Thread:Annefb/@comment-97.33.65.61-20181019060903/@comment-36094989-20181019144614

Hi Anne,

Each player plays the game differently - I have noticed that your map looks drastically different from mine when I was at your level. Congratulations on leveling up so rapidly by the way! My individual room rankings were much higher because I moved around the map to do quests and had used mostly owls and ancient scrolls for extra xp as the collections for diagrams and winding keys were not available for me back then, resulting in a map with more advanced location rankings for my level compared to those who used better xp talismans.

your current game level and relatively lower room rankings may work to your advantage when it comes to finding CIs that rarely drop for someone my level because you have more baseline energy to explore beginner rooms like the observatory, the Shack, the Clock Tower, and the Gloomy House.

a little side note:

CIs for Model town (available for drop at the Marketplace after you increase the current room ranking) and those for Golden Armour (available for drop at the Gloomy House once you increase room ranking) are both relatively rare.

I think the Shack and the Observatory may be your best option for lightening bottles and magic lanterns. I would recommend using Seeker 's star to venture into those two rooms  for maximum efficiency.

For CIs for flying time that are actually obtainable from playing the game, I would recommend visiting the Playground, the Pool, the Treasury, the Lair, and the Perfumery. These rooms cost a lot of energy, and you will have to increase room ranking for the Treasury to get the Mysterious Puppets collection I had sent you recently. (Not as good as Model town in terms of value but will still yield four flying times).

The CIs I am able to send you mostly come from black and red rooms on my map. (Big hint!)

Mosaic Puzzle does not cost a lot of energy points and will drop CIs for lightening bottles and flying time, but I do not know how comfortable you are with doing Mosaic.

Hmmm...CIs for lightening bottles are also available for drop at the Memory Square; Sakura Garden is another option.

You can play the cafe to obtain the Family Heirloom collection - it should be available for drop at your current room ranking.

I always recommend a regular trip to the Clock Tower as well for those looking for magic lanterns and eyeglasses - all the CIs from the Clock Tower are eternally wanted by the masses.

Gah...so to summarize my aforementioned babbling, I would start with the following locations: Clock Tower, the Shack, and the Observatory. You could try marketplace to see if you can find an entire collection for Model town...you started the game earlier than I did (when MT was more generous) so you may have much better luck than those who started around 2018.

For Mosaic, it helps if you can take a photo of the original image before the tiles get all jumbled up and reassemble them afterwards using the photo as a guide- the method works for me but I have read that others still have some difficulty finishing the puzzle on time. I will have to think of good tips on finishing puzzles quickly without using tools. 😊

The CIs for Loyal Assistants (puppies that give lightening bottles) should be available for drop at the Ballroom but once again, those CIs are not the most common drops from that room.

Your current ranking for the Clothing Store  will have Ancient Treasure available on the drop list - If you have been lodging at the Clothing Store to get event access passes, you may have had some CIs drop from playingplaying but not frequently -  am I correct? Otherwise, you would have  ended up with several collections for flying time by this point.

If you are receiving a large number of rare CIs from players who have yet to work up the room rankings, then yes, they are most likely receiving them as gifts themselves. Additionally, Mytona has deliberately left a loophole that allows some to get more creative and farm CIs as needed without actually playing the rooms. Others may have an old game from which they tt transfer the goods. Some generate multiple accounts and scatter desirable CIs on multiple wishlists. As long as each account has different groups of friends, the player may have better chances at obtaining desirable and rare CIs. I have observed a newbie old timer account with an extremely active wish list. This newbie account is a tt account but progresses at a sleuth pace...so it seems bizarre that someone who plays so infrequently has needs for a large number of tools and energy items, but this player shuttles off the goods obtained from friends to her other higher level accounts.

From my end, I will see three wishlists with bits and pieces of  CIs for artifacts and flying time. The theme switches  frequently but swings from flying time, other rare collections for tools, artifacts, Golden Chicken, winding keys and diagrams.

So there are unspoken secrets when it comes to obtaining  a large number of CIs.