Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36016297-20190303163405/@comment-36094989-20190326062912

JRinGame wrote: Two dumb questions:

1.  What is the Merchant/Folio issue several people have mentioned? I know what a Folio is, but what is meant by Merchant?

2.  Will a Fire Crystal and Thunder Amulet work overnight while you are not actively playing the game?

Thanks! Excellent questions. They are not dumb.

1. Folio + Merchants can no longer be used together to garner extra xp - iPad users with double xp subscription may be feeling the impact of reduced xp even more, especially if they are used to playing with folio + Merchants, as their subscription used to double the xp provided by the aforementioned combo.

CIs for Merchants no longer drop from the current game. People obtain the CIs by purchasing the five ruby chests and/or wishlisting. The fixers needed to assemble Merchants drop from Old Square.

One peculiar thing I do not understand is that Seeker's Star can no longer be combined with Merchants either - the two talismans do not entirely share the same function, as according to the description, Merchants talisman does not increase the chance of obtaining fixers, nor does it indicate that it applies to puzzles. SS increases the chance of obtaining CI AND fixers by 90% from BOTH locations and puzzles.

However, in practice, the function of Merchants somehow worked for both puzzles and locations. True to its claim, Merchants did not boost drop rate of fixers.

Gargoyle Pendant can still be combined with SS, presumably because the former does not work for puzzles. Otherwise, both talismans are designed to increase drop rate of CI and fixers.

Similarly, Midas touch + double ingot can be used together (don't know about this update) because the effects of Midas Toiuch apply only to locations. One cannot combine double ingot + piggy bank as the two talismans are identical in function.

2. Fire crystals and thunder amulets cannot be combined as both are designed to increase rate of energy restoration by 10x and 5x, respectively. The former will last for 2 hours whereas the latter will last 90 minutes. Following the same logic, one cannot combine the little spinning top with the other energy regenerators.

Yes, you can run an energy regenerator while you are sleeping/sleepwalking/playing the game/visiting friends/cooking dinner...😎. The only time you will waste the energy regenerator is when you have full base line energy...or an energy deficit not tantamount to the total amount of energy that can be gained from rolling a little thunder amulet/fire crystal for the full duration.

a little thunder amulet will regenerate energy 5x faster for 90 min, resulting in a net gain of 150(?) energy points. Otherwise,  the game will regenerate 20 energy points every hour until baseline energy is fully restored.

please note that you can run an energy regenerator simultaneously with an SOV...this used to be my favorite combo as I played SN on Kindle for about 300 levels...Kindle can tt gift but cannot restore energy by tting. 😔