the same audio as the Skinner Sisters when you start the task.
• Sideshow Opera’s payout at the Open Air Stage was changed from 990 and 220 to 900 and 150. This puts the task in a more logical place for earnings, but it does decrease the advantage of keeping Mel singing.
• Janey was added to the list of kids who can be bounced at the Moonbounce. Code was also added to fix the issue with Willie’s task at the Moonbounce not being enabled.
• Janey has been added to the list of characters who can shop at the Kwik-E-Mart and Go To School.
• Kang was removed from the list of characters who can Drink At Moe’s.
• Thanksgiving 2014 and Black Friday 2014 triggers were removed.
• The sounds for Patty and Selma have been switched. These are the sounds played when you tap the character, assign them tasks, and when they complete tasks. All along Patty has been using the Selma audio files and vice versa.
• Building base multipliers updated. Level 40 buildings are now at the base rate, levels 41 & 42 at 1.3 times the base rate, level 43 at 1.4 times, level 44 at 1.6 times, level 45 at 2 times, level 46 at 3 times, and levels 47 and 48 at 4 times.
• Animations fixed in the quest "You Got Your Schokolade In My Erdnussbutter Pt. 4".
• Happy elf victory dance removed to prevent potential game crash when leaving the Toy Workshop.
• Zombie pet explosion animation fixed.
• A potential menu gang involving Gil fixed.
• "The Krusty-est Place on Earth Pt. 1" quest potential crash fixed.
• A bug when selecting Castles as a friend was fixed.
• All 4th July (both 2013 and 2014) characters have been moved to the group 4th July and the name got fixed.
• Default building premium 6 hour earnings has changed from 175 and 20 to 175 and 18.
• Default job rewards for 36 hour tasks has changed. Regular characters’ 36 hour tasks will now pay 825 and 210 rather than 750 and 200. Premium characters’ tasks will now pay 1,240 and 315 rather than 1,100 and 300. It looks like when they added default rewards for 32 hour tasks they used the 36 hour values and then didn’t adjust the 36 hour ones higher until now.
• Clash of Clones, Valentine's Day 2013, Valentine's Day 2014 and Easter 2014 items can now be placed in Krustyland.

Sources/References

• Overview at Tapped Out - Update Information
• Level 48 and the Conform-O-Meter at The Simpsons Tapped Out Addicts

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