The Simpsons: Tapped Out Valentine's Day 2013 content update

A Mystery Love Box, which costs

5.

The tenth content update was released on January 30, 2013. This is a Valentine's-themed update, the fourth themed content update so far. The update removed the snow, and the snowmen introduced in the previous update had melted. Also, the normal icon had been restored and the game got a new Valentine's-themed opening menu.

Players can buy a Mystery Love Box for 5, which contain either hearts or themed decorations. Hearts are new currency in the update, and you can buy three buildings with them and 8 decorations.

Two expensive buildings came with the update, the "Escalator To Nowhere" and the "Popsicle Stick Skyscraper", each costing in great excess of the prices of the other buildings.

A Scratch-R before being 'scratched'.

The update installed the ability to win money at the Kwik-E-Mart by purchasing a Scratch-R. You can get a Scratch-R every 6 hours. It also installed the ability to send Valentine's cards to friends' towns.

The new items in The Store.

For players that had reached the end of Level 25, a special notice appeared saying that players could get bonus levels and when they get the XP to complete them, they can get up to three donuts by selecting one of the 'presents'. Get one or two donuts and the player gets the chance to get three by paying 50,000.

A few players posted on the Tapped Out forums that they got Level 26 with the update and the content that came with the update.

The update also installed the ability to buy 50,000 and 100,000 with 325 and 600 respectively in "The Store".

The update also removed the Mapple Store from the game; it was introduced during the Christmas Update then became a premium building after the event ended.

Reports began after the update was first released of a bug nicknamed the "Harp of Death". This bug has been encountered by many Tapped Out players. The bug freezes up the game and crashes it, before continuously playing a 'harp sound' through the loading menu when the game is opened again. There have been multiple reports of this on the official Tapped Out forums and the EA Help forums, with EA responding to the complaints at the beginning of February saying that there should be a patch released soon, and on February 22, 2013 with a tweet from @AskEASupport: "Attention Springfield citizens! The #TSTO team are aware/investigating a resolution for ‘harpofdeath’ issue. Thanks for your patience." @OriginInsider also responded to the complaints, saying on February 21, 2013, "This is being investigated and the Simpsons Tapped Out team is working as quickly as possible to resolve it." Also, EA has sent replies to troubled players' emails on how to fix the bug, despite many finding a way to fix the bug on their own: leaving Tapped Out open for around 15-20 minutes without auto-lock on. Reports of the bug have continued after the release of the Level 26 update, with many saying that the completion of a quest or a building has prompted the game to crash and the bug to start.

The event ended on February 28, two weeks after Valentine's Day.

Two notices appear once the player logs onto the game. The first notice reads "Congratulations! Much to our embarrassment you've completed the current max level in the game." The second reads "But don't you worry! Until we bring you new levels you can complete extra BONUS LEVELS and win up to 3 donuts per level!"

Then:

Apu: Mr. Simpson. I believe I can help reconstruct Springfield. Kwik-E-Mart is now offering Scratch-Rs! For the low, low, price of 250 money you have a chance to win 10,000 money!

Lisa: Isn't that gambling?

Homer: Nonsense Lisa, you can't lose in a social game.

Lisa: This Valentine's Day I'm going to lead by example and give out cards made from recycled paper. That way every Valentine I give out will be a Valentine I give out will be a Valentine to the Earth as well! And the smug sense of satisfaction I'll feel will be a Valentine to myself!

Then the "BONUS LEVEL UP!" notice appears. A player must tap on one of the three 'presents' to receive one, two or three donuts. If a player gets one or two donuts, the player can get the option to pay 50,000 for the chance to receive three, or they can settle for what they received.

Then, the player receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 1", which is to "Send Valentine's Cards in Other Springfields" - three cards. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark:

Lisa: Just one Valentine left... Milhouse's. I hope he doesn't read too much into it.

The player receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 2", which is to "Reach Level 8 and Build the Van Houten House" and to "Make Lisa Deliver a Valentine to the Van Houten House". The task is a one-time task and takes 10 minutes and rewards the player with 17 and 5. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Milhouse's exclamation mark:

Milhouse: Hi Lisa!

Lisa: Oh... hi Milhouse...

Milhouse: I got that Valentine you made me. It was on crummy recycled paper, but the message was still clear... my love is requited!

Lisa: It's just a card Milhouse.

Milhouse: It sure is! So do you want to do something as a couple? We could fly my kite together?

Lisa: Um, er...I would love to, but I have homework to do. Maybe later?

Milhouse: I'll be counting the seconds. One alligator, two alligator...

The player receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 3", which is to "Make Lisa Do Next Week's Homework" and "Make Milhouse Fly a Kite".

Upon completing the task:

Lisa: I hope Milhouse got the picture.

Milhouse: Lisa may not have been there with me, but I'm still going to count that as a date!

Then the player receives 1 and 10 for completing the quest.

After tapping on Milhouse's exclamation mark:

Milhouse: Hi, Mr. Simpson. I'm here to profess my undying love for Lisa.

Homer: I know, and so does she. That's why she ran out the back door when she saw you coming. She's long gone by now.

Milhouse: Woe is me! How will I ever conquer Lisa's heart?

Homer: Well, they say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. And men and women have exactly the same anatomy...

Milhouse: Gotcha! I'll warm up my easy-bake oven!

Homer: Better yet, what about going out for ice cream?

Milhouse: That's a great idea. Thanks, Dad-to-be!

The player receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 4", which is to "Build Phineas Q. Butterfat's". The building costs 10 and takes 24 hours to build. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark:

Homer: 5600 flavors of ice cream? I'm in love!

Milhouse: Do you think Lisa will come here with me, seeing as I built it for her?

Homer: For her? I had you build this for me.

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 5", which is to "Make Homer Eat at Phineas Q. Butterfat's". This one-time task takes 8 hours and rewards the player with 275 and 70 when completed on its own. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Milhouse's exclamation mark:

Milhouse: I guess I'll never get Lisa to be my Valentine.

Homer: Valentine? Oh, crap! Is it whatever-uary whatever-teenth already?! need to get Marge a gift... or write her a love song. No that's too much work. I'll stick with the gift.

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 6", which is to "Make Homer Shop At Kwik E Mart". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark:

Homer: Help me, Apu -- I need a Valentine's gift for Marge!

Apu: Is she a milk connoisseur? I have several well-aged vintages.

Homer: I was thinking something a little more romantic.

Apu: Then you've come to the wrong place. Might I suggest flowers?

Homer: Great idea. I think I saw some in the decorations menu.

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 7", which is to "Plant Rose Bush". The Rose Bush costs 10. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark:

Homer: Now to cut me some of those flowers, give them to Marge, and trick her into loving me for another year.

Chief Wiggum: Not so fast, Fancy Gardener! Drop the hedge clippers, and reach for the sky!

Homer: But I planted these flowers.

Chief Wiggum: On city ground! And now that they're there, cutting them is illegal. And don't think about just putting them in your inventory box -- that won't work either.

Homer: Then where am I supposed to get flowers?

Chief Wiggum: That's your problem, not mine. But if you figure out a place, let me know. Valentine's is coming up and I don't want to have to write Sarah a love song.

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 8", which is to "Build Howard's Flowers". The building costs 25 and takes 24 hours to build. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark:

Homer: This place is expensive! I can barely afford twelve roses, let alone a dozen. I better clock in some overtime at the plant.

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 9", which is to "Reach Level 11 and Build the Control Building" and "Send Homer to do a Plant Shift". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark:

Homer: Woo-hoo! Now I've got enough money to buy something that comes out of the ground plentifully and for free!

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 10", which is to "Make Homer Shop at Howard's Flowers". This one-time task takes 12 hours and rewards the player with 420 and 100 when completed on its own.

After finishing the task:

Homer: V-Day Victory, here I come!

The player then receives 1 and 10 for completing the quest.

After tapping on Milhouse's exclamation mark:

Milhouse: Hey, Lisa, whatcha doing?

Lisa: My dad's done so much building and shopping recently, I thought planting some flowers might offset his carbon footprint.

Milhouse: I don't know what that means... but I think that too.

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 11", which is to "Make Lisa Plant Flowers". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark:

Lisa: I'm impressed, Milhouse. You planted all those flowers without a single allergy attack.

Milhouse: While you're feeling all impressed, do you want to get some ice cream? I'll even spring for a waffle cone.

Lisa: Ice cream sounds good. But just so we're clear -- we're just friends, okay?

Milhouse: Just friends. ...for now.

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 12", which is to "Make Lisa Eat at Phineas Q. Butterfat's" and "Make Milhouse Eat at Phineas Q. Butterfat's". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark:

Homer: Happy Valentine's Day, Marge!

Marge: Flowers?! And they're not even from the inventory box!

Homer: That's right, baby! And tonight I'm taking you anywhere you want to go. The Gilded Truffle perhaps?

Marge: Actually, I was thinking of something even more romantic.

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 13", which is to "Build Sir Putt-A-Lot's". The building costs 50 and takes 24 hours to build. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark:

Homer: Hey, this is the place where we first...

Marge: That's right. And I thought we could go there again.

Homer: Marge, you're the greatest opposite sex spouse a man could ever have!

The player then receives "Valentine's Day Pt. 14", which is to "Make Homer Snuggle in the Golf Castle" and to "Make Marge Snuggle in the Golf Castle". These one-time tasks take 12 hours and reward the player with 420 and 100 when each completed on their own. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10, thus ending the "Valentine's Day" quest tetrakaidecalogy.

Decoration quests

Each of the below quests appears sequentially in the taskbar after finishing the previous "Valentine's Goodies" quest. After receiving "Valentine's Day Pt. 2":

The player receives "Valentine's Goodies Pt. 1", which is to "Place a Valentine's Tree". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

Then the player receives "Valentine's Goodies Pt. 2", which is to "Place a Love Planter". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

Then the player receives "Valentine's Goodies Pt. 3", which is to "Place a Rose Arch". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

Then the player receives "Valentine's Goodies Pt. 4", which is to "Place a Valentine's Pond". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

Then the player receives "Valentine's Goodies Pt. 5", which is to "Place a Cherub Topiary". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

Then the player receives "Valentine's Goodies Pt. 6", which is to "Place a Cozy Hammock". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

Then the player receives "Valentine's Goodies Pt. 7", which is to "Place an I Choo-Choo-Choose You Train". Upon completing the quest, the player receives 1 and 10.

Characters

Image	Name	Unlocked when/costs	Level required
	Shauna	90	N/A

Shauna

After unlocking Shauna and tapping on her exclamation mark:

Shauna: Gees, this place is boring. What do people do for fun around here?

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 1", which is to "Have a River" and to "Make Shauna Tease the Ducks". The task takes 8 hours and rewards the player with 420 and 105 when completed on its own. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 100 and 10.

After tapping on Shauna's exclamation mark:

Shauna: This brown house is a total dump. I guess if I'm going to squat here, I may as well redecorate.

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 2", which is to "Make Shauna Paintball in the Brown House". The task takes 2 hours and rewards the player with 175 and 40 when completed on its own. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 100 and 10.

After tapping on Shauna's exclamation mark:

Shauna: Hey, where's that fun kid, Bart? Or is it Barf?

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 3", which is to "Reach Level 12 & Build Bart's Treehouse" and "Make Bart Paintball in the Brown House". The task takes 2 hours and rewards the player with 110 and 27 when completed on its own. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 100 and 10.

After tapping on Bart's exclamation mark:

Bart: Hey, Milhouse, our new web comic is getting hundreds of hits!

Milhouse: That means hundreds of nerds and geeks think we're cool!

Bart: What matters is that babies think we're cool. And this naughty hottie named Shauna is actually one of our fans. I added her on SpringFace and guess what? She accepted!

Milhouse: Cool. Though too much attention from girls makes me kind of nervous. My palms are already sweating. And what if Lisa gets jealous? I can't handle this kind of fame.

Bart: Well, I'm off to impress Shauna with my mad skillz. That's right, I pronounced it with a "Z".

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 4", which is to "Make Milhouse Hide Wet Bedsheets" and "Make Bart Skateboard". Milhouse's task takes 45 seconds and rewards the player with 3 and 1 when completed on its own; Bart's takes 4 hours and rewards the player with 175 and 45 when completed on its own.

Once the player sets Bart's task:

Shauna: Nice moves, little dude!

Bart: Oh, hey Shauna. Were you watching me? I had no idea you were even there.

Shauna: Yeah right. I'm surprised you could board looking over your shoulder that much.

Bart: We should hang sometime. You know, when I'm a little less busy with my super popular web comic.

Shauna: We'll see.

Upon completing the quest, the player receives 100 and 10.

After tapping on Shauna's exclamation mark:

Shauna: That kid is so sweet -- I have got to play a prank on him.

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 5", which is to "Make Shauna Send Make-Out Invites on SpringFace". The task takes 12 hours and rewards the player with 600 and 150 when completed on its own. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 100 and 10.

After tapping on Bart's exclamation mark:

Bart: I got a message from Shauna online. She is sooo hot for me.

Milhouse: Wow, a message? I've heard of people getting those.

Nelson: She sent the same message to every single dork on your comic book's SpringFace page.

Bart: So... she never even liked me? *sad sigh*

Milhouse: Now you know what it's like to be me.

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 6", which is to "Make Bart Sulk in his Room". This one-time task takes 24 hours and rewards the player with 600 and 150 when completed on its own. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 100 and 10.

After tapping on Bart's exclamation mark:

Bart: Hey, Shauna. That message you sent me on SpringFace, did you send the same message to everyone?

Shauna: Yeh! Funny huh?

Bart: Not really. I thought you liked me.

Shauna: Sorry, but you're just a kid. I only date guys with credit cards or fake I.D.'s. But we can still hang out.

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 7", which is to "Make Shauna Paintball in the Brown House" and "Make Bart Paintball in the Brown House". The tasks both take 2 hours; Shauna's rewards the player with 175 and 40 when completed on its own, and Bart's rewards the player with 110 and 27 when completed on its own. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 100 and 10.

After tapping on Shauna's exclamation mark:

Shauna: Awesome paint battle, kid. How about we go shopping?

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 8", which is to "Make Shauna Shoplift from the Kwik-E-Mart" and "Make Bart Shoplift from the Kwik-E-Mart". The tasks both take 30 minutes; Shauna's rewards the player with 60 and 15 when completed on its own and Bart's rewards the player with 40 and 10 when completed on its own. Bart's task is also a one-time task.

Once finishing the tasks:

Milhouse: Hey Bart, we haven't updated Nerd Ninja this week. Where have you been?

Bart: On a hot date with an experienced woman.

Milhouse: With Shauna? Does that mean you got to second base?

Bart: No. I don't even know if she likes baseball.

Then the player receives the reward for completing the quest, 100 and 10.

After tapping on Bart's exclamation mark:

Bart: Hey Shauna, wanna watch me grind some rails?

Shauna: Hmmm... *yawn* no thanks, kid. Have you got an older brother? Or better still, a rich uncle?

Bart: Gee, older girls are high maintenance.

Shauna: And we're fickle too. You're real sweet, but I need the love that only an inappropriately older man can offer.

Then the player receives "Chasing Shauna Pt. 9", which is to "Make Shauna Seek Inappropriate Love". The task takes 24 hours and rewards the player with 1,000 and 225. Upon completing the quest, the player receives 100 and 10, concluding the "Chasing Shauna" quest ennealogy.

Buildings

Image	Name	Building time	Costs	Task	Level/Task required
	Escalator To Nowhere	3 days	1,000,000	N/A	"myPad"
	Popsicle Stick Skyscraper	3 days	2,000,000	N/A	"myPad"
"Valentine's Day" progression
150px	Phineas Q. Butterfat's	24 hours	10	Causing Cavities
150px	Howard's Flowers	24 hours	25	Capitalizing On Insecure Relationships
150px	Sir Putt-A-Lot's	24 hours	50	Losing Golf Balls	15