Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31087078-20170209031355/@comment-28829111-20170212062139

You could be on to something Minki....but shame on Mytona if hiring a friend = doing a dance with the devil ;>)

Most of the time i don't bother hiring anymore on a regular basis. When i think about it I do hire a red star for help in winning a Ci or a blue star for the extra XP. I don't hire the joker unless the room has no charge and I think it might be useful in obtaining a specific CI (jokers used to help me get the fourth or fifth item in a set but lately they help with getting the first item in a set). As an accountant I hire accountants less but sometimes I just hire friends because I have often wondered if this boosts their chance of winning a CI when they Visit and Charge my map.

The game has changed so much from when I first started both my games that I never ran into the problem with having a CI in the collection set ahead of time and then having the Quest "stall me" or worse "screw me" as your game seems to do once in awhile. Even the items I won from Visiting or friends did gift. What used to happen is the game would go on "autopilot". If you had the crystals, for example, from the Treasure Box as either a gift or from a prior Visit the game would pop up the cystals one at a time like a normal quest. But when you clicked on one it recognized you had it, credited you the points and kept doing the same for all the other ones. The game would stop popping up all the credit windows once it hit a Quest item you did not have already. Some players started their second, third, tenth game...and took advantage of this to move the support game(s) to a higher level quickly.

We had a gal on this Wiki (she is on a dif game now) who got upset when players gifted her collection sets she would need in her future. She wanted to play to win each Quest which is totally understandable. So, her game, got a tad ruined by receiving gifts (given with a big heart and no mal intent) inadvertantly. After her post (and disappointment) about it I tried to always be careful what gifts I send but certainly I make mistakes in my efforts to help. As for your getting "future Quest" CIs via Visits it used to not be a problem as I stated. But somewhere in recent months there must have been a code change which "punishes" you if you own a CI too soon. LOL  This is really problematic because Mytona also encourages you to buy those chests filled with CIs...if one buys the 30 chests for $19.99 deal you're bound to get some pieces that would mess up your future Quests. It makes me wonder if others have this experience. If so, and it were me, I would write to Support and mention what you have discovered. I do not think they would want all of us warning new players NOT to buy chests because it will choke their game. I'm thinking it might be a bug and that the "auto" action that used to happen got turned off somehow.