Board Thread:Tapped Out Help/@comment-23.17.255.60-20130804183353/@comment-25021853-20140726121622

Sounds like an interesting bug. I had a similar problem with a new quest chain for a new Premium building in Krustyland, the One Plate Buffet. I had a task to have Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie all eat there. Wiggum was no problem, and ironically I had already sent him there to keep him busy when the task came up, but I could not get Lou or Eddie to show up in Krustyland, even though they were both idle. Now Wiggum has been one of the 18 Characters I could use in Krustyland for a long time now, but the Level 43 Update added Princess Penelope (once you build the new Krusty Ferris Wheel, I forget the exact name) and you can now have Lou, Eddie, and Sherri & Terri too. Sherri & Terri become available in Krustyland as part of the quest involving Princess Penelope, but I couldn't get Lou and Eddie to show. I tried a bunch of things and was about to give up and try storing the S.W.A.T. Van to store them too, then take the Van and then back out, but Wiggum had finally finished eating at the One Plate Buffet in Krustyland, and once I collected on him and went back to Springfield to collect on the jobs Lou and Eddie were on, they finally showed up in Krustyland when I tapped on the task in the quest box.

Speaking of which, I've noticed that the stack of idle characters in the upper left has them in the order you acquired them, but if you put a character into storage and take them back out, they go to the bottom of the "Stack", regardless of when you originally got them. You can't do this with Homer and Lisa, as the Simpson House can't be put into Inventory, but you can use this on everyone else to shuffle the deck and rearrange the order the idle characters are in. I did this so that in Krustyland, all the characters with 30 minute jobs come first, then the ones with 60 minute jobs as the shortest job come later in the Stack. This makes sending everyone on short jobs frequently while I'm watching T.V. much easier. The other useful thing is when two characters can do a tandem job, but only one of them can initiate it, but if that character come up after the other one, then you can often forget to skip the first one so he or she is still idle when you get to character #2, and you can assign them a tandem job. Take Apu and Manjula for example, you get Apu during the Tutorial and can't buy Manjula till you finish the Tutorial, even if you had the Donuts, and Manjula is the one who initiates both tandem tasks with Apu so you must keep Apu idle till you select Manjula (or seek her out via the Census at Town Hall). It would be much easier if Manjula always came up before Apu in the Stack of Idle characters, so simply store Apu (and the Kwik-E-Mart he came with) and pull him back out and he moves to the bottom of the Stack. You can do this as needed to rearrange the order that idle characters come up, or write out the order you want everyone in and plan out the order to store and retrieve characters in to get it (or just store everyone and put them back out in the order you want them in, using the new Nuke button if you want to start laying out everything from scratch).