Best Strategies

When you are playing a Freemium Grinder and you are looking for serious progress the trick is to seek out and make use of the most strategic shortcuts you can in the game.

If you have a lot of experience with this type of game you will be able to figure most of them out for yourself, but if not, well that is why we are here!

Based upon our long experience with this genre and game mechanic -- and our intensive play time with Tapped Out, we offer you the following strategies for obtaining best results in your game play:

1. Save Your Donuts

While the fastest way to obtain the Donut Premium Currency is to buy it, thanks to a variety of Donut sources that deliver small amounts in the game for normal play, you can easily save up what you need to add a Premium Structure or two to your game.

Ideally you want to pick structures that will add new characters to your game, because each new one you add is a potential new income source!

2. Play Multiple Times a Day

Normal daily play in the game will require that some of the characters in your town will be actively committed to the ongoing missions and quests that are central to the story mode of the game, but there will usually be a larger number of character available for targeted Jobs / Tasks.

The fastest way to gain money and XP in the game is to figure out how often you can log in and play during a normal day, and then select the Jobs / Tasks with timers that best fit that play schedule. The more often you play the better income rates you will enjoy.

3. Expand Your Town Strategically

Game play in Tapped Out runs in phases - specifically economic phases during which you will be committed to specific aspects of the game.

During the first stage of the game - from the start to the point at which you will unlock the Squidport Expansion you should be focused upon Land Expansion. After Squidport is added to your game it will become the focus of your efforts.

After you achieve parity with Squidport, your attention will change back to Land Expansion, then the Krustyland Expansion will draw your focus.

In between these phases of the game, a plethora of regular Special and Holiday Events will interrupt your game play temporarily, focusing you upon their limited and short-term goals.

Ideally then you want to be as serious and dedicated in managing each phase while you can - there is no substitute for making significant progress in unlocking land.

When the day finally does arrive that you have unlocked all of the Land and Sea Expansion Slots, the end of that drain on your income will make building real wealth in your game so much easier and faster.

4. Build Money Farms

While the taxes you generate from the buildings in your town are never going to compete with the money you take in from Jobs / Tasks (because you add characters as you expand your land and structures the rate tends to remain static) you can alter the ratios by building Money Farms of specific buildings in groups.

The key to managing that is a mixture of ensuring that you have adequate Land Expansion Slots unlocked, and you pick the right buildings.

In this case the trick is to pick a building that has a timer that is the same as your most frequent game play schedule. Some examples include:

• 3h - Purple House - Pays $75 and 7 XP each harvest.

• 4h - Gulp N' Blow - Pays $100 and 8 XP each harvest.

• 6h - Pink House - Pays $120 and 12 XP each harvest.

• 8h - Blue House - Pays $150 and 13 XP each harvest.

• 12h - White House - Pays $200 and 20 XP each harvest.

Picking the target timer allows you to focus on the building that will time-out to your schedule.

Conclusions

Making use of the tactics above will allow you to play a more strategic and productive game, and that means more fun, more entertainment, and less hassle. Win-Win!