Helpful things to tap in friends' Springfields

[slowbro]

edit: This was written back when a handshaked building could pay double if the building's time had passed again since the handshake. Well, that's not true anymore, and the list hasn't been updated in forever, so my guide is ... worthless! Well, feel free to read it anyway, lol.





Last updated July 8, 2013 with buildings and cemeteries (thanks Wikisimpsons!) and another change (thanks Abe!)



Many buildings become tappable as one of your three daily actions in a friend's town when the buildings are ready to pay out for the friend. Tapping a 'normal' building in a friend's town means that (the friend can collect the normal amount from the building, but also) the building will start out part way to the next payout after the friend collects the handshake.

You can also spray or remove graffiti (spraying slightly increases your own Righteousness and mopping raises it a lot; thanks for the info A Bad Example).

You can tap Cletus's Farm (very helpful if it's withered, gives your friend more time to claim their harvest), and you can tap Channel 6 and Open Air Stage and Squidport Entrance but I don't think those help your friend.



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The best advice I can come up with so far, if you're trying to help the most you can, is (tap Cletus's Farm if it's withered, it's your call whether you want to spray graffiti and mop, and) when they're available, tap "normal" buildings besides the under-an-hour ones. The super-short duration stuff won't help much, whereas the other buildings may or may not wind up helping much. (thanks for a lot of this Karin)

There is debate about all that, however. Not everyone is helped by tapping the same things. Perhaps avoid 12, 24 and 48 hour buildings in case your friend likes to have all their 12-hour buildings pay out once in the morning and once at night. You could avoid eight-hour ones as well if you want. Actually, some people might prefer not to have any of their over-an-hour buildings tapped, but then again another friend might not want graffiti or their short-duration stuff tapped. It would depend on the friend. If you're in communication with your friend you could ask, but I bet most would say 'ehh, it doesn't matter.' (thanks for a lot of this sfldboy)

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I used to think your own buildings could pay out double all at once, but it appears they never do. It could be a change with the Waterfront update. Or it may have been that way from the beginning.

Future events may include things to tap that do special things, like the Whacking Day snake-producing items.

Choosing what to tap is an effort to help your friend more, not yourself. Your rewards will be the same no matter what you tap (except for spraying and mopping graffiti which increases your Righteousness.) Nothing you tap can help them THAT much, and nothing can really hurt them; just maybe annoy them. It may be best not to obsess too much over tapping precisely the best things you could've possibly tapped, lol; no need to even think about this stuff at all if you don't want to. Everyone has their own play style and that's great. But if you want to obsess, be my guest of course!


The Simpsons: Tapped Out gets updated a lot, and its creators sometimes change things within the game, so anything in this guide is liable to change. Or maybe it already has!



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Here's a list of objects that can be tapped as one of your three daily actions. I listed the time they take to pay out and the cash and exp gained from them (for the person who has them in their town -- payouts while visiting friends are always the same no matter what you tap). This list probably includes mistakes on my part.

contributors: Karin and an anonymous informant and simpsonswiki.net (thanks all!!). It is a mystery whether this list is currently complete or not.

object	time cash exp
Burns Manor	2d 520 50
Krabappel Apartment	2d 520 50
Turban Outfitters	1d12h 400 40
Holiday Tree	24h 500 50
Volcano Lair	24h 500 50
Duff Stadium	24h 500 45
Nighthawk Diner	24h 500 30
Pimento Grove	24h 350 30
Crypto Barn	24h 300 30
Just Rainsticks	24h 300 30
Springfield General Hospital	24h 300 30
Springfield Penitentiary	24h 300 30
Springfield Observatory	16h 350 35
Phineas Q Butterfat	16h 275 22
Orange House	16h 250 25
Fat Tony's Compound	16h 225 22
The Frying Dutchman	16h 225 22
Springfield Library	16h 200 20
Hollow Snake Trunk	12h 300 30
Planet Hype	12h 300 30
Santa's Village	12h 300 30
School Bus	12h 300 30
Sleep-Eazy Motel	12h 300 30
Sprawl-Mart	12h 300 30
Herman's Military Antiques	12h 225 20
First Church of Springfield	12h 200 20
Hibbert Family Practice	12h 200 20
Mapple Store	12h 200 20
My First Tattoo	12h 200 20
Skip's Diner	12h 200 20
White House	12h 200 20
Wiggum House	12h 200 20
Asia de Cuba	10h 260 26
Ferris Wheel	10h 260 26
Howard's Flowers	10h 200 17
Businessman's Social Club	10h 175 26
Pet Cemetery	10h 175 17
Springfield Cemetery	10h 175 17
Mausoleum	8h 200 22
Snake Stump	8h 200 22
Springfield Coliseum	8h 200 22
Swanky Fish	8h 200 22
Aztec Theatre	8h 200 20
El Chemistri	8h 150 15
Blue House	8h 150 13
Jake's Unisex Hair Palace	8h 150 13
King Toot's	8h 150 13
Subatomic Supercollider	8h 150 13
Lincoln's Cabin	8h 135 22
House of Evil	8h 135 15
Houseboat	8h 135 15
Malaria Zone	8h 135 15
Much Ado About Muffins	8h 135 15
Sir Putt-A-Lot's	8h 135 15
Springfield Buddhist Temple	8h 135 15
Zesty's	8h 135 15
Duff Brewery	6h 200 20
Lemon Tree	6h 200 20
Adult Education Annex	6h 120 12
Bad Dream House	6h 120 12
Fort Sensible	6h 120 12
Skinner House	6h 120 12
Springfield Post Office	6h 120 12
Luigi's	6h 110 11
Pink House	6h 110 11
The Java Server	6h 110 11
Willie's Shack	6h 110 11
Krustylu Studios	5h 150 17
Barney's Bowlarama	5h 105 11
Community Center	4h 135 15
Lugash's Gym	4h 135 15
Snake Rocks	4h 135 15
Lard Lad Donuts	4h 125 13
Gulp'N'Blow	4h 100 8
Cool House	4h 90 10
Muntz House	4h 90 10
O'Flanagan's Pub	4h 90 10
The Itchy and Scratchy Store	4h 90 10
Frink's Lab	3h 105 11
Android's Dungeon	3h 75 7
Gilded Truffle	3h 75 7
Purple House	3h 75 7
Try-N-Save	2h 60 6
Van Houten House	1h 35 4
Krusty Burger	15m 13-15 1
Flanders House	10m 10 1
Brown House	5m 6 1
Kwik-E-Mart	3m 5 1
Simpson House	1m 3 1

Cletus's Farm
Cletus's Farm's harvest may wither and become unclaimable if the player waits too long after it's ready before logging in. Tapping it for them can reset its timer to give them more time. Especially helpful if the crop is already withered.

Channel 6, probably Open Air Stage, maybe Squidport Entrance
It appears that tapping these doesn't help at all. Thanks much A Bad Example.

City Hall, Moe's Tavern, Police Department, Springfield Elementary, maybe others
Spray graffiti, clean up graffiti. Spraying graffiti gives your friend the chance to clean it up, which can probably slightly increase their Righteousness (one of the Conform-O-Meter stats) (and give them a tiny cash/exp reward). Not everything is known about Righteousness; spraying may decrease your friend's Righteousness more than cleaning it up will. Spraying increases your own Righteousness a little; mopping in a friend's town increases it a lot. It appears little is known about exactly how Righteousness works though. I don't know for example if you gain Righteousness yourself by spraying graffiti in a friend's town, or whether having graffiti or Sideshow Bob in your town too long can lower Righteousness. When it goes down it seems to go down randomly.



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Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this guide! And to anyone who replaces it with a more complete or less confusing one, lol. Thanks Karin! Thanks Spider Pig! Thanks lakooo! Thanks A Bad Example! Thanks anonymous informant! Thanks also to everyone who comments on what taps they like to receive!

HUGE thanks to Karin who has made several major contributions to this guide!

HUGE thanks also to A Bad Example for all the help.

Also, HUGE thanks to sfldboy for setting me straight. Until I saw his post I didn't know there was debate on this stuff.

Much of what I originally knew on this subject came from The Simpsons Tapped Out Tips, at tstotips.com. It's an excellent resource for information about this fine game. Thanks.

I found a much more comprehensive page about the Simpsons Tapped Out buildings:
simpsonswiki.net/wiki/The_Simpsons:_Tapped_Out_buildings

[Karin]

Hi Slobro,

Helpfull list!
In addition: Channel 6 is not necessary to click on, because it is the friend who has to start another broadcast. Clicking on Cletus farm can be very helpfull when the harvest is rotten, it will revive again. If it's not rotten, you can also click and harvest, I supose this resets the rotting period.

[slowbro]

Thank you Karin!

So does clicking on Channel 6 have no effect for the friend, except maybe a tiny cash and exp reward? D'oh! I've been frequently clicking on friends' Channel 6 buildings, lol.

And I take it a farm harvest can't be claimed anymore if it's given time to rot, except then a friend can revive it and make it claimable again, if I understood right.

Obviously I still have a lot to learn in these matters :newb:

Thanks!

[Spider Pig]

From what I've heard, these are the bet things to tap

1) Grafitti friends buildings (increases righteousness stars). Though don't tap mops?

2) If a plant in cletus's farm has wilted, tap it. This will unwilt the plant, allowing your friend to collect from it.

3) Avoid tapping blue/white houses, and try tapping brown house or shorter time houses instead.

[slowbro]

May 27, 2013 14:38:10 GMT -5 Spider Pig said:

3) Avoid tapping blue/white houses, and try tapping brown house or shorter time houses instead.

Thanks!

If it is best to tap the lowest-valued buildings, then my guide is 100% wrong. As I thought I understood it, tapping a high-value house like Orange House or White House doesn't stop your friend from collecting on that house, but does reset that house's timer, so if it's a long time before they log in they might get double payout from that house. If tapping say Burns Manor means the friend doesn't get the 520 cash from Burns Manor, then my advice I gave is bad!

[sfldboy]

I don't think you get the payouts that you list. Those are the payouts you receive in your own town. I think and I could be wrong but you get $25 no matter what building you tap.

Tapping a building rests its timer so people who check the towns every twelve hours want to collect all those 12 hous houses at once not have to come back again or wait another 12 hours.

I prefer to clean/mop and only tap brown houses. i very rarely tap on lemon tree, channel six or Cletus farm. Unless crop and lemons are wilted.

This is a HUGE debate. Like you said, people have there own play style.

If I'm wrong about the items paying out what you have listed when you visit them, then by all means visit the highest paying if available.

[slowbro]

May 27, 2013 17:58:22 GMT -5 sfldboy said:

I don't think you get the payouts that you list. Those are the payouts you receive in your own town. I think and I could be wrong but you get $25 no matter what building you tap.

Tapping a building rests its timer so people who check the towns every twelve hours want to collect all those 12 hous houses at once not have to come back again or wait another 12 hours.

I prefer to clean/mop and only tap brown houses. i very rarely tap on lemon tree, channel six or Cletus farm. Unless crop and lemons are wilted.

This is a HUGE debate. Like you said, people have there own play style.

If I'm wrong about the items paying out what you have listed when you visit them, then by all means visit the highest paying if available.

Thanks a ton; yeah that all makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, I know the person visiting a friend's town always receives the same small payout per tap. I listed the payouts a person receives for buildings in their own town because it could influence what taps would be the most helpful for the friend someone's visiting.

So I guess tapping high-valued houses messes up some people's schedules and what a person would want you to tap in their town would depend on their own play style. I totally didn't catch on to this, because I don't play by a schedule at all.

The object list is worthwhile, but I should probably change most of the first post. Or maybe this thread should just be deleted. edit: attempted to rewrite the first post

So as I understand it now, what would be most helpful for a friend would depend on their play style, but one safe option is just to tap low-value things and Cletus's farm if it's withered.

[sfldboy]

You thread is fine, don't delete it.

Play your way.

[SuperDoll]

I prefer to have my buildings graffitied and mid-payout time (2-8 hour regeneration) buildings tapped. I am frequently on the game during the day, but lam off for about 8 - 10 hours at night. I like to wake up to sme of buildings regenerating and those are usually the items in that time frame collection.

I recommend not tapping on house farms or clusters of same houses. For example, I have 2 or 3 white houses attached to each other to look like condos and a row of 5 or 6 brown houses. I like them to all pay out at the same time.

Do the lemons rot? Never saw that. I just thought the tree paid out like the buildings.

[Swanky]

May 27, 2013 19:38:41 GMT -5 SuperDoll said:

I prefer to have my buildings graffitied and mid-payout time (2-8 hour regeneration) buildings tapped. I am frequently on the game during the day, but lam off for about 8 - 10 hours at night. I like to wake up to sme of buildings regenerating and those are usually the items in that time frame collection.

I recommend not tapping on house farms or clusters of same houses. For example, I have 2 or 3 white houses attached to each other to look like condos and a row of 5 or 6 brown houses. I like them to all pay out at the same time.

Do the lemons rot? Never saw that. I just thought the tree paid out like the buildings.

They don't, they stay there until you collect from the tree.

I'm also like this. I prefer to be graffitied and after that I don't mind what you click. Just don't click my small development of blue houses because the way I have the timer on those, I collect before I go to bed and after I wake up and I hate when I get up and see a handshake knowing my timer's messed up. 

[slowbro]

This thread has definitely helped me as much as it has anyone else, probably more. I can see that the optimal things to tap depend on the friend's play style, and I doubt anybody with a long friends list could keep track of exactly what's best for every friend.

Thanks to all for the input!

[eurynome]

I try to just graffiti my friends towns, and only click on buildings if I must. I figure everyone likes to have a little cash and the bump in righteousness from cleaning up.

[Karin]

No, don't delete it! Every thread that makes people think before they tap, is OK and finally this is a usefull discussion although you asumed some things wrong. It's important to remind that you are tapping on neighbours buildings to help them, apart of your own reward which is the same for every activity you do.

About leaving graffity I think we all agree. I even noticed that many players are afraid to use the brushes, but my experience is that it rises the infamous Righteneous drops as good as the mops.

Personally I prefer my neighbours tapping on the highest pay out buildings and items rather than the low ones. I don't even tap on my own Simpsons-Flanders-Brown house-Van Houten-Kwik-E-markt and Krusty's. I leave them for neighbours when there's nothing else to tap, which during the day is very common. As mentioned above, tapping a few of clustered houses isn't usefull but I don't see how it can mess up my schedule. Apart of that, there are buidings with different hours and what about Tony's compound (16 hours).... A handshake only sets the timer at 0, and you will get it even in your next turn. Most interesting is they tap on the higher and middle paid items during your sleep, when you find a handshake in the morning which can open the possiblilty of cashing 1 time extra before you go to sleep again.
Recently I added a few friends who tap more intelligent and I already notice a slight effect on the cash building up. Especially friends in other time zones are mutually usufull for being able to cover each others sleeping hours. I play a lot during day time but don't put the alarm clock
It's a pity, unless you have other ways to contact neighbours, that many times there is no way to figure out what they prefer.....

Brown houses and other quick refreshing buildings I only tap when there really is nothing else and of course in towns at lower levels. Lemon baskets don't rot but by tapping them they also start to count. As for housefarming, I delete neighbours with real farms (which is something different than a cluster of houses in a normal neighbourhood with roads and decorations).

Well, hoping to contribute to the debate itchyscratchy

[Shady]

I do not like when people vandalize my town. I usually have 5 stars in righteneous and when they vandalize my town I dont always catch it right away. If I dont clean it quickly it drops my righteneous down to 1 star and takes a couple days to get back up to 5 stars.

[lakooo]

May 27, 2013 14:38:10 GMT -5 Spider Pig said:

From what I've heard, these are the bet things to tap

1) Grafitti friends buildings (increases righteousness stars). Though don't tap mops?

2) If a plant in cletus's farm has wilted, tap it. This will unwilt the plant, allowing your friend to collect from it.

3) Avoid tapping blue/white houses, and try tapping brown house or shorter time houses instead.

I totally agree with Items 1 & 2. Regarding #3: some people really DON'T want neighbors to tap their Simpsons/Flanders/brown houses because they'd rather have the payout timer reset on a slower-renewing building.

Personally, I don't bother tapping non-vandalizable buildings unless there are no other options.

From what I have been told tapping the mops improves the visitor's Righteousness, but doesn't remove the graffiti from the neighbor's town, so they still get the benefit of removing graffiti from their own town. But I only have 1 town (no tester, yet), so I couldn't say for sure because I haven't tested it myself.

slowbro, this is a GREAT idea for a thread, because it's a much-wondered-about and much-debated topic. Maybe, as time passes and the answers become more clear, you could update your original post to make it as thorough and accurate as possible? (Also, some things change over time--for instance, tapping the mop in someone's town apparently used to remove their graffiti, which was a bummer for them, but now it doesn't. Such changes could be documented in the Original Post as well.)

[slowbro]

Thank you to all for helping! No I won't delete my post.

I'll try to keep the first post updated. Ha ha, I didn't know what I was getting into when I posted it. I had guessed the most helpful things to tap were clear-cut.

If anyone wants to contribute the numbers for any more buildings to add to the list, that would be awesome. There are a lot of buildings I don't have, and the Lemon Tree and the snake items besides Rocks. Fat Tony's Compound is on there but farther down the list, because of the peculiar order I used (highest cash items first ... maybe I should change the order but it's probably not important). edit: changed the order a bit

[Karin]

May 28, 2013 11:30:17 GMT -5 Shady said:

I do not like when people vandalize my town. I usually have 5 stars in righteneous and when they vandalize my town I dont always catch it right away. If I dont clean it quickly it drops my righteneous down to 1 star and takes a couple days to get back up to 5 stars.

What I understood it is just the other way around, visitors leaving graffity give you the opportunity to clean! Righteneous level drops seem to be random. Whoever not everyone has the same experience, I can regain my 5 stars also by leaving graffity. That gave me the impresion that these drops are ment to stimulate players to visit their friends towns more often! Sometimes I don't find not 1 mop in 50 towns, which indicates that people are afraid to use them. I thought with 1 star left "what have I to loose" and it worked out wel, especially as the neighbour is also helped with it.

[Karin]

May 27, 2013 19:38:41 GMT -5 SuperDoll said:

I prefer to have my buildings graffitied and mid-payout time (2-8 hour regeneration) buildings tapped. I am frequently on the game during the day, but lam off for about 8 - 10 hours at night. I like to wake up to sme of buildings regenerating and those are usually the items in that time frame collection.

I recommend not tapping on house farms or clusters of same houses. For example, I have 2 or 3 white houses attached to each other to look like condos and a row of 5 or 6 brown houses. I like them to all pay out at the same time.

Do the lemons rot? Never saw that. I just thought the tree paid out like the buildings.

Here you have a interresting point, maybe mid payout buildings are even better than the highest!

[Karin]

May 27, 2013 14:35:26 GMT -5 slowbro said:

Thank you Karin!

So does clicking on Channel 6 have no effect for the friend, except maybe a tiny cash and exp reward? D'oh! I've been frequently clicking on friends' Channel 6 buildings, lol.

And I take it a farm harvest can't be claimed anymore if it's given time to rot, except then a friend can revive it and make it claimable again, if I understood right.

Obviously I still have a lot to learn in these matters :newb:

Thanks!

Channel 6 will payout when he/she taps the handshake, but the building doesn't start a new broadcast like the houses start to count their taxes. Therefor the friend can also cash when starting a new broadcast.
You're right about the farm, but every crop has a different rotting time, more or less like the growing time. So I look what they are growing, Moonshine I suppose they will catch before rotting, but tapping Tomacco can be live saving.

Yes, it's not an easy job
Later I will post some items you don't have, I play since the Chrismas event.

[Shady]

May 28, 2013 13:41:34 GMT -5 Karin said:

May 28, 2013 11:30:17 GMT -5 Shady said:

I do not like when people vandalize my town. I usually have 5 stars in righteneous and when they vandalize my town I dont always catch it right away. If I dont clean it quickly it drops my righteneous down to 1 star and takes a couple days to get back up to 5 stars.

What I understood it is just the other way around, visitors leaving graffity give you the opportunity to clean! Righteneous level drops seem to be random. Whoever not everyone has the same experience, I can regain my 5 stars also by leaving graffity. That gave me the impresion that these drops are ment to stimulate players to visit their friends towns more often! Sometimes I don't find not 1 mop in 50 towns, which indicates that people are afraid to use them. I thought with 1 star left "what have I to loose" and it worked out wel, especially as the neighbour is also helped with it.

The only times my righteneous fell to one 1 star was when I hadnt logged into my town for a day or so and I come back and see Moe's defaced.

If they wanted you to visit your friends more I would think they would drop "socialism" seeing as how the description is "make friends and visit them"

Im going to look at the xml files to see If I can find where it says the properties of righteneous

[Karin]

May 28, 2013 14:01:11 GMT -5 Shady said:

The only times my righteneous fell to one 1 star was when I hadnt logged into my town for a day or so and I come back and see Moe's defaced.

If they wanted you to visit your friends more I would think they would drop "socialism" seeing as how the description is "make friends and visit them"

Im going to look at the xml files to see If I can find where it says the properties of righteneous

Well, that may throw some light! What is reported at other boards is that it even seems to behave in a different way for different players. Or it must be a very complicated combination of factors that make the difference, for example between you and me.

EA moves in mysterious ways

[Karin]

Slowbro,

As promised, some more items for the initial post:

Mapple Store
12h 200 20

Phineas Q Butterfat
16h 275 22

Howard's Flowers
10h 200 17

Sir Putt-A-Lot's
8h 135 15

Swanky Fish
8h 200 22

Snake stump
8h 200 22 XP

Hollow snake trunk
12h 300 30

Holiday tree
24h 500 50

Lemon tree
6h 200 20

[slowbro]

Thanks Karin.

[Karin]

May 28, 2013 15:11:59 GMT -5 slowbro said:

Thanks Karin.

You're welcome moeglasssmall

[r1c4]

In my book, your name ends in "-mania" or "-teria" because that is what the good things are made of!

I was asking this question not to long ago and meant to make this list, but May wasn't the best for me,



and my wish was answered! Thank you Jebus, I mean slowbro!!!