Player/Game Levels - The Simpsons: Tapped Out
This section is mostly for reference, as it is meant to give you an idea of how quickly (and at higher levels how slowly) your character is likely to advance in levels because the game, and to a limited extent the character development in it, is level based, which naturally means XP based.
Obtaining XP is accomplished through quests and player actions, and manifests its application in the game through level-based item limits for the most part. That means leveling up is good, but after playing the hell out of the game we caution against grinding levels as doing so naturally keeps you from living within the moment, and therefore enjoying the subtle humor and the incredible amount of hidden homages that have been placed within the game that relate to the show. Any real Simpsons fan is going to want to enjoy those -- just saying.
One of the interesting aspects of leveling up is that when you reach a new level the game fires off a quote at you that often pays a sort of homage to that level, though not always, and these quotes are generated by specific characters and in their voices, even when you are not actively using that character or have it as an accessible one at that specific moment!
The Levels break out as follows (so far):
|
Level |
Required XP |
Character Quote |
|
1 |
40 |
No Quote for this Level |
|
2 |
75 |
Bart: "Wow, you put the house down where it told you to." |
|
3 |
85 |
Apu: "You have been reincarnated to the next level. Thank you, tap again." |
|
4 |
120 |
Homer: "Woo-hoo! I bet leveling up is always gonna be this easy." |
|
5 |
250 |
Barney: "It's always level 5 somewhere!" |
|
6 |
800 |
Mr. Burns: "Excellent! You should celebrate by buying donuts with your money." |
|
7 |
1800 |
Chief Wiggum: "That's some fine grinding." |
|
8 |
3200 |
Luigi: "Now that's a spicy accomplishment!" |
|
9 |
5000 |
Lisa: "If life were a game, leveling up would be birthdays. Happy birthday!" |
|
10 |
12000 |
Otto: "Is it me, or do these levels seem to be taking longer and longer?" |
|
11 |
15000 |
Krusty: "All that for two freakin' donuts?!" |
|
12 |
15500 |
Marge: "I take it you don't have a family or anything." |
|
13 |
18000 |
Skinner: "Congratulations. That was a difficult but insignificant level." |
|
14 |
22000 |
Sea Captain: "Arr! Ye must be playing this on a long sea voyage." |
|
15 |
23000 |
Carl and Lenny: "For he's a jolly good fellow! He's at level one-five." |
|
16 |
25000 |
Comic Book Guy: "Worst. Level. Ever." |
|
17 |
25500 |
Grampa: "This game is a lot like life. It stops being fun after a while, but you gotta keep doing it." |
|
18 |
28000 |
Moe: "Man, I'd have quit this game long ago... and I got nothing better to do." |
|
19 |
34500 |
Groundskeeper Willie: "You're still playing? You should get a girlfriend... or a rake." |
|
20 |
39000 |
Professor Frink: "You've played further into this game than we thought anyone would." |
|
21 |
52000 |
Kent Brockman: "This just in, new content has been added so you don't have to get a life." |
|
22 |
88000 |
Nelson: "Haw-haw, you just wasted months of your life." |
While there is no quote for Level 1 (the transition in leveling happens so fast that the quotes for Levels 1 and 2 would happen at the same time anyway... But if you pay attention to the context for each of the Level quotes you may be surprised to discover that they are, for the most part, editorial comments on subjects that range from the effort you put in to reach that point or the reward that you received for doing so...
By now you will have realized that leveling up in the game is one of the primary limiting methods that has been used in Tapped Out! With that being so, each level that you unlock above Level 10 is really a major victory for you, and clearly events to be celebrated!
