What is the best method for making money?

Nhlman72

If you're willing to spend cash money then premium characters are good.

Next is real estate.

After that, well those are the two way.

jasonicus321

Tasks, tasks, tasks. The more people you have available to make money they better. And the more buildings you have the better. Many people who are that high probably have been level 23 for awhile now and are just accumulating money waiting for the next update. I have over 600,000 right now and bought 8 pieces of land since the last update. That's a lot of cash.

dromtsul

Have you not heard about house-farming? Surely you've seen it in a neighbors town.

Nhlman72

dromtsul wrote:

Have you not heard about house-farming? Surely you've seen it in a neighbors town.

I have two small brown house farms of 8 each, but I've kept it to that small amount because house farming has been frowned upon around here. I'm not sure why, do people think that's cheating?

ThomasK323

Nhlman72 wrote:

dromtsul wrote:

Have you not heard about house-farming? Surely you've seen it in a neighbors town.

I have two small brown house farms of 8 each, but I've kept it to that small amount because house farming has been frowned upon around here. I'm not sure why, do people think that's cheating?

Convert at least one of those farms to blue or purple.

I've got exactly 49 non-unique houses, 20 blue, 9 purple, brown and white, and 1 orange and pink. I kinda farmed them at first until I was able to buy land to make them into neighborhoods. They bring in about $17k a day which adds up over the weeks. If you want to go with 200 or so blue houses nobody's stopping you, just what can they be but pure money makers? Can 200 houses be made to look cool? Has anybody tries a house tower?

ur_wack452

Who cares if people frown on farming. If you want to farm for extra cash then do so. It's not cheating, it's not the wrong way to play. It is your town design it how you want and how you like. People may not like what I just said but I'm so tired of reading that farming is "cheating" no it's not actually. Cheating would be using the hack to get unlimited donuts/cash that's cheating. Having X number of houses in your Springfield to generate income is not cheating.

dromtsul

Nhlman72 wrote:

I have two small brown house farms of 8 each, but I've kept it to that small amount because house farming has been frowned upon around here. I'm not sure why, do people think that's cheating?

Sure, farming is a bit of an exploit, but it's not wrong. You shouldn't let the values of others infringe upon your own. If money is that important to you, make it anyway you can.

ur_wack452

All this debate on farming. Would one consider having 3-4 McDonalds in a town farming? How about all the pizza/chinese joints that a real town has? Is that farming? No it's actually smart business tactics. Jeezus let the farming debate end already. Play the game the way one desires.

bahepton

Starbucks are PRIME for real life farming haha

Back on topic - I've found since buying the premium items and characters I've been able to make money much quicker. I've gone from about 5,000 to 165,000 in the past two days.

BaconGibson

$6,400 every 24 hours from visiting 100 other Springfields.
It's the fastest money-maker in the game.

ur_wack452

It all depends on how much you play the game in a day is the real key to how much cash you can make. If you can send your characters on 60 minute tasks most of the day then you are going to make more than if you can only send them on 4-8 hour tasks a day.

dcline414

I have found the combination of Lard Lad and 60 brown houses to be a great money maker.

I send the other free characters on one hour tasks, then send Homer, Wiggum, and CBG to Lard Lad (5 minutes, $16 each), collect from my brown houses ($7 each), visit 4 neighbors ($48 each), and repeat. In five minutes the Lard Lad task earns $48, the houses earn $420, and the neighbors earn $192... so $660 total. Repeat 12 times... $7,920. Add in the other characters, tapping on the Simpsons house and KEMs every time they're ready, and you make about $8,500 in an hour.

I do this twice per day, so that adds up to $17k... Nearly a quarter of my $80k daily income. (The rest is from sending characters on 1 hour or 4 hour tasks and collecting from my other buildings, including 45 purple houses.)

Benromero303

Tapping on the $ icons

ur_wack452

Benromero303 wrote:

Tapping on the $ icons

Ladies and Gentleman lets welcome in Captain Obvious

ThomasK323

dcline414 wrote:

I have found the combination of Lard Lad and 60 brown houses to be a great money maker.

I send the other free characters on one hour tasks, then send Homer, Wiggum, and CBG to Lard Lad (5 minutes, $16 each), collect from my brown houses ($7 each), visit 4 neighbors ($48 each), and repeat. In five minutes the Lard Lad task earns $48, the houses earn $420, and the neighbors earn $192... so $660 total. Repeat 12 times... $7,920. Add in the other characters, tapping on the Simpsons house and KEMs every time they're ready, and you make about $8,500 in an hour.

I do this twice per day, so that adds up to $17k... Nearly a quarter of my $80k daily income. (The rest is from sending characters on 1 hour or 4 hour tasks and collecting from my other buildings, including 45 purple houses.)

That would fry my brain!

Or You could just have 60 blue houses, collect twice a day (taking at most 5 minutes total), and collect $18,000.

I'll give you brown house guys credit for commitment though, or is that you brown house guys need to be committed?

ThomasK323

As for farming, I don't have a problem with it. I just suggest people be smart about it. Not only does it limit wasted time collecting money but can maximize the profitability of your farm while maintaining a pleasant aesthetic to you city. To this point I even posted what I feel is an accurate breakdown of housing value.

Like I stated earlier I have 49 non-unique houses generating over $16,000 a day. And like i said I guess I could boost my housing to 200 houses and pull in another $50k a day, I personally just don't want to. I think my Springfield looks great and don't want to mess with it. Plus I've been able to save over $300k in less than a week so what's the point? Having more land for cool stadium and 3D designs would be nice, but I've got time. (And already have the only race car track I've seen thus far.)

Now if level 24 buildings are like $500k then I might just add 200 blue and white houses. Waiting two weeks just to buy one building and without money for land expansion or decorations isn't my kind of fun.

dromtsul

ThomasK323 wrote:

Now if level 24 buildings are like $500k then I might just add 200 blue and white houses. Waiting two weeks just to buy one building and without money for land expansion or decorations isn't my kind of fun.

It's not about fun, it's about satisfaction of your work and patience paying off. Since updates seem to happen monthly, you're aren't missing out on much by waiting a little longer. Having goals are what keep most people playing.

ThomasK323

dromtsul wrote:

ThomasK323 wrote:

Now if level 24 buildings are like $500k then I might just add 200 blue and white houses. Waiting two weeks just to buy one building and without money for land expansion or decorations isn't my kind of fun.

It's not about fun, it's about satisfaction of your work and patience paying off. Since updates seem to happen monthly, you're aren't missing out on much by waiting a little longer. Having goals are what keep most people playing.

They should use that as a marketing scheme.

'The Simpsons Tapped out - It's not about fun'

dromtsul

ThomasK323 wrote:

They should use that as a marketing scheme.
'The Simpsons Tapped out - It's not about fun'

'Life-ruiningly addictive' is a good selling point.

ThomasK323

'The Simpsons Tapped Out - It's Toasted'

shabu922

My suggestion is to build houses, and keep characters on jobs, which make money as fast as you get to tap. If you play once or twice a day, get the houses that pay every 12 hours, and send your characters on 12 hour tasks. I have the purple houses that pay every 3 hours, and do 4 hour tasks (except overnight) because that's how often I get on.

If you have nothing else in your life, the best payouts per hour are the 45 second tasks and the brown houses at every 5 minutes. You'll make money fast and never leave your ipad.....

I started playing right after the relaunch of the game in August(?), and got to level 22 without premium characters. Got some premiums with the halloween update (Kang and Witch Marge are cool), and am now at level 23 with $3.4 million.

I would also suggest play the way that's most fun for you no matter what anyone else says!