Thread:ZotohZhaan/@comment-38279969-20190819141113/@comment-39542330-20190827060616

Majestical1 wrote: Ah, thank you for all the detailed explanations -- they help me to understand what's important to my friends and their strategies.

I'm one of those people who think that charging trophies is helpful, because in addition to getting free stuff with a click, a "visited" trophy gives me a bonus. It's like finding money on a sidewalk and picking it up. Clicking on a trophy takes a moment, requires no tools or energy or passes to play it, and I get energy or experience or reagents. Of course, if you're just starting out, the trophies aren't going to give you as much, but it's still "free money" with no penalties. I never paid rubies for trophies--why bother when they recharge every 12 hours? I've heard you can manipulate them with TTing, but I don't know how to do that.

In any case, I will make sure I charge only locations, especially with people who are just starting out and don't have a lot of locations open. I've also charged crafters, but usually only if someone is asking for it in their name. I never thought of charging the games, but that's a great idea because of the desk guardian challenges. Good one.

I also originally thought you had to have people as FB friends in order to play SN with them, so that kept me away from adding friends for months. Most of the friends I've got came from the SN posting (not what the game pushes on me). I try to stay around 100 friends as I find that manageable. It took a bit of time until I found a group of friends that fit my giving/receiving/visiting strategy. Only in the last few months have I found people from this site to add as friends. So far, so good!

Anyway, lovely talking with you. If you need me to do anything differently to be a better friend, let me know. Have an excellent day an happy Seeking. You're right about Trophies paying out every 12 hours. But to get an idea about what happens when someone charges your trophies, look at them after you've collected them to see if anyone has charged them. You shouldn't have any trouble seeing one of the four player icons next to the trophies. Click on one of the trophies that has a "charge." It'll tell you how much time until your next Bonus. It will also tell you how many rubies you can pay to speed up that bonus, thanks to the charge. In the upper left you'll see the icon of the person who charged that Trophy (or the person that is currently visible, since often more than one person in your FL charges trophies). Click on the icon to see who it is. I just checked one of my Trophies. I would have to pay 20 rubies to speed up my bonus on the trophy that I collected about 2 hours ago. Multiply that times 10 trophies.... it adds up, especially if you do it for every time the trophy has been charged. I've got 6 people on my FL that are consistent trophy-chargers. That'd come out to 1,200 rubies every 12 hours for me if I wanted to collect all those charges. Those people are doing me no favors. :/

As for TT'ing, there is a thread on here about TT'ing. I know there have been changes about what you can and cannot do, since MyTona has caught on. I DO know Kindle-users are severely limited in TT'ing capabilities. If you're wanting to know more, I can try to find it for you, I'm sure it's in my Discussion history somewhere.

As for charging crafters and puzzles, right now with the extra game going on, I strongly advise you to charge the Treasure Box, Haunted Lights and the Crafters, at least for anyone that is playing the Conservatory. You can get Gold Stars by playing those puzzles and then crafting items at all three of the Merchants. I'm seeing a lot of people asking for Puzzles and Crafters or TBHLCftrs in their nicks. I've got the latter. But like you said, if pople are playing the GQ, puzzles are a good idea to charge.

I just checked, you've got more friends than you can visit/gift per day. At rep level 99, can you visit/gift 100 people yet? I don't know when that happens, I do my best to visit everyone on my list daily. But I'm in the odd position of not gifting everyone as I've got some inactive players in my list that I keep as "extras" for the points for visiting. (it helps me advance in reputation level faster).

Sorry about the lengthy message. HiLo seemed to think I was saying collecting trophies in general required rubies, so I wanted to make sure I explaind exactly what I meant. I normally don't write War and Peace-length messages, although I can get a bit wordy. :X

See ya in Darkwood!