Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31669116-20171128215246/@comment-4974000-20171129003516

I don't think "specific locations" will help you. The game simply has "humps" from time to time where a certain thing you need is in scarce supply fror a while, and then it loosens up again. It sounds like Inspector Badges, at the moment, are yours. (The purpose of humps are twofold - one, to try to get you to buy, and two, to introduce frustration and then relieve it, which triggers reward responses in our brain and feeds our desire to play). I could tell you where I usually find Inspector Badges myself (if I knew - I haven't really noticed a pattern, but I haven't been looking either), but I don't think you would find lots of them there anyway because the game appears to be rationing them to you at the moment.

We don't really know enough about the inner algorithms of the game to say for certain the best way to get past a hump. Most of us just struggle through, ask our friends for passes, persevere a while, that sort of thing. But if I were trying to "game" the system to influence the game to stop rationing, the things I would try are -

1. Buy a single pass. A purchase may signal to the game logic that you are at peak frustration and make the hump resolve. (Anecdotally, I have had passes loosen up after buying one).

2. Play other locations freeform for a while to build XP and level up, in case level is what triggers the start and end of a "hump."

3. Stay out of the location entirely for a while, at least a few days. This may signal to the game logic that you're too frustrated and have given up on the location for the moment, and cause the game to loosen its hold on passes.

Also, make sure you're hitting your trophies and giving free gifts to your friends. Trophies and thank-you gifts are a major source of passes.