Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31919789-20190113150121/@comment-35901641-20190113213120

This is Mistress Kat wrote: Alzhammer wrote: It is hard to accumulate more than just base (for your level) energy now. You get refilled and then play till its gone--wash, rinse, repeat. It IS possible to go above that base amount a little at a time by collecting the daily sign in rewards. There are 5 days of rewards. I think it is the 2nd day that rewards 50 energy points. Depending on what day you start with, you would have to TT 5 days to get that reward again. The day 5 reward is a magnifying glass so you could save up some of those while you are at it. So 20 days of TT would net you, depending on the start day, 200 energy and 4 magnifying glasses. The "glory days" of trophy harvesting and accumulating at a much faster rate are a thing of the past.

The only thing is, that if you go forward in time, you then have to wait for the rewards to come due. You can’t collect rewards twice for the same day, in other words. So if you TT forward, say 20 days, then you will have to wait those 20 days before you get another reward, or continue to travel further into the future to days that the rewards haven’t been collected for. Just something to keep in mind.

Mistress Kat oops, I wasn't very careful about how I worded that.You are correct Mistress Kat about going into the future, which I never do except to make sure my daily reward is reset. But once you go forward a day and DON'T collect the daily reward (by keeping your gift box open the whole time) you can then go back and not have to worry about losing those rewards. For example, I start in the present and while keeping my gift box open I go 2 days into the future. After changing the date when I go back to the game my gift box is still open. DON'T close it or it will immediately give you the daily reward which, for the reasons you mentioned, is not something that you want to get when you are in the future. Next, while leaving the gift box still open, I leave and go change the date to sometime in the past, let's say 30 days ago. I then go back to the game and when it comes up my gift box is STILL open as it was when I last left the game. Now that I am in the past I can safely collect the daily reward it gives immediately after closing the gift box. Now you can stay and play or gift as much as your heart (or the game) will allow. Whatever you want. You can open and close the GB as much as you want and it no longer HAS to be open the next time you move forward, as long as you are not going forward of present day real time. Going back to the example, When I am ready for the next day I go to my settings, move the day forward (but am still in the past) and then go back to the game. It opens up and immediately gives the next daily reward. I then gift again. Afterwards I leave the game (it doesn't matter if the GB is open or not), go to settings and move forward another day. Then return to game, open, get the daily reward. Wash, rinse, repeat.

When moving forward I am given full energy for my level. The 50 energy award is in addition to your base level. So it "hangs around" while moving forward (but you are still in the past) as long as you are not using any energy. So for example, if my base level is 500, after changing the date I will come back to game and find 500. But the day I get the 50 energy daily reward (and I think this is only if I am not spending any energy to play) when I come back the next time I will now have 550. Base + the 50. It continues being 550 every time I come back until I hit the 50 reward again 5 days later and then becomes 600 (500 base plus 2 rewards of 50). Again, I believe this is assuming I don't use energy playing along the way. After 5 more days of this I hit the 50 again and now I have 650. You can continue doing this, amassing small 50 energy chunks for every 5 days of travel (again, you still want to be in the past)for as long as you want as long as you do not go beyond present day real time. It's sort of like how it used to be done with the trophies---you had to have them sparkling to collect. If they weren't sparkly you had to go forward until they were but then not collect them so that they would still be sparkly after you went back in time. Same thing with the daily rewards except that they are given automatically when you enter the game, UNLESS your gift box is open. So if you enter with an open gift box and leave without ever closing it, the daily reward is never automatically given and thus it is still "sparkly".

It is really a very slow way of collecting small amounts of energy especially compared to the old way. One time I did it before I was going to use a 1.5 hour talisman. I was hoping to build my energy up enough so that I wouldnt have to use a shot of vigor or hit the edibles. Even though I "saved" enough to double my base energy it still wasn't enough to cover me for the whole time. It was a lot of work for very little reward. You do get the glasses though, so that is something. I now consider any TT as just a way of being able to gift more and to continue playing when I run out of energy. It is definitely not (that I am aware of anyway) the energy building method of the past. I am on iPad. I guess all of this could be different for different platforms. --robyn