Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.73.35.159-20181005201301/@comment-34854170-20181015035703

2601:646:C202:BC37:C889:D631:AE47:B0E1 wrote: For those who got their knickers in a twist....calm down. I don’t have friends, as in I play the game alone. Been following this thread with interest. Discovering you don’t play with any friends adds a whole new dimension to your question. You haven’t had the experience of the difference it makes to the game. I played until Level 126 without friends and I was very unsure of adding anyone but I was desperate for the gold scale as I couldn’t progress because I could not complete collections. So I discovered the wikia in my search as to why the scale was not falling and took the plunge. What an eyeopener! I was ready to give the game up before I found friends. The game was a real slog and a very lonely place playing on my own by that point. The game is designed by Mytona to be played with friends, they suggest 100 but I don’t have anywhere near that by choice. So gifting is integral. In fact I read somewhere that the higher you go in levels, the harder it is to get the basic fixers. That is where friends come in. They can send you what you need. I did discover TTing and I do it but I am not a competitive person so I don’t try for the leaderboard. I did help some of those who were trying (privately) and it was glorious fun. The team spirit was wonderful to behold as it was like the wikia were climbing not the individuals. That commraderie is what makes this game special and keeps many of us in it. If it wasn’t for the ability to send multi passes to people, a lot of people would stop playing. The fact that Tters used to get extra energy for manipulating the time to send lots of passes is probably the main concern for the cheating (endless energy = endless energy but I can never play more than 2 hours personally and even then I find it hard going but want to use tha talisman up) but that is no longer possible. But has that stopped TTing? No. The main reason to tt is to help people out and to get the satisfaction of helping friends. Mytona could have stopped the game working with time manipulation but they didn’t. Just the extra energy. I’m pretty sure they know that what keeps people in the game long term is the friendship element of TTing. And if they don’t really, they will see a mass exodus and the game will go the way of Secret Society. So, yes technically TTing is cheating but it is done for altruistic reasons by the fast majority of players. If you want to take the plunge and try the game with friends, press on my name and go to my wall and leave me a message. 😊