Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35148884-20181005173721/@comment-35606019-20181006145538

2604:2D80:840D:83F8:EDCA:9BB8:6B68:9747 wrote: I’m on iOS and updates initiate automatically when I open the app. Minor rant: in pretty much every game I’ve played in all my years of gaming, I naively trudge along to accomplish goals and progress. I’ll do this for an eternity until months down the road I happen to notice other players seem to make better headway in less time. Upon investigation I usually discover that while I’ve been toiling away the way the game was designed, everyone one else has long since discovered some work around to make the game less tedious and more enjoyable. I get so excited, and relieved, and begin to incorporate some of the tactics and enjoy the game so much better with less stress during the limited amount of time I can sit down to play. And in EVERY SINGLE CASE, the moment I make the discovery and actually get to apply it the devs run a patch and take it out.

I just learned of tt in SN a few days ago after playing for almost year. I knew I was missing something as I had just started utilizing more of the game features by visiting and gifting etc and I noticed friends were leveling faster than I have been able to. It’s. So. Slow. I was ecstatic to learn I can gain a bit more energy so I could play longer while I had the time. With every event I am always coming up just shy of completing them with only a portion of the bar left to make Virtuoso, but can never keep enough passes or energy to make it in time. The last lab event I FINALLY completed, BARELY, and was only able to do so by ignoring real life, stocking up on extra energy, and broke down and bought just enough passes to grind the last bit of the level out. The only time I’ve ever managed to complete an event! If I hadn’t had seen the threads on how to tt, I would have never made an in-game purchase because it would have been pointless with no way to keep energy up and I waste every talisman I attempt to run because real life does not respect games.

And just like always, I discover a work around that everyone else has benefitted from for a good long while but as soon as I do, the devs take it away. 😭😭 I also barely hit virtuoso on time. (kindle can't TT) I didn't buy any passes or anything during the event. Though the final 2 days of the event I was ignoring life--mostly my fault for being busy earlier in the week.

think the key to finishing stuff w/o TT involves first stocking up on energy and talismans on some events, not playing it through to virtuoso. Then strategic timing for using stuff.

The reason I went so fast the last 2 days was b/c I'd saved up SoV's from previous events. Since that music note mini-event was running the last like week of the event, I think I used like 6 SoV's but I won just as many. I used some fire crystals too, but I also found a lot of diagrams and winding keys on my SoV runs. So I'm pretty much right back where I started.