User blog comment:Sonieee/The Busy Person’s Guide to Playing The Simpsons Tapped Out (Part One)/@comment-25021853-20140901180803

Nice post. I know I tend to play a bit more aggressive, getting to Level 40 a month after I started, and I played quite frequently early on, but even I have slowed down and was playing just a few times a day for a few minutes at a time, but the current Clash of Clones Event has me on every 2 hours or so while I'm awake, to collect and use my Nerds. I do wish I had found this Wikia sooner, I'm pretty good at figuring things out on my own, but it took me awhile to realize just how important having neighbors was and I played for almost 2 weeks with just "Other Springfield" to visit each day. Once I finally got some neighbors I quickly grew to the 100 neighbor cap and got the Friendship Prizes in no time. Of course, getting extra money and XP, and that 0.5% chance for a Donut once you've gotten all the prizes is great, but the icing is having all those people who visit you and help you out, especially during Events where progressing through it is so much easier when you have plenty of neighbors who play every day and visit you to help out.

I too, was a bit too free in spending the "free" Donuts they give you early on to try and get you hooked. Of course, in my case I have plenty of free time and a bit of disposable income due to being disabled, but buying some Donuts periodically makes me think all the more about how to spend them wisely and not waste them on something stupid. I do get plenty of free ones too, usually averaging about 2-3 a day on good days and even won the 5 Donuts prize from the Sideshow You game in Krustyland a few times. Of course, I've been getting fewer free Donuts since I stopped converting my Cash into XP for more Bonus Levels and started saving it up to see how high I can get it. By the time I hit 1 Billion I should have my Bonus Percentage at 1000% or more, so once I do eventually convert all that Cash to XP I'll get a ton of Donuts from Bonus Levels.

I look forward to part two of this, unless it's already up in which case I will read it ASAP. I keep up-to-date stats on my page, as well as a list of tips and tricks. If you know of any I missed please share them in the Comments section. Thanks again for posting this, which will be very helpful to lots of players.